ENGLISH AT OTAGO COURSE INFORMATION 2O18 1 WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT English and Linguistics Department Te Tari Akoranga Ingarihi me te Matauranga Wetereo University of Otago PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Tel: +64 3 479 8952 www.otago.ac.nz/English Email: [email protected] 2 ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS COURSE INFORMATION CONTENTS English Department Staff 6 English at Otago 12 Majoring in English 13 Prerequisites and Requirements 13 Minor in English 13 Minor in Writing 13 Major in English 14 Honours in English 15 400-Level 15 Postgraduate Diploma 15 Diploma for Graduates 15 Postgraduate Funding 16 Summer School 16 BA in English and Linguistics 16 100-Level Papers 17 Introduction/Timetable 17 ENGL 120 Creative Writing: How to Captivate and Persuade 18 ENGL 121 English Literature: The Remix 18 ENGL 126 English for University Purposes 19 ENGL 127 Effective Writing 19 ENGL 128 Effective Communication 20 ENGL 131 Controversial Classics 20 LitSoc 21 200-Level Papers 22 Introduction/Timetable 22 ENGL 218 Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen 23 ENGL 220 Creative Writing: Reading for Writers 23 ENGL 222 Contemporary American Fiction 24 ENGL 223 Fantasy and the Imagination (SS) 24 ENGL 227 Essay and Feature Writing 25 ENGL 228 Writing for the Professions 25 ENGL 233 Literary Theory: From Words to Worldviews 26 ENGL 242 New Zealand Literature: Nation and Narration 26 ENGL 243 Special Topic: Tartan Noir: Scottish Crime Fiction 27 3 300-Level Papers 30 Introduction/Timetable 30 ENGL 315 Medieval Literature: The Medieval World 31 ENGL 320 Advanced Creative Writing 31 ENGL 323 Fantasy and the Imagination (SS) 32 ENGL 327 The Essay: Creative Non-Fiction 32 ENGL 332 Postcolonial Literatures 33 ENGL 334 Textuality and Visuality 34 ENGL 335 Romantic Literature 34 ENGL 350 Special Topic: Contemporary Irish and Scottish Poetry 35 ENGL 353 Reading Minds: Literature and Psychology 36 ENGL 368 Approaches to Writing about Literature 37 400-Level Papers 38 Introduction/Timetable 38 ENGL 403 Old Norse 39 ENGL 408 Special Topic: Writing the Nation - ‘Fact’? and/or ‘Fiction’? 39 ENGL 465 A Topic In NZ Literature: Janet Frame 40 ENGL 467 Special Topic: Storyworlds and Cognition 40 ENGL 478 A Topic in Postcolonial Literature 42 ENGL 490 Dissertation 43 HUMS 501 Writing and Revision for Graduate Research 43 2018 Timetable 46 Semester One Timetable 46 Semester Two Timetable 47 Chart of Semesterised Papers 48 Linguistics 50 What is Linguistics? 52 Linguistics Department Staff 53 Linguistics as a Subject Major 54 Linguistics Major 54 English and Linguistics Major 54 Language and Linguistics Major 54 Linguistics as a Subject Minor 55 Linguistics Minor 55 4 ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS COURSE INFORMATION TESOL as a Subject Minor 55 The Honours Programme 56 The Graduate Diploma in Second Language Teaching 56 Further Study Options 57 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Subject 57 Diploma for Graduates 57 Postgraduate Degrees by Research 57 100-Level Papers 58 LING 103 Language Myths (SS) 58 LING 111 Language and its Structure 58 LING 112 Social Aspects of Language 58 200-Level Papers 59 LING 214 Syntax 59 LING 231 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 59 LING 240 Language, Brain and Being Human 60 300-Level Papers 60 LING 314 Comparative Morphosyntax 60 LING 318 Child Language 60 LING 331 Advanced TESOL 61 LING 332 TESOL Practicum 61 400-Level Papers 62 LING 423 Special Topic: Language Processing 62 LING 432 Second Language Practicum 62 LING 433 Sociocultural Language Topics 63 LING 490 Dissertation 63 2018 Timetable 64 Semester One Timetable 64 Semester Two Timetable 64 Chart of Semesterised Papers 65 5 ENGLISH ACADEMIC STAFF Permanent academic staff, with their areas of research expertise: HEAD OF DEPARTMENT DR SHEF ROGERS BA (Emory), MA, PhD (Chicago) Dr Rogers teaches restoration and eighteenth-century literature, travel writing and research methods. He has published on book history from 1500–1900 and on eighteenth-century satire. He has supervised work on renaissance theatre, Smollett, Swift, Erasmus Darwin and The Temple of Flora. He is happy to supervise work on any aspect of British literature 1660–1800, on bibliography, editorial theory or New Zealand print culture. DR DAVID CICCORICCO BS Journalism (Colorado), BA (Hons), PhD (Canterbury) Dr Ciccoricco specialises in contemporary narrative fiction and narrative theory with an emphasis on emergent forms of digital literature. He is the author of Reading Network Fiction (U. Alabama Press, 2007), a book on pre-Web and Web-based digital fiction, and Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media (U. Nebraska Press, 2015), which applies cognitive literary studies across the narrative media of print novels, digital narratives, and story-driven videogames. MS NICOLA CUMMINS BA, DipTchg (Auckland), MA (Otago), CertTESOL(Otago Polytechnic) Ms Cummins teaches courses on academic and professional writing, the Jane Austen phenomenon, and an English literature survey. Her research on print culture is currently focussed on early twentieth-century Otago newspapers as sites disrupting social and cultural hegemonies. She has published on Jane Austen, teaching Chaucer, NZ print culture, and the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Before coming to the University of Otago, Nicola taught at secondary schools in Auckland and Dunedin. 6 ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS COURSE INFORMATION DR SIMONE DRICHEL MA (Freiburg), PhD (Victoria) Dr Drichel teaches classes in New Zealand literature, postcolonial literature and theory, and literature and psychology. She has research interests in the areas of continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory. Her current research focuses particularly on questions of vulnerability and relationality vis-à-vis narcissism: an article on “Cartesian Narcissism” was recently published by American Imago, and she is the editor of a SubStance special issue on “Vulnerability” (SubStance 42,3 [Dec 2013]). Simone is a founding member of the Postcolonial Studies Research Network at Otago University and was responsible for the Network’s 2015 event “Relationality: A Symposium” (https://relationality2015.com/), proceedings from which will be published by Angelaki in 2019. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JACOB EDMOND (On Leave Semester 1) BA (Hons), PhD (Auckland) Associate Prof. Edmond teaches 20th and 21st-century poetry in courses from 100-level to 400-level and coordinates ENGL 131: Controversial Classics, ENGL 219: Poetry and Music, ENGL 319: Modern and Contemporary Poetry. He is author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012), editor (with Henry Johnson and Jacqueline Leckie) of Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (Brill / Global Oriental, 2011), and editor and translator (with Hilary Chung) of Yang Lian’s Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (Auckland University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals such as Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, Poetics Today, The China Quarterly, and the Slavic and East European Journal. He is prepared to supervise in the areas of comparative literature, modern and contemporary poetry in Chinese, Russian, and English, modernism and postmodernism, literary theory, globalization, new media, generic and inter-art boundary crossing, and the avant-garde. PROFESSOR PETER KUCH Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies, BA (Hons) (Wales), M Litt, D Phil (Oxon) Peter Kuch is the inaugural Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies. He holds an Honours degree from the University of Wales and an MLitt and DPhil from Oxford, where he studied with Richard Ellmann and John Kelly. He has held posts at the University of Newcastle, Australia; Université de Caen, France; and the University of New South Wales, Australia; and been a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University; at Trinity College, Dublin; and at the Keogh Naughton Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame. Co-director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, he is also the Convenor for the Irish Studies Minor. He has published some 60 refereed articles, book chapters and books on Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Irish theatre, Irish literature, Irish and Australian film, literary theory, Australian literature, and Australian history. He is a commissioning editor for The 7 Irish Studies Review (Routledge) and is on Editorial Board of several journals. His most recent publications include Irish Divorce/Joyce’s Ulysses (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), a chapter entitled “Irish working-class writing in Australasia, 1860-1960” for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Working-Class Writing (2018) and a chapter entitled “Retrospective Readings: The Rise of Global Irish Studies,” for the forthcoming Cambridge Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 (2018). He is currently engaged in writing a cultural history of the performance of Irish theatre in New Zealand and Australia and is the representative for those countries on the international organising committee of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project. PROFESSOR LIAM MCILVANNEY (On Leave Semester 2) Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies, MA (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon) Professor McIlvanney is the inaugural Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies. He holds degrees from the universities of Glasgow and Oxford and was previously Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. His monograph, Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland,