GGraduateraduate CCoursesourses iinn EEnglishnglish 22018-19018-19 Course Title FFallall WWinterinter SSpringpring Eng 410 IIntroductionntroduction ttoo GGraduateraduate SStudytudy EEvansvans, KKaseyasey MMondayonday 2:00-5:002:00-5:00 EEngng 441212 SStudiestudies iinn DDramarama MManninganning, SSusanusan American Bodies in Motion WWednesdayednesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 EEngng 442222 SStudiestudies iinn MMedievaledieval LLiteratureiterature BBreen,reen, KKatyaty PPhillips,hillips, SSusieusie Winter - The Theory and Practice of Allegory MMondayonday 2:00-5:002:00-5:00 TTuesdayuesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Spring - Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" EEngng 443131 SStudiestudies iinn 116th-Century6th-Century LLiteratureiterature WWallall, WWendyendy Fall - Experiments in Renaissance Poetry: Methods and Making TTuesdayuesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Knowledge, with Help from Hester Pulter Eng 441 SStudiestudies iinn 1188tthh--CenturyCentury LLiteratureiterature TThompsonhompson, HHelenelen Enlightenment Sex - Violence, Coercion, and Consent TThursdayhursday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Eng 455 SStudiestudies iinn VVictorianictorian LLiteratureiterature & TTheoryheory LLane,ane, CChristopherhristopher George Eliot TThursdayhursday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Eng 461 SStudiestudies iinn CContemporaryontemporary LLiteratureiterature FFroularoula, CChristinehristine JJohnsonohnson, RRebeccaebecca Winter - Rethinking Literary Modernism TTuesdayuesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 MMondayonday 2:00-5:002:00-5:00 Spring - Translation Problems Eng 471 SStudiestudies iinn AAmericanmerican LLiteratureiterature EErkkilä,rkkilä, BBetsyetsy SSterntern, JJuliaulia Fall - Founding Terrors WWednesdayednesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 WWednesdayednesday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Spring - Black Women Auteurs Eng 481 SStudiestudies iinn LLiteraryiterary TTheoryheory & CCriticismriticism DDavisavis, NNickick HHodgeodge, JJimim Fall - Queer Theory & Queer Cinema TThursdayhursday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 TThursdayhursday 22:00-5:00:00-5:00 Winter - Ordinary Media 春 The following pages list graduate courses on offer in English and related university programs. With permission of the Director of Graduate Studies, graduate students may enroll in 300-level courses which have been approved for graduate credit Revised 03/07/2019 for political reform; marriage and women’s social roles; aesthetics and the impersonal scope of the imagination; providentialism and the limits of tolerance and faith. English 431 Teaching Method: seminar-style discussion, focusing Studies in 16th-Century Literature intensively on passages and background arguments. Experiments in Renaissance Poetry: Methods and Making Knowledge, with Help from Hester Pulter Evaluation Method: weekly response papers (one of them Wendy Wall Tuesday 2:00-5:00 a literary analysis), class presentation, a research-driven essay, and in-class participation. How might a remarkable, recently re-discovered manuscript of poems serve as the entry point for exploring Renaissance Primary Texts (available at Norris Center Bookstore and poetry? For grappling with crucial methodological issues in order of use): in literary studies? How do current scholarly approaches George Eliot, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob inform narratives about intellectual production of the (ISBN 0199555052); past? How do literary works materialize for readers within The Mill on the Floss (ISBN 9780141439624); particular literary histories, intellectual frameworks, editorial Silas Marner (ISBN 9780141439754); practices, and modes of anthologizing? Romola (ISBN 0140434704); Middlemarch (ISBN 0141439548); In this skills-based seminar, participants will read 17th- Daniel Deronda (ISBN 0140434275); century poetry (by Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Bradstreet, Impressions of Theophrastus Such (ISBN 9781505811810); Herbert, and Phillips) and select key research areas to Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings (ed. Byatt and investigate (e.g., astronomy, alchemy, poetics, melancholy, Warren; ISBN 0140431489) religious debates, devotional writing, race, physiology, pas- Please follow the editions assigned; comparable pagination toral, elegy, complaint, women’s writing, political protest). will greatly advance our discussions. As an entry into thinking about how to “make knowledge,” we will perform experiments on how the religious, elegiac, personal, and scientifi c poems of a little known writer English 471 named Hester Pulter offers an occasion for thinking about Studies in American Literature how poetry enters a canon (that is we will discuss meth- Founding Terrors odological debates surrounding editing, digitalization and Betsy Erkkilä Wednesday 2:00-5:00 anthologization). This course will read against the accepted tradition of the Experiments might include: contextualizing a group of American Revolution as an essentially rational, Lockean, poems (by various authors) in an array of visual and textual and non-terroristic Revolution. We will examine American materials of the period; transcribing and editing poems two Revolutionary writing as a rhetorical battlefi eld in which ways; and/or creating competing ways to insert poems into a multiplicity of voices and a plurality of forms—history, existing (or imagined) anthologies. To prepare for these letters, notes, autobiography, novel, epic, lyric, pamphlet, experiments, we will dive into scholarship on editing, poet- and journalistic piece—struggled over the cultural and ics, authorship, gender studies, media studies (manuscript, political formation of America and the American. print and digital), and knowledge formation. We shall pay particular attention to the rhetorics of Revo- lution—the language, images, myths, and forms through English 455 which the American Revolution and the American republic Studies in Victorian Literature were imagined and constituted in and through writing. We George Eliot shall focus in particular on sites of contest, contradiction, Christopher Lane Thursday 2:00-5:00 resistance, and taboo in Revolutionary writing: the repre- sentation of “citizens” and “others”; confl icts between This seminar examines Eliot’s most engaging and intellectu- reason and passion, liberty and slavery, civilization and ally complex novels, poetry, and essays, focusing throughout savage, progress and blood; anxieties about nature, the on several knotty concerns in her work: fellow-feeling and body, gender, human psychology, race, and madness; the anticommunitarian impulses; positivism and the demand terrors of democracy, mob violence, slave insurrection, and political faction; and debates about the excesses of enable elastic identifi cation and coalition among subjects language, print, and representation itself. We shall read with a wide range of sexual and gendered identities, or relevant political and cultural theory—from Locke and did the term reproduce the demographic and discursive Kant to Nancy Fraser, Gilroy, and the Frankfurt school— hierarchies it claimed to deconstruct? Was the lack of and consider various past and recent contests about the fi xed defi nitions, consensus ideals, or shared aesthetic meaning of the American Revolution. practices a boon or a harm in sustaining a long-term movement of art, action, or thought? Evaluation Method: Book review/oral presentation on a major critical, historical, or theoretical work (3-4 pages); This class will explore some decisive shifts as critical theory critical essay on a subject of the student’s choosing (10-12 and narrative fi lm reclaimed “queer” as a boundary-breaking pages); Canvas postings; class participation. paradigm, in the pivotal era of Gender Trouble, Epistemology of the Closet, Tongues Untied, and Paris Is Burning. We will Texts will include: recover scholarly and cinematic trends that laid indispens- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence and able groundwork for these queer turns and will also track selections from Notes on the State of Virginia; the subsequent careers of “queer” in the way we perform Phillis Wheatley, Poems; readings, perceive bodies, record histories, imagine psyches, Samson Occom, Selected Writings; form alliances, enter archives, and orient ourselves in space Thomas Paine: Common Sense; and time. Diversities of race, class, and gender identity Abigail and John Adams: Selected Letters; will constantly infl ect our understandings of “queer” and Benjamin Franklin Autobiography; even challenge the presumed primacy of sexuality as the Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: Letters from an American key referent for that term. Participants will develop skills Farmer; of close-reading fi lms as fi lms and engage nimbly with the Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay: The overarching claims but also the curious nuances, anomalies, Federalist Papers; and paradoxes in the scholarship we read. (This seminar Charles Brockden Brown: Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a satisfi es a core requirement toward the Graduate Certifi cate Sleep-Walker; in Gender & Sexuality Studies.) Royall Tyler: The Algerine Captive; selected critical and theoretical essays. Teaching Method: Seminar-based discussions Evaluation Method: Mid-quarter essay (7-8 pages); fi nal English 481/GSS 490 essay (15-20 pages); shorter writing assignments along Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism the way, including reading and viewing responses; graded Queer Theory & Queer Cinema participation in seminar Nick Davis Thursday 2:00-5:00 Assigned scholarship will likely include: work by Mi- “Queer theory” and “New Queer Cinema” were two chele Aaron, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Scott Bravmann, neologisms born of the same early-1990s