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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.060.623 (01)
The Sentimental Imagination
T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Mao, Douglas
Gilman 130D
The Sentimental Imagination AS.060.623 (01)
This course will explore the literature of sentimentality and theorizations of the sentimental from the eighteenth century to our own moment. A major focus will be the flexibility of the designator “sentimental” (is all writing sentimental?) and relations between sentimentality and related forms and terms (melodrama, excess, affect).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mao, Douglas
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/12
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.687 (01)
Literature and Political Geography
M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Achinstein, Sharon
Gilman 130D
ENGL-PR1800
Literature and Political Geography AS.060.687 (01)
Across the Western literary tradition that forms the inheritance of the European literary renaissance, classical voyages of discovery, settlement, or return had long furnished the stuff of major literary genre of epic, with the Biblical figure of Exodus prizing movement into promised territory, wandering and arrival. Yet how is space also an assumption of polity that must be invented, a biopolitics, a zoopolitics, and a mediation of flow? We take these questions of space to understand the pre-history of European modernity around the making of enclosed space(s), exploring the fierce debate in early modernity about the political organization of space, the borders or walls that shield or exclude (as in the city, the nation, the home, the prison, the church, the plantation), and to consider concepts of border and flow. We will focus on English works by Milton, Bradstreet, and Cavendish, and sharpen these questions with critical thinkers Foucault, Derrida, Latour, Sassen, Soja, and Stoler, among others. The class welcomes students whose interests lie primarily in national literatures other than English, who may write their final papers on primary texts and literatures not discussed in class, but that must engage the theoretical texts assigned for the seminar.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Achinstein, Sharon
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.602 (01)
Proseminar
Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Miller, Andrew
Gilman 130D
Proseminar AS.060.602 (01)
This course is intended to train students in skills required by the discipline, help prepare them for a range of futures, and integrate them into the university community.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/8
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.822 (01)
Teaching Assistant
Miller, Andrew
Teaching Assistant AS.060.822 (01)
For English PhD students in their second year. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.894 (01)
Independent Reading
Thompson, Mark C
Independent Reading AS.060.894 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students to focus on their field of study. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark C
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.659 (01)
Bodies on Stage in Early Modern Drama
F 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Daniel, Andrew
Gilman 130D
ENGL-PR1800
Bodies on Stage in Early Modern Drama AS.060.659 (01)
This course analyzes the staging of the human body, up to and including that body’s capacity to fragment, die, transform, and merge with its surroundings, across a range of early modern drama, from anonymous playwrights, Udall, Lyly, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Webster, Marston, Massinger, Heminge and others. Concurrently, we shall read and respond to relevant texts on theater and embodiment in primary philosophy, literary criticism, and recent early modern literary scholarship, with a particular focus on animality, race, gender and disability. What is dramatic form? What does the imagined or projected integrity of literary form have to do with normative expectations about the integrity of the human body? How do forms of bodily difference inflect, challenge or complicate the stability of those norms? Possible secondary authors include Aristotle, Nicholas Abraham, Gail Kern Paster, Lynn Enterline, Karen Raber, Eoin Price, Noemie Ndiaye, Andy Kesson, Katherine Schaap Williams, Ian Smith, and Aaron Kunin.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Daniel, Andrew
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-PR1800
AS.060.893 (01)
Individual Work
Thompson, Mark C
Individual Work AS.060.893 (01)
This course is a semester-long independent research course for graduate students. Students will have one-on-one assignments and check-in's with designated faculty throughout the semester.
Credits: 3.00 - 9.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Thompson, Mark C
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 27/40
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.855 (01)
Fifth-Year Teaching
Miller, Andrew
Fifth-Year Teaching AS.060.855 (01)
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively teaching a course as required by the program.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.857 (01)
Fifth-Year Service
Miller, Andrew
Fifth-Year Service AS.060.857 (01)
For English PhD candidates in their fifth year. This indicates they are actively performing an administrative/service role with the program/department or university that precludes any teaching responsibilities.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate Independent Academic Work
Days/Times:
Instructor: Miller, Andrew
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.060.630 (01)
All That Jazz: African American Literature and Music, Origins through the 1950s
W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Jackson, Lawrence P
Gilman 130D
ENGL-GLOBAL
All That Jazz: African American Literature and Music, Origins through the 1950s AS.060.630 (01)
This course examines fiction writing, memoir, poetry, and film that usefully encounters African American writings on jazz music in conversation with the recordings of selected jazz musicians. Beginning with writers who explore the late 19th experience of urban black musical cultures roughly designated “ragtime,” the course will offer a deep engagement with the representations of the “blues” and “swing” music of the long New Negro Movement between 1915 and 1940. The final section of the course considers the post-war novelists and memoirists who charted the emergence of the “Be bop” jazz musician as tragic hero, countermanding New Negro representations of jazz musician and vocalist as entertainers par excellence.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Jackson, Lawrence P
Room: Gilman 130D
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/8
PosTag(s): ENGL-GLOBAL
AS.213.608 (01)
Literary Geographies: Landscape, Place and Space in Literature
T 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Gilman 479
Literary Geographies: Landscape, Place and Space in Literature AS.213.608 (01)
This graduate-level course will explore the material topographies of literature, both real and imagined, engaging the landscapes, geographies, and environments of literary works both as a vital dimension of the text and as contributions to 'cultural ecology'. We will explore how topography may be engaged not as mere background or setting for literary situations, but as a dynamic and vital dimension thereof, and how the human experiences evoked can be radically recontextualized and engaged through environmental attention to the text. We will read theoretical and philosophical works on geography and topography in literature along with environmental literary theory in approaching literary works by writers from the late 18th to the mid 20th centuries. Readings may include works by Goethe, Novalis, Heine, Thoreau, Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Brecht, Woolf, Borges, and other writers from the late 18th through 20th centuries. Discussions will invite phenomenological, de- or post-colonial, and ecological perspectives.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Gosetti, Jennifer Anna
Room: Gilman 479
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.300.623 (01)
Modern American Poetry: Engaging Forms
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Siraganian, Lisa
Gilman 208
Modern American Poetry: Engaging Forms AS.300.623 (01)
A dive into the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes (among a few others), exploring American modernism’s aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations. How do these texts’ formal ambitions engage with philosophical thinking as well as social concerns and political theorizing? Writing assignments: two short presentation papers and either two 10-12 pages papers or one, multi-drafted, 20-25-page seminar paper.
