Announcement of Classes: Fall 2008

The Announcement of Classes is available one week before Tele-Bears begins every semester. Creative Writing and (for fall) Honors Course applications are available at the same time in the racks outside of 322 Wheeler Hall.


Course # Sec. Course Time Instructor
Course Area
R1A 1 Reading & Composition: Poetry and the Varieties of English MWF 9-10 Natalia Cecire
Reading and Composition
R1A 2 Reading & Composition: Fictional Educations MWF 10-11 Arcadia Falcone
Reading and Composition
R1A 3 Reading & Composition: Contemporary African American and Asian American Experimental Poetry MWF 11-12 Chris Chen
Reading and Composition
R1A 6 Reading & Composition: Victorian Industry MWF 2-3 Jhoanna Infante
Reading and Composition
R1A 8 Reading & Composition: Noir Fiction and Film MW 4-5:30 Chris Eagle
Reading and Composition
R1A 9 Reading & Composition: Playing with Literature TTh 8-9:30 Jesse Costantino
Reading and Composition
R1A 10 Reading & Composition: The African Writer TTh 9:30-11 Aaron Bady
Reading and Composition
R1A 13 Reading & Composition: T.B.A. 2-3:30 Carlo Arreglo
Reading and Composition
R1A 14 Reading & Composition: The Garden and the Century of Revolution: English Poetry, 1600-67 TTh 3:30-5 Brendan M. Prawdzik
Reading and Composition
R1A 15 Reading & Composition: T.B.A. TTh 5-6:30 Karen Leibowitz
Reading and Composition
R1B 1 Reading & Composition: Authenticity, Fraud, and Representation MWF 9-10 Ben Cannon
Reading and Composition
R1B 3 Reading & Composition: The Southernization of America : The 1930s to the 1950s MWF 11-12
Reading and Composition
R1B 6 Reading & Composition: Stylin� MWF 2-3 Stephen Katz
Reading and Composition
R1B 7 Reading & Composition: "The Ghostly Time of the �Present� has no Boundaries

Instructor: David Menilla"
MWF 3-4 David Menilla
Reading and Composition
R1B 9 Reading & Composition: Vagrancy TTh 8-9:30 Ruth Baldwin
Reading and Composition
R1B 10 Reading & Composition: Literature and the City TTh 9:30-11 Jasper Bernes
Reading and Composition
R1B 11 Reading & Composition: Illogical Fictions TTh 11-12:30 Monica Miller
Reading and Composition
R1B 12 Reading & Composition: Imagining Elizabeth TTh 12:30-2 Fiona Smythe
Reading and Composition
R1B 13 Reading & Composition: In the Wake of War TTh 2-3:30 Gina Patnaik
Reading and Composition
R1B 14 Reading & Composition: Secrecy and Detection TTh 3:30-5 Dan Clinton
Reading and Composition
R1B 15 Reading & Composition: Documents TTh 5-6:30 Josh Weiner
Reading and Composition
24 1 Freshman Seminar: Shakespearean Comedy: Twelfth Night M 12-1 A. Nelson
Freshman Seminars
24 2 Freshman Seminar: POSTPONED TILL SPRING 2009
Freshman Seminars
24 3 Freshman Seminar: Rethinking Hemingway W 2-3 Snyder, Katie
Freshman Seminars
24 4 Freshman Seminar: The Mystery of Edwin Drood M 3-5 (September 15 through November 3 only) Tracy, Robert
Freshman Seminars
24 5 Freshman Seminar: The Monster in the Mirror: Frankenstein and Dracula W 4-5 Loewinsohn, Ron
Freshman Seminars
24 6 Freshman Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully W 2-3 Breitwieser, Mitchell
Freshman Seminars
45A 1 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 10-11 in 50 Birge (Starting 9/17), plus one hour of discussion section F 10-11 Nelson, Alan H.
Introductory Surveys
45A 2 Literature in English: Through Milton MWF3-4 Justice, Steven
Introductory Surveys
45B 1 Literature in English: Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century MWF 9-10 Sorensen, Janet
Introductory Surveys
45B 2 Literature in English: Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century MW 2-3, F 2-3 Altieri, Charles F.
Introductory Surveys
45C 1 Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century MW 11-12, F 11-12 Altieri, Charles F.
Introductory Surveys
45C 2 Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century MW 3-4, F 3-4 John Bishop
Introductory Surveys
C77 1 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Introduction to Environmental Studies Lectures TTh 12:30-2, plus one and a half hours of discussion section per week Hass, Robert L.
Special Topics
84 1 Sophomore Seminar: Contemporary Native American Short Fiction T 4-6, Sept 2 to Oct 21 only Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Sophomore Seminars
84 2 Sophomore Seminar: Socrates as a Cultural Icon W 3-5 Coolidge, John S.
Sophomore Seminars
84 3 Sophomore Seminar: High Culture/Low Culture: Film Genres and the Cinema of Ang Lee W 5:30-8:30 P.M. Bader, Julia
Sophomore Seminars
100 1 Junior Seminar: Late 18th-Century British Literature MW 1:30-3 Murphy, Fiona
Junior Seminars
100 2 Junior Seminar: Coercion and Reproduction (�birth,� �death,� �love,� and �family�) in modern Black Feminist Fiction . MW 12-1:30 JanMohamed, Abdul R.
Junior Seminars
100 3 Junior Seminar: Toni Morrison MW 4-5:30 JanMohamed, Abdul R.
Junior Seminars
100 4 Junior Seminar: Children's Literature: Up Close and Personal MW 4-5:30 Wright, Katharine E.
Junior Seminars
100 7 Junior Seminar: American Literature and the News TTh 9:30-11 Nguyen, Marguerite
Junior Seminars
100 8 Junior Seminar: Caribbean Literature M 3-6 Premnath, Gautam
Junior Seminars
100 9 Junior Seminar: Immigrant Narratives: Migration, Nation, Empire TTh 12:30-2 Fajardo, Margaret A.
Junior Seminars
100 10 Junior Seminar: Literature of California and the West Up to World War I TTh 2-3:30 Starr, George A.
Junior Seminars
100 11 Junior Seminar: Henry James and Edith Wharton TTh 2-3:30 Goble, Mark
Junior Seminars
100 12 Junior Seminar: """The Parasite"" - Dyads in Modern and Postmodern Literature " TTh 2-3:30 Clowes, Erika
Junior Seminars
105 1 Upper Division Coursework: Anglo-Saxon England MW 10:30-12 O�Brien O�Keeffe, Katherine
Old English
110 1 Upper Division Coursework: Medieval Literature TTh 9:30-11 Miller, Jennifer
Middle English
111 1 Upper Division Coursework: Chaucer MW 5-6:30 Justice, Steven
Middle English
114B 1 Upper Division Coursework: English Drama from 1603 to 1700 TTh 3:30-5 Landreth, David
Renaissance and Early Modern
115A 1 Upper Division Coursework: The English Renaissance (through the 16th Century) TTh 2-3:30 Booth, Stephen
Renaissance and Early Modern
117A 1 Upper Division Coursework: The Elizabethan Shakespeare TTh 2-3:30 Altman, Joel B.
Shakespeare
117S 1 Upper Division Coursework: Shakespeare TTh 3:30-5 Knapp, Jeffrey
Shakespeare
119 1 Upper Division Coursework: The Augustan Age TTh 2-3:30 Turner, James Grantham
British 18th-Century
127 1 Upper Division Coursework: Modern Poetry MW 1-2, sections F 1-2 Blanton, Dan
Poetry
130B 1 American Literature: American Literature: 1800-1865 TTh 11-12:30 Beam, Dorri
American Literature
130C 1 American Literature: American Literature: 1865-1900 MWF 10-11 Wagner, Bryan
American Literature
130D 1 American Literature: American Literature: 1900-1945 MWF 2-3 Best, Stephen M.
American Literature
133A 1 A.A. Literature: African American Literature and Culture Before 1917 MWF 2-3 Wagner, Bryan
African American Literature
C136 1 Topics In American Studies: American Literature and the City Lectures TTh 12:30-2 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week Otter, Sam and Henkin, David
Special Topics
143A 1 Short Fiction: Short Fiction TTh 11-12:30 Mukherjee, Bharati
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 2 Short Fiction: Short Fiction TTh 12:30-2 Blaise, Clark
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 3 Short Fiction: Short Fiction TTh 2-3:30 Kleege, Georgina
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 1 Verse: Verse MW 4-5:30 Hejinian, Lyn
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 2 Verse: Verse TTh 11-12:30 Shoptaw, John
Creative Writing Workshops
143N 1 Prose Nonfiction: Prose Nonfiction TTh 2-3:30 Mukherjee, Bharati
Creative Writing Workshops
143T 1 Poetry Translation: Poetry Translation Workshop TTh 9:30-11 Hass, Robert L.
Creative Writing Workshops
150 1 Senior Seminar: Senior Seminar: James Joyce MWF 11-12 Bishop, John
Senior Seminars
150 2 : CONVERTED TO 100/1
Senior Seminars
150 4 Senior Seminar: Senior Seminar: Irish Writing From 1890 to the Present MW 4-5:30 Rubenstein, Michael
Senior Seminars
150 5 Senior Seminar: Virtual Worlds: Wonderland and Wessex: Lewis Carroll and Thomas Hardy TTh 11-12:30 Langan, Celeste
Senior Seminars
150 6 Senior Seminar: The Literary Image TTh 12:30-2 Picciotto, Joanna M
Senior Seminars
150 7 Senior Seminar: Modern Horror TTh 12:30-2 Oyama, Misa
Senior Seminars
150 9 Senior Seminar: The New York School TTh 2-3:30 O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
Senior Seminars
150 11 Senior Seminar: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville TTh 3:30-5 Otter, Samuel
Senior Seminars
150 12 Senior Seminar: Utopian Literature TTh 3:30-5 Starr, George A.
Senior Seminars
160 1 Special Topics: Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism TTh 9:30-11 Hale, Dorothy J.
Literary Theory
165 1 Special Topics: Greek Drama in Translation TTh 9:30-11 Campion, John
Special Topics
166 1 Special Topics: The Works of Vladimir Nabokov MWF 10-11 Naiman, Eric
Special Topics
166 2 Special Topics: The Global South: William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, & Sandra Cisneros MWF 11-12 Saldivar, Jose David
Special Topics
166 3 Special Topics: Literature in the Century of Film TTh 9:30-11 Goble, Mark
Special Topics
166AC 1 Special Topics in American Cultures: Race and Performance in the 20th-Century U.S. MWF 11-12 Saul, Scott
American Cultures
170 1 Literature: Literature and the Arts MWF 11-12 Hanson, Kristin
Special Topics
179 1 Literature: Literature and Linguistics MWF 2-3 Hanson, Kristin
English Language and Linguistics
180A 1 Literature: Autobiography: Disability Memoir TTh 11-12:30 Kleege, Georgina
Special Topics
180L 1 Literature: Lyric Verse TTh 11-12:30 Falci, Eric
Poetry
180N 1 Literature: The Novel: The American Novel Since 1900 MWF 1-2 Serpell, C. Namwali
Novel
195A 1 Honors Course: Honors Course MW 12-1:30 Goldsmith, Steven
195A 2 Honors Course: Honors Course MW 4-5:30 Lye, Colleen
195A 3 Honors Course: Honors Course TTh 3:30-5 Langan, Celeste
200 1 Graduate Course: Problems in the Study of Literature MW 10:30-12 Best, Stephen M.
Graduate Courses
200 2 Graduate Course: Problems in the Study of Literature MW 10:30-12 Rubenstein, Michael
Graduate Courses
203 2 Graduate Readings: The Turn to Language and the Writing of Everyday Life MW 1:30-3 Hejinian, Lyn
Graduate Courses
203 3 Graduate Readings: Colonial America in the Atlantic World T 3:30-6:30 Donegan, Kathleen
Graduate Courses
203 4 Graduate Readings: Prospectus Workshop T 3:30-6:30 Abel, Elizabeth
Graduate Courses
203 5 Graduate Readings: The Novel in Theory W 3-6 Hale, Dorothy J.
Graduate Courses
205A 1 Graduate Readings: Old English MW 9-10:30 Thornbury, Emily V.
Graduate Courses
212 1 Graduate Course: Readings in Middle English TTh 12:30-2 Miller, Jennifer
Graduate Courses
217 1 Graduate Course: Shakespeare TTh 5-6:30 Booth, Stephen
Graduate Courses
243B 1 Graduate Course: Poetry Writing Workshop M 3-6 Giscombe, Cecil S.
Creative Writing Workshops
246E 1 Graduate Proseminar: Restoration and Early 18th Century TTh 11-12:30 Turner, James Grantham
Graduate Courses
246J 1 Graduate Proseminar: American Literature, 1855-1900 TTh. 2-3:30 McQuade, Donald
Graduate Courses
250 1 Research Seminar: Ecocriticism Meets Biopolitics M 3-6 Francois, Anne-Lise
Graduate Courses
250 3 Research Seminar: William Blake W 3-6 Goldsmith, Steven
Graduate Courses
250 6 Research Seminar: Modernist Critical Prose W 3-6 Blanton, Dan
Graduate Courses
302 1 Graduate Course: The Teaching of Composition and Literature Th 3:30-5:30 Beam, Dorri
Graduate Courses
310 1 Graduate Course: Field Studies in Tutoring Writing T.B.A. Staff
Honors and Tutorial Courses