Announcement of Classes: Spring 2009

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 and Composition: Beyond Good and Evil MWF 9-10 Kerschen, Paul
Reading and Composition
R1A 5 Reading and Composition: The Southernization of America TTh 8-9:30 Pugh, Megan
Reading and Composition
R1B 6 Reading and Composition: Plotting Suspicion MWF 12-1 Ring, Joseph
Reading and Composition
R1B 11 Reading and Composition: “Native American Literature” MWF 3-4 Hausman, Blake M.
Reading and Composition
R1B 13 Reading and Composition: The Long and Short of It Th 8-9:30 Tsao, Tiffany
Reading and Composition
R1B 14 Reading and Composition: Googleable: Language, Politics and Mass Media TTh 9:30-11 Ecke, Jeremy S
Reading and Composition
R1B 18 Reading and Composition: Dystopian Fiction and the Fate of the Body TTh 3:30-5 Edwards, Erin E
Reading and Composition
24 2 Freshman Seminar: Ang Lee Films and James Schamus' screenplays M 12-1 Hutson, Richard
Freshman Seminars
43B Introduction to the Writing of Verse: Translation, Echo, and Originality TTh 2-3:30 Johnson, Eleanor
Creative Writing Workshops
45A 1 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 10-11 + Discussion F 10-11 Knapp, Jeffrey
Introductory Surveys
45A 2 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2 Nolan, Maura
Introductory Surveys
45B 1 Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12 Puckett, Kent
Introductory Surveys
45B 2 Literature in English: Late-17th Through Mid-19th Centuries MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 Hutson, Richard
Introductory Surveys
45C 1 Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1 Blanton, C. D.
Introductory Surveys
45C 2 Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 Goble, Mark
Introductory Surveys
R50 1 Freshman and Sophomore Studies: Social Reform in Literature TTh 2-3:30 Black, Kelvin C.
Reading and Composition
R50 2 Freshman and Sophomore Studies: Slavery in British and American Literature TTh 5-6:30 Infante-Abbatantuono, Jhoanna
Reading and Composition
80K Children's Literature TTh 11-12:30 Wright, Katharine E.
Special Topics
84 1 Sophomore Seminar: High Culture/Low Culture: Film Genres and the Cinema of Ang Lee Th 2-5 Bader, Julia
Sophomore Seminars
84 2 Sophomore Seminar: Human Relationships in Literature, Art, and Culture W 4-5 Buckwald, Craig
Sophomore Seminars
84 3 Reading Walden Carefully M 3-4 Breitwieser, Mitchell
Sophomore Seminars
100 1 Junior Seminar: British Literature and the Global 19th Century (note new title) MW 4-5:30 Sanchez, Juan
Junior Seminars
100 2 Junior Seminar: Contemporary American Drama TTh 11-12:30 Gotanda, Philip Kan
Junior Seminars
100 5 Junior Seminar: 19th-Century American Poetry TTh 12:30-2 Shoptaw, John
Junior Seminars
100 6 Junior Seminar: The Nineteenth-Century Middle Ages TTh 3:30-5 Thornbury, Emily V.
Junior Seminars
100 7 Junior Seminar: Women's Films of the '40s and '50s TTh 5:30-7 + Film Screenings Th 7-10 PM Bader, Julia
Junior Seminars
100 8 Junior Seminar: Post-War American Literature and the Problem of Evil TTh 12:30-2 + Film Screenings T 6-9 P.M. in 106 Wheeler Serpell, C. Namwali
Junior Seminars
101 History of the English Language TTh 11-12:30 O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine
English Language and Linguistics
110 Medieval Literature: Before Chaucer - Philosophical Fictions from Vergil to Boccaccio TTh 2-3:30 Justice, Steven
Middle English
112 Middle English Literature MWF 1-2 Miller, Jennifer
Middle English
115A The English Renaissance (through the 16th Century) TTh 3:30-5 Nishimura, Kimiko
Renaissance and Early Modern
115B The English Renaissance (17th Century) TTh 3:30-5 Picciotto, Joanna M
Renaissance and Early Modern
117B 1 Shakespeare After 1600 MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3 Landreth, David
Shakespeare
117S Shakespeare in the Theater TTh 2-3:30 Booth, Stephen
Shakespeare
118 Milton TTh 12:30-2 Picciotto, Joanna M
Renaissance and Early Modern
121 The Romantic Period MWF 11-12 Langan, Celeste
British 19th-Century
125C The European Novel MWF 1-2 Paperno, Irina
Novel
125D The 20th-Century Novel TTh 11-12:30 Bernstein, Michael A.
Novel
126 British Literature, 1900-1945 TTh 5-6:30 Banfield, Ann
British 20th- and 21st-Century
130B American Literature, 1800-1865 MW 4-5:30 Tamarkin, Elisa
American Literature
130D American Literature, 1900-1945 TTh 2-3:30 Snyder, Katherine
American Literature
133B African American Literature and Culture Since 1917 TTh 2-3:30 Wagner, Bryan
African American Literature
133T Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Orality and Black Literature TTh 12:30-2 Best, Stephen M.
African American Literature
139 The Cultures of English: Empire & Global English TTh 2-3:30 Rubenstein, Michael
World Literature
141 Modes of Writing: Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc. TTh 12:30-2 Chandra, Melanie Abrams
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 1 Short Fiction MW 12:30-2 Chandra, Vikram
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 2 Short Fiction T 3:30-6:30 Farber, Thomas
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 1 Verse M 3-6 Reines, Ariana
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 2 Verse: How to Write Lyric Poems TTh 9:30-11 Shoptaw, John
Creative Writing Workshops
143N 1 Prose Nonfiction MW 9-10:30 McQuade, Donald
Creative Writing Workshops
143N 2 Prose Nonfiction: The Personal Essay MW 3-4:30 Kleege, Georgina
Creative Writing Workshops
150 1 Senior Seminar: Novel to Film Adaptation MW 4-5:30 Fajardo, Margaret A.
Senior Seminars
150 3 Senior Seminar: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Sexuality TTh 12:30-2 Beam, Dorri
Senior Seminars
150 4 Senior Seminar: Mark Twain TTh 2-3:30 Hirst, Robert H.
Senior Seminars
150 5 Senior Seminar: Literature of California & the West Since World War I TTh 3:30-5 Starr, George A.
Senior Seminars
150AC Senior Seminar in American Cultures: Fictions of Los Angeles TTh 2-3:30 Saul, Scott
American Cultures
165 Special Topics: Poetry Writing in an Ecological Field of Composition MWF 2-3 Campion, John
Special Topics
166 Special Topics: Readings for Writers/Narrating the Nation TTh 3:30-5 Mukherjee, Bharati
Special Topics
173 The Language and Literature of Films: Alfred Hitchcock MW 10:30-12 + Film Screenings Th 5-8 P.M. in 123 Wheeler Miller, D.A.
Special Topics
175 Literature and Disability MW 12-1:30 Kleege, Georgina
Special Topics
180H The Short Story MW 4-5:30 Chandra, Vikram
Special Topics
H195B 1 Honors Course TTh 9:30-11 Goldsmith, Steven
Honors and Tutorial Courses
H195B 2 Honors Course TTh 3:30-5 Lye, Colleen
Honors and Tutorial Courses
H195B 3 Honors Course MW 4-5:30 Langan, Celeste
Honors and Tutorial Courses
310 Field Studies in Tutoring Writing T.B.A. Staff
Honors and Tutorial Courses
201B Topics in the History of the English Language: The Development of Linguistic Representations of Point of View Note new time: Th 9:30-12:30 Banfield, Ann
Graduate Courses
203 1 Graduate Readings: Gender, Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Irish Poetry MW 10:30-12 Sullivan, Moynagh
Graduate Courses
203 2 Graduate Readings: Literature and Psychoanalysis MW 1:30-3 Puckett, Kent
Graduate Courses
203 3 Graduate Readings: Victorian Novel T 9:30-12:30 Gallagher, Catherine
Graduate Courses
203 4 Graduate Readings: The Writings of Henry Adams and William James TTh 2-3:30 Breitwieser, Mitchell
Graduate Courses
203 5 Graduate Readings TTh 2-3:30 O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine
Graduate Courses
203 6 Graduate Readings: Reading Novels Now Th 3:30-6:30 Serpell, C. Namwali
Graduate Courses
203 7 Graduate Readings: Narrative and Middle Passage TTh 9:30-11 Best, Stephen M.
Graduate Courses
218 Milton W 2-5 Kahn, Victoria
Graduate Courses
243A Fiction Writing Workshop TTh 12:30-2 Mukherjee, Bharati
Creative Writing Workshops
246C Graduate Proseminars: Renaissance (16th-Century): Faustus' Books MW 10:30-12 Landreth, David
Graduate Courses
250 1 Research Seminar: Philosophy and the Arts M 3-6 Altieri, Charles F.
Graduate Courses
250 3 Research Seminar: Native American Fiction W 3-6 Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Graduate Courses