Announcement of Classes: Fall 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 5 Early Modern Bogeymen MWF 12-1 Drosdick, Alan
Reading and Composition
R1A 8 The Power of I: Literary Constructions of the Self MWF 2-3 Bednarska, Dominika
Reading and Composition
R1A 10 American Elegy MW 4-5:30 Auclair, Tracy
Reading and Composition
R1A 11 Green Reading TTh 8-9:30 Legere, Charles
Reading and Composition
R1A 13 Modern Selves and Others TTh 11-12:30 Hausman, Blake M.
Reading and Composition
R1A 14 America in the 1930s TTh 11-12:30 Pugh, Megan
Reading and Composition
R1B 1 Work in Progress MWF 9-10 Oyama, Misa
Reading and Composition
R1B 2 Conspiracy Fiction MWF 9-10 Seidel, Matthew
Reading and Composition
R1B 5 Apocalyptic and Dystopian Literature MWF 12-1 Goodwin, Peter
Reading and Composition
R1B 14 Contemporary American Narrative TTh 12:30-2 Gordon, Zachary
Reading and Composition
24 1 Freshman Seminar: Shakespeare's Sonnets M 12-1 Nelson, Alan H.
Freshman Seminars
24 2 Freshman Seminar: Hamlet W 2-4 (Aug 26 to Oct. 14 only) Paley, Morton D.
Freshman Seminars
24 3 Freshman Seminar: Animal Rights and Disability Studies M 5-6 Schweik, Susan
Freshman Seminars
24 4 Freshman Seminar: The Mystery of Edwin Drood M 3-5 (Sept 14 to Nov. 2 only) Tracy, Robert
Freshman Seminars
24 5 Freshman Seminar: California and Ethnicity -- Fiction and Film Wed. 4-6 (Aug. 26 to Oct. 14 only) Padilla, Genaro M.
Freshman Seminars
45A 1 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 9-10 + Discussion F 9-10 Nelson, Alan H.
Introductory Surveys
45A 2 Literature in English through Milton MW 12-1 + Discussion F 12-1 Landreth, David
Introductory Surveys
45B 1 Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Century MW 11-12 + Discussion F 11-12 Altieri, Charles F.
Introductory Surveys
45B 2 Literature in English: Late 17th- Through Mid-19th Centuries MW 2-3 + Discussion F 2-3 Puckett, Kent
Introductory Surveys
45C 1 Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century MW 1-2 + Discussion F 1-2 Serpell, C. Namwali
Introductory Surveys
45C 2 Mid 19th Through the 20th Century MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 Hejinian, Lyn
Introductory Surveys
C77 Introduction to Environmental Studies TTh 12:30-2 + 1-1/2 hours of discussion per week Hass, Robert L.
Special Topics
80K Children's Literature MWF 12-1 Wright, Katharine E.
Special Topics
84 1 Sophomore Seminar: Food and Film W 6-9 PM Bader, Julia
Sophomore Seminars
84 2 Sophomore Seminar: Contemporary Native American Short Fiction Tues. 3:30-5:30 (Sept. 1 to Oct. 20 only) Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Sophomore Seminars
84 3 Sophomore Seminar: Socrates as a Cultural Icon F 12-2 Coolidge, John S.
Sophomore Seminars
C107 English Bible as Literature MWF 2-3 Goldsmith, Steven
Special Topics
110 Medieval Literature: The Alliterative Line, Tradition and Innovation TTh 11-12:30 Ecke, Jeremy S
Middle English
117S Shakespeare TTh 12:30-2 Adelman, Janet
Shakespeare
118 Milton TTh 2-3:30 Goodman, Kevis
Renaissance and Early Modern
122 The Victorian Period TTh 12:30-2 Blanton, C. D.
British 19th-Century
125A The English Novel (Defoe through Scott) MW 3-4 + Discussion F 3-4 Sorensen, Janet
British 18th-Century
Novel
125C The European Novel TTh 2-3:30 Paperno, Irina
Novel
125D The 20th Century Novel TTh 2-3:30 Jones, Donna V.
Novel
130B American Literature: 1800-1865 TTh 12:30-2 Breitwieser, Mitchell
American Literature
131 American Poetry TTh 9:30-11 Hass, Robert L.
American Literature
132 American Novel MWF 3-4 Lee, Steven Sunwoo
American Literature
C136 1 Topics in American Studies: The Literature and History of Mexican American Farm Workers TTh 12:30-2 Gonzalez, Marcial
Special Topics
C136 2 Topics in American Studies: A Gallery of Wonders, Curiosities, Spectacles, Cynics, and Suckers: Consumer Culture in Post-Civil War America MW 4-5:30 McQuade, Donald
Special Topics
141 Modes of Writing MWF 1-2 Chandra, Melanie Abrams
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 1 Short Fiction TTh 9:30-11 Chandra, Vikram
Creative Writing Workshops
143A 2 Short Fiction TTh 12:30-2 Mukherjee, Bharati
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 1 Verse M 3-6 Giscombe, Cecil S.
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 2 Verse: Poetry in Practice and in Theory W 3-6 Bouvier, Geoff
Creative Writing Workshops
143B 3 Verse TTh 11-12:30 Shoptaw, John
Creative Writing Workshops
143N Prose Nonfiction: Traveling, Thinking, Writing TTh 2-3:30 Giscombe, Cecil S.
Creative Writing Workshops
165 1 Special Topics: Scotland and Romanticism TTh 11-12:30 Duncan, Ian
Special Topics
165 2 Special Topics: American Postmodernism--Olson and the Black Mountain School TTh 12:30-2 Campion, John
Special Topics
166 1 Special Topics: The Global South: Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Morrison, and Cisneros 
 TTh 11-12:30 Saldivar, Jose David
Special Topics
166 2 Special Topics: Readings for Fiction Writers TTh 3:30-5 Mukherjee, Bharati
Special Topics
166 3 Special Topics: British Cinema MW 4-5:30 + films Tues. 6-9 P.M. in 300 Wheeler Miller, D.A.
Special Topics
166AC Special Topics in American Cultures: Race and Revision in Early America TTh 11-12:30 Donegan, Kathleen
American Cultures
173 The Language and Literature of Films: Meta-Cinema and the Hollywood Novel TTh 3:30-5 Clowes, Erika
Special Topics
175 Literature and Disability TTh 3:30-5 Kleege, Georgina
Special Topics
180E The Epic: Imagined Communities and the Classical Epic MW F 1-2 Altieri, Charles F.
Nolan, Maura
Poetry
180L Lyric Verse TTh 12:30-2 Falci, Eric
Poetry
180R The Romance TTh 9:30-11 Miller, Jennifer
Reading and Composition
Special Topics
190 1 Research Seminar: Close Reading MW 12-1:30 Miller, D.A.
Research Seminars
190 3 Research Seminar: Avant-Gardes TTh 9:30-11 Blanton, C. D.
Research Seminars
190 4 Research Seminar: Film Noir. TTh 9:30-11 + mandatory attendance at film screenings on Tuesdays, 5-8, 206 Wheeler. Breitwieser, Mitchell
Research Seminars
190 6 Research Seminar: The Contemporary Novel TTh 11-12:30 Rubenstein, Michael
Research Seminars
190 7 Research Seminar: Fictions of Los Angeles TTh 11-12:30 Saul, Scott
Research Seminars
190 8 Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial TTh 12:30-2 Ellis, Nadia
Research Seminars
190 9 Research Seminar: Flannery O’Connor TTh 12:30-2:00 Kleege, Georgina
Research Seminars
190 10 Research Seminar: Chicana Art, Fiction and Film-making TTh 2-3:30 Padilla, Genaro M.
Research Seminars
190 11 Research Seminar: The Seventies TTh 2-3:30 Saul, Scott
Research Seminars
190 12 Research Seminar: The Writings of Daniel Defoe TTh 2-3:30 Starr, George A.
Research Seminars
190 13 Research Seminar: Visuality, Textuality, and Modernity TTh 3:30-5 Abel, Elizabeth
Research Seminars
190 14 Research Seminar: Shakespeare's Versification TTh 3:30-5 Hanson, Kristin
Research Seminars
190 15 Research Seminar: Literature of California and the West pre-1920 TTh 5-6:30 Starr, George A.
Research Seminars
190 17 Dystopian Fiction and the Fate of the Body MW 1:30-3 Edwards, Erin E
Research Seminars
H195A 1 Honors Course MWF 11-12 Premnath, Gautam
Honors and Tutorial Courses
H195A 2 Honors Course TTh 3:30-5 Gonzalez, Marcial
Honors and Tutorial Courses
H195A 3 Honors Course TTh 3:30-5 Rubenstein, Michael
Honors and Tutorial Courses
200 1 Problems in the Study of Literature MW 10:30-12 Goldsmith, Steven
Graduate Courses
200 2 Problems in the Study of Literature MW 10:30-12 Puckett, Kent
Graduate Courses
203 1 The Strange Career of Jim Crow Tues. 3:30-6:30 Wagner, Bryan
Graduate Courses
203 2 Graduate Readings: Modernism, Race and Modernity TTh 11-12:30 Jones, Donna V.
Graduate Courses
203 3 Graduate Readings: Edmund Spenser M 3-6 Landreth, David
Graduate Courses
203 4 Graduate Readings: Prospectus Workshop W 3-6 Abel, Elizabeth
Graduate Courses
203 5 Graduate Readings: British Empiricism, the Novel, and the Science of Man TTh 2-3:30 Duncan, Ian
Graduate Courses
203 6 Graduate Readings: Poetics and Theories of Poetry Tues. 3:30-6:30 Falci, Eric
Graduate Courses
205A Old English TTh 9:30-11 Thornbury, Emily V.
Graduate Courses
211 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales W 3-6 Nolan, Maura
Graduate Courses
243A Fiction Writing Workshop TTh 2-3:30 Chandra, Vikram
Creative Writing Workshops
246F Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century MW 12-1:30 Sorensen, Janet
Graduate Courses
250 2 Research Seminar: Postwar British Literary Culture at Mid-Century W 3-6 Premnath, Gautam
Graduate Courses
302 The Teaching of Composition and Literature Thurs. 3:30-5:30 Beam, Dorri
Infante-Abbatantuono, Jhoanna
Graduate Courses
310 Field Studies in Tutoring Writing (tutoring for credit through the Student Learning Center) T.B.A. Staff
Honors and Tutorial Courses