English 190
Research Seminar: Narrating Health--An Introduction to the Medical Humanities
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Course Reader (location TBD); additional texts may be added.
Description
What is the relationship between medicine and the humanities? How do literature and medicine relate to one another? How do texts create ideas about health and wellness, illness and disability? This course will serve as an introduction to many issues at the intersection of medicine and the humanities. Topics include the history of medicine; medicine, race and gender; medicine and mental illness; and the relationship of the medical humanities to disability studies. It is intended both for humanities students who have an interest in the way medicine and illness are narrated as well as science and medical students who are interested in gaining a broader perspective within their medical and scientific training. Readings may include work by Audre Lorde, Charlotte Perkins, Sylvia Plath, Michel Foucault, Rita Charon, Arthur Frank, and others. Writing assignments will consist of one to two longer papers. Topics will be self-designed, and there will be some focus on the writing and research process.
Please read the paragraph on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.
Fall, 2013
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Research Seminar: Victorian Sensations
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Knox, Marisa Palacios
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar
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Lye, Colleen
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: How Verse Works: Rhyme, Rhetoric, and Repetition
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Brolaski, Julian T.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Suspicious Mind
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Words and Images: The Intellectual Marketplace of Antebellum America
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McQuade, Donald
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation
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Bernes, Jasper Q.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Metaphysical Poets from Donne to Vaughan
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Marno, David
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Studies in Children's Literature
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Browning, Catherine Cronquist
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/17 |
Research Seminar: Utopian and Dystopian Literature
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Starr, George A.
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Spring, 2013
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: American Regionalism
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Portraits in Black: Dictator, Autocrat, Caudillo
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: "A Gallery of Wonders": Literature and the Culture of Consumption in Post-Civil War America
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McQuade, Donald
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Modern Folk: American Culture in the Thirties
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Pugh, Megan
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Roland Barthes: The Critic as Artist
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Jane Austen
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Francois, Anne-Lise
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Virginia Woolf
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Abel, Elizabeth
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Native America/Early America
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Hirst, Robert H.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Multilingualism & Middle English Literature
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Miller, Jennifer
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Thomas Pynchon
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: California Literature Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2012
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Literature and the Post-human
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Too-Close Reading: Poe and Others
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Sentimentality
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Carmody, Todd
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Poetry and the Archive
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Pugh, Megan
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Utopian & Dystopian Stories and Movies
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: John Clare: A Peasant Naturalist Among the Romantic Poets
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Hass, Robert L.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Environmental Poetry and Poetics
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and the Cavalier Poets
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Jordan, Joseph P
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Animals in Literature and Theory
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Eichenlaub, Justin
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir and Neo-Noir
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Bader, Julia
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| 190/18 |
Research Seminar: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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Spring, 2012
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar
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Tanemura, Janice
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Yeats, Joyce, & Beckett
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: American Gothic
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: The Historical Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: <em>Moby-Dick</em>
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Literature of Racial Passing
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Giscombe, Cecil S.
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Medieval English Poetry
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Lankin, Andrea A
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Hirst, Robert H.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Mass Entertainment in 1930s Hollywood
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Henry James
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Cultures of Realism in Postwar Britain
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Premnath, Gautam
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: Literature of California & the West Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Film Noir
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2011
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Rejection of Closure: Slow Readings
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Hejinian, Lyn
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Another Nature
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Legere, Charles
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: The Writings of Daniel Defoe
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Literature of California and the West pre-1920
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
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Gordon, Zachary
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: In Defense of Literature
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Tanemura, Janice
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Walter Scott and Jane Austen
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Duncan, Ian
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Asian American Fiction
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Lye, Colleen
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Ethnic Surrealist Poetry and Poetics
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Chen, Christopher
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Paradise Lost, Found, Lost Again
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Turner, James Grantham
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Words and Bodies in Space: Poems for the Stage
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Bednarska, Dominika
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| 190/15 |
Research Seminar: American Captivities
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Donegan, Kathleen
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| 190/16 |
Research Seminar: Chaucer and His Contexts
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Lankin, Andrea A
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| 190/17 |
Research Seminar: History of the Book, 597-2011
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Thornbury, Emily V.
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| 190/18 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Spring, 2011
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Music and Poetry
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Falci, Eric
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: The Continental Renaissance
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Ring, Joseph
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Stages of Conflict: Alternative Early Modern English Theater Traditions
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Prawdzik, Brendan
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Herman Melville
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Tamarkin, Elisa
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Literature of California Since WWI
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Utopia, Anti-Utopia, & Dystopia
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Lee, Steven Sunwoo
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: My Lost City: (Post)-Modernist and Post-9/11 Fiction
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Snyder, Katherine
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Victorian Mysteries
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Leibowitz, Karen D.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Homocinema
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Christopher Marlowe
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Landreth, David
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: "Rotten English"--on contemporary dialect literature
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar: Modernist Poetry and Poetics
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Fisher, Jessica
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