Announcement of Classes: Summer 2019

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Course #		Instructor	Course Area
R1A/1 Reading and Composition: Global Bookworm: Am I a Cosmopolitan Yet? TuWTh 9:30-12 Session: A	This course investigates how books (and book selection) allow us to form individual conceptions of what is “global.” We will read texts that represent an array of perspectives on identity, national allegiance, and global travel, maintaining an eye tow...(read more)	Catchings, Alex	Reading and Composition
R1A/2 Reading and Composition: Monster Culture in Print and Film TuWTh 1-3:30 Session: D	The 19th century saw the publication of several landmark monster novels, birthing a genre that would achieve a similarly widespread popularity in the films of the 1980s and 1990s. This course will examine three monsters of Victorian literature—Franken...(read more)	Mittnacht, Veronica Vizuet	Reading and Composition
R1A/3 Reading and Composition: Mere Humanism MTuTh 2-4 Session: C	This course will evaluate the role that 'Humanism' has played across a transhistorical spectrum and a diverse generic range (we will read prose, drama, poetry across roughly five centuries). While the first half of the course will solidify a working d...(read more)	Swensen, Dana	Reading and Composition
R1B/1 Reading and Composition: Riddle Me This: Puzzles, Puns, and Palimpsests TuWTh 1-3:30 Session: A	"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter. "Nor I," said the March Hare. Alice sighed wearily. "I thi...(read more)	Clark, Amy	Reading and Composition
R1B/2 Reading and Composition: The Literature of Climate Change TuWTh 9:30-12 Session: D	This course explores literary, scientific, and postcolonial perspectives on ecological crisis on a global scale from early-19th-century ecological writing to contemporary climate fiction. Tracing the emergence of a planetary ecological consciousness, ...(read more)	No instructor assigned yet.	Reading and Composition
R1B/3 Reading and Composition: Bodies in Motion: Refugee Experience and Contemporary Fiction MTuTh 12-2 Session: C	"But there were unspoken conditions to our acceptance, and that was the secret we were meant to glean on our own: we had to be grateful," writes Dina Nayeri of her family's experience seeking asylum in the United States in "The Ungrateful Refugee" (Th...(read more)	Wyman-McCarthy, Timothy	Reading and Composition

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37/1 Chicana/o Literature and Culture TuWTh 9:30-12 Session: D	This course is an introductory survey of the aesthetic forms and social locations of Chicanx art and literature in the United States, from the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848 to our present moment of anti-immigrant nativism, which is signified rhetorical...(read more)	Cruz, Frank Eugene	American Literature Chicanx and/or Latinx

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37/1

Chicana/o Literature and Culture

TuWTh 9:30-12
Session: D

This course is an introductory survey of the aesthetic forms and social locations of Chicanx art and literature in the United States, from the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848 to our present moment of anti-immigrant nativism, which is signified rhetorical...(read more)

Cruz, Frank Eugene

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
111/1 Chaucer TuWTh 9:30-12 Session: A	In this course we will study The Canterbury Tales and its continuations, paying special attention to the topics of imitation, innovation, and literary influence. As we learn about the literary traditions Chaucer so deftly passes over and the literary ...(read more)	Ripplinger, Michelle	Pre-1800 Requirement Middle English
117S/1 Shakespeare TuWTh 5-7:30 PM Session: A	This class focuses on a selection of works from Shakespeare's entire career. We'll be reading a limited number of plays and some of the poetry. One of the main issues we'd like to focus on is the oscillation between "regular" and "irregular." What is ...(read more)	Marno, David	Shakespeare
135AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: American Hustle—Immigration, Ethnicity, and the American Dream TuWTh 12-2 Session: C	This course, which constitutes a survey of ethnic American literature, asks about the desires, imagination, and labor that go into the American dream. What is the relationship between immigration and dreams of upward mobility in America? This course ...(read more)	Saha, Poulomi	American Cultures
143A/1 Short Fiction TuWTh 2-4:30 Session: A	The Literary Magazine and the Short Story as Genre. This course will be both a short fiction workshop and a craft class studying the literary short story as a genre. Rather than approach literary fiction as the norm from which genre fiction departs, ...(read more)	No instructor assigned yet.	Creative Writing Workshops
143A/2 Short Fiction MW 2-5 Session: C	In this eight-week course, we will focus on two things: learning about contemporary publishing venues for short fiction—both traditional journals and online platforms—and workshopping the participants' fiction. Together, we will read stories from prin...(read more)	Muhammad, Ismail	Creative Writing Workshops
143B/1 Verse TuWTh 10-12:30 Session: D	This course is a poetry writing workshop. Students will submit new drafts of poems weekly, and we will read and discuss these together, supporting each other's growth as writers. We will also study contemporary examples focusing on poetry of the Bay A...(read more)	Benjamin, Daniel	Creative Writing Workshops
143N/1 Prose Nonfiction: Food Writing TuTh 2-5 Session: C	This eight-week summer class centers on workshopping your own literary nonfiction, helping you draw on the distinctive forms and techniques of the personal essay, memoir, travel writing, cultural criticism, and journalistic reportage to speak to, on, ...(read more)	Stevenson, Max	Creative Writing Workshops
152/1 Women Writers: Jane Austen MTuTh 4-6 Session: C	In this course we will read—closely and deeply—a handful of novels by Jane Austen, considering them in terms of their historical context, their stylistic sophistication and innovation, and their enduring popular appeal. Accordingly, we will also explo...(read more)	Creasy, CFS	British 19th-Century Novel
166AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: Race and Ethnicity in Classical Hollywood Cinema TuWTh 12-2:30 Session: A	An introduction to critical thinking about race and ethnicity, focused on films produced in Hollywood between the 1920s and 1960s and independent cinema from the 1980s that responds to these classical precedents. Themes include law and violence, kinsh...(read more)	Wagner, Bryan	Special Topics
173/1 The Language and Literature of Films: The Romantic Comedy TuWTh 3-5:30 Session: D	This class considers the capacious genre of the rom-com by examining a range of its concerns (gender & sexuality, feminism, race, romance, narrative closure). We will not only watch films (from classic Hollywood rom-com to more contemporary iterat...(read more)	Hu, Jane	Film
176/1 Literature and Popular Culture: O, the horror! Horror Films and Horror Fiction TuWTh 12:30-3 Session: D	This course will examine the historical development of the horror genre in both film and literature. Horror is a notoriously comprehensive genre, borrowing from numerous story-telling and literary traditions. In this class we will address the heterod...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	Novel Film

There are no special instructions for Summer 2019 English Department courses, other than to note in which session each course is offered.

The following courses are offered in Session A (May 28 - July 5): English R1A section 1, R1B section 1, 111, 117S, 143A section 1, and 166AC.

The following courses are offered in Session C (June 24 - August 15): English R1A section 3, R1B section 3, 135AC, 143A section 2, 143N, and 152.

The following courses are offered in Session D (July 8 - August 15): English R1A section 2, R1B section 2, 37, 143B, 173, and 176.

The only graduate-level courses available in the summer are independent study (N299 and N602).