Announcement of Classes: Spring 2022
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R1A/1 Reading and Composition: MWF 9-10 |
This course will focus a range of poetries written in English from what we might broadly call the Global South. Its aim is essentially comparative, tracking similarities and differences – thematic, generic, and stylistic – among this large and diverse...(read more) |
Dunsker, Leo
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R1A/2 Reading and Composition: MWF 10-11 |
"How knoweth he by the vertue of his understanding the inward and secret motion of beasts...when I am playing with my cat, who knows whether she has more sport in dallying with me than I have in gaming her." Michel de Montaigne, An Apology for Ray...(read more) |
Bircea, Jason
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R1A/3 Reading and Composition: MWF 11-12 |
This course focuses on poetry written during the twentieth century across the Pacific Ocean, with a large part of the texts emerging from North America, East and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Though these works emerge from a variety of national context...(read more) |
Choi, 최 Lindsay || Lindsay Chloe
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R1A/4 MWF 12-1 |
In this Rhetoric and Composition course, we will explore what it means to “enunciate” ethnic and queer positionality in LGBT and Latinx/Chicanx works. We will explore course materials with an eye to the “slipperiness” of clear enunciation and identity...(read more) |
Trevino, Jason Benjamin
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R1A/5 Reading and Composition: MWF 1-2 |
What do writings by Asian American* women** have to tell us about emotional labor, transnational intimacies, and hope? This question serves as the organizing frame for our semester's exploratory journey of critical thinking. We will do our best to ...(read more) |
Kao, Libby
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R1A/6 Reading and Composition: MWF 8-9 |
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon at 1:17 pm, Pacific Time. The moon landing seemed like the very definition of modernity: using cutting-edge technology to cross the boundary between Eart...(read more) |
Serrano, Joseph
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R1A/7 Reading and Composition: MWF 2-3 |
This class will explore the many legacies of the American Civil War. Starting with journalistic accounts and poetry from the war itself, and moving forward into novels and films, we'll think through how successive generations of writers from different...(read more) |
Warren, Noah
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R1A/8 Reading and Composition: MWF 3-4 |
In this class, we'll read English fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries alongside American feminist writing of the late 20th century to look for answers to the following questions: Can sex be ethical—perhaps even good? Is desire ever sympathetic or b...(read more) |
Nyiri, Jessy
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R1B/1 Reading and Composition: MWF 9-10 |
We may think we’re past the Victorian era, but even a cursory look at our contemporary pop culture tells us otherwise. BBC keeps churning out successful period pieces. Sherlock Holmes and Dracula just won’t die. Jane Eyre is constantly recycled in new...(read more) |
Hobbs, Katherine
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R1B/2 MWF 10-11 |
This course teaches reading, writing, and researching skills through a survey of sickness as a bodily and social condition and as a literary resource and mode. Students will practice formal analysis of texts in a variety of media including fiction, me...(read more) |
Cohan, Nathan
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R1B/3 Reading and Composition: MWF 10-11 |
Poetry won’t give you the news, as William Carlos Williams said, and it won’t tell you how to avoid traffic in Los Angeles or where to find the best burritos in the Mission. But it can offer a profound glimpse into the spirit—or spirits—of a place. Ca...(read more) |
Nathan, Jesse
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R1B/4 Reading and Composition: MWF 11-12 |
Poetry won’t give you the news, as William Carlos Williams said, and it won’t tell you how to avoid traffic in Los Angeles or where to find the best burritos in the Mission. But it can offer a profound glimpse into the spirit—or spirits—of a place. Ca...(read more) |
Nathan, Jesse
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R1B/5 Reading and Composition: MWF 11-12 |
What do we mean when we say that a text is “dreamlike?” We often appeal to this description when the text with which we are engaging is strange, experimental, or transgresses normative expectations. And yet to compare a novel, a film, or a painting to...(read more) |
Furcall, Dylan
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R1B/6 Reading and Composition: MWF 12-1 |
How do writers have words to describe silence? How does silence evade speech while also being produced by it? How does silence seek expression in language, metaphors and images? This course tracks the ways in which writers and artists have employed si...(read more) |
D'Silva, Eliot
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R1B/11 Reading and Composition: MWF 1-2 |
In 1992, Amitav Ghosh observed that, despite the ubiquity of petroleum in our lives, oil has “produced scarcely a single [literary] work of note.” And in 2006, commenting on the destruction caused by fossil fuels, Ghosh added that “climate change ...(read more) |
Beckett, Balthazar I.
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R1B/12 Reading and Composition: MWF 2-3 |
Does literature speculate, or theorize? How does the history of the novel shadow – or shape – an idea of reality that modern science takes as given? Does the existence of fictional worlds alter the material one that we inhabit? How does memory comp...(read more) |
Vinyard Boyle, Elizabeth
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R1B/14 Reading and Composition: TTh 8-9:30 |
This course will focus on passing narratives, stories, in which, a character is perceived as belonging to a racial or ethnic group different from their own. In particular, we will direct our attention to a series of twentieth-century texts that explor...(read more) |
Elias, Gabrielle
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R1B/15 Reading and Composition: TTh 5-6:30 |
How did capitalism begin? There is so much at stake in this question – above all, perhaps, some clues as to what capitalism really is and how it will end. While many have presumed that capitalism arose naturally and inevitably, and that it represents ...(read more) |
Geary, Christopher
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R1B/16 Reading and Composition: TTh 5-6:30 |
“Bro!” So begins a recent translation of Beowulf. Not with a solemn “So.” or an exclamatory “Listen!”, but rather with a playful invitation to reconsider the epic from a feminist standpoint, as a “bro story.” In this course, we’ll take this invitation...(read more) |
Ripplinger, Michelle
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R1B/17 Reading and Composition: MWF 8-9 |
In 1992, Amitav Ghosh observed that, despite the ubiquity of petroleum in our lives, oil has “produced scarcely a single [literary] work of note.” And in 2006, commenting on the destruction caused by fossil fuels, Ghosh added that “climate change ...(read more) |
Beckett, Balthazar I.
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R1B/18 Reading and Composition: TuTh 3:30-5 |
Egyptians often refer to their nation as أم الدنيا, the “mother of the world.” And Egypt has historically featured prominently in the western imaginary—from the legend of the Library of Alexandria to Napoleon’s invasion to the exploits of nineteen...(read more) |
Beckett, Balthazar I.
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17/1 MWF 9-10 |
English 17 is an introduction to the study of Shakespeare; incoming transfer students, future majors, and non-majors are especially welcome. Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, sublimely beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously b...(read more) |
Arnold, Oliver
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20/1 Modern British and American Literature: TTh 5-6:30 |
Apocalyptic stories have been told for centuries, even millenia. But novels, movies, and other forms of media that imagine the end of the world—and what comes after that—seem to have inundated us (floods!) in recent times... and that was even before C...(read more) |
Snyder, Katherine
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24/1 Freshman Sophomore Seminar Program: W 1-3 |
We will watch and discuss three masterworks of world art cinema: Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (Japan, 1950), Pier-Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (Italy, 1968), and Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry (Iran, 1997). Each is a kind of parable of repetition, involv...(read more) |
Miller, D.A.
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24/2 Freshman Seminar: W 2-3 |
We will be reading and discussing extraordinary poems by Emily Dickinson. ...(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
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43A/1 Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction TTh 9:30-11 |
This is an introductory workshop that focuses on writing and revising short fiction. We will also read published short stories to see how writers handle the essentials of voice, character, setting, structure, point of view, conflict, and the use of la...(read more) |
Rowland, Amy
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43B/1 Introduction to the Writing of Verse MW 12:30-2 |
"There is no greater fallacy going than that art is expression" (Robert Frost) This introductory workshop will ask: what is poetry if it is not (or not only) self-expression? We will write, workshop and revise our own poems and we will study a vari...(read more) |
Laser, Jessica
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45A/1 Literature in English: Through Milton MW 12-1 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103: F 12-1; sec. 104: Th 10-11) |
This is a story of discovering, then forgetting, then discovering again the fact that a particular language can be used not only for communication but also for creation. At the beginning of our story Caedmon, a shepherd, is called upon in his dream to...(read more) |
Marno, David
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45B/1 Literature in English: Late-17th through Mid-19th Centuries MW 4-5 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 9-10; sec. 102: F 10-11; sec. 103, F 11-12; sec. 104: F 12-1, sec. 105: F 1-2, sec. 106: F 2-3) |
This course is an introduction to British and American literature from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. We'll read works from that period (by Swift, Franklin, Equiano, Wordsworth, Austen, Brontë, Melville, Eliot, Douglass, Dickinson,...(read more) |
Puckett, Kent
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45C/1 Literature in English: MId-19th through the 20th Century MW 2-3 + one hour of discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2; sec. 103: F 2-3; sec. 104: F 3-4; sec. 105: F 4-5; sec. 106: F 11-12) |
This course will examine different examples of British, Irish, American, and global Anglophone literature from the middle of the 19th century through the middle of the 20th. Moving across a number of genres and movements, we will focus on the ways nov...(read more) |
Gang, Joshua
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53/1 Asian American Literature and Culture: TTh 6:30 - 8 |
Professor Leong's course is listed both as English 53 and as Asian American Studies (ASAMST) 20C. It is the same course (same time, same room; slightly different title). If you cannot enroll directly in English 53, you can enroll via ASAMST 20C. All s...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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80K/1 Children's Literature: TTh 2-3:30 |
From cannibalistic witches to sadistic parents to dystopian hellscapes, children's literature is rife with terrifying figures and dark themes. This class will look at the forms of monstrosity, deviance, and horror that appear in a variety of texts and...(read more) |
Saha, Poulomi
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84/1 Sophomore Seminar: F 12-2 |
An analysis of some classic American crime films and some recent examples of the genre. THIS IS AN ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS COURSE. ...(read more) |
Bader, Julia
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90/1 TTh 2-3:30 |
How do poems use language differently than other forms of oral or written expression? We'll explore how people have answered this question, and try to come up with some answers of our own. Readings will be made available on the coursesite and in a rea...(read more) |
Picciotto, Joanna M
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90/2 Practices of Literary Study: TTh 3:30-5 |
Before the literary form we now think of as the realist novel took critical shape as an aesthetic entity in the nineteenth century, a wide range of very interesting and new forms of prose fiction in eighteenth-century Britain (works we now call novels...(read more) |
Sorensen, Janet
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90/4 Practices of Literary Study: MW 9:30-11 |
“‘A sad tale’s best for winter,’ but for spring a comedy is better.” Focusing on three of Shakespeare’s most engaging plays—The Comedy of Errors, The Tragedy of King Lear, and The Winter’s Tale—which all concern divisions in a family (sometimes hilar...(read more) |
Altman, Joel B.
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100/1 The Seminar on Criticism: TTh 11-12:30 |
For over a century, Henry James (1843-1916) has been regarded as a writer’s writer. Hailed as the “Master” within his lifetime by the many who prized his narrative art as well as his professionalism, James found new fans in each subsequent generation...(read more) |
Hale, Dorothy J.
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100/3 The Seminar on Criticism: TTh 3:30-5 |
Our seminar will take up Thoreau’s challenge to read Walden as deliberately as it was written. We will work through the book slowly over the course of the semester, while learning how best to approach it, and the environment in which it was written, ...(read more) |
Tamarkin, Elisa
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100/4 The Seminar on Criticism: TuTh 9:30-11 |
In this seminar of literary criticism, we will explore some of the stories that have been told about writing as a technology of reproduction, dissemination, circulation, amplification, preservation, and citation. While writing commonly refers to the o...(read more) |
François, Anne-Lise
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100/5 The Seminar on Criticism: MWF 12-1 |
As we develop our critical reading and writing skills, we will examine a wide range of Native American personal narratives, from pre-contact pictographic narratives painted on animal hides and later drawn in ledgerbooks to nineteenth-century as-told-t...(read more) |
Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
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100/7 The Seminar on Criticism: TTh 5-6:30 |
We will read Moby-Dick slowly and scrupulously, immersing ourselves in Melville’s extraordinary prose and assessing the book’s literary, historical, and biographical contexts; the 20th- and 21st-century critical traditions it has generated; narrative ...(read more) |
Otter, Samuel
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111/1 MWF 1-2 |
For more information about this class, please contact Jennifer Miller at j_miller@berkeley.edu. ...(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
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117B/1 MW 10-11 + one discussion section per week (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2) |
This class offers an in-depth study of the second half of Shakespeare's career, featuring the major tragedies alongside later comedies and tragicomedies. We'll read ten of those plays together: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, Measure fo...(read more) |
Landreth, David
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125A/1 The English Novel (Defoe through Scott) TTh 12:30-2 |
The period from which our reading draws has been credited with the “rise of the novel”—the emergence of the then new genre, the “novel,” so familiar to us today. While critics have qualified and revised that claim, the texts we’ll read do experiment w...(read more) |
Sorensen, Janet
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125C/1 MWF 10-11 |
In The Theory of the Novel the critic Georg Lukacs writes, “The novel form is, like no other, an expression of transcendental homelessness.” This course will survey the history of the European novel in the context of “rootlessness” and “estrangement”—...(read more) |
Creasy, CFS
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125E/1 The Contemporary Novel: MWF 11-12 |
A study from the Global Web Index reveals that internet users aged sixteen to sixty-four averaged 6 hours and 43 minutes online per day in 2019. This amounts to 102 full days of screentime per person. If people are spending nearly a third of their liv...(read more) |
Catchings, Alex
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130A/1 American Literature: Before 1800 TTh 11-12:30 |
A survey of English-language American literature to 1800. We will read a wide range of texts from narratives of colonial settlement through the literature of the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and the early republic. Topics to be ...(read more) |
Tamarkin, Elisa
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130B/1 American Literature: 1800-1865 TTh 2-3:30 |
We will take up the remarkable fiction, poetry, and essays of this period, including works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Fanny Fern, Herman Melville, Walt ...(read more) |
Otter, Samuel
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C136/1 Topics in American Studies: MW 12-2 |
This course explores the social, cultural, political, and personal awakenings in the literature, art, and music of the Negro Renaissance or the New Negro Movement, now commonly known as the Harlem Renaissance. This is remembered as a time (roughly 191...(read more) |
Wagner, Bryan
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137T/1 Topics in Chicano Literature and Culture: MW 5-6:30 |
“The student of Chicano literature will look back at this group and this first period as the foundation of whatever is to come, even if only as the generation against whom those to come rebel. The best of the best will survive—but then survival is an ...(read more) |
Reyes, Robert L
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141/1 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) TTh 3:30-5 |
This course will introduce students to the study of creative writing—fiction and poetry. Students will learn to talk critically about these forms and begin to feel comfortable and confident writing within these genres. Students will write a variety of...(read more) |
Abrams, Melanie
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143A/1 TTh 11-12:30 |
The aim of this course is to explore the genre of short fiction—to discuss the elements that make up the short story, to talk critically about short stories, and to become comfortable and confident with the writing of them. Students will write two sh...(read more) |
Abrams, Melanie
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143A/2 TTh 11-12:30 |
A short fiction workshop. Over the course of the semester, each student will write and revise two stories. Each participant in the workshop will edit student-written stories and will write a formal critique of each manuscript. Students will also take ...(read more) |
Chandra, Vikram
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143B/1 MW 2-3:30 |
In this course you will conduct a progressive series of explorations in which you will try some of the fundamental options for writing poetry today (or any day) — aperture and closure; rhythmic sound patterning; sentence and line (verse); short and lo...(read more) |
Shoptaw, John
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143B/2 MW 3:30-5 |
In this class we will read as writers and write as readers, explore some of the larger mysteries and technical fine points of poetry, and how one is often to be found in the other. Course readings covering a range of 20th and 21st-century poetry will ...(read more) |
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143C/1 MW 12:30-2 |
This course is for students who are interested in or already working on a novel or novella. Through creative writing exercises and reading, we’ll explore how a novel is made, including questions of structure, research, and planning; through workshops,...(read more) |
McFarlane, Fiona
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143N/1 Prose Nonfiction: MW 11-12:30 |
This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop focused on the topic of food. Food writing encompasses more than snooty restaurant reviews or poetic descriptions of the taste of wine, coffee, and chocolate. Food writing can include memoir, cultural c...(read more) |
Kleege, Georgina
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143N/2 TTh 9:30-11 |
This course is a nonfiction workshop in which you’ll learn to write about many different types of art and culture, from TV to music and other forms of performance, while also developing your own voice and sensibility on the page as you learn to write ...(read more) |
Saul, Scott
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143N/3 Friday 9-12 |
An upper division writing workshop, open to undergraduate and graduate students from any department who have either taken English 43-level writing seminars or have equivalent skills/experience. Drawing on narrative strategies in memoir, the diary, ...(read more) |
Farber, Thomas
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165/1 Special Topics: MW 5-6:30 |
Ecopoetry – nature poetry that is environmental and environmentalist – is an international twenty-first century movement. But in the nature poetry and poetics of the United States it has deep and wide-spread roots. This seminar will explore this mov...(read more) |
Shoptaw, John
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166/1 TTh 2-3:30 |
The Twentieth Century offered a unique blending of advancement and atrocity, genocide and progress, and surely no single artist captured this more fully and more fearlessly than Samuel Beckett. Spanning the modernist and postmodernist eras, Beckett's ...(read more) |
Danner, Mark
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166/2 TTh 2-3:30 |
We will study the work of Nabokov as a novelist on two continents over a period of nearly sixty years. The course will be structured (more or less) chronologically and divided between novels translated from Russian and written in English. After beginn...(read more) |
Naiman, Eric |
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166AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: TTh 9:30-11 |
Is happiness possible in a world of ecological catastrophe, economic inequality, and racial oppression? This course will explore recent literature by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American writers and poets preoccupied with the nature of joy. A...(read more) |
Cutler, John Alba
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171/1 Literature and Sexual Identity: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course will focus on one area of the rapidly expanding field of literature and sexual identity: the early twentieth-century literary experiments that have earned the title “modernism.” Famously “queer,” modernism’s challenges to literary and soci...(read more) |
Abel, Elizabeth
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172/1 MWF 10-11 |
Is psychology a science that deals with objective facts? Are these facts established through third-person observation and verification, or first-person experience? Is the object of psychology the neuroanatomy of the brain or the cognitive structures o...(read more) |
Viragh, Atti
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175/1 Literature and Disability: MWF 10-11 |
Every schoolchild knows the story of Helen Keller. We learn early that Keller became blind and deaf as a toddler, that after years without language, she was taught to sign, read and write, and eventually speak, that she was the first deafblind college...(read more) |
Sirianni, Lucy
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176/2 Literature and Popular Culture: MW 10:30-12 |
The television situation comedy has been one of the most durable, wide-ranging, and successful genres of popular culture of all time. Its narrative forms (such as the “will they/won’t they” romance that depends on the televisual mod...(read more) |
Lavery, Grace
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179/1 TTh 12:30-2 |
The medium of literature is language. This course aims to deepen understanding of what this means through consideration of how certain literary forms can be defined as grammatical forms. These literary forms include meter; rhyme and alliteration; sy...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
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190/1 Research Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
In this class we’ll concentrate on just one poet, Emily Dickinson, using her work as an occasion to think about how poetry and history get made, revised, codified, brought forward, pushed aside, theorized, contested, remixed and – since this is a re...(read more) |
Schweik, Susan
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190/2 Research Seminar: TTh 3:30-5 |
What is literary criticism? All English majors and English professors do it, or try to do it; but articulating what it is, or should be, is not easy. The question is a theoretical one, which in this course we will consider with Canadian literary cri...(read more) |
Hanson, Kristin
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190/4 Research Seminar: MW 8-9:30 |
Deference to the instincts of a community serves as final arbiter in much intellectual and political work: when, for example, the linguist Noam Chomsky defines a the syntax of a language as the “instincts of a native speaker.” Yet as that framing indi...(read more) |
Lavery, Grace
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190/5 Research Seminar: TTh 2-3:30 |
In this course, we’ll analyze representations of repression and resistance in a collection of contemporary literary works, mainly novels. We’ll examine various forms of repression—physical, social, political, and psychological—represented in these wor...(read more) |
Gonzalez, Marcial
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190/6 Research Seminar: TTh 5-6:30 |
What is historical and what is fictional about the genre of historical fiction? Since the nineteenth century, this oxymoronic genre has redrawn the border between history and fiction, realism and romance. In this survey, we will begin by reading a cou...(read more) |
Bernes, Jasper
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190/7 Research Seminar: MW 5-6:30 |
Anyone who has travelled or lived in parts of the world (including their own country) where they were visibly an outsider—by countenance, clothing or conduct—will have experienced the sometimes fearful instability of “otherness”. Contrary to common no...(read more) |
Miller, Jennifer
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190/8 Research Seminar: MW 6:30-8 |
Besides reading and discussing fiction and essays that attempt to identify or explain distinctive regional characteristics, this course will include consideration of various movies shaped by and shaping conceptions of California. Writing will consist ...(read more) |
Starr, George A.
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H195B/1 TTh 5-6:30 |
The Honors Seminar is a year-long course. In this second semester, we focus on drafting and revising a 40-60 page Honors Thesis. The course is not open to new enrollment. No new books are required. ...(read more) |
Hale, Dorothy J.
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H195B/2 TTh 12:30-2 |
This course is a continuation of English H195A, taught by Scott Saul in Fall 2021. No new students will be admitted, and no new application needs to be submitted. Prof. Saul will give out permission codes in class in November. No new texts are requ...(read more) |
Saul, Scott
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Graduate students from other departments and exceptionally well-prepared undergraduates are welcome in English graduate courses (except for English 200 and 375) when space permits. Please contact the instructor if you have questions.
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203/1 Graduate Readings: Wednesday 2-5 |
The 1960s’ return to Marx centered on the 1857-8 manuscripts, or The Grundrisse, which were then made widely available in the West for the first time. The Grundrisse inspired diverse interpretations of Marx’s critique of political economy—ranging from...(read more) |
Lye, Colleen
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203/2 Graduate Readings: Thursday 2-5 |
This course surveys literature, film, and art of the 1960s with a particular focus on works from the United States that highlighted the period’s many forms of social, political, and ecological crisis, and assess the limits and possibilities of the exi...(read more) |
Goble, Mark
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203/3 Graduate Readings: Tuesday 9-12 |
In this course, we will read a lot of writing about narrative and the novel for a few related reasons. First, we’ll consider several representative texts in narratology, novel theory, and the sociology of the novel to trace out some key arguments abo...(read more) |
Puckett, Kent
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243B/1 M 9-12 |
Studies in contemporary poetic cases will focus our discussions of each other's poems. ...(read more) |
O'Brien, Geoffrey G.
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243N/1 Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop: MW 5-6:30 |
By the time James Baldwin died in 1987, he had, arguably, become the voice of black and queer America. As the author of numerous novels, essays, plays, and social commentaries, the Harlem-born author had managed, over his nearly forty-year career, to ...(read more) |
Als, Hilton
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246F/1 Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century F 9-12 |
This survey of British writing from (roughly) 1740 through 1800 takes up decades that have presented literary historians with more than the usual challenges to periodization and organization by author, movement, or genre. We will study the proliferati...(read more) |
Goodman, Kevis
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246H/1 Victorian Period: W 9-12 |
Taking as a starting point the fact that Britain’s nineteenth-century empire necessitates a capacious understanding of the term “Victorian,” this course will query the expansive contours of that term. What reading practices does such a commodious unde...(read more) |
Banerjee, Sukanya
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250/1 Research Seminars: M 2-5 |
The idea of pairing “sensation” with “participation” as a means of identifying an aesthetic phenomenon characteristic of the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance emerges in part from Thomas Aquinas’ account of beauty: he argues that beauty is fu...(read more) |
Nolan, Maura
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250/2 Research Seminars: T 2-5 |
The history of Western literary theory is often told in terms of the concept of mimesis. But there is another, equally powerful, anti-mimetic strand to this history: the critique of mimesis as a form of idolatry. In this course, we will explore this c...(read more) |
Kahn, Victoria
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