English 190
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
Book List
Johnson, James Weldon: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Larsen, Nella: Passing; Lewis, David Levering: When Harlem Was in Vogue; McKay, Claude: Home to Harlem; Toomer, Jean: Cane
Other Readings and Media
Other materials will be made available in PDF format.
Description
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement of black artists and writers in the 1920s. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan, the movement extended outward through international collaboration that reached to Havana, Dakar, Moscow, and Marseilles. We will be reading works by writers including W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Claude McKay as well as relevant history, theory, and criticism. Weekly writing, one long essay, midterm and final exam.
Please read the paragraph about English 190 on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.
Advance syllabus here.
Fall, 2019
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Creative Sentences
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Hejinian, Lyn
Falci, Eric
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Shakespeare and Company
|
Landreth, David
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: American Transcendentalism
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Fiction
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Snyder, Katherine
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Literature on Trial: Romanticism, Law, Justice
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Langan, Celeste
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Ideology
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Gonzalez, Marcial
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Ideas
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Danner, Mark
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Spring, 2019
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Flann O'Brien and Irish Literature
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Transsexual Literatures and Cultures
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Lavery, Grace
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: James / Baldwin
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Carnal Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
|
Miller, Jasmin
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar
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Stancek, Claire Marie
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Edgar Allan Poe
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
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Otter, Samuel
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Emily Dickinson
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Shoptaw, John
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Willa Cather
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Sixties Cinema
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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Fall, 2018
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Melville in the 50s
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Goldsmith, Steven
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Laughter and Vision: Explorations in the Novel of Ideas
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Danner, Mark
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Representations of Coercion and Resistance in African American Slave, Jim Crow, and Neo-slave Narratives
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JanMohamed, Abdul R.
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: William Blake
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Goldstein, Amanda Jo
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Repression and Resistance
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Gonzalez, Marcial
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Mark Twain
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Griffin, Ben
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar
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No instructor assigned yet.
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: The Jamesian Novel
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Hale, Dorothy J.
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| 190/14 |
Research Seminar
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Miller, Jennifer
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Spring, 2018
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Trials of Literature: Romanticism, Justice, and the Law
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Langan, Celeste
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: James Joyce
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Flynn, Catherine
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Hawthorne & Melville
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Tamarkin, Elisa
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully
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Breitwieser, Mitchell
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Sixty Years Since: The Historical Novel
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Kolb, Margaret
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Contemporary Historical Fiction
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Yoon, Irene
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literary Theory and Its Objects
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: The Faerie Queene: The Ethics of Imagination
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Landreth, David
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Pagan Fictions in Christian Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Andrew Marvell
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Picciotto, Joanna M
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: California Books and Movies Since World War I
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Starr, George A.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: Alfred Hitchcock
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Bader, Julia
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Fall, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: Britain in the ‘60s
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Gang, Joshua
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: The Historical Novel
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Puckett, Kent
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Another Day in Purgatory: Irish Literature and the Afterlife
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Creasy, CFS
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Literature and Revolution
|
Lee, Steven S.
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Monsters, Exiles, and Outlaws in Medieval Literature
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Hobson, Jacob
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: George Eliot and the Realist Novel
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Kolb, Margaret
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Historiography and Narrative: Literature and the Interstices of History
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Suspicious Mind
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Best, Stephen M.
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: Nonsense
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Hanson, Kristin
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| 190/12 |
Research Seminar: Making Memories
|
Yoon, Irene
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Spring, 2017
| Course & Section |
Course Name |
Course Areas |
| 190/1 |
Research Seminar: The Urban Postcolonial
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Ellis, Nadia
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| 190/2 |
Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
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Wagner, Bryan
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| 190/3 |
Research Seminar: Literature and the Linguistic Turn
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Blevins, Jeffrey
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| 190/4 |
Research Seminar: Jane Austen and the Theory of the Novel
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Miller, D.A.
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| 190/5 |
Research Seminar: Writing a World in Crisis: Medieval and Modern
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Perry, R. D.
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| 190/6 |
Research Seminar: Shakespeare: From the Globe to the Global
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Bahr, Stephanie M
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| 190/7 |
Research Seminar: Place-Love: Fiction and the Melancholy of Form
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Xin, Wendy Veronica
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| 190/8 |
Research Seminar: Literatures of the Ocean
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Sorensen, Janet
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| 190/9 |
Research Seminar: Beowulf
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Thornbury, Emily V.
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| 190/10 |
Research Seminar: Hollywood in the 1930s
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Knapp, Jeffrey
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| 190/11 |
Research Seminar: The Literature of Immortality
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Jones, Donna V.
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| 190/13 |
Research Seminar: California Literature & Film Since WWI
|
Starr, George A.
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