University of Massachusetts Amherst

Graduate Course Descriptions

698B Intro. To Teaching Writing H. Hoang
698D Alternative Classroom Practices P. Woods
698G Comp. Theories & Pedagogies H Hoang
698I Teaching Basic Writing D. Vinyard
698J Teaching Mentoring P. Woods
698K Language& Diversity D. Vinyard
698L Teaching Creative Writing N. Holland & L. Ostein
698R Applied Literary Arts L. Olstein
698V Special Topics in the Teaching of Writing H. Hoang
699 Master’s Thesis Staff

732 Shakespeare
W, 6:00-8:30  Instructor: Arthur Kinney
We will read and discuss Shakespeare's works in chronological order, noting the development of his career and his ideas in his comedies, tragedies, histories and romances in relation to the historical, social, religious, and economic world of his time. We will also look at how performance conveys and changes meanings for the audience.

Arthur F. Kinney has written, most recently, a book with Hugh Craig on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays for Cambridge University Press and the Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare for Oxford University Press. He is an Advisory Editor for the forthcoming five-volume Shakespeare Encyclopedia edited by Patricia Parker. The author of a number of books on the Renaissance and on Renaissaance drama--including an anthology of the drama and a Blackwell Companion--he has also served as a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. At UMass,. he is the Director of the Renaissance Center.

English 747 The Nineteenth-Century British Novel
W, 7:15-9:45 Instructor: Suzanne Daly
This course will examine several canonical novels both as aesthetic objects and cultural artifacts. We will explore questions of form, genre, style and structure, consider the demands and imperatives of the literary marketplace, and read seminal analyses of the novel form by Bakhtin, Jameson, Lukács, Miller, Said, Stewart, and Williams. Victorian cultural criticism by Arnold, Carlyle, Cobbe, Linton, Marx, Mill, Newman, and Norton will provide historical and political context. Novels may include Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Charles Dickens, Bleak House; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Suzanne Daly specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century England, particularly the novel.

755 American Realism
W, 4:40-7:10 Instructor: Randall Knoper
The topic of this course will be American fiction of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. “Realism” and “naturalism” are labels applied to much of the literature we will read, and we will spend some time examining the tenets clustered under those labels. But we will also read some literature that defined itself against the realism of the dominant literary culture. What literature meant, and what it could do, became urgent questions as U.S. culture and society underwent drastic changes: chaotic urban growth; immigration in a volume matched only recently; the rise of corporations; financial panics and depressions; exacerbated class conflict; post-Reconstruction struggles to redefine a racial order; unsettling changes in the roles of women; revolutions in science, technology, communication, and transportation; controversial imperialist adventures; the rapid development of consumer capitalism and commercial mass entertainment; the spread of theories of evolution, “race science,” materialist psychology, and new conceptions of body and mind—and more. Amidst new ways of investigating, observing, knowing, and inscribing both reality and “the self,” the literature of the time repeatedly mutated in its effort to comprehend its surroundings. We’ll try to track these changes in literary form while we keep an eye on the turbulent society and culture of the period. Readings will (probably) be: Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson; W. D. Howells, An Imperative Duty; Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition; Henry James, Portrait of a Lady; stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, and Abraham Cahan; Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage; Kate Chopin, The Awakening; Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Frank Norris, The Pit; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, and Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood. Requirements: short weekly writings, a class presentation, and a final project (15-20 pp.). Books ordered at Amherst Books.

Randall Knoper is the author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture
Of Performance. He is currently working on a book project about the relations between American literature and neurophysiology from 1880 to 1925.

780/1 Imag. Writing: Poetry
M, 6:00-8:30 Instructor: Dara Wier
Satisfies the MFA Contemporaty & Modern Poetry Requirement
We'll consider contemporary poetry, both in the work you write and bring to workshop and in selections from some recent and not so recent books and chapbooks. Conversations will focus on some of the choices a poet considers while writing and re-vising, and problems art delivers to us for us to have the privilege and pains and pleasures and of solving. What you're reading (and seeing and listening to) comes into configurations in your poems, but also lots of other things: states of mind, astronomy & shepherds, complex and simple machines… fog…...games....satellites. fortunes told, fortunes founds...math & politics and chemistry and history and the future…telescopes…time and timing devices and time's ways will be found everywhere.... exploded views, upside down arches, animals, birds, skin & bones, hearts & minds, neurological circuitry, question of wit and stamina, of humility and outrageous desire…..& much more. Emphasis always directed toward your next poem. We'll also occasionally (hoping we have time) discuss various books, considering their range of styles and influences. We may have a few guests. Permission required for anyone not enrolled in the MFA Program.

Dara Wier is the author of A Civilian's Diary of the War Years (Song Cave), and forthcoming book YOU GOOD THING (from Wave Books), START STOPPING (Wave Books) and chapbooks, We Want to Return the Scarf to You in Good Condition (Small Anchor Books), You Stare As If Staring Were the Start of All Stars (Pilot Books), Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture (2006 Poetry Center Book Award) (Wave Books), Hat on a Pond (Verse Press), Voyages in English, Our Master Plan, Blue for the Plough, The Book of Knowledge, All You Have in Common, The 8-Step Grapevine (Carnegie Mellon University Press) and Blood, Hook & Eye (University of Texas Press). Recent work has appeared in the Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Hybrid Poetry and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is a recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. In 2005 she was the Rubin Distinguished Chairholder in Poetry at Hollins University. New work is in American Poetry Review, the Canary, jubilat, Sixth Finch, Ink Node, notnostrums, Oh No, Maggy, Make, Lungful, Telephone, Open City, Scythe, The Nation, Volt, The Blue Letter, on the Poetry Foundations website and Academy of American Poets feature poemflow. In preparation: a collection of short stories and a book of essays about literary arts, and two new collections of poems, and a novel. With Guy Pettit & Emily Pettit she edits and publishes for Factory Hollow Press. She co-founded and co-directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action and co-founded and co-directs the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.

780/2 Imaginative Writing: Poetry
Tu, 1-3:30 Instructor: James Tate
Each week, a close reading analysis of poems submitted by poets and writers enrolled in the workshop, and occasional poems brought in from outside. Attention to the way in which a poem works and how it comes together through its choice of images, rhythms and subject matter. Assignments in an anthology of contemporary poetry and supplementary reading. Permission of instructor required of students not enrolled through the MFA Program for Poets and Writers.

James Tate is the author of The Eternal Ones of the Dream (March, 2012), The Ghost Soldiers, Return to the City of White Donkeys, Memoir of the Hawk, Shroud of the Gnome, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award; Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; Distance from Loved Ones, Reckoner, Constant Defender, Riven Doggeries, Viper Jazz, Absences, Hints to Pilgrims, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, and The Lost Pilot, selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has published two books of prose, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee and The Route as Briefed. His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and has been recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

780/3 Imag. Writing: Poetry
M, 1:25-3:55 Instructor: Peter Gizzi
The workshop is a very demanding class. It consists of each student workshopping several batches of poems, providing in-depth written comments, handing in revisions, reading several books of poetry and essays, and required participation and attendance. Enrollment is limited to 10. Permission of instructor required of students not enrolled through the MFA Program for Poets and Writers. All course books available at Amherst Books.
Peter Gizzi is the author of Threshold Songs (Wesleyan, 2011), The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and a reprint of his first book, Periplum and other poems 1987-1992 (Salt Publishing UK, 2004). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been translated into numerous languages and anthologized both here and abroad. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships in poetry from The Fund for Poetry, The Rex Foundation, Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2011 he was The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University.

781/1 Imag. Writing: Fiction
W, 1:25-3:55 Instructor: Jed Berry
Writers enrolled in this course should expect a workshop geared for exploration and inquiry. We will demystify and reverse engineer, then revivify and re-mythologize. Critique of submitted work will be conducted in an open manner that favors thoughtful discourse and emphasizes authorial intent. Questions of craft will serve as a means for investigating the diverse approaches to fiction-making, and experimentation in a variety of forms is welcome. Assigned texts, serving as way stations on our route, will be visited and revisited throughout the semester.

Jedediah Berry is the author of the novel The Manual of Detection, which won the Hammett Prize and the Crawford Award. His short stories have appeared in journals including Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Chicago Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He has worked as an editor at Small Beer Press.

781/2 Imag. Writing: Fiction
Tuesday, 6-8:30 Insstructor: Noy Holland
This is a course about learning to be better at being, as Mr. Joyce says, “above the text, paring one’s fingernails.” My hope is that the class inspires fanaticism, perversions of the given, a new sense of the plasticity of the language, its instability, a fresh devotedness to the task of exploring lingual effects, the texture and coloration of words, the deep structure of sentences. The course seeks to encourage work that produces not sensationalism but sensation or what Nabokov called “aesthetic bliss; that is, a sense of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.” Books ordered at Amherst Books.

Noy Holland is the author of three collections of stories, The Spectacle of the Body, What Begins with Bird, and Swim for the Little One First, forthcoming from Fiction Collective Two. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines, including The Quarterly, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, and Open City. She has taught at Phillips Academy and the University of Florida, and has received fellowships from the University of Florida, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

781/3 Imaginative Writing: Fiction
W, 4:40-7:10 Instructor: Sabina Murray
This workshop will focus on the short story, although other work will be accommodated. We will explore the form of the short story, its capacity to explore ideas, with a focus on formal elements, language, character, and logic/plot. Outside reading will include a collection of short stories by someone very good at writing short stories, as well as stories that class members wish to be read by the class. Permission of instructor required of students not enrolled through the MFA Program.

Sabina Murray's most recent book is Tales of The New World, a collection of stories. She is the author of the novels A Carnivore's Inquiry, Slow Burn, and Forgery. Her short story collection The Caprices received the 2002 PENFaulkner award. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead II. She received the Fred R. Brown Award in 2008 and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University, and Massachusetts Cultural Council. Recent work has appeared in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, Hartford Courant, and Insider¹s Guide to Books, edited by Mark Strand.

791AC Darwin, Freud, Einstein & Literary Culture
Th, 7-9:30 Instructor: David Toomey
The course will explore the influence of three major figures upon the literary cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using primary texts by those figures as lenses through which to reexamine contemporaneous authors.

Darwin’s theory of natural selection, Freud’s ideas of the unconscious, and Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity offered radically new views of human experience and at the same time suggested new and equally radical means to represent it. We will study those views and representations, giving special attention to brief selections from a range of nineteenth century British and American fiction, to Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and to Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Generally, we will examine how scientific knowledge is diffused and refracted through a larger cultural moment. We will be careful to distinguish influence that is more or less direct from that which may be relatively oblique. Finally, in seeking context, we will appeal to works on literary communities of the periods in question and the history of science.

David Toomey holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Virginia, where his dissertation was Dreams of Different Things: The Experience of Schizophrenia as Represented in Journals, Clinical Accounts and Fiction of the Modernist Period. His books include The New Time Travelers: A Journey To The Frontiers of Physics (W.W. Norton, July 2007) and Weird Life: The Search For Life That is Very, Very Different From Our Own (W.W. Norton: forthcoming in January 2013).

791AD Introduction to Caribbean Literature
M, 5-7:30 Instructor: Rachel Mordecai
Satisfies the MFA Modern Fiction requirement.
Introduction to Caribbean Literature will introduce graduate students to major texts and issues in Caribbean literature. The focus will be on literature since 1900, but some earlier texts may be included. The course will range across the language groups in the region (all texts to be read in translation). Authors may include McKay, Lamming, Naipaul, Wynter, Carpentier, Walcott, Brathwaite, Alexis, Bennett, Rhys, Condé, Kincaid, Chamoiseau, Edgell, Brodber and others. Extensive secondary readings in relevant theory and criticism will also be required. Assignments will include a presentation to the class and a final research paper.

Rachel Mordecai’s article “Sex, Silence, and Colonial Violence: The Amnesiac White Women of Witchbroom” appeared in the Journal of West Indian Literature in 2010; an earlier article, “‘The Same Bucky-Massa Business’: Peter Tosh and I-an-I at the One Love Peace Concert,” appeared in Kunapipi in 2008. The latter article was drawn from her current book project, entitled “Tropes of Belonging”: Citizenship and the 1970s in Jamaican Literature; another article derived from the same project is forthcoming in the journal Wadabagei.

791D Major Texts for American Culture
Th, 5-7:30 Instructor: TreAndrea Russworm
In this class we will begin by reading the presidential addresses delivered at the annual American Studies Association meeting from the past decade. As we read, we will pay close attention to the ways in which American studies has taken to distinguishing itself as a field in recent years, particularly as the critical conversations about identity politics, transnationalism, diasporic studies, postcolonial subjectivities, and new media studies have continued to change and challenge the intersectionalities between American studies and other fields. Weekly, we will read relatively recent works from the field, such as Anne Cheng’s The Melancholy of Race, Michael Denning’s Culture in the Age of Three Worlds, Lauren Berlant’s The Female Compliant, and Judith Halberstam’s In a Queer Time and Place. Our aim will be to establish many models for doing compelling work in American studies as well as establish an updated vision on where the field is today.

TreaAndrea M. Russworm is writing an American studies book manuscript about blackness, popular culture, and psychoanalytic thought during the civil rights era. Her teaching interests, both primary and secondary, include post-1950s African American literature and culture, film and television studies, American studies, psychoanalysis, digital media (including video game theory and culture) and representations of race and community in the “avatar age.”

791E Theorizing the Discipline
Th, 4-6:30 Instructor: Jordanna Rosenberg
This course will give graduate students an introduction to the history and methodology of literary study. We will concentrate on Marxist literary and cultural criticism; theories of postcoloniality and decolonization; neoliberalism, critical race studies; feminism, and queer theory. Authors will include: Althusser, Adorno, Benjamin, Fanon, Freud, Gilroy, Gramsci, Saidiya Hartman, C.L.R. James, Marx, Mbembe, Jodi Melamed, Fred Moten, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Raymond Williams.

Jordana Rosenberg is the author of Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion (Oxford UP, 2011), and the co-editor (with Amy Villarejo) of “Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism” GLQ 18.1 (December 2011), and (with Chi-ming Yang) “Accumulation, Dispossession, Enclosure: A State of the Field,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming 2013). Her current project is titled Apertures of Enclosure: The Form of Dispossession in the Ages of Finance.

796 Independent Study By arrangement
For students wishing to do special work not covered by courses listed in the curriculum. Each student when registering should submit a brief description of the semester’s work agreed on by the student and the instructor. This must be signed by both the instructor and the student. No instructor should do more than one such course. Form for registering for this course are available in Bartlett 452. The Director of Graduate Studies must approve each proposal.

796A Independent Study By arrangement
For students who are taking more than one independent study course per semester.

796B Independent Study By arrangement
796W INDEPENDENT AREA-1 By arrangement
796X INDEPENDENT AREA-2 By arrangement

891AB The History of the Book
Th, 10-12:30 Instructor: Joseph Black
This course offers an overview of the history of books and reading from early manuscript culture through hand press books and machine press books to the increasingly digital present. We will survey how books were written, manufactured, circulated, and read in different eras (and in both British and American contexts), and will explore the shifting social and cultural uses of books over time. We will also consider the major theoretical and methodological questions connected with the “the history of the book” as a field of study. The course involves extensive hands-on work with a wide range of books and manuscripts from different periods, including materials from UMass Special Collections and Archives ( where the seminar is being held).
Text: The Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, second edition (Routledge, 2006), along with readings to be provided electronically.

Joseph Black’s recent publications include contributions to the “Oxford Handbooks” series (on Edmund Spenser and on Renaissance Prose) and articles on the early modern public sphere; his books include Private Libraries of Renaissance England, vol. 7 (2009) and The Martin Marprelate Tracts (2008). He is currently completing The Library of the Sidney Family of Penshurst Place, further volumes in the Private Libraries of Renaissance England series, and teaching anthologies of John Milton’s selected poetry and prose.

891AJ Civic Fictions
Th, 5:30-8:00 Instructor: Hoang Phan
Beginning in the Age of Revolution and ending in the Age of Emancipation, this course traces the relation between historical transformation and literary production. We will study narratives of individual and collective cultural transformations, from the early national period through the Union crisis and American Civil War. What are the contending narratives posed by literary works of these periods, on the issues of slavery, expansion, and national union; citizenship and democracy; social order and revolution? And most centrally: How did their writings engage with the radical changes and retrenchments occurring in that period called “the American 1848”? As we read a selective survey of literary works from the 1780s through 1865, we’ll also engage with recent critical and theoretical reconsiderations of the literature and politics of the long nineteenth century. Literary readings will include: Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano; Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; Arthur Mervyn; Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom; Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Martin Delany, Blake; or, the Huts of America. Coursework includes one presentation and related short paper; and one seminar paper.

Hoang Phan received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Phan’s research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature, and Legal Studies. His forthcoming book, Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation (NYU Press) studies the transformations of American citizenship and civic culture from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, situating these transformations in the interdependent histories of slavery, wage labor, and racial formation. Focusing on citizenship as that site in American culture where slavery law and labor law repeatedly converged, it argues further that in the Age of Emancipation the cultural attributes of free personhood became identified with the legal rights and privileges of the citizen; that individual “freedom” thus became identified with the nation-state, and understood as possible solely through national citizenship.

891DD Literacy Studies
Th, 1-3:30 Instructor: Haivan Hoang
What is literacy? What makes literacy effective, compelling, and valued? This course begins by addressing the mainstream American myth that suggests literacy leads to economic progress (social and individual). To challenge this myth, we'll read qualitative research in literacy studies (an interdisciplinary field that includes composition studies, history, education, and more) to inspire us to reconceptualize literacy. These readings will take us from text-based to ideology-based definitions of literacy, from literacy acts to literacy events and practices, and from traditional ethnographic to critical perspectives. Based on readings and class discussions, we'll interrogate dominant cultural perceptions of literacy and ultimately consider the ways that readers and writers use literacy to upset these same cultural perceptions. Past readings in this course have included Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms, Harvey Graff's The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society, Deborah Brandt's Literacy in American Lives, Morris Young's Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship, Catherine Prendergast's Literacy & Racial Justice: The Politics of Education after Brown v. Board of Education as well as selections from Ellen Cushman et al's Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook.

Haivan Hoang's research interests include race and literacy studies, Asian American rhetoric, linguistic diversity, and ethnographic and historical research methodologies. Her book Writing against Racial Injury: The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric is forthcoming from the Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture at the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is currently directing the Writing Program and is an active member of the Asian/Asian American Caucus and the Committee on Second Language Writing in the Conference on College Composition & Communication.

891M Form & Theory of Poetry: First Books First
W, 6-8:30 Instructor: Dara Wier
Enrollment by permission of instructor only.
Satisfies the MFA Contemporary & Modern Poetry requirement

891O Modernism, Modernity, Capitalism
Tu, 5:30-8 Instructor: Ruth Jennison
Satisfies the MFA Modern Poetry requirement.
This course examines the relationship between early 20th century poetics and capitalist modernity. Our primary texts will include American poetry from the first half of the 20th Century; expect to encounter both canonical (Eliot/Stevens/Pound) and alternative (Rukeyser/Zukofsky/Fearing/McKay) trajectories. We will use these primary texts as sites from which to explore the contours of the relationship between modernism as movement and modernity as the variegated and prismatic mediation of capitalist social relations. Our points of departure will include the following questions: To what degree is modernism retroactively installed as the aesthetic anomie of a “failed” modernity? What modernisms are rendered visible, and invisible, by the discursive divorce of modernity from capitalism? How might we complicate the history of modernism’s periodizations, ideologies, and aesthetic strategies by readings its poetics not simply as endorsements or negations of cultural epiphenomena but also as deep responses to the territorializing effects of the commodity form and the spread of imperialism? We will pay special attention to the spatial contours of modernism’s uneven developments. Students will read a wide range of historians and theorists of modernism: from early responses (Lukács, Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin), to contemporary ones (Perry Anderson, Jameson, Felski, DuPlessis, Deleuze).

Ruth Jennison is the author of The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde (Johns Hopkins UP, forthcoming June 2012). Her current book project is entitled “Figurative Capital: American Poetry and the World System, 1929-1989”

891TT Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
Th, 5-7:30 Instructor: David Fleming
The study of rhetoric is traditionally concerned with how messages are crafted by authors to achieve desired effects in audiences. The oldest rhetorical theories are mainly arts of public speech, but rhetoric has also been important as a school subject devoted to eloquence more generally, including arts of written composition. Today, “rhetoric” is probably best known in the wider culture as a term of political abuse; but, in the academy, it survives in a variety of approaches for looking at the suasory function of discourse. Whether revived or moribund, capacious or narrow, rhetoric is one of the best developed and most powerful verbal disciplines available to us. This course is a graduate-level introduction to that discipline. It will be divided into two parts: In the first, we’ll look at the development of ancient rhetorical theory and pedagogy in classical Greece, especially as that development can be traced in the works of Plato, Aristotle, their forerunners, and their successors. In the second part, we’ll test the usefulness of ancient rhetorical theory and pedagogy in contemporary life and examine modern and postmodern developments, especially as these have grappled with the new conditions of our lives and new ways of thinking about language, performance, character, community, and reason. My fall 2010 syllabus for this course is available online at http://people.umass.edu/dfleming/. There will be changes for fall 2012, but the overall approach will remain the same.

David Fleming is Associate Professor of English. He has published widely on histories and theories of rhetoric, pedagogies of writing, and civic education. His book City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America was published by SUNY Press in 2008. Another book, From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011.

899 Doctoral Dissertation Staff
All graduate students must have a minimum of 18 credits at the time of their graduation.