Undergraduate Courses (Fall 2007)
(Last updated: 8/22/07)

Please note that when a course is marked (2nd Am Lit), it means the course fulfills the second American Literature English major requirement. Such courses offered this semester include: ENGL 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: "We of the Streets", ENGL 300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 368 Modern American Drama, ENGL 491PP Margaret Atwood. In addition, some courses offered at the Five Colleges also fill this requirement.

Please note that when a course is marked (Jr-Yr Writing), it means the course fulfills the Writing & Criticism/Junior-Year Writing requirement for English majors. Such courses offered this semester are: ENGL 300-L1 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: South African Literature & Politics, ENGL 300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: "We of the Streets", ENGL 300-L3 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: No Place Like Home, ENGL 300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Hawthorne & Melville, ENGL 300-L5 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies: Pirates and Mutineers: Treasure, Slavery, Rebellion, and MP3s, ENGL 419H Honors Games Thinkers Play.

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120-L1 English Composition 35946
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 10:10 am
Stockbridge students only. English 120 is the writing requirement for undergraduates in the Stockbridge School . It gives practice in the persuasive techniques of expository writing and shows their usefulness in both academic and business contexts.

120-L2 English Composition 35948
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 35950
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 35952
Instructor: P. Williams MWF 1:25 pm
Butterfield RAP students only. This course will consider the ways in which 19 th - and 20 th -century authors have perceived the relationship between individuals and their societies, including the meanings and effects of being part of--or excluded from--groups, families, cultures, or nations. It will also pay attention to the ways writers address social and political issues, such as the relations between people of different races, ethnicity, genders, classes, and sexual orientations. And it will investigate the connections between art and politics, literature and society: how society and its history shape language and literary culture, how literature responds to society, how art may reimagine society in utopian or dystopian ways, and how art may affect society and influence politics. Texts may include novels, autobiographies, poems, short stories, and plays.

131-L2 Society and Literature (ALG) 35954
Instructor: C. Bondhus MWF 2:30 pm
Van Meter RAP students only.

132-L1 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 47419
Instructor: S. Daly MW 4:40
This class will examine constructions of gender and sexuality through the lens of 19 th -century fiction and poetry. Turning to the past allows us to consider how and why certain cultural norms and belief systems become naturalized, championed, or questioned in literature at different historical moments. We will consider the ways in which gender-based ideologies and practices are produced and reproduced in literature through readings of works by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Sheridan LeFanu, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde; we will augment our study of literature by reading 19 th - and 20 th -century theories of gender and sexuality.

This course will be taught as a large lecture using WebCT. An important component of this course will be students' regular attendance at, and engaged participation in, discussion sections. Assignments will include response papers, quizzes, a midterm and a final examination. We will use PRS devices, which may be purchased from the UMass Amherst Textbook Annex. Discussion section required .

132-D1 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG)Instructor: S. Magin F 10:10 am 47420
132-D2 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Luders-Manuel F 2:30 pm 47421
132-D3 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Luders-Manuel F 10:10am 47422
132-D4 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Beuermann F 11:15 am 47427
132-D5 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Beuermann F 1:25 pm 47423
132-D6 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: L. Storey F 2:30 pm 47424
132-D7 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: L. Storey F 10:10 am 47425
132-D8 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Kelleher F 11:15 am 47426
132-D9 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Kelleher F 1:25 pm 47428
132-D10 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: S. Magin F 11:15 am 47429
132-D11 Gender, Sexuality, Lit, & Culture (ALG) Instructor: C. Maksimowicz F 1:25 pm 47430

140-L1 Reading Fiction (AL) 36064
Instructor: J. Anderson MWF 11:15 am
An introduction to themes and forms of poetry through a reading of selected poems in English. Emphasis on such poetic techniques as word choice, imagery, and structure, and on such modes as the ballad, lyric, sonnet, ode, and dramatic monologue.

196 Independent Study 35958
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

200-L1 Seminar in Literary Studies 35960
Instructor: S. Clingman T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course will be an introduction to the ways in which we read literature, think about it, and write about it. Much of the world as we know it is mediated through words, images and sounds, often in combination. Our focus will be on the relatively formal but also remarkably disparate institution known as literature—how we approach the world through it, but also how it constitutes the world for us, and (perhaps surprisingly) us in relation to the world. We'll be reading poetry selections from a range of periods, cultures and settings, a play (in the past I have used Athol Fugard's play, The Island, from South Africa), as well as fiction. My aim, in setting up the course, is for all of us to experience the dynamic pleasures and challenges that literature poses for us, as well as gain a sense of how we can be active partners in our responses to it, whether in aesthetic and formal or social and cultural terms. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L2 Seminar in Literary Studies 35962
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 2:30 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L3 Seminar in Literary Studies 35964
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English TAP majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course addresses the relationship between writing and identity, focusing explicitly on discourses of race, ethnicity and postcoloniality. Through an examination of postcolonial and diasporic novels, short stories, poetry and dramatic works, we will ask how each genre generates different expressions of identity and voice. Questions we will consider include: what kind of voice is enabled by the formal aspects of each genre? How does the play of identity work similarly or differently across genres? What is the relationship between postcolonial and diasporic writings and their American and British antecedents—is it merely imitative or does it entail a radical remaking of Western forms? The course may include poetry by Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Sarojini Naidu, and Derek Walcott; novels by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Michelle Cliff; short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry; and plays by Ama Ata Aidoo and Henry David Hwang. There will be weekly writing assignments and three papers. Students must receive a grade of "B-" or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L4 Seminar in Literary Studies 35966
Instructor: R. Welburn MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course will introduce new English majors to the fundamentals, discipline, and expectations of being a literature major and to the practice of literary scrutiny and descriptive critical analysis. The course's objectives will include the following: distinguishing literary genres and styles within those genres; mythic, scriptural, and cultural archetypes; developing critical writing skills; establishing a thesis and developing it; the vocabulary of critical thinking; objective and subjective analyses; plot and episode summaries and paraphrases and when to use them; citation responsibilities; an introduction to critical theory; using the library and the web. Expect a workshop atmosphere with small group interaction and reading aloud. Prose assignments will include drafts and completed paragraph arguments and essays of various lengths, and a final project. Non-graded assignments that must be submitted for credit will be the writing of an original poem, a short fictional narrative (2-3 pages), and a scene for a play.

Texts will include Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (5th edition), Strunk & White's The Elements of Style ; a dictionary of literary terms; an introductory anthology of literature; and a novel. Students must receive a grade of 'B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major.  Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L5 Seminar in Literary Studies 36166
Instructor: J. Bartolomeo T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this class we'll work on developing analytical and interpretative skills for thinking, speaking, and writing about literary texts.  We'll also begin to look at various critical perspectives, which can lead to new and different kinds of questions about poetry, fiction, and drama.  The reading will include a wide selection of poetry, fiction by Faulkner, Melville, Hemingway, Chekhov, Oates, and Joyce, and Ibsen's play A Doll House .  There will be a number of short writing assignments, and three longer essays, which will be edited and revised. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200H-L1 Honors Seminar in Literary Studies 47452
Instructor: L. Doyle MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. An intensive seminar for Honors students planning to major in English. While honing skills in close reading and critical writing, we will explore broad questions about the nature of language, the activity of reading, and the dialectical nature of the artist/audience relationship. We will especially analyze theme and meaning as shaped by literary and cultural forms. To that end, we will study two or three different literary genre—poetry, fiction, and possibly memoir. We'll read a range of poets as well as novels.

To handle this course, students' basic skills in writing and argumentation should be solid. Beyond that, a love of reading and an eagerness to analyze the power of literature in discussion and in writing will be most valuable. The course is writing-intensive with drafts and revisions.

Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

201-L1 Major British Writers I 36062
Instructor: J. Black MWF 2:30 pm
English majors, International/ National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the Renaissance. Our focus will be on careful readings of some of the foundational--and often challenging--texts of the English literary canon (including Beowulf and works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, and Milton); we will also look at a wide range of materials that illuminate the cultural and social worlds in which these texts were created and originally read. Three medium-length papers and two tests.

201H-L1 Honors Major British Writers I 47453
Instructor: J. Black MWF 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of poetry, prose, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the Renaissance. Our focus will be on careful readings of some of the foundational--and often challenging--texts of the English literary canon (including Beowulf and works by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, and Milton); we will also look at a wide range of materials that illuminate the cultural and social worlds in which these texts were created and originally read. Three medium-length papers and two tests.

202-L1 Major British Writers 47920
Instructor: J. Freeman T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only . Many of our current ideas about individuals, society and art began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  The works we read explore these new questions about people:  what forms them, what is sanity, how unconventional can they be, what roles should they perform, how can they live in harmony with their unique imaginations?  Readings include Swift's Gulliver's Travels , Pope's Rape of the Lock , Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the best poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson and Browning.  Much discussion, some lecturing, short exercises, weekly e-mail responses required.

203-L1 Bible/Myth/Literature/Society 36068
Instructor: M. Lowance MW 4:40 - 5:55 pm
This course is an introduction to the literature of the Old and New Testaments. Our text is the Oxford English Annotated Bible , a Revised Standard Version. We will examine the genres of biblical writing, the historical books, poetry, and prophecy of the Old Testament, the theories of Biblical composition, and the influence of ancient Near Eastern cultures and myths on the development of Hebrew literature. The gospel accounts and letters of Paul from the New Testament, and the apocalyptic writings of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation will also be studied.

The critical commentary text for Bible as Literature is Harris, Understanding the Bible , a superb analysis of both the Old and New Testaments as literary compositions. Students will be assigned reading for each meeting in the Oxford text and in the Harris text, and participation is expected and will be graded. Please come prepared to analyze and discuss these stimulating and often controversial materials.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL)35968
Instructor: A. Kinney T/Th 2:30 – 3:20 pm
The power of poetry of Shakespeare's plays derives in large part from the cultural concerns of his day that are similar to our own. This class will explore the ways in which Shakespeare's plays represented and interacted with the cultural environment in which they were created. We'll ask how Shakespeare's plays approach issues of social class, gender, politics, religion, and war, and how we may apply what we learn to modern notions of identity. The goal of the course will be to familiarize students with Shakespeare's language, techniques, and context to understand better the range of his imagination and influence. The course requirements include two short papers, a midterm and a final. Discussion section required.

221-D1 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: T. Watt F 10:10 am 35970
221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: T. Watt F 11:15 am 35972
221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: J. Landis F 1:25 pm 35974
221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) Instructor: J. Landis F 2:30 pm 35976

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35978
Instructor: K. Al-Hussaini MWF 11:15 am
Analysis of issues of form, elements of genre, style, and development of themes of stories and poems, written by class members and in class texts.

254-L2 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35980
Instructor: F. Chabrier MWF 10:10 am

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 35982
Instructor: M. Carolan T/Th 9:30 am

254H-L1 Honors Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 36148
Instructor: S. Landman T/Th 2:30 pm
Commonwealth College students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 35984
Instructor: D. Carlin T/Th 9:30 am
"The old America, the America of our hopes and our dreams, has come to an end, and a new America is entering on the false course which has been tried so often and which has often led to calamity," wrote Harvard Professor Charles Eliot Norton in 1898, at that precise historical moment when the United States recast itself as an imperial global power with the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. A little over one century later, we are again faced with the questions of what kind of America we have become and what version of America we wish to embrace. Such questions have long animated much of American literature, and this course will spend its time examining how writers such as Jefferson, Wheatley, Crèvecouer, Franklin, Apess, Zitkala-Sa, Thoreau, Douglas s , Whitman, Melville, Davis, DuBois, Chopin, Dunbar, Chesnutt, James, Bulosan, Lazarus, Sin Far, Hughes, McKay, Baldwin, Brooks, Obejas, Cisneros, Ortiz Cofer, Rose, Simon J. Ortiz and Anna Deavere-Smith have given shape to multiple and diverse configurations of American selves through fiction, autobiography, poetry, political rhetoric and performance art. Students will meet three times a week, twice in large lectures and once in discussion sections. Lectures will be augmented with computer technology, both visual and interactive; attendance in both lectures and sections is mandatory and will be monitored. Our primary texts will be The Pearson Custom Anthology of American Literature and Anna Deveare-Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst . Requirements: Weekly writing assignments posted on a course WebCT message board, two in class exams (one at midterm and one at end of semester), and one 5-7 pp. essay. Discussion section required .

270-D1 American Identities (AL) Instructor: C. Hayman Th 11:15 am 47454
270-D2 American Identities (AL) Instructor: C. Hayman Th 2:30 pm 47455
270-D3 American Identities (AL) Instructor: N. Cannon Th 1:00 pm 47456
270-D4 American Identities (AL) Instructor: N. Cannon Th 11:15 am 47457
270-D5 American Identities (AL) Instructor: M. Boucher Th 2:30 pm 47458
270-D6 American Identities (AL) Instructor: M. Boucher Th 1:00 pm 47459

296 Independent Study 35986
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

298A-L1 Practicum: Shakespeare on Film 36144
Instructor: A. Zucker M 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. This series screens classic Shakespeare performances, one film each week. 1 credit. Requirements: attendance.

298B-L1 Practicum: Literary Classics on Film 36146
Instructor: J. Rosenberg W 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. One film each week. 1 credit.

300-L1 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (Junior Year Writing) 47460
Instructor: S. Clingman T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Non-English majors are welcome to contact Professor Clingman at clingman@english.umass.edu to add this course.
South African Literature & Politics This course will be a study of some of the major moments and texts in South African literature, ranging from the colonial period, to the apartheid era, to the post-apartheid decade since Nelson Mandela's first democratically elected government in 1994. In this setting South African literature has kept the pulse of its society, registering the lived experience and telling the "inner history" of these years. In this context we'll read a variety of works by writers both black and white, male and female, in the genres of fiction, drama and poetry, to gain a sense of how writing works in such circumstances and what its struggles and significance might be. Some of it may be surprising: not only the need to be political, but also to deepen what the "political" means through the specificities of writing; not only the question of race but how this is complicated by gender and other issues. We'll also gain a sense of the extraordinary cultural and social range of South African literature—of its voices, views and perspectives, the possibilities, complexities and challenges of a new society in the making. Authors will include Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee (both Nobel Prize winners), Athol Fugard, Mongane Serote and other poets of the 1970s, as well as Njabulo Ndebele and a more recent generation of writers, such as Sindiwe Magona, Zoe Wicomb, Zakes Mda, and some very exciting poets of the current era. Classes will involve some lecturing, much discussion, and of course reading and writing. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L2 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (2nd Am Lit) (Junior Year Writing) 47461
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
“We of the Streets” This course interrogates the intersections of class, race and gender in Modern American Poetry.  We will explore the emergence of various poetic constellations that cohere around collective and individual struggles against capitalism, racism and sexism in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. We will work intensively with primary texts, and we will also read critical work in New Modernist Studies which adopts culturalist and materialist approaches to the relationship between modern poetic traditions and social movements/formations.  Students will also gain an introduction to "modernist" thinkers central to theorizing structural and psychical formations of class, race and gender such as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Franz Fanon. Frequent quizzes will ensure a democracy of informed participants. Prospective students should be aware that this course demands vocal engagement; seminar-like collective discussions will structure many of our meetings. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L3 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (Junior Year Writing) 47465
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
No Place Like Home: Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora In this course   we will interrogate recent theories of diaspora by reading novels and short stories by women of South Asian origin living and writing in North America and Britain .  Defined as the dispersal of people from a homeland, diasporas engender identities that can be rooted neither in the country of origin nor of residence.  Diasporic identities, it is thus argued, transcend the particularities of national and ethnic belonging.  Questions we will engage include: How do these writers negotiate sexism and racism within their ethnic and national communities?  How do they position themselves within existing national canons?  Finally, how can we understand such works within first world consumption of all things South Asian?  Readings may include novels and short stories by Bharati Mukherjee, Meera Syal, Shani Mootoo, Sunetra Gupta, Monica Ali, Sara Suleri, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L4 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies – (2nd Am Lit) (Junior Year Writing) 47466
Instructor: M. Lowance MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Hawthorne & Melville The Hawthorne-Melville seminar will examine major works by these two, nineteenth-century American writers from a variety of critical perspectives, including biographical, cultural and historical, literary and stylistic. Participants will read some of the major works, and some shorter novels and stories. These writers were contemporaries and friends, but their works are dissimilar. We will consider Hawthorne's "Maypole of Merrymount," "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," The Scarlet Letter , The House of Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860). Herman Melville's works will include White-Jacket (1850), Moby-Dick (1851), Benito Cereno (1856), "Bartleby" (1856), The Confidence Man (1857), and Billy Budd (1891). Norton Critical Editions of these texts are recommended but not required. Participants will make in-class presentations on the common reading and will prepare a term paper of twelve to fifteen pages. Participation expected. This is a four credit honors course. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L5 Junior-Year Seminar in English Studies– (Junior Year Writing) 48076
Instructor: J. Almeida-Beveridge MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Pirates and Mutineers: Treasure, Slavery, Rebellion, and MP3s As the swashbuckling Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003; 2006), Johnny Depp revives a long tradition of tantalizing pirate lore. Yet the incredible success of Pirates comes at a time when transnational entertainment giants like Universal, BMG, EMI, and Sony spend millions of dollars to prosecute college students and individuals who “pirate” MP3s. In this course, we will analyze how representations of piracy and rebellion have evolved alongside the laws that regulate global markets. This interdisciplinary approach will help us analyze why and how battles against piracy are waged with as much intensity now as in the late 1700s and the 1800s, when the British Navy scoured the Caribbean and the South Pacific Seas in search of infamous pirates like Blackbeard and Anne Bonny. Mutineers, often considered “pirates” by the captains against whom they revolted, also risked death by hanging if they were caught. We'll examine the mutinies of Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh in the Bounty , and Cinque, who led the Amistad mutiny to liberate himself and other Africans destined for slavery in Cuba . Readings include selections from Daniel Defoe's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates ; Lord Byron's “The Island” and “The Corsair”; the court martial testimonies of William Bligh and Edward Christian ; a critical text, C.R. Pennell's Bandits at Sea: A Pirate's Reader , and a reading packet. We'll also watch the films Mutiny in the Bounty (1935), The Bounty (1984), and Amistad (1997). Our course will end with a brief exploration of the contemporary debate on piracy and intellectual property. Requirements: two shorter (4-5 page) essays, and a 12-15 page research essay. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

311-L1 Legends of Arthur 36112
Instructor: J. Adams MWF 12:20 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Why does the legend of Arthur hold such a powerful grip on us? How did the legend start? And how has it changed over the years? These are the questions that will motivate us during our course. Our primary readings will focus on medieval texts that capture Arthur's story. These include writings by Nennius, Gildas, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Layamon, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Thomas Malory. The last few weeks of the class will be devoted to modern versions of the legend as narrated by Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, and Donald Barthelme. Course requirements: two or three papers.

313-L1 Intro to Old English Poetry 47470
Instructor: S. Harris MWF 11:15 am
Old English is the language spoken by Germanic peoples in Britain from the early 400s to just after the Norman Conquest in 1066. In this course, you will learn it. We will read the oldest English poetry in the original language, including "The Seafarer" and the epic of Judith, the warrior who leads her army to heroic conquest ("Sloh tha wundenlocc thone feondsceathan fagum mece ..."). A working knowledge of English grammar is recommended.

319-L1 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) 36048
Instructor: J. Young T 2:30 pm
In this course, we explore the ways history and memory of the Holocaust have been shaped for the next generation by victims in their diaries, by survivors in their memoirs, by novelists in their fiction, as well as by poets, film-makers, musicians, and artists. Among readings and viewings for this course are works by Chaim A. Kaplan, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Tadeusz Borowski, Charlotte Delbo, Paul Celan, and Art Spiegelman, among others. Discussion section required.

319-D1 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: J. Young Th 1:00 pm 36050
319-D2 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: P. Williams Th 2:30 pm 36052
319-D3 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: P. Williams Th 1:00 pm 36054
319-D4 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: B. Johnson Th 11:15 am 36056
319-D5 Representing the Holocaust (ALG) Instructor: B. Johnson Th 9:30 am 36058

329H-L1 Honors Tutoring Writing: Theory & Practice 47474
Instructor: D. LeCourt W 10:10 – 11:50 am
Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW 112 or 113 with a grade of ‘B' or better. Admission by permission of professor. This course investigates the multiple purposes and functions of writing in society, academic disciplines, and local communities. Specifically, we'll examine research into writing processes, disciplinary writing norms, and diverse cultural literacies. By looking at writing as a situated and social act, participants in the course will investigate how writing is impacted by local rhetorical contexts, the cultural context of the writing act and writer, and the assumptions about literate behavior embedded in such contexts. The goal of the course is for each student to develop a reflective tutoring philosophy in preparation for an internship tutoring in the University Writing Center, thus our focus will be on how research into writing for diverse contexts affects the multiple ways individual writers might approach a given task in order to develop tutoring strategies that address a wide range of texts and writers.

English 329 is a prerequisite to working in the University Writing Center and requires the permission of the instructor to enroll. (Upon completion of 329H and an internship in the spring, students may then tutor for $11.50/hr in the Writing Center the following semester.) If you are interested in the course and tutoring in the Writing Center , please e-mail Donna LeCourt at donnal@english.umass.edu by 4/10/07 indicating your interest and explaining why you think you would make a good tutor. All interested applicants will be asked to participate in a short interview before being enrolled in the class.

350-L1 Expository Writing 48077
Instructor: C. Fulford T/Th 1:00 pm
Argument and Persuasion. Political blogs, poetry, pamphlets, graffiti, love letters, academic articles, application forms, editorials, and billboards – these are everyday forms of textual persuasion. And that's merely a sampling of the rhetorical abundance that we read and write on a daily basis. We use language to shape our own ideas, change other people's minds, and to move others to action.

In this course, we will collect and analyze a range of texts to consider the multiple forms persuasion may take, how it's crafted, who uses it, and what ends it serves. You will also create your own arguments in a variety of forms, defining your topics and audiences individually. Assignments will include several substantial persuasive pieces and shorter writings that analyze and experiment with persuasive strategies. Although you may choose to focus on developing your strengths of argument and persuasion in academic genres, at least one major project should be in an alternative genre aimed to persuade a non-academic audience.

By the end of the course, you should be better able to analyze how verbal persuasion works and better able to construct your own arguments to accomplish your aims.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 35990
Instructor: S. Jaffe MWF 9:05 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills.

354-L2 Creative Writing: Introduction 35992
Instructor: H. Christle MWF 10:10 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Introduction to Poetry. In this course we will read poetry for pleasure and instruction. We will write poetry for pleasure and instruction. In all cases we will hope to be amazed. We will set out to discover the options available to us when we sit down to write some poetry--and then we will put them to use. Students should be prepared to form hypotheses, conduct experiments and share results. If we are lucky we will redesign the circuitry to our brains.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 35994
Instructor: J. Berger T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Introduction to Fiction .

355-L1 Creative Writing: Fiction 47477
Instructor: C. Bachelder T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. To add course, students should submit 6 – 10 pages of fiction with name and student id number to Professor Bachelder's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. This course in fiction writing is largely a course in fiction reading (or learning to read like a writer).  The class aims to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental elements of narrative craft.  To that end, students will read a variety of approaches to storytelling and we will spend a substantial portion of class time investigating writers' choices and the effects of those choices.  Students will write a number of short exercises and stories, some of which may be discussed in workshop.  Attendance, active participation, and revision are required.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 36152
Instructor: M. Espada MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
English majors , BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. Admission by permission of professor. Students must submit a portfolio of three poems with name and student id number to Professor Espada's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. This is an advanced undergraduate poetry workshop. Students produce poems independently for review in class, review work submitted by others, and engage in writing exercises. There are two major objectives: 1) finding a voice, i.e. a distinct identity in terms of language and subject; and 2) reinforcing the fundamentals of writing poetry, with a particular emphasis on the image. The various strengths of student poems receive as much attention as those areas requiring improvement. The course text is Poetry Like Bread, an anthology providing models for class discussion and writing.

356-L2 Creative Writing: Poetry 36170
Instructor: L. Olstein T/Th 11:15 am
English majors , BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. To add course, students should submit 4 – 6 pages of poetry with name and student id number to Professor Olstein's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. In this workshop you'll read and write poetry every week, exploring the possibilities of the poem and developing the practices of a working poet. Employing a various and flexible workshop method, we'll focus on your poems—the processes and consequences of writing them, the ways in which they inspire us to imagine and require us to think, the opportunities they provide for the exploration of issues essential to poetry (including form, music, voice, intention, etc), how they inform our sense of the world around us, and how they inform the next poem you'll write. We'll focus also on published poetry and prose along with other source materials that inform our investigations of imagination and craft, search out some of the unexpected locations where stimulating language may be found, experiment with writing exercises, and investigate corners of the contemporary poetry scene via journals and readings.

358-L1 The Romantic Poets 36164
Instructor: J. Almeida-Beveridge MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
English majors , BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In her preface to Percy Shelley's drama, Prometheus Unbound , his wife Mary Shelley writes that he “believed that mankind had only to will that there should be no evil, and there would be none.” The transformative ethos in which Shelley placed such faith animates the literary period that we have come to know as Romanticism. In this course, we will examine major Romantic poets and their contemporaries. Alongside the canonical poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley, we will also consider the works of women Romantic writers like Mary Shelley and Felicia Hemans, and relative newcomers to the Romantic canon like Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince. We will explore questions such as: How do Romantic poets transform poetic form and language? How do they define poetry and the role of the poet? What is the Romantic writer's relationship to nature and place? How do Romantic poets define the role of the imagination in the creative process? What is their take on the defining events of their time (and our own modernity) like the French Revolution or the anti-slavery debate? How do women writers envision authorship? Our discussions will engage a variety of critical approaches, including formalism, feminism, post-colonialism, and new historicism.

365H-L1 Honors 20th Century Literature of Ireland (AL) 47921
Instructor: M. O'Brien T/Th 1:00 pm
The purpose of this course is, first of all, to read closely and carefully books by established Irish writers of this century including Joyce, Yeats, Synge and Heaney. Having no pretensions of being exhaustive, we will look at representative texts that provide an initial understanding of each writer. Beyond appreciating each work in its own right as literature, we will attempt to use these texts as springboards to explore key questions about Irish society, history and culture, especially literary activity. We will, for example, ask whether there really are separate native Irish and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. How do urban and rural motifs and attitudes figure? What are the differences between the experience of men and women in Ireland ? What is the attitude toward history and geography in these writers? Towards the Catholic Church? What social mores are revealed, particularly with regard to family, tribe and nation? Class? The Irish language? How are Irish mythology and legend used? How has an oral tradition influenced a written one? How are idiom and dialect deployed, a unique Hiberno-English? Is there an identifiable Irish voice?

368-L1 Modern American Drama (AL)36070 (2nd Am Lit)
Instructor: H. Holder MW 11:15 am
This course provides a survey of American drama and examines how notions of an American national identity are negotiated through theatre and performance. Discussion section is required .

368-D1 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: M. Ward F 10:10 am 47485
368-D2 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: M. Ward F 11:15 am 47486
368-D3 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: S. D'Stair F 2:30 pm 47487
368-D4 Modern American Drama (AL) Instructor: S. D'Stair F 1:00 pm 47488

379-L1 Introduction to Professional Writing 35998
Instructor: D. Toomey MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. This course offers an overview of the field of professional writing in both theoretical and practical contexts. It also provides practice in the composition of traditional writing forms, especially letters and memorandums, interim reports, feasibility studies and formal proposals. It serves as the gateway course to the specialization in Professional Writing and Technical Communication ( http://www.umass.edu/pwtc/ ) and the specialization in Nonfiction Writing ( http://www.umass.edu/english/undergraduate_specializations_nonfiction.htm ).

379-L1 Introduction to Professional Writing 36000
Instructor: J. Solberg MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.

380-L1 Professional Writing & Technical Communication I 36002
Instructor: J. Solberg MW 11:15 – 12:30 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.

391M Contemporary American Autobiography 48454
Instructor: J. Greve T/Th 11:15 am
What are the current-day preoccupations and purposes of writers given to self-reflection? To what degree do the stories we tell of ourselves limit, enable, or otherwise make us? What shapes our stories? Examining a range of autobiographical texts, this course will investigate the subjects and trends of recent American autobiographies, while pursuing important questions about our current, twenty-first century notions of the self. Our pursuit will include an examination of fairly recent developments in printed autobiography, such as the travelogue, memoirs of crisis, and comicbook autobiographies, while also exploring the visual narratives of documentary film. Looking at texts from the 1970's to the present, we will keep in focus autobiography's reigning points of interest: the relation between self and language, the blurring of "truth" and fiction, the role of memory, and the gains as well as risks of public self-construction. Supplementary readings in several fields will enhance our understanding of the dramas of identity in the texts we study. Taking cues from the strategies and topics employed by the writers we study, students interested in trying their own hand at the art of autobiography will be encouraged to do so in two or three short writings. Presentations as well as two longer, critical essays will also be assigned. Authors will include, among others, Haven Kimmel, bell hooks, Geoffrey Wolff, Kathryn Harrison, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar, Michael Ondaatje, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich. Films to include David Holzman's Diary, Tarnation, 51 Birch Street , Sherman 's March.

396 Independent Study 36006
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

412-L1 History of the English Language 36142
Instructor: S. Harris MWF 2:30 pm
Why do people in MA sound different than people in NY? Have people always spoken like this? HEL is a thrilling ride through the major changes in English phonology, morphology, syntax, spelling, and vocabulary from the 5th century to the 21 st century. Among the topics we will consider are historical change and dialectic difference, literacy and orality, the emergence of vernaculars and the decline of Latin, and the current state of English. No previous knowledge of linguistics, Anglo Saxon, or Middle English is required.

416-L1 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 47548
Instructor: J. Adams MWF 11:15 am
This course provides an introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although this poem will form the centerpiece of our discussions, we will also read more broadly in order to place the Tales in the context of Chaucer's other works and in the context of late 14th-century literary culture. Questions we will consider range from formal and literary matters (i.e., Does Chaucer share the opinions of his characters? Why do some characters speak in a high style while others tell bawdy tales?) to historical ones (i.e., What might Chaucer's poetry tell us about medieval ideals of political organization?). Assignments include two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

419H-L1 Honors Games Thinkers Play – (Junior Year Writing) 47549
Instructor: E. Gallo T 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Subject matter: the act of interpretation. Most texts are ambivalent and support a wide range of interpretation—even contradictory interpretations. From this fairly obvious fact certain less obvious consequences arise. We interpret certain texts in order to see how their language behaves and just where ambivalence resides. We then examine other critics' interpretations of texts in order to decide how persuasive these interpretations are.

Language is ambivalent and reason is often uncertain: does it follow that its meaning is forever unrecoverable? We examine postmodern claims that even the language of the hard sciences is ambivalent, that all of our knowledge is no more than an inflated myth-making. We consider the possible ways in which an interpretation can be grounded on fact--the facts of the author's intention, historical background, and--in a few cases--well supported scientific theory. There are no predetermined answers to the questions we will consider. Nine short papers and four exercises (done in class).

Texts include Burke (on Keats' " Ode on a Grecian Urn "); selections from the Presocratic poet-philosophers; Kenneth Burke (dramatism); Lévi-Strauss (structuralism); Joseph Campbell (Jungian analysis); Derrida and J. Hillis Miller (deconstruction); Niels Bohr (on complementarity); and others. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

491KK-L1 18th-Century: Institution & Revolution 36138
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

491LL-L1 African American Drama & Performance - CANCELLED

491M-L1 Irish Female Imagination 47550
Instructor: M. O'Brien T/Th 9:30 am
The purpose of this course will be to read the work of a number of contemporary, women poets from Ireland . The syllabus will include not just the established voices of Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Medbh McGuckian and Nuala NiDhomhnaill but also of the less well known Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Kerry Hardie and Moya Cannon. We will also consider the work of newcomers Catriona O'Reilly and Sinead Morrissey, and the posthumously published poems of Dorothy Molloy. Our first and abiding aim will be to read the work of each poet closely. We will pay detailed attention to language, noting the choices these writers make with regard to diction and form in order to accommodate unique, often subversive visions. While each one of these voices is distinctive, they all share certain cultural concerns and inherit a history. The second part of our job, therefore, will be to establish that context. Regular, selected reading will be required from the recently published and ground-breaking Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing and Traditions , a work in two volumes which will be on reserve in the library. Two essays will be required.

491PP-L1 Margaret Atwood (2nd Am Lit) 47628
Instructor: D. Carlin M 2:30 - 5:00 pm
This seminar will focus on the fiction of Margaret Atwood, arguably one of the most important and influential contemporary North American writers working today.  Examining some of Atwood's major fictions through the critical lenses of feminism, psychology, and narrative theory, we will begin with Atwood's 2002 meditation on what it means to be a female writer, Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing .  We will then turn our attention to some of her most provocative and challenging novels, including The Handmaid's Tale , Alias Grace , Cat's Eye , Oryx and Crake , The Blind Assassin , The Robber Bride , The Edible Woman , and her most recent story cycle collection, Moral Disorder .  The books for this course will be ordered from and available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst .  Requirements:   A weekly reading journal (2 typed pages per week) that will be collected at two unannounced times during the semester, and a final paper (10-12 pp). 

491Z-L1 Poetry of the Political Imagination 47552
Instructor: M. Espada M 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Poetry of the political imagination is a matter of both vision and language. Any progressive social change must be imagined first, and that vision must find its most eloquent possible expression to move from vision to reality. Poets have a role in this dynamic process. The poets of the political imagination studied in this course go beyond protest to define an artistry of dissent. The course addresses how best to combine poetry and politics, craft and commitment. Every week, students read and dis cuss one book by a poet of the political imagination, such as Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Sterling Brown, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Marge Piercy or Carolyn Forché. Readings are also augmented on occasion by recordings of the poets. Students respond to these poets with papers, presentations, or some combination.

496 Independent Study 36008
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499C-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 36066
Instructor: A. Phillips T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior Honors students only. This Capstone course is the first part of a two semester sequence, ENGL 499D will be offered in the Spring 2008 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College . Contact instructor to add course.

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Fall 2007)

Please note that when a course is marked (Engl 200), it means the course fulfills the pre-major requirement English 200: Seminar in Literary Studies for Pre-English majors.

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Please note that when a course is marked (Brit lit 1700-1900), it means the course fulfills the British literature 1700-1900 requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Engl 221/222), it means the course fulfills the British literature Shakespeare English 221/222 requirement for English majors.

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Please note that when a course is marked (JR-YR WRITING), it means the course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing requirement for English majors.

Please note that when a course is marked (Upper-level elective), it means the course fulfills an Upper-Level 300 or 400 level requirement for English majors.

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HACU 0150-1 Asian Relig Text & Traditions (Upper level elective)
Alan Hodder;Ryan Joo 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH;06:30PM-08:30PM TH
The aim of this course is to introduce students to several of the oldest religious traditions of South and East Asia through a study of selected canonical texts. Part of our concern will naturally be to determine what these ancient records reveal to us about how people of these cultures understand, or once understood, such perennial human issues as the meaning of death, the nature of suffering, the value of human life, belief in God or the gods, and the possibility of liberation or life after death. But we will also consider such crucial historical and literary questions as: When were these texts produced and under what religious or cultural circumstances? Were these "texts" written and read, or chanted, performed, and heard? How were they produced or revealed, and by whom? Who had access to these traditions and in what form? What roles have these texts played in religious ritual, liturgy, story-telling, or popular culture? Although the civilizations of South and East Asia encompass most of the major religious traditions of the world, notably Islam, this course will limit itself to classical expressions of the evolving traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Among the literature considered will be: the Vedas and Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Tulsidas's Ramayana, Buddhacarita, Dhammapada, the Perfection of Wisdom, the Lotus Sutra, the Analects of Confucius, Tao-te ching, Chuang-tzu, and Dogen's Shobo-genzo.

HACU 0156-1 Realism in 19 th -Century Art (Upper level elective)
Sura Levine 02:00PM-03:20PM T,TH
This course will explore the various aspects of realism in 19th-century art, from the idealized and/or photographic renderings of the human form and landscape, early documentary imagery (phrenology, hysteria, ethnic "types") to the shift of realism into a politically charged type of art (Courbet, Millet, Meunier) and late 19th-century forms of naturalism as a realism transformed into spectacle. Works of literature (including Balzac, Zola, Dickens) will be read alongside artistic objects in order to document and examine the mutually enriching and problematizing developments in realism in both media.

HACU 0158-1 Southern Writers (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
L. Brown Kennedy 01:00PM-02:20PM M,W
This seminar on the fiction of the Southern U.S. will include texts (stories and short novels) by writers from the 30s through the 60s (Hurston, Welty, O'Connor, McCullers, Faulkner, Ellison, Wright) together with work by more recent authors such as Lee Smith, Randall Kenan, Barry Hannah, Bobbie Ann Mason. As for the questions I had in mind in choosing these particular writers--How do gender or race shape the segment of human experience they choose to depict? Of what importance is it that they are all Southern? In what ways can one talk about the sense of place--of land, of history, of community and family they evoke in their writing: What can one make of the insistence one finds in many of their works on isolation, loneliness or violence and on the physically and psychologically grotesque? Does regionalism remain a useful category in the US of the suburbs and the mall? The focus of this course will be on learning to read literary texts critically and to write about them analytically. Expectations: active class participation, short, carefully revised, bi-weekly papers, and a longer project involving research on texts written after 1996.

HACU 0163-1 Aesthetic Theory (Upper level elective)
Monique Roelofs 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH
This course introduces you to major figures, ideas, and concepts in philosophical aesthetics. Our course themes will include: artistic goodness, beauty, interpretation, the taste community, art and difference, aesthetic experience, and the politics of form. In connection with artworks and other cultural productions in different traditions and forms, we will read writings by among others, Hume, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Heidegger, Dewey, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, Kristeva, Hall, Wynter, West, Bourdieu and Schor. Students will write a final research project on a theoretical question in connection with a novel, film, video, painting, sculpture, musical work, dance, installation, performance, building, digital artwork, photograph, environment, or other cultural artifact of their own choosing.

HACU 0174-1 U.S. Lit. Between the Wars (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Christopher Vials 02:30PM-03:50PM M,W
Situated between the world wars were two decades which have been remembered as embodying antithetical values -- the "roaring 20s" of consumer excess, xenophobia, and conservatism, and the "radical 1930s" of depression, hard-boiled austerity, and a shift to the political Left. As such, these decades have held very different lessons in the popular and scholarly imagination. This class will use literature to explore whether these decades belonged to separate, distinct eras or, if in the responses to modernity found in each, they should be more appropriately seen as one piece. Historically, we will consider the links between the rise of consumer culture, immigration restriction, the impact of WWI, racial formation, agricultural crisis, Fordism, organized labor, the world Depression, and the New Deal. More significantly for our purposes, we will examine the aesthetic responses to these historical dynamics found in the intersecting cultural movements of modernism, proletarian realism, ‘hard-boiled' fiction, and the New Negro Renaissance. Authors will likely include Ernest Hemingway, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Sterling Brown, T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett, Tillie Olsen, Margaret Walker, Clifford Odets, Margaret Mitchell, H.T. Tsiang, and more.

HACU 0185-1 Lit of Crime and Detection (Upper level elective)
Jeffrey Wallen 02:00PM-03:20PM T,TH
In this class we will explore the appeal of the detective story. Why has the detection of crime become so fascinating for readers during the last 150 years? What do these stories reveal to us about the nature of narrative and plot, and about cultural anxieties and the possibilities of justice? We will focus on the detective as a reader (both of texts and of the world), as a social phenomenon, and as a literary construct. We will look at both "analytic" detective stories (Poe, Agatha Christie, Borges), and at ones featuring a "hard-boiled" detective (Hammett, Chandler , Chester Himes, Paco Ignacio Taibo II). We will read critical essays exploring formal and socio-cultural aspects of detective fiction, study detective stories from many parts of the world, and also see some films. We may also read works that use the detective story as the point of departure, such as Paul Auster's City of Glass .

HACU 0204-1 Artists' Books (Upper level elective)
Meredith Broberg 01:00PM-03:50PM M
In "artists' books" the materials and the making of the book are as important as its ideas and images in engaging the audience. In this course, we'll learn to make a variety of books, including both traditional and contemporary structures, from the side-stab to the pop-up. We'll review the history of the book from papyrus scrolls to graphic novels, with particular attention to the innovations and ideas of the last century of artists' books. The course is designed to introduce the rich range of processes involved in making books: bookbinding techniques and structures; page design; the choice of materials, images and texts; the narrative pacing and the visual flow. Hands-on projects will be supplemented by slide talks, field trips, readings and individual research. Since successful artists' books engage both the mind and the senses, this course emphasizes the importance of developing the strength and clarity of your ideas, together with your technical skills and visual acuity. This course satisfies the Division I distribution requirement.

HACU 0247-1 Intro to American Studies (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Christopher Vials 09:00AM-10:20AM M,W
In this course, you will learn what it means to look at U.S. culture through the lens of American Studies. American studies is an boundary-crossing method that studies U.S. cultural history by bringing together material previously situated across a wide range of traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of this class is to provide you with methodological tools that you can take with you as you continue your studies. To this end, we will read major texts in the field of American Studies and also apply methods to interpret primary sources in class. We will begin with Frontier-oriented Myth and Symbol school then shift our attention to the intersections between American Studies, Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies. We will devote special attention to the transnational turn in the field, wherein US culture has been increasingly studied in a global context in order to call into question the sanctity of borders and the ideology of empire. The course will include readings by Janice Radway, George Lipsitz, Stuart Hall, Michael Denning, Gloria Anzuldua, Richard Slotkin, and Tricia Rose. Primary sources will likely include country-western and hip-hop, institutional films of the 1950s, the photography of the Farm Security Administration and more.

HACU 0256-1 Ancient Epic 1 (Upper level elective)
Robert Meagher 01:00PM-02:20PM M,W
The aim of this course will be the comparative study of four ancient epics from Mesopotamia , India , Greece , and Israel . The core readings will comprise: the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Mahabharata, and the David Story (1-2 Samuel). Each text will be considered both in its own historical and cultural context and in the larger shared context of ancient epic, myth, and literature. This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements.

HACU 0257-1 The Power of the Novel (Upper level elective)
Jeffrey Wallen 10:30AM-11:50AM T,TH
In the nineteenth century, the novel becomes the dominant literary form. In this class, we will look at forms of power within the novel, and also examine the power of the novel in society. In particular, we will explore various quests for identity and purpose in a changing society, and examine the ambitions and contrasting social possibilities for the male and female protagonists. We will also consider such questions as the roles of gambling and speculation in modern society, and the transgressive violence of erotic desire against the conventions of the bourgeoisie. Readings will be primarily 19th-C. British and French novels, by writers such as Stendhal, Brontk, Dickens, Balzac, Eliot, and Zola.

HACU 0276-1 The Past Recaptured (2 nd Am lit) (Upper level elective)
Michael Lesy 09:00AM-10:20AM M,W
(Same as IA 0276-1 and SS 0276-1). This course is for intellectuals who are artists and artists who are intellectuals. The course has two goals: (First) To investigate life in the U.S. ,1890-1910, using an array of primary visual and written documents. Images will come from archival collections, available, on line, through the Library of Congress. These collections include: 25,000, turn-of-the-century, newspaper photos; 25,000 postcard "views" of urban, rural, and industrial landscapes; 12,000 stereographs of small towns; 9,000, turn-of-the-century advertising images. Contemporary newspapers and novels will serve as primary written sources. Novels will include: Dreiser's Sister Carrie , Sinclair's The Jungle , Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth , and Wescott's The Grandmothers . (Second) To teach students how to choose and use primary visual and written documents to build narratives that-like documentary films-tell true stories about the American past. All research will be informed/anchored by such American history texts as Brand's Restless Decade , Edward's New Spirits , and Smith's Rise of Industrial America . Prerequisite: Secondary school Advanced Placement(AP) American history and/or American literature.Or: Introductory/Survey college courses in American/European history or American/European literature.

HACU 0287-1 Advanced Screenwriting (Upper level elective)
Michael Elyanow 12:30PM-03:20PM F
(Same as IA 0287-1). This course is open to advanced students Division II or higher, who are currently working on projects they intend to either shoot spring semester or perfect as part of their Div III project. The focus of the class will be on the conception, execution and rewriting of a short or feature-length screenplay intended for production. Specific attention will be paid to story structure, with a concentration on traditional, alternative and experimental narratives. Other tools of storytelling (Genre, Character, Dialogue, Scope, Context, Point of View, Style and Theme) as well as the Craft of Screenwriting (Directive Paragraph, Presentation, Format, Stylization, Rewriting and more) will also be addressed. Students will receive feedback on each step in the development of their screenplay, from pitches to in-class readings. Students will also create both an artistic & business plan for the livelihood of their script/film (i.e., economic considerations if the goal is to film the script, deadline considerations if the goal is to submit the script/film in upcoming contests, location considerations if the goal is to use a particular space, etc.) Examples of both screenplays and movie scene selections with audio commentary will be used in class. Registration is by instructor permission and will be posted after the first class.

HACU 0289-1 Books Have Their Destinies (Upper level elective)
James Wald 02:30PM-05:20PM W
(Same as SS 0289-1). As students and teachers, we spend our lives immersed in the world of books, yet we focus mainly on the final product: the "content." Ironically, the rise of the computer and digital media has reawakened interest in the history and physicality of written and printed texts. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls "book history" a particularly hot topic in the humanities around the globe. This course, which provides an overview of developments from the medieval through the contemporary eras, brings together the intellectual, the aesthetic, the technological, and the material. As we will see, the book as object and the agents in the circuit of communication--author, publisher, and reader--each have their histories. Participants will survey some of the most influential scholarship in the field, take field trips to local repositories of book history, and conduct research and share their writing on the subject. A course for advanced students in history, literature, and related fields.

HACU 0295-1 Shakespearean Appropriations (Engl 221/222) (Upper level elective)
Polina Barskova;L. Brown Kennedy 12:30PM-01:50PM T,TH;06:00PM-09:00PM W
Everybody who has read and written may know a desire to respond creatively to a work of art. But what kind of response may be urged by the work of the "greatest" writer who ever lived: William Shakespeare? Does one wish to mimic or to challenge? What does it mean to re-make Shakespeare?? How can a modern work of art absorb something that different and that huge? This course will explore works of Shakespeare as the source of inspiration for arts verbal and visual, perfomative and rhetorical. We will read closely Hamlet , Lear , and The Tempest and analyze artistic reactions to these texts in: modern world theater (Cesaire and Becket); film (Peter Brook/Orson Welles, Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli); and fiction (Nabokov, Woolf); together with poetry (by Auden, Sylvia Plath and the British Romantics) and other selected visual representations of Shakespearean characters and scenes. Topics of discussion will include: reading, re-reading, adaptation and translation; the historical and cultural conditions of reception and canon-making; modern theoretical responses (psychoanalytic, postcolonial); as well as individual battles with and seductions by the Bard. There will be regular written responses expected--critical and perhaps creative--together with at least one formal analytic essay and one longer, developed paper.

HACU 0328-1 Resexualizing Bertha (Upper level elective)
Norman Holland;Monique Roelofs 01:00PM-03:50PM W
Drawing on feminist philosophy and postcolonial theory, this course explores the mother ('s matricide) as a site to work through contemporary Caribbean politics. Contemporary Caribbean women's fictions interrogate and reverse Bertha's internment in the attic and eventual death. Their writing troubles efforts to erase the maternal body and experience by social master narratives, engaging the effects of colonialism and imperialism on daily material conditions. We will start with the Bertha sections of Bronte's Jane Eyre and proceed to disentangle memories of "the madwoman in the attic" in such diverse fictions as Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea , Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother , Danticat's Breath Eyes Memory , Ferre's Eccentric Neighborhoods , Alvarez's In the Name of Salome , Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban , Vilar's The Ladies Gallery , Astrid Roemer's The Master's Bedroom, and Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem . Our readings will converse constantly with the writings of feminist theorist and postcolonial critics such as Spivak, Kristeva, Gilroy , among others. Prerequisite: Two courses in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, postcolonial or feminist theory.

IA 0131-1 Playwriting (Upper level elective)
Ellen Donkin 02:30PM-03:50PM M,W
Our work in this course will be more or less equally divided between reading plays and writing a one-act. The plays we read, which will include a wide variety of playwrights, will inform our exercise work even as they deepen and extend our sense of drama as a form. We will be paying particular attention to the way character is revealed through dialogue, ways to unfold exposition, segmentation of dramatic action, and how dialogue is shaped by character activity.

IA 0132-1 Feminist Fictions (Upper level elective)
Lynne Hanley;Ellie Siegel 10:30AM-11:50AM T,TH;07:00PM-09:00PM W
This course will explore works of fiction by post-women's liberation writers. Discussion will focus on forms of narration, use of language and structure, the representation of gender, sexuality, race and culture, and the relation of the acts of writing and reading to feminist theory and practice. Readings may include Beloved , The Autobiography of My Mother , A Book of Common Prayer , For the Country Entirely , and Stone Butch Blues . We will also read A Room of One's Own and selected short stories and critical essays. Students should expect to keep a journal consisting of at least one typed page on each text, and to attend a series of films on Wednesday evenings. Students will write in a variety of forms-personal essay, literary criticism, short fiction, and autobiography. For the final project, students will write a 10-15 page portrait of their mother, which will be critiqued in small groups, revised and presented to the class. The teaching assistants in the course will each be assigned a group of students with whom they will work in a variety of ways (read their journal entries and papers, be available for advice, perhaps organize evening writing workshops for interested students).

IA 0236-1 Practice of Literary Journalist (Upper level elective)
Michael Lesy 09:00AM-10:20AM T,TH
Literary journalism encompasses a variety of genres, including portrait/biography, memoir, and investigation of the social landscape. At its best, literary journalism uses such dramatic devices as plot, characterization, and dialogue to extend and elaborate the who/what/where/when/and why of traditional journalism. By combining evocation with analysis, immersion with investigation, literary journalism tries to reproduce the complex surfaces and depths of the real world. Books to be read will include: (1) Kerrane and Yagoda's Art of Fact ; (2) Blumenfeld's Revenge ; (3) Malan's My Traitor's Heart ; (4) Oliver Sack's Awakenings ; (5) Wendy Doniger's The Implied Spider . Students will be asked to write as many as six, medium length nonfiction narratives. These narratives will require participant-observation of local scenes and interview/conversation with the people who inhabit them. Students will then be asked to extend these "short stories" into longer pieces that have casts of "characters" and plots. The very best of these longer pieces may be published in LIVING NOW, the online magazine. All fieldwork will demand initiative, patience, curiosity, and guts. The writing itself will have to be excellent. An ability to meet weekly deadlines as well as well-prepared class participation will be required. No excuses.

IA 0251-1 Intermed Poetry Writing (Upper level elective)
Paul Jenkins 12:30PM-03:20PM TH
Intended for Division II students who have begun writing poetry on their own or have some familiarity with contemporary poetry, this course will be conducted as a workshop in which students' own writing will be the subject of discussion. Over the course's first half, students will do assigned writing and reading designed to sharpen alertness to language, sound and line, and imagery. Over the last half of the semester, students will bring on a regular basis new work of their own devising. At the course's end, workshop participants will be expected to submit a group of poems in a state of near completion for evaluation.

IA 0280-1 The Story Cycle (Upper level elective)
Benjamin James 02:30PM-05:20PM W
Working on interconnected stories allows writers to hone their precision with short-form fiction while exploring the kind of character development that's more commonly associated with novels. Students in this course will compose their own cycle of interwoven stories while reading cycles by Alice Munro, E.P. Jones, and Russel Banks, among others. We'll also examine the use of cyclical forms in the visual arts, poetry, and music. Students should expect to do a lot of reading of published work and a good deal of critiquing the work of their peers.

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

AFRAM 335-01 Black Feminism: Theory/Praxis (Upper-level elective)
Kristin Elliott Hood 07:00PM-10:00PM M
This course offers an advanced exploration of foundational black feminist texts. Students will consider major black feminist authors along with lesser known contributors to the black feminist movement, from the 19th century to the present. This course will also examine the various ways in which black feminist theory has been expressed in and applied to the arts and political activism; students will analyze black feminist cultural criticism as it applies to music, film, fine art, performance, and literature. This course will examine conflicts and continuities between black and white feminists, and will also consider the role of pro-feminist men within the movement.

CST 250-01 Intro 19 th C Crit Soc Thought (Upper level elective)
Joan Cocks 01:15PM-02:30PM M,W
An introduction to some of the great critical voices of the nineteenth century. We will explore the ideas of such mutinous thinkers as Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and W.E.B. Du Bois, focusing on the style as well as the substance of their works and the circumstances that provoked them to write and/or that their writings helped provoke. The course will highlight the tension between appearance and reality, the dialectic of domination and subordination, and the place of reason and irrationality in social life.

ENGL 200-01 Intro to Study of Literature (Engl 200)
Nigel Alderman 08:35AM-09:50AM M,W
This course examines various strategies of literary representation through a variety of genres, including such traditional literary forms as the novel, lyric poetry, drama, and autobiography, as well as other cultural forms, such as film. Particular attention is given to student writing; students are expected to write a variety of short essays on selected topics. Though the themes of specific sections may vary, all sections seek to introduce students to the terminology of literary and cultural discourse. Please note that this course is a requirement for all English majors.

ENGL 200-02 Intro to Study of Literature (Engl 200)
Amy Martin 01:15PM-02:30PM T,TH

ENGL 200-03 Intro to Study of Literature (Engl 200)
Elizabeth Young 01:15PM-02:30PM M,W

ENGL 200-04 Intro to Study of Literature (Engl 200)
Amity Gaige 01:15PM-02:30PM M,W

ENGL 211-01 Shakespeare (Engl 221/222)
Eugene Hill 11:00AM-11:50AM M,W,F
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

ENGL 214-01 Medieval Texts and Contexts (Brit lit Pre-1700)
Carolyn Collette;R. Garrett-Goodyear 08:35AM-10:50AM W
This full-year course allies students of late medieval history and literature with its two instructors in exploration of texts and contexts that constituted the society and culture of England , 1350-1530. The first semester emphasizes discovery of published evidence from the era; the second challenges participants to integrate textual analysis and historical interpretation. Major texts include works by Chaucer, Gower, and Malory, read within an array of less familiar medieval sources. Major topics include languages and book culture of late medieval England ; violence and chivalry; the worlds of manors and guilds; polity, gender and governance; and late medieval science.

ENGL 233-01 Into to Queer Thoery (Upper level elective)
To Be Announced 11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH
This course introduces students to the social and political contexts that have mediated non-normative gender and sexual expression since the 19th century. In our examination of queer epistemological genealogies and methodologies, we will also consider the value of queer theory as a subjectless analysis against the evolution of a queer of color critique, which calls into question the sedimentation of a white, male, U.S.-based 'global' queer identity.

ENGL 240-01 American Literature I (2 nd Am lit)
Christopher Benfey 08:35AM-09:50AM M,W
A survey of American literature from the literature of exploration through the major authors of the mid-nineteenth century, with special attention to the formation of an American literary tradition, along with the political, social, and religious context that helped shape the imaginative response of American writers to their culture.

ENGL 280-01 Lit Criticism/Theory (Upper level elective)
William Quillian 11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH
This course is designed to offer students a broad historical overview of literary theory as well as exposure to contemporary debates about 'theory' and literary representation. The course is both an exercise in practical criticism and a survey of the Western critical tradition from Plato to Derrida. Beginning with the question of why Plato wished to ban poets from his ideal Republic, the course will go on to consider such topics as the Classic vs. Romantic theories of the imagination, the 'invention' of psychology and the necessary difficulty of much modern literature, the relation of gender and ethnicity to literary expression, and the uncertainties of literary interpretation.

ENGL 286-01 Sexuality and Women's Writing (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Elizabeth Young 11:00AM-12:15PM M,W
An examination of how U.S. women writers in the twentieth century represented lesbian, queer, and homoerotic possibilities in prose. Topics to include: literary strategies for encoding sexuality; thematic interdependencies between sexuality and race; historical contexts such as the 'inversion' model of homosexuality and the Stonewall rebellion; theoretical issues such as the 'heterosexual matrix,' the 'epistemology of the closet,' and tensions between lesbian and queer models of sexuality. Authors studied may include Allison, Brown, Cather, Gomez, Larsen, McCullers, Moraga , Nestle, Pratt, Stein, and Woolson; theorists may include Butler , Lorde, Rich, and Sedgwick.

ENGL 307-01 Opinion Journalism (Upper level elective)
To Be Announced 01:00PM-03:50PM M
This course will focus on how journalists develop and express their opinions in a wide range of forms, from literary, artistic and cultural criticism and editorial writing to political blog posts. We will consider the development of critical voices in the 20th century and today. Students will be asked to develop their own original opinions in a body of work that will require significant interviewing and reporting.

ENGL 310-01 Old Norse (Upper level elective)
To Be Announced 02:40PM-03:55PM T,TH
An introduction to the language, literature and mythology of medieval Scandinavia in a series of grammar lessons and readings from the Prose Edda of the Icelandic chieftain Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241). We will also learn to two Norse futharks and read the earliest runic inscriptions from Denmark , Sweden and Norway . Requirements: daily grammar review and translation in class; a final translation project.

ENGL 312-01 Shakespeare: Theatre/Book (Engl 221/222) (Upper level elective)
Peter Berek 01:00PM-03:50PM W
In Shakespeare's time, his writings had life both on stage and in print. This seminar invites students to locate the works we study in relation to both the early modern theater and the history of the book, especially the development of a reading audience for popular art. Readings include such works as Romeo and Juliet, the sonnets, Troilus and Cressida and King Lear; current critical debates about gender, sexuality and literary genre will be part of our concern. Substantial opportunity for independent work reflecting each student's own interests.

ENGL 325-01 Victorian Lit & Visual Culture (Upper level elective)
Amy Martin 01:00PM-03:50PM W
This course will examine literary texts that represent new forms of visuality in nineteenth-century Britain as well as examples of visual culture that provide a framework for reading Victorian culture in innovative ways. We will study nineteenth-century photography--portraiture, prison photography, imperial photographs, and private and popular erotic images--as well as novels and autobiographical writing that engage with new photographic technology and its transformation of the ways in which Victorians understood identity, politics, aesthetics, and representation. The course will take a similar approach to painting, literary illustration, political cartoons and caricature, and advertising.

ENGL 330-01 Joyce/Lawrence/Woolf (Upper level elective)
William Quillian 01:15PM-02:30PM T,TH
A study of the modernist movement in the first half of the twentieth century, with the focus on the fiction of James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Readings will include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse.

ENGL 345-01 Henry James on Film (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Donald Weber 07:00PM-10:00PM M
This seminar will examine the various screen adaptations of assorted novels by Henry James. We will read the novels against the films, exploring how James's texts translate--or do not translate-- into film. Novels and films to be studied include Washington Square, The Europeans, Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and Wings of the Dove.

ENGL 345-02 Faulkner/Southern Writ. (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Robert Shaw 01:00PM-03:50PM T
Studies of works, principally novels and short stories, by Southern writers from the late 1920s on. Main emphasis is on Faulkner; others to be read may include Tate, Welty, Toomer, O'Connor, Percy, and Martin.

ENGL 346-01 Hawthorne/Melville/Dickinson (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Michael Snediker 01:00PM-03:50PM M
This seminar will consider tensions between intelligibility/unintelligibility, orientation/disorientation, allegory/literalism, embodiment/disembodiment, as such forces shape the literary enterprises and experiments of the authors at hand. Readings will include both familiar and less familiar Dickinson texts. Works by Hawthorne and Melville will include Mosses from an Old Manse, The Blithedale Romance, and Melville's extraordinarily strange and under-read novel, Pierre. Weekly one-page analysis papers and a final seminar essay.

ENGL 353-01 Readings in Literary Biography (Upper level elective)
Christopher Benfey 01:00PM-03:50PM M
Biography is both a literary genre and a mode of literary scholarship. This course will explore some varieties of the biographical impulse, in both fiction and non-fiction. We will begin with eighteenth-century British models, Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets and James Boswell's Life of Johnson. Then we will turn to ideas of biography and literary portraiture in the work of Henry James and Gertrude Stein. We will explore the shift associated with the advent of Freud and the Bloomsbury innovations of Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, and close with attention to recent experiments in biography by writers such as Janet Malcolm, Rachel Cohen, and Richard Holmes.

ENGL 364-01 Cultural Studies: Thry & Prac ( Upper level elective)
Simone Davis 01:00PM-03:50PM TH
In this course we will read some of the central texts emerging from the field of cultural studies. In their research projects, students will have the opportunity to put into practice both ethnographic and semiotic approaches to cultural phenomena. Assigned readings will include work by Raymond Williams, Constance Penley on Star Trek fanzines, Kathy Acker on bodybuilding, Anna Deavere Smith, Roland Barthes, and Stuart Hall. Can we 'read' the world like a text? Why should we? What changes when we open up our field of inquiry in this way?

ENGL 373-01 Nature and Gender (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Leah Glasser 01:00PM-03:50PM T
This seminar will focus on how women writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century told their life stories in the context of the islands, prairies, forests, and deserts of the United States . Readings will include works by such writers as Thaxter, Freeman, Jewett, Stewart, Zitkala-Sa, Austin , Cather, and Hurston; genre will include autobiographical essays, narratives, biography, fiction, and poetry. Some visual works (paintings, photographs, film) may also be added to the list of texts.

ENGL 375-01 Concep Blk Body/20 th Century (Upper level elective)
Ronaldo Wilson 01:00PM-03:50PM W
We will explore the black body through the visual artists Ellen Gallagher, Kara Walker, William Pope, and Adrian Piper as well as pop icons Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, and Jay Z. How does their work complicate representations of blackness through painting, video, text, music, and performance, whether through the black body's realness, abstraction, opulence, or annihilation? Using theoretical discussions by Michele Wallace, Roland Barthes, Tricia Rose, Homi Bhabha, Fred Moten, and others, students will write several very short creative and critical pieces, each one becoming part of a larger, cohesive final project.

ENGL 382-01 Postcolonial Studies (Upper level elective)
Siraj Ahmed 01:00PM-03:50PM TH
This course will juxtapose Enlightenment philosophy--the first attempt to think the globe as a single and unified entity, occupying common time and shared space--with postcolonial attempts, both literary and theoretical, to capture the globe's inescapable interconnectedness and its irreducible heterogeneity. The course will offer a selective but wide survey of postcolonial theory and literature focused on the latter effort, including authors such as Harvey , Spivak, Said, Rushdie, Selvadurai, and Amitav Ghosh.

FLMST 380-01 Henry James on Film (Upper level elective)
Donald Weber 07:00PM-09:00PM M
Offers a critical, historical, and theoretical approach to a specific cinematic author. While most courses focus on a director or group of directors, courses may also focus on writers, designers, technicians, performers, producers, or some combination of these personnel.

FREN 311-01 Joan of Arc (Upper level elective)
Nadia Margolis 01:00PM-03:50PM T
This seminar will explore the changing image of Joan of Arc from medieval times to the present--mainly pre-1800--via literature, historiography, and the visual arts. Authors to be examined include Joan herself, Christine de Pizan, Montaigne, Voltaire, Sade, Michelet, and Anouilh, via genres ranging from poetry and novels, through catalogues of 'femmes fortes', to theatre. Artists and filmmakers will include Guillonnet, Dreyer, and Rivette. Readings and images will represent religious and political sentiments from the left-wing and Resistance as well as the secular-centrist and Catholic right and their analogues, within their respective cultural-historical contexts, through the ages.

FREN 370-01 Literature and Politics (Upper level elective)
Elissa Gelfand 01:00PM-03:50PM W
Study of French and Francophone writers and filmmakers, in their specific contexts, whose works engage with important political and social issues of their time and place. Preliminary theoretical readings about how texts can communicate, explicitly or implicitly, an ideological stance. Principal imaginative works, from Middle Ages to the present, manifest thematic, stylistic, or narrative techniques that connect to movements for cultural change.

GNDST 204-01 Women & Gender/Writing (2 nd Am Lit)
Elizabeth Young 11:00AM-12:15PM M,W
An examination of how U.S. women writers in the twentieth century represented lesbian, queer, and homoerotic possibilities in prose. Topics to include: literary strategies for encoding sexuality; thematic interdependencies between sexuality and race; historical contexts such as the 'inversion' model of homosexuality and the Stonewall rebellion; theoretical issues such as the 'heterosexual matrix,' the 'epistemology of the closet,' and tensions between lesbian and queer models of sexuality. Authors studied may include Allison, Brown, Cather, Gomez, Larsen, McCullers, Moraga , Nestle, Pratt, Stein, and Woolson; theorists may include Butler , Lorde, Rich, and Sedgwick.

GRMST 315-01 Behind the Berlin Wall (Upper leve elective)
Axel Hildebrandt 02:40PM-03:55PM M,W
Seminar with a focus on GDR literature and film. We will investigate how East German authors and directors address topics such as National Socialism, socialist society, East German identity, and the deficiencies of East Germany . We will also examine discourses on memory, ethics and gender relations. Readings include: Anna Seghers, Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, G uuml;nter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Heiner M uuml;ller, Jurek Becker, Sarah Kirsch, and Kerstin Hensel.

ITAL 350-01 Novellas (Upper level elective)
Ombretta Frau 01:00PM-03:50PM W
From Boccaccio to Calvino, Italian writers experimented with the difficult art of the short story. This course will explore the universe of the short story in modern Italy , with special attention to the phenomenon of the literary magazine which, for the first time, offered women writers a small but solid platform to launch their career. Readings will include DeAmicis, Neera, Marchesa Colombi, Serao, Pirandello, Ginzburg, Buzzati, Pavese, Landolfi and Calvino.

RELIG 323-01 Mythmaking (Upper level elective)
John Grayson 08:30AM-10:50AM W
The power of Sacred Myths to shape cultural worldviews is extraordinary. This course examines, compares, and critiques this phenomenon in an attempt to understand how it informs the spiritual journey. From Siddhartha to The DaVinci Code, chronicles on religious personalities have commanded rapt attention throughout history. That fascination is enjoying a resurgence in the contemporary period. Using the structural analysis of Geertz, Tillich, Eliade, and Crites, texts such as Life of Pi, The Alchemist, The Matrix, and other prominent accounts will be placed against the great spiritual stories of major religious traditions in order to determine their status as contemporary, Sacred Myths.

SPAN 341-01 Treading the Ebony Path (Upper level elective)
Dorothy Mosby 01:00PM-03:50PM W
The study of Afro-Hispanic literature has also grown recently with the recovery and re-examination of lost texts and forgotten authors, as well as the desire of contemporary authors to contest the invisibility and racial ideologies in their national literatures. This course will examine texts by authors of African descent in the Spanish-speaking world of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. We will read a variety of genres and discuss the construction and meaning of 'race,' color, national and cultural identity--which is in constant dialogue with dominant discourses. Secondary objectives include the development of research and writing skills and provide rudimentary theoretical orientation.

THEAT 281-01 Shakespeare (Engl 221/222)
Eugene Hill 11:00AM-11:50AM M,W,F
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

SMITH COLLEGE

AAS 237-01 Twentieth Century Afr-Amer Lit (2 nd Am lit)
Daphne Lamothe MW 01:10-02:30
Same as ENG 236. A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 113, Survey of Afro-American Literature 1746 to 1900. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

AAS 366-03 Contemp Topics in Afr-Am (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Kevin Quashie T 03:00-04:50
Topic: Toni Morrison. Instructor Permission.

CLT 234-01 Adventure Novel (Upper-level elective)
Margaret Bruzelius MW 02:40-04:00
This course explores the link between landscape, plot and gender: how is the adventure landscape organized? Who lives where within it? What boundaries mark safe and unsafe places? Beginning with essays on cartography by Denis Wood, we will read three classic 19th-century boys' books (Scott, Stevenson, Verne), then adventure fictions with female protagonists by E.M. Forster, Ursula Le Guin, Peter Dickinson, Astrid Lundren and others, to explore the ways in which this genre has embraced and resisted female heroes.

CLT 235-01 Fairy Tales and Gender (Upper-level elective)
Elizabeth Harries TTh 01:00-02:50
A study of the literary fairy tale in Europe from the 1690s to the 1990s, with emphasis on the ways women have written, rewritten, and transformed them. Some attention to oral story-telling and to related stories in other cultures. Writers will include Aulnoy, Perrault, le Prince de Beaumont, the Grimms, Andersen, Christina Rossetti, Angela Carter, Sexton, Broumas. Prerequisite: at least one college-level course in literature. Not open to first-year students.

CLT 240-01 Childhood in Lit of Africa (Upper-level elective)
Katwiwa Mule TTh 01:10-02:30
Childhood, intimately tied to social, political and cultural histories, to questions of self and national identity, entails specific crises in Africa and the African diaspora, focused on loss of language, exile, and memory. How does the enforced acquisition of a colonizer's language affect children as they attempt to master the codes of an alien tongue and culture? How do narratives told from the point of view of children represent and deal with such alienation, and what are the relationships between recollections of childhood and published autobiography? Texts will include Camara Laye's The African Child , Tahar Ben-Jalloun's The Sand Child , Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents , Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye .

CLT 275-01 Israeli Lit in Intl Context (Upper-level elective)
Justin Cammy MW 01:10-02:30
Israel is portrayed in literature as a holy land, a promised land, a contested land. What role have writers played in imagining, then challenging and refashioning Zionist dreams and Israeli realities, and how does literature reflect the country's historical, ideological, and ethnic complexities? Topics include tensions between the universalizing seductions of Exile and the romantic appeal of homeland; utopian fictions; the invention of the New Jew vis-?is the exotic (Arab or Eastern) Other; the function of landscape in the consolidation of a new national literature (the desert, the socialist kibbutz, cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Jerusalem of heaven and earth); portrayals of the ongoing conflict between Arab and Jew; contemporary postmodern (and post-Zionist) texts reflecting Israeli society and its geopolitical condition. Hebrew novels, short stories, memoir, and poetry (all in translation), from the early 20th century until today, with precursor and counter-texts from European, American, and Palestinian authors. Open to students at all levels interested in understanding the ways literature interprets Israel 's place in the modern Middle East .

CLT 299-01 Europe on the Move: Immigration (Upper-level elective)
Anna Botta TTh 10:30-11:50
How has the dissolution of the colonial empires and the Soviet Union redefined European identity? In the new European Community, borders have moved toward the center of states and societies and created new transnational classes of inclusion and exclusion. As a result, European cities, and their peripheries, have become both melting pots and powder kegs. The narratives of the many immigrants who have recently moved to and within Europe explore how to restructure life stories, translate the self, and negotiate new subjectivities in the shifting landscape of a Europe on the move, a Europe that is undergoing profound changes in the process of renewing itself. We will focus on the political, social and ethical issues raised by this emerging literature and examine how its stories call into question accepted notions of European identity and borders. Readings from a broad selection of genres, authors and languages: Azoug Begag, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Slavenka Drakuli?Juan Goytisolo, Julia Kristeva, Milan Kundera, Predrag Matvejevi?Leila Sebbar, Zadie Smith. Regular film screenings.

CLT 300-01 Contemporary Literary Theory (Upper-level elective) <
Janie Vanpee TTh 03:00-04:50
The interpretation of literary and other cultural texts by psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist and post-structuralist critics. Emphasis on the theory as well as the practice of these methods: their assumptions about writing and reading and about literature as a cultural formation. Readings include Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida and Foucault, as well as Donna Haraway, Patricia Williams and Rey Chow.

CLT 301-01 Contemp Liter Theory in French (Upper-level elective)
Same as FRN 301. For students concurrently enrolled in CLT 300 wishing to read and discuss in French the literary theory at the foundation of contemporary debates. Readings of such seminal contributors as Saussure, L?-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Cixous, Kristeva, Irigaray, Fanon, Deleuze, Baudrillard.

CLT 305-01 The Novel: Philosophical (Upper-level elective)
Maria Banerjee TTh 01:10-02:50
This course charts the evolution of the theme of reason and its limits in the European novel of the modern era. Beginning with an examination of humanist assumptions about the value of reason in Rabelais, the course will focus on the Central European novel of the 20th Century, the age of "terminal paradoxes." Texts will include Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground , Kafka's The Trial , Musil's Man without Qualities , and Kundera's The Joke , The Farewell Party , and The Unbearable Lightness of Being .

EAL 231-01 Culture of Lyric in Trad China (Upper-level elective)
Sujane Wu MW 02:40-04:00
This course surveys the masterworks of the Chinese lyric tradition from its oral beginnings in pre-Confucian times through the Yuan dynasty. Through the careful reading of selected works including shaman's hymns, protest poetry, and even excerpts from the great novels, students will inquire into how the spiritual, philosophical and political concerns dominating the poets' milieu shaped the lyric language through the ages. No knowledge of Chinese language or literature is required.

EAL 238-01 Literature From Taiwan (Upper-level elective)
Deirdre Knight TTh 01:20-02:50
How do works from Taiwan contend with legacies of political trauma and the social consequences of modernization and democratization? In the face of dislocation, marginality, and materialism, how does writing nurture memory, belonging, social repair or change? Close readings of stories and, some semesters, essays, poetry, novels or films will explore traditional aesthetics, the modernist, nativist and localist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the pluralism of the 1990s and since, including feminist and queer fiction. Class participation will include student-centered contemplative and collaborative exercises, including short written meditations and dramatizations. No background in Chinese is required.

EAL 241-01 Lit & Cultr in Premodern Japan (Upper-level elective)
MWF 01:10-02:20
A study of Japanese literature and its cultural roots from the 8th to the 19th century. The course will focus on enduring works of the Japanese literary tradition, along with the social and cultural conditions that gave birth to the literature. All readings are in English translation.

ENG 199-01 Methods of Literary Study (Engl 200)
Floyd Cheung MWF 10:00-10:50
This course teaches the skills that enable us to read literature with understanding and pleasure. By studying examples from a variety of periods and places, students will learn how poetry, prose fiction, and drama, work, how to interpret them, and how to make use of interpretations by others. English 199 seeks to produce perceptive readers well equipped to take on complex texts. Readings in different sections will vary, but all will involve active discussion and frequent writing.

ENG 199-02 Methods of Literary Study (Engl 200)
Richard Millington MW 01:10-02:30

ENG 211-01 Beowulf (Brit Lit Pre-1700)
Craig Davis MWF 10:00-10:50
A reading of Anglo-Saxon England's most powerful and significant poem

ENG 229-01 African American Poetry (2 nd Am lit)
Danielle Elliott TTh 10:30-11:50
This survey course explores the diverse poetic contributions made by African Americans. We examine several movements in poetry from the earliest black poets (Phyllis Wheatley and Lucy Terry) to contemporary poetry published in the twenty-first century (Rita Dove and Elizabeth Alexander). Rather than a steady chronological march through the more than three hundred years of poetry, we will read clusters of poems that best illustrate particular styles, movements, eras, and recurrent themes including: jazz poetry, poetry of social commentary, the Black Arts Movement, modernist lyrics, black feminism, and avant-garde poetics. Emphasis on critical close reading and analysis.

ENG 231-01 Amer Literature Befor 1865 (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Michael Thurston TTh 10:30-11:50
A study of American writers as they seek to define a role for literature in their changing society. Works by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, and others.

ENG 238-01 What Jane Austen Read: 18C Nov (Brit lit 1700-1900) (Upper-level elective)
Douglas Patey MW 02:40-04:00
A study of novels written in England from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (1688-1818). Emphasis on the novelists' narrative models and choices, with special attention to novels by and about women.

ENG 241-01 Postcolonial Literature (Upper-level elective)
Ambreen Hai MW 01:10-02:30
An introduction to Anglophone fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and film from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia in the aftermath of the British empire . Central concerns: literary-as-political responses to histories of colonial dominance; the ambivalent relation to English linguistic, literary and cultural legacies; the agency of literature in the construction of national identity and the revision of history; revaluations of hybridity; redefinitions of race, gender and sexuality; global diasporas and U.S. imperialism. Readings include: Achebe, Soyinka, Aidoo, Naipaul, Walcott, Cliff, Rushdie, Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, some theoretical essays.

ENG 255-01 Seventeenth-Century Poetry (Upper-level elective)
Sharon Seelig MWF 10:00-10:50
An exploration of the remarkable variety of seventeenth-century lyric poetry, which includes voices secular and sacred, witty and devout, bitter and sweet, male and female. Attention to poetic forms, conventions, and imagery, to response and adaptation of those forms. Particular emphasis on Donne, Jonson, Herbert, and Marvell, set in the context of their time and their contemporaries

ENG 256-01 Shakespeare (Engl 221/222) (Upper-level elective)
Gillian Kendall TTh 10:30-11:50
A Midsummer Night's Dream , As You Like It , I Henry IV , Measure for Measure , King Lear , Macbeth , Coriolanus , The Tempest . Enrollment in each section limited to 25.

ENG 260-01 Milton (Upper-level elective)
Charles Reeves MW 09:00-10:20
A study of the major poems and selected prose of John Milton, radical and conservative, heretic and defender of the faith, apologist for patriarchy and advocate of human dignity, the last great Renaissance humanist, a poet of enormous creative power and influence.

ENG 263-01 Romantic Poetry and Prose (Brit lit 1700-1900) (Upper-level elective)
Patricia Skarda TTh 01:00-02:40
Concentration on selected poems of the major Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats), with prose writings by the poets themselves and by Austen and Mary Shelley.

ENG 267-01 Intr Asian American Literature (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Floyd Cheung MW 01:10-02:30
Although we sometimes think only of modern-day authors like Amy Tan or Jhumpa Lahiri when we think of Asian American literature, in fact Asian Americans have been writing and publishing in English since at least 1887. In this course, we will read selected Asian American poetry, novels, short stories, plays, and films produced from the late nineteenth century until the present. We will consider how works engage with issues that have always concerned Asian Americans, like identity development and racism. Also, we will pay attention to how works speak to concerns specific to their period, such as the exclusion acts of the 1880s, the proletarian movement of the 1930s, the decolonization of South Asian and Southeast Asian countries since the 1940s, and the increasing size and diversity of the Asian American population in the late twentieth century. At all times, we will attend closely to matters of language and form.

ENG 279-01 American Women Poets (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Susan Van Dyne MWF 01:10-02:30
A selection of poets from the last 50 years, including Sylvia Plath, Diane Gilliam Fisher, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Sharon Olds, Cathy Song, Louise Gluck, and Rita Dove. An exploration of each poet's chosen themes and distinctive voice, with attention to the intersection of gender and ethnicity in the poet's materials and in the creative process. Prerequisite: at least one college course in literature.

ENG 290-01 Crafting Creative Nonfiction (Upper-level elective)
Ann Boutelle T 01:00-02:50
A writers' workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing, and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. Writing Sample Required.

ENG 295-01 Advanced Poetry Writing (Upper-level elective)
A writers' workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing, and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor. Writing Sample Required.

ENG 296-01 Writing Short Stories (Upper-level elective)
Admission by permission of the instructor. Writing Sample Required.

ENG 352-01 Middle Passage (Upper-level elective)
Danielle Elliott MW 09:00-10:20
Poet Robert Hayden described the Middle Passage of the slave trade as a 'voyage through death' that transported Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas . This course explores the legacy of the Middle Passage in contemporary literature and culture from 1969 to today looking at how past is made present. Through poetry, novels, short stories, film and visual art on the Middle Passage, we will consider how this historical phenomenon works as motif in black culture and site of trauma for black artists. We will examine the ways different genres achieve particular nuances in their expressions of this voyage. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in English or Afro-American Studies.

ENG 362-01 Satire: Execution by Words (Upper-level elective)
Nora Crow Th 01:00-02:50
A consideration of theoretical problems (definitions of satire, responses to satire, satiric strategies) followed by a study of the development of satire from Horace and Juvenal through Shakespeare, Swift, Pope, Austen, and Byron to Waugh, West, and Vonnegut. Some attention given to differences between male and female satirists.

ENG 365-01 Study 19 th Cent Lit: Brontes (Upper-level elective)
Cornelia Pearsall T 01:00-02:50
A study of the lives and works of the remarkable Bronte sisters and their shadowy brother, exploring the literary, cultural and familial circumstances which aided and impeded the development of their art. Novels, poetry and paintings by Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, and Branwell Bronte.

ENG 395-01 Freud and Sherlock Holmes (Upper-level elective)
Luc Gilleman Th 04:00-04:50; W 07:30-09:30
Readings include Freud's case studies and Conan Doyle's detective stories; popular accounts of Freud and Holmes in fiction, film, and drama; and critical investigations of their economies of signification (forays into various critical -isms). Practical component: keeping a dream journal and collaborative writing of a detective story or fictionalized case study. Prerequisite: an advanced literature course and interest in theory.

ENG 399-01 Teaching Literature (Upper-level elective)
Samuel Scheer M 07:00-09:00
Discussion of poetry, short stories, short novels, essays and drama with particular emphasis on the ways in which one might teach them. Consideration of the uses of writing and the leading of discussion classes. For upper level undergraduates and graduate students who have an interest in teaching. Limited to Juniors and Seniors.

FRN 230-01 A Readers Romance with Paris (Upper-level elective)
Fabienne Bullot TTh 09:00-10:20
Visions of contemporary Paris , both mythical and real, through novels, poetry, short stories, popular songs, and images.

FRN 230-02 Fantasy and Madness (Upper-level elective)
MWF 11:00-11:50
Study of madness and its role in the literary tradition. Such authors as Maupassant, Flaubert, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, J.-P. Sartre, Marguerite Duras. The imagination, its powers and limits in the individual and society.

FRN 230-03 Women Writers: Africa & Carib (Upper-level elective)
Dawn Fulton TTh 10:30-11:50
An introduction to works by contemporary women writers from francophone Africa and the Caribbean . Topics to be studied include colonialism, exile, motherhood, and intersections between class and gender. Our study of these works and of the French language will be informed by attention to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of writing as a woman in a former French colony. Texts will include works by Mariama B?Maryse Cond?Gis? Pineau, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra.

FRN 253-01 Medieval & Renaissance France (Upper-level elective)
Nicolas Russell TTh 01:10-02:00
An introduction to the main historical, socio-political, artistic, and intellectual currents that shaped pre-modern France, a period whose values and concept of 'literature' were dramatically different from our own. Close readings of the major literary forms of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, such as Arthurian romance, lyric, farce, mock epic, and essay, viewed in their cultural context. Students will acquire a critical framework and a vocabulary for discussing and analyzing these texts in French. We will also consider manuscript images, architecture, and modern films. Topics may include: chivalry and the courtly code, love in the Western tradition, oral culture and the rise of literacy, humanism, scientific inquiry, religious reform. Prerequisite: a course of higher level than FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 360-01 Topics in 19 th /20 th Cent Lit (Upper-level elective)
Mary Ellen Birkett MW 01:10-02:30
Topic: The Year 1830. After more than three decades of conflict with prevailing traditions, a new generation of French men and women came into its own in an astonishingly rich twelve-month span. And they changed the face of France . By following the "headlines" throughout the year 1830, we will encounter the political revolution of "Les Trois Glorieuses," the triumph of Romantic esthetics, the creation of French colonialism in Algeria , growing awareness of the need for social action at home, and intensified longings for escape into exoticism and fantasy. We will study authors such as Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac as well as representative works of artists, musicians, journalists, and historians.

ITL 332-01 Dante: Divina Comm-Inferno (Upper-level elective)
Alfonso Procaccini TTh 03:00-04:30
Detailed study of Dante's Inferno in the context of his other works. Conducted in Italian.

ITL 343-01 Modern Italian Lit (Upper-level elective)
Anna Botta MW 01:10-02:30
Topic: The Romance of Dust (La polvere racconta). Ever since God's biblical malediction to Man, 'Dust you are and to dust you shall return,' dust has been metaphorically connected in Western art and literature to the restless passage of time, to waste, corruption and death. In modern and postmodern times, however, beginning with Marcel Duchamp's work 'Elevage de poussi?,' dust has gone beyond the temporal symbolism and assumed spatial meaning. No longer simply the wearing out of matter, dust has come to connote indeterminacy, chaos, entropy and the trace of a possible reality which is invisible, yet perceivable (the subatomic, the virtual, the potential). Dust has also taken front stage in media representations of the two major historic events marking the passage between the 20th and the 21st centuries, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers . How do modern and postmodern writers, artists and filmmakers represent dust? How do they rehabilitate its active and creative role in our imagination (pixels, stardust, photographic grains)? How has dust become even more threatening today (terrorist explosions, toxic waste?) After a brief historical excursus (the Bible, Homer, Lucretius, Leonardo, Baschenis, Leopardi), we will read fictional works by contemporary Italian authors (Calvino, Celati, Loi, Masino, Montale, Tabucchi) and analyze films (Antonioni, Ferrario) together with theoretical texts (Barthes, Belpoliti, Douglas, Grazioli, Krauss, Rougemont). Limited enrollment, permission of the instructor required. Conducted in Italian.

JPN 350-01 Contemporary Texts (Upper-level elective)
TTh 10:30-11:50
Study of selected contemporary texts including literature and journalism from print and electronic media. Focus will be on developing reading and discussion skills in Japanese using original materials, and on understanding various aspects of modern Japan through its contemporary texts. Prerequisite: JPN 302 or permission of the instructor.

LAT 330-01 Adv Readings in Latin Lit I (Upper-level elective)
Scott Bradbury TTh 01:00-02:50
Selected readings from prose and poetry by a wide range of authors, from the third century to the 14th. Emphasis on the individual in society, through the study of first-person narratives, confessions, letters, inquisition records. Prerequisite: a 200-level course in Latin or the equivalent.

MUS 325-01 Writing About Music (Upper-level elective)
Ruth Solie MW 02:40-04:00
An opportunity for intensive work on disciplinary writing, including prose style, tone, and mechanics, in a workshop format. At the same time the class will study many genres of published writing on music -- from daily journalism to academic essays -- covering a variety of musical repertories and performance contexts. Prerequisite: any 300-level course in music, or permission of the instructor.

PHI 255-01 Philosophy & Literature (Upper-level elective)
Susan Levin MW 02:40-04:00
Of late there has been talk of philosophy's being at an end or at least in need of transformation. In order to provide a measure of renewal, people are considering whether approaches taken and insights expressed in literature might enrich the study of philosophy. We will explore this issue through an examination of philosophical and literary treatments of friendship from different periods in the Western tradition, and of literary and philosophical reflections on human flourishing in the twentieth century. We will also consider work by contemporary philosophers on the topic of what literature might have to contribute to the philosophical enterprise. Prerequisite: one course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.

REL 210-01 Intro to the Bible I (Upper level elective)
Joel Kaminsky MWF 11:00-12:10
The Hebrew Scriptures ("Tanakh/Old Testament"). A survey of the Hebrew Bible and its historical and cultural context. Critical reading and discussion of its narrative and legal components as well as an introduction to the prophetic corpus and selections from the wisdom literature.

REL 215-01 Intro to the Bible II (Upper level elective)
MW 01:10-02:30
The literature of the New Testament in Jewish and Greco-roman context. Course will emphasize literary genre, images of gender and social hierarchy, and continuity with and distinction from Greco-Roman Jewish texts. Enrollment limited to 25.

REL 275-01 Relig Hst So Asia : Anc-Medieval (Upper-level elective)
Andrew Rotman MWF 01:10-02:30
This course is an introduction to the literature, thought, and practice of religious traditions in India , from ancient times to the classical period. Readings will include materials from the Vedas, Upanishads, and epics, from plays and poetry, as well as Buddhist and Jain literature. Particular consideration will be given to the themes of dharma, karma, love, and liberation.

REL 310-01 Hebrew Bible (Upper-level elective)
Joel Kaminsky Th 07:30-09:30
Close critical study of the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible, with a focus on what Judges reveals about ancient Israel 's views on violence, politics, religion, and gender. Judges is set in the pre-monarchic period and features many stories with prominent women including Deborah the prophetess, Jael who cuts off Sisera's head, Jephthah's daughter who was sacrificed by her father, and Delilah the seductress.

RUS 239-01 Major Russian Writers (Upper-level elective)
Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff MWF 09:00-09:50
A study of Russian culture, history and literature through outstanding examples of women's autobiographical writings from the 18th to the 20th century. The course will focus on issues on gender, class, race, and disguise, among others. Authors to include Ekaterina Dashkova , Nadezhda Durova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Evgeniia Ginzburg, and Yelena Khanga.

RUS 338-01 Studies in Language & Lit (Upper-level elective)
Catherine Woronzoff-Dashkoff W 07:30-09:30
Topic: Russian Fairy Tales Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores.

SPN 230-01 Topic Lat Am & Peninsular Lit (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Maria Helena Rueda MW 09:00-10:20
Topic: Tales and Images of Travel from Latin America . This class will investigate questions of contact between peoples and cultures, in Latin American texts and films that tell stories of travel. We will analyze how the concept of the journey as exploration and learning appears in Latin American culture, configuring identities and negotiating conflicts raised by the transit of people, objects and ideas in the region. Assignments will include texts written since the late 19th century, and films from several countries, representing travels in different historical periods. Some theoretical writings on the cultural meanings of travel will also be included. Prerequisite: SPN 220 or above.

SPN 246-01 Topics in Latin American Lit (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Maria Helena Rueda MW 01:10-02:30
Topic: Reinterpreting Magical Realism in Literature and Film. Magical realism has been studied as a way of representing reality that is particularly suited to Latin American needs for expression. This class will explore the rationale behind this conception, in terms of how the representative strategies of magical realism approach the conflictive histories of Latin America . Students will analyze the implications of this approach in films and literary works that use this type of discourse. Prerequisite: SPN 220 or above.

SPN 250-01 Survey Iberian Lit & Society I (Upper-level elective)
Ibtissam Bouachrine TTh 03:00-04:50
Topic: Sex and the Medieval City. This course examines the medieval understanding of sex and the female body within an urban context. We will read medieval medical treatises on women's sexual health by physicians such as Ibu Sina. We will also address women's role as physicians in the medieval Iberian Peninsula . Texts include The Book of the Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sina, Milagros de Nuestra Senora by Gonzalo de Berceo, El Collar de la paloma by Ibn Hazm, Medical Aphorisms by Maimonides, and La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas.

SPN 260-01 Survey of Latin American Lit I (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Marina Kaplan MW 01:10-02:30
An historical perspective of Latin American literature as an expression of the cultural development of the continent within the framework of its political and economic dependence, from the colonial period until the present time.

SPN 366-01 20 th Cent Spanish Lit & Cult (Upper-level elective)
Maria Harretche TTh 01:00-02:50
Topic: Rewriting the Spanish Civil War: A Journey to Exile. The search for identity has always been part of the human condition. Wars have been too. In this course, we will follow the itinerary of 20th century women and men during the Spanish Civil War, both in Spain itself, and in foreign exile. We will explore this path through the poetic word, an X-ray of the sensible, or, perhaps better, a tool to express the ineffable; and we will see changes that took place in the philosophic, political, and artistic worlds of the exiled poets. These writers, who collectively may be viewed as a 'dislocated society,' a society in crisis, will expose us to a different 'architecture of reality,' one of new horizons, languages, landscapes, and rhythms. Experiencing it, we ourselves will participate, through autobiographies, correspondence, diaries, and films, in their exiled perplexity. The contrasts will lead us also to compare early twentieth century Madrid to Spain 's other cities and locales and to ask as well how 'European' was Spain at this time. How did it picture Latin America ? Did the Transatlantic cultural link go beyond a common language? Works by Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Concha M?ez, Rosa Chacel, and Mar?Zambrano, among others.

SPN 373-01 Literary Movement Spanish Amer (2 nd Am lit) (Upper-level elective)
Michelle Joffroy MWF 11:00-12:10
Topic: City Life/City Lives. This course examines the intersection of the modern phenomena of urban development, transnational capitalism, and the formation of migrant identities as they are represented in contemporary fiction, essays, and films from Latin America . Among the issues we will explore the construction and representation of urban spaces as locations of identity, the tensions between time, place, and memory in the migrant and diasporic experience, and the linguistic, political, economic, and social complexities of forging a cultural place in a reality defined by movement.

SWG 230-01 Feminisms & Fate of the Planet (Upper-level elective)
Elisabeth Armstrong MWF 11:00-12:10
We begin this course by sifting the earth between our fingers as part of a community learning partnership with area farms in Holyoke , Hadley, and other neighboring towns. Using women's movements and feminisms across the globe as our lens, this course develops an understanding of current trends in globalization. This lens also allows us to map the history of transnational connections between people, ideas and movements from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Through films, memoirs, fiction, ethnography, witty diatribes and graphic novels, this course explores women's activism on the land of laborers, and in their lives. Students will develop research projects in consultation with area farms, link their local research with global agricultural movements, write papers and give one oral presentation.. Prerequisite: SWG 150.

SWG 315-01 Sexual Hist, Lesb Stories (Upper-level elective)
Marilyn Schuster TTh 03:00-04:50
In this seminar we will focus on two moments in twentieth-century gay and lesbian history: the 1920s and the 1950s. The 1920s saw the publication and trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness in England , the Harlem Renaissance in the U.S. and an active cultural life in Paris in which American expatriates played an important role. We will look at historical studies and texts by early sexologists of this period along with fiction, blues lyrics, memoirs and other narratives by sexually transgressive women. The post World War II homophile movement in the U.S. in the 1950s has been the focus of groundbreaking historical studies. In addition to historical narratives we will study the Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder, pulp fiction, butch/femme histories, novels and short stories. Throughout the seminar we will ask: What contradictions and continuities mark the expression and social control of female sexualities that were considered transgressive at different moments and in different cultural contexts? Whose stories get told? How are they read? How can the multiple narratives of control, resistance and cultural expression be useful to us in the twenty-first century? Prerequisites: SWG 150, one additional course in the major and permission of the instructor.

THE 261-02 Writing for Theatre (Upper-level elective)
Leonard Berkman Th 01:00-02:50
Same as ENG 291. The means and methods of the playwright and the writer for television and the cinema. Analysis of the structure and dialogue of a few selected plays. Exercises in writing for various media. Plays by students will be considered for staging. L and P with writing sample required. Writing sample required.

THE 262-02 Writing for Theatre (Upper-level elective)
Leonard Berkman Th 01:00-02:50
Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 261. Writing Sample Required.

THE 316-01 Contemporary Canadian Drama (Upper-level elective)
Leonard Berkman TTh 09:00-10:20
Michel Tremblay and contemporary Canadian playwrights. Particular emphasis on plays by women, with Tremblay among the few male playwrights included, within the context of political/personal issues of gender, class, race, sexuality, and cultural identity in English Canadian and French Canadian drama of the past four decades. Other playwrights focused on will be: Judith Thompson, George Walker, Erika Ritter, David French, Rene Daniel DuBois, Margaret Hollingworth, Anne-Marie McDonald, Sally Clark, and Sharon Pollock.