Undergraduate Courses (Spring 2005)
(Last updated: 1/13/05)

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 272 American Romanticism, ENGL 279 Introduction to American Studies, ENGL 339 Film and Literature, ENGL 368 Modern American Drama, ENGL 369 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction, ENGL 480G Early 20th-Century Women Writers, and ENGL 492B Native American Literature: Four Authors. 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 330 Practical Criticism, ENGL 391D Writing and Emerging Technologies, ENGL 419 Games Thinkers Play, ENGL 419H Honors Games Thinkers Play, ENGL 480G Early 20th-Century Women Writers, ENGL 491B Cultures of Sensibility, and ENGL 491F Literacy Studies in the U.S.

(Click here to see a list of courses from the Five Colleges)
(Click here to see a list of undergraduate courses from Fall 2005)

115-L1 American Experience (ALU) 10516
Instructor: T. Morgan MWF 12:20 pm
This is an introductory American Studies course for non-majors, introducing students to the inter-disciplinary study of American culture. Historical in scope, ranging from the 17th- to the 20th- centuries, this course draws on a core body of American Studies materials supplemented by recent works-including fiction, prose, poetry, painting, photography, film, the natural and built environment. Approaches to diverse cultural experiences in the United States include the experience of work, travel, landscape and the environment, individualism and community.

115-L2 American Experience (ALU) 10517
Instructor: C. Vials MWF 11:15 am

115-L3 American Experience (ALU) 10518
Instructor: S. Payne MWF 9:05 am

115-L4 American Experience (ALU) 10573
Instructor: M. Inbody T/Th 2:30 pm
Residents only.

115H-L1 Honors American Experience (ALU) 17944
Instructor: M. Lowance T/Th 2:30 pm
Commonwealth College Honors. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Emphasis will be on the ways authors treat the social and political issue of slavery and the most prominent theme in American literature, race relations. Focus will be on textual analysis and an examination of the rhetorical strategies employed by each writer's discourse concerning race and slavery. Readings are historical and chronological to show how later authors appropriate techniques used by earlier ones; however, this is not a confining methodology and participants may use critical theory, feminist discourse, and other ways of examining the texts. Slave narrators included are: Equiano, Douglass, and Jacobs. The pro- and anti-slavery debate is represented by Stringfellow, Hoit, McLeod, and James Freeman Clarke, whose texts are provided in a coursepack. The influence of these authors on Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin will be considered in some depth, followed by an examination of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson. The archetypal pairing of white and black characters is found in Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a work which stands with Stowe's masterpiece as a high point in the literary debate concerning race and slavery in 19th-century America. Antebellum slave narratives provided numerous rhetorical strategies for each of these writers, and their works, in turn, influenced twentieth-century narrative, which we will consider, such as Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Octavia Butler's Kindred, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Supplemental reading includes: David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance; Henry Louis Gates, The Slave Narrative; Lowance et al., The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin; Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations; William Frederickson, The Black Image in the White Mind; Lowance, Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader.

117-L1 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 10519
Instructor: K. Schlund-Vials MWF 10:10 am
American literature written by and about ethnic minorities, from the earliest immigrants through the cultural representations in modern American writing.

117-L2 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 10599
Instructor: S. Yoon MWF 11:15 am

120-L1 English Composition 10520
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 10521
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 10522
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

120-L4 English Composition 10523
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 12:20 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 10640
Instructor: S. Lewis MWF 9:05 am
This course will consider the ways in which 19th- and 20th-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) 10524
Instructor: R. Hazard T/Th 9:30 am

131-L3 Society and Literature (ALG) 10525
Instructor: K. Elliott-Squires MWF 10:10 am

131-L4 Society and Literature (ALG) 10594
Instructor: G. Sullivan T/Th 4:00 pm

132-L1 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 10526
Instructor: C. Wilson MWF 9:05 am
This course investigates images of men and women in poetry, drama, and fiction. It aims at appreciating the literature itself, with increasing awareness of the ways in which men and women grow up, seek identity, mature, love, marry, and, during different historical times, relate in families, classes, races, ethnic groups, societies, cultures. What are the conventional perspectives and relationships of "Man" and "Woman"? How does literature accept or question these conventions? What alternative perspective and relationships are imagined in literature?

132-L2 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 10527
Instructor: C. Monahan MWF 10:10 am

132-L3 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 10528
Instructor: J. Anderson T/Th 9:30 am

132-L4 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 10574
Instructor: M. Faith MWF 11:15 am

132-L5 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 10595
Instructor: K. Petersen T/Th 2:30 pm
Residents only.

140-L1 Reading Fiction (AL) 10600
Instructor: T. Burke MWF 10:10 am
An introduction to the themes and techniques of fiction through a reading of selected short stories and novels with emphasis on structure, style, point of view, and theme.

141-L1 Reading Poetry (AL) 10601
Instructor: L. Solomon T/Th 9:30 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.

142-L1 Reading Drama (AL) 17945
Instructor: C. Spivack T/Th 11:15 am

144-L1 World Literature in English (ALG) 10602
Instructor: M. Naous MWF 10:10 am
This course will be discussion-based and examine various genres of contemporary literature, including fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, and film that are often termed "postcolonial." Novels will include Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines. Course work will consist of two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

144-L2 World Literature in English (ALG) 10603
Instructor: I. Ozkilic T/Th 9:30 am

144-L3 World Literature in English (ALG) 18877
Instructor: J. Dymond T/Th 2:30 pm

196 Independent Study 10529
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

200-L2 Seminar in Literary Studies 10531
Instructor: J. Freeman MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. We will begin by studying poetry and then move on to short fiction. Much discussion, close reading of works, and papers. Possible reading list: a booklet of love poetry; lives of medieval saints; Boccaccio, Decameron; Poe tales; Sherlock Holmes adventures; Hemingway short stories. 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 10532
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. 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 10533
Instructor: R. Welburn MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. 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 10534
Instructor: B. Marshall T/Th 2:30 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In our course we will consider a variety of approaches to a variety of kinds of texts. Our goal will be to improve our appreciation of and intellectual engagement with the texts we read. Active involvement with class discussion, regular writing (and peer review of that writing), and research-based presentations about the texts and literary studies will help us to improve our careful reading of texts. There are no particular themes for the course, nor will we proceed chronologically; instead, we will move through the semester focused on different genres (novels, short stories, graphic novels, drama, and poetry). Throughout the course we'll discuss form and style and question how different authors employ and develop traditional forms. We will practice close reading of these texts, pressing our thinking on questions about the specific texts, as well as about literature in general. Through our presentations and critical reading, we'll gain a sense of what other thinkers have had to say about these texts. Most importantly, I hope to give you a sense of what we "do" as scholars of literature. To this end, we will have occasional guest presentations from faculty and graduate students about their research and a session at the library with the literature librarian. Our goal is to make everyone in the class a better reader and writer, with the tools of literary study readily available for any text we encounter. 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-L6 Seminar in Literary Studies 18878
Instructor: J. Dymond T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. 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 17946
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This is a 4-Credit Honors Course. When Irish Eyes Are Not Smiling. The purpose of this course is to foster methods of approaching literature in order both to appreciate its aesthetic qualities and to discover its bearing on the culture from which it comes. All the works on the syllabus, which represent three distinct genres, are by Irish writers, two men and one woman. We will study the following: John McGahern's raw and intro-spective novel, The Dark, a coming-of-age story about a rural, adolescent male; Martin McDonagah's uproarious and searing play, The Cripple of Inishmaan, about another adolescent male, who is handicapped and lives on the Aran Islands; and finally Medbh McGuckian's erotic and political, quite cryptic, poetry, a product of Northern Ireland. As this brief reading list suggests, day- to-day work in this course will center on exhaustive close readings. Writing will be approached in the same painstaking manner, involving many drafts of an essay. This combination of close reading and revision constitutes the guts of this course. 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 10575
Instructor: J. Adams MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The English language has changed considerably over the past thousand years, and with the changes in language have come redefinitions of culture, literature, and society. In this course, we will explore the early stages of English language and literature with an eye to how texts, both poetry and prose, contributed to a sense of "Englishness." In other words, we will consider the ways that early English authors helped to "write" a nation. Readings will include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, More's Utopia, Spenser's Faeire Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Three medium-length papers, one midterm, and one final exam.

201-L2 Major British Writers I 10576
Instructor: J. Black MWF 10:10 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.

201-L3 Major British Writers I 10577
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Introduction to the literature and the literary imagination of the Middle Ages and Early Modern England. We will begin with a discussion of the nature of literary artifice before moving to a review of English historical and cultural contexts. We will discuss literary genre and form, style, and convention, and the semantic and cultural force of fiction. Readings include Old English lyrics, Beowulf, Chaucer, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Marvell. Frequent quizzes, two brief papers. (Recommended for Sophomores, Juniors).

201-L4 Major British Writers I 17947
Instructor: A. Zucker T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. An introduction to English literature written between the Anglo-Saxon period and
  the middle of the seventeenth century.  We will chart out our own literary
history by examining the shared elements and innovations of a wide range of
texts and authors.  Beowulf, the Canterbury Tales, Elizabethan love sonnets,
Milton's great Paradise Lost, and the drama of Shakespeare and his predecessors
will be a few of our touchstones.  Special emphasis on the social and historical
resonance of different forms: epic, lyric, drama, and others.  Two papers,
occasional informal written responses, and a mid-term exam.

201H-L1 Honors Major British Writers I 17948
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Introduction to the literature and the literary imagination of the Middle Ages and Early Modern England. We will begin with a discussion of the nature of literary artifice before moving to a review of English historical and cultural contexts. We will discuss literary genre and form, style and convention, and the semantic and cultural force of fiction. Readings include Old English lyrics, Beowulf, Chaucer, Milton, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Marvell. Frequent quizzes, a number of brief papers, and a final paper. Recommended for Sophomores, Juniors.

202-L1 Major British Writers 10536
Instructor: R. Keefe T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This course will investigate the development of British literature from the Enlightenment of the 18th century through the Romanticism and Realism of the 19th century to the Modernism of the early 20th century; literary response to scientific and industrial changes, political revolution, and the technical and social reordering of British society.

203-L1 Bible Myth/Literature/Society 17949
Instructor: J. Freeman MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
The literary influence of the Bible, the most important genres; creation myths, hero tales, erotic poetry, prophecy, short stories, devotional verse, gospels. Avoids the interpretations of the later religions. Various themes from folklore, archeology, and history; what the literature meant to its originators. How certain biblical topics have interested secular artists.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL) 10537
Instructor: J. Black MW 1:25 pm
Why are Shakespeare's plays still so widely performed, read, filmed, revised and appropriated four centuries after they first appeared on stage? What do they do that makes them speak so powerfully to audiences, writers, directors, and actors? This course provides an overview of Shakespeare's work, focusing on attentive readings of eight or nine plays, including examples of comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. We will pay some attention to genre (what is a comedy?); cultural and social contexts (how did the Renaissance approach issues of politics, gender, social hierarchy, marriage, cosmology, and personal identity, and how do these ideas inform these plays?); and to questions of production, staging, and Renaissance theater practice. Assignments include short papers, exam, attendance of both lecture and discussion section, and lively participation. Discussion section required.

221-D1 Shakespeare (AL) 10538
Instructor: G. Christian F 10:10 am

221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) 10539
Instructor: G. Christian F 11:15 am

221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) 10540
Instructor: P. Williams F 10:10 am

221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) 10541
Instructor: P. Williams F 11:15 am

222-L1 Shakespeare (AL) 18879
Instructor: C. Spivack T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore English majors only.

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 10542
Instructor: J. Cardinale MWF 11:15 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only. 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) 10543
Instructor: M. Fambrough MWF 10:10 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 10604
Instructor: D. Chelotti T/Th 9:30 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 10544
Instructor: N. Bromell T/Th 9:30 am
American Identities: Democracy and Identity in the 21st Century. While differences of class, gender, race, age, and ethnicity crucially influence who we are, this course focuses on one thing most of us have in common: we are citizens of and participants in a democracy that faces severe challenges at the dawn of the 21st century. All of us are asking such questions as: Can democracy fight global terrorism without giving up core democratic principles? Can democracy, with its emphasis on individual human rights, deal with 21st century environmental problems, which may require us to recognize certain non-human rights - the rights of trees, animals, land, and water? Most importantly, will 21st-century Americans be involved in their democracy, or will they cede their powers and responsibilities to corporations and other highly organized interest groups?

Once we think of our "identity" as that of democratic citizens facing these kinds of questions, we begin to read works of literature in a new way. We ask these works to help us. We want them to shed light on what it means to be a citizen of a democracy: What is the nature of the "self" that is "self-governed"? Who and what is an "individual"? We also hope works of literature will shed light on the functioning of a democracy: How much must citizens trust each other for a democracy to work? What is "trust," and what promotes it and what endangers it?

The rich and varied texts we read in this class struggle with questions like these. Reading and thinking about them, we ourselves become stronger citizens; we become more robust and sophisticated democrats who strengthen our democracy and make it more able to manage the challenges of this new century.

Although this is a lecture course, it will be conducted as a "democratic forum." We will approach texts through important and controversial questions, and students will be expected to take (and sometimes change) positions on those questions. You will not sit passively and take notes: energetic debate, voting, and coalition-building will be features of the course. To liven things further, we'll "read" music and film as well as print texts. In sum, we'll make every effort to make learning fun as well as useful. Discussion section is required.
Discussion section is required.

270-D1 American Identities (AL) 17950
Instructor: C. Harris F 10:10 am

270-D2 American Identities (AL) 17951
Instructor: C. Harris F 11:15 am

270-D3 American Identities (AL) 17952
Instructor: D. Colbert F 10:10 am

270-D4 American Identities (AL) 17953
Instructor: D. Colbert F 11:15 am

270-D5 American Identities (AL) 17954
Instructor: M. Wilson F 10:10 am

270-D6 American Identities (AL) 17955
Instructor: M. Wilson F 11:15 am

272-L1 American Romanticism (2nd Am Lit) 17956
Instructor: M. Lowance T/Th 5:00 - 6:15 pm

272-L2 American Romanticism (2nd Am Lit) 17957
Instructor: M. Lowance T/Th 11:15 am

279-L1 Introduction to American Studies (ALU) (2nd Am Lit) 17958
Instructor: J. Skerrett T/Th 9:30 am
Irish Americans and African Americans. This course will examine the relations between African Americans and Irish Americans in the period of slavery for one group and indentured servitude for the other, through the immigration and abolition experiences, conflicts between the groups from the 1820s to the Civil War, and postwar Reconstruction and its aftermath, one aspect of which is "how the Irish became white." We will be studying documents, letters, diaries and historical scholarship as well as contemporary fictional narratives and poems and 20th century fictional re-imaginings of Irish American/African American relations. Students will write three (3) five-page papers and try their hand at reimagining a historical moment of contact in a story, a poem, a short play, or a short film/video of their own. Readings will be drawn from: Kevin Baker, Paradise Alley: A Novel (2002); Peter Quinn, Banished Children of Eve (1994); Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl (1992); William Kennedy, Quinn's Book (1988); Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends (1857); Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White; Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York (film); James Asbury, The Gangs of New York; James M. O'Toole, Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920; Iver Berliner, The New York City Draft Riots; Micheal MacGowan, The Hard Road to Klondike; Kerby Miller et al, eds., Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, 1675-1815; The Irish Empire, TV documentary.

279-L2 Introduction to American Studies (ALU) (2nd Am Lit) 17959
Instructor: J. Skerrett T/Th 11:15 am

296 Independent Study 10546
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

297B Experimental Writing Workshop 10622
Instructor: T. Burke W 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Unfamiliar Spaces: The Art of Place, Perspective & Travel Writing. Unfamiliar places offer us access to perceptions we may otherwise take for granted. Examining the unknown, we are struck by the new and often reminded of the forgotten. Students will explore the terrain beyond our campus in order to render in fiction and non fiction their own sense of place.

297C Experimental Writing Workshop 10623
Instructor: J. Schwartz/L. Yalen M 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. The World is the Home of Love and Death. How can we write about love and death without falling prey to cliché and sentimentality? This course begins with the confounding experiences of love and death and our creative impulse to relate them to others. Through a variety of writing exercises students will explore ways to tell these kinds of stories.

297D Experimental Writing Workshop 10624
Instructor: C. Parravani/T. Krupa T 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. The Myth of Me: Imaginative Writing Through Mythology, Fairytales, Cinema & Art. Myths surround everything we encounter. Participants will study legend and fairytale in fiction, poetry, music, art, and film in order to imagine new audiences for ancient stories and create myths of their own. Students will be asked to think of their lives as myths and experiment with mythic styles in order to tell the tales of themselves.

297E Experimental Writing Workshop 10629
Instructor: D. Griffis/J. Murr W 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing from Progressive Perspectives in Uncertain Times. It's a strange time for progressive thinkers in the U.S. This course will explore various strategies for political engagement through the act of writing. Students will experiment with a variety of forms of political writing, critically engaging the assumptions and strategies of writers from across the political spectrum.

297F Experimental Writing Workshop 10628
Instructor: S. Johnson M 3:00 - 5:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Everything Essays - Writing with Multigenres. All out thoughts and feelings do not always fit into one essay form. Exploring the multigenre form, students will discover what style best fits what they want to say. Workshop participants will experiment with form by writing essays that combine a range of genres-letters, dialogs, lists, journal entries, poems, recipes, and even

297G Experimental Writing Workshop 10627
Instructor: J. Hunt W 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing Poem Cycles: How to Win the Noble Prize in Poetry! It's a scientific, proven fact that more than half the Nobel prize-winning poets padded their reputations with cycles. The Academy prizes the developments of themes-and why not? It is fun and satisfying to dwell on things. Students will create their own poem cycles by "beating around the bush" (doing variations on one theme) and by grappling with those big themes and questions.

297I Experimental Writing Workshop 10626
Instructor: P. Woods T 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Collaborative Writing: Do too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? People often assume writing is done by a single author. But is it? Public documents, music, movies, etc. typically involve more than one author: Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein, the Coen Brothers. Through various exercises exploring a range of genres from novel to songs, students will critically interrogate and evaluate the process of writing collaborativel. Do too many authors spoil-or enhance-the text?

297J Experimental Writing Workshop 10625
Instructor: J. Choffel/M. Fambrough W 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Lost in Translation. Through the process of translation, texts take on new forms. This workshop will experiment with a variety of translation processes in order to move beyond the traditional language-to-language model. Using their own and others' work students will alter the genre, appearance, and medium of texts in order to explore the issues surrounding translation.

297K Experimental Writing Workshop 18931
Instructor: C. Burton/L. Dush T 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Digital Storytelling. Inspired by the options for visual composition that software like I-Movie and Audacity provide and by the sound stories showcased by Story Corps in NYC Grand Central Station and NPR's Lost and Sound, participants will compose fictional and documentary stories through digital photos, sound, and movies. Although the medium will be digital, emphasis will be on creating stories rather than mastering the software.

298H Honors Practicum: Teaching in the Writing Center 17960
Instructor: M. Deal Tu 6:45 - 7:45 pm
Prerequisite: ENGL 297H. To add this course students must contact the Writing Program, 305 Bartlett Hall, 545-0610.

311-L1 Legends of Arthur 17961
Instructor: C. Spivack T/Th 2:30 pm
Did Arthur really exist? Historians disagree, but he inspired more works of fiction than almost any other legend. We will investigate early writings, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in the 12th century, and then explore medieval versions of the legend, dealing with Merlin and the other knights as well as the King, culminating in Malory's epic Le Morte D'Arthur. Then we will turn to several modern retellings of the legend, including Tennyson, T.H. White, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and others. Active class participation, two or three papers, and possibly an exam.

326-L1 Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama 17962
Instructor: A. Zucker T/Th 2:30 pm
A survey of plays first performed between 1570 and 1640, including some of the most strange and lasting works written for the stage.  Plays by Shakespeare's influential contemporaries: Marlowe, Jonson, Lyly, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Ford, Shirley, and others.  This class will take on drama from many different angles: as a performance; as a printed object; as a cultural and political
intervention; as a reflection of a moment in social history.  We will focus specifically on how these plays investigate relationships of power organized by  kingship, gender, economic practice, and nationality.  And throughout we will pay close attention to how the smallest details of a given text -- lines of verse; stage directions; props; settings -- fit into broader arguments about individual plays and about the drama of the Tudor and Stuart period as a whole.  Course work includes two longer essays, a few short response papers, and a midterm exam.   

330-L1 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 10548
Instructor: J. Donohue MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The course focuses on works by three authors-a dramatist, a novelist, and a poet: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Dickens's Great Expectations, and a large body of Yeats's poetry. In addition, authors' critical and theoretical writing about drama, fiction, and poetry, and about the three writers' writings in particular, will be studied, discussed, and written about. Emphasis will be placed equally on historical and social backgrounds and contexts and on close reading of texts and related questions of textuality. In addition to mastering the assigned readings, students will write a series of commentaries, critical essays, and position papers, in and out of class. Emphasis in writing will be placed on identification of an appropriate audience, choice of a promising subject, careful conception and development of an argument, effective editing and revision of the draft, and perfect finish of the final version, along with cultivation of a transparent and pleasing personal style. Students will be expected to undertake substantial revision in the course of completing each major writing assignment; unsatisfactory final versions will be returned for further revision. The goal of the course is to develop intelligent, sophisticated, and effective readers of literature and writers of critical and expository prose. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

339-L1 Film and Literature (2nd Am Lit)17963
Instructor: D. Carlin MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Film and Literature: "American Classics". While there are several great novels that have been made into mediocre movies (such as the 1956 version of Melville's Moby Dick), and an equal number of great films that have come from less than impressive fiction (such as The Godfather, Parts I and 2, 1972, 1974 from Mario Puzo's terrible 1970 novel), there are only a handful of great fictions that have been made into equally great films. This course will examine both those fictions and their cinematic adaptations, paying particular attention to the narrative structures and choices in each. Students will analyze each novel first, then we will turn our attention to its film version, noting how plot, point of view, setting and characterization are altered and transformed within a different medium. Students, in addition to the required reading of fiction, will also be expected to read some articles on film theory and criticism in order to develop the critical vocabulary necessary to discuss the films we will view. Students will be assigned a 3-4 pp. writing exercise on each fiction and film pairing; topics will be generated by the instructor and distributed after we have finished discussing both the fiction and its film version. Texts to be studied will include: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898) and The Innocents (1961, British; dir. Jack Clayton); Frank Norris, McTeague (1899) and Greed (1925, USA; dir. Eric von Stroheim); Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy (1925) and A Place in the Sun (1951, USA; dir. George Stevens); John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940, USA; dir. John Ford); Sherman Alexie, "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1994) and Smoke Signals (1998, USA; dir. Chris Eyre); and Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog (1999) and House of Sand and Fog (2003, USA; dir. Vadim Perelman). Please note that in addition to regular class meetings there will be a mandatory lab on Wednesday afternoons for film viewings. Books for this course will be ordered from Food For Thought Books in downtown Amherst. Lab section is required.

339-Lab1 Film and Literature TBA
Instructor: D. Carlin W 4:00 - 6:00 pm

348-L1 Rise of the Novel 17964
Instructor: J. Bartolomeo T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. We'll be reading and discussing major texts from the first century of novel-writing in England, examining such issues as: the cultural conditions that fostered the emergence and success of a new literary genre; innovations and experiments in narrative form; gender and the subjects of and audience for fiction; social commentary and satire; the rise of popular culture and of writing as a "business." Texts: Eliza Haywood, Fantomina and Other Works; Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders; Samuel Richardson, Clarissa; Henry Fielding, Tom Jones; Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Frances Burney, Evelina. Requirements: two 5-7 page papers; a final (take-home) exam.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 10549
Instructor: J. Fletcher T/Th 1:00 pm
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 10550
Instructor: S. Veglahn T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 17965
Instructor: D. Coudriet T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

355-L1 Creative Writing: Fiction 19049
Instructor: J. Hennessy T/Th 1:00 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. In this course students will write and workshop short stories. They will also read widely in contemporary fiction and complete a series of writing assignments intended to address specific aspects of fiction.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 10551
Instructor: M. Espada MW 11:15 - 12:30 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. This is an undergraduate poetry writing workshop. The student is expected to actively participate: that is, to produce poems independently for review in class, and to review work submitted by others. The course is geared to the seriously committed writing student. One objective, at this level, will be to help the student define a distinct identity in the work, in terms of language, subject, etc. Another objective will be to reinforce the fundamental skills of writing poetry, with a special emphasis on the image, the expression of the senses on paper. Each objective will be achieved through intensive critique of student poems, both in class and in conference. The various strengths of student writing will receive as much attention as those areas in need of improvement. Readings will be selected from Poetry Like Bread, an anthology which will provide models for class discussion and writing.

356-L2 Creative Writing: Poetry 10583
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.

356H Honors Creative Writing: Poetry 19064
Instructor: P. Gizzi MW 4:00 - 5:15 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 or permission of the instructor..

358-L1 The Romantic Poets 10608-CANCELLED
Instructor: C. Cooper T/Th 11:15 am

359-L1 Victorian Imagination 17967
Instructor: S. Daly MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The Victorian Imagination: Imagining Crime and Punishment. What kind of crimes did the Victorians like to imagine, to read about, to punish vicariously through their fiction? What did what criminality itself mean in 19th century Britain? We will read a range of works that take up these questions from various perspectives. Novels may include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist; George Eliot, The Lifted Veil; Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug. We will also read poetry by R. Browning, C. Rossetti, Tennyson, and Swinburne.

365-L1 20th Century Literature of Ireland (AL) 17968
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
19th Century background: the Irish Renaissance; such major figures as Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and O'Casey; recent and contemporary writing.

366-L1 Modern Poetry 17969
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 2:30 pm
This course surveys the multiple traditions of modern U.S. poetry. Our guiding question: What is the relationship between modern poetry and modernity? Focusing on the period between 1900 and 1950 and working from a comparativist perspective, we will explore how various poets interpreted their shared historical context through different poetic forms. In addition to a broad overview of modernism's canonical authors (e.g. Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Ezra Pound), we will spend significant time on the parallel, and often overlapping, trajectories of African-American poetry (e.g. Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes), and feminist poetics (e.g. H.D., Gertrude Stein). Between each of these reading units, we will look closely at poets who negotiate the intersection of these various poetic trajectories, such as African American high modernist Melvin Tolson and the self-described "mongrel," Mina Loy. The second-generation modernists, such as "Objectivist" poets Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker, as well as anti-war poets such as Muriel Rukeyser and Randall Jarrell, will further expand our understanding of modern poetry as a series of revolutions in both politics and poetic form.Throughout our readings, we will continue to look at the ways in which our poets are a part of the new, rapidly transforming cultures and histories of modernity, including world wars, rapid industrializa- tion, mass culture advertising, Jim Crow race relations, and masculinity. Finally, by beginning and ending our survey with works by poets who anticipate the modern (Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman) and attempt to move beyond it (Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg), we will map "modernism" as part of a longer history of poetic development.

368-L1 Modern American Drama (AL) (2nd Am Lit)18781
Instructor: J. Donohue MW 2:30 pm
The course offers a survey of American plays from the early days of the twentieth century to the 1990s, with some attention to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century predecessors. The course focuses on the nature and development of American theatrical and dramatic art, emphasizing the social, cultural, intellectual, and ethical values, conditions, and contexts out of which dramatic and theatrical traditions developed--and against which some dramatists revolted. The plan of the course is based on the assumption that American drama is rich and varied and that study of it consequently requires a broad overview of a number of plays. A guiding theme is provided by the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville's comment on the nature of dramatic art in a democratic society. Spectators in democratic communities "like to find on the stage the confused mixture of conditions, sentiments, and ideas that they encounter before their eyes," he wrote in the second volume of Democracy in America (1840). In such circumstances, he concluded, "the theatre becomes more striking, more vulgar, and more true." Opportunities will abound to test the aptness of de Tocqueville's view. Special attention will be given to such dramatists as James A. Herne, Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Zora Neal Hurston, Clifford Odets, Langston Hughes, Lillian Hellman, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Marsha Norman, August Wilson, David Mamet, and Tony Kushner. Students will attend the Theater Department's production of Kushner's Angels in America. Normally, each lecture will treat a separate play; weekly discussion sections may range more widely. In-class writing in lecture and discussion, commentaries on plays; quizzes, midterm and final exams. Discussion section is required.

368-D1 Modern American Drama (AL) 18782
Instructor: M. Bennett W 1:25 pm

368-D2 Modern American Drama (AL) 18783
Instructor: M. Bennett W 11:15 am

368-D3 Modern American Drama (AL) 18784
Instructor: R. Reginio W 1:25 pm

368-D4 Modern American Drama (AL) 18785
Instructor: R. Reginio W 11:15 am

369-L1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) (2nd Am Lit) 10552
Instructor: K. Farrell T/Th 1:00 pm
The course uses six novels and related documentary and dramatic films to explore American life through the 1920s, the Great Depression, and post-WW 2. Focus on the way imaginations have adapted to the conflicts, catastrophes, and opportunities of the 20th century as a prelude to the troubled mood of the present. We'll use history, anthropology, psychology, and evolution to explore the impact of modernism. The material requires that you master some particular new ideas and critical terms. This is not a conventional lit course and it's unwise to sign up for it unless you're willing to make that commitment. We'll be reading: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933); Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929); Himes, If He Hollers (1947); Nabokov, Lolita (1955); Barth, The End of the Road (1958). Also: Howard Zinn's People's History of the U.S. (excerpts); Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth; and (recommended) Kirshner, The Modern Novel. The required weekly lab session for films includes documentaries about the Great Depression, Nazi ideology, mental illness, and the U.S. prison system; King Vidor's The Crowd (1929); Chaplin's Modern Times (1936); Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five; Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Required: regular attendance; 1-2 page responses to three novels plus three 5-page essays. No exams. Independent Study credits available for lab section. Lab section is required.

369-L2 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) (2nd Am Lit) 17974
Instructor: K. Farrell T/Th 2:30 pm
Lab section is required.

369-Lab1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 17975
Instructor: K. Farrell Th 4:00 - 6:30 pm

381-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication II 10578
Instructor: J. Nelson MW 11:15 - 12:30 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. Team-taught with professional writers from Hewlett-Packard, RSA Securities, Lucent Technologies, and other New England communications, manufacturing, and high-tech corporations. Continues and extends the work of English 380. The objects of this course are to increase writing, organizational, and graphical sophistication and to produce portfolio-quality documentation which introduces an audience to a major desktop software (typically, Quark Express or FrameMaker 7.0.) PWTC Lab, Bartlett 210B; (ph.) 5-5462.

382-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication III 10553
Instructor: J. Nelson MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380.

391C-L1 Advanced Software Professional Writers 10554
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. Upon
successful completion of this course, you will be proficient in the intermediate and advanced use of HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, RoboHELP, Microsoft PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash. You will be familiar with DHTML, SGML, XML, Style Sheets and JavaScript. The major and ongoing project for the course is an online portfolio that demonstrates your skills as a web designer and professional writer. The portfolio will be built with the software cited above; it will include an introductory page, an HTML version of your resume, and appropriate work from other writing courses. It will also include a website of an imaginary corporation or nonprofit organization. First class only meets in Bartlett 316. Further information may be found at: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~pwtc/software/

391C-L2 Advanced Software Professional Writers 10555
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380. First class only meets in Bartlett 256.

391D-L1 Writing and Emerging Technologies (Jr-Yr Writing) 17976
Instructor: D. LeCourt T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Fanzines, slash fiction, interactive fiction, hypertext, hypermedia, blogs….The list of new writing genres generated by cyberspace is constantly growing. Such new genres have led to many claims about the changing nature of writing and constructing meaning in interactive and nonlinear environments. But what do these new writing spaces actually offer us as writers, readers, and citizens? Has it changed the nature of narrative and argument or merely given them new faces? Has the radical potential of these writing spaces been undercut by the web's increasing use for commercial enterprise? This course will examine these questions by critically examining the claims made about the web's potential to reconstruct democracy and community. We will begin historically, situating the web within a longer history of writing technologies including pen/paper, printing, the typewriter, and word processing to ask questions about how one's writing technology affects both what one can/does write and the presumed relationship between an author and readers. The majority of the course, however, will be spent examining three related issues about current writing on the web: identity politics (i.e., how race, class, gender, sexuality are negotiated and affected/challenged by web genres); democracy (i.e. whether the internet constructs new forums for public discourse or replicates current power structures in new guise), and capitalism (i.e., the commodification of web spaces, intellectual property rights, and questions of access). Assignments will include reading responses; a web autobiography of our own interactions with technology; multiple, short analyses of various web genres; and a research paper (or web text). Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

391F Jewish Women Writers 10633
Instructor: J. Felman W 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Same as Judaic 391F. Feminists or Just Feminine? Seen but not heard? Just what is a "nice Jewish girl?" This course will explore the voices of Jewish women writers and their ethnically gendered narratives. Questions include the following: What does it mean for these writers to be Jewish and female? What role, if any, do Judaism, politics, and sexuality play in their writing. Students will be asked to write about their own lives in prose, poetry, and narrative "performances."

391K Professional Editing 18934
Instructor: M. Curtis W 1:25 - 3:55 pm

396 Independent Study 10556
Instructor: TBA TBA

397I-L1 Economics & the Literary Imagination 17977
Instructor: J. Stifler T/Th 9:30 am
Same as Economics 397B.

416-L1 Canterbury Tales 10634
Instructor: J. Adams MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
This course provides an introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Although this poem will form the centerpiece of our reading, 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 several translation quizzes, two papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

419-L1 Games Thinkers Play (Jr-Yr Writing) 10609
Instructor: E. Gallo M 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Subject matter: the act of interpretation. Most texts are ambivalent and support a wide range of interpretation--even contradictory interpretations. We learn how to recognize interpretations which are persuasive, appealing, and totally false.

It is easy to construct deceptive arguments; it does not follow that all arguments are deceptive. We test postmodern claims that all of our understanding of literary texts is radically uncertain, and that even theories in the hard sciences are mere social constructs.

Texts include Burke (on Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"); selections from the Presocratic poet-philosophers; Lévi-Strauss (structuralism); Freud (on slips of the tongue); Joseph Campbell (Jungian analysis, archetypes); Derrida (deconstruction); Bloor (postmodernism); and others.

Eight short papers plus four in-class exercises. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

419-L2 Games Thinkers Play (Jr-Yr Writing) 10642
Instructor: E. Gallo W 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

419H-L1 Honors Games Thinkers Play (Jr-Yr Writing) 17978
Instructor: E. Gallo Th 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This is a 4-credit Honors course. 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.

450-L1 Advanced Expository Writing 10557
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. The course will approach nonfiction writing on practical and theoretical levels. Each student will undertake a large project developing a single subject into several interrelated nonfiction forms: a popular magazine article or a more specialized journal piece, and a formal book proposal. The proposal will be the major work of the course, and will undergo several drafts. In addition, each student will compose a book review of a nonfiction work in a subject related to his or her project, and brief essay that addresses a theoretical issue in nonfiction writing. Most class sessions will be devoted to workshops and/or discussion. Students' writing will be informed by
assigned readings involving theoretical issues related to the field; we will discuss those issues
both on designated dates and as they arise naturally. Further information may be found at:
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~pwtc/engl450/.

480G-L1 Early 20th-Century Women Writers (Jr-Yr Writing) (2nd Am Lit) 17979
Instructor: D. Carlin MW 8:40 - 9:55 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. This Junior-Year Writing Course will examine short fiction and novels produced by important early and mid 20th-century U.S. women writers such as Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor, paying particular attention to the ways gender, race, class and sexuality are represented in their texts. In addition to our primary texts, students will be introduced to a variety of critical approaches and methodologies in literary criticism (including feminist, narrative, psychoanalytic and biographical) through an examination of selected essays on some of the writers we will study this semester. Requirements: Regular attendance and informed, engaged participation. In addition, students will compose three essays during the semester: 1) a 4-5 pp. analysis of a short story using the critical lens of narrative theory, 2) a 2-3 pp. brief response essay on both the strengths and the limitations of a critical approach to a text, and 3) a 10-15 pp. research paper that will use both primary texts and critical material to support an analytical argument. Reading: Willa Cather, My Antonia; Edith Wharton, Summer; Nella Larsen, Passing; Katherine Anne Porter, "The Old Order," "Old Mortality" and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"; Eudora Welty, Collected Stories; Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding; and Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge. Books for this course will be ordered from Food For Thought Books in downtown Amherst. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491A-L1 Neruda in Translation 10611
Instructor: M. Espada M 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Same as Latin-Am 491A. This is an introduction, in English translation, to the man considered by many to be the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. The poetry of Neruda is marked by a series of aesthetic and political metamorphoses, and the course is organized around the enormous diversity of the work: the early love poems, surrealism, the political poems, brought on by Neruda's experience with the Spanish Civil War, the sweeping historical works best represented by his masterpiece, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, the humorous odes, the nature poems, and so on. The life of Neruda was also characterized by dramatic change, likewise charted throughout the course: from his career as a diplomat to his bitter years as a hunted political exile, from his acknowledgment as Nobel Laureate to his isolated death in the wake of the 1973 coup in Chile. Neruda was a witness to history, and special attention will be devoted to that history, particularly in terms of the Spanish Civil War and the Chilean coup. The course will also focus on the process of translation, and students will be encouraged to compare translations with one another, as well as against the original text. Students in this Honors course are required to write several papers, with an optional class presentation.

491B-L1 Cultures of Sensibility (Jr-Yr Writing) 17980 -CANCELLED
Instructor: C. Cooper T/Th 1:00 pm

491D-L1 Modernist Women Writers 17981
Instructor: L. Doyle T/Th 9:30 am
English majors only. In this course we'll study the phenomenon called modernism and we'll raise questions about politics, history, literature, and language in order to understand the texts of women writers of the modernist period (which, in English language cultures, means the early 20th century). Many of these writers broke literary rules and in the process discovered and destabilized norms of social and linguistic encounter. Our discussions will therefore focus on the authors' aesthetic techniques as they interact with social conventions, including as these techniques reshape our practices of reading. Readings will include some difficult theoretical and historical material as well fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys and poetry by H.D., Dunbar-Nelson, Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, Marianne Moore, and Amy Lowell. Readiness to contribute thoughtfully to discussion, by speaking and listening in balanced degrees, is required. Writing includes a number of short thinking assignments, two long papers, and possibly an essay exam.

491F-L1 Literacy Studies in the U.S. (Jr-Yr Writing) 17982
Instructor: H. Hoang T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. This course introduces students to the controversial issue of literacy, what it is and why it is valued. In the U.S., there is a persistent belief that school literacy empowers people socially, politically, and economically. However, literacy researchers suggest that popular understandings of literacy (as only school-based reading and writing) are limited. In fact, individuals and communities practice literacy in wide and varying ways--e.g., letters, sermons, emails, English language learning--to maintain and create new relationships with others. The objective of this course is to explore evolving definitions of literacy and to consider how dominant definitions of literacy have had a cultural impact on our institutions and our personal lives. In this vein, the course focuses on both critical theories of literacy and short qualitative research on writing and reading. Drawing from these readings, students will compose (1) brief informal writings, (2) formal response papers, (3) a final personal literacy narrative. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491Y-L1 Teaching Literature at the High School Level 17983
Instructor: L. Edwards/B. Penniman Tu 4:00 - 6:30 pm
This course is designed for students whose aim is to teach English at the high school level. It is not a course in teaching methods, though we will do our best to model and discuss effective teaching practices. Rather, this course is intended to help you learn to read literature as a teacher does: to consider alternative interpretations and approaches, to anticipate barriers to students' comprehension and appreciation, and to explore avenues for participation and response. To this end, you will learn and practice close reading of the text, study and employ a variety of critical theories, experiment with a range of discussion strategies, and engage in several forms of formal and informal writing.

Together, we will examine a number of fundamental questions: Why do we teach literature in high school? What makes literature "relevant" to high school students? What makes a literature curriculum gender-balanced and multi-cultural? How does studying literature contribute to high school students' development as readers, writers, critical thinkers, and citizens of the world?

The course will focus on four core readings which may be familiar to you as they are frequently taught in high school classes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and selections from James Joyce's Dubliners and Emily Dickinson's poetry. We will assume that you will enter the course with at least some working knowledge of these authors and works, so if any of them is completely unfamiliar to you, some pre-reading is advisable. Four additional readings will serve as the basis for demonstration lessons by study groups within the class.

492B-L1 Native American Literature: Four Authors (2nd Am Lit) 17984
Instructor: R. Welburn MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm
The opportunity for intensive reading and discussion of selected works by four Native American authors is the focus of this course. These authors describe their tribal world views and value systems that are deeply rooted in their indigenous sensibility in North America. Students should expect to participate in presentations and write a series of critically informed essays. We will be reading Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of A Mi'kmaq Poet; The Witch of Goingsnake and Cherokee Dragon by Robert J. Conley; Dwellings, and Power, a collection of essays and a novel both with ecological themes by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw); and two works by Sherman Alexie (Colville), The Business of Fancydancing and Reservation Blues.

492C-L1 Postcolonial Women's Writing in English 18935
Instructor: J. Rege T/Th 2:30 pm
Women's lives balance precariously on the fault-lines of nation, family, and community, particularly women from colonized and formerly colonized countries, who are often spoken for by others. Women tend to be represented by colonizers as helpless victims of backward traditions in need of rescue and uplift by the enlightened colonizers, and represented by nationalists as symbols of the 'glorious Motherland' and guardians of tradition. In this course we will read writing in English by women from former colonies in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, as well as in the global postcolonial diaspora. We will focus on novel and short stories, but will also include poems, memoirs, and cultural projects such as writers' collaboratives and internet archives. Along with the creative writing, we will read and discuss essays by contemporary postcolonial and transnational feminists and cultural critics on issues that shape women's lives and creative expression, both culture-specific local or national issues and global issues that have cut across class, community, and national lines. Such critics may include: Ifi Amadiume, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal, Carol Boyce Davies, Ketu Katrak, Madhu Kishwar, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Creative writers may include: from Africa—Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Flora Nwapa, Grace Ogot, Nawal El Saadawi, and Miriam Tlali; from South Asia—Kamala Das, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Manjula Padmanabhan, Urmila Pawar, Kamila Shamsie, and Bapsi Sidhwa; from the Caribbean—Louise Bennett, Ramabai Espinet, Merle Hodge, Shani Mootoo, and Olive Senior; and from the postcolonial diaspora, Attia Hosain, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Pauline Melville, Paule Marshall, Jean Rhys, and Meera Syal.

496 Independent Study 10558
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499D-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 10613
Instructor: A. Phillips T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior Honors students only. This Capstone course is the second part of a two semester sequence, ENGL 499C-L1 was offered in the Fall 2004 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College. This course is designed to give creative writers and readers from all disciplines an environment in which to work and learn from each other and from established writers in the university and community. Poets, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers participate in weekly workshops that focus on close reading and developing proficiency in discussing literature by engaging with our own work and outstanding contemporary works. We will attempt to identify useful methods to inspire us to write, or, when inspiration is lacking, to help us write anyway. We are also trying to gain confidence as readers. Class work is augmented by discussions with award-winning faculty and community writers, attendance of the Juniper Initiative-sponsored Writers Work series, and attendance of the Visiting Writers reading series. Preference in registration for senior honors students.

499D-L2 Capstone course: Imagining a Sustainable World 10614
Instructor: J. Davidov W 1:25 - 4:00 pm
Senior Honors students only. This is the second semester of ENGL 499C-L2 or Honors 499C-L7 from Fall 2004. Same as Honors 499D-L7. This course is a continuation of 499C (Fall 2004) and is open only to students who have completed that course and have submitted at the end of the fall semester, 2004, a preliminary description of the proposed research project and an annotated bibliography. In 499D, students are expected to complete a 50-page senior honors thesis, the topic for which bears some relationship to the themes and readings in the fall semester. The first class meeting will be a sharing of thesis proposals (come with a copy for each seminar member). Subsequent class meetings in the spring will be devoted to the sharing of research strategies and problems and work in progress, leading up to the in-class presentation in early May of a draft of the complete thesis. A few possible thesis topics (meant to be suggestive, not limiting in any way): you might explore the belief of many environmental writers that a strong sense of place, of belonging, is the first step toward creating a sustainable world; you might study the belief systems of other cultures, whose "earth-based" religions offer alternative modes of interaction with the natural world; you might want to delve deeply into the works of a single writer or artist; or you might try your hand at drafting plans for a sustainable community, thinking about all of the physical and social structures that would need to be in place for such a community to succeed.

505-L1 Beowulf 17985
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 9:30 am
This course focuses on the epic poem Beowulf in its original language and in translation. Written between c. 750 and c.1000 CE, Beowulf is the chief poetic achievement of Anglo-Saxon England. It is a poem of stunning artistry, complex structure, and profound wisdom. Beowulf inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Seamus Heaney as it continues to inspire today. We will read the poem extremely closely. As we do, we will put it into its historical and literary contexts, imagining Anglo-Saxon readers as well as modern ones. Recommended for students who have completed ENGL 502.

English Courses From The Five Colleges

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 (2nd AM LIT), it means the course fulfills the second American Literature 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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MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

AMST 290-1 01 Topics in American Studies (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
A Portillo TTH 11:00-12:15
This course will examine nontraditional autobiographies such as testimonies, ethnographies, oral histories, and life stories. We will view documentaries and read literature by Latinas and Native American women who challenge the notion of a monolithic national identity. We will also examine how women of color utilize "image-texts" to counter the confining categories of race, ethnicity, and class within their autobiographical works. We will explore further the relationship of testimonial writing to sociopolitical movements and activism by reading identity-based, feminist, multigenre anthologies. Authors may include Norma Cantú, Delfino Cuero, Cherríe Moraga, and Aurora Levins Morales.

ENGL 200-1 01 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
C Benfey TTH 11:00-12:15
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 200-2 02 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
P Berek MW 11:00-12:15

ENGL 200-3 03 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
D Weber MW 2:40-3:55

ENGL 200-4 04 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
The department TTH 1:15-2:30

ENGL 200-5 05 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
The department TTH 8:35-9:50

ENGL 210-1 01 The Development of Literature in English: Medieval through Commonwealth (PRE-1700 BRIT LIT)
F Brownlow MW 8:35-9:50
This introduction to English literary history focuses on works, authors, forms, conventions, and ideas in chronological order and historical setting. Readings include Beowulf, selections from The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a Shakespeare play, and selections from such authors as Malory, Spenser, Sidney, Marvell, Donne, and Milton.

ENGL 211-1 01 Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222)
E Hill MWF 10:00-10:50
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 241-1 01 American Literature II (2nd AM LIT)
E Young MW 11:00-12:15
A continuation of English 240, exploring U.S. literature from the Civil War to World War I. Will address the development of realism and naturalism and the beginnings of modernism, and explore literary redefinitions of race, gender, sexuality and class during this period. Authors may include Alcott, Chopin, Crane, Dreiser, Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson, DuBois, Sui-Sin Far, Gilman, Harper, James, Jewett, Stein, Twain, Wharton, and Whitman.

ENGL 300-1 01 Nonfiction Writing: Literary Journalism (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M Murphy M 7:00-10:00
This course will focus on writing nonfiction by using storytelling techniques: scene, dialogue, description, pacing, and time shifting. Students will study examples of the form in newspapers, magazines, and books. They will write short weekly exercises to practice technique and several in-depth stories, suitable for publication in magazines, journals, or newspapers.

ENGL 303-1 01 Short Story Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
S Grant T 1:00-3:50
This workshop is for students seriously engaged in writing short stories. Students will refine their technical skills, bringing particular attention to story structure and how it contains and conveys meaning. This class is for students eager to develop a writing practice and what Flannery O'Connor called the "habit of art." Extensive reading and writing required.

ENGL 304-1 01 Verse Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
R Shaw TH 1:00-3:50
This workshop allows students to explore traditional verse forms as well as to invent some of their own. Each meeting provides time for discussion not only of student work but of poetry of other periods and sensibilities.

ENGL 305-1 01 Writing Literature for Children (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C Demas F 10:00-12:30
A workshop focusing on writing for children at different age levels. Students will work on a variety of projects in fiction and nonfiction, and experiment with different styles, forms, and approaches. Weekly writing and editing assignments and selected readings of children's literature are required. The course includes guest lectures (which are open to the campus) and field trips.

ENGL 308-1 01 Methods of Discovery: Nonfiction and Fiction (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
S Grant TH 1:00-3:50
This course will look at the nonfiction and fiction of several celebrated writers. Specific attention will be paid to how writers deal with the same material in these different forms. Authors under consideration include: James Baldwin, J.M. Coetzee, Maxine Hong Kingston. Through these readings and through frequent exercises, we will explore nonfiction and fiction as different methods of discovery. Students will produce both nonfiction and fiction. Extensive reading and writing required.

ENGL 312-1 01 Four Kings: Shakespeare on Politics and Power (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F Brownlow M 1:00-3:50
A detailed study of four of Shakespeare's most successful history plays, King John, King Richard III, King Richard II, and King Henry IV, Part I, focused on the kind of political and social understanding these plays reflect, and drawing upon the original texts newly available online as well as filmed versions of the plays.

ENGL 313-1 01 Milton (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
E Hill MWF 11:00-11:50
A study of Milton's major works, both in poetry and prose, with particular attention to Paradise Lost.

ENGL 316-1 01 Topics in Medieval Literature: Forging the Ring (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C Collette TH 1:00-3:50
This course will study J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative creation of Middle Earth within the context of his extensive knowledge of philology and mythology, as well within the context of his participation in the Inklings, the literary group that also included C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It will discuss their theories of myth, literature, and fable, as well as their influence on twentieth-century understanding of medieval culture. Readings will include works of fiction and literary theory by all three authors, as well as secondary material.

ENGL 319-1 01 The English Language (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C Collette TTH 8:35-9:50
This course studies the various phases of the English language from Old English to the present day through readings in English prose and verse, public and private letters, as well as contemporary assessments of the language from different periods. Close attention to the social, political, and economic forces at play in the development of the language and on the present state of English as a global language.

ENGL 345-1 01 Studies in American Literature: Faulkner and Modern Southern Writing (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
R Shaw W 1:00-3:50
Studies of works, principally novels and short stories, by Southern writers from the 1930s on. Main emphasis is on Faulkner; others to be read may include Porter, Tate, Welty, O'Connor, Percy. We will end by reading Frazier's recently filmed novel Cold Mountain.

ENGL 348-1 01 Prison Writing (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
S Davis TH 1:00-3:50
In this course we will look at media and legal representations of prisoners and especially at the writing of prisoners themselves. Authors include Barbara Harlow, Jennifer Gonnerman, Mumia Abu-Jamal, George Jackson, and Salwa Bakr. Movies may include Dead Man Walking and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Some are castigated as rule breakers; structures are built for them, and in these realms men and women are cordoned off, envisioned and held separately in their transgressions--what stories emerge from the prisoners mouths? Do those stories challenge the deep architecture of the prisons themselves?

ENGL 356-1 01 Contemporary Black Poetry (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
N Nurhussein W 1:00-3:50
In this course, we will read texts by selected contemporary black poets. The course will be driven by a close examination of how formal experimentation in black poetry has evolved over the last two decades, and of how some writers are redefining the boundaries of African American poetry by asserting the significance of neglected literary predecessors. Readings will include poetry and critical essays by Harryette Mullen, Renee Gladman, Kevin Young, Mark McMorris, and others.

ENGL 359-1 01 The Victorian Novel: "Because It's There" (BRIT LIT 1700-1900) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
V Ellis MW 1:15-2:30
Study of some central novels of the period, with emphasis on their various ways of engaging the massive social, political, religious, aesthetic, early feminist, imperial conflicts and questions of the time, and of transforming these issues into art still worth reading. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton; Charles Dickens, Hard Times and Bleak House; George Eliot, Middlemarch; Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Supplementary readings in critical theory, and novels by Charlotte Bronte, Thackeray, Wilde, Stoker.

ENGL 360-1 01 Readings in Contemporary Fiction: The Neo-Victorian Novel (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W Quillian TTH 1:15-2:30
A study of post-World War II fiction focusing on the neo-Victorian novel. Beginning with John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, the course will examine ways in which late twentieth-century novelists explore the conventions and subjects of Victorian fiction. In addition to Fowles, the course will explore works by such writers as Graham Swift, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Sarah Waters, and Jasper Forde. Students electing this course should have done previous work in Victorian literature in such courses as English 230, 321, or 323. Students should also have read Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, two archetypal works of Victorian fiction.

ENGL 363-1 01 Postcolonial Studies: Alienation and Creativity after Global Capital (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
S Ahmed W 1:00-3:50
In its attempt to gain monopolistic control of the spheres of economics, politics, and culture, capital turns people into its instruments. In response, postcolonial works continually ask, what must people recover if they are to regain a full sense of their humanity? This class will explore a series of increasingly anarchic responses: the means of production; the pleasure of destruction; forms of consciousness so primitive that they have left only traces on our memory; and the right to desire and produce without regard to any organizing principle. Marxism, psychoanalysis, fiction, and film from Europe, Africa, the Arab World, and South Asia.

ENGL 365-1 01 In and Around Tom Stoppard (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M Salter M 1:00-3:50
An intensive study of the playwright considered by many to be the greatest living dramatist in English. As Stoppard's plays often incorporate responses to other writers, we will include readings in Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, A.E. Housman, etc. Plays by Stoppard will include, among others, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Invention of Love, and his recent trilogy, The Coast of Utopia.

ENGL 369-1 01 Women Writing Diaspora: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M Stephens T 1:00-3:50
A very broad cross-section of authors today use the term "diaspora" to describe their sense of community. This seminar will explore how women are situated, and situate themselves, within this discourse. How has the "woman of color" become the very figure for diaspora? To explore this question we will focus on the literature and poetry of Afro-Caribbean, African American, South Asian, and Asian American writers.

ENGL 370-1 01 The Caribbean in American Culture (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M Stephens M 1:00-3:50
This seminar uses the interdisciplinary methods of American studies to explore the role migrants from the English-speaking Caribbean have played in the United States. We will examine Caribbeans' images of themselves in literature and popular culture to understand the various ways they have (re)defined what it means to be "American" and "African American" in the twentieth century. A major theme will be the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in Caribbean American identity. North American perceptions and constructions of the Caribbean will also be central. Readings include Lorde, Hughes, Hurston, Marshall, and Cliff.

ENGL 374-1 01 Hitchcock and After (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
E Young W 1:00-3:50 M 7:00-9:00
This course will examine the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the afterlife of Hitchcock in contemporary U.S. culture. We will interpret Hitchcock films in a variety of theoretical frames, including feminist and queer theories, and in historical contexts including the Cold War. We will also devote substantial attention to the legacy of Hitchcock in remakes, imitations, and parodies. Hitchcock films may include Spellbound, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Mamie, and The Birds; additional works by Brooks, Craven, De Palma, and Sherman. Readings in film and cultural theory; screenings at least weekly.

ENGL 378-1 01 Studies in American Literature: Movements in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C Benfey T 1:00-3:50
This seminar will examine the leading ideas and poetic practice of four literary movements: the Agrarian writers of the American South; the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Mountain poets; the Beat writers. Among the poets we will read are John Crowe Ransom, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, and Gary Snyder. We will also give attention to related developments in the visual arts, dance, and music.

FREN 220-1 01 French Studies in English Translation (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C LeGouis / P Scotto T 1:00-3:50
Dostoevsky as a transformative moment in European literature. French literature exerted a profound influence on Dostoevsky and was in turn inspired by him in the twentieth century. We will read Dostoevsky, his French sources, and his French followers. Themes examined will include: the human propensity for violence, cruelty, and rebellion; the possibility or impossibility of redemption; the renewal of French realism by Dostoevsky, the reappropriation of Dostoevsky by the French existentialists, and Dostoevsky's contribution to the French roman policier.

MEDST 300-1 01 Seminar in Medieval Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
C Collette TTH 1-3:50
This course will study J.R.R. Tolkein's imaginative creation of Middle Earth within the context of his extensive knowledge of philology and mythology, as well as within the context of his participation in the Inklings, the literary group that also included C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. It will discuss their theories of myth, literature, and fable, as well as their influence on twentieth-century understanding of medieval culture. Reading will include works of fiction and literary theory by all three authors, as well as secondary material. Same as English 316.

SMITH COLLEGE

AAS 237 1 01 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT)
M W F 10:00-10:50
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. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

AMS 351 1 01 Seminar: Writing About American Society (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Colt, George TH 01:00-02:50
Same as ENG 384. An examination of contemporary American issues through the works of such literary journalists as Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Jessica Mitford; and intensive practice in expository writing to develop the student's own skills in analyzing complex social issues and expressing herself artfully in this form. May be repeated with a different instructor and with the permission of the Director of the Program. Enrollment limited. Admission by permission of the instructor.

CLT 268 1 01 Latina and Latin American Women Writers (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Sternbach, Nancy T TH 10:30-11:50
This course examines the last twenty years of Latina writing in this country while tracing the Latin American roots of many of the writers. Constructions of ethnic identity, gender, Latinidad, "race," class, sexuality, and political consciousness are analyzed in light of the writers' coming to feminism. Texts by Esmeralda Santiago, Gloria Anzalda, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Denise Chavez, Demetria Martanez, and many others are included in readings that range from poetry and fiction to essay and theatre. Knowledge of Spanish is not required, but will be useful. First-year students must have the permission of the instructor.

CLT 305 1 01 Studies in the Novel: Novels about Novels (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Jones, Ann M W F 11:00-12:10
Topics course: A study of early and late "metafictions," short stories and novels that call attention to their status as invented narratives. The text as literary voyage and mutating artifact, the writer as character: (liar, clown, lunatic, editor, parodist, schizophrenic, mysterious androgyne), the reader as dupe, ally or lover. Texts by Lucian, Sterne, Nabokov, Drabble, Lessing, Calvino and Winterson.

CLT 306 1 01 Sonnets and Sequences (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Jones, Ann M W 02:40-04:00
Celebrated for "its mystical and mathematical beauty," the sonnet has also been dismissed as "a greenhouse poetry detached from the mass of people." We will study how this lyric form has changed from fourteenth-century Italy to the present, and how single sonnets have been woven into longer sequences on topics including love, religion, war, politics, and poetry itself. Writers will include Petrarch, Laba, Sidney, Colonna, Juan de la Cruz, Baudelaire, Berryman, Cullen, Brooks, Rich and Hacker. Prerequisite: a college-level course in literature. Useful but not required: a modern foreign language or a previous course in poetry.

CLT 340 1 01 Problems in Literary Theory (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Botta, Anna T 03:00-04:50
A final seminar required of senior majors, designed to explore one broad issue (e.g., exile, the body and writing, self-portraiture and gender) defined at the end of the Fall semester by the students themselves. Prerequisites: GLT 291 and CLT 300, or permission of the instructor.

CLT 355 1 01 Consuming Passions: Eating/Reading (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Procaccini, Alfonso T TH 01:10-02:30
From Plato's Symposium on, feasting, eating-drinking and talking have been considered intrinsically related, corresponding to a long tradition of blending food with knowledge. Reading is likewise associated with eating, an activity of ingesting/digesting/indigestion, thus an act of consumption: we savor books; we devour articles; we hunger for knowledge, we ruminate ideas, we relish thoughts; we nourish the mind and the spirit; we feed our egos and even our computers!. Food has been an essential ingredient for nourishing the imagination, serving many writers to express personal aesthetic tastes as well as reflecting specific cultural values. The course will offer a smorgasbord of readings in order to savor the various symbolic meanings that food and eating generate and that are generated by a literary text. Authors include Plato, Petronius, Apuleius, Augustine, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Flaubert, Ibsen, Mann, Proust, and Woolf. Texts will be supplemented by some film viewings, and at the end with a real "literary" meal!

EAL 360 1 01 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: The Tale of Genji and Its Legacy (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Rohlich, Thomas T 01:00-04:00
Topics course: The seminar will begin with a reading and study of The Tale of the Genji, one of the greatest works of Japanese literature. We will look at the cultural and societal milieu of the author, as well as the textual features that mark it as an icon of Japanese culture today. We will also look at ways in which the Genji is represented in later texts--plays, parodies, and modern short stories and novels--as a way of examining both the question of influence and the role that the Genji plays in the literature of later generations. All readings are in English translation.

EDC 336 1 01 Seminar: The Teaching of Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Intrator, Samuel TH 07:00-09:30
Young people have a deep desire to represent their experience through writing. They write because they want to understand their lives. They write to persuade others, express what they know, and create beauty through their words. This course provides an overview of the approaches, theories, and issues central to the teaching of writing in the K-12 classroom and, in particular, middle school and elementary classroom. We will examine approaches to teaching writing that have utility across the disciplines and modes of writing including poetry, expository, academic, narrative and multimedia writing. Not open to first-year students.

ENG 199 1 01 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)
Oram, William M W F 11:00-12:10
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 2 02 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)
Skarda, Patricia T TH 01:00-02:20

ENG 199 3 03 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)
Millington, Richard T TH 03:00-04:20

ENG 201 1 01 The English Literary Tradition II (BRIT LIT 1700-1900)
Pearsall, Cornelia M W 11:00-12:20
A study of the English literary tradition from the nineteenth century to modern times.

ENG 201 2 02 The English Literary Tradition II (BRIT LIT 1700-1900)
Gilleman, Luc T TH 10:30-11:50

ENG 213 1 01 Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222)
Oram, William M W F 09:00-09:50
The course will explore the characteristic concerns and techniques of Shakespearean drama. Plays will include histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances; in 2004-05 eight plays will be chosen from among Richard III, Julius Caesar, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Film versions of many plays will be shown. This course does not satisfy the English Department's major author requirement. Prerequisite: one college-level English course or permission of the instructor.

ENG 221 1 01 Reading the Landscape (2nd AM LIT)
Flower, Dean T TH 09:00-10:20
A study of the ways in which language and literature inscribe the landscape, shaping as well as being shaped by it. Discussion of such problematic issues as wilderness mythology, modern ecology, non-intervention theories, ecofeminism, nativist perspectives, and the eye as designer. Emphasis on American essays, poems, and narratives written in the aftermath of Rachel Carsonâcs Silent Spring, including works by Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, and Gretel Ehrlich, but with some attention to 19th century nature writers like Cooper, Audubon, Thoreau and Mary Austin whose works are now seen to address modern ecological issues. At least one field trip. Open to non-majors.

ENG 236 1 01 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT)
Lamothe, Daphne M W F 10:00-10:50
Same as AAS 237. 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. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

ENG 237 1 01 Recent American Writing (2nd AM LIT)
Flower, Dean M W 02:40-04:00
Study of selected novelists and short story writers since 1945 with emphasis on Welty, Nabokov, Morrison, Stone, Simpson, Tyler, Jen, Smiley, and others.

ENG 239 1 01 American Journeys (2nd AM LIT)
Millington, Richard T TH 01:00-02:20
A study of American narratives, from a variety of ethnic traditions and historical eras, that explore the meanings of the forms of movement "immigration, migration, boundary crossing" so characteristic of American life. Emphasis on each author's treatment of the complex encounter between new or marginalized Americans and an established American culture, and on definitions or interrogations of what it might mean to be or become "American."

ENG 254 1 01 English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Kendall, Gillian T TH 01:00-02:20
The evolution and interplay of structure, theme, and character in plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, particularly in genres such as the tragedy of blood and the city comedy. Authors to include Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Tourneur, Dekker, Ford. One play by Shakespeare will also be examined.

ENG 255 1 01 Seventeenth-Century Poetry (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Kendall, Gillian T TH 09:00-10:20
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 257 1 01 Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Seelig, Sharon T TH 10:30-11:50
Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale. Not open to first-year students.

ENG 260 1 01Milton (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Seelig, Sharon M W F 10:00-10:50
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 267 1 01 Introduction to Asian American Literature (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Cheung, Floyd T TH 01:00-02:20
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 283 1 01 Victorian Medievalism (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Bradbury, Nancy M W 01:10-02:30
Nineteenth-century revivals and transformations of medieval literature, arts, and social institutions; the remaking of the Middle Ages in the image of Victorian desires and aspirations. Arthurian legend in medieval and nineteenth-century England, the Gothic revival in British art and architecture, the cult of Chaucer, controversies over women's education, and the idealization of medieval communities in Victorian social theory.

ENG 292 1 01 Reading and Writing Autobiography (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Boutelle, Ann T 01:00-02:50
In this workshop, we will explore, through reading and through writing, the presentation of self in autobiography. A major focus will be on the interweaving of voice, structure, style, and content. As we read the work of ourselves and of others, we will be searching for strategies, devices, rhythms, patterns, and approaches that we might adapt in future writings. The reading list will consist of writings by twentieth-century women. Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 295 1 01 Poetry Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Wilner, Eleanor W 07:00-10:00
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 296 1 01 Writing Short Stories (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Bauer, Douglas M 07:30-09:30
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 330 1 01 Seminar: Studies in 20th Century Literature: Postwar British Culture (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Gilleman, Luc T 03:00-04:50, TH 07:30-09:30
Artistic and critical concerns generated by the Welfare State. Readings from critical and social theory, drama, fiction. Discussion of documentary and feature films. Weekly evening screenings required.

ENG 333 1 01 Seminar: A Major British or American Writer: Henry James (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Gorra, Michael T 03:00-04:50
Topics course

ENG 350 1 01 Seminar: Literature, Folklore and Fakelore (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Bradbury, Nancy TH 03:00-04:50
This seminar asks how and why writers have collected, published, adapted, and fabricated oral traditions. Readings include theoretical backgrounds; field studies of living traditions; historical scholarship on the collection of folktales and ballads (including scandals and forgeries); and powerful literary recreations of legends, folktales, and folksongs.

ENG 382 1 01 Advanced Short Story Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Bauer, Douglas T 01:00-02:50
This is a course designed for serious readers and writers of fiction. Students should have (a) satisfactorily completed ENG 296 or (b) been working in a comparably committed fashion on their own. We will be closely critiquing the students own writing and examining the technique of published work by accomplished contemporary fiction writers. Admission by permission of the instructor. Writing sample required.

ENG 384 1 01 Seminar: Writing About American Society (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Colt, George TH 01:00-02:50
Same as AMS 351. An examination of contemporary American issues through the works of such literary journalists as Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Jessica Mitford; and intensive practice in expository writing to develop the student's own skills in analyzing complex social issues and expressing herself artfully in this form. May be repeated with a different instructor and with the permission of the Director of the Program. Enrollment limited. Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 490 1 01 Teaching Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Scheer, Samuel 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. MAT students and Seniors only.

FRN 320 1 01 Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Women Writers of the Middle Ages (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Doss-Quinby, Eglal M W 09:00-10:20
Topics course: Women Writers of the Middle Ages. What genres did women practice in the Middle Ages and in what way did they transform those genres for their own purposes? What access did women have to education and to the works of other writers, male and female? To what extent did women writers question the traditional gender roles of their society? How did they represent female characters in their works and what do their statements about authorship reveal about their understanding of themselves as writing women? What do we make of anonymous works written in the feminine voice? Reading will include the love letters of Haloise, the lais and fables of Marie de France, the songs of the trobairitz and women trouvares, and the writings of Christine de Pizan.

FRN 360 1 01 Topics in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Literature: Literature of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Mensah, Patrick T 03:00-04:50, W 07:30-09:30
Course description pending.

KOR 351 1 01 Advanced Readings in Korean Language and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Chung, Yoon-suk M W 07:30-09:00
This course further develops advanced reading, writing and speaking skills through original literary texts in Korean. Students will read a wide selection of the most representative modern Korean literary works (including short stories, novellas, excerpts of novels, essays, poetry, and plays) by well-known Korean writers. Class will be conducted in Korean. Prerequisite: 350 or permission of the instructor.

POR 380 1 01 Advanced Literary Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Cutler, Charles T TH 03:00-04:30
Same as SPN 380. Topic: Translating Poetry. A close reading and translation to English of major poets from Spanish America, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Hands-on, practice of translation, with some theory. The first half of the course will be a group exploration of often-translated poets: Neruda, Lorca, Pessoa, Drummond de Andrade, Cecalia Meireles, and others; the second half will allow for independent work on a favorite poet which will be part of a final course compilation. Visits from local poet-translators; attendance at poetry readings required. Prerequisites: a good command of Spanish or Portuguese and a background in Spanish/Spanish American or Portuguese-Brazilian literatures. An interest in creative writing desirable. Discussion in English.

RUS 338 1 01 Seminar: Studies in Language and Literature: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Woronzoff-Dashkoff, Catherine W 07:30-09:30
Advanced study of a major Russian literary text.: Discussion, conversation, oral reports, papers. Prerequisite: 332 or permission of the instructor.

SPN 380 1 01 Advanced Literary Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Cutler, Charles T TH 03:00-04:30
Same as POR 380. Topic: Translating Poetry. A close reading and translation to English of major poets from Spanish America, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Hands-on, practice of translation, with some theory. The first half of the course will be a group exploration of often-translated poets: Neruda, Lorca, Pessoa, Drummond de Andrade, Cecalia Meireles, and others; the second half will allow for independent work on a favorite poet which will be part of a final course compilation. Visits from local poet-translators; attendance at poetry readings required. Prerequisites: a good command of Spanish or Portuguese and a background in Spanish/Spanish American or Portuguese-Brazilian literatures. An interest in creative writing desirable. Discussion in English.

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CS 0133 African/American Cognitive Science Fiction (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Jaime Davila, Amy Jordan TTH 10:30-11:50
This course will explore the cognitive science fiction written by African American writers in the U.S. and the Caribbean, with close attention paid to the way their writing differs from that of writers of other backgrounds. By the time the course is completed, students will have read and investigated topics of relevance to both the school of Cognitive Science and the School of Social Science. Among the subjects to be discussed through this process are artificial intelligence, computer networks, psychology, philosophy, evolution, linguistics, folk culture, and historical memory. This is a core course in the Culture, Brain and Development Program.

HACU 0163 Nature, Naturalists & Writers (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Kenneth Hoffman MWF 09:00-10:20
As our culture has become increasingly urbanized, a corresponding literature has evolved in which nature is viewed as our true home, a place where a profound serenity of a kind unavailable in the human world may be experienced. In earlier times, nature may have had a forbidding, even threatening aspect, or the natural world may have appeared to be something needing to be totally under the control of human forces. We will explore these changing views through the literature of different periods. In reading the works of Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Burroughs from the 19th century up through contemporary writers such as Krutch, Ammons, Lopez, Momaday, McPhee, Dillard, Ehrlich, Eiseley, and Piercy we will explore this transition from earlier views of nature. Four papers are required.

HACU 0169 Exile and Immigration Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Lily Chiu MW 01:00-02:20
The global shift in ethnic populations has never been as strongly felt as in the 20th century. This course will examine the effects of decolonization, displacement and diaspora upon the individual by studying the literature of exile and immigration in the last century. Among the questions we will explore are: What is the function of translation--both linguistic and cultural--in these texts? How do those in exile deal with nostalgia and/or the inability to truly return to their native country? How do they negotiate an identity between their ethnic culture and the dominant culture of the adopted home? How do they use narrative and language to describe this intersection of cultures? What are the effects on the intergenerational gap between immigrants and their children? Authors studied will include Eva Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Linda Le, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Leila Sebbar.

HACU 0170 Literature/Culture American Jewish Activism (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Rachel Rubinstein TTH 12:30-01:50
From the Yiddish sweatshop poets to Allen Ginsberg and Gloria Steinem, Eastern European immigrant labor union organizers to Queer Jews, Jews in America have often been in the vanguard of social change and radical culture. Is there anything in Jewish religious tradition that has helped to create a modern, secular culture of activism? How have Jewish writers expressed new, radical American identities? How have Jewish authors spurred reform through imaginative writing? What was the American Jewish creative participation in and response to such twentieth century phenomena as industrialization and labor reform, communism and anti-communism, racial violence and civil rights, gender inequities and women's rights? We will read novels and poetry, autobiography and reportage, in our exploration of American Jewish radicals and reformers of the last and current centuries.

HACU 0193 American Literary Modernism (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Eric Schocket MW 10:30-11:50
This advanced 100 level course is designed to introduce Division I students and literature concentrators to the various literary movements that comprise American modernism. Beginning with Gertrude Stein's early experiments with narration and ending with the cultural conservatism of the World War II era, we will examine assorted attempts to achieve textual innovation with an eye towards assessing their aesthetic and political successes and limitations. Readings are likely to include works by Stein, Eliot, Hemingway, Toomer, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hurston, West and Wright.

HACU 0194 Psychoanalysis and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Mary Russo MW 10:30-11:50
This course examines the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature by focusing on Freud's concept of the uncanny as it appears in his famous essay of the same name and as it emerges in literary examples in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Freud himself drew on the work of E.T.A. Hoffman's whose Sandman features mysterious strangers, a mechanical doll, family romance, and madness. In the course of the semester we will read Hoffman's story, The Sandman, Dostoevsky's The Double, Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and selected fiction by Angela Carter. In addition, we will examine the aesthetic categories related to the uncanny, such as the grotesque, the horrific and the abject and trace the development of genres like the gothic and the ghost story in literature and film.

HACU 0237 Mysterious Powers in 19-Century Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Jeffrey Wallen TTH 10:30-11:50
The fear of being under the influence of someone or something else is widespread in late 19th-century literature. In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde writes: All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view, whereas Nietzsche speculates about what it might mean for the most astonishing works to have an influence in the true sense--an influence on life and action. In this course we will read works that explore being under the influence of drugs, of mesmerism and hypnotism, of art, of education, or of an unknowable other. Readings will include works by the following authors: Baudelaire, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Guy de Maupassant, Nietzsche, and Freud.

HACU 0238 Myths of American (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Rachel Rubinstein TTH 10:30-11:50
This course investigates the imaginative, mythic, historical, and aesthetic meanings of America, from its earliest incarnations through the mid-nineteenth century, and the ways in which the national imaginary has continually been challenged, shaped and pressured by the presence of radical and marginal groups and individuals. We will read both major and unfamiliar works of the colonial, revolutionary, early republic and antebellum years, and examine how these works embody, envision, revise, and respond to central concepts and tropes of national purpose and identity. Our conversations will address the spiritual and religious underpinnings of American nationhood; exploration, conquest, and nature; notions of individualism, progress, improvement, and success; race, ethnicity, class, and gender; alternative nationalisms and communities. This course is ideal for students seeking to ground and fortify their study of nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, history and culture.

HACU 0267 Lynching as Topic-Modern Poetry (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Milton Welch MW 10:30-11:50
In this course we analyze the crucial link of different forms of modernist poetry to lynching, both of which crescendo roughly simultaneously: 1890-1930. Selectively ranging literature, theory, and history; primary and secondary sources; white and black modernist poets; we will read and discuss: 1) accounts, explanations, and theories of lynching; 2) what modernist poetry reveals about lynching, and vice versa. We will also pay some attention to lynch-poems by later poets influenced by this modernist treatment of the theme. All of the works in this course either directly or indirectly involve lynching and such related themes as racial identity, group violence, and interracial desire. Poets will include T.S. Eliot, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Allen Tate. Authors of critical and secondary readings include Orlando Patterson, Ida B. Wells, Jacqueline Goldsby, Anne Douglas, and Michael North among others. Some previous experience with poetry recommended.

HACU 0276 Postcolonial Theory & Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Lily Chiu MW 10:30-11:50
This course will examine British and French colonial systems and the theory and literature that were produced by the natives as a result of that colonization. We will study theory and literature by writers and intellectuals from formerly colonized nations in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, Ireland, and Indochina, who are now living and writing in Britain or France. Among the issues we will address in this course are nation, exile, immigration, deracination, gender, cultural and linguistic translation, imaginary homelands, and questions of race, ethnicity, authenticity, hybridity and identity. Authors and theorists studied will include Homi Bhabha, Ken Bugul, Aime Cesaire, Rey Chow, Frantz Fanon, Jamaica Kincaid, Albert Memmi, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak.

HACU 0283 19th-Century Novel & British Empire (BRIT LIT 1700-1900) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Lise Sanders MW 10:30-11:50
This course uses the British Empire as a case study in order to examine the cultural politics of imperialism and colonization. Focusing on British India but with excursions into other colonial contexts, readings will explore the connections between race, gender, sexuality and empire. In reading nineteenth-century literary and historical texts in conjunction with postcolonial criticism and contemporary fiction, we will ask the following questions: How does the imperialist project affect or determine constructions of sexuality and gender? How are ethnicity, nationality, and racial difference deployed in the service of empire? How is the body figured under imperialism? We will also study the relationship between empire and nationalism, examining writings that represent and/or theorize domination and resistance in the colonial encounter. Readings will include novels by Austen, Bronte, Haggard, Schreiner, Kipling, and Forster and criticism by Bhabha, Said, and Spivak, among others. The goal of this course is to enable students to explore the relationship between literature and history in narratives of empire, and to develop a set of theoretical tools by which to examine these concerns.

HACU 0288 Shakespeare and Woolf (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
L. Brown Kennedy TTH 02:00-03:20
Lovers and mad men have such shaping phantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends. (A Midsummer Night's Dream) In the first part of the course we will read Shakespeare (five plays) and in the latter part Virginia Woolf (four novels and selected essays). Our main focus will be on the texts, reading them from several perspectives and with some attention to their widely different literary and cultural assumptions. However, one thread tying together our work on these two authors will be their common interest in the ways human beings lose their frames of reference and their sense of themselves in madness, lose and find themselves in love or in sexuality, and find or make both self and world in the shaping act of the imagination. The method of the course will include directed close reading, discussion, and periodic lectures. Three to four pieces of student writing are expected; the course is open to second semester students by permission.

HACU 0298 Critical Cultural Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Mary Russo M 02:30-05:20
This course will focus on the writings of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in twentieth-century cultural theory and criticism: Roland Barthes. Barthes' career provides a map of late 20th-century thinking on language, culture, subjectivity, and writing from structuralism to autobiographical criticism. Works like Image/Music/Text, Mythologies, and his famous treatise on photography, Camera Lucida, provide interesting and varied models of critical and autobiographical writing, as well. Students will gain experience in applying different styles and modes of approaching art, popular culture, autobiography and everyday life.

IA 0152 Mysterious Fiction/Secrets (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Nathalie Arnold TTH 10:30-11:50
Why are secrets so fascinating? Is every story a mystery at heart? When should the hidden remain hidden, or all truths be told? This introductory course assumes that managing the tension between the said and the unsaid can be central to any story's success. We will read stories about different styles of secrets: family secrets, unsolved secrets, terrible secrets and different kinds of characters who keep, reveal, and actively seek to discover secrets their own or those of others. Inventing and writing about various types of secrets, class members will acquire skills for balancing the hidden and the known in stories of their own. Through active reading, focused writing exercises, analytical responses, and short fiction assignments, students will learn to: create believable characters who keep, discover, or spill secrets; and write effective scenes in which the implications of a secret are felt but not told, as well as convincing depictions of secrets revealed. Possible Readings: Aimee Bender, Truman Capote, Angela Carter, Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, Shirley Jackson, Jhampu Lahiri, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Barbara Vine.

IA 0172 Writing the Memoir (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Constance Kelly MW 01:00-02:20
This kind of writing takes many forms: there are memoirs of travel, of place, of vocation, of coming of age, of ethnicity, of overcoming adversity, etc. The categories often overlap. In this course the students will read the work of top memoirists and write memoirs of their own. By the end of the term, they'll have produced at least thirty pages of material. Among the available options will be one extended memoir produced in three installments or three separate shorter memoirs. Subjects for these works will be of the student's choosing. The format for the course will be some lecture (initially) and then a workshop in which members of the class will present drafts of their memoirs for discussion and critique.

IA 0206 Writing A Child's Voice/Theater (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Natalie Sowell, Ellen Donkin MW 10:30-11:50
In the first part of the semester, we will look at how children are portrayed in a series of plays written for adult audiences, including plays by Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Lorraine Hansberry, Lynn Nottage, and Naomi Wallace. How do we define children in these plays? How do we determine if the character of the child feels authentic? In what ways do we observe that child characters in plays from other countries are conceived very differently? We will then shift gears into exploring the child protagonist in theatre for young audiences. We have chosen two plays in particular, one by Suzan Zeder and the other by James Still, which will form the centerpieces of our discussion and exercise work in and out of class. What does it mean to write for children, instead of writing about them? For the final project, students will be offered a choice of several pieces of literature. They will be asked to adapt one of these pieces into a carefully edited and revised scene for dramatic presentation, either for adults or for children. In the final days of the course, students will be expected to collaborate with one another on informal staged readings of each piece.

IA 0251 Intermediate Poetry Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Paul Jenkins TH 12:30-03:20
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 0277 Strategies for Fiction Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Nathalie Arnold W 06:30-09:20
Why are no two fiction-writers exactly alike? Why do some stories make us anxious, while others elicit terror, comfort, or love? Why do we sense that some writers write 'coolly,' or 'sharply,' and others 'lushly' or 'lyrically?' Through close readings of highly varied works, we will identify, and practice using, very specific techniques that operate at the level of the sentence, but reverberate in paragraphs and pages to form a work's general 'sensibility.' Seeking to understand how certain effects can be achieved through conscious management of language, we will explore matters of diction, rhythm, sentence length, punctuation, and the use of different tenses; we will also consider the relationship between writers' thematic concerns and the strategies they use. Through focused imitations, in-class exercises, and intensive peer critiques, participants in this workshop will acquire a facility for discussing the stylistic elements of their own, and each others' writerly sensibilities. Participants must come to the first class with a 2-page sample of their own writing. Possible Readings: John Banville, Don Delillo, Laurence Durrell, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Julio Cortazar, Jean Genet, Nadine Gordimer, Abdulrazzak Gurnah, Shelley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Grace Paley, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, William Sebold, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Virginia Woolf.

IA 0399 Advanced Seminar Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Lynne Hanley, Paul Jenkins T 12:30-03:20
This course is a workshop for students doing independent projects in writing poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction. Participants are expected to present work in progress, to read and write critiques of their classmates' work, and to participate in class discussions. Both students and the instructors will assign readings for the class as a whole, and students should expect to read a wide range of published work in a number of different genres. This course is open to Division III IA (Interdisciplinary Arts) concentrators in creative writing.

NS 0163 Nature Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Kenneth Hoffman MWF 09:00-10:20
As our culture has become increasingly urbanized, a corresponding literature has evolved in which nature is viewed as our true home, a place where a profound serenity of a kind unavailable in the human world may be experienced. In earlier times, nature may have had a forbidding, even threatening aspect, or the natural world may have appeared to be something needing to be totally under the control of human forces. We will explore these changing views through the literature of different periods. In reading the works of Muir, Emerson, Thoreau, Burroughs from the 19th century up through contemporary writers such as Krutch, Ammons, Lopez, Momaday, McPhee, Dillard, Ehrlich, Eiseley, and Piercy we will explore this transition from earlier views of nature. Four papers are required.

SS 0133 African/American Cognitive Science Fiction (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Amy Jordan, Jaime Davila TTH 10:30-11:50
This course will explore the cognitive science fiction written by African American writers in the U.S. and the Caribbean, with close attention to the way their writing differs from that of writers of other backgrounds. By the time the course is completed, students will have read and investigated topics of relevance to both the school of Cognitive Science and the School of Social Science. Among the subjects to be discussed through this process are artificial intelligence, computer networks, psychology, philosophy, evolution, linguistics, folk culture, and historical memory. This is a core course in the Culture, Brain, and Development Program.

SS 0255 Writing About the Outdoors (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Robert Rakoff, William Ryan TTH 12:30-01:50
This seminar will explore contrasting approaches to writing about the outdoors. We will read and critique a number of genres including traditional nature writing, travel accounts, creative nonfiction, fiction, and academic analyses. We will pay particular attention to narrative choices and the role of the narrator as well as to the use of landscape description, scientific language, and other vehicles for constructing ideas of nature. Our analytical focus will be on the social and cultural origins of both mainstream and critical views of the human presence in the nature world. We will use these readings both as models of good writing and as contributions to the rich discourse about people in the outdoors. These readings will also help us develop some criteria for peer review of written work. There will be regular writing assignments, and students will be expected to contribute to class discussion and group critique in an informed and constructive manner. This course is best suited to Division II and III students in environmental studies and creative nonfiction writing. Instructor permission.

WP 0255 Writing About the Outdoors (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
William Ryan, Robert Rakoff TTH 12:30-01:30
This seminar will explore contrasting approaches to writing about the outdoors. We will read and critique a number of genres including traditional nature writing, travel accounts, creative nonfiction, fiction, and academic analyses. We will pay particular attention to narrative choices and the role of the narrator as well as to the use of landscape description, scientific language, and other vehicles for constructing ideas of nature. Our analytical focus will be on the social and cultural origins of both mainstream and critical views of the human presence in the nature world. We will use these readings both as models of good writing and as contributions to the rich discourse about people in the outdoors. These readings will also help us develop some criteria for peer review of written work. There will be regular writing assignments, and students will be expected to contribute to class discussion and group critique in an informed and constructive manner. This course is best suited to Division II and III students in environmental studies and creative nonfiction writing. Instructor permission.