Undergraduate Courses (Spring 2006)
(Last updated: 11/16/05)

Please note that when a course is marked (Brit Lit 1700-1900), it means the course fulfills the British Literarue 1700-1900 English major requirement. Such courses offered this semester include ENGL 202 Major British Writers and ENGL 469 Victorian Monstrosity. In addition, some courses offered at the Five Colleges also fill this requirement.

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 391M Contemporary American Autobiography, ENGL 480 Anderson, Hemingway, Purdy, and ENGL 491H Honors Imagining Democracy. 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 469 Victorian Monstrosity, ENGL 491AA Utopias/Dystopias: Past and Present, ENGL 491GG History of Comedy, and ENGL 491X History of the Book.

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115-L1 American Experience (ALU) 55677
Instructor: S. Yoon 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) 55678
Instructor: E. Honey MWF 11:15 am

115-L3 American Experience (ALU) 55679
Instructor: A. Strohman MWF 9:05 am

115-L4 American Experience (ALU) 55729
Instructor: A. Dallmann T/Th 2:30 pm
Southwest Freshman Residents only.

115H-L1 Honors American Experience (ALU) 57102
Instructor: K. Cardozo-Kane T/Th 11:15 am
Commonwealth College Honors. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Commonwealth College only.

116-L1 Native American Literature (ALU) 57103
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 9:30 am
This course will introduce students to the literary culture of Indigenous North Americans by exploring examples of oral traditions, personal narratives, works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and works which defy neat categorization. Among the texts we will read N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and a novel, Power, by Linda Hogan, and we will view the film adaptation of the Thomas King novel, Medicine River. Expect to write a series of short essays, one of which will involve a research project, and a final exam. Texts will be available at Amherst Books.

117-L1 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 55680
Instructor: C. 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) 55748
Instructor: C. Vials MWF 11:15 am

120-L1 English Composition 55681
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 55682
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 55683
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

120-L4 English Composition 55684
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 12:20 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 55762
Instructor: C. Wilson 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) 55685
Instructor: M. Wilson T/Th 9:30 am

131-L3 Society and Literature (ALG) 55686
Instructor: R. Reginio MWF 10:10 am

131-L4 Society and Literature (ALG) 55746
Instructor: C. Monahan MWF 11:15 am

132-L1 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55687
Instructor: K. Elliot Squires MWF 9:05 am
This course investigates images of men and women in poetry, drama, and fiction. It aims at appreciat- ing 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 perspectives and relationships are imagined in literature?

132-L2 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55688
Instructor: K. Henry MWF 10:10 am

132-L3 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55689
Instructor: A. Higgins T/Th 9:30 am

132-L4 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55730
Instructor: S. Payne MWF 11:15 am

132-L5 Man and Woman in Literature (ALG) 55747
Instructor: L. Dush T/Th 2:30 pm
Southwest Freshman Residents only.

141-L1 Reading Poetry (AL) 55750
Instructor: D. Chelotti/A. Morgan MWF 11:15 am
An introduction to themes and forms of poetry through a reading of selected poems in English. Emphasis on such poetic techniques as word choice, imagery, and structure, and on such modes as the ballad, lyric, sonnet, ode, and dramatic monologue.

142-L1 Reading Drama (AL) 55764
Instructor: M. Faith T/Th 11:15 am
An introduction to themes and techniques of drama through a reading of selected plays. Emphasis on such matters as structure, style, staging, and tragic and comic modes.

144-L1 World Literature in English (ALG) 55751
Instructor: M. Bennett MWF 10:10 am
This course will examine world parables in drama. Drawing from playwrights around the world as diverse as Brecht, Soyinka, Ionesco, Genet, and Albee (to name a few), this course will investigate the intersection between two genres: parables and drama. We will first learn what a parable is and then how it is uniquely positioned in drama. This course analyzes the ways in which parables in drama pose a certain worldview and then work to dismantle that worldview, leaving the reader with the task of reordering reality and making sense of the world. Parables in drama explore the tenuous reality of the paradox of being and how the self is to function in a contradictory world.

144-L2 World Literature in English (ALG) 55752
Instructor: A. Carr T/Th 9:30 am

196 Independent Study 55690
Instructor: TBA TBA Contact department to add course.

200-L1 Seminar in Literary Studies 55691
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 9:30 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-L2 Seminar in Literary Studies 55692
Instructor: E. Gallo T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-’ or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L3 Seminar in Literary Studies 55693
Instructor: M. O'Brien 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-L4 Seminar in Literary Studies 55694
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this course we will become strong analysts of literary texts. We will do this by developing skills in close reading and by learning how to articulate arguments about aesthetic objects. We will work together to develop a set of key literary terms that will, over the course of the semester, become indispensable to us. They will include such concepts and constellations of concepts as: form vs. content, structure, discourse, history and historical context, irony and satire, symptom, critique. The course will span genres such as poetry, drama, novel, and short story, and will include contemporary noncanonical experimental authors – such as the science fiction writer Samuel Delany, the social ironist Laurie Weeks, and the prose poet Anne Carson – alongside canonical ones – such as Tennessee Williams, Alexander Pope, and George Orwell. Weekly writing assignments plus three papers. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-’ or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L5 Seminar in Literary Studies 55695
Instructor: K. Cardozo-Kane T/Th 2:30 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this introduction to the English major, we will read works emanating from various cultural and historical contexts in order to explore a range of questions: Who determines textual meaning—readers, writers, or both? For that matter, what counts as a “text?” In the throes of globalization, what is the relationship between literature and the nation, or between oral, visual, and written forms? In short, how do forms of expression and interpretation matter in the world? We will begin with a few comparative genre case studies, looking at how similar themes have been explored in different forms, and then concentrate primarily on poetry and the novel. Throughout, we will investigate the complicated relation between content and form, or politics and poetics, turning as needed to literary criticism and theory. Students will contribute to the ongoing discussion, write regularly in multiple forms, and participate in a small group project theorizing the aims and value of literary study. 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 55798
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course introduces new English majors to literary study by considering the basic questions that underlie what and how we read: what is literature, and what are its sources of pleasure and meaning? We will approach these questions through close study of genre and form, conventions, motives and methods of literary production, and strategies of interpretation. Because literature is much more than the sum of its parts, our major goal is to see how genre and literary conventions create reader expectations that are both a source of delight and also a source of complex meaning. We will examine several works in cultural and historical context to see how they are as much a product of culture as they are of an author. We will also look at some practical problems in making literature, from the differences between manuscript and print to the process of making (and selling) books, and from the editing of “standard” texts to how our literary canon was formed and how it is changing. Finally, we will consider what is at stake when we read, react, respond, and then write critically about literature. Readings: a selection of short lyric poems from the Renaissance to Frost, one play by Shakespeare in its cultural contexts, some American and European short stories, and three short novels (English and American). Requirements: regular informal reading responses, research exercises, critical summaries, and three essays (5-7 pages). 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 57106
Instructor: L. Doyle MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This is a 4-Credit Honors Course. An intensive seminar for Honors students planning to major in English. While honing skills in close reading and critical writing, we will explore broad questions about the nature of language, the activity of reading, and the dialectical nature of the artist/audience relationship. We will especially analyze theme and meaning as shaped by literary and cultural forms. To that end, we will study two or three different literary genre—poetry, fiction, and possibly memoir. We'll read a range of poets as well as novels. To handle this course, students' basic skills in writing and argumentation should be solid. Beyond that, a love of reading and an eagerness to analyze the power of literature in discussion and in writing will be most valuable. The course is writing-intensive with drafts and revisions. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-’ or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

201-L1 Major British Writers I 55731
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-L2 Major British Writers I 55732
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The period in English history spanning the 8th through the 17th centuries saw the development of the English language and with it a vast and varied literature that ranged from the Anglo-Saxon epic through Arthurian legends to English adaptations of Italian Renaissance verse. The tangled origins of English and England, along with political and religious upheavals, nourished a creative energy that culminated in the English Renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries and its distinctive experiments in verse, legend, and epic. This course surveys major authors and some authors now entering the canon of important works that have come to form the foundation of the English-language literary tradition. There will be three short essays and one longer final essay, mid-term and final exams, and frequent opportunities for small group discussion.

201-L3 Major British Writers I 57986
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
English TAP Freshman only.

201-L4 Major British Writers I 57987
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only.

201H-L1 Honors Major British Writers I 57108
Instructor: S. Harris T/Th 1:00 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 55696
Instructor: J. Rege T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. A survey of British poetry and prose, literary, social, and cultural movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Writers may include: Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Brontes, the Brownings, Tennyson, Mill, Dickens, Arnold, Hardy, Hopkins, Wilde. Requirements: regular short reading responses, a longer essay, and a final exam.

202-L2 Major British Writers 57110
Instructor: J. Rege T/Th 1:00 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL) 55697
Instructor: A. Zucker MW 1:25 pm
A survey that covers Shakespeare's entire career, from early, sensationally bloody works like Titus Andronicus to the meditative late plays like Cymbeline and The Tempest. Along the way, we'll investigate the language, the structure, and the elaborate plotting of some of the most famous (and infamous) works ever written in English. Special focus given to Shakespeare's revealing explorations of the interplay between family, political hierarchies, and sexuality; his interest in distant settings and peoples; and, perhaps most importantly, his attempts to dramatize the struggle of individuals to make sense of the worlds in which they live. Through careful reading and discussion, we will work towards an understanding of why plays that seem so removed from our day-to-day concerns have remained powerfully relevant for four hundred years. Two essays, a mid-term and a final exam. Attendance at lecture and consistent participation in discussion sections required. Discussion section required.

221-D1 Shakespeare (AL) 55698
Instructor: J. Mason F 10:10 am

221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) 55699
Instructor: J. Mason F 11:15 am

221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) 55700
Instructor: Y. Chung F 10:10 am

221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) 55701
Instructor: Y. Chung F 11:15 am

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 55702
Instructor: L. Yalen T/Th 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) 55703
Instructor: C. Hosea MWF 11:15 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 55753
Instructor: J. Link MWF 10:10 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 55704
Instructor: D. Carlin T/Th 9:30 am
"The old America, the America of our hopes and our dreams, has come to an end, and a new America is entering on the false course which has been tried so often and which has often led to calamity," wrote Harvard Professor Charles Eliot Norton in 1898, at that precise historical moment when the United States recast itself as an imperial global power with the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. A little over one century later, we are again faced with the questions of what kind of America we have become and what version of America we wish to embrace. Such questions have long animated much of American literature, and this course will spend its time examining how writers such as Jefferson, Wheatley, Crèvecouer, Franklin, Apess, Zitkala-Sa, Thoreau, Douglas, Whitman, Melville, Davis, DuBois, Chopin, Chesnutt, James, Bulosan, Sin Far, Brooks, Anzaldua, Cisneros, and Anna Deveare-Smith, among others, have given shape to multiple and diverse configurations of American selves through fiction, autobiography, poetry, political rhetoric and performance art. Students will meet three times a week, twice in large lectures and once in discussion sections. Lectures will be augmented with computer technology, both visual and interactive; attendance in both lectures and sections is mandatory and will be monitored. Students will also be required to purchase a PRS device in order to enhance interactive feedback in lectures. Our primary texts will be The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter sixth edition, and Anna Deveare-Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, available at Food For Thought Books in Amherst. Requirements: One 4-6 pp.essay, a midterm and a final examination. Discussion section is required.

270-D1 American Identities (AL) 57112
Instructor: C. Harris F 10:10 am

270-D2 American Identities (AL) 57113
Instructor: C. Harris F 11:15 am

270-D3 American Identities (AL) 57114
Instructor: J. Murr F 10:10 am

270-D4 American Identities (AL) 57115
Instructor: J. Murr F 11:15 am

270-D5 American Identities (AL) 57116
Instructor: S. Jiang F 10:10 am

270-D6 American Identities (AL) 57117
Instructor: S. Jiang F 11:15 am

272-L1 American Romanticism (2nd Am Lit) 57999
Instructor: M. Jensen MWF 10:10 am
The cultural life of 19th-century America in selected poetry and prose by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Cooper, Whitman, Poe, Melville, and Lincoln. Emphasis on the symbolic and ethical idealism of selected ante-bellum poetry and prose, and on the themes of Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, Jacksonian democracy, and slavery.

296 Independent Study 55705
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

297I Experimental Writing Workshop 55759
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. As we work through a range of genres (novels, multi-media, speeches, songs) we will critically interrogate and evaluate the process of writing collaboratively. Do too many authors spoil – or enhance – the text?

297K Experimental Writing Workshop 55812
Instructor: C. Burton/L. Dush Th 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Digital Storytelling. Inspired by the options for visual composition that software like I-Movie and Audacity provide we will explore storytelling through words, images, sounds, and video. We will compose our own 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.

297N Experimental Writing Workshop 58009
Instructor: T. Burke M 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. You are NOT a Hero: Writing the Memoir through Humor. Even the most tragic life experiences can be retold with humor, as demonstrated by writers such as David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs. Looking at different approaches to humorous nonfiction through the study of essays and memoirs, you will transform your own life experiences into humorous prose.

297P Experimental Writing Workshop 58008
Instructor: R. Habermeyer/A. Hellem W 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Unearthing Duende: Crafting the Art of Surreal Fiction. How do we capture the essence of surrealistic tendencies, and as writers, put them down on the page in such a manner as to transport the reader into new realities of the imagination? Learn the core components of what makes fiction and poetry “surreal.” Through analyzing writers and poets, classroom discussions, and active participation, you will develop creative outlets for crafting your own surreal fiction and poetry.

297Q Experimental Writing Workshop 58007
Instructor: J. Jamail/C. Cistulli T 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Sports Writing. Sports permeate our everyday life. The sports we choose to perform or comment on reveal something of our character and culture if for nothing else than because we choose them. Write about sports by taking on the roles of journalist, fiction writer, and cultural analyst. Imitate definitive texts and establish your own unique style while reflecting on the role sports play in society.

297R Experimental Writing Workshop 58006
Instructor: L. Bradshaw/R. Radhakrishnan T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Putting in Your 2¢: The Genre of Film Review. Develop the eye of a film critic. Through readings and extensive film screenings, you will become a critical viewer and reviewer of current and classic movies, learning to form and develop your own voice as both writer and critic.

297T Experimental Writing Workshop 58005
Instructor: E. Rafus T 3:30 – 6:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing for the Small Screen. An introduction to dramatic and visual writing, and the behind the scenes world of television. Learn the television writing process and the difference between writing for the small screen and writing that stays fixed on the page. Participants will collaboratively create a new television show that includes character backstory, an eight episode story arc, and a pilot episode.

297V Experimental Writing Workshop 58004
Instructor: A. Roberts T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Quick Fiction and The Prose Poem. Imagine squeezing a novel onto a postcard or a life’s story onto a single page. This imaginative writing course focuses on exploring the world of quick fiction under 500 words and its oxymoronic cousin, the prose poem. Using readings and generating your own writing using both forms of these genres , learn to develop your own power-packed, pint-sized prose and prose poetry.

298H Honors Practicum: Teaching in the Writing Center 57155
Instructor: M. Deal W 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Prerequisite: ENGL 297H. Second-semester follow-up to the first-semester tutoring seminar (ENGL 297H). Practicum consists of four-hours per week tutoring in the Writing Center and one-hour weekly meetings to discuss tutorials and supplementary readings, to write, and to work on committee projects. To add this course students must contact the Writing Program, 305 Bartlett Hall, 545-0610.

311-L1 Legends of Arthur 55771
Instructor: J. Adams T/Th 1:00 pm
Why does the legend of Arthur hold such a powerful grip on us? How did the legend start? And how has it changed over the years? These are the questions that will motivate us during our course. Our primary readings will focus on medieval texts that capture Arthur's story. These include writings by Nennius, Gildas, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Layamon, Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, and Thomas Malory. The last few weeks of the class will be devoted to modern versions of the legend as narrated by Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, and Donald Barthelme. Course requirements: two or three papers.

330-L1 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 55707
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. We will conduct close readings of selected literary works and write critical essays about them for this Junior-Year Writing Requirement. Proposed texts will include James Joyce's The Dead; three short fictions on a particular theme; a second novel; poetry, and a play. We will be discussing and practicing some critical theoretical strategies. Expect to submit essays about the texts in preliminary and final draft formats. Classroom participation is encouraged. Texts will be available at Food For Thought Books. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

330-L2 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 57118
Instructor: A. Diamond T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This course will be organized around a series of texts by American modernists Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer and Djuna Barnes. Alongside each text we will read a variety of critical essays. Students will become familiar with the overall historical arc of critical approaches as we move chronologically through the history of each text's reception and treatment by literary critics. While we will briefly survey early "evaluative" approaches, much of our secondary reading will be in criticism which works within and between the following critical discourses: Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, theories of race and gender and poststructuralism. Our critical and textual encounters will be in constant conversation; students will be expected to practice and apply these critical knowledges through concrete textual analysis. This course satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement. As such, students should expect to engage in weekly writing assignments as well as multiple draft longer papers. A high premium will also be placed on in-class presentations and participation in discussions. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

330-L3 Practical Criticism (Jr-Yr Writing) 57119
Instructor: J. Skerrett MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. This course presupposes some familiarity with a range of readings, but the core text is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which we will examine through various critical perspectives: psychological, sociological, and historical. We will examine some theories of literature and their critical methods, with frequent imitative exercises and a final paper in which you will be able to demonstrate sophisticated use of one of more of these critical approaches in the discussion of another novel. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

350-L1 Expository Writing 57120
Instructor: J. Hennessy T/Th 2:30 pm
In this section of English 350, Literary Non-Fiction, reading, writing, and workshop assignments will focus on the personal essay as well as the profile and other documentary forms. This course is designed for students who have a special interest in personal narratives, travel writing, nature writing, essay-reviews, and/or innovative approaches to feature writing.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 55708
Instructor: A. Roberts MWF 9:05 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills.

354-L2 Creative Writing: Introduction 55709
Instructor: B. Baldi MWF 11:15 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 55775
Instructor: A. White 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 58000
Instructor: D. Durham T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. This is primarily a workshop in short story writing. Students will be expected to produce original fiction, as well as critique other students' work, with an eye toward characterization, description, effective use of dialogue, plot and resolution. The most important written material in the course will be your own work, but we'll also read selectively from the work of contemporary writers.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 55710
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.

356-L2 Creative Writing: Poetry 55736
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.

365-L1 20th Century Literature of Ireland (AL) 55777
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 4:00 – 5:15 pm
The purpose of this course is, first of all, to read closely and carefully books by established Irish writers of this century including Joyce, Yeats, Synge and Heaney. Having no pretensions of being exhaustive, we will look at representative texts that provide an initial understanding of each writer. Beyond appreciating each work in its own right as literature, we will attempt to use these texts as springboards to explore key questions about Irish society, history and culture, especially literary activity. We will, for example, ask whether there really are separate native Irish and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. How do urban and rural motifs and attitudes figure? What are the differences between the experience of men and women in Ireland? What is the attitude toward history and geography in these writers? Towards the Catholic Church? What social mores are revealed, particularly with regard to family, tribe and nation? Class? The Irish language? How are Irish mythology and legend used? How has an oral tradition influenced a written one? How are idiom and dialect deployed, a unique Hiberno-English? Is there an identifiable Irish voice?

367-L1 Contemporary Poetry 57129
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 9:30 am
In this course, we’ll explore the poetry of the mid-twentieth century through the present day. While we’ll devote significant time to single authors such as Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka, and Lyn Hejinian, we will be reading them as representative of larger poetic movements; respectively the Black Mountain School, the Black Arts Movement, and Language Poetry. Students will become familiar with the diverse and interconnected poetic traditions of postmodern poetry, many of which carry forward the legacies of the modernist avant-garde. Poetic traditions and trajectories on the syllabus include: the Beat Generation, the New York School, Ethnopoetics, Confessionalism, Post-Language Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Post- colonial Poetics. Students should be prepared for a very historically-minded course. As we trace the development and intersection of various contemporary poetic traditions, we’ll study how these traditions embody diverse artistic responses to the conditions of postmodernity. For example, our discussion will include the following areas of inquiry: Is the avant-garde still possible in the current social landscape? How did the Cold War help to shape the poetics of the 1950s and 1960s? What is the relationship between the new social movements of the 1960s – both reformist and revolutionary – to poetic form? How does the rise of neoliberalism help to define the horizon of possibility for the poetics of the 1990s? And, what is the relationship between empire and the postcolonial poetry of, for example, Amitava Kumar? This is a class that places a high premium on participation. Most class sessions will involve engaged collective close readings following a brief framing lecture. Unannounced quizzes will ensure a democratic discussion of informed participants.

369-L1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 55711
Instructor: S. Clingman MW 10:10 am
This course will survey major trends in twentieth century fiction by taking as its theme the idea of "writing at the frontiers." This will be understood in various ways, ranging from the frontiers of form in the work of some of the century’s foremost writers, to the literal frontiers that many of them have faced: of geography, culture, race, gender, politics. Writers will range from one end of the century to the other, including a selection from the following: Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Faulkner, Rhys, Morrison, Coetzee, Rushdie, and possibly others such as Ishiguro and Michaels. The course is offered this semester in lecture form, with discussion sections and other kinds of participation (very likely online). Requirements: participation; two essays; presentations; final exam. Discussion section is required.

369-D1 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57132
Instructor: P. Williams F 1:00 pm

369-D2 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57133
Instructor: P. Williams F 11:15 am

369-D3 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57134
Instructor: D. Fraser F 1:00 pm

369-D4 Studies in Modern (20th Century) Fiction (AL) 57135
Instructor: D. Fraser F 11:15 am

381-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication II 55734
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 55712
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. PWTC Lab, Bartlett 210B; (ph.) 5-5462.

391C-L1 Advanced Software Professional Writers 55713
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. 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. The class will be conducted in a Macintosh Lab. First class session 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 55714
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 316.

391L-L1 17th-Century Literature 57136
Instructor: J. Black T/Th 9:30 am
The seventeenth century is a period of social, intellectual, scientific, religious, and political revolution during which the Western world became recognizably modern. We will be reading poetry, prose, and drama by writers such as John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Thomas Browne, the Cavalier poets, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Dorothy Osborne, and John Bunyan. In addition, we will look at radical political and religious writings from the British civil wars; letters, memoirs, and diaries; and narratives of travel and exploration.

391M-L1 Contemporary American Autobiography (2nd Am Lit) 58016
Instructor: J. Greve T/Th 11:15 am
This course examines contemporary stories of self that tackle such subjects as childbirth, illness, incest, family loss, masculinity, and cultural preservation/ integration/ alienation. We will consider the various hallmark concerns of written self-representation: notions of self, the relation between self and language, the blurring of "truth" and fiction, the role of memory, and the gains as well as risks of public self-witnessing. Assignments will include weekly writings, some of them autobiographical in nature, and two 5-7 page essays. Readings are likely to include texts by Nancy Mairs, Joan Didion, bell hooks, Louise Erdrich, Kathryn Harrison, Michael Ondaatje, Richard Rodriguez, William Kittredge, and N.Scott Momaday.

392H-L1 Essentials of Professional Editing 58328
Instructor: M. Curtis M 1:25 – 3:55 pm
This course is a project-based course intended to take students through the publishing process, from submission selection to final text design and publication. The course will include a brief review of grammar and punctuation basics as well as copyediting techniques.

396 Independent Study 55715
Instructor: TBA TBA

397C-L1 The Sentimental Novel 58015
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this course we will study the popular and incendiary genre of the sentimental novel in eighteenth-century Britain, paying particular attention to the refinement of irony, the historical development of literary languages of emotion and passion, and the near-obsessive representation of class relations. One task that will preoccupy us will be that of becoming good analysts of contradiction in the dramatization of class consciousness and cross-class encounter, conflict, and alliance. Another task will be to consider how the representation of gender difference plays into the dramatics of class and into figures of finance. Of particular interest will be to co-ordinate our readings of discourses of class and monetary exchange with complex, historicized analyses of the aesthetics of sentimentality, attachment, and value. Readings will include novels by Richardson, Sterne, Fielding, Mackenzie, Burney, and Edgeworth. Weekly writing assignments, two papers and a midterm exam.

397I-L1 Econ and Lit Imagination CANCELLED
Instructor: J. Stifler T/Th 9:30 am

469-L1 Victorian Monstrosity (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Jr-Yr Writing) 57138
Instructor: K. Farrell T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. We'll be reading novels of the 1890s that project visions of monstrosity and crystallized many of the themes of modernism haunting us today. Radical historical change raised liberating and terrifying questions about identity: What sort of creatures are we? This is not a conventional literature course: we'll be using history, anthropology, psychology, and other disciplines to explore the impact of modernism. We'll work with overt monsters in Frankenstein and Dracula, but also with a range of sublimated grotesques, from Sherlock Holmes to Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. The seminar includes a required lab section that meets once a week to screen related films (Oscar Wilde plays, etc). Reading: parts of seven novels, plus Richard D. Altick's Victorian People and Ideas (Norton paperback) and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil (pap). Recommended: Max Nordau, Degeneration; and Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth (pap). In fulfilling the second part of the Junior-Year Writing Requirement, the seminar will focus on criticism. Plan to write a page or two about each book and a longer semester essay. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement. Lab section is required.

469-Lab1 Victorian Monstrosity 57139
Instructor: K. Farrell Th 4:00 – 6:30 pm

480-L1 Anderson, Hemingway, Purdy (2nd Am Lit) 57140
Instructor: J. Skerrett MW 4:00 – 5:15 pm
We will read work by and about three twentieth-century writers from the American Midwest who wrote about the Midwest but also about the wider world. Each of them was an innovative voice in the American short story who also excelled at the novel; common themes abound. Their stories and novels explore dysfunctional families, alienation and the oppressions of village life, anxieties of sexual identity and orientation and the vexed issues of race, gender and class. Readings will include: Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio and Poor White; Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories and To Have and Have Not; James Purdy, Color of Darkness and The Nephew; additional texts and critical materials in a course packet and/or library reserve. Requirements: three (3) five page papers and a final exam.

491A-L1 Neruda in Translation 55756
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.

491AA-L1 Utopias/Dystopias: Past and Present (Jr-Yr Writing) 57141
Instructor: J. Adams T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this class we will examine the concept of utopia and its counterpart, dystopia, in works that range from Plato's Republic to Orwell's 1984. We will also look at films such as the Terminator series, Blade Runner, and The Truman Show. Questions we will consider include: How does utopian literature work primarily as a guidebook for social order (i.e., a "philosophical city") in the tradition of Plato's Republic? Is a utopian society necessarily separated geographically from the known world? Why might utopian visions be dangerous? Are dystopian visions merely the opposite of utopian ones, or do these two concepts function in different ways? Course requirements: two drafts and one final version of a twenty-page paper. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491GG-L1 History of Comedy (Jr-Yr Writing) 57142
Instructor: A. Zucker MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. In this class, we will explore the development of comic form from its earliest dramatic manifestations in Ancient Greece to its current place in American mass culture. The better part of the syllabus will be devoted to plays, and our readings will take us from classical authors (Aristophanes and Terrence) to Italian and English Renaissance plays (Machiavelli, Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson) to Restoration and eighteenth century sex comedies (William Wycherly, Susanna Centlivre) to comedies of the past century (Wilde, Synge). The last section of the class will be devoted to contemporary engagements with comic form in film. In addition to our discussion of the repetitions and developments in comedy over time, two main themes will structure our work. First, we will closely consider the elaborate role played by gender difference in comedy. We will explore in particular formal experiments grounded in unexpected reversals that sometimes mock and always interrogate gendered identities. Essays by Judith Butler, Karen Newman, Louis Montrose, Eve Sedgwick and others will help us develop a theory of comedy linked to historical social relationships. Second, we will attempt to answer the eternal comic question: why do we ever laugh at the stuff? Aristotle, Donatus the Grammarian, Freud, and students' own exploratory writing will help move us as a class towards an understanding of comedy's place in our world, hopefully without ruining the joke. Requirements: Seminar members will be expected to draft and revise three essays over the course of the semester: two shorter papers on dramatic comedy, and one longer final essay in which students will be asked to analyze the ways in which a contemporary example of comic narrative in film, television, or theater engages with the formal and theoretical elements we will have charted out. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

491H-L1 Honors Imagining Democracy (2nd Am Lit) 58003
Instructor: N. Bromell T/Th 9:30 am
This is a 4-credit Honors course. Democracy depends on engagement, a firsthand accounting of what one sees, what one feels, and what one thinks, followed by the artful practice of expressing the truth of our times through our own talents, gifts, and vocations. - Terry Tempest Williams In this interdisciplinary course, we will read literature, history, and political theory in order to study the problems and prospects of our democracy – in particular the relation between democracy as a political system and democracy as a culture. We are likely to spend a good deal of time discussing such issues as the 2004 election, media monopolization, voter apathy, and globalization in order to discover how various cultural texts (novels, poems, plays, movies, songs) might speak to the problems these issues have raised. Texts will include such works as the Declaration of Independence, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Emerson’s Essays, Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, The Gettysburg Address, writings by Jane Addams, John Dewey, and William James, among others. In addition, there is likely to be an optional one-credit, service-learning project for students who are interested.

491JJ-L1 Race, Empire and the Renaissance Stage 57143
Instructor: J. Degenhardt T/Th 2:30 pm
Although questions of “race” and “empire” may seem to be modern concerns, they were also present in Shakespeare’s time. While Shakespeare and his contemporaries were writing plays for the English stage, England was attempting to advance its position on the world stage through overseas exploration and commerce. This course will explore the Renaissance stage as a site where the English expressed their fears and fantasies about cross-cultural contact and imperial growth. We will consider such questions as: What did it mean to be black or Jewish in Shakespeare’s England? How did the stage represent the East and the religion of Islam? In what ways did the popular theater both challenge and perpetuate cultural stereotypes? Readings may include Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice; John Fletcher’s The Island Princess; Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta; and Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West.

491X-L1 History of the Book (Jr-Yr Writing)57144
Instructor: J. Black T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. This course offers an overview of the history of books and reading from the ancient world through to the present. We will survey how books were made in different eras, and will explore the changing cultural roles of books. We will also explore such questions as: what is an author? what is a text? what is "the history of the book" as a field of study? The course will involve hands-on work with books and manuscripts from different eras, and trips to special collections and print shops. Students will have a choice of a wide variety of different kinds of assignments, including creative ones. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement.

492D-L1 Children's Literature 57145
Instructor: J. Atkins T/Th 9:30 am
In this course we will consider the poetry and prose of some folk tales and picture books, which are not only most peoples’ introduction to literature, but often illustrate the vigor of pared down language. The Once and Future King will give us some grounding in conventions of fantasy and Arthurian legends. We’ll read Winnie-the-Pooh, The Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Charlotte’s Web and discuss what these classics have to say about humans, animals, nature, society, and joy. The Secret Garden, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Bridge to Terabithia will offer a chance to explore the imaginative worlds some children find or create. We will read The Hundred Dresses and The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 and think about how these realistic novels deal with social issues. Maybe we can answer Grahame Greene’s question: "What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?" Course expectations include class discussion, a reading journal, two papers, and two exams.

492E-L1 The Brontë Sisters TBA (Course number 492E subject to change)
Instructor: R. Keefe MW 2:30 - 3:45 pm
This course provides the opportunity to study the novels of three fine novelists - two of them can reasonably be called great - who grew up in the same household. Together with their brother, they began writing collaboratively (and secretly) as children, and only slowly developed their individual styles. Their novels, seven in all, bear profound similarities to, and quite striking differences between one another. The three women loved and misunderstood each other. Their works form a complex conversation in which sister "corrects" sister. And it must be added, the books are fun to read. We will read all seven, plus a few poems, letters, diary jottings, and other artifacts. There will be quizzes and two papers.

496 Independent Study 55717
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499D-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 55757
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 was offered in the Fall 2005 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College. Contact instructor to add course.

499D-L2 Capstone course: Imaging a Sustainable World 55758
Instructor: J. Davidov T 1:30 - 4:00 pm
Senior Honors students only. Honors Thesis Workshop. This course is a continuation of 499C (“Imagining a Sustainable World”) and is open only to students who have completed that course and have submitted at the end of the fall semester, 2005, a preliminary thesis proposal and annotated bibliography. In 499D, students will 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 revised over the winter break (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. This course will meet at the Hitchcock Center.

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Spring 2006)

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.

Please note that when a course is marked (BRIT LIT Pre-1700), it means the course fulfills the British literature pre-1700 with some coverage of Medieval requirement for English majors.

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

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

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 (JR-YR WRITING), it means the course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing requirement for English majors.

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

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AMST 290 Topics in American Studies (2nd AM LIT)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
Emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

ASIAN 248 Contemporary Chinese Fiction: 1949 to the Present (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 2:40-3:55 Y. Wang
A study of representative Chinese fictional writings from 1949 to the present focusing on the ways in which issues of individual and national indentity, modernity, and gender have been probed and represented by different generations of Chinese writers. A particular emphasis will be placed on the novels and short stories published since the 1980s, in which both traditional ideology and literary styles are seriously questioned and challenged. Readings include works by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian and other famous writers, such as Wang Meng, Zhang Xianliang, Zhang Jie, Wang Anyi, Yu Hua, Su Tong, etc.

ASIAN 320 Women's Issues in Arab Women Novels (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 M. Jivad
Arab women novelists' works that address issues such as arranged marriage, divorce, child rearing and custody, rights and opportunities to work, national and religious identity, political and social freedom will be surveyed and discussed. The aim is to offer an alternative view presented in a balanced and fair approach.

CLASS 211 Gods and Mortals: Myth in Ancient Art and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 P. Debnar, B. Bergmann
Many ancient images tell completely different versions of myth from those portrayed in Greek and Roman literary sources. By juxtaposing distinctive modes of communication in the ancient world, students will analyze the rhetorical uses of myth, both then and now. Students will also examine the range of possibilities for translating and interpreting text and image, which will alert them to the vitality of myth as a language of its own, transcending historical parameters.

ENGL 200 An Introduction to the Study of Literature (ENGL 200)
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.

01 4 P. Berek TTH 2:40-3:55
02 4 E. Hill MWF 10:00-10:50
03 4 H. Holder MW 11:00-12:15
04 4 R. Shaw TTH 1:15-2:30
05 4 S. Sutherland TTH 8:35-9:50
06 4 V. Ellis MW 1:15-2:30

ENGL 210 The Development of Literature in English: Medieval through Commonwealth (BRIT LIT Pre-1700)
MW 8:35-9:50 F. Brownlow
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 Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Berek
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

ENGL 214 Topics in Medieval Studies: Illustrious and Abandoned Women (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 8:35-9:50 C. Chierichini, C. Collette
A comparative reading of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, Boccaccio's Illustrious Women, and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. How did these late medieval authors imagine women's voice, agency, and virtue in the public and private spheres? Why does the figure of the strong secular woman emerge in medieval culture at this period? How do these medieval heroines compare to their Classical predecessors? What ideologies of female virtue do these three writers reflect? All readings in translation.

ENGL 241 American Literature II (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 2:40-3:55 M. Snediker
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.

ENGL 253 African Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 2:40-3:55 J. Lemly
An introduction to African literature in English since 1960. Fiction, drama, autobiography, essays by such writers as Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nadine Gordimer, and Bessie Head. Particular attention to themes of exile and imprisonment, political struggle before and after independence, the convergence of oral cultures and European languages, and the emergence of postcolonial and feminist discourses in contemporary Africa.

ENGL 254 Postcolonial Theory (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 A. Martin

ENGL 271 Women Writers: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
In this course we will examine the work of American women writers with an emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

ENGL 283 Light Verse, Comic Verse (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 8:35-9:50 B. Leithauser
This is "light verse" in a broad sense; parodies, nonsense verse, children's verse, song lyrics. Students will be introduced to a broad range of poetic forms and the vocabulary of versification. Older readings to include Shakespeare, Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Byron's Don Juan, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear. Twentieth-century readings to include: Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," Auden's "Letter to Lord Byron," Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Elizabeth Bishop. Song lyrics will extend from Campion and Dowland to W.S. Gilbert and some lyricists from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley: Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim.

ENGL 284 Modern British Urban Novel (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 8:35-9:50 N. Alderman
As London and the British novel enter the new millennium, both are sites of competing histories, traditions, and agendas. This course will chart the city's progress from the center of an empire to a node in the global world's economy, and the novel's movement from realism to postmodernism. Beginning by contrasting the realist London of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes with Virginia Woolf's modernist version in Mrs. Dalloway, we will go on to trace the development of the post-1945 British novel. We will finish in the multicultural and multiethnic London of Salman Rushdie.

ENGL 300 Writing about the Arts (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 B. Leithauser
This course will explore what it means to respond to works of art in various genres: literature, film, visual art (and possibly drama). Students will write reviews and reflective essays, learning to tailor their responses to various requirements. They will read an array of reviews and essays as well as several current literary works.

ENGL 302 Nonfiction Writing: Writing Journalistic Narratives for Magazines and Books (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 M. Murphy
This course will focus on the techniques and skills needed to research and write compelling narratives about the recent and more distant past. In addition to regular writing and interviewing assignments, students will read and analyze the work of literary journalists who emphasize context and creative storytelling about events and trends. This course focuses on the reporting and writing of longer, in-depth articles, suitable for publication in magazines, journals, or books.

ENGL 303 Short Story Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Demas
This workshop is for students seriously engaged in writing short stories. Students will refine their technical skills and work on the subtleties of style. Extensive readings are required.

ENGL 304 Verse Writing II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 R. Shaw
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 Writing Literature for Children (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 10:00-12:30 C. Demas
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 Methods of Discovery: Nonfiction and Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 S. Grant
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 Shakespeare Adapted and Interpreted, 1660-2006 (ENGL221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 F. Brownlow
"The history of Shakespeare's work is the history of the European imagination." By focusing on a small group of plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and Macbeth), the seminar will study the post-Shakespearean adventures of Shakespeare's work in the arts of music and painting as well as in the theater and in literature. Topics will include The Tempest as semi-opera, Midsummer Night's Dream and Victorian fairy painting, Hamlet as an orchestral prince, and Macbeth as opera; but students will be expected to pursue and report upon independent projects to be chosen from a wide and fascinating field of material.

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

ENGL 316 Topics in Medieval Literature: Forging the Ring (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Collette
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 332 Modern Drama (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 J. Lemly
A study of the history of drama in Europe, America, and Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Readings include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Casey, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Hansberry, Soyinka, Aidoo, Shepard, Fugard, Norman, Wilson, and Parks.

ENGL 335 The Sounds of Spanglish (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 I. Stavans
An exploration of the interface where Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic civilizations collide.

ENGL 344 Projects in Critical Thought (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 N. Alderman
This course will explore the work of a range of the most important cultural theorists of the last 50 years and consider what they can contribute to the analysis of all forms of cultural works, both past and present. We will be particularly interested in writers who attempt to construct models that seek to explain everything, who in their intellectual projects try to think the totality. Thinkers will include Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Ann Douglas, Michel Foucault, Paul Gilroy, Donna Haraway, Fredric Jameson, and Gayatri Spivak.

ENGL 362 Inside-Out at the Hampden County Correctional Center: Prison Memoirs(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 8:30-11:00 S. Davis
The majority of this course will be conducted in the Women's Unit at the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow, eight miles from the Mount Holyoke campus. (Transportation will be provided.) Half the students will be from Mount Holyoke; half will be women currently incarcerated at HCCC. This collaborative course will combine literary analysis of prison literature and creative writing in the memoir form. The class will be co-facilitated by Kim Keough and Lysette Navarro of Voices from Inside, who regularly lead creative writing workshops at HCCC. Enrollment requires instructor's approval based on a Fall 2005 interview.

ENGL 367 British Drama: From the Gothic to the Suffragists (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 H. Holder
English drama was never more popular than in the nineteenth century. The forms that emerged during this time--the gothic or "sensation" drama, melodrama, the "social problem" play--continue to shape contemporary performance and film. In this course we will look at the ways in which the nineteenth-century British theater responded to major social and political changes of the day and their attendant problems, including the poor of "outcast London," the wars of empire, the slowly building struggle for women's rights, and new definitions of nationalism. Readings will include works by Elizabeth Inchbald, C.R. Maturin, Tom Taylor, Cicely Hamilton, and G.B. Shaw.

ENGL 371 "Primitivism" and "Exoticism" in American Literature and Culture, 1845-1945 (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 C. Benfey
A seminar devoted to the varieties of spiritual and creative revitalization that modern American writers have drawn from cultures distant in time and space. Some attention to parallel developments in the visual arts, anthropology, and architecture. Possible writers include: Herman Melville, Lafcadio Hearn, Henry Adams, Okakura Kakuzo, Ezra Pound, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston.

ENGL 373 Nature and Gender: "A Landscape of One's Own" (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 1:00-3:50 L. Glasser
This seminar will focus on how women writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century told their life stories in the context of the islands, prairies, forests, and deserts of the United States. Readings will include works by such writers as Thaxter, Freeman, Jewett, Stewart, Zitkala-Sa, Austin, Cather, and Hurston; genre will include autobiographical essays, narratives, biography, fiction, and poetry. Some visual works (paintings, photographs, film) may also be added to the list of texts.

FREN 215 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 M. Switteo
This course introduces students to literature and culture from a variety of perspectives. It will increase confidence and skill in writing and speaking, integrate historical, political, and social contexts into the study of literary texts from France and the French-speaking world, and bring understanding of the special relevance of earlier periods to contemporary French and Francophone cultural and aesthetic issues. Students explore diversified works - literature, historical documents, film, art, and music - and do formal oral and written presentations.

FREN 219 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 S. Gadjigo
This course introduces the literatures of French-speaking countries outside Europe. Readings include tales, novels, plays, and poetry from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, and other areas. Discussions and short papers examine the texts as literary works as well as keys to the understanding of varied cultures. Students will be asked to do formal oral and written presentations.

FREN 225 Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 C. Rivers
This course will introduce students to contemporary popular culture in France and the French-speaking world, largely through the study of recent (post-1995) best-selling novels, popular music, and feature films. Students will be asked to give formal oral presentations based on up-to-date materials gathered from the Internet and/or French television and to participate actively in class discussion.

FREN 230 Intermediate Courses in Culture and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 N. Vaget
While exploring the decisive periods of France's past, students will also examine the development of art and architecture, from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth century, and familiarize themselves with the mentality of each period (emphasis on medieval cathedrals and Renaissance castles, Baroque and Rococo works of art, and nineteenth-century paintings). Course content can be found at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/nvaget/230/syllabus230.html.

FREN 311 Period Courses (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TH 1:00-3:50 F Guévremont
This course will examine the concept of time in twentieth-century French and Francophone novels and films. We will explore the ways in which writers and filmmakers have played with time and the traditional narrative structures, and have reflected on the idea of time itself, including the distinction between historical and individual time. Authors to be studied may include Proust, Duras, Perec, Hébert, as well as films by Cocteau, Varda, Arcand, and others.

FREN 321 Seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

FREN 370 Advanced Level Seminar (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 C. LeGouis
Hugo's epic masterpiece, written in exile, has everything: ceaseless adventures, crimes and punishments, love, hate, obsession, heroes, villains, the battle of Waterloo, and civil war. The sympathetic everyman, Jean Valjean, condemned to hard labor for stealing bread and relentlessly pursued by the pitiless policeman Javert, encounters unforgettable characters. We will examine how Hugo situates Valjean's escapes within a framework of social injustice and good triumphing over evil, balancing his political and romantic ideas. Reading, discussion, film screenings.

I 112 The Rhetoric of Grammar (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 8:10-9:50 S. Oury
A functional analysis of grammatical rules and concepts with an emphasis on their application to issues in student writing. Through writing extensively and reading the work of various theorists on grammar, rhetoric, and style, students will learn how to assess their own writing and make choices that improve the clarity and effectiveness of their ideas.

I 146 Western Civilization: An Introduction through the Great Books (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 2:40-3:55 F 3:15-4:00 J. Hartley
Beginning with works emerging from Athens and Jerusalem and proceeding to the modern world, this yearlong course will explore the ideas that constitute Western civilization. The course material will be centered on the Great Books from across disciplinary boundaries and will include authors such as Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Einstein, Augustine, Darwin, Homer, Locke, Goethe, Eliot, and the writers of the Old and New Testaments.

I 212 Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 1:00-3:50 G. Anderson
This course examines theoretical and practical applications of leadership and peer mentoring in educational contexts. Focus will be on the development of knowledge, skills, and attributes required of effective Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program (SAW) mentors and assistants.

ITAL 214 Illustrious and Abandoned Women(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 8:35-9:50 C. Chierichini, C. Collette
A comparative reading of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, Boccaccio's Illustrious Women, and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. How did these late medieval authors imagine women's voice, agency, and virtue in the public and private spheres? Why does the figure of the strong secular woman emerge in medieval culture at this period? How do these medieval heroines compare to their Classical predecessors? What ideologies of female virtue do these three writers reflect? All readings in translation.

ITAL 301 Liars and Pranksters on the Italian Stage (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 1:00-3:50 O. Frau
This course explores the role of lies and practical jokes in Italian literature and the way the concept of humor has changed over time. We will investigate the intimate connection between power, religion, and laughter by reading some of the most funniest and politically charged works of Italian theater and prose. This course will be not only an accurate overview of Italian theater, but also a comprehensive journey through our rich literary history. Our authors will take us through the streets of Renaissance Florence, eighteenth-century Venetian canals, as well as the improvised "factory theaters" of the 70s.

ITAL 361 Seminar in Italian Literature and Culture (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

LATAM 277 Caribbean Women Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 2:40-3:55 R. Marquez
Comparative examination of contemporary women's writing in the Caribbean. Emphasis will be on their engagement with issues of history, cultural articulation, race, class, gender, and nationality, including exploration of their formal procedures, individual moods, regional particularity, and general impact as writers. Rosario Ferré, Ana Lydia Vega, Julia Alvarez, Edna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jean Rhys, Beryl Gilroy, and Rosa Guy are among those whose works we will review.

MEDST 300 Seminar in Medieval Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 1:00-3:50 C. Collette
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.

RES 215 Doestoevsky and the Problem of Evil: The Brothers Karamazov (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Scotto
Perhaps no other novelist has delved as deeply into the psychological and metaphysical dimensions of evil as the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. This course will be devoted to a close reading of Dostoevsky's landmark novel of murderous passion and parricide, The Brothers Karamazov. Why should crime and transgression be a privileged avenue of access into the human interior? How is psychology tied to the metaphysical aspect of human existence? What are the sources of evil - and redemption?

ROMLG 375 Seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

SPAN 237 Introduction to Latin American Literature II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 11:00-12:15 L. Martinez
An introduction to Latin American texts from modernismo to the present. Different cultural movements and their sociopolitical contexts are examined through representative works. Class discussions and assigned papers are based on literary analysis and research.

SPAN 332 Spanish Literature: Medieval, Renaissance, and Golden Age (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 N. Romero-Diaz
This course will study the way Spain defines itself as a nation by exploring the political, religious, and cultural relations between different ethnic groups which have been coexisting in Spain since the Early Modern period to our present. We will concentrate on three fundamental historical moments: the 13th century (the apogee of tolerance between Arabs, Christians, and Jews); the 16th century (the institutionalization of the Inquisition and its effects on converted Jews and Arabs); and the 20th century (tolerance toward new immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America is questioned). Our approach will be interdisciplinary (e.g., literature, history, music, and films).

SPAN 343 The Sounds of Spanglish (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 O. Stavans
A linguistic/cultural study of the Latino population in the United States through its language. The course spans almost 500 years. It starts with the Spanish explorers in 1521 and ends with today's rappers and poets. Novels, plays, and film will be used as primary texts. The various modalities of Spanglish, spoken by, among other groups, Nuyoricans, Chicanos, and Cuban-Americans, will be compared. The development of Spanglish as a street jargon will be compared to Yiddish, Ebonics, and other minority tongues. The course will also discuss the rapid changes of Spanish, under strong pressure from English. Works by Dr. Samuel Johnson, Antonio de Nebrija, and Fernando Ortiz will be used.

SPAN 345 The Contemporary Latina Voice in U.S. Theater (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 2:30-5:00 P. Page, D. Mosby
Students will examine dramatic texts by Latina dramatists who represent critical moments in the development of Latina Theater. We will explore contextual, theoretical, and formal dimensions of US Latina theater and its development, as well as, the relationship of theater with the contested territories of identity politics, gender roles, and cultural representations of "American identity." We will discuss the artistic and social contexts of representative works, examine style and forms of representation, as well as discuss the playwrights and their careers. Every effort will be made to incorporate visits by artists, scholars, and dramatists into the curricular program of the course.

SPAN 361 Seminar on Latin American Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 7:00-10:00 C. Gundermann
In this seminar, we will study the cross-cultural influences between Italian neo-realism, the French nouvelle vague, and the New Latin American Cinemas. Both the Italian and the French movements represent models and counterpoints for those Latin American filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who sought to redress the dominance of the realist American model in Latin America and the domination of the markets by the products of Hollywood. The New Latin American Cinemas, in turn, paved the way toward the emergence of Third Cinema. We will study films, as well as cinematic theory, from Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Cuba, Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico.

THEAT 257 Theory and Criticism (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 10:00-11:50 P. Alekson
This course examines the major theoretical and critical statements on drama and theatrical performance from the classical period to the beginning of the postmodern era--from Plato to Brecht and beyond. Central to the study will be the evolving concepts of representation, structure, genre, and performance. The writings of theorists, critics, and practitioners--contextualized and supplemented by representative play texts--will be further explored, illuminated, and challenged through writing and performance projects that will require students to put theory into practice.

THEAT 281 Shakespeare (Eng 211) (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 P. Berek
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.

THEAT 332 Modern Drama (Eng 332) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 11:00-12:15 J. Lemly
A history of drama in Europe, America, and Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Readings include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, O'Casey, Pirandello, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Beckett, Pinter, Hansberry, Soyinka, Aidoo, Shepard, Fugard, Norman, Wilson, and Parks.

THEAT 350 Seminar: British Drama: From the Gothic to the Suffragists (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 H. Holder

THEAT 383 Playwriting II n (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 1:00-3:50 P. Alekso
(Writing-intensive course) A continuation of Playwriting I. In a collaborative workshop setting, students will employ the tools and techniques discussed and practiced in Playwriting I to develop ideas for and construct and refine their own full-length plays. Over the course of the semester, students will present readings of their works-in-progress for peer analysis and feedback. In addition, readings of contemporary plays, theory, playwrights' manifestos and reviews will be employed for further insight into the dramatic process. The semester will culminate in a New Play Series of staged readings of the playwrights' work with the possibility of partnership with the directing class.

WOMST 203 Feminist Approaches to Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 1:15-2:30 S. Davis
In this course we will examine the work of American women writers with an emphasis on the themes of protest and pleasure. Material will range from the overtly political to the intensely personal, will often merge the two, and will date from the late-nineteenth century to today. Despite our long-standing reputation for being "emotional," both outrage and ecstasy have oft been considered taboo for women. Yet women have been motivated by each to pick up the pen and have proved influential as writers on these themes. Authors will range from Emma Goldman, Ida B. Wells and Kate Chopin to Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Dorothy Allison.

SMITH COLLEGE

AAS 237 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:20 D. McClure
Same as ENG 236. A survey of the evolution of African-American literature during the twentieth century. This class will build on the foundations established in AAS 113, Survey of Afro-American Literature 1746 to 1900. Writers include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall.

AAS 366 Seminar: Contemporary Topics in Afro-American Studies: Literatures of the African Diaspora: Migrat (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 07:30-09:30 D. Lamo
This course identifies migration as a central narrative of African Diasporic literature. We will explore fictional representations of migration experiences that prove central to the construction of African American subjectivities, looking in particular at the slave trade and Middle Passage, reverse migrations, immigration and experiences of exile. We will explore 20th century narratives that foreground issues such as modernity, displacement, colonialism and post-colonialism, constructions of home, and diasporic consciousness. In particular we will focus on how the "performance of memory" allows the displaced subject to imagine and construct national and/or diasporic identities. We will also explore some theoretical readings that focus on notions of Diaspora, the Black Atlantic, colonialism and post-colonialism. Narratives of African Diasporic migration share an awareness of the redemptive force memory and the trauma, challenges and possibilities posed by experiences of dislocation. This seminar serves as the capstone course for majors.

AMS 120 Scribbling Women (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 S. Marker
With the help of the Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives, this writing intensive course looks at a number of 19th and 20th century American women writers. All wrestled with specific issues that confronted them as women; each wrote about important issues in American society. Enrollment limited to 15. Priority given to first year students.

AMS 351 Seminar: Writing About American Society (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 01:00-02:50 G. Colt
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.

CLS 236 Cleopatra: Histories, Fictions, Fantasies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 09:00-10:20 N. Shumate
A study of the transformation of Cleopatra, a competent Hellenistic ruler, into a historical myth, a staple of literature, and a cultural lens through which the political, aesthetic, and moral sensibilities of different eras have been focused. Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Orientalist, Postcolonial, Hollywood Cleopatras; reading from, among others, Plutarch, Virgil, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Dryden, Gautier, Shaw, historical novelists; some attention to Cleopatra in the visual arts.

CLT 234 The Adventure Novel: No Place for a Woman? (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 M. Bruzelius
This course explores the link between landscape, plot and gender: how is the adventure landscape organized? Who lives where within it? What boundaries mark safe and unsafe places? Beginning with essays on cartography by Denis Wood, we'll read three classic 19th-century boys' books (Scott, Stevenson, Verne), then adventure fictions with female protagonists by E.M. Forster, Ursula Le Guin, Peter Dickinson, Astrid Lundren and others, to explore the ways in which this genre has embraced and resisted female heroes.

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

CLT 267 African Women's Drama (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 K. Mule
This course will examine how African women playwrights use drama to confront the realities of women's lives in contemporary Africa. What is the specificity of the vision unveiled in African women's drama? How do the playwrights use drama to mock rigid power structures and confront crisis, instability and cultural expression in postcolonial Africa? How and for what purposes do they interweave the various aspects of performance in African oral traditions with elements of European drama? Readings, some translated from French, Swahili and other African languages, will include Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, Osonye Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women, An Epic Drama for Women, and Penina Mlama's Nguzo Mama (Mother Pillar).

CLT 272 Women Writing: 20th and 21st Century Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 M. Schuster
A study of the pleasures and politics of fiction by women from English-speaking and French-speaking cultures. How do women writers engage, subvert, and/or resist dominant meanings of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and create new narrative spaces? Who speaks for whom? How does the reader participate in making meaning(s)? How do different theoretical perspectives (feminist, lesbian, queer, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, postmodern) change the way we read? Writers such as Woolf, Colette, Condé, Larsen, Morrison, Duras, Rule, Kingston, Shields and Atwood. Not open to first-year students.

CLT 274 The Garden: Paradise and Battlefield (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-12:10 A. Leone
Ever since Genesis, the garden has been depicted not only as a paradise, a refuge and a women's place, but also as a jungle that challenges definitions of the self and of that self's place in the world. How have shared notions about the relation of gardens to their inhabitants changed from one culture and historical period to another? Some attention to the theory and history of landscape gardening. Texts by Mme. de Lafayette, Goethe, Austen, Balzac, Zola, Chekhov, Colette, D.H. Lawrence, and Alice Walker.

CLT 278 Gender and Madness in African and Caribbean Prose (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:20 D. Fulton
Women from Africa and the Caribbean. Beginning with an introduction to theories of madness, we will look specifically at how the category of madness functions in these novels, connoting on the one hand exoticism and marginality, and on the other a language of resistance. Emphasis on close formal analysis, with particular attention to how such narratives articulate or obscure boundaries between madness and reason, and how gender figures in these boundaries. Essays by Edouard Glissant and Franz Fanon; works by such authors as Ken Bugul, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bessie Head, Jean Rhys, Maryse Condé, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra.

CLT 293 Writings and Rewritings: Contexts, Migrations Theory: Antigone (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 A. Jones
A study of how literary texts written in a particular historical and cultural moment are revised and transformed in new geographies, ideological frameworks, and art forms. Oedipus' daughter Antigone, executed for burying her brother against the decree of the tyrant Creon, has been read as a sister defending family bonds against state power, as a woman supporting private good over civic law, and as a feminist resisting male domination. Why has she been interpreted in such different ways in different times and places? We'll analyze her transformations from ancient Greece to the 21st century in drama and film from Sophocles to Anoulh, Brecht, the Congolese dramatist Sylvain Bemba, and the modern American playwright Martha Boesing, and in theorists from Hegel to Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Derrida, Gayle Rubin, Seyla Benhabib and Judith Butler.

CLT 305 Studies in the Novel: The Modern African Novel: Texts and Issues(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 03:00-04:50 K. Mule
A study of the controversies about the origins of the African novel and its thematic, ideological, and aesthetic visions. Is there a demonstrable relationship between the modern African novel, a late twentieth-century phenomenon, and the oral epic traditions of the continent? Should we read the African novel as an experiment in form, driven by diverse African experience as writers attempt to grapple with local social, political, and gender formations? We will attempt to respond to these questions through an in-depth study of texts such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross, Achebe's A Man of the People, Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Nawal el Saadawi's God Dies by the River Nile and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure.

CLT 364 Tradition and Dissent: Don Juan, World's Traveler (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 R. Lazaro
Don Juan has been called a scoundrel, a Romantic hero, a quintessential 'macho,' a homosexual, a rebel against stifling social and sexual mores, an emblem of Spain. Different attitudes towards Don Juan reveal how countries and ages interpret conquest, patriarchal power, religion, sex, gender, freedom and rebellion. This course traces the world travels and transformations of the character from sinner and philosopher in the 17th century (Tirso and Molière, respectively), to a symptom of the arrival of modern sensibility (Mozart-Da Ponte) and a nationalistic symbol in19th and 20th century Spain (Zorrilla, Valle-Inclán, Azorin). Films by Losey and Sellars (Don Giovanni). Frears (Dangerous Liaisons), Levin (Don Juan De Marco), Mediero (Don Juan, My Love). Taught in English, the Spanish texts are offered in the original in the one-credit course SPN 356.

EAL 237 Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 S. Wu
A study of traditional Chinese poetry from around 600 B.C. to 1300 A.D., including folk songs, old-style poems, rhapsodies, yuefu ballads, regulated verses, ci lyrics, and vernacular songs. Through comparative study of the theoretical and practical interaction of Chinese poetry with music, painting, calligraphy and other visual and plastic arts, we will consider forms of art in a coherent intellectual framework. In addition to linguistic characteristics, formal and thematic aspects, we will explore issues of gender and the historical, social and cultural contexts. Students, if interested, will also learn to sing some traditional Chinese poems. All readings are in English translation.

EAL 242 Modern Japanese Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 K. Kono
Selected readings in translation of Japanese literature from the Meiji period to the present. In the past 150 years Japan has undergone tremendous change: rapid industrialization, imperial and colonial expansion, occupation following its defeat in the Pacific War, and emergence as a global economic power. The literature of modern Japan reflects the complex aesthetic, cultural and political effects of such changes. Through our discussions of these texts, we will also address theoretical questions about such concepts as identity, gender, race, sexuality, nation, class, colonialism, modernism and translation. All readings are in English translation.

EAL 360 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: Writing Empire: Images of Colonial and Po (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 03:00-04:50 K. Kono
We will read and discuss literary texts produced in and about the Japanese empire during the first half of the 20th century. We will address the diverse reactions to Japan's colonial project and explore the ways in which empire was manifest in a literary form. Looking at the different representations of empire, the course will examine concepts such as assimilation, mimicry, hybridity, travel, and transculturation in the context of Japanese colonialism. By bringing together different voices from inside and outside of Japan's empire, students will gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of colonial hegemony and identity. In particular, reading works by Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese subjects will enable students to transcend simplistic binary notions of colonizer and colonized while also acknowledging the complex reality of colonial complicity. While the course will focus predominantly on literature related to Japanese colonialism, students will also be assigned several examples of colonial fiction from other literary traditions as well as some postcolonial theory.

EAL 360 02 Seminar: Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: The Dream of the Red Chamber (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 03:00-04:50 S. Wu
The Dream of the Red Chamber is the most studied of all the novels in Chinese literature, and scholarship on the novel now forms its own "Red School." In modern times, the novel has also been frequently transformed into TV drama series, movies, plays, operas, and dance performances. In this seminar, we will finish reading the novel's 120 chapters (translated into English in five volumes) and study the novel's representations of both popular and high culture, from traditional society, arts, and poetry to clothing, food, and other everyday customs. Visual aides and web sites will be provided whenever needed.

EDC 325 The Teaching of Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 07:30-09:30 S. Intrator
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 is designed to help pre-service teachers develop an understanding of the writing process in order to become informed decision-makers in their classrooms. Special emphasis will be placed on learning current theory and practice related to writing processes, with emphasis on personal writing experiences, including topic selection, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing and publishing. Other topics include evaluation, writing in various genres and about various subjects, motivating students to write and management of writing workshops. Open only to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 12.

ENG 199 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)
MW 01:10-02:30 N. Bradbury
This course teaches the skills that enable us to read literature with understanding and pleasure. By studying examples from a variety of periods and places, students will learn how poetry, prose fiction, and drama, work, how to interpret them, and how to make use of interpretations by others. English 199 seeks to produce perceptive readers well equipped to take on complex texts. Readings in different sections will vary, but all will involve active discussion and frequent writing.

ENG 199 02 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200) TTh 09:00-10:20 M. Thurston

ENG 199 03 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)MW 02:40-04:00 E. Harries

ENG 199 04 Methods of Literary Study (ENGL 200)TTh 01:00-02:50 P. Skarda

ENG 203 Western Classics in Translation, from Chretien de Troyes to Tolstoy (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 R. Hosmer
Same as GLT 292. Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Clèves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Prerequisite: GLT 291.

ENG 227 Modern British Fiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:50 M. Gorra
Lectures, with occasional discussion, on the English novel from Conrad to the present day. The historical contexts and the formal devices (management of narrative and plot, stylistic and structural innovations, characterization, literary allusiveness) of works by such writers as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, F.M. Ford, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Doris Lessing, Shirley Hazzard, V.S. Naipaul.

ENG 228 Children's Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 09:00-10:20 G. Kendall
This course progresses from the nature of the fairy tale as genre, to the unique form of the picture book, to a book written for adults that has metamorphosed into children's literature (Gulliver) and a book written for children that has become a book for adults (Alice). The syllabus covers coming-of-age stories, dark stories filled with imagery of mortality and stories that ridicule what has been considered the standard literature for children. The course also explores the nature and function of fantasy written for children, and ends with a good crop of ghost stories.

ENG 230 The Jewish Writer in America (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 J. Cammy
The Jewish literary engagement with America, from the late nineteenth century through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s to post-modern negotiations of nation and self. From writing on the margins of Yiddish to the central role of Jews in shaping the post-war literary scene. Topics include the myth of America and its discontents; narratives of immigration and acculturation; negotiating anti-Semitism in the Anglo-American literary tradition; mid-century modernism; the rise of the New York Intellectuals; ethnic comedy and satire; crises of the Left involving Communism, Black-Jewish relations, and 60s radicalism. Must Jewish writing in America remain on the margins, too Jewish for the mainstream yet not ethnic enough for the new multicultural curriculum? Novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by recipients of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, the National Book Award, and many others.

ENG 233 American Literature from 1865 to 1914 (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:00-02:30 D. Flower
A survey of American writing after the Civil War, emphasizing the rise of vernacular style, the emergence of "realism" and "naturalism," and the transformation of Romantic mythology and convention. Emphasis on writers who criticize and stand apart from their societies. Fiction by Mark Twain, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, and Gertrude Stein; poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and E.A. Robinson.

ENG 236 Twentieth Century Afro-American Literature (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:10 D. McClure
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 240 Modern British and American Drama(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:50 L. Gilleman
A study of recent developments in British and American drama, emphasizing interconnectedness and cross-fertilization: theatre of passion; absurdism; language-oriented realism; talk drama; and postmodern, performance-oriented plays. Works by Williams, Miller, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, Rabe, Shaffer, Churchill, Hwang. Occasional screenings of plays.

ENG 241 Screen Comedy (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
WF 11:00-12:10 J. Hunter
Same as FLS 241. Lectures, with occasional discussion, on film comedies from a variety of places and times: American screwball comedies and British Ealing comedies; battles of the sexes; the silent or non-verbal comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Jacques Tati; parodies of other film genres; fast-talking comedy by the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Woody Allen, and Howard Hawks; midsummer night's dreams by Ingmar Bergman, Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and others. Readings in film criticism, film history, and the theory of comedy. Prerequisite: a college course in film or literature, or permission of the instructor. May be repeated under a different topic.

ENG 257 Shakespeare (ENGL 221/222) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-11:50 W. Oram
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 257 02 Shakespeare (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 G. Kendall

ENG 259 Pope, Swift, and Their Circle (BRIT LIT 1700-1900) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 N. Crow
Discussion of the major figures, Pope and Swift, together with their contemporaries Defoe, Prior, Addison, and Gay.

ENG 260 Milton (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 C. Reeves
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 269 Modern British Poetry (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:40 M. Thurston
Twentieth-century poetry in England and Ireland. Emphasis on W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Seamus Heaney, with some attention to such poets as Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Jennings, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes, and Tony Harrison. Prerequisite: 200 or a college course in poetry or permission of the instructor.

ENG 290 Crafting Creative Nonfiction (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 03:00-04:50 S. London
A writers' group designed to encourage proficient students to look at their own and others' essays as works of art. Expertise in mechanical matters to be assumed from the start. Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 292 Reading and Writing Autobiography (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:00-02:50 A. Boutelle
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 Poetry Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 07:30-09:30 M. Fried
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 296 Writing Short Stories (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:00-02:50 T. Le
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 333 A Major British or American Writers: Muriel Spark (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:00-02:50 R. Hosmer
Heir to Waugh and Greene. Spark stands today in the front rank of contemporary writers. A quick-witted, keen-eared, sharp-eyed satirist, Spark has - at the age of 78 - just published her twentieth novel, Dreams and Reality. In addition, she has written short stories, stage plays, radio plays, essays, biographies, poems, books for children, and two parts of an autobiography-in-process, everything animated by her very particular viewpoint, a fusion of her religious faith and transcultural experience. This seminar will explore issues of gender, religion, and class in an effort to come to terms with the work of this contemporary woman writer to whom nothing seems impossible.

ENG 333 A Major British or American Wirter: Jane Austen (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 01:00-02:50 D. Patey
Discussion of Austen's six novels and the unfinished Sanditon, along with important novels (by Ann Radcliffe, Fanny Burney, and Mrs. West) that raise political, social, artistic, and religious issues of concern to Austen. Recommended background: ENG 200 and/or 238.

ENG 333 A Major British or American Writer: T.S. Eliot (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 03:00-04:50 J. Hunter
Reading and discussion of Eliot's major poetry and plays, with some consideration of his critical prose. We will explore such issues as Eliot's role in shaping twentieth century Modernism, his interests in popular culture and in metaphysical verse, his religious and mythological thinking, his strangely mingled Americanness and Englishness, and the controversies - both poetic and political - is work has aroused.

ENG 384 Writing About American Society (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 01:00-02:50 G. Colt
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 391 Modern South Asian Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 03:00-04:50 A. Hai
A study of selected texts in the checkered tradition of South Asian literature in English, from the early poetry of Sarojini Naidu to the recent surge of Indian and diasporic writers and film-makers, such as Arundhati Roy and Hanif Kureishi. Topics include: the (post)colonial fashioning of identities; the interventions of women in nationalist discourse; the crafting of a new idiom in English; the choices of genre and form (fiction, poetry, memoir, film); the problems of memory, historiography, trauma; diaspora and the making of "home." Writers may include: Anand, Narayan, Rao, Markandaya, Naipaul, Desai, Rushdie, Suleri, Ghosh, Kureishi, Mukherjee, Lahiri. Supplementary readings in postcolonial theory and criticism.

FLS 241 Genre/Period: Screen Comedy (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
WF 11:00-12:10 J. Hunter
Same as ENG 241. Lectures, with occasional discussion, on film comedies from a variety of places and times: American screwball comedies and British Ealing comedies; battles of the sexes; the silent or non-verbal comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Jacques Tati; parodies of other film genres; fast-talking comedy by the Marx Brothers, Monty Python, Woody Allen, and Howard Hawks; midsummer night's dreams by Ingmar Bergman, Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and others. Readings in film criticism, film history, and the theory of comedy. Prerequisite: a college course in film or literature, or permission of the instructor. May be repeated under a different topic.

FRN 230 Readings in Modern Literature: Elements of Mystery (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 10:00-10:50 M. Birkett
An introduction to literature, designed to develop skills in oral expression and expository writing. A transition from language courses to more advanced courses in literature and culture. A student may take only one section of FRN 230. Prerequisite: FRN 220, or permission of the instructor.: Probably the most structured of popular fiction, the "detective story" balances a credible plot with believable characters and a setting that both complements and integrates the action. We will explore how authors such as Simenon, Boileau-Narcejac, and Japrisot create carefully suspense, bring order out of disorder, and treat questions of justice and morality. Prerequisite: FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 230 02 Readings in Modern Literature: Childhood and Self-Discovery (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 01:10-02:00 M. Bost-Fievet
An introduction to literature, designed to develop skills in oral expression and expository writing. A transition from language courses to more advanced courses in literature and culture. A student may take only one section of FRN 230. Prerequisite: FRN 220, or permission of the instructor.: An examination of the representation of childhood and its relationship to family, society, memory, creativity, and self-discovery. Readings from 19th and 20th century French and Francophone authors such as Colette, Maupassant, Alain-Fournier, Cocteau. Films by directors such as Truffaut, Malle, and others.

FRN 230 03 Readings in Modern Literature: Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 D. Fulton
An introduction to literature, designed to develop skills in oral expression and expository writing. A transition from language courses to more advanced courses in literature and culture. A student may take only one section of FRN 230. Prerequisite: FRN 220, or permission of the instructor.: An introduction to works by contemporary women writers from francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Topics to be studied include colonialism, exile, motherhood, and intersections between class and gender. Our study of these works and of the French language will be informed by attention to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of writing as a woman in a former French colony. Texts will include works by Mariama Bâ, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra.

FRN 253 Medieval and Renaissance France (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:20 N. Russell
An introduction to the main historical, socio-political, artistic, and intellectual currents that shaped pre-modern France, a period whose values and concept of "literature" were dramatically different from our own. Close readings of the major literary forms of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, such as Arthurian romance, lyric, farce, mock epic, and essay, viewed in their cultural context. Students will acquire a critical framework and a vocabulary for discussing and analyzing these texts in French. We will also consider manuscript images, architecture, and modern films. Topics may include: chivalry and the courtly code, love in the Western tradition, oral culture and the rise of literacy, humanism, scientific inquiry, religious reform. Basis for the major. Prerequisite: a course of higher level than FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 254 France Before the Revolution: Orienting French Identity (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 J. Vanpee
Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries France forged itself the cultural and political identity that still underlies French identity today. We will study how this identity was fashioned and represented in literary works that focus on the confrontation of the French with the Other - foreign political and cultural powers such as the Ottoman empire, Hapsburg Spain, ancient Greece, and the civilizations discovered in the Americas and beyond. Readings from a variety of literary genres from authors such as Molière, Racine, Corneille, Voltaire, Françoise de Graffigny, and Diderot. Some film screenings. Basis of the major. Prerequisite: a course of higher level then FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 260 Literary Visions: Love Triangles (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 M. Gantrel-Ford
We will read famous nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels and see how a depiction of a brilliant and highly cultured society typically sinks into the day-to-day mechanics of an often-disappointing love triangle. Novels by Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Duras. First-year students with a strong background in French and an interest in literature most welcome. Pre-requisite: a course above FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 340 Topics in Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century Literature: Family Values in the Enlightenment (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:10-02:30 J. Vanpee
Pre-marital sex, adultery, divorce, birth control, women's education, women's right to political representation, these controversial issues were at the core of debates over woman's changing legal, social, and cultural status and of her role in the family in eighteenth-century France. We will examine woman's changing role as represented in the fiction and philosophical texts of the French Enlightenment. Readings from l'Abbé Prévost, Françoise de Graffigny, Diderot, Rousseau, Isbelle de Charrière, Laclos, Olympe de Gouges, the Encyclopédie, and some legal documents and treatises.

GER 227 Topics in German Studies: All About Evil (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 07:30-10:00 J. Westerdale
Topic pending approval by the Committee on Academic Priorities. Topic: All About Evil. An exploration of the central role that evil has played in German culture since the eighteenth century. This course examines portrayals of evil in literature, theory and film, looking at the relationship between evil and the development of the modern autonomous individual, the intersection of morality, freedom and identity, and the confrontation of literary and historical evil in the twentieth century. Literary works by Goethe, Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffman, Kafka, Thomas Mann; theoretical texts from Nietzsche, Freud, Arendt; films from Marnau, Wiene. Conducted in English.

GER 351 Advanced Topics in German Studies: German Art and Literature 1900 to 1945 (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 03:00-04:50 G. Gutzmann
Each topic will focus on a particular literary epoch, movement, genre or author from German literary culture. All sections taught in German.: The course explores the emergence of Modernism in German-speaking countries. It looks at Vienna (Schnitzler, Freud), Prague (Kafka, Rilke), Munich (Der blaue Reiter), Dresden (Die Brücke) and Berlin as centers for the rise of modernist movements in literature and art - impressionism, expressionism, Dadaism and for the development of modern media and mass culture. The politicization of modernist art with the rise of Nazism as well as leftist counter movements in the late twenties and early thirties in Germany will receive special attention, as will the efforts of artists after 1933 in their overseas exiles. Literary readings by Kafka, Schnitzler, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Irmgard Keun and Anna Seghers will be complemented throughout the semester by films (Mädchen in Uniform, Der blaue Engel, Die Dreigroschenoper) and other artistic works.

GLT 292 Western Classics in Translation, from Chrétien de Troyes to Tolstoy Inter/Extradepartmental (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 R. Hosmer
Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain; Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; Cervantes' Don Quixote; Lafayette's The Princesse of Clèves; Goethe's Faust; Tolstoy's War and Peace. Prerequisite: GLT 291.

GRK 310 Advanced Readings in Greek Literature: Aeschylus and Herodotus: Athens, the Savior of Greece (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:20 N. Rynearson
Chosen from a list including Plato, Homer, Aristophanes, lyric poets, tragedians, historians and orators, depending on the interests and needs of the students. GRK 310 may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: GRK 213 or permission of the instructor.: A study of how two fifth-century authors, a tragedian and a historian, viewed the wars against Persia that were to transform Athens into an imperial power.

HST 248 The French Revolution as Epic (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 07:00-09:30 E. Benz
Cultural and social interpretations of the fundamental event in modern history. The staging of politics from the tribune to the guillotine. History as a literary art in prose, poetry, drama, and film. Focus on Paris 1787-1795.

HST 280 Problems of Inquiry: Women Writing Resistance (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:20 J. Guglielmo
Women's testimony as a tool for understanding U.S. history in the 19th and 20th centuries. How women have used cultural work to unmask power relations in their confrontations with colonialism, racism, patriarchy, war and capitalism, women's writing - speeches, journalism, essays, journal entries, etc. - in comparison with other forms of creative expression such as visual art, oral history, music, folklore, and political action. Central focus on the production of knowledge and experience to explore what constitutes history.

ITL 250 Survey of Italian Literature I (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:10-02:50 A. Procaccini
Prerequisite for students applying for Junior Year Abroad in Florence. Reading of outstanding works and consideration of their cultural and social backgrounds from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Students must also enroll in a discussion section where they will do intensive work on their writing skills. Prerequisite: ITL 220, and/or 230, and/or 231 or permission of the instructor.

ITL 250 Survey of Italina Literature I Discussions:
D01 Anichini, Federica T 03:10-04:00
D02 Discuss Anichini, Federica W 09:00-09:50
D03 Discuss Anichini, Federica W 11:00-11:50
D04 Discuss Procaccini, Alfonso Th 01:10-02:00

ITL 250 Survey of Italian Literature I Labs:
L01 Lab Succi-Hempstead, Maria M 01:10-02:00
L02 Lab Succi-Hempstead, Maria Th 11:00-11:50
L03 Lab Succi-Hempstead, Maria Th 01:10-02:00

ITL 333 Dante: Divina Commedia - Purgatorio and Paradiso (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 A. Procaccini
Detailed study of Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso in the context of his other works. Conducted in Italian.

ITL 344 Senior Seminar: Italian Women Writers: Women in Italian Society Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 G. Bellesia
This course provides an in-depth look at the changing role of women in Italian society. Authors studied include Sibilla Aleramo, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, and Dacia Maraini. A portion of the course is dedicated to the new multicultural and multiethnic Italian reality. The selection of texts written during the last ten to fifteen years by contemporary women immigrants in Italy include works by Igiaba Scego and Christiana de Caldas Brito. Limited enrollment, permission of the instructor required. Conducted in Italian.

JUD 258 The Jewish Writer in America (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 J. Cammy
Same as ENG 230. The Jewish writer's engagement with America, from the 1890s through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s. From writing on the margins in Yiddish to the central role of Jews in shaping American literature after World War II. Narratives of immigration and acculturation; the myth of America and its discontents; negotiating anti-Semitism in the Anglo-American literary tradition; the rise of the New York Intellectuals; comedy and satire; crises of the Left involving Communism, Black-Jewish relations, and 60s radicalism; and the shadow of the Holocaust. Must Jewish writing in America remain on the margins, "too Jewish" for the mainstream yet not ethnic enough for the new multicultural curriculum? Novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by recipients of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and many others.

KOR 351 Advanced Readings in Korean Language and Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 07:30-08:50 Y. Chung
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.

LAT 330 Advanced Readings in Latin Literature: Roman Letters (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 M. Ryan
Authors read in LAT 330 vary from year to year, but they are generally chosen from a list including epic and lyric poets, historians, orators, comedians and novelists, depending on the interests and needs of students. LAT 330 may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: Two courses at the 200-level or permission of the instructor.: Selected readings from Roman epistolary literature, including works by Cicero, Pliny, and Seneca. Attention to the development of epistolary theory and style; mechanics of exchange; private vs. public correspondence; and verse adaptations of the letter form. Prerequisite: 216 or permission of the instructor.

POR 221 Topics in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Culture: Brazil x Five: A Journey through Its Mul (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-12:10 M. Harrison
This course will examine Brazil from the standpoint of its regional diversity, from which the country's cultural richness is drawn. We will study works of literature, visual culture, music, and culinary history, in order to discuss Brazil's regional, economic and racial differences, for the purpose of analyzing its identity as a multidimensional nation. Moreover, because of the country's size and geographical location, students interested in comparative studies within Latin America will have a chance to look at each of Brazil's regions in relation to its closest South American and Caribbean neighbors.

POR 280 Portuguese and Brazilian Voices in Translation (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 M. McNee
Literature on the Margins of Modernity. This course will introduce celebrated writers from the Portuguese-speaking world. While some of these writers have achieved international acclaim, the location of their writing at the edges of global modernity is vital to understand not only the aesthetic and thematic force of their works but also the frameworks for their reception in translation. In addition to close-readings of a limited selection of works, we will discuss the place of these writers in their respective national literatures, a transnational Portuguese-language literature, and world literature today. Writers may include: José Saramago (Portugual); Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Luis Fernando Verissimo (Brazil); Mia Couto (Mozambique). Course conducted in English.

POR 380 Advanced Literary Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:30 C. Cutler
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, Cecília 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 127 Readings in 20th-Century Russian Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 09:00-09:50 A. Woronzoff-Dashkoff
Literature and Revolution. The theme of revolution as a central concern of Soviet literature. Authors treated include Gorky, Bely, Blok, Mayakovsky, Pilnyak, Zamiatin, Gladkov, Babel, Sholokhov, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn. In translation.

RUS 239 Major Russian Writers (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 M. Mikeshin
A study of Russian culture from medieval times to the present through its major writers. Emphasis will be given to artistic, historical, geographical, social and spiritual forces in the development of Russian culture. Course material will include primary texts as well as audio-visual presentations. Conducted in English. No prerequisites.

SPN 230 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Literature: Representations of the indio (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:10-02:30 M. Falsetti-Yu
This course will examine representations of other indio by both non-indigenous writers, through the lens of empire/nation building and cultural autonomy. Two perspectives of "El problema del indio" (The Indian question or problem) will be juxtaposed: The Problem with Indians (as in Indians as problems) and "Los problemas de los indígenas" or the conditions endured by Indians. Course readings will include oral histories of the Mapuche Indians and others, as well as texts by a selection of Spanish-American and Spanish authors such as Estéban Echeverria, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Juan Rulfo, Mariano Azuela, José Carlos Mariátegui, Rigoberto Menchú, Ulrico Shhmidl, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lope de Vega, and others. Prerequisites: SPN 220 or above.

SPN 245 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 09:00-10:20 R. Lazaro
Spanish Film as Visual Narrative. The representation of reality in contemporary Spanish cinema has produced a variety of documentaries which emphasize the fictional aspects of their production. At the same time, many contemporary Spanish fictional films display a clear will to document reality. By analyzing both "fictional documentaries" and "realist fictions" such as these, we will explore both how contemporary Spanish cinema positions itself with respect to Spanish society, and how these films reformulate the terms "real" and"realism." This course is taught in Spanish. It offers ample opportunities to develop oral and written expression in the language, through discussion, presentations, film-reviews, a mid-term paper, and a short video project. Requirements: SPN 220 or above, or permission of the instructor.

SPN 246 Topics in Latin American Literature: Reinterpreting Magical Realism in Literature and Film (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 10:30-11:50 M. Rueda
Magical realism has been studied as a way of representing reality that is particularly suited to Latin American needs for expression. This class will explore the rationale behind this conception, in terms of how the representative strategies of magical realism approach the conflictive histories of Latin America. Students will analyze the implications of this approach in films and literary works that use this type of discourse. Prerequisite: SPN 220 or above.

SPN 246 02 Topics in Latin American Literature: Negotiating the Borderlands: Text, Film, Music (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 09:00-10:20 M. Joffroy
This course will explore a variety of representations of the U.S. -Mexico border, as constructed by writers, filmmakers, and musicians from the borderlands. Of particular interest will be the ways in which representations of this specific region have changed historically, politically and culturally as the border has become more and more a factor in both U.S. and Mexican cultural discourses. We will examine such questions as: What is the border? Where does it begin/end? How does language affect representation? How have different mediums been employed to express the variety of experiences contained in the borderlands? Who represents the border, and how? Course materials primarily in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPN 220 or above.

SPN 251 A Genealogy of the Modern Spanish Novel (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MWF 11:00-12:10 I. Bouachrine
This course explores the social, political, and cultural development of Spain through the modern novel from about 1870 to the present day. We will study the representative literary movements including Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, the Avant-Garde, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Special attention will be paid to the representation and at times repression of modern Spain's multiple and shifting cultural identities. We will read novels by Benito Pérez Galdós, Ramón Sender, and Magdalena Lasala, in light of theoretical writings by Sami Nair, Juan Goytisolo, Albert Memmi and José Ignacio.

SPN 261 Survey of Latin American Literature II (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:30 M. Kaplan
A study of the development of genres and periods in Latin American literature. Special attention will be given to the relationship between the evolution of literary forms and social context. Some topics to be explored include literary periods and movements as ideological constructs, and the Latin American adaptation of European models.

SPN 356 Close-reading, Translation and Performance: Don Juan (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
F 09:00-10:20 R. Lazaro
Close reading in the original Spanish of three of the Don Juan plays read in English in SPN 364/CLT 364 (Tirso's, Valale-Inclán's and Azorin's). This course provides opportunities to practice literary reading and communicative skills in Spanish, and to perfect pronunciation and exposition through brief performances and translations, and two film reviews in Spanish. Highly recommended in combination with SPN 364 for Spanish majors and CLT students concentrating in Spanish. Prerequisite: SPN 230 or above or permission of the instructor.

SPN 372 Meanings of Travel in Modern Latin American Culture (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 01:00-02:30 M. Rueda
This class will study Latin American culture since Independence as portrayed in a series of journeys. We will read texts that deal with the movement of people and ideas from the Old World to the New, from colonial times to modernization, between Europe and Latin America, as well as South and North of the Americas. Some of the works also represent travels within the nations: from the city to the country or the jungle and vice versa, in literary quests motivated both by artistic and social aspects.

SPN 380 Advanced Literary Studies (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTh 03:00-04:30 C. Cutler
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, Cecília 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.

THE 213 American Theatre and Drama (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 H. Derr
A survey of theatre history and practices, as well as dramatic literature, theories, and criticism, and their relationship to the cultural, social, and political environment of the United States from the beginning of colonial to contemporary theatre. Lectures, discussions, and presentations will be complemented by video screenings of recent productions of some of the plays under discussion.

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

THE 262 Writing for the Theatre (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
Th 01:00-02:50 L. Berkman
Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 261. L and P.

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

THE 361 Screenwriting (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:00-02:50 A. Hairston
The means and methods of the writer for television and the cinema. Analysis of the structure and dialogue of a few selected films. Prerequisite: 261 or 262 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 12. Writing sample required.

THE 362 Screenwriting(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 01:00-02:50 A. Hairston
Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 361.

WST 260 The Cultural Work of Memoir (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 02:40-04:00 S. Van Dyne
This course will explore how queer subjectivity intersects with gender, ethnicity, race, and class. How do individuals from groups marked as socially subordinate or non-normative use life-writing to claim a right to write? The course uses life-writing narratives, published in the U.S. over roughly the last 30 years, to explore the relationships between politicized identities, communities, and social movements. Students also practice writing autobiographically. Prerequisites: WST 150, and a literature course.

AMHERST COLLEGE

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

HACU 0148 Art and Exile (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 12:30-01:50PM K. Koehler, R. Rubinstein
This course will explore the changing representations of exile in visual art, architecture, literature and film. We will unpack the shifting meanings of exile, displacement, and diaspora as experience and metaphor in the context of modernity, as well as discuss relationships between imagined/remembered homelands and transnational identities, language loss, bi- and multilingualism and translation, alienation, difference, and memory as they are expressed by diverse artists in exile. We will cover a range of periods, places, and genres; from Chagall and Duchamp to Dali and Gropius, from Gertrude Stein to Salman Rushdie to Marjane Satrapi. We will explore questions of national and ethnic identity, cultural and linguistic heritage, and community and personal memory, as we investigate both the actual and imagined positions of the exile. Expectations include a series of progressively more complex papers and presentations. This course will incorporate a series of public lectures and panels on the topic of art, exile and memory.

HACU 0161 The English Bible (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 10:30-11:50AM A. Hodder
The English Romantic, William Blake, characterized the Bible as the Great Code of Art, an observation that finds repeated illustration throughout the Western literary tradition from medieval mystery plays to the latest fiction of Toni Morrison. By the same token, biblical stories form the bedrock of the scriptural traditions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews the world over. What are these stories that have so captivated readers for over 2000 years? Why has the Bible had such an immense religious and imaginative appeal? This course introduces students to the full range of biblical literature from the stories of Genesis to the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth. While the course emphasizes literary features of the Bible as it has been rendered in English, we will also consider important religious, moral, and theological implications. Among the biblical texts considered will be the foundational stories of Genesis and Exodus; the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth; the stories of David and Kings; the Book of Job and the Song of Solomon; the prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel; New Testament gospels; Acts of the Apostles; and the Book of Revelation.

HACU 0162 Questioning the Self (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 10:30-11:50AM J. Drabinski
If philosophy is concerned with how we ought to live, and what we can hope for, then we must clarify the nature of the being who lives and hopes: the human person, the self. Who am I? What does it mean to engage in self-reflection? What do I see, what do I examine when I turn my attention to my self? These questions will guide our critical reading of important and interesting thinkers. The course will begin with two classic accounts of self-examination: Socrates in Apology and G.W.F. Hegel's master-servant dialectic in Phenomenology of Spirit. Our subsequent readings of W.E.B. Dubois, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Octavia Butler's novel Kindred will push at the limits of Socrates and Hegel, underscoring the immense complexity of self-examination. Questioning the self, as we shall see, immerses us in bodies, languages, and various senses of history.

HACU 0179 Ancient Greek and Indian Drama (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:00-02:20PM R. Meagher
This course offers an introduction to the theatrical traditions of ancient Greece and India, arguably the two oldest (21/2 millennia) theatrical traditions in the world. A grounded case can be made for historical links between these two traditions; and, intuitively, their many intriguing similarities are quite immediately compelling. Readings include selected plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Bhasa, Kalidasa, and King Shudraka. Special attention is paid to the historical context of each play and to considerations of staging, ancient and modern.

HACU 0182 Critical Reading, Critical Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM L. Sanders
This writing-intensive seminar is designed to appeal to students with diverse interests who wish to learn a variety of methods for developing and improving college-level writing skills. The course will introduce students to the essay as a genre, identifying the rhetorical strategies of persuasion and argument used by essayists since the sixteenth century. We will discuss the use of individual experience as a method of analyzing society as a whole, and will consider the role of logic, wit, irony, and satire in creative and critical writing. Readings will begin with Montaigne and Bacon and will progress thematically, exploring the development of the periodical essay in the eighteenth century and the familiar essay in the nineteenth century, both of which remain influential forms. Themes to be addressed include family and personal history, identity, politics and cultural difference. In-class writing instruction will complement peer critique workshops to aid students in the process of drafting and revising their work.

HACU 0220 Imagining the Other (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM R. Rubinstein
African Americans, Native Americans, and Jewish Americans have continually functioned in American culture as figurative sites through which white Americans worked out anxieties about racial, ethnic, national, even sexual difference. At the same time, these groups have long thought of themselves as occupying a unique position within American history and culture, and have also continuously imagined themselves in a special relationship with one another. This intermediate level course will examine several moments of self-representation and cross-representation through historical, literary, and visual materials. Throughout the semester we will consider questions of comparative diasporas, displacements, and dispossessions; ethno-racial sympathy, identification, and competition; ethnic autonomy, self- determination, and nationalism. How have these groups been represented imaginatively by and in the dominant culture? How and why have these groups imaginatively used one another to argue cultural legitimacy and/or authentic Americanness? This course is ideal for students working in American studies, race studies, and ethnic studies.

HACU 0241 Queer Fictions of Race(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM
Tina Turner famously asked, What's love got to do with it? In the conflicted terrain where race meets sexuality, all too often it seems that love has very little to do with anything. Accusations of racial fetishism and historical erasure jostle against radical queer claims of inclusiveness and free- floating desire. This class attempts to understand how 20th century narratives of race and sexuality complicate one another. We range from personal ads to theoretical reflections on gender and space. Topics covered include exile and deracination, kinship and futurity, space and cruising, and the marketplace of desire. We will read selections from John D'Emilio, Dwight McBride, Judith Butler, and Robert Reid- Pharr; novels by James Baldwin, Lawrence Chua and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

HACU 0253 City in Lit & Early Film (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 02:00-03:20PM W 07:00-09:00PM L. Sanders
This course examines the role of the city in shaping modern experience. A primary text for the course will be Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, a novel that figures prominently in turn- of-the-century American literature and culture in its representation of urban history, invoking contemporary debates over sexual and consumer desire, labor conditions, and leisure practices. In conjunction with this novel we will study literary works by Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, and Charles Baudelaire alongside a number of silent films, reading these texts against historical and critical discussions of everyday life in the urban environment. Among other themes, we will take up the debate over flanerie as a spatial and social practice, investigating the class and gender dynamics of urban and cinematic spectatorship. Our conversations will be shaped by an awareness of the city as a geographically locatable space to be mapped and traversed, but also as a site for imaginary projections of individual and collective experience. Several shorter papers and a substantial research project will be required.

HACU 0260 Ancient Epic (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM R. Meagher
The aim of this course will be the comparative study of four ancient bronze- age epics from Greece, India, Israel, and Ireland. The core readings will comprise: The Iliad, The Mahabharata, The David Story, and The Tain. Each text will be considered both in its own historical and cultural context and in the larger shared context of bronze age epic, myth, and literature.

HACU 0261 Contemporary Latin American Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 04:00-05:20PM N. Holland
Much of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s lived historical traumas when the military seized power. Eventually many of the military regimes passed on the governmental torch to democracies. What makes the Latin American situation so distinct is that the military governments left older structures, both cultural and political, in ruins. Consequently Latin American culture is in distress. Terms such as citizen, nation, the future, history, memory, even Latin America are being rethought. Through recent novels and films, the course explores how the cultural terrain has been altered in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia by the demands of neoliberalism and advanced capitalism. We will attempt to come up with some provisional definitions of the above key terms. Among our guides will be Cortzar, Lispector, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Puig, Piglia, Eltit, Salazar, Lemebel, and Mercado.

HACU 0274 Race, Empire, Renaissance Stage (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM
Although questions of race and empire may seem to be modern concerns, they were also present in Shakespeare's time. While Shakespeare and his contemporaries were writing plays for the English stage, England was attempting to advance its position on the world stage through overseas exploration and commerce. This course will explore the Renaissance stage as a site where the English expressed their fears and fantasies about cross-cultural contact and imperial growth. We will consider such questions as: What did it mean to be black or Jewish in Shakespeare's England? How did the stage represent the East and the religion of Islam? In what ways did the popular theater both challenge and perpetuate cultural stereotypes? Readings may include Shakespeare's The Tempest, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice; John Fletcher's The Island Princess; Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; and Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West. Prereq: one literature course.

HACU 0275 Rad Begin:18th-19th-C. Lit (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 09:00-10:20AM J. Wallen
Long before Modernist experiments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, writers were challenging the traditional constraints, contents, and genres of literature. In this course we will read several groundbreaking works, which offer radically new ideas about human subjectivity and experience. Readings may include Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Rousseau's Confessions, Wordsworth's Prelude, plays by Kleist and Buechner, and Goethe's Elective Affinities. We will also study philosophical, critical, and musical responses to these works, such as Hegel's discussion of Rameau's Nephew and Alban Berg's opera based on Buechner's Woyzeck.

HACU 0278 Screenwriting (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 09:00-11:50AM M. Elyanow
This 200-level course is open to advanced students currently working on projects and/or less advanced students seeking to develop basic understandings and skills in screenwriting. Students are expected to work on writing exercises, bring in pages to read in class, and/or continue developing an existing idea or work-in-progress such as a divisional project. The focus of the class will be on screenwriting structure, with specific attention paid to the paradigmatic Three-Act Structure of narrative feature films. Alternative approaches to understanding structure and story will also be discussed, such as The Hero's Story, The Dual-Lead Story, The Multi-Protagonist Story, The Cyclical Story, The Bookended Story and Kristin Thompson's Four-Act Structure Paradigm. Other issues to be addressed include Character Development and Arc, Dialogue, Scene Structure, Scene Transitions, Point of View, Writing Directive Paragraphs, Creating Forward Movement, Plot Vs. Story and Understanding Theme. Examples of both screenplays and movie scene selections with audiocommentary will be used in class. Registration is by instructor permission and will be posted after the first class. This course satisfies Division I distribution requirements.

HACU 0286 Brecht and World Cinema (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 07:00-10:00PM M. Barton 07:00-09:00PM
This course will be an investigation of the influence of the German playwright, poet and theorist Bertolt Brecht on international cinema, particularly since the 1960s. We will consider key texts on and by Brecht plus film and video works from European new waves, New German Cinema, East German cinema, Hollywood, U.S. feminist film/video, as well as Latin American and African films. Artists include: Fritz Lang, Glauber Rocha, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Wolfgang Staudte, Slatan Dudow, Yvonne Rainer, Helke Sander, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler, Hans Juergen Syberberg, Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.The major critical question is the continued relevance of political modernism in cinema. By the end of the semester, I hope to have discussed the most controversial and unfinished issues related to Brecht and film: Brechtian theory in the Cold-War era and after; Brecht's appropriation of Asian theatrical forms; Brechtian aesthetics and gender; Brecht and the essay film; and the question of avant-garde vs. popular aesthetics in film. There is a two-hour, weekly screening for this class.

HACU 0289 Mystics and Texts (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM A. Hodder
No issue in the comparative history of religion dramatizes the challenges of cross- cultural study of religious phenomena more than what is referred to as the problem of mysticism. Is the mystic a kind of lone ranger of the soul whose experience reveals and confirms the transcendental unity of all religions, or are the experiences of mystics entirely predetermined by a the mystics' respective contexts of history, tradition, language, and culture? What is the relation between the mystic's interior experiences and what he or she writes about them? In this course we will undertake a comparative study of mystical and scriptural texts representing Neoplatonic, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions within the framework of modern and contemporary critical contributions to the history, psychology, and philosophy of mysticism. Among the mystics and texts considered are: Plotinus, The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, selected Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, Mirabai, Ramakrishna, Milarepa, and Dogen. Prerequisite: at least one course in the study of religion or philosophy.

HACU 0309 Adv. Sem in Autobio Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 02:30-05:20PM M. Russo
In this course, we will consider the varieties of contemporary memoirs and their relationship to earlier forms of confessional and testimonial writing. This semester the syllabus will emphasize philosophical and political memoirs that aim to place personal writing in a larger social or theoretical frame. Students enrolled in this course will participate in building our syllabus and developing their own writing project. This course is open to students in all disciplines but is designed especially for students concentrating in literature and writing. Prerequisites: Two or more previous courses in literature and writing or completion of Writing the Self in 2004-2005.

IA 0131 Playwriting (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 10:30-11:50AM E. Donkin
Our work in this course will be more or less equally divided between reading plays and writing a one-act. The plays we read, which will include a wide variety of playwrights, will inform our exercise work even as they deepen and extend our sense of drama as a form. We will be paying particular attention to the way character is revealed through dialogue, ways to unfold exposition, segmentation of dramatic action, and how dialogue is shaped by character activity. This course is designed for students who have not yet filed their Division II.

IA 0132 Feminist Fictions (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
WF 01:00-02:30PM L. Hanley, E. Siegel
This course will explore works of fiction by post-women's liberation writers. Discussion will focus on forms of narration, use of language and structure, the representation of gender, sexuality, race and culture, and the relation of the acts of writing and reading to feminist theory and practice. Readings will include Beloved, The Autobiography of My Mother, For the Country Entirely, Stone Butch Blues, and Red Azalea. We will also read A Room of One's Own and selected critical essays, and students should expect to keep a journal consisting of at least one typed paragraph on each text. Students will write in a variety of forms-personal essay, literary criticism, short fiction, and autobiography. For the final project, students will write a 1-15 page portrait of their mother, which will be critiqued in small groups, revised and presented to the class. The teaching assistants in the course will each be assigned a group of students with whom they will work in a variety of ways (read their journal entries and papers, be available for advice, perhaps organize evening writing workshops for interested students).

IA 0147 Literary Journalism (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 02:00-03:20PM C. Kelly
Literary journalism is the intersection of art and craft. In this course, we'll explore the practical, theoretical, and ethical issues of writing non-fiction that combines interview, observation, and investigation with narrative techniques of character development and scene creation. The format of the class will be half discussion/lecture and half workshop. All written work will receive ongoing review and evaluation from the instructor and the class members.

IA 0152 Mysterious Fictions/Secrets (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 12:30-01:50PM N. Arnold
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 focused writing exercises 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.

IA 0228 Storytelling As Performance (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 10:30-11:50AM N. Sowell
Storytelling is an oral art form whose practice provides a means of preserving and transmitting images, ideas, motivations, and emotions. The practice of oral literature is storytelling. A central, unique aspect of storytelling is its reliance on the audience to develop specific visual imagery and detail to complete and co- create the story. The primary emphasis of this course is in developing storytelling skills through preparation, performance, and evaluation. In this class you will research storytelling traditions and the resurgence of storytelling in America. Participants will engage in exercises and activities to enhance the delivery of telling stories; learn to incorporate various techniques to engage audiences; and develop an awareness of resources, materials, and philosophies of storytelling. This class is designed to help participants build a storytelling repertoire which will express their unique identities as tellers.

IA 0230 Prison Literature (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 02:00-03:20PM R. Coles
Some of the world's most memorable writers have undergone some form of incarceration and have used this experience in their literary work. We will look at some of these writers and their texts to evaluate what kind of impact the prison experience has made on literary production and society, as well as to locate similarities and differences among inmate perspectives . Some of our texts will include: Autobiography of Malcom X (Malcom X), Soul on Ice (E. Cleaver), Assata (A. Shakur), Night (Ellie Wiesel) Wall Tappings: An Anthology of Writings by Women Prisoners (Scheffler), Pimp (Iceberg Slim), In the Belly of the Beast (Jack Abbott), Death Blossoms (Mumia Jamal), Notes From the House of the Dead (F. Dostoevsky), The 16th Round (Hurricane Carter).

IA 0251 Interm. Poetry Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TH 12:30-03:20PM P. Jenkins
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 Makings of Sensibility/Strateg (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
M 06:30-09:20PM N. Arnold
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.

IA 0289 Steeped in Story: Div II Sem (JR-YR WRITING) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
W 02:30-05:20PM B. James
Stories are perhaps the primary means by which people give form to their individual and common experiences. Almost every academic discipline deals intimately with narrative in complex and sometimes contradictory ways. This is a course designed for students in the final semesters of their Division II who are working with narrative in one or more disciplines, including (but not limited to) creative writing, film, theater, sociology, American Studies, literature, education, graphic narrative, psychology, anthropology, media studies, philosophy, religion, and the visual arts. Ideally, we will have a wide variety of fields represented, our goal being to learn from one another how we make use of story and storytelling in our respective areas of interest, while expanding the range and depth of our own work in the process. Weekly readings and regular writing assignments will be assigned by the instructor, but much of the trajectory of the course will be decided by the individual interests and ambitions of the students. One formal presentation, one essay, and one piece of creative writing will be due. Expect weekly peer critiques and a good deal of reading, both theoretical and creative. Please email the instructor at bgjames@hampshire.edu if you are interested in taking this course.

IA 292 Itineraries of Desire(UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:00-02:20PM M. Russo
The journey is arguably the most compelling narrative frame. The history of narrative prose and poetry could be written around the varieties of journeys: quests, military expeditions, crusades, pilgrimages, grand tours, sentimental journeys, explorations, trail blazing and ordinary walks. One person's heroic adventure, of course, is another's involuntary migration, kidnapping, or enslavement. In literature and in critical theory, these terms are ambiguous and must be analyzed within carefully drawn cultural and material parameters. In this course, we will consider various theoretical models for understanding how the itinerary or plan for moving from one place to another (including the final destination) is motivated by desire and how the itinerary comes to represent the place of culture and cultural difference. Reading for the course will include contemporary novels, non- fiction narratives, films, literary theory, and politics. This comparative literature course is suitable for advanced division two and division three students. Writing assignments will include short essays on the assigned reading and the development of an independent project. Prerequisite: Two or more previous courses in literature, cultural studies, or critical theory.

IA 0399 Advanced Seminar in Writing (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
T 12:30-03:20PM L. Hanley, P. Jenkins
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.

SS 0188 Ordering the World (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 02:00-03:20PM J. Wald, J. Wallen
Although we take for granted the availability and organization of information, our situation is unique. Libraries are ancient, but why did new means of organizing information (such as the dictionary) evolve only a few centuries ago? Arranging knowledge is a philosophical as well as practical problem: not just how can I find that? but what does the location mean? Why were the titles of medieval books ambiguous? Why did a Chinese emperor commission a compendium of all human knowledge and a French king burn one? Could we live in the world of Borges's imaginary Chinese encyclopedia, whose classification of animals included frenzied and having just broken the water pitcher? Focusing on the eras of print and digital culture, we examine libraries, archives, dictionaries and encyclopedias, scientific classification, and hypermedia. Readings include historical documents, critical and theoretical texts, and works of literature.

SS 0206 Writing the Civil War (2nd AM LIT) (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
MW 01:00-02:20PM S. Tracy, W. Ryan
Historians agree that the American Civil War marks the birthing point of the United States as a modern nation, but that's about the end of any clear scholarly consensus. This course will explore the questions surrounding this pivotal conflict, beginning with the antebellum debates which consumed the public during the first part of the 19th century. From there we will turn our attention to the war itself and those swept up in it, including not only generals and soldiers, but also doctors and nurses, free blacks and slaves, immigrants and workers. We will also consider the war's aftermath and try to gain insight into the conflict's place in our collective memory. Our main source material will consist of the voluminous writing the conflict produced: letters, journals, diaries, and autobiographies; poetry, short stories and novels; and biographies and scholarly works. These forms of writing will also serve as models for our own written work. Since this is also a writing class, students will have at least one opportunity to present a piece for peer review. This course is eligible for Division I Distribution.

SS 0252 Gandhi's Critique (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TTH 12:30-01:50PM V. Bhandari
Modernity, it has been argued, exemplifies the Enlightenment truths of alienated production, bureaucratic rationality, secular progress, and the associated practices of science, technology, humanism, development, and management. However, the modern world has also witnessed the emergence of imperialism, nationalism, and the simultaneous exploitation of large parts of the world. Partly in reaction against these historical forces, a number of twentieth century social movements have adopted strategies opposed to violent confrontation, revolution, and civil war. In the twentieth century, a major critic of modernity has epitomized these strategies: M.K. Gandhi. Through a critical evaluation of the life and works of Gandhi, this course will examine Gandhis views on non-violence, the political strategy of civil disobedience, and his critique of modernity. Texts, films, and the personal narratives of Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Martin Luther King will be analyzed in conjunction with Gandhis writings to understand social movements that his ideas have inspired in British India, and the United States.

SS 0287 Meeting Lacan (UPPER-LEVEL ELECTIVE)
TH 09:00AM-12:00PM A. Rogers
Students will learn Lacanian psychoanalysis through several experiences: psychoanalytic cases, a novel, and work on the Hampshire College farm. We'll read primary and secondary literature on Lacanian psychoanalysis, including cases by Freud. Students will work in groups to create scenes in which Lacan visits Freud and advises him on a case, and perform that scene. We'll also explore Lacan's concept of desire and the three psychic structures through Siri Hustvedt's novel, What I Loved. Finally, students will be involved in a regular, individual task at the Hampshire College Farm Center, and will write their private impressions, associations, and any dreams that refer to this experience. The idea is to learn interiority, and find an art form for it. The final project for this course is the art form and Lacanian analysis of that interiority. Previous coursework in psychoanalysis, literature, or aesthetics is required.