Undergraduate Courses (Spring 2007)
(Last updated: 1/17/06)

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 273 American Realism, ENGL 279 Introduction to American Studies, ENGL 300-L1 Advanced Seminar: Race and Slavery, ENGL 300-L2 Advanced Seminar: Early 20th-Century American Women Writers, ENGL 491OO The National Imaginary: Literature and Politics in the Early Republic, ENGL 492F Love & Death in the American Landscape. In addition, some courses offered at the Five Colleges also fill this requirement.

Please note that when a course is marked (Jr-Yr Writing), it means the course fulfills the Writing & Criticism/Junior-Year Writing requirement for English majors. Such courses offered this semester are: ENGL 300-L1 Advanced Seminar: Race and Slavery, ENGL 300-L2 Advanced Seminar: Early 20th-Century American Women Writers, ENGL 300-L3 Advanced Seminar: Writings on and by Early Modern Women, 1550 - 1700, ENGL 300-L4 Advanced Seminar: Reading, Writing, Performance, ENGL 300-L5 Advanced Seminar: Practical Criticism, ENGL 300-L6 Advanced Seminar: The Nation Writes Back, ENGL 469H Honors Victorian Montrosity.

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115H-L1 Honors American Experience (ALU) 23722
Instructor: M. Lowance T/Th 2:30 pm
Commonwealth College Honors. This is a 4-credit Honors course. Commonwealth College only.

117-L1 Ethnic American Literature (ALU) 20824
Instructor: N. Azank 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) 20887
Instructor: K. Henry MWF 11:15 am

120-L1 English Composition 20825
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 20826
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 11:15 am
Stockbridge students only.

120-L3 English Composition 20827
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 1:25 pm
Stockbridge students only.

120-L4 English Composition 20828
Instructor: L. Bradley MWF 12:20 pm
Stockbridge students only.

131-L1 Society and Literature (ALG) 20896
Instructor: G. Christian MWF 9:05 am
This course will consider the ways in which 19 th - and 20 th -century authors have perceived the relationship between individuals and their societies, including the meanings and effects of being part of--or excluded from--groups, families, cultures, or nations. It will also pay attention to the ways writers address social and political issues, such as the relations between people of different races, ethnicity, genders, classes, and sexual orientations. And it will investigate the connections between art and politics, literature and society: how society and its history shape language and literary culture, how literature responds to society, how art may reimagine society in utopian or dystopian ways, and how art may affect society and influence politics. Texts may include novels, autobiographies, poems, short stories, and plays.

131-L2 Society and Literature (ALG) 20829
Instructor: B. Johnson MWF 10:10 am

131-L3 Society and Literature (ALG) 20830
Instructor: M. Wilson T/Th 9:30 am
Orchard Hill, Central, and Northeast area RAP or TAP students only.

131-L4 Society and Literature (ALG) 20885
Instructor: D. Collins MWF 11:15 am
Southwest area RAP or TAP students only.

132-L1 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 20831
Instructor: D. Carlin MW 5:00 - 5:50 pm
This course, through an examination of novels and film, will address how we understand the categories of gender and sexuality that we either apply to ourselves or have affixed to us through the institutions of family, society, and medicine. Since the 1950s, for instance, the term gender has been increasingly used to distinguish a social role (gender role) and/or personal identity (gender identity) distinct from biological sex. Though some gender associations are changing as society progresses, controversy still exists over the extent to which gender roles are simply stereotypes, arbitrary social constructions, or natural innate differences. While this course cannot and will not attempt to solve these controversies, it will explore the various and sometimes discomfitting multiple formulations of gender and sexuality as they are represented in texts and played out across cultures. Novels for this course may include: Pamela Sargent's dystopic science fiction novel, The Shore of Women (1986); contempo- rary Nigerian author Chris Abani's Graceland (2004), a coming-of-age story about a young man who tries to balance and integrate the legacies of both his mother and his father; Carol Shields' Happenstance (1994), a narrative about a marriage told through the separate points-of-view of both husband and wife; Julia Alvarez's historical novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), about the Mirabal sisters who choose different strategies and accommoda- tions for surviving under a dictatorship; and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex (2002), the journey of an American immigrant family and the fate of one of its ancestors who must fashion an identity from between sexes and genders as an intersex person. Films will include two documentaries: Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005), and Sex Unknown (2001), as well as the feature films Foxfire (1996), an adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates novel about young women who bond over revenge against a sexually harassing teacher and starring a young Angelina Jolie, and Ma Vie En Rose (1997), a film about a young French boy who cannot wait until he grows up to become a woman, much to the confusion and consternation of his family.

Taught as a large lecture using WebCT, an important component of this course will be students' regular attendance at, and engaged participation in, discussion sections. Students will also be encouraged to share their ideas and interpretations in lecture itself through the use of PRS, another required component of the course. Writing assignments will include seven short (1-2 paragraphs) postings on Discussion Boards in WebCT, a midterm and a final examination. Books for the course will be ordered from and available at Food for Thought Books in Amherst . PRS devices will need to be purchased from the UMass Amherst Textbook Annex. Discussion section required .

132-D1 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23723
Instructor: K. Binette F 10:10 am

132-D2 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23724
Instructor: E. Honey F 9:05 am

132-D3 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23725
Instructor: E. Honey F 11:15 am

132-D4 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23726
Instructor: D. Fraser F 10:10 am

132-D5 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23727
Instructor: D. Fraser F 12:20 pm

132-D6 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23728
Instructor: E. Fortier F 9:05 am

132-D7 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23729
Instructor: E. Fortier F 11:15 am

132-D8 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23730
Instructor: J. Mason F 10:10 am

132-D9 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23731
Instructor: J. Mason F 9:05 am

132-D10 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23732
Instructor: K. Binette F 12:20 pm

132-D11 Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture (ALG) 23733
Instructor: M. Boucher F 11:15 am

141-L1 Reading Poetry (AL) 20888
Instructor: S. Zultanski 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.

144-L1 World Literature in English (ALG) 20889
Instructor: S. Ray MWF 10:10 am
Study of major literary texts in English from different parts of a postcolonial "third world" -- African countries, the Caribbean, and India .  Commonalities and differences in literary development in postcolonial nations.

144-L2 World Literature in English (ALG) 20890
Instructor: L. Kidder MWF 11:15 am

196 Independent Study 20834
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

200-L1 Seminar in Literary Studies 20835
Instructor: J. Bartolomeo MWF 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. In this class we'll work on developing analytical and interpretative skills for thinking, speaking, and writing about literary texts.  We'll also begin to look at various critical perspectives, which can lead to new and different kinds of questions about poetry, fiction, and drama.  The reading will include a wide selection of poetry, fiction by Faulkner, Melville, Hemingway, Chekhov, Oates, and Joyce, and Ibsen's play A Doll House .  There will be a number of short writing assignments, and three longer essays, which will be edited and revised. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher in ENGL 200 to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L2 Seminar in Literary Studies 20836
Instructor: J. Freeman T/Th 1:00 pm
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. We will begin by studying poetry and then move on to short fiction. Much discussion, close reading of works, and papers. Possible reading list: a booklet of love poetry; lives of medieval saints; Boccaccio, Decameron ; Poe tales; Sherlock Holmes adventures; Hemingway short stories. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

200-L3 Seminar in Literary Studies 20837
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 11:15 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.

200-L4 Seminar in Literary Studies 20838
Instructor: J. Greve T/Th 11:15 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course will focus on questions of genre— as a way especially of engaging questions of literary form, literary conventions, the expectations genre sets up for readers, and the ways authors use features of genres creatively. What is "genre" and how does it contribute to our appreciation and understanding of literature? What are the purposes of genre classification? How do authors question generic conventions, or manipulate them for artistic, or even political, purposes? These are just a few of the questions this course will explore by offering in-depth study of a range of literary genres and the conventions that distinguish them. Requirements: One 3-4 page paper; Three 4-6 page papers; Eight weekly writings (informal responses to readings.) 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 20839
Instructor: H. Phan T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This course will introduce students to a range of critical models and reading practices, and provide a selective survey of the various turns and debates in the recent history of literary criticism. It will be guided by several questions, organized around the relationship between history and theory: What historical and/or theoretical assumptions do we bring to our readings of literary texts? What prior histories and readings do literary texts carry embedded within them? In what broader social-historical contexts are literary texts – and the histories and theories of them –produced? What are the historical functions of literature, literary criticism, and literary theory? The main goal of this course is to equip students with critical and theoretical tools necessary for both the interpretation of literary-cultural texts, and the interrogation of literary-cultural histories. 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 20903
Instructor: J. Williams MW 4:00 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.

200H-L1 Honors Seminar in Literary Studies 23734
Instructor: J. Freeman T/Th 9:30 am
Pre-English majors only (CAS/L). Prerequisite: Gen. Ed. CW. This is an Honors Course. Students must receive a grade of ‘B-' or higher to be officially admitted to the English major. Come to 252 Bartlett at Pre-Registration to add the pre-major.

201-L1 Major British Writers I 20873
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
COMBINED CLASS WITH LECTURE 3. 11 SEATS RESERVED FOR English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. The period in English history spanning the 8 th through the 17 th -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 16 th - and 17 th -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-L2 Major British Writers I 20874
Instructor: A. Higgins T/Th 11:15 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only. An intro- duction to English literature from the Middle Ages to the Early-Modern period. In this course we will survey the development of English literature over a span of about a thousand years, considering issues of form and genre, and thinking about the ways in which literary works reflect the changing linguistic, social, and cultural contexts of their composition. Among our readings will be the 8 th -century Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf , romances from twelfth and thirteenth-century England , Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , and works by Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. All the works we will read, despite their many differences from each other, are part of the body of literary work we identify as “English.” As we read them, we will consider the question of their English identity—both where that Englishness lies, and its significance for the development of English literature through the centuries. Frequent short written responses; midterm exam; two papers.

201-L3 Major British Writers I 20943
Instructor: D. Swain T/Th 2:30 pm
COMBINED CLASS WITH LECTURE 1. 24 SEATS RESERVED FOR English TAP students.

202-L1 Major British Writers 20840
Instructor: C. Bailey MW 2:30 pm
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only . This course will investigate the development of British literature from the Enlightenment of the 18 th -century through the Romanticism and Realism of the 19 th -century to the Modernism of the early 20 th -century; literary response to scientific and industrial changes, political revolution, and the technical and social reordering of British society.

This course is designed as a survey of British literature--mostly poetry—from the 18 th -century through the 1930's. Given the number of writers we will cover, we will obviously be unable to go into real depth on any of them. But I hope that you will come out of the course with a broad knowledge of the primary currents, political and psychological as well as esthetic, that helped set the terms of British thinking from before the French revolution to after World War I, the period in which Great Britain became the first industrialized country in the history of the world, and as a direct result was seen, from 1815 on, as the most powerful of the "Great Powers." You'll be responsible for doing the reading, attending the class, and writing three short (3-5 pp.) essays.

202-L2 Major British Writers 20906
Instructor: R. Keefe T/Th 9:30 am
English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with TECS subplan only.

221-L1 Shakespeare (AL) 20841
Instructor: A. Kinney MW 1:25 pm
The power of poetry of Shakespeare's plays derives in large part from the cultural concerns of his day that are similar to our own. This class will explore the ways in which Shakespeare's plays represented and interacted with the cultural environment in which they were created. We'll ask how Shakespeare's plays approach issues of social class, gender, politics, religion, and war, and how we may apply what we learn to modern notions of identity. The goal of the course will be to familiarize students with Shakespeare's language, techniques, and context to understand better the range of his imagination and influence. The course requirements include three short papers, careful reading of the texts, attendance at both lecture and discussion section, and lively participation. Discussion section required.

221-D1 Shakespeare (AL) 20842
Instructor: T. Zajac F 10:10 am

221-D2 Shakespeare (AL) 20843
Instructor: T. Zajac F 11:15 am

221-D3 Shakespeare (AL) 20844
Instructor: Y. Chung F 10:10 am

221-D4 Shakespeare (AL) 20845
Instructor: Y. Chung F 11:15 am

254-L1 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 20846
Instructor: TBA MWF 11:15 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only. Analysis of issues of form, elements of genre, style, and development of themes of stories and poems, written by class members and in class texts.

254-L2 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 20847
Instructor: A. Kismet MWF 10:10 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

254-L3 Writing and Reading Imaginative Literature (AL) 20891
Instructor: K. Hagerich T/Th 9:30 am
Senior, Junior, and Sophomore students only.

270-L1 American Identities (AL) 20848
Instructor: N. Bromell T/Th 9:30 am
This course is an exploration of the varied and changing meanings of the “self” in United States literature and culture. We will traverse U.S. history to look at such topics as: Puritan anxiety about the soul, the Revolutionary period's debates about the democratic citizen, growing interest in the gender, ethnic, and racial dimensions of personhood, and postmodern mockery of the very idea of a “self.”

While our focus will be on the ways works of literature presume, express, question, and complicate what we mean by the “self,” we will also spend some time studying works of popular culture, especially film and music. Thus, we'll be learning methods of cultural as well as literary analysis.

The writers we will read include: Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, Henry James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Anzia Yezierska, Nella Larsen, Tobias Wolff and Sandra Cisneros. Films include: The Searchers , Home for the Holidays , To Sleep with Anger, and Being John Malcovitch .

Requirements: Attendance at lecture, participation in section meeting, a mid-term, a final, and a short essay. Discussion section is required .

270-D1 American Identities (AL) 23377
Instructor: S. Jiang Th 11:15 am

270-D2 American Identities (AL) 23378
Instructor: S. Jiang Th 2:30 pm

270-D3 American Identities (AL) 23379
Instructor: C. Maksimowicz Th 11:15 am

270-D4 American Identities (AL) 23380
Instructor: C. Maksimowicz Th 2:30 pm

270-D5 American Identities (AL) 23381
Instructor: P. Williams Th 11:15 am

270-D6 American Identities (AL) 23382
Instructor: P. Williams Th 2:30 pm

273-L1 American Realism (2nd Am Lit) 23735
Instructor: J. Skerrett MW 2:30 pm
This course explores American writing in the period from the Civil War to the First World War -- the age of American industrialization, emancipation and Reconstruction, the beginnings of empire, women's rights and massive immigration. We will read work by writers such as Twain, Howells, Crane, Jewett, Chesnutt, Robinson, Chopin, Dunbar, Cahan and a few others in an effort to understand how these writers distinguished themselves as “realists” in contrast to their powerful “romantic” antecedents and how their work reflected the ongoing social changes of the period. Students will produce three five-page papers and a final exam in response to extensive reading and discussion. Books will be ordered at Amherst Books on Main Street .

279-L1 Introduction to American Studies (2nd Am Lit) 23736
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 9:30 am
American Studies has evolved from its early dual focus on literature and history to offer students a potentially broad-based interdisciplinary experience. The objectives of this introduction to the field will center around creating a series of case studies about nineteenth-century American life between 1830 and 1850, when issues as far ranging as New England Transcendentalism, abolition and slavery, Indian removal, women's rights, and the confrontation between hegemony and homeland borders resonate into our present age. Authors under consideration include Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller's Woman of the Nineteenth Century , contemporary author Robert J. Conley's novel of the Trail of Tears, Mountain Windsong , Herman Melvill's Moby-Dick , and Juan Seguin's A Revolution Remembered . Expect a mixture of lectures, classroom discussion and presentations, a series of abstracts and essays, and a final project

296 Independent Study 20849
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

297BB Experimental Writing Workshop 24401
Instructor: R. Sonnenmoser/ S. Stanley T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. LexEd: The Art of Dictionarymaking . Are dictionaries the ultimate authority on how we write, speak, and think? In light of postmodern theorizing about language, we may no longer be able to absolutely define words, whose meanings shift with context and use. As we theorize about the slipperiness of language, we'll collaborate together in building, formatting, and publishing our own “new” dictionary. In the process, we'll challenge ourselves to recreate our relationship to words.

297CC Experimental Writing Workshop 24400
Instructor: E. Monteiro W 3:30 – 6:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. The Language of Hip Hop . Hip Hop language has provided two generations of youth with an alternative rhetoric by which to critique mainstream discourse. How does this language function? What is the role that this language has played within U.S. popular culture? During the semester we will read and analyze Hip Hop lyrics, critique academic and media texts on Hip Hop, and write our own Hip-Hop lyrics

297DD Experimental Writing Workshop 24399
Instructor: E. Rafus T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing for Television . Television has long been a source of entertainment for millions nationwide. As the technology of the medium evolved, so did the writing; creating characters and storylines as complex as those in any novel. This course will introduce dramatic and visual writing (including teleplay format, setting, character development) and the business of television. After writing and sharing scenes, students may work collaboratively to write a new television show or create a personal portfolio of speculative scripts.

297EE Experimental Writing Workshop 24398
Instructor: L. Bradshaw T 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Writing into the Blogosphere . Blog. We've accepted the word and its world into our lexicon, but where do we fit in? This course will examine the cultural phenomenon of blogging by writing ourselves into its genres, methods, and possibilities. We will engage in the act of blogging to see what all the fuss is about.

297FF Experimental Writing Workshop 24397
Instructor: S. Zultanski/A. Winslow Th 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Imaginative Political Writing . Many politically active writers choose to leave the world of the newspaper behind, turning instead to more creative forms to express their views. Writing outside the conventions of “objective” journalism allows activists more freedom of experimentation. In this course, we will discuss published examples of such writing, and students will have the opportunity to create their own politically engaged fiction, poetry, and manifestos.

297GG Experimental Writing Workshop 24396
COURSE CANCELLED

297JJ Experimental Writing Workshop 24394
Instructor: C. Cistulli/M. ffitch W 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Let's Misbehave: Writing for, and by, the Smart-Aleck . Much comic writing consists of the character of the Smart-Aleck “riffing” off of societal norms and conventions. In this course, we will identify, agitate, and undermine codes of proper conduct, seeing them through to their final destruction. We will look at the ubiquitous but often unappreciated literature of the Smart-Aleck, using models—from Housekeeping Monthly to Da Ali G Show —as inspiration for our own writing.

297KK Experimental Writing Workshop 24395
Instructor: A. Roberts/A. Dickinson W 2:00 – 4:30 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Wish You Were Here! Adventures in Full-Catastrophe Postcarding . Imagine a writing class without a classroom in which the writing develops from out-of-class group adventures that expand our ideas of art, community, culture, and self. In this course we will go into the world to make art of the world, to discover its curiosities and wonders, to send back poems and stories in postcard form, to create our own anthology of experiential writing, and to grow as a community of writers determined to interact with life and document it in creative ways.

297LL Experimental Writing Workshop 24642
Instructor: A. Khosla/P. Woods T 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Butterfield Residents only. Mandatory Pass/Fail course. Telling it Straight, Telling it Slant, Telling it Digital . What are the rules of narrative? Can these rules be broken? But more importantly, how can we tell stories as we transition into the new digital age? In this course we will write stories that follow and break traditional rules, as well as stories that are told through sound and visual images. As we move through these different ways of telling stories we will explore how what gets told is shaped by how it is told.

298A-L1 Practicum: Shakespeare on Film 23737
Instructor: J. Degenhardt M 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. This series screens classic Shakespeare performances, one film each week. 1 credit. Shakespeare on Film will feature weekly screenings of the best film versions of Shakespeare's plays.  An important resource for Shakespeare studies as well as an excellent source of material for thinking about theater and film. Requirements: attendance.

298C-L1 Practicum: World Cinema 23915
Instructor: K. Farrell W 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Mandatory Pass/Fail course. One film each week. 1 credit. Great World Cinema will be screening some of the most memorable films from around the world.  These are among the most powerfully imagined stories created since World War Two.  Some evoke childhood ( Freeze, Die, Come to Life and The Return ( Russia ) and Spirit of the Beehive ( Spain ). Jou Dou is one of the amazing new dramas from China that turn the gender and class assumptions of the old world inside out.  In the lineup are Lina Wertmuller's harrowing and hilarious Love and Anarchy (Italy), plus The Lovers (Spain), Yol (Turkey), Read My Lips (France), Talk to Her (Spain), Burnt by the Sun (Russia), Brothers (Denmark), and Toto L'Hero (Belgium).  These are films that every student of literature should be aware of, not only for their opening to the wider world, but also for their stunning insights into art and human behavior.

298H Honors Practicum: Teaching in the Writing Center 24167
Instructor: A. Napoleone W 11:15 am
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.

300-L1 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (2nd Am Lit) (Jr-Yr Writing) 23740
Instructor: M. Lowance T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Race and Slavery. The course will examine the literature of the antebellum slavery debates in nineteenth-century America in A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America , 1776-1865 ( Princeton , 2003) and through the voices of the slave narrators Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs.  Biblical proslavery and antislavery arguments, economic discourse, the conflict of writers and essayists like Emerson and Thoreau, Whitman and Lowell, James Kirke Paulding, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary Eastman combine with scientific arguments and Acts of Congress relating to slavery to provide the historical background for examinations of the issues surrounding slavery.  The seminar will also examine the abolitionist writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, and the New York Abolitionists Arthur and Lewis Tappan and Gerrit Smith.  Four literary works will be studied in detail:  Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin , Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson , and Morrison's Beloved , all of which represent approaches to the legacy of slavery.  We will consider minstrel stereotyping, the sentimental novel as a vehicle for abolitionist arguments, and the rhetorical strategies of each of theses texts. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L2 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (2nd Am Lit) (Jr-Yr Writing) 23741
Instructor: D. Carlin MW 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Early 20th-Century American Women Writers. Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. This Junior-Year Writing Course will examine short fiction and novels produced by important early and mid 20 th -century U.S. women writers such as Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers, paying particular attention to the ways gender, race, class and sexuality are represented in their texts. In addition to our primary texts, students will be introduced to a variety of critical approaches and methodologies in literary criticism (including feminist, narrative, psychoanalytic and cultural/historical) and will be expected both to understand and to utilize them in their writing and in class discussions of stories and novels. Requirements: Regular attendance and informed, engaged participation. The course carries the following writing requirements: 1) Six 2-3 pp. (typed) response papers, each of which frames one question drawn from theoretical reading paired with individual texts, and which uses this question and its underlying critical perspective to analyze a scene or important incident in each narrative, and 2) a 12-15 pp. research paper on any one of the texts studied during the semester that draws on secondary sources to expand its critical and interpretive frame of reference. Reading: Willa Cather, My Antonia ; Edith Wharton, Summer ; Nella Larsen, Quicksand & Passing ; Katherine Anne Porter, “The Old Order,” “Old Mortality” and “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”; Eudora Welty, Collected Stories ; and Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding . Students will also be required to purchase an as yet undetermined reader in literary theory and criticism to help guide them through the approaches we will explore during the semester. Books for this course will be ordered from Food For Thought Books in downtown Amherst . Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L3 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (Jr-Yr Writing) 23742
Instructor: A. Zucker T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Writings on and by Early Modern Women, 1550 – 1700 . This writing-intensive seminar explores the poetry, drama, and prose works of 16 th - and 17 th -Century England for their contributions to that period's influential debates over the place of women in political, economic, and domestic life. In addition to reading works by early modern women, we'll investigate the ways men writing for the stage used satire, romance, and violence to transform gender relations into dramatic narrative. We'll consider reflective poems and prose works by Mary Wroth, Isabella Whitney, and Queen Elizabeth I, plays by Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, James Shirley, Margaret Cavendish, and William Wycherly; domestic treatises by Puritan polemicists and early advice-manual author Hannah Wooley; and selections from the ‘Woman-Hater' controversy of the 1610s. In addition to these primary texts, we will read essays by literary critics and cultural historians for their insights into the ways early modern social struggles involving women illuminate other political and literary conversations. Requirements: two shorter (3-5 page) essays; one longer (12-15 page) researched essay, with annotated bibliography; one in-class presentation. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L4 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (Jr-Yr Writing) 23743
Instructor: J. Spencer & C. Bailey T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Reading , Writing, Performance. This course looks at contemporary plays and other "performed" texts using performance theory as one of the critical methods introduced in class.  Students will be expected to actively participate in creative projects, discussion, and peer review using Web CT.   Their will be several short 5-page writing assignments, and one longer paper near the end of the term that incorporates scholarly criticism and theory.  In addition to the texts, students will be required to attend at least one performance outside of class. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L5 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (Jr-Yr Writing) 23744
Instructor: R. Welburn T/Th 11:15 am
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
Practical Criticism. This course will encourage and guide English majors in advanced critical thinking about literary texts, how to seek out and develop critical strategies in order to render cogent discussions about texts, and how to develop theses and utilize rhetorical and discursive strategies like the abstract, antithesis, induction and deduction. Texts will include Melville's Moby-Dick , Joyce's The Dead , short stories by Clarice Lispector and Shani Mootoo, a selection of poems by Poe, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Octavio Paz, Gwendolyn Brooks, and N. Scott Momaday, and Tennessee William's Glass Menagerie . Expect to write drafts and critical essays of various lengths and a research essay as the final project. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

300-L6 Advanced Seminar – Junior Year Writing (Jr-Yr Writing) 23745
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 2:30 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.
The Nation Writes Back. This course interrogates the relationship between nationalism, literature and the end of empire. How does literature produce the idea of the nation and how, in turn, is the nation figured and questioned in national literatures? Taking Benedict Anderson's influential model of nations as “imagined communities” as a starting point, the course explores the ways different nations imagine themselves after the end of colonial rule. First, we consider how the U.S. creates itself as both anti-colonial and imperial. Next, we turn to a survey of postcolonial national literatures. Finally, we end with an exploration of the fracturing of nationalism in the age of globalization and diaspora. In all of these contexts we will focus on intersections of nationalism, gender and subalternity, looking specifically at the relationship between ideology and aesthetics within selected novels and short stories from the United States , South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Britain . Readings may include novels and short stories by Willa Cather, Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Chinua Achebe, Michelle Cliff, and Zadie Smith. In addition to the literary texts, there will be supplementary readings in postcolonial theory, feminist theory and subaltern studies. Satisfies Junior-Year Writing Requirement .

350-L1 Expository Writing 20909
Instructor: C. Fulford MW 2:30 pm
What do political blogs, poetry, pamphlets, graffiti, love letters, academic articles, application forms, editorials, and billboards have in common? These are all textual attempts to persuade. Individuals and groups use language every day to shape their own ideas, change other people's minds, and to move others to action. In this course, you will collect and analyze a range of persuasive texts, considering the multiple forms persuasion may take, who uses it, and what ends it serves. You will also create your own arguments in a variety of forms.

By the end of the course, you should be better able to analyze how verbal persuasion works and better able to construct your own arguments to accomplish your aims. Assignments will include rhetorical analysis of an argument, several persuasive pieces, and shorter writings that analyze and experiment with persuasive strategies.

354-L1 Creative Writing: Introduction 20852
Instructor: A. Khalil 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 20853
Instructor: C. DeWeese MWF 10:10 am
English majors, BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only.

354-L3 Creative Writing: Introduction 20899
Instructor: R. Rasmussen 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 20946
Instructor: J. Hennessy T/Th 2:30 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. To add course, students should submit one story of any length and a personal statement with name and student id number to Professor Hennessy's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170. In this course students will write and workshop short stories. They will also read widely in contemporary fiction and complete a series of writing assignments intended to address specific aspects of fiction.

356-L1 Creative Writing: Poetry 20854
Instructor: J. Habel T/Th 9:30 am
English majors , BDIC, UWW, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. Prerequisite: ENGL 354 or 354H with a grade of 'B' or better. To add course, students should submit a portfolio of 3 poems and a one page statement about your interest in poetry with name and student id number to Professor Habel's mailbox outside the main English Office, Bartlett 170.

365-L1 20 th Century Literature of Ireland ( AL ) 20900
Instructor: M. O'Brien MW 2:30 – 3:45 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?

366-L1 Modern Poetry 23738
Instructor: R. Jennison T/Th 2:30 pm
This course surveys the multiple traditions of modern U.S. poetry. Our guiding question: What is the relationship between modern poetry and modernity? Focusing on the period between 1900 and 1950 and working from a comparativist perspective, we will explore how various poets interpreted their shared historical context through different poetic forms. In addition to a broad overview of modernism's canonical authors (e.g. Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Ezra Pound), we will spend significant time on the parallel, and often overlapping, trajectories of African-American poetry (e.g. Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes), and feminist poetics (e.g. H.D., Gertrude Stein). Between each of these reading units, we will look closely at poets who negotiate the intersection of these various poetic trajectories, such as African American high modernist Melvin Tolson and the self-described "mongrel," Mina Loy. The second-generation modernists, such as "Objectivist" poets Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker, as well as anti-war poets such as Muriel Rukeyser and Randall Jarrell, will further expand our understanding of modern poetry as a series of revolutions in both politics and poetic form. Throughout our readings, we will continue to look at the ways in which our poets are a part of the new, rapidly transforming cultures and histories of modernity, including world wars, rapid industrialization, mass culture advertising, Jim Crow race relations, and masculinity. Finally, by beginning and ending our survey with works by poets who anticipate the modern (Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman) and attempt to move beyond it (Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg), we will map "modernism" as part of a longer history of poetic development.

369-L1 Studies in Modern (20 th Century) Fiction (AL) 20855
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 (20 th Century) Fiction (AL) 20911
Instructor: A. Strohman F 1:00 pm

369-D2 Studies in Modern (20 th Century) Fiction (AL) 20912
Instructor: A. Strohman F 11:15 am

369-D3 Studies in Modern (20 th Century) Fiction (AL) 20913
Instructor: V. Gramling F 1:00 pm

369-D4 Studies in Modern (20 th Century) Fiction (AL) 20914
Instructor: V. Gramling F 11:15 am

381-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication II 20875
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.) 545-5462.

382-L1 Professional Writing and Technical Communication III 20856
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.) 545-5462.

391C-L1 Advanced Software Professional Writers 20857
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380 or permission of the instructor. Upon successful completion of this course the student will be proficient in the intermediate and advanced use of HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX , Adobe Photoshop CS , Macromedia Flash , RoboHELP and Microsoft PowerPoint . The major and ongoing project for the course will be an online portfolio that demonstrates skills as a web designer and professional writer. The portfolio will be built with the software cited above. During class sessions, students will work on Macintosh computers.  Most class time will be given to laboratory work on some part of the portfolio, and most class sessions will involve an in-class assignment. Preference will be given to students enrolled in the PWTC Program.

391C-L2 Advanced Software Professional Writers 20858
Instructor: D. Toomey T/Th 9:30 am
Senior and Junior students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. Prerequisite: ENGL 380.

391D-L1 Writing and Emerging Technologies 23739
Instructor: B. Houle T/Th 9:30 am

391N-L1 Sex and Violence: A Survey of Medieval and Renaissance Literature 23917
Instructor: J. Degenhardt T/Th 9:30 am
Fulfills the major requirement for English 201. This course focuses on representations of sex and violence as a way of learning about the cultural history and the literary forms of the medieval and Renaissance periods. We will consider the exciting and varied profusion of sex and violence in the literature of these time periods. In what ways do sex and violence go together? Is violence an intrinsic part of "good" sex, and is it always antithetical to "moral" sex? What makes the effect funny, exciting, scary, or misogynistic? We will cover a broad range of canonical medieval and Renaissance texts with attention to issues of form, genre, and historical context. Readings include works by Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton.

396 Independent Study 20859
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

469H-L1 Honors Victorian Monstrosity (Jr-Yr Writing) 23919
Instructor: K. Farrell MW 2:30 - 3:45 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 .

469H-Lab1 Honors Victorian Monstrosity 23920
Instructor: K. Farrell W 4:00 – 6:30 pm

491A-L1 Neruda in Translation 20892
Instructor: M. Espada M 4:00 – 6:30 pm
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.

491KK-L1 18th-Century: Institution & Revolution 23746
Instructor: J. Rosenberg T/Th 1:00 pm
Senior and Junior English majors, International/National exchange majors, or Masters students with a TECS subplan only. This course will introduce students to the eighteenth century via three major historical developments, each of which consolidates a major institution of modernity at the same time as it challenges that institution. Our first point of interest will be the institution of genre, in particular realism. We will look at novels, poetry, essays and documentary narratives that are concerned with the "realistic" depiction of social struggle and daily life, perhaps for the first time in literary history. Our second point of interest will be the notion of the Atlantic World. We will consider the eighteenth century's depiction of center-periphery relations and the development of slavery in travel and captivity narratives, histories of slave rebellion, and literatures of scientific exploration. Our third point of interest will be representations of new forms of labor and the criminal "underground" of anti-institutional  methods of making a living. Ideally, all three points of interest will intersect, diverge, and then move each other forward in surprising ways, just when we least expect it. Primary readings will likely include Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders , Samuel Richardson's Pamela , Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks , Samuel Johnson's The Rambler , Addison and Steele's Spectator , Thomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , Daniel Horsmanden's account of New York 's 1741 slave conspiracy, Aphra Behn's Ooronoko , and John Gabriel Stedman's account of the slave rebellions in Surinam .

491NN-L1 Transnational Feminist Literature 23922
Instructor: A. Nadkarni T/Th 11:15 am
This course examines the relationship between gender and resistance in contemporary feminist literature from the U.S. , South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean . It engages U.S. Third World and postcolonial feminist theory to argue for a body of feminist literature broadly defined as “transnational” in its thematic and formal concerns. We begin by excavating the connection between feminism and nationalism in the writings of first- and third-world feminists. How is nationalist feminism an exclusionary discourse? Conversely, what issues must a feminism that locates gender as the only site of oppression ignore? We then turn to different imaginings of feminist and national belonging by feminists of color in the U.S. and postcolonial world. How do their perspectives radically reshape feminist politics, and fundamentally transform feminist literary canons? Authors may include Ama Ata Aidoo, Sara Suleri, Shani Mootoo, Jessica Hagedorn, Arundhati Roy and Audre Lorde.

491OO-L1 The National Imaginary: Literature and Politics in the Early Republic (2nd Am Lit) 23923
Instructor: H. Phan T/Th 1:00 pm
In this course we will read narratives of individual and collective cultural transformations, from the early republican period in American literature. We will trace throughout these narratives various figurations of “American” subjectivity, such as the captive and the redeemed; the slave, the servant, and the freeman; the alien and the citizen; the foreign and the native. Through such textual figures, we will explore as well the cultural production of a broader narrative of the “imagined community” of the nation. While reading a selective survey of literary works from the 1780s and 1790s, we will address as well critical and theoretical reconsiderations of the literature and culture of the early republic. Required Texts: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, Letters from an American Farmer ; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings ; Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Vriginia ; Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple ; Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn ; and Wieland

492F-L1 Love & Death in the American Landscape (2nd Am Lit) 23924
Instructor: N. Holland T/Th 2:30 pm
This is a non-fiction writing workshop in which we will do a great deal of reading. We will read books whose aim is to educate readers about the natural world; that is, I hope our reading will guide us into a deepened knowledge of, and appreciation for—call it love for—the lives of other species, and a keener awareness of the effect our actions (as a species and as a nation and as individuals) have on the planet. We will read closely—for structure, style, and strategy—in order to begin to formulate a shape and discover a subject about which to write. Written work should be responsive to the aim of the course as it is reflected in the following (tentative) reading list; Joy Williams, Ill Nature, Bill McKibben, The End of Nature, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, Rick Bass, Oil Notes, Gretl Erhlich, The Solace of Open Spaces, Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man. Books ordered from Amherst Books.

496 Independent Study 20860
Instructor: TBA TBA
Contact department to add course.

499D-L1 Capstone course: Lifelong Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction 20893 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 2006 semester. It fulfills the Culminating Experience requirement of Commonwealth College . Contact instructor to add course.

591CC-L1 Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe: Political Theater in Early Modern England 23925
Instructor: A. Zucker T/Th 2:30 pm
We will study the work of the three most prominent playwrights of the English Renaissance for the ways they engage with the political and social conflicts of their time. Topics addressed will include debates over the place of women in economic and public life; encounters with Muslims, Jews, Puritans and other outsiders of the day; and questions of tyranny, rebellion, and the legitimacy of resistance. Special focus on: the role of dramatic form and convention in the narrative expression of conflict and resolution; the aesthetic strategies of early modern political display, both on stage and off; and the differing theatrics and poetics Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe use to give voice to individuals in vast imagined worlds. Students should anticipate reading one play or masque a week in addition to primary historical documents and essays by contemporary scholars whose own engagements with politics and critical theory will form a subplot for our work together. Texts will include Dr. Faustus , The Jew Of Malta , and Edward II by Marlowe; The Taming of the Shrew , The Merchant of Venice , Macbeth , and Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare; and Volpone , Epicoene , Every Man In His Humour , and Sejanus by Jonson. Requirements for undergraduates: 1 shorter essay (3-5 pages); 1 longer essay (5-7 pages); 1 in-class presentation, with written component. Requirements for graduate students: 1 15-20 page researched final essay; 1 in-class presentation, with written component.

English Courses From The Five Colleges (Spring 2007)

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

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 3 Introduction Asian American Literature (2 nd Am Lit)
To Be Announced   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W    
This course will consider the development of Asian American literature from the 1930s to the present day. We will discuss Asian immigration to the United States after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885, Asian American identity and World War II, as well as race/gender debates concerning cultural "authenticity." Readings will include works by Younghill Kang, Bienvenido Santos, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others.

AMST 301 1 Inside/Out Hampden Jail (Upper-level elective)
Simone Davis   09:00AM-12:00PM F    
Five College students will collaborate with incarcerated and just-released women in this course, to explore the theme of crisis and transcendence in literature. This CBL class will allow you to work together as peers with women you might otherwise never meet. Reading , discussion and essay-writing will be combined with in-class creative writing. Texts will include Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Jimmy Santiago Baca's A Place to Stand . Ten of the class sessions will be conducted in Springfield at the Community Safety Center . The semester will culminate in a reading at the Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center .

ASIAN 272 1 Gandhi, Tagore, Mod. India (Upper-level elective)
Indira Peterson   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W    
Mahatma Gandhi's method of nonviolent action won freedom for India from British rule and inspired movements worldwide. Poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize and international acclaim through his writings, educational initiatives, and advocacy for peace. Gandhi and Tagore's critiques of nationalism and violence and their holistic philosophies are studied through their writings, biographies, and other sources. Topics include Gandhi's impact on Martin Luther King Jr. and a comparison of Gandhi and Tagore's legacies for India and the world.

ASIAN 320 1 Arab Women Novelists' Work (Upper-level elective)
Mohammed Jiyad   01:00PM-03:50PM T  
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.

ASIAN 340 1 The Story of the Stone (Upper-level elective)
Ying Wang   01:00PM-03:50PM W      
A seminar on the eighteenth-century Chinese masterpiece The Story of the Stone and selected literary criticism in response to this work. Discussions will focus on love, gender-crossing, and women's supremacy and the paradoxical treatments of these themes in the novel. We will explore multiple aspects of these themes, including the sociopolitical, philosophical, and literary milieus of eighteenth-century China . We will also examine this novel in its relation to Chinese literary tradition in general and the generic conventions of pre-modern Chinese vernacular fiction in particular.

ASIAN 350 1 Love and the Erotic (Upper-level elective)
Indira Peterson   01:00PM-03:50PM T    
Seminar on the major themes, genres, and aesthetic conventions of love and the erotic in classical and medieval Indian poetry (in translation from Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and other languages), in relation to theoretical texts. visual, performance genres (miniature paintings and dance). Study of the literary grammar of courtly love (aesthetic mood [rasa], landscape, the situations of love, the typologies of lovers), the transformation of classical conventions in Hindu bhakti and Sufi Muslim mystical poems, the Radha-Krishna myth, and love in folk genres. Focus on women as subjects and personae, and on the articulation of issues of gender, power, relationality, voice, and agency.

CST 249 1 Global Diversity/Europe Modrnty (Upper-level elective)
Siraj Ahmed   01:00PM-03:50PM TH  
For two centuries, Western intellectual disciplines have been articulated around the premise that early modern Europe laid the foundation of "modernity"--scientific method, markets, mobility, democracy, and global exchange, or, in a word, "progress"--and then brought it to the rest of the world. But what was the world, both in Europe and outside, that modernity superseded? How did the eighteenth-century's own authors--Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Rousseau, Diderot, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Sade, Edgeworth--perceive those other worlds? Studying global differences at the origins of their erasure, this class aims to rethink what actually constitutes the peculiar modernity that came to shape our lives.

CST 252 1 Literature & Politics (Upper-level elective)
Constantine Pleshakov   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W  
What did it mean to think critically in the twentieth century and to express that criticism through fiction? What were the specific challenges of that turbulent and brutal century, which saw so many revolutions and wars but also immense progress in human rights and social fairness? What did rebellious novelists such as Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, V. S. Naipaul, Iris Murdoch, and Umberto Eco perceive as their cause? Did they have a cause? What were their solutions to the ills of humankind?

ENGL 200 1 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Nigel Alderman   08:35AM-09:50AM M,W      
This course examines various strategies of literary representation through a variety of genres, including such traditional literary forms as the novel, lyric poetry, drama, and autobiography, as well as other cultural forms, such as film. Particular attention is given to student writing; students are expected to write a variety of short essays on selected topics. Though the themes of specific sections may vary, all sections seek to introduce students to the terminology of literary and cultural discourse. Please note that this course is a requirement for all English majors.

ENGL 200 2 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Simone Davis   01:15PM-02:30PM T,TH      

ENGL 200 3 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Amity Gaige   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W  

ENGL 200 4 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Mary Salter   08:35AM-09:50AM M,W      

ENGL 200 5 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Robert Shaw   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W    

ENGL 200 6 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Michael Snediker   08:35AM-09:50AM T,TH    

ENGL 200 7 Intro to Study of Literature (English 200)
Donald Weber   11:00AM-12:15PM M,W  

ENGL 210 1 Medieval to Commonwealth (Brit Lit Pre-1700)

Frank Brownlow   08:35AM-09:50AM M,W      
This introduction to English literary history focuses on works, authors, forms, conventions, and ideas in chronological order and historical setting. Readings include Beowulf , selections from The Canterbury Tales , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , a Shakespeare play, and selections from such authors as Malory, Spenser, Sidney, Marvell, Donne, and Milton.

ENGL 211 1 Shakespeare (English 221/222)
Eugene Hill   10:00AM-10:50AM M,W,F      
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

ENGL 232 1 Global Diversity/Euro. Modrnty (Upper-level elective)
Siraj Ahmed   01:00PM-03:50PM TH  
For two centuries, Western intellectual disciplines have been articulated around the premise that early modern Europe laid the foundation of "modernity"--scientific method, markets, mobility, democracy, and global exchange, or, in a word, "progress"--and then brought it to the rest of the world. But what was the world, both in Europe and outside, that modernity superseded? How did the eighteenth century's own authors--Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Rousseau, Diderot, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Sade, Edgeworth--perceive those other worlds? Studying global differences at the origins of their erasure, this class aims to rethink what actually constitutes the peculiar modernity that came to shape our lives.

ENGL 241 1 American Literature II (2 nd Am Lit)
Elizabeth Young   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH  
A continuation of English 240, which explores the diversity of writers and literary forms that arose in U.S. society in the period from the Civil War to World War I. Authors may include Alcott, Chopin, Crane, Dreiser, Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson, DuBois, Sui-Sin Far, Gilman, Harper, James, Jewett, Stein, Twain, Wharton, and Whitman. Will address the development of realism and naturalism, and the beginnings of modernism, and explore literary redefinitions of race, gender, sexuality, and class as shaped by social and economic pressures during this era.

ENGL 253 1 20th C Literatures of Africa (Upper-level elective)
To Be Announced   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W  
An introduction to the major genres and writers of modern Africa . Novels and dramas from every region of Africa , focusing on the way in which they draw upon traditional oral cultures, confront over a century of European colonialism on the continent, and represent contemporary postcolonial realities. Texts, some written in English and others translated from French, Swahili and Arabic will include Achebe's Things Fall Apart , Ngugi's The River Between , Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story , Penina Mlama's Mother Pilar , Bessie Head's Maru , Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood , and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman .

ENGL 274 1 Intro Asian American Lit (2 nd Am Lit)
To Be Announced   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W      
This course will consider the development of Asian American literature from the 1930s to the present day. We will discuss Asian immigration to the United States after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1885, Asian American identity and World War II, as well as race/gender debates concerning cultural "authenticity." Readings will include works by Younghill Kang, Bienvenido Santos, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, David Henry Hwang, Jhumpa Lahiri, and others.

ENGL 280 1 Lit Criticism/Theory (Upper-level elective)
William Quillian   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH    
This course is designed to offer students a broad historical overview of literary theory as well as exposure to contemporary debates about "theory" and literary representation. The course is both an exercise in practical criticism and a survey of the Western critical tradition from Plato to Derrida. Beginning with the question of why Plato wished to ban poets from his ideal Republic, the course will go on to consider such topics as the Classic vs. Romantic theories of the imagination, the "invention" of psychology and the necessary difficulty of much modern literature, the relation of gender and ethnicity to literary expression, and the uncertainties of literary interpretation.

ENGL 302 1 Nonfiction Writ/Literary Jrnlism (Upper-level elective)
Meg Murphy   07:00PM-10:00PM M    
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 1 Short Story Writing II (Upper-level elective)
Judith Frank   01:00PM-03:50PM W  
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 1 Verse Writing II (Upper-level elective)
Mary Salter   01:00PM-03:50PM M  
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 312 1 Shakespeare: Adapt/Interprt (English 221/222) (Upper-level elective)
Frank Brownlow   01:00PM-03:50PM M    
"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, A 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 1 Milton (Upper-level elective)
Eugene Hill   11:00AM-11:50AM M,W,F      
A study of Milton 's major works, both in poetry and prose, with particular attention to Paradise Lost.

ENGL 319 1 History of English Language (Upper-level elective)
Carolyn Collette 01:00PM-03:50PM T
This course combines a survey of the forms, evolution, and development of English from Old English to global English at the end of the twentieth century, with a focus on the social, economic, and political factors that have shaped the various forms of English over its history, especially in the medieval and contemporary periods. Readings drawn from letters, literature, and poetry, and from contemporary assessments of the language from different periods.

ENGL 323 1 English Novel in the 19th C (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Upper-level elective)
Jenny Pyke   08:35AM-09:50AM T,TH  
This course will investigate how representations of gender and class serve as a structuring principle in the development of the genre of the Victorian novel in Britain . We will devote significant attention to the construction of Victorian femininity and masculinity in relation to class identity, marriage as a sexual contract, and the gendering of labor, all the while keeping our eye on form and the sometimes mysterious narrator-as-consciousness that guides us through these concerns. Novelists will include Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, C. Bronte, and Hardy. Supplementary readings in literary criticism and theory.

ENGL 324 1 East of Eden/Milton (Upper-level elective)
Virginia Ellis   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W;01:15PM-02:05PM F      
Beginning with Milton 's Paradise Lost, the course will concentrate on some of the nineteenth-century Romantic writers who in various ways remember, revive, sometimes radically revise, Milton 's work and vision: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Mary Shelley, Keats.

ENGL 331 1 Modern Poetry (Upper-level elective)
Robert Shaw   01:00PM-03:50PM T  
A transatlantic study of poetry written in English in the first half of the twentieth century. The modernist revolutions in style and subject matter will be explored. A typical list of poets may include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Muir, H. D. Moore, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Langston Hughes, and Auden.

ENGL 344 1 Projects in Critical Thought (Upper-level elective)
Nigel Alderman   01:00PM-03:50PM T      
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 348 1 Inside/Out Hampden County (Upper-level elective)
Simone Davis   09:00AM-12:00PM F  
Five College students will collaborate with incarcerated and just-released women in this course, to explore the theme of crisis and transcendence in literature. This CBL class will allow you to work together as peers with women you might otherwise never meet. Reading , discussion and essay-writing will be combined with in-class creative writing. Texts will include Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Jimmy Santiago Baca's A Place to Stand. Ten of the class sessions will be conducted in Springfield at the Community Safety Center . The semester will culminate in a reading at the Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center .

ENGL 374 1 Hitchcock and After (Upper-level elective)
Elizabeth Young   01:00PM-03:50PM W;07:00PM-09:00PM M    
This course will examine the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the afterlife of Hitchcock in contemporary U.S. culture. We will interpret Hitchcock films in a variety of theoretical frames, including feminist and queer theories, and in historical contexts including the Cold War. We will also devote substantial attention to the legacy of Hitchcock in remakes, imitations, and parodies. Hitchcock films may include Spellbound , Strangers on a Train , Rear Window , Vertigo , North by Northwest , Psycho , The Man Who Knew Too Much , Mamie , and The Birds ; additional works by Brooks, Craven, De Palma, and Sherman. Readings in film and cultural theory; screenings at least weekly.

ENGL 375 1 Concep Blk Body/20th Century (Upper-level elective)
Ronaldo Wilson   01:00PM-03:50PM TH    
We will explore the black body through the visual artists Ellen Gallagher, Kara Walker, William Pope, and Adrian Piper as well as pop icons Michael Jackson, Missy Elliot, and Jay Z. How does their work complicate representations of blackness through painting, video, text, music, and performance, whether through the black body's realness, abstraction, opulence, or annihilation? Using theoretical discussions by Michele Wallace, Roland Barthes, Tricia Rose, Homi Bhabha, Fred Moten, and others, students will write several very short creative and critical pieces, each one becoming part of a larger, cohesive final project.

ENGL 376 1 Queer Theory: Past/Pres/Future (Upper-level elective)
Michael Snediker   01:00PM-03:50PM M      
This course will examine Queer Theory as it intersects with literature, psychoanalysis, and film. Authors considered will include Foucault, Sedgwick, Butler , and Bersani. As much a critical practice as a critical vocabulary, Queer Theory articulates and complicates a person's relation to sexuality and gender; beyond this, however, Queer Theory challenges and extends how we might more rigorously think about persons, interpersonality, affect, knowledge, and aesthetics. The course will consider not only where Queer Theory has been, but where it might go: its ethical and theoretical importance to an ever-shifting critical, cultural, and political field.

ENGL 383 1 Just Joyce (Upper-level elective)
William Quillian   01:00PM-03:50PM W  
Seminar on Joyce's major texts excluding Finnegan's Wake. Beginning with Dubliners, the seminar will consider recent trends in critical theory as they pertain to Joyce's work. Half the semester will be spent on a careful reading of Ulysses. Students will be responsible for seminar reports as well as a midterm paper (7-10 pages) and a final paper (15-20 pages).

FREN 215 1 Intro to Lit & Culture (Upper-level elective)
Elissa Gelfand   11:00AM-12:15PM M,W  
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 215 2 Intro to Lit & Culture (Upper-level elective)
Aya Tanaka   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH      

FREN 219 1 French Speaking World (Upper-level elective)
Samba Gadjigo   11:00AM-12:15PM M,W  
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 311 1 From Hope to Despair (Upper-level elective)
Elissa Gelfand   01:00PM-03:50PM W    
Study of French society, politics, literature, and visual arts between the two world wars as markers of France 's complex relationship to the modern world: How did the optimism of les années folles evolve into the repression of the Vichy era? What was the role of the writer and artist in France 's changing political and social climate? How did gender, race, and class differences mark the period? What issues still resonate today? Authors and artists from among: Gide, Cocteau, Dulac, Clair, Breton, Dali, Colette, Pagnol, Mauriac, Giono, Malraux, Nizan, Aragon, Weil, Beauvoir, Sartre, Renoir, Césaire, Brasillach, Pétain, Vercors, de Gaulle.

FREN 311 2 18th Century Travel Literature (Upper-level elective)
Aya Tanaka   01:00PM-03:50PM T    
We will examine how some of the most important Enlightenment authors contributed to the transformation of French fiction during the eighteenth century by writing and rewriting stories and creating images of the newly "discovered" lands. Why, and how, do French writers use foreign characters and cultures in their texts? What are the sources that inform their creations? We will read excerpts of eighteenth-century travel accounts and philosophical essays, as well as works of fiction that incorporate images of "elsewhere", as a means of understanding the development of the novel at a turning point in its history.

FREN 370 1 Women & Writing (Upper-level elective)
Samba Gadjigo   01:00PM-03:50PM M  
This course explores writings by women in French-speaking Africa from its early beginnings in the late 1970s to the present. Special attention will be given to social, political, gender, and aesthetic issues.

GNDST 204 1 Black Women Writiers (Upper-level elective)
Kristin Elliott Hood   11:00AM-12:15PM M,W  
This course will explore the influence of feminist politics on the writing of women throughout the African Diaspora. By exploring the different cultural, political, and historical contexts in which these writers work, we will attempt to define the continuities and conflicts that exist within the vast field of black women's writing. Why, when, and how did a black feminist consciousness emerge? How did racial tensions within the predominantly white feminist movement lead to the development of a separate black "womanist"/ Third World agenda? How does feminist literature of the African Diaspora challenge negative stereotypes and misrepresentations of black women's realities?

GNDST 333 4 Inside-Out Hampden Cty (Upper-level elective)
Simone Davis   09:00AM-12:00PM F    
Five College students will collaborate with incarcerated and just-released women in this course, to explore the theme of crisis and transcendence in literature. This CBL class will allow you to work together as peers with women you might otherwise never meet. Reading , discussion and essay-writing will be combined with in-class creative writing. Texts will include Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Jimmy Santiago Baca's A Place to Stand. Ten of the class sessions will be conducted in Springfield at the Community Safety Center . The semester will culminate in a reading at the Western Massachusetts Correctional Alcohol Center .

GNDST 333 5 Sex & the Early Church (Upper-level elective)
Michael Penn   02:40PM-03:55PM T,TH  
This course examines the various ways first-through fifth-century Christians addressed questions regarding human sexuality. We will concentrate on the rise of sexual asceticism and pay particular attention to the relationship between sexuality and issues of gender, culture, power, and resistance. Primary readings will include letters, narrative accounts of female and male ascetics, monastic rules, and "heretical" scriptures. These will be supplemented by modern scholarship in early Christian studies and the history of sexuality.

GNDST 333 6 Women/Fredrick Douglas (Upper-level elective)
John Grayson   08:35AM-10:50AM W    
Eight women - Harriet Bailey, Betsey Bailey, Sophia Auld, Anna Murray, Julia Crofts-Griffiths, Annie Douglass, Ottilia Assing, and Helen Pitts - occupied crucial roles in the formation of Frederick Douglass's mind. In this seminar we will read closely Douglass's three autobiographies and related primary sources in order to discern the theological significance these women had for him. Students also will be introduced to contemporary readings in theological hermeneutics in order to consider its implications for reading and interpreting autobiography.

GNDST 333 7 Queer Thry:past/Pres/Futr (Upper-level elective)
Michael Snediker   01:00PM-03:50PM M  
This course will examine Queer Theory as it intersects with literature, psychoanalysis, and film. Authors considered will include Foucault, Sedgwick, Butler , and Bersani. As much a critical practice as a critical vocabulary, Queer Theory articulates and complicates a person's relation to sexuality and gender; beyond this, however, Queer Theory challenges and extends how we might more rigorously think about persons, interpersonality, affect, knowledge, and aesthetics. The course will consider not only where Queer Theory has been, but where it might go: its ethical and theoretical importance to an ever-shifting critical, cultural, and political field.

GNDST 333 8 Love/Gndr/Wom. Supremacy (Upper-level elective)
Ying Wang   01:00PM-03:50PM W  
A seminar on the eighteenth-century Chinese masterpiece the Story of the Stone and selected literary criticism in response to this work. Discussions will focus on love, gender-crossing, and women's supremacy and the paradoxical treatments of these themes in the novel. We will explore multiple aspects of these themes, including the sociopolitical, philosophical, and literary milieus of eighteenth-century China . We will also examine this novel in its relation to Chinese literary tradition in general and the generic conventions of pre-modern Chinese vernacular fiction in particular.

GNDST 333 9 Love & Indian Poetry (Upper-level elective)
Indira Peterson   01:00PM-03:50PM T      
Seminar on the major themes, genres, and aesthetic conventions of love and the erotic in classical and medieval Indian poetry (in translation from Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and other languages), in relation to theoretical texts and visual and performance genres (miniature paintings and dance). Study of the literary grammar of courtly love (aesthetic mood [rasa], landscape, the situations of love, the typologies of lovers), the transformation of classical conventions in Hindu bhakti and Sufi Muslim mystical poems, the Radha-Krishna myth, and love in folk genres. Focus on women as subjects and personae, and on the articulation of issues of gender, power, relationality, voice, and agency.

ITAL 305 1 The World At Play (Upper-level elective)
Claudia Chierichini   08:35AM-10:50AM T  
A close reading of Boccaccio's Decameron , aimed at exploring, and moving beyond, the surface significations of the text. Through an analysis of the narrative metaphorical patterns, the class will address questions about what role literature plays in Boccaccio's concerns, and the dynamics of imagination and desire. We shall seek to retrieve the intellectual traditions which the Decameron evokes, and examine the fortune and re-use of selected tales in some of Chaucer's works, the figurative arts (Botticelli), and film (Pasolini).

JWST 215 1 Jewish Spiritual Autobiog (Upper-level elective)
Lawrence Fine   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH  
Along with such genres as letters, ethical wills, travel accounts, and other personal communications, spiritual autobiographies and diaries often reveal what people actually thought and felt about matters important to them. These sources provide insight into religion as lived experience. This course studies autobiographical accounts of Jewish religious figures from the medieval period to the contemporary. We include narratives by both women and men, philosophers, mystics, messianic pretenders, travelers, authors of Holocaust memoirs, and other contemporary Jews. Taken together, such accounts bring to life the diversity of spiritual quests in which Jews have engaged.

LATIN 315 1 Roman Elegy (Upper-level elective)
Mark Landon   11:00AM-12:15PM M,W      
A survey of Latin love elegy, one of the most elegant, allusive, and distinctly Roman of literary genres, and the medium chosen by some of Rome's greatest writers for their meditations on the paradoxes of human behavior and the nature of the poet's craft. Selected works by Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, Sulpicia, and Ovid will be read in Latin, and the remainder of the corpus in English translation. Among the topics to be discussed are the appropriation and adaptation by Roman poets of Greek themes and literary forms; ancient ideas about tradition and innovation, art and inspiration, and literary genre; and the role of the poet in Augustan society.

RELIG 203 1 Intro to Hebrew Bible (Upper-level elective)
Michael Penn   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH  
This course provides a critical introduction to the writings contained in the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Old Testament). It investigates the social and historical context of the ancient Israelites, examines a range of ancient Near Eastern literature, and introduces the principal methods of biblical studies. Participants will read much of the Hebrew Bible as well as select non-Israelite sources. Examples of recent biblical scholarship will provide additional information for better understanding these writings and will present different methods for approaching and interpreting ancient texts.

RELIG 215 1 Jewish Spirit. Autobiographies (Upper-level elective)
Lawrence Fine   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH      
Along with such genres as letters, ethical wills, travel accounts, and other personal communications, spiritual autobiographies and diaries often reveal what people actually thought and felt about matters important to them. These sources provide insight into religion as lived experience. This course studies autobiographical accounts of Jewish religious figures from the medieval period to the contemporary. We include narratives by both women and men, philosophers, mystics, messianic pretenders, travelers, authors of Holocaust memoirs, and other contemporary Jews. Taken together, such accounts bring to life the diversity of spiritual quests in which Jews have engaged.

RELIG 306 1 Sex and Early Church (Upper-level elective)
Michael Penn   02:40PM-03:55PM T,TH  
This course examines the various ways first-through fifth-century Christians addressed questions regarding human sexuality. We will concentrate on the rise of sexual asceticism and pay particular attention to the relationship between sexuality and issues of gender, culture, power, and resistance. Primary readings will include letters, narrative accounts of female and male ascetics, monastic rules, and "heretical" scriptures. These will be supplemented by modern scholarship in early Christian studies and the history of sexuality.

RES 211 1 The Lit of 20th Century Russia (Upper-level elective)
Peter Scotto   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH  
Mephistopheles in Moscow ? The Gospel retold? At turns both wildly comic and metaphysically profound, Bulgakov's novel has been a cult classic since its unexpected discovery in 1967. This course will consider Bulgakov's masterpiece together with some of its literary, historical, and social contexts. Additional readings from Goethe, Gogol, E.T.A.Hoffman, Akhmatova, and others.

RES 213 1 Tolstoy's War and Peace (Upper-level elective)
Edwina Cruise   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W  
To explain the fundamental conflict in Tolstoy's art, Sir Isaiah Berlin advanced the now famous formula that Tolstoy was a fox (pluralist) struggling to be a hedgehog (monist). Indeed, throughout his life and in his art, Tolstoy sought to shape experience into a single and all-embracing philosophical principle, but he was never able to suppress his extravagant intuition that existence, being contradictory, fragmentary, and ultimately incoherent, defeated attempts at codification. We will read War and Peace in an attempt to understand how that irresolvable conflict fuels Tolstoy's intellectual pursuits and informs his theories on art.

SPAN 219 1 U.S. Latino/A Literature (2 nd Am Lit)
Rosario De Swanson   01:15PM-02:30PM M,W  
After centuries of invisibility and marginalization, Latino culture and literature exploded on the American scene in the 60s. Chicanos, Cubans, Nuyoricans, and lately Dominicans and Central Americans have all contributed to create a diversified body of literature characterized by its bilingualism, biculturalism, and hybridity. This course will center on how U.S. Latino/a literature bears witness to identity formation, self-representation, and celebration of Latino culture and its people. It will explore a series of critical issues that define "latinidad" in the U.S.

SPAN 246 1 Modern Spanish Literature (Upper-level elective)
Luis Saenz de Viguera   02:40PM-03:55PM T,TH    
A survey of Spain 's visual culture, intellectual history, and literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Aesthetic and philosophical movements will be studied against a backdrop of social history. Materials to be studied will include, among others, paintings by Francisco de Goya and Salvador Dalí, poems by Federico García Lorca, and films by Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar. Class discussions and assigned papers based on analysis and research.

SPAN 341 1 Topic: Lit. of the Revolution (Upper-level elective)
Yansi Perez   01:00PM-03:50PM W    
The Cuban Revolution symbolizes a moment of tremendous political, social, and cultural transformation in Latin America . These transformations were propelled by lettered cultural institutions and journals that sought to renovate the cultural spheres of these countries. We will study some of these subversive transformations in the writings of Cortázar, Dalton , and Fernández Retamar. We will focus on different types of practices and discourses (literature, literary and cultural criticism, film and art) that were central in the debates fostered during this period.

SPAN 362 1 Reading Monsters (Upper-level elective)
Rogelio Minana   11:00AM-12:15PM T,TH  
This class examines how the discourse of monstrosity permeates literary and popular texts from early modern to contemporary times. The "monster" articulates a discourse of extremes that encompasses both fear and awe, the need to hide and to be seen, and the mingling of different elements in one unique body. In this course we employ intersdisciplinary perspectives to examine early modern masterpieces such as Don Quijote, as well as contemporary occurences of monstrosity, such as the war on terror, the struggles of street children in Brazil , the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the Zapatista revolution in Chiapas , México.

THEAT 281 1 Shakespeare (English 221/222)
Eugene Hill   10:00AM-10:50AM M,W,F    
A study of some of Shakespeare's plays, emphasizing both the poetic and the dramatic aspects of his art, with attention to the historical context and varieties of critical interpretations, including those of the twentieth century. Nine or ten plays.

SMITH COLLEGE

AAS 245 01 The Harlem Renaissance (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Lamothe, Daphne   MW 09:00-10:20  
Same as ENG 282. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movement in African-American history. This class will focus on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers and subjects will include: Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.

AAS 366 01 Contemporary Topics in Afro-American Studies: Literatures of the African Diaspora (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Lamothe, Daphne   M 07:00-09:00    
Migration and the Performance of Memory. 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.

AMS 120 01 Scribbling Women (2 nd Am Lit)
Marker, Sherry   MW 01:10-02:30  
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 01 Writing About American Society (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Colt, George   W 01:10-04:00
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 to 15. Admission by permission of the instructor.

ANT 263 01 The Third World in the Western Imaginary (Upper-level elective)
Garland , Elizabeth   MW 02:40-04:00      
This course explores the nature and consequences of Euro-American stereotypes about people in the poorest parts of the world. Drawing on key works of literature and social theory, and on historical materials such as early ethnological accounts of Africa, Australia , and the Middle East , the course will unravel the ways in which "the West" has come to conceptualize "the Rest." Contemporary transnational processes such as development, environmental conservation, tourism, and the war on terrorism will be analyzed in light of the ways that they draw upon and reproduce the symbolic dimensions of global structures of inequality.

CLT 267 01 African Women's Drama (Upper-level elective)
Mule, Katwiwa   TTh 10:30-11:50  
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 271 01 Writing in Translation: Bilingualism in the Postcolonial Novel (Upper-level elective)
Fulton, Dawn   TTh 10:30-11:50  
A study of bilingualism as a legacy of colonialism, as an expression of exile, and as a means of political and artistic transformation in recent texts from Africa and the Americas . We will consider how such writers as Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( Kenya ), Assia Djebar ( Algeria ), Patrick Chamoiseau ( Martinique ), and Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/U.S.) assess the personal and political consequences of writing in the language of a former colonial power, and how they attempt to capture the esthetic and cultural tensions of bilingualism in their work.

CLT 294 01 Tales within Tales within Tales (Upper-level elective)
Harries, Elizabeth   MW 02:40-04:00      
Why do writers enclose stories within other stories? What is the function of narrative frames? Why does Scheherezade tell tales within tales in order to ward off death? We will read frame tales from many periods and cultures, from The Arabian Nights to Boccaccio and Chaucer to Shelley's Frankenstein and Anne Sexton's Transformations, as well as some critical writing on framing, as we try to answer these questions. Open to first-year students with permission of the instructor.

CLT 295 01 Modern Short Stories (Upper-level elective)
Hunter, Jefferson   MW 01:10-02:30      
How European and American writers of the twentieth century developed old kinds of narrative - the tale, the comic sketch, the parable, the legend - into one of the most flexible, expressive and ambitious of modern literary form: the short story. Writings by Kipling, Chekhov, Mansfield, Hemingway, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Mann, Paley, Borges, and Levi. Not open to first-year students.

CLT 305 01 Studies in the Novel: The Postmodern Novel: Open Encyclopedias (Upper-level elective)
Botta, Anna   TTh 03:00-04:30      
Twentieth-century fictions began to present themselves as open encyclopedias - a contradictory genre, given that "encyclopedia" etymologically suggests an attempt to enclose all knowledge within a circle. Postmodernism, even more, sees the totality of what can be known as potential, conjectural and manifold; postmodern writers value skepticism and unresolvable heterogeneity. Yet they still attempt to establish observable relationships between worldly codes and methods of knowledge. We'll read fictions by Borges, Calvino, Celati, LeGuin, Perec, Pynchon and Queneau as examples of open encyclopedias, exhilarating voyages through a puzzling cosmos that includes missing pieces. Theoretical texts by writers such as Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari, Haraway and Virilio will help us to map the preconditions of our postmodernity.

CLT 367 01 Imagined Homes: Literary Interpretations of the National Question (Upper-level elective)
Lazaro, Reyes   MW 11:00-12:10  
This course will analyze the works of twentieth-century writers who belong to national or ethnic communities struggling to constitute, maintain, or defend a national identity against a dominant culture and language. We will read works by Irish (both from the Republic of Ireland and from Ulster ), Basque, Catalan, Puerto Rican, and Palestinian authors whose attitudes with respect to their involvement in the national project differ greatly. Common thematic concerns to be stressed are the depiction of Home, the relationship with the dominant culture, violence, and the conflict between language and traditions. We will pay special attention to the gender assumptions underlying national discourse, as well as to the reconsideration of traditional perceptions of the nation which the reality of diaspora required.

EAL 232 01 Modern Chinese Literature (Upper-level elective)
Knight, Deirdre   TTh 01:00-02:50  
Selected readings in translation of twentieth-century Chinese literature from the late-Qing dynasty to contemporary Taiwan and the People's Republic of China . This course will offer (1) a window on twentieth-century China (from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 to the present) and (2) an introduction to the study of literature: (a) why we read literature, (b) different approaches (e.g., how to do a close reading), and (c) literary movements. We will stress the socio-political context and questions of political engagement, social justice, class, gender, race and human rights. All readings are in English translation and no background in China or Chinese is required.

EAL 241 01 Literature and Culture in Premodern Japan: Court Ladies, Wandering Monks, and Urban Rakes (Upper-level elective)
Rohlich, Thomas   MW 01:10-02:30  
A study of Japanese literature and its cultural roots from the 8th to the 19th century. The course will focus on enduring works of the Japanese literary tradition, along with the social and cultural conditions that gave birth to the literature. All readings are in English translation.

EAL 245 01 Writing, Japan and Otherness (Upper-level elective)
Kono, Kimberly   MW 02:40-04:00  
We will examine representations of "otherness" in Japanese literature and film from the mid-19th century until the present. How was (and is) Japan 's identity as a modern nation configured through representations of "others?" How are categories of race, gender, nationality, class and sexuality used in the construction of "otherness?" We will discuss the development of national and individual identities as well as explore issues of travel, colonialism, immigration, and military occupation. In conjunction with these investigations, we will also address the varied ways in which Japan was represented as "other" by writers from China , England , France , Korea and the United States . How do these images of and by Japan converse with each other? All readings are in English translation.

EAL 360 01 Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: Intimacy: Dreams, Disappointments and Prac (Upper-level elective)
Knight, Deirdre   W 07:00-09:00  
An exploration of intimacy through close readings of contemporary fiction by women in Taiwan , Tibet and the People's Republic of China . How do stories about love, romance and desire (including extramarital affairs, serial relationships and love between women) reinforce or contest norms of economic, cultural and sexual citizenship? What do narratives of intimacy reveal about the social consequences of neoliberal ideologies and economic restructuring? How do pursuits, realizations and failures of intimacy lead to personal and social change? Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

EAL 360 02 Topics in East Asian Languages and Literatures: Writing Empire: Images of Colonial and Pos (Upper-level elective)
Kono, Kimberly   T 03:00-04:50    
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. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

ENG 199 01 Methods of Literary Study (Enlish 200)
Harries, Elizabeth   TTh 10:30-11:50
This course teaches the skills that enable us to read literature with understanding and pleasure. By studying examples from a variety of periods and places, students will learn how poetry, prose fiction, and drama, work, how to interpret them, and how to make use of interpretations by others. English 199 seeks to produce perceptive readers well equipped to take on complex texts. Readings in different sections will vary, but all will involve active discussion and frequent writing.

ENG 199 02 Methods of Literary Study (English 200)
Skarda, Patricia   TTh 01:00-02:20  

ENG 199 03 Methods of Literary Study (English 200)
Millington , Richard   TTh 03:00-04:20      

ENG 216 01 Intermediate Poetry Writing (Upper-level elective)
Watson, Ellen   M 07:30-09:30    
Students gain reading mastery by close attention to poems of diverse sensibilities and intentions, and are given practice creating poetic effects through tone, diction, rhythm, image, lineation, anaphora, alliteration, assonance, syllabics, and irregular rhyme. They create a portfolio of original poems and develop the skills of critique and revision. Poems and craft essays are assigned for each class, as well as packets of poems by visiting writers. Students will be expected to attend Poetry Center readings and Q&A's. Recommended background: ENG 120 Reading and Writing Short Poems.

ENG 233 01 American Literature from 1865 to 1914 (2 nd Am Lit)
Cheung, Floyd   TTh 10:30-11:50    
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, Sui Sin Far, Kate Chopin, and William Dean Howells; poetry by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

ENG 237 01 Recent American Writing (2 nd Am Lit)
Flower, Dean   MW 01:10-02:30  
Study of selected novelists and short story writers since 1945 with emphasis on Welty, Nabokov, Morrison, Stone, Simpson, Tyler , Jen, Smiley, and others.

ENG 239 01 American Journeys (2 nd Am Lit)
Millington , Richard   TTh 10:30-11:50    
A study of American narratives, from a variety of ethnic traditions and historical eras, that explore the forms of movement--immigration, migration, boundary crossing--so characteristic of American life. Emphasis on each author's treatment of the complex encounter between new or marginalized Americans and an established culture, and on definitions or interrogations of what it might mean to be or become "American." Works by Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, Richard Rodrigues, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Kogawa, Junot Diaz, Tony Kushner, and the filmmakers John Sayles and Chris Eyre.

ENG 257 01 Shakespeare (English 221/222)
Reeves, Charles   MW 01:10-02:30  
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 (English 221/222)
Kendall, Gillian   TTh 09:00-10:20      

ENG 259 01 Pope, Swift, and Their Circle (Upper-level elective)
Crow, Nora   TTh 10:30-11:50  
Discussion of the major figures, Pope and Swift, together with their contemporaries Defoe, Prior, Addison , and Gay.

ENG 260 01 Milton (Upper-level elective)
Seelig, Sharon   MWF 10:00-10:50  
A study of the major poems and selected prose of John Milton, radical and conservative, heretic and defender of the faith, apologist for patriarchy and advocate of human dignity, the last great Renaissance humanist, a poet of enormous creative power and influence.

ENG 265 01 The Victorian Novel (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Upper-level elective)
Bruzelius, Margaret   MW 02:40-04:00  
The English novel from Dickens and Thackeray to Conrad. Emphasis on the genre's formal development--narrative voice and perspective, the uses of plot, the representation of consciousness--but with some attention to social-historical concerns.

ENG 282 01 The Harlem Renaissance (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Lamothe, Daphne   MW 09:00-10:20      
Same as AAS 245. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movement in African-American history. This class will focus on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers and subjects will include: Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.

ENG 283 01 Victorian Medievalism (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Upper-level elective)
Bradbury, Nancy   MW 01:10-02:30      
Nineteenth-century revivals and transformations of medieval literature, arts, and social institutions; the remaking of the Middle Ages in the image of Victorian desires and aspirations. Arthurian legend in medieval and nineteenth-century England, the Gothic revival in British art and architecture, the cult of Chaucer, controversies over women's education, and the idealization of medieval communities in Victorian social theory.

ENG 287 01 Early Modern Women Writers: Writing the Self (Upper-level elective)
Seelig, Sharon   MW 02:40-04:00  
A consideration of a wide-variety of texts by 17th-century women- diaries, letters, and memoirs: poems (sonnets, personal and religious lyrics); drama; and prose fiction - with some of the following questions in mind: What self-conceptions or forms of self representation shape these writings? To what extent are these texts informed by external considerations or genres - by romance, religious autobiography, poetic or narrative conventions - or be expectations of an ending? What kinds of assumptions or preconceptions does the modern reader bring to these texts?

ENG 290 01 Crafting Creative Nonfiction (Upper-level elective)
Crow, Nora   Th 01:00-02:50  
A writers' workshop designed to explore the complexities and delights of creative nonfiction. Constant reading, writing, and critiquing. Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 292 01 Crafting the Memoir (Upper-level elective)
Boutelle, Ann   T 01:00-02:50  
In this workshop, we will explore, through reading and through writing, the presentation of self in the memoir. 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 01 Advanced Poetry Writing (Upper-level elective)
Fried, Margaret   M 07:30-09:30      
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 296 01 Writing Short Stories (Upper-level elective)
Amidon, Stephen   T 03:00-04:50  
Admission by permission of the instructor.

ENG 333 01 A Major British or American Writer: Henry James (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Gorra, Michael   Th 03:00-04:50
Topics course.

ENG 353 01 Advanced Studies in Shakespeare: Foreign Geographies on the Early Modern Stage (Upper-level elective)
Degenhardt, Jane   Th 01:00-02:50  
While Shakespeare and his contemporaries were writing plays for the English stage, England was advancing its position on the world stage through overseas exploration and commerce. Mediterranean and transatlantic geographies took on a new significance as English traders and explorers visited them and reported back their findings. This course examines a range of popular plays by John Fletcher, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Shakespeare, and others that imagine cross-cultural encounters in places such as North Africa, Persia, the spice Islands, and the New World. We will consider how the staging of these geographies enabled audiences to experience the thrilling spectacles of exotic terrain, extraordinary riches, extreme climates, and natives ranging from tyrannical to indolent, from sensuous to hideous.

ENG 382 01 Readings in American Literature (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Flower, Dean   T 03:00-04:50  
Faulkner, Morrison, and Race. Intensive study of William Faulkner's most radical experiments in fictional form, which were simultaneously his most tortured and powerful explorations of racial conflict in America - The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom, and Go Down Moses-considered in relation to the comparable achievements of Toni Morrison, whose novels, essays, and speeches in our own time have carried forward the discussion of a nominally desegregated but still deeply divided society.

ENG 384 01 Writing About American Society (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Colt, George   W 01:10-04:00      
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.

FRN 230 01 Readings in Modern Literature: Fantasy and Madness (Upper-level elective)
Bost-Fievet, Melanie   TTh 01:10-02:30  
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.: A study of madness and its role in the literary tradition. Such authors as Maupassant, Flaubert, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, J.-P. Sartre, Marguerite Duras. The imagination, its powers and limits in the individual and society.

FRN 230 02 Readings in Modern Literature: Women Writers of the Caribbean (Upper-level elective)
Bullot, Fabienne   TTh 10:30-11:50    
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 B , Maryse Conde, Gisle Pineau, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra.

FRN 254 01 France Before the Revolution: Drawing upon the Past (Upper-level elective)
Birkett, Mary Ellen   MWF 10:00-10:50  
Many of the literary works produced in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are "classics" not only because they reflect artistic values of French classicism but also because painters, composers, and directors have found them a source of inspiration for their own creations. We will read literary genres such as tragicomedy, comedy, tragedy, satire, and novel and explore modes of their representation in other art forms, from the Ancien Regime to the present day. Basis for the major. Prerequisite: a course of higher level than FRN 220 or permission of the instructor.

FRN 260 01 Literary Visions: Love Triangles (Upper-level elective)
Gantrel-Ford, Martine   TTh 10:30-11:50      
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 01 Topics in Seventeenth/Eighteenth Century Literature: Family Values in the Enlightenment (Upper-level elective)
Vanpee, Janie   TTh 10:30-11:50      
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'Abbe Prevost, Francoise de Graffigny, Diderot, Rousseau, Isbelle de Charrire, Laclos, Olympe de Gouges, the Encyclopedie, and some legal documents and treatises.

RN 360 01 Topics in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Literature: Images of the 'Other': Female Domestic Servants (Upper-level elective)
Gantrel-Ford, Martine   TTh 01:10-02:30  
In this course, we will read works by major French authors of the 19th and 20th centuries, in which a female domestic servant is the main character. What happens to a novel or a play when the domestic servant is given first place? Which concerns or anxieties does the servant character embody or convey to the reader? To what extent have such works changed the way women are represented in literature and redefined the relationship of literature to politics, society, and the self? Authors such as Lamartine, George Sand, the Goncourts, Flaubert, Zola, and Genet.

GER 351 01 Advanced Topics in German Studies: Sex, Lies, and Coffeehouses: Literature and Culture of the Jahrun (Upper-level elective)
Westerdale, Joel   Th 07:00-09:00    
Each topic will focus on a particular literary epoch, movement, genre or author from German literary culture. All sections taught in German.: This course explores German and Austrian literature and culture from the period 1880-1920 with an emphasis on intersecting issues of language, gender and sexuality. Readings to include texts by Nietzsche, Freud, Wedekind, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Kafka and Kraus. Conducted in German.

GRK 310 01 Advanced Readings in Greek Literature II: Athens, the Savior of Greece (Upper-level elective)
Gregory, Justina   MW 01:10-02:30  
Authors read in GRK 310 vary from year to year, but they are generally 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.

ITL 333 01 Dante: Divina Commedia - Purgatorio and Paradiso (Upper-level elective)
Procaccini, Alfonso   MW 02:40-04:00  
Detailed study of Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso in the context of his other works. Conducted in Italian.

ITL 344 01 Italian Women Writers: Women in Italian Society: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Upper-level elective)
Bellesia, Giovanna   TTh 10:30-11:50      
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 with a selection of texts written during the last ten to fifteen years by contemporary women immigrants. Limited enrollment, permission of the instructor required. Conducted in Italian.

JPN 351 01 Contemporary Texts II (Upper-level elective)
Takahashi, Atsuko   TTh 10:30-11:50
Continued study of selected contemporary texts including fiction and short essays from print and electronic media. This course further develops advanced reading, writing, and discussion skills in Japanese, and enhances students' understanding of various aspects of contemporary Japanese society. Prerequisite: JPN 302 or permission of the instructor.

KOR 351 01 Advanced Studies in Korean Language and Literature (Upper-level elective)
Massey, Suk   MW 07:30-08:50    
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.

LAS 301 01 Topics in Latin American and Latino/a Studies: Latin America in Motion (Upper-level elective)
Kaplan, Marina   WF 01:10-02:30      
This course will discuss the search for justice and the counter-hegemonic struggles that are changing our view of Latin America. We will focus primarily on the actions and writings of the Zapatistas, in Chiapas, Mexico, as a case study in which many preoccupations converge: the economic, the political, indigenous rights, women's rights, and writing that is literary and political. As a social and as a discursive event, Zapatismo has been studied by scholars in a broad array of disciplines; we will read some of their articles, and complement this with films. In addition, we may review other forms of resistance and creative social intervention in, for example, Argentina, Brazil or Bolivia. Involved is the search for breaking the limited conceptions of "democracy" that condemn populations to invisibility, their cultural memory to oblivion, and their needs and knowledge to subaltern status. Students will write a research paper, with a disciplinary or interdisciplinary emphasis of their choice, on Zapatismo. The course is conducted by two faculty members: one in the social sciences (Margaret Cerullo, HC) and one in the humanities (Marina Kaplan, SC). Students can write their papers in Spanish or English, readings are in English, some available in Spanish. The course is recommended for juniors and seniors with two courses of appropriate background and with permission of the instructors.

LAT 213 01 Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid (Upper-level elective)
Shumate, Nancy   MWF 09:00-09:50      
Prerequisite: 212 or permission of the instructor.

LAT 330 01 Advanced Readings in Latin Literature I & II: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Upper-level elective)
Bradbury, Scott   TTh 01:00-02:50      
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.: A study of Ovid's transmission and adaptation of Greek myths in the Metamorphoses. Attention will be paid to Ovid's Augustan milieu and to the extraordinary after life of the Metamorphoses, particularly in Renaissance art.

POR 280 01 Portuguese and Brazilian Voices in Translation (Upper-level elective)
McNee, Malcolm   MW 02:40-04:00    
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: Jose Saramago (Portugual); Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Luis Fernando Verissimo (Brazil); Mia Couto (Mozambique). Course conducted in English.

POR 380 01 Advanced Literary Studies (Upper-level elective)
Cutler, Charles   TTh 03:00-04:30      
Same as SPN 380. 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, Cecilia 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.

REL 211 01 Wisdom Literature and Other Books from the Writings (Upper-level elective)
Kaminsky, Joel   MW 01:10-02:30  
Critical reading and discussion of Wisdom texts in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha (Job, selected Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, etc.,) as well as attention to some of the shorter narrative and poetic texts that one finds in the Writings such as Ruth, Esther and Song of Songs.

REL 215 01 Introduction to the Bible II (Upper-level elective)
Penland, Elizabeth   MW 02:40-04:00      
The literature of the New Testament in Jewish and Greco-roman context. Course will emphasize literary genre, images of gender and social hierarchy, and continuity with and distinction from Greco-Roman Jewish texts. Enrollment limited to 25.

RUS 235 01 Dostoevsky (Upper-level elective)
Banerjee, Maria   TTh 09:00-10:20    
A close reading of all the major literary works by Dostoevsky, with special attention to the philosophical, religious, and political issues that inform Dostoevsky's search for a definition of Russia's spiritual and cultural identity. In translation.

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

SPN 230 01 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Literature: From Euphoria to Disenchantment: The Return to (Upper-level elective)
Harretche, Maria   MW 11:00-12:10      
A study of two societies (Spain and Argentina) at a critical moment in their histories. We will examine at least two different responses to their respective returns to democracy through plays depicting the traumatic past of dictatorship and the renewed challenges of daily life. Through reading texts that vary from tragedy to farce by Gambaro, Pavlovsky, Goldenberg, de Santos, Cabal, Pedrero and Desola, among others, we will discuss repression, state-terrorism, delinquency, and the reciprocal roles of victim and oppressor. The class will include training in methodologies of acting, and, to end the course, some of the texts will be staged in Spanish. Prerequisites: SPN 200 or above. No previous acting experience required. Enrollment limited to 19.

SPN 230 02 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Literature: Latin American Women's Poetry (Upper-level elective)
Rueda, Maria Helena   TTh 10:30-11:50  
This course will offer an overview of poetry written by women in Latin America since the late 19th century. It will include readings of poetry by authors from different countries in the region. We will study the place of these poets in the more general context of Latin American literary movements, and reflect on the use of Spanish as a medium for the expression of women's subjectivity. In studying these poems, students will engage in an exploration of the language as a creative and expansive tool for communication. Prerequisites: SPN 220 or above. Enrollment limited to 19.

SPN 246 01 Topics in Latin American Literature: Life Stories by Latin American Jewish Writers (Upper-level elective)
Berger, Silvia   MW 01:10-02:30    
This course will study 20th-century poetry, short stories, essays, and novels by Jewish writers of Spanish America. Beginning with early immigrant writers, we will explore how recent authors portray issues of identity and belonging. Special attention will be given to the social context of works and to literary movements as ideological constructs. Prerequisites: SPN 220 or above. Enrollment limited to 19.

SPN 261 01 Survey of Latin American Literature II (Upper-level elective)
Kaplan, Marina   WF 02:40-04:00  
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 373 01 Literary Movements in Spanish America: Literature, Film and the Transnational Imagination in Latin America (Upper-level elective)
Rueda, Maria Helena   TTh 01:00-02:50    
This class will look at how Latin American filmmakers and writers have imagined this region's place in the post Cold War global configuration since the 1990s. Through the analysis of films such as Maria, Full of Grace (2004) and City of God (2002), as well as recent literary works by authors from various backgrounds, we will explore cultural production as an alternate means of negotiating conflicts related to immigration, drug trafficking, free trade agreements, media and consumer culture, and continuing political instability. Enrollment limited to 12.

SWG 260 01 The Cultural Work of Memoir (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper-level elective)
Van Dyne, Susan   MW 02:40-04:00    
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: SWG 150, and a literature course.

THE 218 01 Modern European Drama II (Upper-level elective)
Berkman, Leonard   TTh 09:00-10:20    
Pioneering and influential contemporary theatre in Europe from the 1930s to the present. The playwrights to be studied include later Brecht, Camus, Sartre, Anouilh, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Gombrowicz, Pinter, Duras, Handke, Fo, Havel, Friel, Page, Stoppard, and Churchill. Special attention to issues of gender, class, warfare, and other personal/political foci. Attendance required at selected performances.

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

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

THE 361 01 Screenwriting (Upper-level elective)
Hairston, Andrea  T 01:00-02:50      
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 01 Screenwriting (Upper-level elective)
Hairston, Andrea T 01:00-02:50    
Intermediate and advanced script projects. Prerequisite: 361.

AMHERST COLLEGE

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE

HACU 157 U.S. Literature Since 1960 (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Christopher Vials   MW 10:30AM-11:50AM    
Though our focus will be on more recent literature of the United States , we will explore contemporary literature historically. That is to say, we will investigate literary trends over the past 40 years in order to help us define what is and is not unique to our historical moment, so that we may become more effective actors within it. Reading contemporary literature historically involves examining how particular American writers responded to and participated in socio-cultural phenomena during the last half century. To this end, we will consider how the mass consumer society enabled by postwar Keynesian economics, the social upheavals of the 1960s, the demographic shifts following the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, and 9/11 are all linked to issues of postmodernity, globalization, and identity within literary works. Authors will likely include Alice Walker, Gish Jen, David Sedaris, Don Delillo, Toni Morison, Alan Gurganus, E.L. Doctorow, and Sandra Cisneros.

HACU 164 Text, Canon, Tradition (Upper level elective)
Alan Hodder   MW 10:30AM-11:50AM    
This course is designed to introduce students to several religious traditions of the world through a selective study of their chief canonical texts. In part our concern will be with fundamental thematic issues: what do these records seek to reveal about the nature of life and death, sin and suffering, the transcendent and the mundane, morality and liberation? In addition, we will address wider questions of meaning, authority, and context. Why do human communities privilege particular expressions as sacred? Or classic? How do these traditions understand the origin, nature, and inspiration of these writings? Were these texts meant to be written down and seen, or recited and heard? How are scriptural canons formed and by whom interpreted? To help us grapple with these questions we will examine some traditional and scholarly commentaries, but our principal reading in this course will be drawn from the Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhacarita, Lotus Sutra, Confucian Analects, Chuang Tzu, Torah, New Testament, and Quran.

HACU 176 Mysteries of Petersburg (Upper level elective)
Polina Barskova   TTH 02:30PM-03:20PM    
Building on the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, this course uses the lower depths of Petersburg as a symptomatic locus that may serve as a prism through which this city was read and written. Besides Dostoevsky we will consider the authors who influenced him (Sue and Dickens) and were influenced by him (Bely and Vaginov). In order to make students techniques of walking through the literary city more attuned to the problems and strategies of the urban modernity, this course supplies an introductory critical reader that includes works by Bakhtin, Benjamin, De Certeau. One of the central goals of this course is to help students to better understand the anatomy of Russian literary metropolis at its historical, architectural, social and legendary levels.

HACU 194 Narratives of Nuestra America (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Norman Holland   MW 04:00PM-05:20PM  
Drawing upon novels and short stories, as well as music and film, this course explores the intersection of personal and national narratives by Latinas/os. How does a narrative simultaneously tell the story of both an individual and her original or adopted home? How are America and what it means to be American constructed in these narratives? What conceptions of identity, place, history, and politics are developed and deployed? How might these narratives be in dialogue with--or even challenge--more canonical tales of coming-of-age in the US ? We will seek to answer these and other questions by engaging in critical readings of the narratives of American-born and immigrant Latinas/os such as Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Loida Maritza Perez.

HACU 221 Faulkner and Morrison (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
L. Brown Kennedy   TTH 10:30AM-11:50AM  
Our purpose in this class will not be narrowly comparative but rather to read intensively and extensively in each of these master practitioners of the modern novel, thinking particularly about how they each frame issues of personal identity, think about family, history and memory, and confront the American twentieth century dilemma of the color line. This course is suitable for second year and beyond students.

HACU 225 Southern History & Literature (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
L. Brown Kennedy, Susan Tracy   MW 01:00PM-02:20PM  
Constructed as almost a mythic fiction by its own major novelists and historians, stereotyped in the popular media, the South is also a multiple set of stories told by former slaves and slaveholders, women in kitchens and fields, workers in mines and factories. Through analysis of the fiction and autobiography of its writers, together with discussion of major debates in the current historical scholarship, this course seeks to introduce you to South(s) of starkly contrasting geographies and economies and of diverse peoples, The class will trace themes that span the period from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement: the defense and critique of the plantation South, the growing split between rural life and urban life, relations among the races (black, white and Native American) and between men and women, the role of family, religion, memory and myth making.

HACU 248 Russian Eccentrics (Upper level elective)
Polina Barskova   MW 04:00PM-05:20PM    
For an outsider, guided and misguided by the formula of the mysterious Russian soul, Russian culture has always been a realm of boundless exotic possibility. Within Russian culture, however, merciless battles have long raged for normalization and the establishment of a canon. This conflicted process has populated the marginal Russian cultural space with the outcasts of all sorts, including aesthetic provocateurs, political rebels, social utopians. This course looks at both the Russian theory and practice of aesthetic otherness as we consider works by prose writers Gogol and Nabokov, by poets Kuzmin, Maiakovskii, and Tsvetaeva, and by filmmakers Kozintev, Eisenstein and Paradjanov. Our protagonists, who saw themselves as eccentrics and were seen in equal measures of awe and animosity by others, should help us define what it means to be different within a discourse and a culture.

HACU 257 60's: Movement & Pop Culture (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Tracie Rubeck   M 02:30PM-05:20PM T 07:00PM-10:00PM    
This course focuses on the history of three key social Movements of the 1960s: The Civil Rights/Black Power Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and the Women's Liberation Movement. However, that history is explored through close inspection of various media of the 1960s, including the press, popular music, popular film, television, and self-generated texts from the Movement culture. Through this window into the media of the 1960s, students are encouraged to consider the complex relationships between 1. The media and American social life, 2. The media and self, and 3. Mainstream and alternative media. Prerequisite: previous course in media analysis or cultural studies.

HACU 267 Ancient Epic (Upper level elective)
Robert Meagher   TTH 10:30AM-11:50AM  
The aim of this course will be the comparative study of four ancient epics from India , Greece , Israel , and Ireland . The core readings will comprise: the Ramayana, the Odyssey, 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 278 Screenwriting (Upper level elective)
Michael Elyanow   TH 12:30PM-03:20PM  
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 Kristen 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 audio commentary will be used in class. Registraiton is by instructor permission and will be posted after the first class

HACU 282 Middlemarch & Victorian Culture (Brit Lit 1700-1900) (Upper level elective)
Lise Sanders, Jeffrey Wallen   TTH 12:30PM-01:50PM  
This seminar will explore interdisciplinary approaches to Victorian literature and culture. A primary text for the course will be George Eliot's Middlemarch, published in eight parts between 1871 and 1872. This novel, called by Virginia Woolf one of the few English novels written for grown-up people and viewed by many as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, treats a range of subjects including Victorian science and medicine, intellectual ambition and failure, politics and social change, and women's independence. We will use Middlemarch as the point of departure for exploring several strands of Victorian discourses on these topics, and we'll also read the novel in conjunction with other literary works (by writers such as Trollope, Henry James, and Zola) that take different approaches to exploring questions about a woman's choices and their consequences; Italy and artistic consciousness; and realism and moral seriousness. Writing assignments will include short essays and a longer independent project.

HACU 307 Love and Death in Ancient Literature (Upper level elective)
Robert Meagher   MW 10:30AM-11:50AM      
Ultimately, love alone, as Dante concludes, may move the sun and the stars. To the mortal eye, however, Death looms as large as Love; and both pervade the literature, epic, lyric, dramatic, philosophical, and religious, of the ancient world, from the North Aegean to South Asia . The core readings will comprise: the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Song of Songs, the poems of Sappho, the Alcestis of Euripides, Plato's Symposium, the Gospel According to John, and selected Tamil poems of love and war. While the aim of the course is comparative, each text will be considered as well in its own cultural and historical context.

HACU 329 Identity Beyond Identity Politics (Upper level elective)
Monique Roelofs, Mary Russo   M 02:30PM-05:20PM  
How can we understand the importance of identity politics and what are its limitations? What grounds do philosophy, literary theory and the arts provide for thinking identity and imagining beyond it? What do conceptions of sex-specific, racialized, non-teleological processes of becoming imply for the question of subjectivity? How important is the idea of identity to the life of categories such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, the nation, and culture within and outside the arts? What ideas about reading, subjectivity, community and action are at stake? We will study literature, films, images, and writings by theorists such as Benjamin, Adorno, Kristiva, Irigaray, Braidotti, Lugones, Alcoff, Agamben.

HACU 335 Mass Culture Seminar (Upper level elective)
Lise Sanders   W 02:30PM-05:20PM    
This course is designed as a seminar in mass culture & media/cultural studies, and is appropriate for advanced Division II and Division III students. Topics to be addressed include historical efforts to theorize mass culture, the relationship between the mass and the popular, and questions of value, ideology, cultural production, representation and consumption. Readings will be drawn from the work of Adorno & Horkheimer, Benjamin, Kracauer, Macdonald, Althusser, de Certeau, and Hall, as well as recent critical writings in media and cultural studies. The course will be structured as a workshop for students to develop and revise portions of Division III projects or independent work to be included in the Division II portfolio, and will incorporate peer review sessions and oral presentations. At least one previous course in media or cultural studies is strongly recommended.

IA 155 Writing Fiction About Families (Upper level elective)
Nathalie Arnold   TTH 12:30PM-01:50PM  
The tension between what families 'should' and what they can 'actually' be is a central feature in fiction about family; the mechanics of expectation, disappointment, comfort, love, fear, and multifarious experiences that can characterize real family life is part of what makes stories about family so compelling. Through close readings and the critique of contemporary feature films in which ‘the family' is central, as well as reflexive work in which students examine their own ideas about ‘family,' we will write about some of the relationships and experiences that most intimately contribute to a person's identity and world-view. In addition to in-class exercises, including the construction of ‘real' and ‘fictional' kinship charts, students will produce 4 short pieces of fiction that examine familial situations from the perspectives of the different participants (for example, child, parent, grandparent, foster sibling). One of these will be revised and polished after small group workshops.

IA 206 Writing a Child Voice /Theatre (Upper level elective)
Natalie Sowell, Ellen Donkin   TTH 10:30AM-11:50AM  
This course is designed to explore the nuances of writing TYA (theatre for young audiences) plays for preschoolers through kindergartners (ages 3-6). We will begin by researching early childhood development and dramatic play theories and practices in order to write plays respectful of this undeserved and often underestimated audience. Several TYA plays for preschoolers including the work of the Paper Bag Players and Aurand Harris, and several well know adaptations of children's books will be examined. As we explore each of these plays we will be looking at structure, content, and form, as well as use of rhythm, music, puppetry, movement/dance, and audience participation. Next we will adapt children's literature to play script format. Finally we will move into writing original work and crafting corresponding creative drama workshops to add depth to the theatre experience. Observation of and interaction with children at local schools and childcare centers will inform and serve as inspiration for the creative process. We will conclude the semester with dramatic readings of our plays for preschool and kindergarten audiences.

IA 217 American Voices, American Live (Upper level elective)
Michael Lesy   MW 09:00AM-10:20AM  
The ability to authentically reproduce the inner and outer lives of real people and to deploy those people as characters in nonfiction narratives is a skill that all literary journalists must master. This course--devoted to the reading and writing of portrait/biographies—is intended to develop that skill in writers who intend to tell true stories about living people and the worlds they inhabit. An understanding of history and literature, psychology and anthropology, a mastery of prose that is both evocative and analytic, and an ability to build narratives that are both sure and supple—all will be the goals of this course. Books to be read will include: Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism, Gary Wills, Reagan's America/Innocent at Home, and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Students will be asked to write short portrait/biographies of friends, relatives, acquaintances, and strangers. They will then be asked to extend those portraits into longer, more insightful, and analytic biographies. Weekly writing exercises and well-read class participation will be required. Please note: This will be a difficult and demanding course. To find suitable interview subjects will require initiative and perseverance; to hear and understand their life stories will require equal measures of warmth and skepticism, empathy, and disbelief; to place their stories to context will require fast checking and research. To be able to tell their stories will require an additional constellation of skills. This is not a course for timid people or for people easily discouraged.

IA 236 Practice of Literary Journalist (Upper level elective)
Michael Lesy   TTH 09:00AM-10:20AM  
Literary journalism encompasses a variety of genres, including portrait/biography, memoir, and investigation of the social landscape. At its best, literary journalism uses such dramatic devices as plot, characterization, and dialogue to extend and elaborate the who/what/where/when/and why of traditional journalism. By combining evocation with analysis, immersion with investigation, literary journalism tries to reproduce the complex surfaces and depths of the real world. Books to be read will include: the Art of Fact, by Kevein Kramer and Ben Yagoda, Let us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Waler Evans, Dispatches, by Michael Herr and Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks. Students will be asked to write short, nonfiction narratives that will require participation/observation of local scenes and interview/conversation with the people who inhabit them. Students will then be asked to extend these short stories into longer pieces that have casts of characters and plots. The field work will demand initiative, patience and curiosity. An ability to meet weekly deadlines as well as well-prepared class participation will be required.

IA 253 Proust, Woolf and Lacan (Upper level elective)
Jill Lewis, Annie Rogers   TTH 09:00AM-10:20AM  
In this course we will read writers who disturb experiences of memory, perception, the body and desire itself, rupturing a familiar, stable 'reality,' and offering instead the elusive workings of the unconscious. The fiction of Proust and Woolf uniquely leaves a trace of this process of disturbance, a rich vein of language in which each maps and remaps the shifting shoreline of consciousness and desire – processes that change engagement with the world. Their work interrogates the routines and habits that disallow ambivalence and fluidity. Each explores spaces from which change can emerge, as the closure of social conventions and habits of gender become productively disturbed and critically remapped. In Lacan's work, we will explore desire as founded in radical loss and lack, the chaining of signifiers in language as key to the way the unconscious reveals itself, and creativity as a particular response to desire. Students should anticipate a challenging reading process. After engaging with the texts and responding to the art of Proust and Woolf through discussion and short papers, each student will undertake a creative project of their own and write about their process of creativity. Readings will include Woolf's short fiction, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and On Being Ill; readings from Proust's Swann's Way, In the shadow of Young Girls in Flower, and Time Regained (using new Penguin edition translations); and texts such as Elizabeth Wright Postfeminism and Lacan, and Moustfa Safouan's Four lessons of Psychoanalysis as well as selected readings from Lacan's work.

IA 258 Point of View for Fiction Writing (Upper level elective)
Nathalie Arnold   W 06:39PM-09:20PM    
Understanding the limits, possibilities, and the complexity of point of view is an essential step towards producing sound fiction. This reading and workshop course will introduce members to the capacities, drawbacks, and attractions of various kinds of literary point of view. Through focused writing exercises, intensive reading of contemporary U.S. and international fiction told in different modes of point of view, members will acquire a facility for discussing the construction of fictional work as well as practical experience in actively deploying specific points of view. Most importantly, members will refine their ability to read as writers, mining published work for technical insights and guidance. Students will produce one long piece of fiction (10-20 p) for peer critique and submit a revision as well as a critical essay about point of view at the end of the semester. Students must come to the first class meeting with a 2-page writing sample.

IA 272 Fiction Writing Workshop (Upper level elective)
Benjamin James   W 02:30PM-05:20PM    
We will read two peer stories and one published story per week, devoting our attention to issues of structure and character, as well as to the role of ideas in the process of conceiving and making works of fiction. Students are advised to begin a draft of a story during January. Please bring three polished pages of fiction writing to the first class (excerpts from work previously submitted in other classes are fine).

IA 278 Screenwriting (Upper level elective)
Michael Elyanow   TH 12:30PM-03:20PM  
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 audio commentary will be used in class. Registration is by instructor permission and will be posted after the first class.

IA 399 Advanced Seminar in Writing (Upper level elective)
Lynne Hanley, Paul Jenkins   T 12:30PM-03:02PM  
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 104 The Good War: Interrogating the History of the Homefront During World War II (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Lili Kim   MW 01:00PM-02:20PM  
As incongruous and oxymoronic as it sounds, World War II is often remembered and referred to as the ‘Good War' because Americans fought for freedom and democracy of the world. Yet, on the homefront, many Americans struggled to experience democracy during World War II. In fact, the unprecedented internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II remains as one of the darkest and most racist chapters in our history. Using a variety of primary sources (diaries, newspaper articles, oral history interviews, novels, autobiographies) and secondary sources, this course critically examine the experiences of different ethnic groups of Asian Americans on the homefront against the backdrop of Japanese American internment. Thus, this is a social and political history of the homefront, not a military history of the battlefront. What were the social, economic, and political conditions under which Japanese American internment became a tragic reality on the homefront during World War II? What are the broader implications of Japanese American internment, not only for those Japanese Americans who were interned, but also for other Asian Americans who, often mistaken for a ‘dirty Jap,' suffered abuse? By way of conclusion, students will work on a final project exploring the parallels between the history of World War II homefront and the aftermath of 9/11 when racially charged politics swept across the country in the name of ‘national security'?

SS 157 Nuns, Saints, and Mystics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Upper level elective)
Jutta Sperling   TTH 09:00AM-10:20AM    
Early Christianity had a tremendous appeal to women and slaves. Early Christian spirituality and practices of devotion were part of a broader cultural revolution aimed at subverting both Jewish and pagan Roman patriarchal family structures, slavery, and the political structure in which they were embedded. The high number of female converts, martyrs, and donors testify to the extent to which the church in its formative phase relied on women—slaves as well as high-ranking Roman ladies—and their spiritual and material contributions. In medieval Catholicism, women mystics formulated a theology according to which Christ in his human nature could be though of as entirely female. In the early modern period, female religious rallied to withstand the onslaught of the tridentine movement, which was aimed at purging the religious public sphere from its many female protagonists. Female imagery, and the orchestration of cults devoted to the Virgin Mary, for example, played a key role in converting native Americans. In this course, we will be reading original sources written by or about women in their roles as followers of the apostles, founders of converts, mystics, nuns, real as well as fake saints, and also secondary literature in this rapidly expanding field of historical studies.

SS 253 Proust, Woolf, and Lacan (Upper level elective)
Jill Lewis, Annie Rogers   TTH 09:00AM-10:30AM  
In this course we will read writers who disturb experiences of memory, perception, the body and desire itself, rupturing a familiar, stable 'reality,' and offering instead the elusive workings of the unconscious. The fiction of Proust and Woolf uniquely leaves a trace of this process of disturbance, a rich vein of language in which each maps and remaps the shifting shoreline of consciousness and desire – processes that change engagement with the world. Their work interrogates the routines and habits that disallow ambivalence and fluidity. Each explores spaces from which change can emerge, as the closure of social conventions and habits of gender become productively disturbed and critically remapped. In Lacan's work, we will explore desire as founded in radical loss and lack, the chaining of signifiers in language as key to the way the unconscious reveals itself, and creativity as a particular response to desire. Students should anticipate a challenging reading process. After engaging with the texts and responding to the art of Proust and Woolf through discussion and short papers, each student will undertake a creative project of their own and write about their process of creativity. Readings will include Woolf's short fiction, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and On Being Ill; readings from Proust's Swann's Way, In the shadow of Young Girls in Flower, and Time Regained (using new Penguin edition translations); and texts such as Elizabeth Wright Postfeminism and Lacan, and Moustfa Safouan's Four lessons of Psychoanalysis as well as selected readings from Lacan's work.

SS 255 Writing about the Outdoors (Upper level elective)
William Ryan, Robert Rakoff  TTH 12:30PM-01:50PM    
This seminar will explore contrasting approaches to writing about the outdoors. We will read and critique a number of genres including traditional nature writing, travel accounts, creative nonfiction, fiction, and academic analyses. We will pay particular attention to narrative choices and the role of the narrator as well as to the use of landscape description, scientific language, and other vehicles for constructing ideas of nature. Our analytical focus will be on the social and cultural origins of both mainstream and critical views of the human presence in the nature world. We will use these readings both as models of good writing and as contributions to the rich discourse about people in the outdoors. These readings will also help us develop some criteria for peer review of written work. There will be regular writing assignments, and students will be expected to contribute to class discussion and group critique in an informed and constructive manner. Instructor Permission Required.

SS 260 The Strange Career of Race in the U.S. (2 nd Am Lit) (Upper level elective)
Lili Kim   W 06:30PM-09:30PM    
Scholar Kenan Malik has said, ‘If a Martian were to land on Earth, it is unlikely that he would be able to distinguish between races in the fashion that we do.' Statements like this underscore the seemingly arbitrary process of assigning race in America. How Americans have constructed race over time has systematically shaped power dynamics in American society. Thus, race, however arbitrarily constructed, continues to matter. This is an advanced seminar that explores the history of the 20 th -century United States through the analytical lens of race. Using historical case studies, students will be asked to consider how race has been constructed, institutionalized, and contested in American society and culture throughout history, as well as how people of color have negotiated racial hierarchies in the United States over time. We will use primary sources such as novels, personal essays, and autobiographies, as well as selected secondary sources from history, sociology, anthropology, feminist studies, and legal studies.

WP 255 Writing about the Outdoors (Upper level elective)
William Ryan, Robert Rakoff  TTH 12:30PM-01:50PM    
This seminar will explore contrasting approaches to writing about the outdoors. We will read and critique a number of genres including traditional nature writing, travel accounts, creative nonfiction, fiction, and academic analyses. We will pay particular attention to narrative choices and the role of the narrator as well as to the use of landscape description, scientific language, and other vehicles for constructing ideas of nature. Our analytical focus will be on the social and cultural origins of both mainstream and critical views of the human presence in the nature world. We will use these readings both as models of good writing and as contributions to the rich discourse about people in the outdoors. These readings will also help us develop some criteria for peer review of written work. There will be regular writing assignments, and students will be expected to contribute to class discussion and group critique in an informed and constructive manner. Instructor Permission Required.