Summer 2023 Undergraduate English Courses

 B1 05/30-7/7  03379  Online Asynchronous     IANNINI   B6 5/30-7/7  05293  MW 6:00-10:00 pm  MU-113 ROSENTHAL  E1 6/26-8/4  05294  MTWTH    10:30AM-12:20  MU-113 CARGES  E2  6/26-8/4  03380  Online Asynchronous    MITCHELL  H1 7/10-8/16  03965  Online Asynchronous    DYE             This course provides an introduction to principal methods and materials in contemporary literary studies. In order to suggest some of the range of the field, ordinarily it includes close attention to works from at least two genres and two historical periods...

E1   6/26-8/4   MTWTH   10:30AM- 12:20  MU-208      PAIGE In 1984, Claudia Tate conducted and compiled a collection of 14 interviews with prominent Black women writers working across genre and form. This book, entitled Black Women Writers at Work, features writers who remain popular amongst contemporary readers such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, as well as writers who are not as well known today, such as Sherley Anne Williams, Alexis De Veaux and Kristin Hunter. In her interviews, Tate asked...

B1   5/30-7/7   00999   MW 1:00-5:00 PM   ONLINE   CHAMBERS H1  7/10-8/16   04642   MW 1:00-4:40PM    ONLINE   CHAMBERS In this course, students explore media literacy through the analysis and creation of myriad forms of digital media. The focus of this course is twofold: to develop critical thinking skills around narrative within a digital context and to create ‘original' multimedia projects, dissolving the divide between fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, journalism, and personal narrative. We investigate if it’s...

B6   5/30-7/7   01212    MW 6:00-10:00PM   ONLINE   REHILL

B1   5/30-7/7    05284     10:30 AM-12:25   ONLINE   LAWLESS In this poetry workshop, you will develop two sometimes conflicting skills: creativity and restraint. We will play writing games to loosen your imagination, but we will also spend time developing critical vocabularies to evaluate and discuss your poems. Half of the class is spent workshopping your poems. The other half you will spend immersing yourself in modern poetry and experimenting with poetic forms.

B6  5/30-7/7    01155    6:00-10:25 PM     VH-105     NIGRIN    This remote learning lecture-discussion focuses on the relationship between cinema and aesthetic movements in the arts. Films to be screened include Blood of a Poet, The Man Who Fell To Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Draughtsman’s Contract, The Red Shoes, Mulholland Drive, and others. Warning: some films may contain nudity, sexual situations, violence, profanity, substance abuse, and disturbing images.

B6    5/30-7/7    05291    TTH  6:00-10:00PM  SC-205    DARLING Institutions of Postcolonial and World Literature  This course will investigate the cultural institutions—radio programs, publishing houses, literary prizes, academic and popular criticism—that have shaped the fields of postcolonial and world literature from the mid-20th century to the present. What are the conditions of production, circulation, and reception that lead to certain authors and texts “making it” in the literary field? We will read a...

H1  7/10-8/16   05285     MTWTH  10:30 AM- 12:20   MU-115   ALCARO Sex, Sin, & the Sacred in Medieval Literature Think no one talked about sex in the Middle Ages? Think again! Between courtly romances, raunchy fabliaux, vernacular medical treatises, and penitential guides, sex and sexuality were a major point of concern not only for individuals, but also for centralized institutions like local legislative bodies and the Catholic Church. This course will explore these three concepts-- sex, sin, and the...

  H1  7/10-8-16    05289    MTWTH   1:00-2:50 PM    MU-204    IORIO   The Brontë Sisters Then and Now The works of sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë were not only popular at the time of their publication in the mid-nineteenth century, but have been continuously adapted by authors across the world through to the present day. This course will trace how these works have been taken up by 20th and 21st century Caribbean, Irish, American, and British creators, and will ask what forms, themes, and emotions from...

B6   5/30-7/7   05287  MW 6:00-10:00 PM   MU-111   CRUZ Early modern critical race theory suggests that race-thinking in the Renaissance was not strictly limited to visible differences of body type and skin color, but also involved religious differences, notions of geographic origin, and adherence to ideals of sexual and gender normativity. But in what ways do the articulating concepts of race and gender on (and off) the English stage illuminate our understanding of the period’s dramatic literatures? How...

E1   6/26-8/4   05288   MTWTH  10:30 AM-12:20  MU-208    Sex in the City: Sex and Gender Politics in 18th-century London Long before Carrie Bradshaw and her friends made city life synonymous with sexual liberation, writers, philosophers, and politicians expressed concerns, hopes, and fears about the effect urban areas would have on the politics of sex, especially for young women. Our course will focus on eighteenth-century London, a city rife with rakish gentleman, dark alleyways, gamblers, thieves, and...

B6   5/30-7/7   05292     MW 6:00-10:00 PM   MU-112   ZINER Normalcy and Deviance in Late 20th Century Popular Fiction This seminar will look at popular and best-selling literary fiction from the 1990s to consider how ideas around identity—especially those related to disability, race, and sexuality—are shaped by (and help shape) what made a book sell well in the United States at the end of the 20th Century. We’ll pay careful attention to the notions of normalcy and deviance, tracing ideas that filter from...

B1   05/30-7/7   03966    MTWTH  10:30 AM- 12:20  SC-216     MARTIN Diaries, Letters, and Scraps: The Social Lives of Manuscripts This course will explore unpublished, manuscript-based writings—e.g., diaries, letters, scrapbooks, albums, unpublished stories—and the genres, communal practices, and social spaces that develop around their creation and circulation. What is “manuscript culture” at various points in history? What is our relationship to manuscript culture today in a digital era? Across centuries, what...

B6   5/30-7/7   05292     MW 6:00-10:00 PM   MU-112   ZINER Normalcy and Deviance in Late 20th Century Popular Fiction This seminar will look at popular and best-selling literary fiction from the 1990s to consider how ideas around identity—especially those related to disability, race, and sexuality—are shaped by (and help shape) what made a book sell well in the United States at the end of the 20th Century. We’ll pay careful attention to the notions of normalcy and deviance, tracing ideas that filter from...