[Cwgrad-announcements] English Seminars
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Tue Nov 1 13:04:21 PST 2005
Dear MFAs,
Here is the all-inclusive list of the English Department's
offerings next quarter, plus instructions on how to enroll.
You need to act now to get in.
Best,
Andrew
11/1/05
>>>TO: Faculty graduate advisors and staff graduate
advisors
>>>
>>>Please forward this [now] all-inclusive list of W'06
seminar course
>>>descriptions to all graduate students in your department
(s).
>>>
>>>Please also be sure that every graduate student in your
department is made
>>>aware of our department's policy that all seminar
enrollments must first be
>>>approved by the English department's faculty graduate
advisor, Professor
>>>Steven Axelrod (see further information and form below).
>>>
>>>Once permission is granted by Professor Axelrod, your
students may sign up
>>>through GROWL during the pre-registration period
beginning November 4.
>>>
>>>While first priority must be given to English graduate
students, we
>>>recognize the need and interest of graduate students
outside our
>>>department, and in that spirit, we are happy to notify
interested graduate
>>>students of the remaining seminar spaces if they will
send their seminar
>>>preference email to Professor Axelrod in part II, listed
below). We are
>>>including 7 of the 9 course descriptions at the bottom of
this
>>>email. When the other 2 course descriptions arrive,
we'll send those to
>>>you immediately.
>>>
>>>When a student is given permission to enroll in the
seminar, their place is
>>>reserved, therefore, we ask that any student that changes
their mind and no
>>>longer wishes to enroll in the class, to please notify
Professor Axelrod,
>>>by email, so that he can then make that enrollment slot
available to
>>>another student.
>>>
>>>If you would like anyone added to or deleted from this
quarterly email,
>>>please email me directly at tina.feldmann at ucr.edu.
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Tina
>>>
>>>NOTE: This email has 3 parts.
>>>
>>>Part I -- The seminar listing.
>>>Part II -- The seminar preference form that should be
sent to Professor
>>>Axelrod
>>>Part III -- The seminar course descriptions to assist
students in
>>>completing Part II.
>>>
>>>---------------
>>>
>>>Part I (the seminar listing) --
>>>
>>> WINTER ‘06 GRADUATE
COURSES as of 10/26/05
>>>MONDAY
>>>
>>>English 264-001 Seminar in 18th Century
>>>12:10 pm 3:00 pm in HMNSS 1502 (George Haggerty)
>>>
>>>English 273-002 Seminar in Cultural Studies
>>>5:10 - 8:00 pm in HMNSS 1407 (Toby Miller & Ellen
Wartella)
>>>
>>>TUESDAY
>>>English 275-001 Seminar Film and Visual Cultures
>>>2:10 - 5:00 pm in OLMH 1132 (Michelle Raheja)
>>>
>>>Screening for English 275
>>>6:10 9:00 pm in SPR 2212 (Michelle Raheja)
>>>
>>>English 273-001 Seminar in Cultural Studies
>>>5:10 - 8:00 pm in HMNSS 1407 (Vorris Nunley)
>>>
>>>WEDNESDAY
>>>
>>>English 281-001 Seminar in Comparative Studies
>>>2:10 - 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407 (Stanley Stewart)
>>>
>>>English 270-001 Seminar in American Literature since
1900 5:10 8:00 pm
>>>in HMNSS 1407 (Steve Axelrod)
>>>
>>>THURSDAY
>>>English 262-001 Seminar in Renaissance Literature
>>>2:10 - 5:00 pm in OLMH 1126 (John Briggs)
>>>
>>>English 260-001 Seminar in Medieval Literature
>>>5:10 - 8:00 pm in OLMH 1126 (Andrea Denny-Brown)
>>>
>>>FRIDAY
>>>English 268-001 Seminar in British Literature since 1900
>>>2:10 5:00 pm in HMNS 1407 (Kim Devlin)
>>>
>>>-----------------
>>>
>>>Part II (This seminar preference form must be sent to
>>>steven.axelrod at ucr.edu.)
>>>
>>>
>>> >Seminar Preference Form for Winter Quarter, 2006
>>> >
>>> >This form is only necessary for students wishing to
take English
>>> >Department graduate seminars in winter 2006. Please
indicate the courses
>>> >that you would prefer to take, and email this form back
to me by 3:00 PM
>>> >on Thursday, November 3.
>>> >
>>> >Forms received before that time will receive first
priority. Forms
>>> >received after that time will get second priority. I
will email seminar
>>> >rosters to everyone on the evening of November 3. Pre-
registration begins
>>> >at 8:00 AM on Friday, November 4.
>>> >
>>> >If you wish to take two English Department seminars,
you must fill out
>>> >at
>>> >least four choices. If you wish to take only one
English Department
>>> >seminar, you should fill out at least two choices.
>>> >
>>> >You will have received all your seminar descriptions by
10 AM on
>>> >Tuesday,
>>> >November 1. You will have nine English seminars to
choose from: 260
>>> >(Medieval with A. Denny-Brown), 262 (Renaissance with
J. Briggs), 264
>>> >(Eighteenth Century with G. Haggerty), 268 (Modern
British with K.
>>> >Devlin), 270 (Modern American with S. Axelrod), 273-01
(Cultural Studies
>>> >with V. Nunley), 273-02 (Cultural Studies with T.
Miller & E. Wartella),
>>> >275 (Film with M. Raheja), and 281 (Comparative Studies
with S. Stewart).
>>> >I would be happy to discuss your options with you via
email, office
>>> visit,
>>> >or phone call.
>>> >
>>> >Best wishes,
>>> >
>>> >Steve Axelrod
>>> >Director of Graduate Studies
>>>
>>>
>>> >Your department:
>>> >
>>> >This quarter you are (place X after year):
>>> >MA1 MA2 PhD1 PhD2 PhD3 PhD4
>>> >
>>> >Your areas of specialization (2 or 3):
>>> >
>>> >Number of English Department seminars you want (1 or 2):
>>> >
>>> >1st Choice: English______ with Professor
_____________.
>>> >
>>> >2nd Choice: English______ with Professor
_____________.
>>> >
>>> >3rd Choice: English______ with Professor
_____________.
>>> >
>>> >4th Choice: English______ with Professor
_____________.
>>> >
>>> >5th Choice: English______ with Professor
_____________.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >________________________ ___________
________________________
>>> >
>>> > Your
>>> > Name Date
Email Address
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Steven Gould Axelrod
>>> >Professor of English
>>> >Director of Graduate Studies
>>> >Chair, Committee on Committees
>>> >University of California
>>> >Riverside, CA 92521
>>> >steven.axelrod at ucr.edu
>>> >951 780 5653 (home phone)
>>>
>>>----------------
>>>
>>>Part III (course descriptions) TWO ARE FORTHCOMING
>>>
>>>English 262-001 -- Seminar in Renaissance Literature
(John Briggs) W'06
>>>
>>>
>>> >> This winter, the Renaissance Seminar will study
Shakespearean
>>> >> catharsis in comedy, tragedy, and romance (an
implicitly in satire that
>>> >> shades into these three). We will also be concerned
with the
>>> >> ramifications of our findings for a reassessment of
the place of theory
>>> >> and aesthetic criticism in English studies. We will
read Twelfth
>>> Night,
>>> >> Lear, Winter's Tale, and several problem plays
(probably All's Well and
>>> >> perhaps Troilus and Cressida).
>>>
>>> >Steven Axelrod
>>> >English 270
>>> >Winter 2006
>>> >
>>> >This seminar will focus on postmodernism. We will read
works in a wide
>>> >variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, drama,
and theory. We
>>> >will read such authors as Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery,
Kathy Acker, John
>>> >Yau, Ana Menendez, Harryette Mullen, Paul Auster, Amy
Gerstler, Rae
>>> >Armantrout, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Cherrie
Moraga, Sarah Kane,
>>> >and Trinh Min-ha. We will consider new ways texts are
being constructed
>>> >these days and their compliant and resistant relations
to both
>>> >contemporary history and literary tradition. Seminar
requirements: oral
>>> >participation; two oral reports; and one seminar paper
on a topic of
>>> >your choice.
>>> >
>>> >Does anyone know
>>> >which tradition
>>> >we are trying to access? -Rae Armantrout
>>>
>>>Here's Professor Devlin's course description:
>>>
>>>
>>> >ENGLISH 268: A survey of 20th Century British fiction,
inaugurated by
>>> >an
>>> >influential late 19th century "pretext"--Ibsen's A Doll
House (Signet,
>>> >0-451-51939-6)--widely translated and almost
immediately infamous for its
>>> >"door slam heard round the world." We will then read
Joyce's Dubliners
>>> >(Norton Critical Edition, due out in November 2005),
Conrad's Heart of
>>> >Darkness (the new 4th Norton Critical Edition), his
later--and more
>>> >bizarre--novel The Secret Agent (Penguin, 0-14-018096-
6), Forster's
>>> >Howards End (Bedford, 030-312-11182-7), Woolf's The
Waves (Harcourt Brace
>>> >Jonanovich, 0-15-694960-1), Waugh's A Handful of Dust
(Little, Brown,
>>> >0-316-92605-1), and Fowles' The French Lieutenant's
Woman (Signet,
>>> >0-451-11095-1). Topics for discussion are open, but
will (in general)
>>> >include the representations of women and their
various "roles" (in both
>>> >senses of the word); of imperialism and colonized
regions; of shifting
>>> >class structures; of the influence of childhood
on "mature" selfhood;
>>> and,
>>> >in many texts, modernism's obsession with the past--its
recurrent
>>> >"backward glance." M.A students will be required to
write a 12-15 page
>>> >paper, Ph.D. students an 18-25 page one.
>>>
>>>Engl. 260: Medieval Knighthood and the Artifice of
Masculinity
>>>Instructor: Andrea Denny-Brown
<mailto:andreadb at ucr.edu>andreadb at ucr.edu
>>>
>>>“A man without arms has no right to speak.” Béroul,
Tristan
>>>
>>>This course will investigate the perceptions of
masculinity that develop
>>>around the concept of knighthood in the European Middle
Ages. We will
>>>combine readings in medieval literature with recent
theoretical work,
>>>focusing on the masculine care of the self and the body
by way of the
>>>following subjects: technological and cultural changes in
arms and armor;
>>>battle plunder and violence; women's love tokens
integrated into knightly
>>>attire; chivalry and self-presentation; beards, body
hair, and hair cuts;
>>>Christ as knight; knightly dressing and cross-dressing;
disguise and
>>>jousting; the emergence of the “gallant” or dandy; and
the economics and
>>>aesthetics of heraldry. Literary materials will range
from early crusader
>>>epics through Arthurian romances, historical chronicles,
and chivalric
>>>manuals, and will finish with the famous parodies of
medieval knighthood in
>>>Spenser, Cervantes, and Monty Python. Theoretical texts
will include
>>>Michel Foucault, Klaus Theweleit, Kaja Silverman, and Eve
Sedgwick, among
>>>others, along with a variety of other cultural texts and
>>>materials. Although this course centers on pre-modern
constructions of
>>>masculinity, it will attempt to ground students in
theoretical approaches
>>>and concepts which are applicable to the study of periods
and cultures
>>>other than the Middle Ages.
>>>No knowledge if Middle English necessary.
>>>
>>>Required Texts:
>>>Please purchase texts through Amazon or other booksellers
prior to our
>>>first meeting; texts will also be on reserve at Rivera.
Please read the
>>>Song of Roland for our first class.
>>>
>>>Song of Roland, trans. Glyn S. Burgess (Penguin Classics)
Guillaume
>>>d’Orange: Four Twelfth Century Epics, trans. Joan M.
Ferrante
>>>
>>>
>>>Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane,
Bevis of Hampton,
>>>Athelston
>>>
>>>
>>>(TEAMS Middle English Texts), eds
>>><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-
url/index=books&field-autho
>>>r-exact=Ronald%20B.%20Herzman&rank=-relevance%2C%
2Bavailability%2C-daterank/
>>>103-4812090-5403031>Ronald
>>>B. Herzman,
>>><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-
url/index=books&field-autho
>>>r-exact=Graham%20Drake&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%
2C-daterank/103-481
>>>2090-5403031>Graham
>>>Drake,
>>><http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-
url/index=books&field-autho
>>>r-exact=Eve%20Salisbury&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%
2C-daterank/103-48
>>>12090-5403031>Eve
>>>Salisbury.
>>>
>>>
>>>Please note this edition is also online.
>>>
>>>Ramon Llul, Book of Knighthood and Chivalry: With the
Anonymous Ordene De
>>>Chevalerie,
>>> ed & trans., Brian R. Price.
>>>Geoffroi de Charny, Book of Chivalry, trans. Richard W.
Kaeuper and
>>>Elspeth Kennedy
>>>Christine de Pizan, Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry,
trans. Sumner
>>>Willard Heldris of Cornwall, Silence: A Thirteenth-
Century French Romance,
>>>trans.
>>>Sarah Roche-Mahdi
>>>Jean Foissart, Chronicles, trans. Geoffrey Brereton
(Penguin Classics)
>>>
>>>
>>>Thomas Malory, King Arthur and His Knights: Selected
Tales, ed. Eugene
>>>Vinaver (Oxford UP;
>>>Galaxy)
>>>
>>>Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart
(any translation is
>>>fine; I’m partial to
>>>David Staines’ prose translation of the collected works).
>>>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (any Middle English
version) Chaucer,
>>>Knight’s Tale, Tale of Sir Thopas (any Middle English
edition of
>>>the Canterbury Tales)
>>>
>>>
>>>English 264, Winter
2006 George
>>>Haggerty
>>>Restoration & 18th
Century Office:
>>>3006 H&SS, ext. 21940
>>>Colonialism and Desire
>>>(I) Hours:
Wed, Fri 11-12 & by
>>>appt
>>>
>>>
>>>Description
>>>
>>>
>>>This is the first part of a two-part seminar (to be
continued in Professor
>>>Roy’s English 267, Spring 2006) that addresses questions
of colonialism and
>>>desire in the 17th through the 20th centuries. Students
can take either
>>>quarter as a regular seminar, or they can carry their
work over two
>>>quarters, and write one final paper at the end of twenty
weeks. Students
>>>will be asked to consider a range of literary and non-
literary texts,
>>>including plays, poetry, fiction, letters, travel-
writing, and journalism,
>>>as well as recent critical and theoretical work on the
colonialist
>>>enterprise. For students who take both quarters, a “work-
in-progress” will
>>>be acceptable at the end of Winter quarter. Professor
Roy and I will each
>>>participate (to a limited degree) in both quarters of the
class, and we
>>>would like to treat it as a single unit. Grades at the
end of the first
>>>quarter will be “provisional” for students who are
continuing into the
>>>second quarter.
>>>
>>>
>>>Required Reading
>>>
>>>Arabian Nights Entertainments
>>>Beckford, Vathek & The Episodes of Vathek
>>>Behn, Oroonoko
>>>Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
>>>Dacre, Zofloya
>>>Dryden, The Indian Queen
>>>Equiano, Autobiography
>>>Hamilton, Letters of a Hindoo Raja
>>>Mack, ed., Oriental Tales
>>>Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters
>>>Neville, The Isle of the Pines
>>>Pope, “Winsor Forest”
>>>Rowlandson, Indian Captivity Narrative
>>>Shakespeare, The Tempest
>>>
>>>
>>>Critical and theoretical reading
>>>
>>>Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans
>>>Brown, The Ends of Empire
>>>Colley, Captives
>>>Foucault, The History of Sexuality
>>>Lamb, Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840
>>>Mintz and Price, The Birth of African American Culture
Nussbaum, Torrid
>>>Zones ------. The Global Eighteenth Century Roach, The
Cities of the Dead
>>>Said, Orientalism
>>>
>>>
>>>(Here's Professor Parama Roy's S'06 tentative course
description -- this
>>>course may be used as part II of Professor George
Haggerty's W'06 course.)
>>>
>>> > >>>In the second part of this course (in Spring 2006),
we will
>>> > >>>consider a range of primary materials from the
nineteenth and
>>> > >>>twentieth centuries, as well as critical and
theoretical readings
>>> > >>>on sexuality, especially in relation to
colonialism, nationalism,
>>> > >>>and postcoloniality. We will discuss some at least
of the following
>>> > >>>issues: the nation and the family romance;
prostitution,
>>> > >>>sanitation, and pathology in colony and metropolis;
miscegenation,
>>> > >>>colonial femmes fatales, and sexual tourism; white
women in the
>>> > >>>tropics; colonial sexualities and the making of
metropolitan
>>> > >>>(including bourgeois and male homosexual)
identities and forms of
>>> > >>>knowledge; and the erotics of sartorial fetishism
and
>>> > >>>cross-cultural disguise. Primary texts for the
course include the
>>> > >>>following: Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince;
Charlotte
>>> > >>>Bronte, Jane Eyre, Richard Burton, "Terminal Essay"
(from his
>>> > >>>translation of the Thousand and One Nights);
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
>>> > >>>and "The Man Who Would Be King"; H. Rider Haggard,
She; Joseph
>>> > >>>Conrad, Almayer's Folly; Bram Stoker, Dracula; E.M.
Forster, A
>>> > >>>Passage to India; George Orwell, Burmese Days;
Katherine Mayo,
>>> > >>>Mother India; T. E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of
Wisdom; and M. K.
>>> > >>>Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
Critical and
>>> > >>>theoretical texts include works by Frantz Fanon
(Black Skin White
>>> > >>>Masks), Ann Stoler (Race and the Education of
Desire), Malek
>>> > >>>Alloula (The Colonial Harem), Jenny Sharpe
(Allegories of Empire),
>>> > >>>Sara Suleri, Christopher Lane, Peter Stallybrass
and Allon White,
>>> > >>>Diana Fuss, Emily Apter, Joseph Alter, and Kaja
Silverman.
>>>
>>>
>>>English 275-001: Seminar in Film and Visual Cultures
>>>Nanook’s Smile: Reading Reel Indians
>>>
>>>Professor Raheja
>>>Seminar: Tuesday 2:10-5:00 PM OLMH 1132
>>>Screening: Tuesday 6:10-9:00 PM SPR 2212
>>>
>>>986870f.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>>Scene
>>>from Nanook of the North (1922)
>>>
>>>This seminar will center on historical representations of
Native Americans
>>>in Hollywood cinema, as well as works by independent
indigenous filmmakers,
>>>from the silent era to the present. We will think about
how images of
>>>Native Americans circulate within discourses of
ethnography, sovereignty,
>>>sexuality, authenticity, and orality. Prior to our first
meeting, students
>>>should view Nanook of the North and Atanarjuat/The Fast
Runner, as these
>>>films will serve as guiding texts throughout the quarter.
Films will
>>>include In the Land of the Headhunters/War Canoes, The
Vanishing American,
>>>The Silent Enemy, The Searchers, Navajo Talking Picture,
History of the
>>>Luiseño, It Starts with a Whisper, Smoke Signals, Deep
Inside Clint Star,
>>>Helpless Maiden Makes an ‘I’ Statement. Secondary
readings may include
>>>work by Gerald Vizenor, Fatimah Tobing Rony, Faye
Ginsbury, Anne Anlin
>>>Cheng, Jay Ruby, and Diana Taylor. Course requirements
include a
>>>presentation, a film review, regular class participation,
and presentation
>>>of a 10-12 page research paper at an end of the quarter
mock conference. A
>>>detailed syllabus will be available at the end of the
fall quarter.
>>English 281
>>
>>Comparative Studies: Philosophy and Literary Theory
>> (Mr. Stewart)
>>
>>What, if any, are the standards of inclusion and exclusion
of
>>propositions in critical theory today? Do current
practitioners in the
>>field discriminate between information and
misinformation? Do they
>>recognize or consider methods of examining “truth claims”
of
>>contradictory statements generated within the field? This
ten-week
>>seminar will deal with the concept of “certainty,” as it
shows itself in
>>representative theories and practices in current literary
studies,
>>including literary history, genre studies, cultural
studies, critical
>>theory, and the like. The aim will be to formulate an
understanding of
>>the tone of assurance that underlies much what passes
as “professional
>>criticism” in English studies today, and to submit that
tone of assurance
>>to skeptical scrutiny. Finally, the seminar will examine
the grounds on
>>which literary statements might justify consent or dissent
on the part of
>>skeptical inquirers.
>>
>>The text for the seminar will be On Certainty, the essay
on which
>>Wittgenstein was working at the time of his death. The
seminar will
>>discuss the work in relation to problems in the published
writings in
>>recent literary, cultural, and theoretical studies. Each
participant
>>will produce an analysis, in oral and written form, of the
grounds for
>>assent to or dissent from a “problematic” assertion found
in the current
>>“professional” literature. The aim will be to examine
what acceptance
>>and rejection of such an assertion amounts to. What
measure of assurance
>>does assent require? Are there public criteria to adjudge
assent, or can
>>critics dissemble their level of assurance? (Would it
advance one’s
>>career to feign assurance with respect to P or not-P?) Is
it okay to
>>publish or teach propositionssay, to impart misinformation
or
>>nonsense--prior to arriving at assent? Or, again, does
assent, by
>>itself, justify imparting misinformation or nonsense in
print or in the
>>classroom?
>>Text: Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe and G.H. von
>>Wright. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972. ISBN 0-06-
131686-5.
>
>> English 273: Seminar in Cultural Studies
>Constructing and Disrupting Blackness/Americaness in
Cultural Studies
>
>While one goal of the class will be to provide students
with substantial
>information about cultural studies broadly conceived, we
will do so
>through a more specific focus on African American and Black
disaporic
>cultural studies. Understanding cultural studies/Black
cultural studies
>as an epistemic (knowledge) project carves out a space to
situate both
>texts and class discourses in a rhetorical/philosophical
frame (critical
>theory). Culture then is understood not only as a site of
aesthetics,
>power, subjectivities, and identity creation, but also as a
site of
>knowledge production. Class will focus on a variety of
>modalities--theater, television, news, film, music,
literature, art,
>visual rhetorics--to explore issues of representation,
authenticity, race
>and space, ethnicity, class, gender, authenticity,
spatiality, queer
>theory, empire, public pedagogy, agency, masculinities,
White and male
>privilege etc., etc. in an age of neo-liberalism. Folks
such as Stuart
>Hall, Michelle Wallace, Plato, Delueze and Guattari, Mark
Anthony Neal,
>Manthia Diawara, Jay-Z, bell hooks, Gloria Andalzua, James
Berlin, Todd
>Boyd, Robin D.G. Kelley, Toby Miller, and Michelle
NdegeOcello will be
>part of the scholarly mix. Upon conclusion of class,
students will be
>better able to apply insights from cultural studies to
other
>fields/disciplines of interest.
>
ENGLISH 273-002SEMINAR IN CULTURAL STUDIES
This seminar will look at cultural studies as it has been
used to
interrogate television, addressing such key questions as:
the role of the
state, media effects, and ideology. Students will engage
such key authors
as Graham Murdock, Larry Gross, George Gerbner, Lynne
Spigel, Ellen
Wartella, Herman Gray, Ien Ang, and John Hartley. Throughout
we shall
consider the intersection of the social sciences and the
humanities, asking
questions in particular about the interrelationship of
textual analysis,
audience evaluation, and ethnography. Assessment will be
though a seminar
paper and essay of 3000 words.
Tina Feldmann
827-1454
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