[Cwgrad-announcements] winter Colloquium?

Thu Nov 3 19:26:21 PST 2005

Hello everyone!
Does anyone know if there is going to be a colloquium this coming
quarter (it's not on the class schedule...)?  If someone could pLease
let me know, I would appreciate it!
thanks,
Gabriela

On 11/1/05, cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu
<cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
> 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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