[Cwgrad-announcements] winter Colloquium?
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Fri Nov 4 18:39:17 PST 2005
Dear All,
There is no colloquium Winter quarter. It picks up again Spring quarter.
Best,
Andrew
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> 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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