[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: CORRECTION on seminars

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Dear All,
See Tina's corrections below:

From: Tina Feldmann <tina.feldmann at ucr.edu> 
Subject: CORRECTION on seminars 
To: david.danow at ucr.edu;, raymond.williams at ucr.edu;, 
andrew.winer at ucr.edu;, steven.ostrow at ucr.edu;, 
robin.russin at ucr.edu;, nicole.vines at ucr.edu;, 
susan.komura at ucr.edu 
Cc: steven.axelrod at ucr.edu 




TO:    Faculty graduate advisors and staff graduate advisors


When I sent you this email about two hours ago, I mistakenly 
listed the 
'Subject' as W'07; it should be W'06.    Also, I'm adding a 
course 
description to the bottom of this email, that was left off 
the email sent 
to you two hours ago.   (We are still waiting for 2 more 
course 
descriptions, which will be sent to you as soon as we get 
them.)

If you've sent the first email (that was sent 2 hours ago) 
to your graduate 
students already, would you please forward this new, updated 
version?    If 
you haven't sent it, just delete it and sent this one.

Thanks very much.

Tina Feldmann


>TO:   Faculty graduate advisors and staff graduate advisors
>
>Please forward this email 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.


>(We will send you Professors T. Miller and V. Nunley's 
course descriptions
>when they arrive.)
>
>Best,
>
>Tina Feldmann
>
>

Tina Feldmann
Administrative Assistant -- Graduate Studies
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA  92521-0323
office: (951) 827-1454
FAX:   (951) 827-3967



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