[Cwgrad-announcements] Fw: Here's Professor Nunley's course description

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Dear MFAs,
Another English seminar description:

Here's Professor Nunley's course description, at the bottom of this
all-inclusive email regarding W'06 pre-registration.

I will send you Professor Miller's course description when he sends it to
me on Tuesday and then this packet will be complete.

Thank you.

Tina


>>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.

>  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.

>>(We will send you Professor T. Miller's course descriptions when it 
>>arrives.)
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Tina



>>
>
>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