[Cwgrad-announcements] Information for fall 2007 pre-registration
Robin Russin
robin.russin at ucr.edu
Thu Apr 26 18:40:59 PDT 2007
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> From: Tina Feldmann <tina.feldmann at ucr.edu>
> Date: April 26, 2007 5:49:25 PM PDT
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> Cc: steven.axelrod at ucr.edu
> Subject: Fwd: Information for fall 2007 pre-registration
>
> 4/26/07
>
> TO: Faculty graduate advisors, staff graduate advisors
>
> Please forward this all-inclusive list of fall 2007 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 Monday, May 7, 2007.
>
> When a student is given permission to enroll in a seminar, their
> place is reserved, therefore, we ask that any student who changes
> their mind and no longer wishes to enroll in the seminar or if they
> drop it, to please notify Professor Axelrod by email so that he can
> then make that slot available to another student. 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).
>
> 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 Feldmann
>
>
>>>> NOTE: This email has 3 parts:
>>>>
>>>> Part I -- The seminar preference form that should be sent to
>>>> Professor Axelrod
>>>> Part II -- The seminar listing
>>>> Part III -- The seminar course descriptions to assist students
>>>> in completing Part II
>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Part I (the seminar preference sheet):
>>>>
>>>> Please return only this form to Professor Axelrod (without the
>>>> course descriptions and in the text of the email and not by
>>>> attachment)
>>>>
>>>> Seminar Preference Form for Fall Quarter 2007
>>>>
>>>> This form is only for students wishing to take English
>>>> Department graduate seminars in fall 2007. Please indicate the
>>>> courses that you would prefer to take, and email this form back
>>>> to me by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2007. Please put it in
>>>> the body of your email rather than in an attachment. Forms
>>>> received by the deadline will receive first priority. Forms
>>>> received after that time will get second priority.
>>>>
>>>> I will email seminar rosters to everyone by Sunday, May 6. Pre-
>>>> registration begins on Monday, May 7, 2007.
>>>
>>>> If you wish to take two English Department seminars, fill out at
>>>> least four choices. If you wish to take only one English
>>>> Department seminar, you should fill out at least two choices.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Steve Axelrod
>>>> Director of Graduate Studies
>>>>
>>>> Your department is: _________________________
>>>>
>>>> This quarter you are (place X after year): MA1 MA2 MFA
>>>> PhD1 PhD2 PhD3
>>>>
>>>> Your areas of specialization are (name 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
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Part II (course listing):
>>>
>>> FALL 2007 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SEMINARS
>>> as of 4/26/07
>>>
>>> MONDAY
>>>
>>> English 260-001 – Seminar in Medieval Literature
>>> Andrea Denny-Brown
>>> 10:10 am – 1:00 pm in SPR 2344
>>>
>>> English 273-002 – Seminar in Cultural Studies
>>> Deborah Willis
>>> 5:40 – 8:30 pm in HMNSS 1502
>>>
>>> TUESDAY
>>>
>>> English 200-001 – Seminar: Introduction to Graduate Studies
>>> Joseph Childers
>>> (TBA)
>>>
>>> English 279-001 – Seminar in Rhetorical Studies
>>> Vorris Nunley
>>> 2:10 – 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>> English 272-001 – Seminar in Critical Theory
>>> Carole Fabricant
>>> 5:10 – 8:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>> WEDNESDAY
>>>
>>> English 273-001 – Seminar in Cultural Studies
>>> Tiffany Lopez
>>> 2:10 – 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>> THURSDAY
>>>
>>> English 269-001 – Seminar in American Literature to 1900
>>> Michelle Raheja
>>> 2:10-5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>> English 277-001 – Seminar in Lesbian and Gay Studies
>>> Carole-Anne Tyler
>>> 5:10-8:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>> FRIDAY
>>> English 289-001 – Seminar Genres
>>> George Haggerty
>>> 2:10 – 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
>>>
>>>
>>> part III (course description):
>>>
>>>
>>> English 200-001
>>> Professor Childers
>>>
>>> Introduction to Graduate Study
>>>
>>> This seminar will serve to introduce you to the culture of
>>> graduate study at UC, Riverside. In many ways it is a kind of
>>> catch-all course, but you will certainly have academic
>>> responsibilities in it. You will be introduced to several
>>> members of the faculty, who will discuss their own methodological
>>> and theoretical approaches to the study of literature. We will
>>> also spend a good deal of time working on reading and writing
>>> critical and theoretical material, including how to recognize and
>>> analyze arguments in scholarly works, how to structure the
>>> arguments in your own writing, and how to analyze and respond to
>>> other’s (peer’s) work in a constructive way. Finally, there will
>>> also be a number of bibliographic/research problems that I will
>>> be asking you to participate in.
>>>
>>> Texts: “Classic” theoretical and scholarly essays from a variety
>>> of the fields represented in the department. These will be made
>>> available to you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> English 260-001
>>> Professor Denny-Brown
>>>
>>> Conduct and Consumption: Eating, Dressing, & Dying
>>> in the Middle Ages
>>>
>>> This seminar examines modes of consumption, display, and
>>> commodification of the body in the Middle Ages. Through
>>> contemporary theories of consumption, we will interrogate the
>>> relation between the body and the world of goods in medieval
>>> Europe, considering questions of consumer regulation and
>>> discipline, food and morality, fashion and mortality, and the
>>> gendered marketing of the self. This course will also challenge
>>> misleading notions of medieval identity as uncomplicated by
>>> consumer culture, and as lacking “modern” processes of self-
>>> fashioning and aesthetic individualism. To this end, we will
>>> follow the emergence of social practices of consumption and self-
>>> representation from the writings of the Church fathers to
>>> Caxton’s age of printing. Students will leave this seminar with
>>> a working knowledge of theories of consumption and
>>> commodification as well as a fine-tuned understanding of the
>>> medieval strategies and tactics of consumption and self-
>>> presentation.
>>>
>>> Readings include: selected works from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ovid,
>>> Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Chaucer,
>>> Langland, Lydgate, Caxton; Braudel, Bourdieu, Mukerji, de
>>> Certeau, McCracken. No prior knowledge of Middle English necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 269-001
>>> Professor Raheja
>>>
>>> Surviving Columbus: Transnational Representations of the Other
>>>
>>> This seminar will examine the various transnational responses to
>>> and representations of the ‘Other’ from indigenous oral narrative
>>> through the early 17th century in what is now known as Canada,
>>> the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We will be
>>> reading literature within Native American, French, Spanish,
>>> Portuguese, English and German contexts with special attention to
>>> captivity narratives, administrative documents, oral narratives,
>>> autobiography, visual artifacts, and texts that address issues of
>>> anthropophagy. We will also be thinking critically about how and
>>> why English Puritan literature of the 17th century has been
>>> positioned historically and strategically as the origin of
>>> “American” literature and offering a political reading of the
>>> ideologies informing the relative (in)visibility of Native
>>> Americans in early American literary scholarship. Texts will
>>> include The Heirs of Columbus, The Literatures of Colonial
>>> America: An Anthology, and History of a Voyage to the Land of
>>> Brazil in addition to critical and theoretical secondary readings.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 272-001
>>> Professor C. Fabricant
>>>
>>>
>>> Marxist Theory
>>>
>>> The first part of the seminar will be devoted to a close reading
>>> and discussion of Capital (vol. 1) along with The Communist
>>> Manifesto and excerpts from several other texts by Marx, with a
>>> view toward gaining a firm grasp of key concepts such as
>>> historical materialism, class struggle, means of production,
>>> commodity fetishism, alienation, exchange and surplus value,
>>> etc. During the second part of the course, we’ll look at a few
>>> important 20th-century theorists (e.g., Gramsci, Althusser,
>>> Sartre, Lukás, etc.) who continued the Marxist tradition by
>>> variously appropriating and/or revising central Marxian ideas, at
>>> times by bringing them into a new and fruitful engagement with
>>> other philosophical movements such as existentialism and
>>> structuralism. Along with considering the general distinction
>>> between ‘classical’ and ‘Western’ Marxism (as per Perry
>>> Anderson), we’ll examine certain fundamental differences between
>>> Continental and British schools of Marxism, and reflect on how
>>> each influenced critical trends in the U.S. academy, especially
>>> in the areas of Cultural Criticism (the Frankfurt School, Raymond
>>> Williams, Stuart Hall, etc.) and Postcolonial Studies (Gyatri
>>> Spivak, Aijaz Ahmad, etc.).
>>>
>>> Students will be assigned a particular literary text to read
>>> (preferably before classes begin in the fall but in any case no
>>> later than the second week of the quarter), which will function
>>> throughout our class discussions as a common reference point and
>>> a touchstone for weighing the relevance of certain Marxian
>>> theories to the field of aesthetic interpretation. An example of
>>> such a text might be Defoe’s Moll Flanders or Robinson Crusoethe
>>> latter of which is specifically referred to by Marx in his
>>> analysis of the commodity in Capital.
>>>
>>> Along with addressing major political and philosophical issues
>>> raised by Marxist theory, we will of course pay particular
>>> attention to issues of special relevance to our own discipline,
>>> including the (potentially) revolutionary role of writers; the
>>> question of political commitment in literature; the artistic
>>> avant garde vs. socialist realism; the role of the intellectual
>>> in mass movements; elitist vs. popular culture; class
>>> consciousness and the creative imagination; the author as
>>> producer; the extent to which Marxism is a humanistic (as opposed
>>> to a scientific) mode of enquiry; and the function of specific
>>> literary styles and genres within the broader arenas of class
>>> struggle and socio-political transformation (i.e., are certain
>>> genres or styles more likely to be ‘revolutionary’ or
>>> ‘reactionary’ than others?) . There will also be sustained
>>> consideration of the relationship between theory and practice:
>>> What exactly does this relationship mean and what might it mean
>>> for academic critics rather than for revolutionary thinkers?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> English 273-001 (Minority Discourse)
>>> Professor Lopez
>>>
>>> Discourses of Trauma and Violence in Latina/o Literature and
>>> Cultural Studies
>>>
>>> Readings for this seminar focus on creating a dialogue between
>>> trauma theory and Latina/o literature and cultural studies.
>>> Notably, work in trauma theory rarely includes discussion of
>>> Latina/o identity or incorporates Latina/o literature as an
>>> illustrative text; and while violence and trauma are at the heart
>>> of critical discussions of Latina/o identity and culture (i.e.
>>> from the colonization of lands to the subjugation of bodies),
>>> readings in trauma theory are rarely employed within these
>>> fields. This seminar is thus interested in how trauma theory
>>> enriches and complicates thinking about identity issues
>>> represented within Latina/o literature and visual culture and the
>>> ways that explorations of violence in Latina/o literature speak
>>> to discursive treatments within trauma theory.
>>>
>>> Selected readings include: Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery;
>>> Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory; Kali Tal, Worlds of
>>> Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma; Laurie Vickeroy, Trauma
>>> and Survival in Contemporary Fiction; Laura Tanner, Intimate
>>> Violence and Lost Bodies; Annie Rogers, The Unsayable; Judith
>>> Butler, Precarious Life; Leigh Gilmore, The Limits of
>>> Autobiography; Eden Torries, Chicana Without Apology; Rosa Linda
>>> Fregoso, meXicana encounters; Mary Pat Brady, Extinct Lands,
>>> Temporal Geographies; Diana Taylor, The Archive and the
>>> Repertoire; Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years; Gloria
>>> Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera; Carla Trujillo, What Night
>>> Brings; Josie Mendez-Negrete, Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 273-002
>>> Professor Willis
>>>
>>> Bodies and Desires in Early Modern England
>>>
>>> This seminar will explore constructions of the body and its
>>> desires in early modern English culture, especially the drama.
>>> How do yearnings, compulsions, excesses, fevers, intoxications,
>>> appetites, and addictions help to establish and/or to unsettle --
>>> notions of identity, sexuality, and self-fashioning in this
>>> period? Can early modern narratives of desire and identity help
>>> us productively interrogate present-day notions? We will
>>> especially focus on the types of desire that "o'erflow the
>>> measure" -- i.e. that seem to be excessive, unregulated, or over-
>>> reaching. Readings will (tentatively) include some of the
>>> following: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV, Part II, and
>>> Antony and Cleopatra; Marlowe's Edward II; Middleton's The
>>> Roaring Girl and The Changeling; Cary's The Tragedy of Miriam;
>>> Webster's Duchess of Malfi; Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore;
>>> Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue; Milton's Comus. We may
>>> also look at some non-dramatic literary works, such as Book II of
>>> Spenser's Fairie Queene (on temperance) and poetry about
>>> obsessive love, such as a few of Shakespeare's sonnets. A short
>>> selection of legal, religious, and medical documents will help to
>>> establish the broader context. Theoretical and historical
>>> grounding will come from such works as Judith Butler, Bodies that
>>> Matter; Gail Paster, The Body Embarrassed and Reading the Early
>>> Modern Passions; Michael Schoenfeldt, Bodies and Selves in Early
>>> Modern England; Jonathan Goldberg, Queering the Renaissance;
>>> Valerie Traub, The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern
>>> England; and Susan Zimmermann, Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of
>>> Desire on the Renaissance Stage.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 277-001
>>> Professor Tyler
>>>
>>> Seminar in Lesbian and Gay Studies: “Posthuman” Genders
>>> and Sexualities
>>>
>>> Monstrous eclecticism characterizes the form and content of this
>>> seminar, which will explore the social construction and
>>> deconstruction or “queering” of gender and sexual identities in a
>>> range of genres and media. Topics to be addressed include
>>> “passing” and impersonation; cross-dressing, drag, camp,
>>> minstrelsy, and transvestism; transgender and transsexualism;
>>> castration, amputation, and “body integrity disorder”; androgyny
>>> and intersex; cyborgs, prostheses, piercings, and human-machine
>>> hybridity; feral or “wild” children, and tattooing, silicon
>>> implantation, tongue splitting, and other practices arguably
>>> associated with “becoming animal.”
>>>
>>> Primary texts (film, television, literature, and art) that might
>>> be addressed include episodes of House and Nip/Tuck; television
>>> specials on tattooing, piercing, plastic surgery, and other body
>>> modifications; talk shows featuring transsexuals and drag kings
>>> and queens; films about wild children, cyborgs, drag,
>>> transsexualism, transgender, and castrati (The Wild Child; Blade
>>> Runner; Victor/Victoria, Boys Don’t Cry, Max, Second Serve; Paris
>>> Is Burning); photography by Del LaGrace Volcano, Loren Cameron,
>>> Pierre and Gilles, and Cindy Sherman; pin ups by Hajime Sorayama;
>>> installations by the Chapman brothers, performance art by Oleg
>>> Kulik, Orlan, and Stelarc; two or three novels (Burroughs’
>>> Tarzan, Woolf’s Orlando, Eugenides’ Middlesex, Winterson’s The
>>> Passion, Butler’s Dawn). Possible “secondary texts”--theory and
>>> criticism that will be treated as “primary” too include
>>> Bornstein, Gender Outlaw; Butler, Undoing Gender; Garber, Vested
>>> Interests; Millot, Horsexe; Barbin and Foucault, Herculine
>>> Barbin; Volcano and Halberstam, The Drag King Book; Halberstam,
>>> Female Masculinity; and essays by Kuhn, Garfinkel, Bray, Freud,
>>> Fenichel, Lacan, Sontag, Flinn, Haraway, Silverman, Barthes,
>>> Dean, Pacteau, McClintock, Bhabha, Stone, Stryker, Califia,
>>> Raymond, Pitts, Scarry, Gilman, Phelan, Rogin, Braidotti, Probyn,
>>> Salecl, Deleuze, Derrida, and Agamben, most of whom are at least
>>> loosely associated with “queer theory.” Weekly readings include
>>> 2-5 print texts, depending on the length and difficulty of that
>>> material and any visual media assigned; required writing includes
>>> a short close-reading (5 pages), a conference length research
>>> paper (10-12 pages), and 1 to 2 sets of reading questions.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 279-001
>>> Professor Nunley
>>>
>>>
>>> Rhetorical Studies
>>>
>>> Visual Literacy: Visualizing Rhetoric, Rhetoricizing Visuality
>>> In an neo-liberal epoch where the boundaries between the surface
>>> and the substantial, the simularcra and the real, and the
>>> political and self-absorbed i collapse, visuality tropes of
>>> images, representations, pictures, and ? increase in its
>>> importance in manufacturing and being manufactured by knowledges
>>> nd subjectivities. Class will explore visuality as a kind of
>>> literacy necessary to the productive navigating of social,
>>> poltical, and economic domains. Seminar articipants will explore
>>> public and quasi-public sphere discourses of media, film, art,
>>> music, news (corporate and individual) and the academy to
>>> increase visual compentency.
>>>
>>>
>>> English 289-001
>>> Professor G. Haggerty
>>>
>>> Gothic Fiction 1764-1824
>>>
>>> It is no mere coincidence that the cult of Gothic fiction reached
>>> its apex at the very moment when gender and sexuality were
>>> beginning to be codified for modern culture. In fact, Gothic
>>> fiction offered a testing ground for many unauthorized genders
>>> and sexualities, including sodomy, tribadism, romantic friendship
>>> (male and female), incest, paedohilia, sadism, masochism,
>>> necrophilia, masculinized females, feminized males,
>>> miscegenation, and so on. In this course, we examine the first
>>> phase of Gothic fiction with the hope of relating it to the
>>> history of sexuality, as articulated by Michel Foucault and
>>> others, in specific mutually informing ways. At the same time,
>>> we will consider recent works of Queer Theory and explore the
>>> ways in which they might enhance this historical project.
>>>
>>> Readings include:
>>>
>>> Novels
>>>
>>> Beckford, William. Vathek and the Episodes of Vathek
>>> Dacre, Charlotte. Zofloya; or The Moor
>>> Hogg, James. Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
>>> Lee, Sophia, The Recess
>>> Lewis, Matthew G. The Monk
>>> Maturin, Charles Robert, Melmoth the Wanderer
>>> Radcliffe, Ann. The Italian
>>> Roche, Regina Maria, The Children of the Abbey
>>> Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
>>> Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto
>>>
>>> Critical and Theoretical Reading
>>>
>>> Bersani, Leo. The Freudian Body
>>> Butler, Judith. The Psychic Life of Power
>>> Castle, Terry. The Female Thermometer
>>> Craft, Christopher. Another Kind of Love
>>> Deleuze, Gilles. Coldness and Cruelty
>>> Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, vol. 1
>>> Freud, Sigmund. Three Case Studies
>>> -----. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
>>> Haggerty, George. Unnatural Affections
>>> Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows
>>> Halperin, David, Saint Foucault
>>> Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men
>>> Zizek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
> 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
Robin Russin
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu
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