[Cwgrad-announcements] English offerings, Spring '07 & pre-reg. instructions

[Andrew Winer]

Dear MFAs, 

Please carefully read Tina's note below, and see what English is offering next quarter.  Some interesting seminars, to be sure.

Best,
Andrew



TO:   Faculty graduate advisors, staff graduate advisors

Please forward this all-inclusive list of S'07 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, February 12, 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 Feldman

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 
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Part I  (the seminar preference sheet):

Please return this form, alone, to Professor Axelrod (without the course descriptions and in the text of the email and not by attachment)


Seminar Preference Form for Spring Quarter 2007


This form is only for students wishing to take English Department graduate seminars in spring 2007. Please indicate the courses that you would prefer to take, and email this form back to me by 12:00 noon on Friday, February 9, 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, February 11.   Pre-registration begins on Monday, February 12.     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
 
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Part II (course listing):


SPRING 2007
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SEMINARS
as of 1/24/07

 
 
English 265 - Seminar in Romantic Literature
Instructor:   TBA
Day, Time, and Room:   TBA
 
 
MONDAY
 
(No seminars offered on Mondays.)
 
 
TUESDAY
 
English 277 - Seminar in Lesbian and Gay Studies
G. Bredbeck
10:10 am - 1:00 pm, Room:  TBA
 
English 289 - Seminar in Genres
E. Elliott
2:10 - 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
 
 
WEDNESDAY
 
English 278 - Seminar in Minority Discourse
T. Yamamoto
2:10 - 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
 
 
THURSDAY
 
English 267 - Seminar in Victorian Literature
J. Childers
2:10 - 5:00 pm in HMNSS 1407
 
 
FRIDAY
 
English 260 - Seminar in Medieval Literature
J. Ganim
2:10 - 5:00 pm, Room:   TBA

Part III (course descriptions):

SPRING 2007 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
 
 
English 260:  Medieval, John Ganim

English 260 will focus on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, with a special emphasis on reading practices, theories of interpretation and the multiple literacies of late medieval England. The seminar is designed for students specializing in medieval literature as one of their areas.  The texts will be The Riverside Chaucer and Nicholas Watson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory (Penn State Press).  Seminar members should obtain the latter text from the publisher, an on-line vendor or the UCR bookstore. Imagine That! in Canyon Crest Shopping Centre, will also order it for you if you prefer.  We will also be using the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume II, but the price of this book is prohibitive and I will place it on reserve.
 
 
English 267:  Victorian Literature, Joseph Childers
The Sensation Novel

This course will examine the phenomenon of the sensation novel of the 1860s in
England.  We will, of course, read novels like The Woman in White, The Moonstone, 
Lady Audley's Secret, East Lynne, and, perhaps, Cometh Up as a Flower, querying what it is, precisely,
that makes these novels "sensational," the material and cultural conditions out of which they arose, their
relation to the rise of "realism," and their connections to other literary genres with which they share some
characteristics.  Thus, we will also read Villette  and at least one or two Sherlock Holmes tales.  The syllabus will be 
available by the middle of February, and the books may all be ordered online. 
 
 
English 278: Minority Discourse, Traise Yamamoto
Autobiography Theory and Asian American Literature
 
Autobiography has been one of the premier genres through which communities of color have established themselves in the landscape of American literature.  It is, however, far from an unproblematic site of self-fashioning and self-representation.  This seminar will explore why autobiography and memoir are both pervasive and contested. We will think particularly about the production of the modern subject and the status of truth, history, imagination, and discursive representation.
 
We will read a wide range of theory that will be useful for any students working in autobiography, but I would also expect that those whose generic interests are elsewhere will also find much here that addresses some of the central issues in contemporary theory studies (critical race, feminist, performance, etc.).  All primary texts will be Asian American autobiographical narratives and will range from right after the turn of the century to the present.   Informal and formal presentations are expected, as is a seminar-length paper (which can be centered in the student's area of specialization).  
 
English 289: The Modern American Novel, Emory Elliott
 
The purposes of the course are to examine the development of the form of the novel and of narrative methods during the twentieth century and, in the process, to challenge and define the terms "modern" and "postmodern" in relation to the novel.  We will critique many of the theories and critical approaches that have been formulated to explain and examine these subjects and texts and will interrogate the relations between the texts and the social, political, religious, cultural, and historical contexts, especially within the United States, which appear to have influenced or permeated the works in some ways. The course will also explore connections between our primary texts and the ways in which issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class have been explored in relation to modern and contemporary literature. We will read Faulkner's Light in August; Marshall's, Praise Song for the Widow; Baldwin's Another Country; Hawkes', Death, Sleep, and the Traveler; Barth's, Sabbatical: A Romance; DiLillo's Mao II; Morrison's Jazz; and Silko's, Garden of the Dunes
 
 
English 277:  Seminar in Lesbian and Gay Studies

(This course may not be offered.   We won't know for several weeks.  If it is offered, we will send you a course description at that time.)
 
English 265:  Seminar in Romantic Literature

(This course will be taught by a visiting assistant professor.   The course description will be not be available for several weeks, however, if you are interested in this course, please email Professor Axelrod at steven.axelrod at ucr.edu.   Thank you.)
 

         
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