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ENG 377-01: Reading Contextuallyearly 18th-Century Literature and the World of Books*Dr. Benjamin Pauley
Who gets published? Who gets paid? What counts as serious art, and what’s (popular) “trash”?
Long before they became “classics,” eighteenth-century poems, plays, and novels were books circulating in a marketplace of print. Authors sought the favor of a variety of readers (and buyers) with a variety of needs and tastes—some fine, some cheap; some dignified and respectable, others decidedly not.
We’ll look at how eighteenth-century literature was written and published to understand the world that shaped it (and how it shaped the world). We’ll read these works in their original dress—using scans of their earliest editions (no textbooks to buy). After a few weeks’ orientation, the rest of the reading list will be shaped by student research: this is a class you’ll help design.
This is a course in the English major core sequence. Prerequisite: ENG 277.
Date/Time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9:30 - 10:45 am
*Poets and Publishers and Pirates—oh my!
ENG 344: Literature of AfricaDr. Raouf Mama
Do you know that Africa is both the richest and the poorest continent in the world, or that it boasts the greatest number of member states at the United Nations and yet has no power at all?
The story of what happened to Africa and its peoples as a result of their encounter with the West and the cultural, political, social, and economic reverberations of that encounter makes African literature one of the most exciting and most diverse bodies of literature in the world.
If you wish to deepen your appreciation of Africa’s extraordinary literary tradition and its incredible cultural diversity, this course is for you.
Through the study of a blending of the works of such literary giants as Chinua Achebe and Nadine Gordimer, Camara Laye and younger writers such as Tsitsi Dangaremgba, Ben Okri and E.C. Osondu, this course will help expand your literary horizons and explode familiar prejudices and misconceptions about Africa and Africans. More important, it will enlarge your sympathies and sharpen your communicative and critical thinking skills as it tells you the story of how the peoples of Africa suffer, how they are delighted, and how they may triumph.
Prerequisite: LAC student with T1A, T1LT, T1H or T1SS course or ELAC students. In addition to ENG 100 and A 100 or 200 level literature course
Course Attributes: African American, GER IC2-Cultural Tranditioins 2, LAC T2CP-Cultural Perspective, TWLD-AATW Minor
Date/Time:
Wednesdays: 4:00 - 6:45 pm
ENG 201-01/02: Creative Writing for Non-MajorDr. Daniel Donaghy
ENG 201 serves as an introduction to the written creative process for students who are not English majors. Since there is no better way to get a feel for creative writing than to immerse ourselves in it, we will read and discuss a wide range of creative work in this course and build a nurturing writing community in which we support each other to push our ideas as far as we can and to take risks. By the end of this course, each student will produce a portfolio of polished creative work.
Date/Time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11:00-12:15 p.m. (ENG 201-01)
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 9:30-10:45 a.m. (ENG 201-02)
ENG 373-01: Place Matters: Place-Based Studies in Rhetoric and WritingDr. Susan DerOSA
“Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.”
~Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Why does place matter? This course immerses you in conversations about rhetorics of place and how place is constructed by social, historical, communal, and cultural forces in particular contexts. Using rhetorical and critical lenses, you’ll explore how a sense of place is represented through performances, speeches, TedTalks, personal essays, scholarly essays, films and photos, speeches, monuments, neighborhoods, historical sites, and social movements.
The texts you’ll research and create (e.g. interactive maps, collages, photo essays,) will engage you in re-mapping and re-writing and researching a rhetoric of place. This course invites you to think critically about how rhetors use language, symbols, and images to construct rhetorics of place that affect who we are, what we think, and how we live in the world with each other.
ENG 373 Studies in Rhetoric and Writing counts towards the General English Concentrations, Rhetoric and Writing Concentration, and as an 300-level ENG elective.
Date/Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 2:00-3:15 p.m.