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ENG 377-01: Reading Contextually: Early 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 377-02: Reading Contextually: 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 Ben Okri, 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.
This is a course in the English major core sequence. Prerequisite: ENG 277
Date/Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:30 – 1:45 pm
ENG 390-01: Advanced Writing Seminar: Human Rights Rhetoric
Dr. Christine Garcia
Who gets heard? Who gets believed? Who gets to decide what justice looks like?
In ENG 390 Human Rights Rhetoric, we will explore the language, stories, and movements that have shaped human rights in the United States, from the Civil Rights Movement to today's debates about immigration, free expression, and social justice. Through discussion, analysis, and a creative or research project of your choosing, we will investigate how people use rhetoric to inspire change.
Date/Time:
Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays: 2:00 - 2:50 pm
ENG 390-02: Advanced Writing Seminar: Together we rise: a seminar in social justice literatureDr. Daniel Donaghy
The goal of social justice, according to gender, race, and culture scholar Lee Anne Bell, is “equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs… in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.” This seminar will study writers whose work explores ways in which American society has fallen short of this standard, drawing attention to injustices imposed by society on individuals because of their race, gender, culture, class, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, and where they live. Through close reading of a variety of texts, class discussion, student presentations, student research and writing, and the insights of guest speakers, students in this course will explore how literature and art can serve as agents for social change. Their final project will be a substantial critical/creative project that makes new contributions to the field.
Date/Time:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 12:30 - 1:45 pm