*English Cpr. Poetry Writing I
Catalog Number: 3053 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Forrest Gander
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
A concentrated workshop in poetry writing for those who wish to improve as poets while broadening their knowledge of contemporary American poetry.
Note: Admission based on previously submitted samples of writing.
*English Cpw. Poetry Workshop
Catalog Number: 4606 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jorie Graham (fall term) and Peter Sacks (spring term)
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall: W., 3–6; Spring: Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 8, 9; Spring: 16, 17
Open by application to undergraduates and graduates alike. Please submit a portfolio including five poems, a letter explaining your interest in the class, and a list of relevant classes taken at Harvard or elsewhere. Class discussions will include the study of literary texts alongside work written by students.
*English Cqr. Poetry Writing II
Catalog Number: 2644 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Forrest Gander
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
See *English Cpr above.
*English Crr. Fiction Writing I
Catalog Number: 1893 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Brad Watson
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Discussion of students’ work in a workshop format.
Note: Admission based on previously submitted samples of writing.
*English Csr. Fiction Writing I
Catalog Number: 2601 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Patricia E. Powell
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to the techniques and forms of fiction. Classroom discussion of student manuscripts and frequent conferences with the instructor.
Note: Admission based on previously submitted samples of writing.
*English Ctr. Advanced Fiction Writing
Catalog Number: 7175
Brad Watson
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 7, 8
Discussion of students’ work in a workshop format.
Note: Admission based on previously submitted samples of writing. Generally for students who have taken fiction workshops before.
English Cvr. Fiction Writing
Catalog Number: 1223
Jamaica Kincaid
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
A seminar/workshop. Readings include Bruno Schultz, Jean Toomer, Robert Walser, and Rimbaud’s Illuminations, among others.
Note: Submissions from experienced fiction writers are welcome.
*English Cwr. Fiction Writing II
Catalog Number: 7765 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Patricia E. Powell
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 7, 8
An advanced workshop for students who have had experience writing fiction. Student work will be discussed in class in a workshop format and in individual conferences.
Note: Admission based on previously submitted samples of writing.
*English Cyr. Nonfiction Writing
Catalog Number: 8545 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Kyoko Mori
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
These workshops will provide a professional atmosphere in which apprentice writers may study their craft, by practicing it themselves, by critiquing the works-in-progress of their peers, and by studying the work of established writers in the genre. Class participants should expect to spend substantial out-of-class time on each of these pursuits. The workshop period itself takes the form of a round-table discussion, primarily of student writing, but also of the assigned readings and craft topics. By the end of our studies, workshop participants should have grasped the terms and techniques associated with various nonfictional fields (memoir, nature writing, and so on), and should be confident reading their own work and the work of others critically and with an eye to revision.
Note: Freshmen admitted only with evidence of unusual qualification. All applicants should submit a brief sample of their writing during the first week of the term.
*English Czr. Advanced Nonfiction Writing
Catalog Number: 5347 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Kyoko Mori
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Fall and Spring: Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
See *English Cyr.
*English Yzr. Playwriting
Catalog Number: 4466 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Adrienne Kennedy
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Each student is required to complete a one act play. The first weeks are spent exploring imagery, language and the imagination through exercises. We also read selected playwrights...Chekhov, Beckett, Pinter and others.
English 10b. Major British Writers II
Catalog Number: 0550
Leo Damrosch
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Readings will include poetry from the Romantics to the present; two plays, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Cloud Nine by Caryll Churchill; and four narrative works, Middlemarch by George Elito, Alice in Wonderland by Lewiss Carroll, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolk, and Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh.
Note: Two lectures and one section meeting per week. Required of English concentrators. Open to freshmen.
English 13. The English Bible
Catalog Number: 6532
Robert Kiely
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
An introduction to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament with special attention to narrative modes, figures of the human and divine, ethical problems, and sacred mysteries.
English 17. American Literature from the Beginnings to Whitman
Catalog Number: 3883
Sacvan Bercovitch
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
An introduction to the study of American literature, 1620-1860, from Anne Bradstreet and Benjamin Franklin to Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman. Readings include the canonical texts of the American literary renaissance by Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau, Hawthorne and Melville, as well as major writings from a variety of genres, including Native American myths, captivity and slave narratives, sermons, autobiographies, and short stories.
[English 20. The English Novel]
Catalog Number: 4754
Jesse E. Matz
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of the English novel from its birth to its prime, with readings in one history of the “rise” of the novel and various accounts of its characteristic forms and concerns. Authors will include Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Hardy, Forster, and Woolf.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 34. Elements of Rhetoric
Catalog Number: 3820
James Engell
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Elements of rhetoric and style; present applications of classical rhetoric (Aristotle, Quintilian, Cicero); Golden Age of Anglo-American rhetoric and prose argument (Hugh Blair, J.Q. Adams, and others) with examples from writers (Addison, Jefferson, Webster, Lincoln, and others); 20th-century rhetoric with an emphasis on public argument and political oratory (Churchill, Kennedy, King, and others); this is a practical course to improve writing and speaking skills while also drawing on significant rhetorical theories and practice.
[*English 71. The Literature of American Religion]
Catalog Number: 4483 Enrollment: Limited to 15
Alan Heimert
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
From the Settlement of Virginia to the Revival of 1858.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 90ai. Inventing Anglophone India
Catalog Number: 1896
Sharmila Sen
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3.
Where is India and how can it be contained or conjured on paper, canvas, celluloid, or concrete? This course engages with the discourse surrounding an India which both fashions and is fashioned by texts written in English. While traversing a few centuries and a vast subcontinent, we shall focus on key moments, reading selected travel narratives, plays, novels, letters, political speeches (and even films, lithographs, and the built environment). Some of the authors to be read include Dryden, Macaulay, Canning, Kipling, Forster, Desai, Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi, and Dabydeen.
*English 90am. Language and Culture in American Modernism
Catalog Number: 0412
Yunte Huang
Half course (spring term). Tu., 12–2.
This course explores the issues of language and culture in modern American literature, suggests reading modernism as a reconceptualization of language, and relates "language" to the concept of culture, as understood in the early decades of the century. Readings include Henry James, Franz Boas, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Mary Austin, and Zora Neale Hurston.
*English 90aw. The Poetics of Asian American Writing
Catalog Number: 0523
Yunte Huang
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
This course explores the intricate relationships between form and content in given historical contexts with the belief that what is often regarded lightly or even negatively as "form" actually embodies the "content" and carries the historical weight of Asian American writing. Readings include both realist and surrealist fiction, humorous essays, travel narratives, "fake" translations, and experimental poetry.
English 90ca. Comparative 20th Century Anglophone Drama
Catalog Number: 4515
Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University)
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3.
This course will explore 20th century Anglophone drama in diverse areas of the English-speaking world. Through works of Irish, African, Caribbean and U.S. playwrights like O’Casey, Friel, Soyinka, Fugard, Walcott, Wilson, and Shange, the seminar will be organized around two principal issues: the use of folk, ritual, vernacular and carnivalesque performance idioms to transform the received genre of Western literary drama; themes of empire, colony and postcolony in the making of the modern world. Some knowledge of classical and avantgarde theories of drama and theatre would be useful, but is not a prerequisite for this course.
*English 90cf. Caribbean Fictions
Catalog Number: 8964
Sharmila Sen
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
The Caribbean is a place for tourists, a paradise; it is an area of contemporary poverty, a realm of natural disasters; it is the promise of sugared profit and the site of unspeakable taboo acts; it is Caliban’s fate. And perhaps it is none of these things. We shall focus on some of the current questions in Caribbean fictions, paying attention to the genealogies of such concerns and debates. Readings include works by Behn, Rhys, Naipaul, Lamming, Harris, Phillips, Conde, Cliff, Shinebourne and Powell among others.
English 90en (formerly English 141). The English Novel before 1800
Catalog Number: 8683
Michael Shinagel
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
The development of the novel in England seen through a study of representative major works by Bunyan, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Burney, and Austen.
[English 90fa. Fictions of the Aesthetic]
Catalog Number: 1224
Jesse E. Matz
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The course considers both the theory or "fiction" of aesthetic experience and works of fiction that explore the experience of art. The course focuses on Henry James and reads him in the context of theories and fictions by Nietzsche, Pater, Wilde, Woolf, Adorno, Benjamin, and others.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
[*English 90hs. Satire: Augustan and Modern]
Catalog Number: 8795
Michael Shinagel
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of satire in poetry, prose fiction, and drama. Among the authors to be read are Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gay, Voltaire, Orwell, Brecht, Vonnegut, and West.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 90it. The Poet in the Novel
Catalog Number: 2707
Oren Jeremy Izenberg
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5.
The most private, "difficult" and unpopular of the arts makes occasional but important appearances in the most public and popular, bringing with it questions about the social function of the imagination, kinds of literature and kinds of knowledge, the relation between high and mass culture. This course studies 20th century novels (and films) in which poets and poetry appear as central characters and concerns: Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift, A.S. Byatt’s Possession, P. Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower, Cocteau’s Orphee, Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool and others.
*English 90kf. Fictions of Kinship
Catalog Number: 0199
Marc Shell
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5.
Special attention to the politics of the incest taboo, the ideal of universal siblinghood, confusions of kin with kind, and notions of national identity. Works include Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, Jean Racine’s Britannicus, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, Coleridge’s “ To an Ass”, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Mirror of the Sinful Soul by Queen Elizabeth I, Melville’s Pierre, and Nabokov’s Ada.
*English 90kw. The American Civil War
Catalog Number: 1957
John Stauffer
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Studies in the literature of the American Civil War, from letters, speeches, poetry, and photography to diaries, stories, and novels. Considers aesthetic, historical, and intellectual dimensions, and focuses in particular on national and sectional identities; the transition from romanticism to realism; generic modes in relation to genedered, class, racial, regional, and religious issues; and meanings of slavery and freedom. Authors include Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Whitman, Melville, Mary Chesnut, Louisa May Alcott, Twain, Bierce, Crane, Tourgee, and others.
*English 90lb. Letters of Business and the Business of Letters: The American Literary Enterprise
Catalog Number: 8890
Richard Charles Adams
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3.
The literary men and women of American business, from Bartleby to Babbit, Cotton Mather and Franklin to Dreiser. We will investigate pronouncements like T.S. Eliot’s that Americans, "like to be told that they are a race of commercial buccaneers," as well as doubts such as Teddy Roosevelt’s, that the national type might be the "glorified huckster or glorified pawnbroker." Issues to be discussed include the advent of the professional writer and the cultural construction of the entrepreneur. The novels, stories, and criticism of Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Norris, and Wharton will be supplemented by the works of writers such as Veblen, Bellamy, Clark and James Truslow Adams.
*English 90lj. The Idea of Italy
Catalog Number: 3054
Robert Kiely
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4.
An examination of 19th- and early 20th-century English and American representations of Italy in fiction, narrative poetry, and nonfictional prose. Authors include Byron, Ruskin, Pater, Browning, George Eliot, Hawthorne, Twain, James, and Forster. Special attention paid to art, religion, and conceptions of Italian character.
English 90ma. The Other Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 6139
Sarah Tolmie
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
An overview of non-Chaucerian, non-Arthurian and non-Trojan works in Middle English, divided into threeinterlocking sections: first, poets of the fifteenth century, including Hoccleve, Lydgate, Charles d’Orleansand King James I of Scotland, James I will serve as an introduction to a section on vernacular writing in Scotland, including selections from historiography (John Barbour’s The Bruce, Andrew Wyntoun’s Croykils)short poems by Henryson and Dunbar, and extracts from Gavin Douglas’s translation of the Aenied; finallythe course will conclude with and overview of the important tradition of Alexandar the Great romances, focusing on the oriental fantasy Alexander and Dindimus.
*English 90md (formerly *English 278z). American Dissent
Catalog Number: 3287
Sacvan Bercovitch
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5.
Study of the mainstream American tradition of dissent through close readings of representative texts, from the Puritan dissenters through the Revolution, to the central writers of the antebellum period.
English 90mt. The 1880’s, An American Renaissance: Methods Toward a Critical Literary History
Catalog Number: 0537
Richard Charles Adams
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3.
The burgeoning of American literature during this decade will be examined by juxtaposing a few crucial careers such as James’ and Howell’s with important works by such of their contemporaries as George Washington Cable, Henry Adams, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Also to be discussed: the challenge of regionalism to cosmopolitanism; the tension between romance and realism; the magazine trade; and the emergence of a critical tradition.
*English 90mw. Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends: Wordsworth, Hardy, Heaney
Catalog Number: 2926
Elaine Scarry
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3.
Dante wrote New Life in the 1290’s; Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in the 1390’s; Shakespeare (as well as Spenser and Denne) wrote extensively in the 1590’s. This seminar will draw materials from the final decade of a range of centuries but will concentrate on Wordsworth (1790’s), Hardy (novels and poems of the 1890’s), and Heaney (1990’s).
*English 90nl. 18th-Century Narrative and the Law
Catalog Number: 6031
Lynn Mary Festa
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3.
Law as both narrative principle and recurrent theme in 18th-century fiction. Readings drawn from Defoe, Gay, Fielding, Smollett, Burney. Areas of inquiry include: patriarchy, family, and the law; legal and novelistic ideas of the self; crime and the normative; punishment and correction in relation to narrative form.
*English 90op. Poems of the Pearl Manuscript
Catalog Number: 0373
Rebecca L. Krug
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3.
This course considers the four alliterative poems of the Pearl manuscript, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Discussion will focus on the relationship between aesthetic concerns and moral/religious claims. All reading is in Middle English.
[English 90pt. The Prophetic Tradition in America]
Catalog Number: 9141
John Stauffer
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examines the literature of prophecy belief in American from the colonial era to the present. Authors include Anne Hutchinson, Joseph Smith, Nat Turner, John Brown, Melville, Charles Brockden Brown, Whitman, Twain, Hal Lindsey
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 90rp. Radical Poetics
Catalog Number: 8864
Oren Jeremy Izenberg
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3.
An intensive study of the texts and contexts of a few 20th-century literary movements or "scenes" - the Celtic Revival, Objectivism, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the "Language" poets - in which poets have aspired both to be a social group (whether understood as a local or universal "movement," a publishing collective, a band of friends or lovers) and to use poetry to reconstruct social formations in crisis.
*English 90rs. Yeats
Catalog Number: 5853
Peter Sacks
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5.
Study the poetry of Yeats.
*English 90rt. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
Catalog Number: 6987
Barbara E. Johnson
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4.
The poetry of Plath and Sexton will be read and discussed along with letters, journals, and biographies. Topics to be discussed: What are the relations between an author’s life and an author’s poetry? How does biography affect criticism? Do we read the work of these poets backwards through their suicides? How do they represent the problems of being a woman, a poet, a daughter, a mother, a wife, and a "case"? How do they think about, and practice, poetic invention? How do they combine pain and wit, and rewrite existing traditions of poetic morbidity, madness, and mania?
*English 90sl. Scotland and Scottish Literature
Catalog Number: 8963
Ann Wierda Rowland
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4.
Scottish literature and the place of Scotland in the British literary imagination of the 18th and 19th centuries. Attention to the myth of the Highlands, the Ossian controversy, Scottish second-sight, the romance of the Jacobite rebellion, and the role of literature in the production of national identity. Readings in poetry, travel writing, national tales, historical novels, and intellectual prose by writers such as Defoe, Macpherson, Smith, Smollett, Johnson, Burns, Scott, Ferrier and Hogg.
*English 90ve. Models of Value in 18th-Century Fiction
Catalog Number: 3216
Lynn Mary Festa
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3.
A study of theories of human, aesthetic, and market value in 18th-century literature, focusing on how humans and literary works are distinguished from other objects of exchange. Readings drawn from Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, as well as Adam Smith, Marx, Benjamin, Zizek.
*English 90wg. Wordsworth and George Eliot
Catalog Number: 3955
Ann Wierda Rowland
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5.
Close study of the major works of William Wordsworth and George Eliot. Attention to their understandings of art and community, their representations of Englishness, and their use of history and landscape. Readings include Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda.
*English 90wp (formerly *English 169). Black Playwrights of the World
Catalog Number: 7257
Adrienne Kennedy
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3.
A survey of the drama of the most significant 20th-century Black authors from two hemispheres, with a focus on texts of plays and their cultural contexts. Readings include works by Matura, Shange, Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott, Hughes, Césaire, Hansberry, Fuller, and other playwrights.
[English 90zb. “Themes” in the Study of Literature]
Catalog Number: 2789
Werner Sollors
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Though not always openly acknowledged, thematic approaches to literature have been important since the beginning of literary study. How can a "theme" be defined: how can it be "found" in a literary text? What happens if the same text is read for different themes? What is a motif? Stoff? Thematology and thematics? Can we absolutely determine what a work of art is and is not "about"? Explorations in practical criticism and in literary theory.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 97. Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 0280
Joseph C. Harris and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Introduction to methods of literary analysis. Selected texts in English and American literature studied along with readings in theory and criticism. Topics to include the nature and purpose of literary study, and critical approaches such as formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism, and feminism. Required of concentrators in the sophomore year.
*English 98r. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 3831
Joseph C. Harris and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Tutorial supervision in the study of English and American literature.
Note: Open to honors concentrators.
Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in English 10, an overall concentration average of B or better, and the recommendation of the sophomore tutor.
*English 99hf (formerly *English 99r). Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 5279
Joseph C. Harris and members of the Department
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
Tutorial supervision of an independent scholarly or critical subject.
Note: Two semesters required of honors seniors. To enroll, students must submit for approval a Thesis Proposal form, available at the Undergraduate Office, 12 Quincy Street. A student who does not complete a thesis but wishes to receive credit for one term of English 99r must submit a paper or other substantial work before the end of that term’s reading period.
Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of one semester of English 98r and completion of an undergraduate seminar (90-level) taken junior year, and the Honor’s Committee approval of proposed thesis topic.
English 102c. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: The Millennium
Catalog Number: 1268
Daniel G. Donoghue
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 16
How did the Anglo-Saxons view the advent of the year 1000? How are their responses to it (or indifference) reflected in their literature? The semester will begin with an introduction to the basics of Old English grammar and will later expand to include more thematically driven topics. All of the selections for translation — chronicles, homilies, poems — will have some bearing on the millennium. Comparisons with current anxieties about the year 2000 will be aided by a site on the world wide web.
English 103. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: King Alfred
Catalog Number: 0995
Daniel G. Donoghue
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
In 9th-century England, King Alfred instituted an unprecedented program of writing in Old English, in effect creating a literary tradition where none existed before. This course will introduce students to Alfred’s life and times, along with readings from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede’s History of the English People, riddles, The Seafarer, and other Old English lyrics.
English 117. Medieval Drama: History and Performance
Catalog Number: 2875
Rebecca L. Krug
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 3. EXAM GROUP: 17
Half lecture, half workshop, this course will approach medieval drama in terms of performance. We will spend the first part of the semester familiarizing ourselves with Middle English Drama and its performance history; the second half of the course will involve enactments of scenes from cycle and morality plays and will culminate in an informal production of a morality play. Texts will include Mankind, Castle of Perseverence, Everyman, and several plays from the York, Towneley, Chester and Coventry cycles.
English 130. 17th-Century Poetry and Prose
Catalog Number: 4789
Barbara K. Lewalski
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
Primary focus on the major poets Donne, Jonson, Herbert and Marvell, with attention also to other writers, men and women, the genres they practiced and their cultural milieu.
[English 131. Milton]
Catalog Number: 8005
Barbara K. Lewalski
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A comprehensive study of Milton’s works and their milieu. Included are his lyric poems and masque, his polemic tracts on marriage and divorce, a free press, and republican government written during the Puritan Revolution, his epics, and the tragedy Samson Agonistes. Paradise Lost will receive extended treatment.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 138b. Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Catalog Number: 0489
Susanne Lindgren Wofford (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A study of the cultural poetics and politics of Elizabethan literature, with a focus on Spenser and on the writings of other major Elizabethans such as Sidney, Raleigh, Nashe and selected lyric poets. Topics for study will include Elizabeth I’s court culture (as evidenced in her speeches, her portraits and the great courtly entertainments); literary figuration, form and genre; and questions of whether the presence of a female ruler may have refigured English gender codes and expectations. Some short readings also in social history, theory of allegory, and new historicist and feminist work on the Elizabethan period.
[English 140b (formerly *English 90gt). The Age of Johnson]
Catalog Number: 6901
Leo Damrosch
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
English literature at a time when imaginative nonfiction threatened to displace traditional “literary” forms. Emphasis on the essays of Johnson and Hume, the diary and biography of Boswell, the history of Gibbon, the political writings of Burke, and the poems of Gray, Burns, and Blake.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 147n. Women and the Novel to Jane Austen
Catalog Number: 1659
Lynn Mary Festa
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
A study of the early novel, focusing on the roles of women -- as heroines, readers, and writers -- in the formation of the genre. Novels by Behn, Haywood, Burney, Edgeworth and Austen. Additional background readings on the legal, medical, intellectual and moral status of women in the long 18th century.
English 150. British Romantic Poetry
Catalog Number: 5274
Ann Wierda Rowland
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Emphasis on the poetry with attention to the prose of the period as well. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Scott.
English 151. The British Novel from Austen to Conrad in its European Context
Catalog Number: 8396
Philip J. Fisher
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Rise and Fall of the Romantic self. Austen, Sense and Sensibility; Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther; Scott, Old Mortality; Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Conrad, Lord Jim; The novel of society. Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Eliot, Middlemarch; Dickens, Oliver Twist; Dostoevsky, The Double; Zola, L’Assommoir; Hardy, Jude the Obscure.
English 163. Postmodern Drama
Catalog Number: 7652
Robert Brustein
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
A study of the major plays of the makers of the postmodern style—Pirandello, Brecht, O’Neill, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Shepard, and Mamet—and their impact on the direction of contemporary theatre.
English 165. The British Novel of the 20th Century: Joyce to Naipaul
Catalog Number: 1827
Philip J. Fisher
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Centering on the works of Joyce and the experience of Modernism. Novels include Joyce, Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses; Forster, Longest Journey; Lawrence, The Rainbow; Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse; Conrad, Shadow Line; Henry Green, Loving; Beckett, Molloy; Naipaul; House for Mr. Biwsas.
Note: Graduate section offered.
[English 166. The Novel (and other Narratives) since World War II ]
Catalog Number: 1874
Robert Kiely
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A survey of postmodern experiments in several kinds of narrative, including works by Borges, Beckett, Primo Levi, Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, García Marquéz, Paul Monette, Pynchon, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
[English 167b. Twentieth Century British Fiction]
Catalog Number: 0940
Jesse E. Matz
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
The British Novel from E.M. Forster to the present, including works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Jean Rhys, Henry Green, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 167p. Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
Catalog Number: 2511
Sharmila Sen
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14
A survey course introducting some of the key concerns, quarrels, and texts in postcolonial studies. Readings include such authors as Conrad, Achebe, Ngugi, Salih, Mahfouz, Oyono, Fanon, Lamming, Harris, Marquez, Kureishi, Rushdie, and Ghosh.
English 170 (formerly *English 90jk). Puritanism in America
Catalog Number: 8166
Sacvan Bercovitch
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Literature and culture of 17th-century New England. A study of the aesthetic, religious, intellectual and historical dimensions of American Puritan writings, with some attention to the “Puritan legacy” to the national culture.
English 171x. The American Poetic Experience: From the Beginnings through the Late 19th Century
Catalog Number: 2373
Elisa New
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
When in 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted in “The Poet” that “adequate expression is rare”, his tact (but also perhaps his own high poetic aspirations), prevented him rehearsing what William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allen Poe and others had made a refrain: the grievous lack of a “national literature” adequate to the American subject. And yet, though its epics were tedious and few, by 1844 American verse had already entered its vigorous second century, with the most original, and eventually most influential poets, of the pre-modern period, embarked on or gathering materials for their greatest work.
English 172c. 19th-Century American Novel
Catalog Number: 5256
Richard Charles Adams
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
The short fiction and principal novels of five major figures in 19th-century American literature: Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James and Howells. Readings will be accompanied by lectures in the historical context that informed the transition from romanticism to realism and modernism in turn. Texts include House of the Seven Gables, Moby Dick, Portrait of a Lady, and Connecticut Yankee.
English 173j. Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics
Catalog Number: 7933
Oren Jeremy Izenberg
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Readings in American poetry after World War II. Topics for discussion will include: tradition and innovation, technique and improvisation, the lyric "I" and its alternatives. Authors include Lowell, Ginsberg, Bishop, Oppen, Plath, O’Hara, Creeley, Ashbery, Bidart, A. Grossman, M. Palmer, S. Howe, and others.
English 175e. Modern American Poetry: Five Representative Figures (Eliot, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore)
Catalog Number: 4093
Helen Vendler
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Modernism as it is exemplified (and restricted) by these figures. Influences, native and foreign; nostalgia and prophecy versus the present and the literal; “bric-a-brac” vs. “subjects”; prosodic stands (free, metered and syllabic verse); poetry and the visual arts; ways of being American as an artist.
English 178x. The American Novel from Dreiser to the end of the Century
Catalog Number: 2168
Philip J. Fisher
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of the novel it its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story and fact. Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Wharton, The House of Mirth; Jack London, Stories; Cather, A Lost Lady; Anderson, Winseburg Ohio; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night; Ellison, Invisible Man; Nabokov, Lolita; Bellow, Herzog; Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49; stories by Updike, Carver, Gaitskill, Moore. Roth, American Pastoral.
Note: Graduate section offered.
English 179k. American Autobiography
Catalog Number: 4938
John Stauffer
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 16
A study of autobiography in America from the Age of Revolution to the near-present. Explores aesthetic and historical dimensions of the genre; self-fashioning and refashioning in terms of religious, racial, class, and gendered issues; and the relationship between individual and national identities. Authors include Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Olaudah Equiano, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Adams, Jane Addams, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm X, and Zora Neale Herston.
[English 182. American Poetry since 1945]
Catalog Number: 1482
Helen Vendler
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of several contemporary poets: Bishop, Hughes, Merrill, Ginsberg, Berryman, Lowell, Plath, Ammons, Ashbery, Graham, and Dove.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 184. Fundamentals of Lyric Poetry
Catalog Number: 8147
Peter Sacks
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 16
Basic elements of lyric poetry, both formal and thematic. Questions of lineation, prosody, stanzaic identity, free verse, syntax, matters of place, temporality, self-revision. Representations of poetic vocation, work, desire, history, nature, etc. Readings primarily from The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
English 187c. History in Chicano Literature
Catalog Number: 6593
Juan Bruce-Novoa (University of California-Irvine)
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
As an ethnic project, Chicano literature proposes an alternate version of U.S. history. However, far from there being one master text of Chicano history, each author practices historiography according to different models, selecting and utilizing the past to fit present needs. The result is the panorama of possible histories available to readers that makes group identity problematic at best. Readings from poetry, fiction, and history texts.
English 188. English-Language African Literature
Catalog Number: 0307
Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 9. EXAM GROUP: 11
This course will survey Anglophone African literature through the drama, poetry, fiction and essays of some of the continent’s major writers. It will be organized around the following issues: "literariness" in written and oral modes; canonicity in its local and international dimensions; emerging regional and national traditions of African literature; common and recurrent sociopolitical themes; formal experiments with language and genre(s). Writers studied will include Achebe, Soyinka, Aidoo, Okot p’Bitek, Fugard, Bessie Head, Ngugi and Gordimer, plus a sample of African writing in French, Arabic, and other languages in English translation.
English 188a. Asian American Literary Tradition
Catalog Number: 7768
Yunte Huang
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
A survey of Asian American literature. Closely reading canonical texts while investigating the formation of the canon itself. Readings include Sui Sin Far, Lin Yutang, Maxine Hong Kingston, Theresa Cha, Jessica Hagedorn, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, John Yau, and Bharati Mukherjee.
[English 190. Major Critical Approaches]
Catalog Number: 0283
James Engell
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Major critical approaches from Aristotle’s Poetics to recent theories; efforts to analyze and define the functions of literature; social, ethical, historical, and aesthetic issues; classical heritage, Romantic theory, modernism; poststructuralism, including deconstruction and cultural critiques.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01. Graduate section offered.
English 190x. Philosophy and Literature: The Problem of Consent
Catalog Number: 0561
Elaine Scarry
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
"Consent" in literature, medicine, political philosophy, and law. Four major topics are freedom of movement (Locke’s Second Treatise, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, DeQuincey’s English Mail-Coach, Harlan’s dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson), constitution and contract-making (European city contracts, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Federalist Papers), the grounding of consent in the body (Plato’s Crito, Euripides’ Hecabe, Donne’s poetry, Rousseau’s Social Contract, contemporary medical case law), and decision making in war (Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Philoctetes).
English 193d. Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
Catalog Number: 8786
Barbara E. Johnson
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Two of the most powerful thinkers in recent history, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, went head to head over an improbable object: Poe’s "Purloined Letter." What did Poe’s story have to do with the relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis? And why was that encounter so fruitful for the study of literature? Starting with "The Purloined Poe", we will read texts by Descartes, Freud, Irigaray, Felman, Fanon, Woolf, and Spivak along with more of Lacan and Derrida to analyze the theories of signification, female sexuality, blindness, and the politics of reading, that have been fundamental to literary studies.
[English 199. Persons and Things]
Catalog Number: 6195
Barbara E. Johnson
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A literary, psychoanalytic, legal, and philosophical analysis of the relations between persons and things. Topics include the legal definition of “person”, Marx and Freud on fetishism, structures of personification, reification, and anthromorphism, poetry and sculpture, object relations, artificial life, and the Pygmalion complex. Texts by Heidegger, Kleist, Hawthorne, Hardy, James, Petry, Baudelaire, Plath, Winnicott, and selected films.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 200b. Beowulf
Catalog Number: 6503
Daniel G. Donoghue
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
A careful reading of Beowulf in Old English. In addition to in-class translation, the course will explore sources, the question of date and authorship, the oral traditional background, poetics, and other topics of current interest.
Prerequisite: One semester of Old English or the equivalent.
*English 212. Alliterative Poetry in Middle English
Catalog Number: 9934
Derek A. Pearsall
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A study, in historical and literary context, of the 14th-century poems of the non-Chaucerian tradition, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, Pearl, and the Morte Arthure.
*English 214. Spenser and the Fictional Narratives of the Renaissance
Catalog Number: 8171
Susanne Lindgren Wofford (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Half course (fall term). Tu., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
A study of prose fiction and fictional poetic narrative in the 16th and, more briefly, the 17th centuries. Readings from Apuleius, More, Gascoigne, Sidney, Deloney, Nashe, Greene; some attention to the novella in English story collections (and to representative continental novellas); a coda on Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn.
[English 220s. Shakespeare’s Poetry]
Catalog Number: 7959
Helen Vendler
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Topics: The song-within-a-play; Shakespearean narrative verse, comic and tragic; sonnets in the plays; sonnets in a sequence; sonnets standing alone. Eros as dissonance; the aesthetics of the eye; the deceptiveness of representation; dilation and delay; antithetical models of life. Prosody of the songs, sonnets, and narratives. Shakespearean figuration.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 224h. The Hamlet Complex
Catalog Number: 5489
Marjorie Garber
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Hamlet is the most canonical work by English literature’s most canonical writer. What is it about this play that has made it the focus of so much critical and cultural attention? The seminar will consider readings of Hamlet (and Hamlet) from Freud to feminism, from humanism to postculturalism and deconstruction, together with selected films, dramatic adaptations and related poetry and fiction, in an attempt to pluck out the heart of the play’s mystery.
*English 228y. Milton and His Contemporaries: Literature and Politics in the Era of Revolution (1629–1674): Seminar
Catalog Number: 1277
Barbara K. Lewalski
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Milton’s works, poetry and prose, examined in relation to various texts—literary, subliterary, political—which refract the experience and culture of the revolutionary era in England. Contemporary texts include the poetry of Vaughan, Herrick, the Cavaliers, and Marvell, as well as histories, sermons, political tracts, letters, and biography.
[*English 232z. Literary Kinds and Cultural Forces, 1603–1640: Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5484
Barbara K. Lewalski
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
With primary focus on Donne, Jonson, Herbert and Mary Wroth, and attention to other male and female writers in a wide range of literary and popular genres, this seminar will examine how and why these works and kinds emerge within certain important sites of cultural production: the court, the church, the city of London, the landed estate, the household, patronage circles, coteries. A central issue is, how such genres and texts are affected by, and how they affect, cultural norms and institutions in Jacobean and Caroline England.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
*English 240. Poetry, Politics, and Prophecy: Graduate Seminar
Catalog Number: 6188
James Engell
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Key texts and authors during the time when English poetry and politics were most closely and publicly linked. Party politics, cultural politics, and the connection of the two. Political satire. Sexual politics and women writers. Religion and the prophetic theme. Includes some prose. Dryden, Pope, Montagu, Swift, Johnson, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Blake, and others.
Note: Open to qualified undergraduates.
*English 252. The Representation of Labor in the 19th-Century Novel
Catalog Number: 4284
Elaine Scarry
Half course (fall term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by Turgenev, Zola, Tolstoy, Stowe, and Melville. Background readings on the social and philosophic theory of work.
*English 269h. Hawthorne, Dickinson and Henry James
Catalog Number: 0742
Elisa New
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course will concern itself with some definitions and implications of “experience” in the work of three major authors — Hawthorne, Dickinson and Henry James. Texts will include Hawthorne’s major tales, The Blithedale Romance, several Dickinson fascicles, and The Portrait of a Lady and The Spoils of Poynton.
*English 276. Space, Place and Imagination in American Literature
Catalog Number: 5953
Lawrence Buell
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Major works from Thoreau and Whitman to W.C. Williams and Leslie Silko exemplifying interwoven traditions of "pastoral" and "urban" imagination, with reference to phenomenology of place, social space discourse, landscape and gender studies, urban and ecocritical theory.
*English 276x. African-American Literary Tradition
Catalog Number: 3536
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Half course (fall term). M., 12–2. EXAM GROUP: 5, 6
Explores the emergence and formal development of the Afro-American literary “tradition” from the 18th to the 20th century. Close reading of the canonical texts in the tradition and their structural relationships are stressed, as is the very idea of “tradition” itself. Authors include Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others.
English 277xr. The Fourth Longfellow Institute Seminar: Literatures of the United States
Catalog Number: 7685
Marc Shell
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Multilingual literature of what is now the United States. Special focus on the historiographic and critical treatment of non-Anglophone texts, on general theoretical problems of an ongoing multiligual American tradition, and on the recuperation and presentation of texts. Original source materials in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Welsh, Norwegian, German, Swedish, Yiddish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-English texts will be provided in bilingual versions. Some attention to wampum and drum language. Visiting scholars will attend several sessions.
*English 289. Postmodernism: Fiction and Theories
Catalog Number: 2667
Robert Kiely
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Readings from Beckett and Borges to Pynchon and DeLillo in conjunction with selections from Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson and others.
[English 292m. Modernism: Graduate Seminar]
Catalog Number: 5177
Jesse E. Matz
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The theory and practice of Modernism from Baudelire to Nabakov, focusing on Modernism’s early twentieth-century critical manifestos and the most recent efforts to define modernist culture.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
[*English 294h. Literary History and Cultural Memory: Graduate Seminar]
Catalog Number: 8598
Stephen J. Greenblatt
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Graduate seminar on theories of memory and history (from Aristotle to Vico to Hulburachs, Benjamin and Derrida) and on the place of literature in such theories.
Note: Expected to be given in 2000–01.
English 295. Renaissance Materialism and Carnality: Graduate Seminar
Catalog Number: 9239
Stephen J. Greenblatt
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Some Renaissance artists and intellectuals attempted to rethink the world as centered not on the spirit but on the flesh - a risky effort to posit a world that is only matter, no longer an envelope for an inmaterial soul. We begin with the reception of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius (by such figures as Montaigne, Ralegh, Bacon, Burton, Hobbes), then turn to a related but distinct current of thought: fascination with the impulses, experiences, and fate of the body, carnality. The focus will be English (Hero and Leander, Venus and Adonis, King Lear, Faerie Queene [Book II]; Donne, Herrick, and Crashaw), but we will glance at Continental texts such as Rojas’ La Celestina and Ferrand’s Treatise on Lovesickness.
*English 296. Descriptive and Analytical Bibliography: Seminar
Catalog Number: 7102
Roger E. Stoddard
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
By close examination of early printed books and manuscripts from Houghton Library collections, students learn how to identify, interpret, and describe physical bibliographical evidence as it is employed in historical research and textual studies.
*English 297L. U.S. Latino Autobiography
Catalog Number: 3496
Juan Bruce-Novoa (University of California-Irvine)
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
This course has a duel focus: the genre of autobiography per se and the study of major examples of the genre as practiced by U.S. writers of Latino extraction. Readings will draw from theoretical essays on autobiography and both autobiographies and autogiographical novels. Among authors discussed are Cabeza de Vaca, John Rechy, Edward Rivera, Judith Ortiz Coffer, Anthony Quinn, Julia Alvarez, and Oscar Hijuelos.
*English 302hf. Renaissance: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 2814
Marjorie Garber 7264, Barbara K. Lewalski 7450, Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave 1999-00) and members of the Department
Half course (throughout the year). Alternate W., at 4:15.
The Conference focuses upon theses in progress and other research topics of mutual interest. Membership limited to faculty members teaching or conducting research in Renaissance literary studies and to graduate students working in this field who have completed required course work for the Master’s degree. Enrollment is open to all such students, and is required of those who have been admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. and who intend to work on Renaissance topics.
*English 304hf. The Extended 18th Century: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 6110
Leo Damrosch 2200, James Engell 8076, and Michael Shinagel 7659
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
Focuses on theses, theses in progress, and research topics of mutual interest. Required of graduate students working, or intending to work, on the Restoration, 18th century, or Romanticism (the periods 1660–1830), and who have been admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. Open to other students working on topics in Restoration and 18th-century literature.
*English 305. Narrative (1800 to the Present): Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 4846
Philip J. Fisher 1470 and Robert Kiely 1621
The Conference focuses on theses in progress and other research topics of mutual concern. Membership limited to faculty members teaching or conducting research in 19th- and 20th-century British and American fiction and to graduate students working in the field. Enrollment is open to all such students, and is required of those who have been admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. and who intend to work in the field.
*English 306hf. 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 5268
Robert Kiely 1621 and Jesse E. Matz 2169 (on leave 1999-00)
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
*English 308hf. Drama: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 6909
Marjorie Garber 7264 and Elaine Scarry 2206
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
Focuses on research topics related to dramatic literature, theatre, and performance. Open to all faculty members and graduate students teaching or conducting research in the field.
*English 310hfr (formerly *English 310fhr). American Literature and Culture: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 6235
Sacvan Bercovitch 7638 and Lawrence Buell 2655
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
Colloquium open to all graduate students working in the area of American literature and culture. Papers delivered by students writing seminar papers or theses, faculty members, and visiting scholars.
*English 311hf. The Teaching of Literature: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 8208
Marjorie Garber 7264 and Rebecca L. Krug 2168 (on leave spring term)
Half course (fall term). W., 4–6.
Note: Open to all graduate students and required of all third-year graduate students.
*English 314hf. 20th-Century Literature and Cultural Theory: Doctoral Conference
Catalog Number: 1410
Barbara E. Johnson 7626
Half course (throughout the year). Hours to be arranged.
This colloquium is open to all graduate students and faculty working in 20th-century literature and cultural theory. Topics include African-American literature, contemporary literature, drama, film and/or performance, modernism, literary and cultural theory, postcolonial studies, and postmodernism. Work-in-progress, as well as dissertation chapters and potential articles and conference papers, will be encouraged.
*English 397. Directed Study
Catalog Number: 6588
Members of the Department
*English 398. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 5968
Richard Charles Adams 1665, Sacvan Bercovitch 7638, Robert Brustein 7042, Lawrence Buell 2655, Leo Damrosch 2200, Daniel G. Donoghue 1469, James Engell 8076, Philip J. Fisher 1470, Marjorie Garber 7264, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899, Stephen J. Greenblatt 3436 (on leave fall term), Joseph C. Harris 1089, Alan Heimert 1631 (on leave 1999-00), Barbara E. Johnson 7626, Walter Kaiser 2561, Robert Kiely 1621, Barbara K. Lewalski 7450, Richard C. Marius 6065, Derek A. Pearsall 1093 (on leave spring term), Elaine Scarry 2206, Marc Shell 3176, Michael Shinagel 7659, Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave 1999-00), and Helen Vendler 7226
Note: Normally limited to students reading specifically in the field of a proposed doctoral thesis. Open only by petition to the Department; petitions should be presented during the term preceding enrollment, and must be signed by the instructor with whom the reading is to be done. All applicants for admission should first confer with the Director of Graduate Studies.
*English 399. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1825
Members of the Department
Note: Conducted through regular conferences and assigned writing. Limited to students reading specifically on topics not covered in regular courses. Open only by petition to the Department; petitions should be presented during the term preceding enrollment, and must be signed by the instructor with whom the reading is to be done. All applicants for admission should first confer with the Director of Graduate Studies.