FALL 2009 COURSES
Criticism and Theory (ENGL 270)
Section: 01W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 271)
Section: 02W
Instructor: J. Jacobs
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
In this class, the emphasis will be on the direct experience of poetry. Any theoretical formulations will be used only because they help us get inside that experience. And we will ask why given poems make us laugh, move us deeply, draw us in with unique force, and so on. Since this is a discussion class, active participation of all students is crucial—and it is my hope that the members of the class will talk to one another, not simply address comments to me. What we learn to do in discussion will, I hope, animate the way class members write critical papers about particular poems; there will be three such papers. Our materials will come from the Norton Anthology of Poetry (unabridged edition), and from one or two books of poetry by contemporary poets. While we will read materials from various periods, our emphasis will fall on modern lyric poetry.
Section: 03W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
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Section: 04W
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
Why should we care about poetry – and how should we care about it? And why do the answers to these two questions seem so similar? We'll start historically – who before us cared about poetry, and why? We'll study the pressure poems put on their historical moment, and how they're shaped by it in surprising ways: for example, our discussion of Beowulf will start, not with the Anglo-Saxons, but with the Victorians, who invented "Anglo-Saxon" literature in part to reinforce their own imperial representations of nation and race. Most of the authors in our anthology were white, male, and rich – how has literature been used to promote a series of questions and assumptions that they may have shared (sometimes called "the canon"), and how has it, even in these same authors, blown apart all the stereotypes and orthodoxies we'd expect to find? Beginning with Old English and moving past World War I, we'll watch the invention not only of English (and then British) culture, but of the English language itself, its twists and triumphs, detours and degenerations – and most importantly, we'll watch as language, especially literary language, is fashioned into the greatest vehicle of social (as well as aesthetic) contest.
Section: 066
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
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Section: 067
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 pm
TBA
Through close attention to the basic elements of poetry--voice, rhythm, form, tone, etc.--students will develop their ability to read, enjoy, and write about this art. Readings for the course include poems written by over 60 authors. The bulk of our class time will be spent in discussion and analysis of these works. Assignments will include essays, reading quizzes, and midterm and final exams.
Introduction to Drama (ENGL 272)
Section: 069
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
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Section: 113
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MW 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
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Section: 114D
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
F 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
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Section: 115D
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
F 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
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Introduction to Fiction (ENGL 273)
Section: 05W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 273 05W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 06W
Instructor: M. Bosco
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 273 06W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 070
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
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Section: 071
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
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Section: 072
Instructor: A. Fagan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
In this class we will consider the role of fiction in our lives, asking how fiction helps us revise our ideas about the world around us. Questioning the relationship between truth, reality, and fiction, we will ask, what kind of arguments about the world does fiction allow writers to make? What specific tools – from plot to structure, language and voice, to length and cover pages – do works of fiction employ to help us understand their arguments? How does fiction reveal and contest competing discourses of identity and reality? In the first half of the semester, we will read several short stories accompanied by reflections on writing by the authors, and you will begin to learn methods of analyzing and writing about short stories. In the second half, we will move on to three novels – The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz – each of which will explore in varying degrees the role of the writer in society, and will help us to reconsider the place of fiction in our own lives. They will be accompanied by critical analyses, which you will use as models for developing your own critical responses to the literature.
Course work will include 2 short essays, a midterm, and a final research paper.
Section: 07W
Instructor: S. Walsh
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 273 07W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 08W
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 273 06W is a writing intensive class.
This course introduces students to a range of theories and methods for analyzing and writing about fiction. We will explore some typical definitions of fiction and discuss how various critics have tried to
distinguish between the fictional and the real. We will also review basic theories about the nature and function of narrative and become familiar with a variety of critical approaches for analyzing fictional
texts (formalist, psychological, historical, political, etc.).
Readings will include a selection of short stories in English from a variety of historical periods, two or three contemporary novels and/or short story collections, and a selection of basic, introductory essays
about fiction and narrative. Requirements will include two short critical essays, a mid-term examination, and a final 8-10 page essay.
Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 274)
Section: 073
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
This section of English 274 will approach Shakespeare's plays from cultural, theatrical, and literary viewpoints. Students will gain proficiency in analyzing such elements of drama as plot, character, theme, imagery, and verse forms. As well as reading a representative sample of the genres in which Shakespeare worked – comedy, history, tragedy, and romance, as well as some sonnets – the class will become familiar with the personal, political and theatrical world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. To understand how Shakespeare’s plays work on the stage, students will be required to attend a live performance of Richard III at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. This play contains Shakespeare’s most famous villain; we will examine it from a variety of interpretive perspectives including generic, psychoanalytic, historicist and disability studies. Richard III was published first as a tragedy and then as a history; we will study it first along with another history, Henry IV, and then along with Hamlet, Othello and King Lear, tragedies furnishing Shakespeare’s other great villains. Richard is a great deceiver, and we will consider the ways in which Shakespeare uses but modifies deception when it appears in comedy and romance, such as As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale. The primary text will be the Norton Shakespeare, second edition. Papers, midterm, final.
Please note: English Majors should take English 326, not English 274.
Chief American Writers to 1865 (ENGL 277)
Section: 074
Instructor: J. Glover
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
This course offers an overview of American writers from the colonial period to 1865. Surveying several historical periods, we will examine how selected authors contributed to the American literary tradition by reworking ideas of democracy and nationhood. We will consider a broad range of American writing from this period, from the jeremiads of English Puritan reformers to the literature of the American Revolution and Civil War. Authors included will be John Smith, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Along the way, we will explore the many diverse literary responses to the emergence of democratic ideals, with an emphasis on how early American ideas of liberty applied to women, slaves, religious dissenters, and Native Americans.
Section: 075
Instructor: V. Bell
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
This course focuses on the study of selected American writers from the earlier period. These include Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Emerson, Equiano, Dickinson, Bradstreet, Melville, Douglass, and others. In this section, we will explore the question of what counts as “American literature” and who counts as an “American author” in the earlier period. Because the United States did not exist as such for much of this period, the referent for the word “America” was more fluid and multiple than it is today. The boundaries between territories–and eventually nations–were continually contested. We will examine early literature in this context by reading authors from a wide variety of social and geographic positions in the so-called Western Hemisphere and by reading a variety of texts: letters, journals, speeches, oral literature and song, as well as fictional prose and poetry. We will also examine theories of colonial encounters, race, gender, and nationalism. Theoretical and critical readings may include work by Peter Hulme, Mary Louise Pratt, Paul Gilroy, and others. The course requires active class participation, quizzes, midterm and final exams, and two 5 page “close reading” papers that are made public to the class.
Chief American Writers 1865-Present (ENGL 278)
Section: 076
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
This course will chart the development of Modernism in American literature and culture from its emergence in the late nineteenth century to its ascendancy and dominance throughout the greater part of the twentieth. The authors we will read—among them, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Hart Crane, Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop—address the perennial American issues, but they do so within the context of a dialogue with the forces that give Modernism its distinctive character. Our first question will be historical: for these authors, what does it mean to be “Modern?” Our second question will be cultural: what does it mean to be American in the Modern period?
Section: 09W
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 278 09W is a writing intensive class.
This course examines works by a variety of important twentieth-century writers. Class discussions will address formal and thematic features of the works. Formal considerations will include narrative technique, scene structure, character development, and the way these elements express the principles of realism, regionalism, and naturalism. Thematic issues will include how gilded age writers imagine class and how gender and race complicate national identity. Students will write response papers, two papers of medium length (5-6 pages), a mid-term exam, and a longer final paper (8-10 pages). Authors will include Henry James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, and James Weldon Johnson.
Medieval Culture (ENGL 279)
Section: 077
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course will explore the medieval understanding and uses of dreams and mystical visions as exemplified in secular and religious writing. The syllabus will include such works as Chaucer’s House of Fame, Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women; the anonymous poem Pearl; selections from Julian of Norwich’s Showings; The Book of Margery Kempe; and Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies. Although some texts will be in modern English translation, many will be in the original Middle English.
The grade for the course will be based on active class participation, a mid-term exam, a final project, and a final exam.
Section: 24W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 278 24W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
African American Literature (ENGL 282)
(crosslisted with BWS 282)
Section: 078
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course will focus on the subject of ethics in relation to African American identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reading narrative, novels, essays, and poetry from a chronologically diverse set of authors, we will explore the geneses of a number of senses of racial identity, as well as continuities that emerge in the history of literary representations by African Americans. In particular, we will consider the way that the question of ethics (what is the right thing to do?) is asked, answered, and altered (sometimes one can only ask, what can I do?) in the black literary tradition. Our goal will be to attempt an understanding of how race matters—or doesn’t matter—to the ethical dilemmas posed in black literature. The course will begin with a selection of audio-visual media representations of race in America, followed by a few theoretical and historical readings on issues of racial identity. Course readings will include slave narratives, romance, naturalism, modernism, dialect literature, postmodernism, historical fiction—even science fiction—from authors including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Pauline Hopkins, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Coursework will include literary analysis papers, discussion leads, class participation, and a final exam.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: 010W
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
ENGL 282 10W is a writing intensive class.
This course serves as an introduction to the African American literary production over the past 100 years. In addition to reading and interpreting works by major black writers from the era of slavery to the contemporary present, we will also discuss the major aesthetic, intellectual, and political concerns that have collectively constituted the black literary tradition. Further, we will engage current literary scholarship about these works. Some questions we will address are: What are some major themes and concerns that have defined African-American literature? How have certain writers engaged traditional literary conventions and how have others resisted and revised them? And, where does the future of African-American literature seem to point? To help address these questions, we will examine “representative” and “non-canonical” texts from each significant African-American literary period. Students will be expected to complete two short essays (5-7 pages), weekly writing assignments, a midterm, and a final exam. This class meets the multicultural requirement.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Women in Literature (ENGL 283)
(crosslisted with WOST 283)
Section: 079
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 080
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
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Section: 081
Instructor: S. Weller
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
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Section: 11W
Instructor: B. Bouson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 283 11W is a writing intensive class.
“If women have learned many of the ways they interpret their lives from the narrative schemata of novels and stories,” writes Joanne Fry, “they can also gain from fiction new insights into the narrative processes of constructing meaning.” Crosslisted with Women’s Studies, English 283 is designed to meet the “literary knowledge and experience” requirements of the Loyola Core. Focusing on literature written by 20th century women authors, this course is designed to help students gain knowledge of women’s lives and writings; to show them the difference gender makes to the writing, reading, and interpretation of literature; to train them in the analysis of literature; and to teach them how to describe, analyze, and formulate arguments about literary texts. The authors covered will include Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison. There will be oral presentations, papers, a midterm and a final exam.
Section: 83W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
ENGL 283 83W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Introduction to Film History (ENGL 284)
Section: 082
Instructor: G. Phillips
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TBA
M 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm LECT
F 1:40 pm - 3:30 pm SCRN
The relationship of cinema to fiction and drama is studied by tracing the first half century of film history from Chaplin through Hitchcock. Representative films will be screened, but contractual agreements require that the screenings be open to class members only. The primary text will be Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema by Gene Phillips, S.J. Lectures, discussion, one term paper, midterm and final essay exams.
Section: 083
Instructor: A. Kessel
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
This course will examine the history of global cinema in its first 100 years. Film is a visual and narrative art, but it is also an industry, a technology, and a means of political and cultural expression. Our class will consider all these facets of cinema. We will view, discuss, and write about movies, movements, and film makers from many nations, including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, India, Sweden, Great Britain, and the United States. This course fulfills the Artistic Knowledge and Experience requirement in the Core Curriculum and is cross listed with International Studies.
Nature in Literature (ENGL 288)
Section: 084
Instructor: F. Allison
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
This course will examine several different ways that nature is represented in literature and what representations of literature help poets and authors to do in their works. We will focus primarily on the poetry of the British Romantic era as the moment in which nature in literature becomes the green leafiness we have come to expect. We will also read the Romantic novel Frankenstein, haikus, "The Epic of Gilgamesh," and some 20th-century poetry.
Society and Literature (ENGL 289)
Section: 085
Instructor: M. Shapiro
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
The course will focus on Coming of Age narratives—short stories, novels, and memoirs. The growth and development of a young man or woman is a major topic for literary exploration in any society, but is especially interesting in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society such as our own, where coming of age often involves challenging encounters with “others.” We will read and discuss a number of important literary works which explore this theme.
Section: 086
Instructor: E. Holliday-Karre
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA
In this course we will explore the literary and cultural society of New York City, beginning with late 19th century writers such as Fanny Fern and Mark Twain, and ending with late 20th century writers such as E.L Doctorow and Paul Auster. The course will focus on major cultural moments in the life of New York City: from realist representations of Park Avenue’s High Society to postmodern representations of the Upper West Side; from the Harlem Renaissance to the Village Beat movement. We will also look at cinematic representations of New York City from directors such as Woody Allen and Michael Patrick King. Students will be able to identify and analyze different literary forms, and explain the way these forms affect the change in representations of New York City society, both socially and spatially.
Section: 087Instructor: O. Hadziselmovic
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
Travel writing is as old as literature itself, but after decades of neglect that sub-genre is popular again, so much so that a recent Nobel-Prize winner in literature (V.S. Naipaul) has written more travel works than any other kind. This course will examine a number of travelogues by writers from various ages and from different countries. We will primarily look at the representation of societies and cultures foreign or strange to traveling writers. In addition to the obvious attractions of good travel writing (interesting information, captivating description and narration), we will look at how the travel writer’s mind and the travel narrative itself absorb and deal with the encounter with the Other. In other words, a good travelogue tells us as much about its author as it does about the land or the people under observation. Among the works we will read are those by D.H. Lawrence, J. Kerouac, T. Capote, J. Baldwin, and V.S. Naipaul. Also included will be some poetic and fictional works focusing on travel.
Section: 13W
Instructor: M. Loweth
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
ENGL 289 13W is a writing intensive class.
What better place to explore the impact of the city on literature than Chicago? What better institution to support that exploration than a university in the city? What more appropriate class for such a study than a “Society and Literature” class? In this English 289 class, you will explore the relationship between society and literature, but more specifically how the urban experience is articulated and reflected in literary form. Genres studied in this class will include short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poetry, and drama. Chicago writers were among the first to show the impact of the city on the lives of their characters. Writers like Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, James T. Farrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberrry, and Nelson Algren identified the city as a powerful force influencing attitudes, actions, values, even language. While we will do an overview of the early development of literature in the growing city, we will focus primarily on the city after the Depression of 1929..
Section: 14W
Instructor: O. Hadziselimovic
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 289 14W is a writing intensive class.
This course examines the interaction between the individual and society in a number of works, both fictional and non-fictional: novels, short stories, essays, and poems. We will study how society, often a foreign one, influences a person’s views and even shapes her or his life in significant, frequently dramatic ways, as it does in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine. We will also see how characters try to resist the pressures of their society and culture, as in Willa Cather’s novel The Professor’s House. In the first half of the course, we will concentrate on the question of identity and perception of that identity that the characters or authors grapple with when faced with society’s demands or with unfamiliar social and cultural circumstances. In the second, we will read a number of shorter works in which authors offer a wealth of insights into the societies and cultures their characters inhabit. The methodological emphasis in the course will be close reading of texts, discussion, and writing about them, both in class and outside it. As this is a writing-intensive course, students will be taught how to communicate and express themselves clearly within the discipline of literary studies and criticism.
Section: 23W
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 289 23W is a writing intensive class.
Adopting an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this course will examine the representations of society in modern and contemporary works by selected non-western writers from Africa, the West Indies, South Asia, and USA. Focusing on texts in which adolescent and young adult protagonists confront critical questions about self-identity, the course will encourage students to address similar issues in their own lives; to discern parallels between other cultures, time periods, and/or nations and their own society; and to recognize the interdependence of the world. To this end, we will consider the role of religion, tradition, nationalism, race, ethnicity, gender, and class/caste in the societies portrayed. In addition, we will analyze the cultural bases of contributing literary techniques, including structure, language, narrative focus, and characterization among others, to arrive at comparative assessments of the individual-society link depicted in modern world literature. Most importantly, the course will equip students to articulate a personal philosophy of social responsibility based on an informed and sympathetic understanding of the world. Requirements include periodic quizzes, a research paper, a final examination, and conscientious class participation.
This section of English 289: Society in Literature satisfies 3 credits of the University Core Curriculum requirements in Literary Knowledge and Experience and is offered as a Global Citizenship Learning Community course. In addition, this section of the course meets the multicultural requirement of the English major.
Human Values in Literature (ENGL 290)
Section: 089
Instructor: M. Shapiro
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
The course will focus on Coming of Age narratives—short stories, novels, and memoirs. The growth and development of a young man or woman is a major topic for literary exploration in any society, but is especially interesting in the modern world which has expanded the stage of life between childhood and adult maturity and more or less invented the phase now known as adolescence. The movement of young people toward full-fledged maturity is a complex process and creates a variety of tensions within the family. These tensions are all the more troubling when the family itself is of minority or immigrant background and is itself struggling to find its place in American society. We will read and discuss a number of important literary works which explore these issues.
Section: 090
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
British Literature I (ENGL 297)
Section: 091
Instructor: C. Kendrick
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
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We will start in the eighth century A.D., roughly (whenever Beowulf was written), and keep reading, in sundry authors and genres, till we get to the early eighteenth century (Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock). Highlights among the longer works will include Gawain and the Green Knight, The Second Shepherds Play, Thomas More’s Utopia, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta or Dr Faustus, John Milton’s Samson Agonistes, and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. We will also read a variety of shorter works (lyric poems, essays, letters). Discussions will focus on the shape of individual works and what they mean; but we should also discuss the works as “period pieces”, that is as examples of social and literary conventions in Anglo-Saxon England, for example, or the early Renaissance. The sole book for the course will be The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I (ISBN 0393925315). Two papers, four or five short exams, a midterm, and a final.
History of the English Language (ENGL 300)
Section: 092
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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This course will trace the development of English from the earliest records of its existence to its current global dominance as a postcolonial language. For each period and for a number of dialects we will study the connection between the language and the external history that influenced it as well as the unique phonology and vocabulary of each variety of the language. We will draw heavily on web-based audio resources to elucidate periodic and dialectal differences.
The grade for the course will be based on active class participation, workbook exercises, tests, a final project, and a final exam. In the final project students are encouraged to use the interpretive methods that they have learned in the course in order engage with a period, dialect, or specialized lexicon of the language that interests them or with which they have some personal experience.
Grammar: Principles & Pedagogy (ENGL 303)
Section: 63W
Instructor: C. Fitzgerald
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm -9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 303 63W is a writing intensive class.
The goal of this course is to explore English grammar not only as a list of rules and regulations that govern linguistic behavior but also as a means for students to more clearly convey their ideas in speech and writing. The rules of English grammar are not as strict as they once were, but there is still a noticeable difference between standard and substandard English. The ability to discern this difference can improve the image one projects as well as one’s career advancement. This course will examine all elements of English grammar from parts of speech and how they function in a sentence to proper punctuation and how it enhances clear and precise prose. While studying proper usage, students will discover that words commonly used in one context may not be appropriate in another. This course will also promote an appreciation for the English language and investigate techniques for utilizing language effectively in speech and writing. This course is required for students planning to teach high school English, but it is also open to others.
Section: 64W
Instructor: C. Fitzgerald
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 7:00 pm -9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 303 64W is a writing intensive class.
The goal of this course is to explore English grammar not only as a list of rules and regulations that govern linguistic behavior but also as a means for students to more clearly convey their ideas in speech and writing. The rules of English grammar are not as strict as they once were, but there is still a noticeable difference between standard and substandard English. The ability to discern this difference can improve the image one projects as well as one’s career advancement. This course will examine all elements of English grammar from parts of speech and how they function in a sentence to proper punctuation and how it enhances clear and precise prose. While studying proper usage, students will discover that words commonly used in one context may not be appropriate in another. This course will also promote an appreciation for the English language and investigate techniques for utilizing language effectively in speech and writing. This course is required for students planning to teach high school English, but it is also open to others.
Studies in Women Writers (ENGL 306)
(WOST)
Section: 093
Instructor: B. Bouson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Crosslisted with Women’s Studies, English 306 is designed to help students gain knowledge of women’s writings and to understand the ways in which women novelists use fiction to challenge inherited cultural and literary assumptions. In the course of our investigations of the structures and strategies of representative works of fiction written by 20th century women authors, we will focus on the important cultural and gender scripts and psychological dramas encoded in the works we read, paying special attention to the various ways the authors represent coming of age, the female body, romantic love, mother-child relationships, and female friendship in their works. We will also become familiar with the critical conversations and debates that surround the works we read. The authors we will cover include Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, and Nancy Mairs. There will be oral presentations, papers, a midterm and a final exam.
English 306 fulfills the historical period distribution requirement for one course in literature since 1900.
Feminism and Gender Topics (ENGL 307)
Section: 094
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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What is a feminist analysis? How does feminist theory relate to gender theory? How do feminist theory and gender theory relate to transgender theory? How do contemporary feminist and (trans)gender studies scholars understand such concepts as gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity? What difference do feminist and (trans)gender theories make to our understanding of popular culture, our lived experiences as gendered subjects, and our ability to engage in social and political change? We will attempt to answer such questions by reading books and articles in contemporary feminist, gender, and transgender theory from scholars in various disciplines: e.g., philosophers Sandra Bartky, Judith Butler, and Marilyn Frye; biologists Anne Fausto-Sterling and Joan Roughgarden; anthropologist Emily Martin; historian Michel Foucault; and literary scholar Susan Bordo. By reading novels and memoirs, and viewing films, we will also learn how to translate these theories into practice and how to produce a feminist literary or cultural analysis. Requirements include short responses to the readings, three short essays, and a longer final project. The course is designed for both English and Women's Studies majors.
Advanced Writing (ENGL 310)
Section: 17W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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ENGL 310 17W is a writing intensive class.
This course focuses on autobiography. We will discuss multiple theories and apply them to a range of written and visual texts. We will examine twentieth-century and contemporary celebrity life writing and self-portraiture. Our course is writing-intensive. Students will write several papers, with required drafts. You will also keep a journal, give a presentation, and take an exam.
Border Literature (ENGL 313)
Section: 096
Instructor: S. Bost
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
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This course will survey a range of contemporary fiction that crosses national, cultural, historical, personal, and generic borders. We will begin with an examination of the impact of national borders (the U.S./Mexico border, in particular) upon aesthetic and intellectual productions and then extend this analysis to “borders” that are more intangible. Of particular concern will be the unique ways of viewing the world from intercultural contact zones as well as the unique literary forms that writers use to represent borderland worldviews. Our readings by authors like Gloria Anzaldúa, Luis Alberto Urrea, Cormack McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michelle Cliff, and Karen Tei Yamashita will range from conventional novels to science fiction and experimental forms and will represent a variety of borderland cultures, including Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Asian American, and Afro-Caribbean.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
South Asian Literature in English (ENGL 315)
Section: 097
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
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This course examines literature in English from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Whereas the beginnings of writing in English on the Indian subcontinent date back to the mid-nineteenth century, it was the anti-colonial movement in the early- to mid-twentieth century that saw this literature come into its own; and it is the postcolonial and diasporic experiences of South Asians that have underwritten much of its excellence since then. Focusing primarily on the issues of modern-day colonization, independence and partition, decolonization, and globalization as depicted in South Asian literature in English, therefore, this course also investigates the representation of multiple nationalities, ethnicities, classes and castes, religions, linguistic traditions, gender and sexuality, and migration in the writings. In addition, the course assesses the role of the English language and the authors' locations and target audiences in determining the reception of the literature both at home and abroad; and it analyzes the cultural bases of contributing literary techniques, including structure, language, narrative focus, and characterization among others. Finally, the course addresses the disciplinary and pedagogical practices underwriting the study of South Asian literature in English in the western academy. Readings will be drawn from various literary genres as well as critical and theoretical works written by authors from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad, and resident in India, USA, UK, and Canada. Requirements include two essay examinations, two research papers, and conscientious class participation.
Please note that this course meets the multicultural and post-1900 period requirements of the English major.
The Writing of Poetry (ENGL 317)
Section: 098
Instructor: J. Wilson
3.0 credit hours Seminar
T 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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This course will introduce students to creative approaches to poetry writing. Specifically, we will explore certain poetic techniques and examine various works by ancient, modern, and contemporary authors who have enlivened the terrain of poetry. In addition to testing out the waters of your own creativity, this course will offer a space to appreciate the richness of literature more broadly. Functioning as an introductory workshop where we’ll share our own writing, over the course of the semester we will also explore how good writing—in a variety of forms—can take shape. Our class time will be spent in a several ways: whole class discussions, individual writing exercises, small group and paired collaborations, and, as the semester develops, small group workshops with your peers. By the end of the term, students will have had a wealth of hands-on experience with poetry writing, and students will turn in a final chapbook of the best work written over the course of the term.
Section: 099
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
W 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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Course description not yet available
The Writing of Fiction (ENGL 318)
Section: 100
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Seminar
T 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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Students will learn the art and craft of writing fiction in a supportive, workshop environment through (a) reading master writers; (b) writing two original stories and one revision; and (c ) having these stories discussed and critiqued by the instructor and by fellow writers. Class participation is emphasized.
Section: 607
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Chaucer (ENGL 322)
Section: 101
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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We will read The Canterbury Tales with a focus on masculinity in the Middle Ages. Chaucer's poetry should be one of the high points of the English major, but many students avoid the course or dread it because Chaucer's works are read in Middle English rather than in translation. Most students quickly see that Chaucer was a remarkable writer and that translations cannot capture the magic of his language. Learning enough Middle English to handle Chaucer's poetry takes work, but in a few weeks most students' translation skills become equal to the task. The course will focus on gender rather than on women only or on the usual battle of the sexes. We will look at the formation of masculinity in three contexts: the court (tales told by the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Manciple); the working world (tales told by the Miller, Reeve, the Pardoner), and the world of education (tales told by the Man of Law and the Prioress). We will discuss other contexts and other tales as well. Requirements include class participation; a series of quizzes, very frequent during the first four weeks, two papers (one 6-7 pages, one 8-10 pages), and a mid-term and a final examination. Texts: The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry Benson, and other readings to be announced. At Beck's Books.
British Literature: The Renaissance (ENGL 325)
Section: 102
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Seminar
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
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In this course we will study the works of selected English authors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, examining the intellectual and social contexts in which their poetry was produced as well as the literary traditions they employed and transformed.
Requirements will include participation in class discussion, papers, a midterm, and a final.
Plays of Shakespeare (ENGL 326)
Section: 103
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am -11:15 am
TBA
Representative plays chosen to illustrate the major genres, tragedy, comedy, and history, and to show stylistic and thematic development. Special attention to Shakespeare's principles of dramatic construction, to the growth of the English stage, and to the historical and social context of the plays, for which students will use The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare, second edition. Emphasis will be on the close textual analysis and on different interpretive strategies. Students will be required to attend a live performance of Richard III at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. This play contains Shakespeare’s most famous villain; we will examine it from a variety of perspectives including generic, psychoanalytic, historicist and disability studies. Richard III was published first as a tragedy and then as a history; we will accordingly study it first along with Richard II and Henry IV and then along with Hamlet, Othello and King Lear, tragedies furnishing Shakespeare’s other great villains. Richard is a great deceiver, and we will consider the ways in which Shakespeare uses but modifies deception when it appears in comedy and romance, such as As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale. The primary text will be the Norton Shakespeare, second edition. Papers, midterm, final
Section: 608
Instructor: M. Shapiro
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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The course will cover a representative sampling of 7-8 plays, chosen to illustrate early, middle, and late phases of Shakespeare’s work in comedy, history and tragedy. We will look at such matters as language, poetry, historical contexts, and sources, but there will be a consistent emphasis on the plays as texts for theatrical performance. That is to say, we will discuss stage history, look at video clips of recorded productions, perhaps arrange for optional attendance of local productions of such plays as Richard III on Navy Pier and As You Like It by Loyola’s theater department. Students will also act in one in-class workshop production of a short scene. The primary text is The Necessary Shakespeare (Pearson/Longman). There will be papers, a midterm, and a final.
Studies in the Romantic Period (ENGL 338)
Section: 104
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
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This course is a study of “enthusiasm,” and the related discourses of prophecy, inspiration, and imaginative elation, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “Enthusiasm” marked both the fondest self-representations, and the darkest fears, of romantic-era Britain, signaling at once the sublime energy of the elevated mind, and the degenerate raptures of the swinish multitude. Our subject will be the cultural products of this friction, from the anxious exultations of polite masculine privilege in the Swiss Alps, to the eruptions of Napoleonic-era prophets such as Joanna Southcott, who infamously announced that she was pregnant with Shiloh, the Second Coming of Christ, and so captivated a nation. Readings will include the usual suspects – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility), Mary and Percy Shelley (Frankenstein and “Queen Mab,” especially), Keats, Equiano, and others – as well as all the eccentricities from London’s “Radical Underworld” of visionaries, prophets, and gorgeously deranged lunatics as we can find.
British Literature: Victorian Period (ENGL 340)
Section: 105
Instructor: S. Venturino
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
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This survey of Victorian literature will consider key works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose. Our texts include the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edition, volume E, along with George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (both Norton Critical Editions). The novels will be read in a serial fashion, with installments to be discussed each week throughout the semester. The aim of the course is to develop informed approaches to many of the thematic and formal developments of Victorian literature, and explore the significant historical challenges, social concerns, and aesthetic issues faced by writers and readers alike. Assignments include brief written commentaries, two essays, and midterm and final exams. Note that the campus bookstores should have the anthology and novels packaged together as a set (less expensive), or you may buy them separately elsewhere.
Contempory Critical Theory (ENGL 354)
Section: 106
Instructor: S. Venturino
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
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In this course we will consider how several important strains of contemporary literary theory have developed, what they do in the world, and what we can do with them. Readings include critical works that have informed and established formalist, feminist, and Marxist approaches to literary analysis, as well as those associated with gender studies, cultural studies, reception theory, postcolonialism, and deconstruction. Texts include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Norton Critical Edition); Robert Dale Parker’s How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, and a custom reader of criticism, poetry, and short stories. Assignments include three short papers, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
Women in Drama (ENGL 369)
Section: 107
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
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In this course we will explore women’s multiple roles in drama and theatre: as characters, playwrights, actors, directors, critics, and audience members. We will begin by examining the construction of gender in life and on the stage (As You Like It, Cloud 9). We will examine important female characters such as those in Othello or Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and look at the ways in which they have been revised by feminist criticism, rewritten by feminist drama (Paula Vogel’s Desdemona), or interpreted by different actresses. We will also read plays by a variety of women dramatists such as Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Marsha Norman, and Suzan-Lori Parks that deal with issues of particular concern to women. Throughout the course we will consider whether or not female members of theatre audiences respond to what they see differently from men. Requirements: 2 essays (8 pages each); brief in-class writing assignments; class participation; final exam.
American Literature to 1865 (ENGL 375)
Section: 108
Instructor: J. Glover
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
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This course is a survey of American literature from the colonial period through the Civil War. It begins with narratives of discovery and settlement, and stretches to the fiction and poetry of the early national period. Our aim will be to explore the role of literature and print culture in shaping early American ideas of liberty, nationhood, and empire. Our readings will range from exploration and captivity narratives to canonical classics by Melville, Whitman, and Stowe. Topics discussed will include empire, religion and magic, revolutionary violence, slavery, and citizenship. Along the way, we will also consider the many forms of media that informed early American literature, including diaries, manuscripts, songs, spells, and tall tales.
African-American Literature (ENGL 384)
Section: 110
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
Mark A. Neal's seminal text, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and Post-Soul Aesthetics, describes a generation who "came into maturity in the age of Reaganomics and experienced the change from urban industrialism to deindustrialism, from segregation to desegregation, from essential notions of blackness to metanarratives on blackness, without any nostalgic allegiance to the past, but firmly in grasp of the existential concerns of this brave new world." (3) Neal's reference to "post soul" also demarcates an era of artistic production that has and continues to appropriate, revise, and critique the terms of racial and sexual identities and identifications, history, class, culture, and power of its preceding period, the Black Arts/Power movements. While the readings for this course will focus primarily on late 20th century and 21st century African-American literature, we will also engage other aspects of contemporary black popular culture (film, music, visual art) and critical texts that reflect upon and inform modern articulations of African-American identities. Some questions this course will consider are: How do post soul artists envision and produce new and complex formulations of race, particularly blackness? What kinds of critiques do post-soul artistic productions make of black nationalist and feminist discourses? In what ways do post soul writers re-construct, and even aestheticize, history? And finally, what is the "post" in "post soul?" Students will be expected to complete weekly writing assignments, a midterm, and a final essay. This class meet the multicultural requirement.
Advanced Seminar: Men, Masculinity, and Violence (ENGL 390)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 18W
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 390 18W is a writing intensive course.
Our readings will concentrate on the role of war in creating standards and ideas of masculinity in the twentieth century, with a related focus on concepts of gender as they affect relations between men and women in time of war. We will follow a historical chronology of twentieth-century wars that have helped to shape the national psyche, from World War I (1914-1918) through to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we survey these wars and texts written during and about them, our objectives concern history, literature, and critical theory. Our aims are to develop expanded and enriched ideas of gender as a tool for examining human behavior and its relationship to conflict and resolution; to understand how writing and reading are used to illuminate and transform the experience of war for combatants and noncombatants alike; and to explore the phenomena of trauma, shell shock, and others that reveal the impact of warfare beyond the front lines. Several short papers and one research paper, 15 pp.; for the list of texts from which readings will be chosen, please go to allenfrantzen.com. Books at Becks.
Advanced Seminar: T.S. Eliot (ENGL 390)[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 19W
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 390 19W is a writing intensive course
One of the most influential and intensely debated figures in modern literature, Eliot is known, on the one hand, for his pioneering, experimental poetry, and, on the other hand, for his later Christian work. His critical writings dominated the study of literature for half a century. In this seminar, we will study a broad range of Eliot's work (including poems, plays, and essays) in its literary and cultural contexts, as we follow his career from its early years through its major phase of "high modernism" and on to its later stages. Representative works likely to be covered include "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Tradition and the Individual Talent," The Waste Land, Four Quartets, andThe Cocktail Party.
Teaching English to Adults (ENGL 393)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 393 is permission, and variable credit agreement form]
Section: 01S
ENGL 393 01S is a service learning class.
Instructor: J. Heckman
1.0 - 3.0 credit hours Internship
MW 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Section:02S
ENGL 393 02S is a service learning class.
Instructor: J. Heckman
1.0 - 3.0 credit hours Internship
TR 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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ENGLISH 393: Teaching English to Adults Meets at the Loyola Community Literacy Center, 6576 North Sheridan Road
The literacy internship, open to all students of sophomore standing or above, is an opportunity to earn course credit (one to three hours) by joining the Loyola Community Literacy Center (LCLC) and teaching adults to learn to read and write in English. Our adult learners are both native-born and foreign-born; the latter predominate. They range in age from 18 to 70. Interns work in the LCLC individually with adult learners, one-on-one, and are assisted and supervised with all phases of tutoring. All interns new to the Center are required to attend an orientation session, to tutor one or two nights each week (one night for one credit hour, two nights for two or three credit hours), and (no matter how often you tutor) to meet with the instructor (6 p. m. on selected days) to discuss their tutoring experiences and integrate them with readings about adult literacy and second language acquisition. Interns write journal entries and papers combining research into literacy with reflections on their experience. The Literacy Center is open for tutoring Mon. to Thurs., 7:00-9:30 p.m. The orientation program is offered on three separate evenings; tutors new to the Center must attend one session. Details are available on our website at luc.edu/literacy. The first meeting of the internship is the orientation session. The orientation will take place at the Literacy Center. Please consult the schedule for dates, times and other information at the Literacy Center homepage: www.luc.edu/literacy.
Internship (ENGL 394)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 394 is permission]
Section: 092
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Internship
English 394 provides practical, on-the-job experience for English majors in adapting their writing and analytical skills to the needs of such fields as publishing, editing, and public relations. Students must have completed six courses in English and must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher before applying for an internship. Qualified second semester juniors and seniors may apply to the program. Interested students must arrange to meet with the Internship Director during the pre-registration period and must bring with them a copy of their Loyola transcript, a detailed resume (which includes the names and phone numbers of at least two references), and at least three writing samples. Students may be required to conduct part of their job search on-line and to go out on job interviews before the semester begins. Course requirements include: completion of a minimum of 120 hours of work; periodic meetings with the Internship Director; a written evaluation of job performance by the site supervisor; and a term paper, including samples of writing produced on the job.
Honors Tutorial: Literature and Globalization (ENGL 395)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 395 is permission]
Section: 20W
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 am
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ENGL 395 20W is a writing intensive course.
This course will focus on contemporary novels and films dealing with the personal, cultural, and political effects of globalization defined as a long historical process. Recent fiction in English has become increasingly transnational in terms of its geographical scope, the subjects it treats, and the kinds of experience it dramatizes. Through our analysis of some critical essays and a range of fictional texts that trace how identities are shaped in the context of travel, displacement, migration, and exile, we will explore a range of strategies contemporary writers are developing to deal with the complex effects of globalization. We will also spend some time considering how contemporary world literature in English challenges the national (i.e., British and American) categories we traditionally use to categorize the texts we study in literature courses. In our analyses of the novels we read we will consider the challenges of researching texts in English whose historical and cultural references are often non-Western. Requirements will include two short critical essays and a long final paper.
Please note that this course meets the multicultural and post-1900 period requirements of the English major.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry (ENGL 397)
Section: 21W
Instructor: J. Wilson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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ENGL 397 21W is a writing intensive course.
As an advanced writing workshop in poetry, this course will focus on different approaches to making, revising, re-thinking, and re-working our own poems. This course will be informed largely by our readings of drastically different contemporary authors, with an emphasis on contemporary women poets who are pushing the boundaries of poetics in myriad ways. Rather than narrow in on mastery, this class will attempt to unearth new methods for writing poetry befitting the complexities of our experiences—zeroing in on influence, music, formal constraints, collage, and a variety of experimental exercises. As a corollary, we’ll draw heavily from poetics statements by some of the 20th Century’s most noted and various poets.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction (ENGL 398)
Section: 22W
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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ENGL 398 22W is a writing intensive course
A fiction writing workshop for those who have already taken English 318, which builds upon concepts of fictional art and craft studied there. In a supportive workshop environment, students will write three original stories. These stories will be discussed and critiqued by the instructor and by one's fellow writers in the class. Students will also read the work of master fiction writers.
Special Studies in Literature (ENGL 399)
Section: 112
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
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Students arrange for this course on an individual basis by consulting with the director of undergraduate programs and with a faculty member who agrees to supervise the independent study. Usually students will work independently and produce a research paper, under the direction of the faculty member.
Women in Literature (ENGL 283)
Section: 205
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
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Society in Literature (ENGL 289)
Section: 62W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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ENGL 289 62W is a writing intensive course
Our themes will be "Leadership" and "Service" as they appear in and across multiple texts. This course is writing-intensive. Students will write several papers, with required drafts. You will also keep a journal, give a presentation, and take a final exam.
NOTE: All students who wish to take graduate courses must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. Pamela Caughie.
Introduction to Graduate Studies (ENGL 400)
Section: 800
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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This course introduces incoming graduate students to important issues in the profession of literary studies. It offers insights into current critical theories and methodologies as well as discussion of research techniques and bibliographic methods. Students will write weekly response papers and annotated bibliographies, will write one short paper (6-8 pp) and a longer final paper (10-12 pp). Readings will include primary works by Keats, Melville, Gilman, and Shakespeare and secondary works collected in Keesey's Contexts for Criticism. Additional readings will include Nicholls, Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, 3rd ed.and Semenza, Graduate Stud for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities.
History of Feminist Thought (ENGL 401)
Section: 801
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours
M 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
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This course will take an historical look at the development of feminist thought and at the impact of feminism on the general culture. It will be devoted to an intensive study of the various ways feminists have envisioned the harms women suffer and the remedies feminists have struggled for; and the various contributions feminists have made in a number of fields, such as literature, philosophy, and race theory. Readings span the history of modern feminism from its beginnings in the 18th century to the end of Second Wave feminism in 1970, with special emphasis given to the early decades of the 20th century, the period literary historian Thadious Davis calls “the most eventful decades of the twentieth century … especially for ethnic and racial minorities and for women.” Texts (some excerpted) include Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice From the South (1892), Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Women and Economics (1898), Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938), Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949), and Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970). We will also read articles by relevant theorists such as Fredrick Engels, J. S. Mill, Sigmund Freud, Emma Goldman, and Margaret Sanger, and view some films and documentaries, such as Rosie the Riveter (1987), Dir. Connie Field. Requirements include class participation, a mid-term examination, an oral report on a key figure or movement from the 19th or 20th century, and a seminar paper based on that report and drawing on outside research.
The Rhetorical Tradition (ENGL 408)
Section: 802
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours
MW 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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We will examine the classical foundations of rhetoric and the origins of its contested position as an art or discipline, as well as selected transformations of rhetoric into the twentieth century. In addition to looking at how rhetoric has been defined and practiced, and the cultural roles it has performed, we will consider some of the ways in which rhetorical theory has shaped literary theory, criticism, and practice. Although our coverage of the rhetorical tradition and its development cannot be comprehensive, we will try to examine issues that have been of recurrent interest, and to explore how rhetorical and literary concerns have intersected. The primary text will be the second edition of The Rhetorical Tradition, edited by Bizzell and Herzberg. Requirements will include oral reports and participation in class discussion, a 12-15 page paper, and possibly a final exam.
Textual Criticism (ENGL 413)
Section: 803
Instructor: P. Shillingsburg
3.0 credit hours
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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This course is intended to promote understanding of the practical and theoretical underpinnings of scholarly editing and textual criticism, providing students with the whys and wherefores of textuality involved in composition, revision, publishing, distribution, consumption and interpretation of (literary) texts. These activities and their strategies and consequences will be studied in a wide variety of contexts, with a view toward understanding the status, functions, and uses of scholarly editions (in print and electronic), developing abilities to perform literary criticism informed by textual criticism, and an understanding of procedures for the production of scholarly editions. It will provide training for students undertaking or intending to undertake doctoral work in which a core part will involve genetic interpretation and / or the preparation of a genetic textual study or scholarly edition. The course is designed to dovetail with the MA module in electronic publishing.
The course will survey the history of textual scholarship, explore the current debates among Anglo-American and European scholars and in other disciplines such as music, philosophy, law and psychology, and provide hands-on textual scholarship in an area of particular interest to each student, contingent upon availability of relevant materials. Delivery will be by a mixture of lecture, structured discussions, oral reports on individual projects, staged debates, various short papers and a term project. Students will need to consult their own literary research interests and survey the availability of and access to textual materials.
Media and Culture (ENGL 415)
Section: 804
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours
TR 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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This seminar will explore the relationship between new-media culture and the field of digital humanities--the use of computers in humanities research across multiple disciplines. We’ll look at the effects of digital forms of culture, social networking, virtual worlds, video games, and data processing on the theory and practice of textual studies and book history, literary interpretation, cultural studies, information and library science, fine and performing arts, film studies, creative writing, history, classical studies, as well as in fields related to humanities (now more than ever) such as sociology and communication--all linked by the shared interest in digital modes of representation and analysis and dependent on the methods and theoretical insights of computer science. We’ll also outline new interdisciplinary areas of study--such as game studies, platform studies, and media forensics--that are at the heart of digital humanities research. we’ll have guest speakers from several of these fields and will participate in special events sponsored by Loyola’s Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, such as the day conference on digitizing Shakespeare (in November). Required work for the course will be collaborative and project-based. Readings will include theoretical works by Gitelman, Hayles, Jones, Kirschenbaum, Liu, Manovich, Shillingsburg, and Unsworth, as well as existing or emerging projects in digital humanities. Watch Jones's page for a complete syllabus when it becomes available.
Seminar in Individual Authors (ENGL 433)
Section: 806
Instructor: J. Wexler
3.0 credit hours
T 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Joyce criticism has been a thriving industry since the 1920s. Each generation finds the Joyce it needs. To find ours, we will read Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. Although the primary question of the course is how these texts are being interpreted today, we will also compare current interests to those of earlier critics. Please read Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce before the semester begins to get a general picture of Joyce’s career.
Milton (ENGL 458)
Section: 807
Instructor: C. Kendrick
3.0 credit hours
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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The seminar will cover Milton’s early poetry as presented in his 1645 Poems; the great Restoration works (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes); and three of his political pamphlets (Areopagitica, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, and A Treatise of Civil Power). We will discuss the thematics of sexuality, politics, and religion, and pay special attention to matters of genre and style, in Milton's works. Texts for the course will be the Modern Library edition of Milton’s poetry and “essential prose” (ed. Kerrigan, Rumrich, and Fallon), and Lawrence Stone’s Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642.