Fall 2007 Courses
LAKE SHORE CAMPUS
Criticism & Theory (ENGL 270)
Section: 067
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:20 pm
TBA
What's the point of reading literature? How can we do it fruitfully and responsibly? These are the two main theoretical questions we'll be asking throughout the term. Literary theory is valuable primarily as we use it to enhance our understanding of literary texts, and it is in the reading of the texts, as we apply theory to them, that any theory is tested and elaborated. Accordingly, the focus of the class will not be theory in isolation, but the application of theory to specific texts. Our main emphasis will be on contemporary theory, and we will experiment with a number of theoretical approaches, reading a representative selection of critical essays and a broad range of literary texts of different genres and historical periods.
Section: 068
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
TBA
Our course will introduce you to a range of critical theories used to discuss literature and selected visual arts. We will cover a range of theories including Reader Response, Feminism and Marxist analysis. Students will write several essays, with a required draft of each, give an oral presentation, and compose written exams.
Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 271)
Section: 01W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 01W is a writing intensive class.
In this course, we will explore a wide range of poems--with an emphasis on modern poetry. We'll work to understand how various texts are formed, and how and why they affect us the way they do--how they quite literally form and in/form us. Transformative reading will be at the center of our activity--which means that a high level of skill with English as a language is the starting point of this course. Transformative reading changes the reader. It is not reading for information understood as "stuff." So our discussions of Auden and Hayna, for example, will involve interpreting the writer's words, of course. But we will also ask how those words interpret us--what the poem helps us to see freshly in our personal experience. Students are expected to be curious and committed to becoming better readers--to ask questions and engage the teacher and each other. Students are expected to be committed to working with texts--not to being passive note takers. We will use a standard anthology of poetry plus one or two contemporary writers' recently-published books of poems. There will be three to five short papers.
Section: 02W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 am - 3:35 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 02W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 03W
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 03W is a writing intensive class.
This goal of this course is to enhance students' understanding of poetry. Through close attention to the basic elements of this art--voice, rhythm, form, language, etc.--students will develop their ability to read, enjoy, and write about poetry of various kinds. Readings for this course include poems written by over 60 authors and dating from the 16th century to the 21st. The bulk of our class time will be spent in discussion and analysis of these poems.
Section: 04W
Instructor: C. Kendrick
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 04W is a writing intensive class.
The course will be a survey of British and American poetry, especially from the Romantic movement on, especially of lyric kinds. Class discussion will generally focus on the form and sense of individual poems, and will in general be about poetic ways of meaning, and individual poets' understandings of what poetry is and what it is to do. The text for the course will be the Norton Anthology of Poetry (ISBN 0393979202). As part of the "writing-intensive" aspect of the course, there will be at least one set of individual conferences on students' writing. Two papers, four or five short exams, a midterm, and a final.
Section: 069
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Introduction to Drama (ENGL 272)
Section: 070
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
In this class we will read and discuss a variety of plays by dramatists from the Greeks to the present. Dramatists are likely to include: Sophocles or Euripides, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Williams, Beckett, Churchill, and Parks. Topics will include the relationship between text and performance, tragedy, comedy, realism, expressionism, epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, feminist drama, race, class, and gender. Discussion, videos, in-class performance, theatre trip (if possible). Requirements: class participation, three 5-page critical essays, midterm exam, final exam.
Introduction to Fiction (ENGL 273)
Section: 05W
Instructor: M. Bosco
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
ENGL 273 05W is a writing intensive class.
In this course we will look at a range of short stories and novels in order to investigate the art of fiction as well as the interpretation - and, hopefully, the enjoyment - of works of fiction. The chosen texts focus on writers and stories that try to get at questions of faith, belief/unbelief, mystery, desire, and the experience of "the divine." The texts come from diverse points of view and religious traditions (and some of no discernible tradition). Thus, the course has three objectives: first, to learn the art of reading; second, to explore the way fiction constructs a narrative language to understand the ambiguous terrain of self, community, and the mystery of religious experience; and third, to focus on critical analysis skills in quizzes, discussions, and student essays.
Section: 069
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 071
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 072
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 073
Instructor: S. Walsh
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 am - 2:15 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 274)
Section: 06W
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
ENGL 274 06W is a writing intensive class.
In this course we will study eight of Shakespeare's plays, including plays from a variety of genres--comedy, history, tragedy, romance--and from various stages of his career as a playwright. We will consider the plays in relation to the intellectual, political, and social contexts in which they were produced, the theatrical practices and conventions of the age, and Shakespeare's own development as a playwright. We will also explore ways in which the plays allow for a variety of interpretations and kinds of performance, and consider various critical approaches. Because this course is writing intensive, there will be frequent brief writing assignments, both in and out of class. Requirements will include papers, response papers, a midterm, and a final.
Section: 074
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
In this course we will study eight of Shakespeare's plays, including plays from a variety of genres--comedy, history, tragedy, romance--and from various stages of his career as a playwright. We will consider the plays in relation to the intellectual, political, and social contexts in which they were produced, the theatrical practices and conventions of the age, and Shakespeare's own development as a playwright. We will also explore ways in which the plays allow for a variety of interpretations and kinds of performance, and consider various critical approaches. Requirements will include papers, a midterm, and a final.
Section: 07W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA
ENGL 274 07W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Note: English majors should take English 326, NOT English 274.
Chief American Writers to 1865 (ENGL 277)
Section: 075
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 08W
Instructor: C. Castiglia
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 277 08W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 09W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 277 09W is a writing intensive class.
Course description not yet available
Section: 605
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Chief American Writers 1865-Present (ENGL 278)
Section: 076
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 10W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
ENGL 278 10W is a writing intensive class.
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?
Medieval Culture (ENGL 279)
Section: 077
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
African-American Literature (ENGL 282)
(crosslisted with BWS 282)
Section: 11W
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 282 11W is a writing intensive class.
This course serves as an introduction to African American literary and artistic 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 shifts and movements that have constituted the black literary tradition. Further, we will engage current literary scholarship about these works. Some questions we will address are: What is African American literature? Is it literature written by black writers or is it literature written about African-American people and communities? What are some major themes and concerns that have defined African-American literature? How have certain writers attempted to break from the notion of a "black aesthetic?" And, where does the future of African-American literature seem to point? Texts for this course may include: Frederick Douglass- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Nella Larsen- Quicksand and Passing, Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amiri Baraka- Dutchman, Ntozake Shange- for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, and Danzy Senna-Caucasia. Students should expect to complete a series of short reading responses, three 4-6 page papers, group presentations, and a final exam.
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 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 12W
Instructor: B. Bouson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 am
TBA
ENGL 283 12W 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: 607
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Introduction to Film History (ENGL 284)
Section: 080
Instructor: G. Phillips SJ
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm & F 1:40 pm - 3:30 pm
CL-318
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. Lectures, discussion, one term paper, midterm and final essay exams. Text: Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema, by Gene Phillips, S.J.
Section: 13W
Instructor: A. Kessel
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 284 13W is a writing intensive class.
This course will examine the history of global cinema from 1930-1970, considering film as a visual and narrative art form, as well as a technology and an economic enterprise. We will view, discuss, and write about movies and film makers from various nations, including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, India, Sweden, Great Britain and -- of course -- the United States.
Section: 607
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Nature in Literature (ENGL 288)
Section: 081
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 14W
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 288 14W is a writing intensive class.
In this course (for university core credit; go here for the official university statement of learning objectives and competencies) we'll study the relationship of human beings and the environment in which they function, as represented in a variety of works of British and American literature. Our focus will be on representations of "nature" in various periods of literary history and in diverse cultural contexts. We'll read a range of literary works--from pastoral poetry in the English Renaissance to ecological writing in our own time--but the focus will be on British Romantic poetry of the nineteenth century in which the natural world is imagined and in part constructed as "imagined" and "constructed." This material raises key questions about environmental, social, and political justice, and readings, class discussions, and assignments will help develop your capacity for critical thinking about these questions as well as about the texts we'll read. The required books are: William Richey and Daniel Robinson, eds. Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (New Riverside); Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview); and Gary Snyder, No Nature (Pantheon). This is a writing intensive class, so you'll produce weekly 1-page papers and take a final examination and we'll concentrate on the writing skills throughout the semester. Watch Jones's blog for the complete syllabus when it becomes available.
Society in Literature (ENGL 289)
Section: 01H
Instructor: J. Wexler
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course asks how literature constructs social identities. We will begin with theories of the effect of media representation on our ideas of the world. We will examine arguments about the construction of identity in relation to examples of British and postcolonial fiction, poetry, and film. The course will emphasize class discussion. Requirements include quizzes, papers, a mid-term exam, and a final exam.
Section: 082
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Adopting an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this section of English 289 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 focalization, 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. Authors to be studied include Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Jean Rhys (Dominica), Maxine Hong Kingston (USA), Athol Fugard (South Africa), and Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan), among others.
Requirements for 289-082 include conscientious class participation, periodic quizzes, midterm and final examinations, and a research paper.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: 083
Instructor: O. Hadziselimovic
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
This course examines the interaction between the individual and society in a number of works, both fictional and non-fictional: novels, graphic novels, travelogues, 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 or travel accounts, in which authors offer a wealth of insights into the societies and cultures they visit. The methodological emphasis in the course will be close reading of texts, discussion, and writing about them, both in class and outside it.
Section: 15W
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 289 15W is a writing intensive class.
Adopting an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this section of English 289 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 focalization, 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. Authors to be studied include Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Jean Rhys (Dominica), Maxine Hong Kingston (USA), Athol Fugard (South Africa), and Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan), among others.
Requirements for 289-15W include regular class participation, interpretive quizzes and in-class writing assignments, two research papers, and a final examination.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: 61W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 289 61W is a writing intensive class.
Course decription not yet available
Human Values in Literature (ENGL 290)
Section: 084
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 16W
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 290 16W is a writing intensive class.
Who am I? In recent centuries this question has taken on new depth and intensity as discourse about the self has come to include increased understanding of the interior life and its relationship to the external forces at work in each person's existence. In this class we will read a variety of works in which writers from a variety of periods and cultures reflect in widely differing ways about "the choice of life" that each of us is constantly engaged in. Our readings will include allegory, spiritual autobiography, poetry, and novels that explore aspects of the search for the self, in relation to society, family, work, religion, politics, and love.
History of the English Language (ENGL 300)
Section: 085
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
This course will trace the development of English from the earliest records of its existence to its current global dominance as a postcolonial language.
The grade for the course will be based on active class participation, workbook exercises, tests, a final project, and a final exam.
Grammar: Principles & Pedagogy (ENGL 303)
Section: 63W
Instructor: R. Sheasby
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 303 63W is a writing intensive class.
A study of English grammar focusing on linguistic applications such as the teaching of Standard American English to native and non-native speakers, to speakers of Ebonics, and other classroom applications. Required for students planning to teach high school English, but open to others. Students will demonstrate understanding of grammar and sentence structure sufficient to teach them.
Section: 64W
Instructor: R. Sheasby
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 303 64W is a writing intensive class.
Please see description for section 60W.
Studies in Women Writers (ENGL 306)
Section: 086
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 romantic love, mother-child relationships, and female friendship in their works, and 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, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Allison, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison. There will be oral presentations, papers, a midterm and a final exam.
Topics in Feminist and Gender Studies (ENGL 307)
(crosslisted with WOST 307)
Section: 087
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
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; and literary scholar Susan Bordo. By reading and viewing some novels, memoirs, and 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.
The Writing of Poetry (ENGL 317)
Section: 086
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
M 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 087
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
W 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
Please see description for section 086.
The Writing of Fiction (ENGL 318)
Section: 088
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Seminar
T 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
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: 608
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Forming Men and Masculinity in Medieval Europe (ENGL 320)
>Section: 088
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Here's something besides the usual "women in literature" or "women in society" course for you: a course about men. We're not replacing the traditional rhetoric of "women in X" (see the last two decades of Loyola courses for plenty of that) with "men in X," however. Instead, we will look at the processes of becoming male in three environments: the court, the university, and the craftsman's workshop. "Medieval Europe was a man's world," people like to say, but remember that not all men exercised power and influence in that world, any more than they all exercise power in our own. Although each of these three forms of masculinity had taken a traditional shape by the fourteenth century, each had been in formation for centuries. Thus our readings will begin with the early medieval period and move forward, roughly 800 to 1600. We will explore a variety of heroic texts in translation and, for a professional rather than romance view of male heroism, a manual of chivalry from the late medieval period. We will use letters and treatises as well as fiction to examine the world of the university, and laws and narrative poems to look at the world of the craftsman (also in translation). Materials from other media, especially art and architecture, will be drawn from the Web. There will be two papers and two exams. The course will use as its guide Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (2002).
British Literature - The Renaissance (ENGL 325)
Section: 089
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Course description not yet available
Plays of Shakespeare (ENGL 326)
Section: 090
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. Emphasis will be on close textual analysis and on different theoretical positions and methodologies that have been used in interpreting Shakespeare, for which the class will use Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000, ed Russ McDonald. Students will be required to attend a live performance of Cymbeline at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late tragicomic romances, and its settings both in time and space vacillate between England, Renaissance Italy and ancient Rome. We will examine the play from a variety of perspectives including generic, psychoanalytic, and cultural materialist, reading it along with the comic Twelfth Night, the "roman play" Antony and Cleopatra and the tragicomic The Tempest. The primary text will be the Norton Shakespeare. Papers, midterm, final.
Section: 608
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
In this class we will read, discuss, write about, and view scenes from nine of Shakespeare's plays, representing comedy, history play, tragedy, and tragicomedy: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Cymbeline, and The Tempest. We will consider Shakespeare's theatre, the relationship between text and performance, the varying reception of Shakespeare's plays over time, dramatic genre, and topics such as family relationships and issues of race, class, and gender. One focus of the class will be the suspected bride motif as it is worked out in comedy (Much Ado about Nothing), tragedy (Othello), and tragicomedy (Cymbeline). We will attend a performance of Cymbeline at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (required). Requirements: three essays (including a research paper), brief in-class tests, final exam, class participation.
Milton (ENGL 329)
Section: 091
Instructor: C. Kendrick
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
Studies in the Romantic Period (ENGL 338)
Section: 092
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
British Literature of the Victorian Period (ENGL 340)
Section: 093
Instructor: F. Fennell
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
In this course we will study the literature of another age, but with a view toward seeing how it offers a fascinating commentary on our own times. So many of the issues we are concerned about-sexuality equality, poverty, ecology, race relations, war as an instrument of imperial power-are issues that the Victorians, especially the Victorian novelists and poets, also cared about and wrote about, and we will uncover some hopeful and some disturbing relationships between their times and ours. Authors we will read include the Brownings, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, "George Eliot" (Marian Evans), Gerard Manley Hopkins, and others. Two papers, a midterm, and a final.
Contempory Critical Theory (ENGL 354)
Section: 094
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
This course introduces students to a range of contemporary theories about literature, literary criticism, and cultural studies. We will explore recent innovations in how we think about texts, authorship, and reading, and review a typical range of contemporary critical approaches (psychological, political, cultural, deconstructive, feminist, reader response, postcolonial, etc.). The course is designed to explore the substantive and stylistic elements of theoretical writing in the humanities and to consider different ways in which such writing informs the practice of literary and cultural analysis. Materials for this course will include a textbook on contemporary theory, some fiction and poetry, and at least one film. Requirements include 3 critical essays, a mid-term, and final.
Cultural Theory (ENGL 358)
Section: 095
Instructor: C. Castiglia
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Studies in Poetry (ENGL 362)
Section: 096
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
We will focus on several distinctive voices in modern poetry, ranging from the traditional to the experimental, from the late Nineteenth Century to nearly the present, and from writers who seem firmly canonical to some whose historical place is less certain. The reading list will depend in part on the availability of texts, but will include such poets as Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Sharon Olds, Philip Larkin, John Crowe Ransom, and Kenneth Koch.
Studies in Fiction (ENGL 372)
Section: 097
Instructor: M. Bosco
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course is an in-depth study of the author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). One of the great writers of the 20th century Catholic literary revival in America, her short stories, novels, critical essays and personal letters are still widely read and discussed today. Born into the segregated South, a woman, and a devout Roman Catholic (all strikes against her in mid-century literary circles!), O'Connor brings a unique perspective to the art of fiction. From her literary and theological training she learned to appropriate a way to write about what she calls "the movements of grace" in her characters. In this course we will do all we can to enter the aesthetic, cultural, political, and religious world of O'Connor's fiction. We will also compare O'Connor�s literary aesthetic to contemporary film. Students will be required to give a class presentation, write one page responses on chosen texts/films, and write a short (3-5) and long (8-10) paper for the course.
American Literature 1865 - 1914 (ENGL 376)
Section: 609
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
This course examines the work of selected American writers from the Civil War to World War I, paying particular attention to theories of Realism, to associated Regional forms, to literary naturalism, and to the contribution of literary works to emerging notions of "the modern." 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 Howells, Twain, Harper, Chopin, Hopkins, James, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, Chesnutt, and Gilman.
Studies in American Literature (ENGL 379)
Section: 098
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
This course examines how U.S. writers have drawn upon the literary conventions of the "pastoral" in their representations of plantation slavery. In addition to examining examples of "plantation pastoral" from the decades before and after the Civil War, this course will explore the distinct socio-political projects advanced in and through these writings. Readings will then turn to the early twentieth century and the Southern Agrarians in order to trace the remnants of plantation pastoral in the early formulations of the New Criticism. 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 Kennedy, Stowe, Page, Glasgow, Dunbar, Crane, Dixon, Faulkner, Brooks, and Warren.
Advanced Seminar: Men, Masculinity, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Warfare (ENGL 390)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 30W
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 390 30W is a writing intensive course.
This course will investigate how gender forms relationships among men, masculinity, and violence in warfare. We will begin with three texts from World War I (1914-1918), a classic: Eric Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany); an unknown jewel: William March's Company K (U.S.); and a powerful new take on the subject: Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way (Ireland). In addition, we will read some icon works, including Norman Mailer's The Nake and the Dead (World War II) and Tim O'Brien's The Things the Carried (Vietnam), and two works from from Gulf I and II (either fiction or memoirs). Apart from the reading we do as a group, each student will search out and analyze two personal accounts of wartime experience (men's or women's; published or unpublished; drawn from any of the wars we study) in order to explore connections and disjunctions between those works and the narrative(s) from the same conflict we have read in class. We want to find out how closely fictional representations match autobiographical accounts (which themselves might well have fictional components). Critical readings will include Allan Berube's Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1991), a breakthrough book on the topic. This is a course in gender theory, not queer theory, however; its focus is men of all persuasions. Just as gender-based discussions of women ought to take men into account, our discussions of men and masculinity will concern with women. We're not replacing the traditional rhetoric of "women in X" (see Loyola's course catalogues for the last two decades for plenty of that) with "men in X." There will be three papers, one short (5-6 pp.), one medium (8-9 pp.), and a longer paper using material and ideas developed for the second paper (up to 15 pp.). No exams; discussion, participation, and good research will be crucial. Readings might be revised, depending on the availability of text.
Advanced Seminar:
Writing War and Terror, Waging Peace: Contemporary Southern Asian Literature (ENGL 390)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 31W
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
ENGL 390 31W is a writing intensive course.
In the Tanner Lectures on Human Values given at Yale in 2002, Salman Rushdie confessed that "[l]ike every writer in the world, I am trying to find a way of writing after September 11, 2001, a day that has become something like a borderline . . . . because we all crossed a frontier that day, an invisible boundary between the imaginable and the unimaginable" (Step Across This Line, 2002). And in Rushdie's most recent novel, Shalimar the Clown (2005), the narrator announces, "Everywhere was now a part of everywhere else. Russia, America, London, Kashmir. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. . . . The world was no longer calm." Taking its cue from the latter observation, this Advanced Seminar will explore the politics and aesthetics of war and terror as well as peace in selected Southern Asian literature as it engages with some of the most controversial political -- and narrative -- terrain in contemporary times: the rise of religious fundamentalism, the modern-day geopolitical role of the United States vis-a-vis Southern Asia, the making of global terrorism, and the oftentimes contentious flattening of the world. We will examine the complex representations of colonial and contemporary global terror(ism) in their intersections with anti-colonial insurgency, religious fundamentalism, nationalisms, and ethnic-, race-, and gender-based identities, and of peace initiatives in writings by Rushdie (India, UK), Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan), Shyam Selvadurai (Sri Lanka), Kiran Desai (India, USA), Azar Nafisi (Iran, USA), and Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan, USA), among others. And we will read related essays by such theorists as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Guha, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Robert Young as we consider the global role of Southern Asian writings and writers in a post-9/11 world. Requirements will include conscientious class participation, oral presentations, interpretive quizzes, a midterm examination, and a seminar paper.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
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
TBA
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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
TBA
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 Commuinty 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. The range in age from 18 to 70. Interns work in the LCLC individually with adult learners and are assisted and supervised with all phases of tutoring. All interns are required to attend BOTH orientation sessions, to tutor two nights each week (for two or three hours of credit; one night for one hour), 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. Interns write journal entries and a paper combining research into literacy with reflections on their experience. We are open Mon. to Thurs., 7:00-9:30 p.m. The two-part orientation program will be given twice, with details available on our website. The first meeting of the internship is the first orientation session. The date will be announed on the website; the orientaions will take place at the Literacy Center. Please consult the schedule at the Literacy Center homepage.
Internship (ENGL 394)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 394 is permission]
Section: 101
Instructor: M. Clarke
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: Magic Realism (ENGL 395)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 395 is permission]
Section: 32W
Instructor: J. Wexler
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
The oxymoron in "Magic Realism" reflects the genre's unique combination of realistic and symbolic forms. It raises boundary issues of many kinds, including those between history and myth, empirical and non-empirical experience, objective and subjective knowledge. This course examines magic realism from its origin in Weimar Germany to contemporary postmodern and postcolonial fiction in many countries. Texts include an anthology of critical essays on magic realism and several novels. Requirements include class presentations, quizzes, and essays.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry (ENGL 397)
Section: 100
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
F 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction (ENGL 398)
Section: 101
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
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.
WATER TOWER CAMPUS
Women in Literature (ENGL 283)
(crosslisted with WOST 283)
Section: 208
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Human Values in Literature (ENGL 290)
Section: 62W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Who am I? Who and what do I want to become? What are my central desires and how can I contribute to the world in unique ways while securing personal happiness? In this EVOKE sponsored class we will address these important questions through applying theories of personal vocations and callings to a range of films that feature young people pursuing an questioning their callings in life. You will write several essays and exams and keep a viewing journal.
Chaucer (ENGL 322)
Section: 621
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Victorian Period Studies (ENGL 343)
Section: 622
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
The Victorian novel is both work of art and social document. By presenting their ideas in this "delightful and easy" form, novelists reached an enormous audience and strongly influenced the culture we live in today. In addition to reading the following novels, we will examine the biographical and historical contexts that inform the novels, and will devote some time to the theory of the novel. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, Wilkie Collins' Woman in White, Anthony Trollope's The Prime Minister, George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, and Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Assignments will consist of a mid-term, a final, and a critical paper.
Contempory Critical Theory (ENGL 354)
Section: 628
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Drawing on a range of written, visual and aural texts, we will explore important connections between literary theory, academic discourse, and everyday life in the twenty-first century. We will cover a range of theories including psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism, and Queer Theory and apply their insights to the texts we study. You will write several essays and two exams.
GRADUATE COURSES
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: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
This course has a number of interrelated aims designed to support and enhance your professional training in literary and cultural studies. It provides advanced study of some major theoretical models and critical approaches you can expect to encounter in your coursework, offers practical guidance in conceptualizing, researching, and writing critical essays and conference papers, and explores a range of contemporary disciplinary issues through a historical review of the rise of English as an academic discipline. Some time will also be devoted to the opportunities and pitfalls of online research and to strategies for using online technologies as teaching and publication tools. Texts will include some key essays on the rise of English as an academic discipline, a textbook on contemporary criticism and theory, and some materials devoted to concrete strategies for doing advanced research, incorporating and using online resources, and preparing conference papers. Requirements will include one 8-10 page critical essay and a longer final paper responding to a conference or journal special issue call for papers (this project will also involve the production of a preliminary abstract, a bibliography, and an in-class presentation during one of the final weeks of the semester). Throughout the semester our focus will be on developing successful strategies for entering the profession of literary studies.
Advanced Seminar: Class Acts (ENGL 419)
Section: 801
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Speaking for and writing about the working-class can put one in an untenable position insofar as one's daily life depends upon the invisibility of their work and because of the elusive and unstable nature of class itself. "While class is constantly being rethought vis-a-vis the social, it is generally undertheorized in terms of the literary," writes literary critic Peter Hitchcock. In this course, we will confront the ethics and the hermeneutics of reading and writing across class lines. We will analyze literature, film, and theory from the early 20th century to our contemporary era in terms of the semiotics, not just the economics, of class. We will examine the implications of various definitions of class; analyze how class is negotiated in various types of writing (fiction, memoir, journalism, theory); confront how writers attempt to deal with the discomfort of writing across class boundaries; and discuss the class-inflected history of our own discipline. Reading class in literature is a matter of understanding how aesthetic taste and reading practices do not simply reflect but constitute class identity, and a matter of understanding how class "acts" in our everyday lives.
This course will be a seminar in the strict meaning of the term: a group of advanced students studying with a professor and each doing original research and all exchanging research and ideas through reports and discussions (adapted from Webster's Ninth). This course can fulfill either a theory or a modern literature requirement. We will begin with Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1984), Barbara Herrnstein Smith's "Contingencies of Value" (Criticial Inquiry 1987), and the PMLA Special issue: "Rereading Class" (January 2000). Sample literary and filmic works (American and British) include Edith Wharton's House of Mirth (1905); Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life (1933) and the 1934 film adaptation, Dir. John Stahl; Stella Dallas (1937), Dir. King Vidor; Ann Petry, The Street (1946); Margaret Llewelyn Davies, Life as We Have Known It (1931); Virginia Woolf's Flush (1933); George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier (1937); Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1988); Vera Drake (2004), Dir. Mike Leigh.
Medieval Drama (ENGL 444)
Section: 802
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours
R 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
TBA
This course will trace the history of English drama from its Latin roots through the Middle Ages and into the sixteenth century. Readings will include examples of liturgical drama, cycle drama, saints' plays, morality plays, and humanist drama, as well as relevant literary criticism. The course will also examine each type of drama in light of the conventions and practices that governed its original production. Although some texts will be in modern English translation, many will be in the original Middle English. Requirements will include active class participation, one short essay, one oral report and a related research paper, and a final essay.
Shakespeare and Gender (ENGL 455)
Section: 803
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours
T 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
TBA
This course will focus on the dramatic construction of gender in Shakespeare's plays and examine the variety of theories and modes of inquiry used by critics over the last thirty years to analyze and explain that construction. Most feminist work has concentrated on the tragedies and comedies, including the so-called "problem plays" -- where the problems frequently arise from gender issues -- and our texts will accordingly be weighted towards those genres.
The course will take two approaches. The first will be theoretical. We will read a number of key essays in gender theory, as well as critical essays that use such theories in interpreting Shakespeare's plays. Older feminist scholarship questioned whether Shakespeare "was" or was not a feminist, and reevaluted misogynist readings of strong heroines from Cleopatra to Lady Macbeth; recent gender scholarship has added queer studies and materialist feminist criticism to psychoanalytic, generic, new historical and political analyses. The energy of feminist scholarship has also circulated into textual criticism and theatrical production.
Second, because New Historical approaches have had so much influence on recent feminist readings, we will consider the "real" history of gender in the period alongside the representations found in Shakespeare's drama, using Mendelson and Crawford's Women in Early Modern England.
English graduate students may use this course to fulfill either the requirement in theory or the requirement in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Poetry of the Romantic Period (ENGL 471)
Section: 804
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
African American Literature (ENGL 496)
Section: 806
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours
TR 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
TBA
"Post Soul Subjects: Re-writing Blackness in Contemporary American Literature and Culture"
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 and limits of racial and sexual identities and identifications, history, class, culture, and power of its preceding periods, the Civil Rights and 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, television) 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?" "Texts" for this course may include: Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle, Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta, Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days, Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam, "The Chappelle Show," and Dave Chappelle's "Block Party." Our readings will also include critical and theoretical selections by Fred Moten, Michelle Wright, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, S. Craig Watkins, Theodor Adorno, William Jelani Cobb, Todd Boyd, Frederic Jameson, Tricia Rose, among others. Students should expect to complete a series of short reading responses, a precis, an annotated bibliography, an article-length paper. Students will also facilitate class discussion of a theoretical/critical essay