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LAKE SHORE CAMPUS

Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 271)

Section: 052
Instructor: L. Eadie
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

In this course, students will learn to read poetry carefully and respond to it thoughtfully. We will read lyric poetry from the Renaissance to the present. Students will learn to recognize the "mechanics" of poetry, that is, the various techniques that poets use to convey meaning. They will also learn to construct sensitive and coherent interpretations of poems based on technical analysis. Requirements include several short exercises, two papers, a midterm and a final.

Section: 053
Instructor: W. Malcuit
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA

This course will introduce students to English-language poetry as it has been written by a variety of poets from the Renaissance onward, with an emphasis on lyric poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout the course we will address general issues such as genre, form and the special ways in which poetry uses language, along with particular issues related to each of the poets we read. We will conclude the semester with an in-depth examination of two American poets, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Grades will be based upon quality and quantity of classroom participation, reading quizzes, two papers, a midterm and a final.

Section: 054
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 01W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 273 01W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 055
Instructor: D. Dasher
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA

In this class we will attempt to answer some basic questions about fiction, such as: Who gets to tell stories? Who gets to hear them? How are stories constructed? through an intensive reading of both short and long mystery and horror stories; the sort of stories everybody reads and few people stop to think about. Beginning with the contemporary (Stephen King's Carrie) we will work our way backward through these intertwined genres, along the way reading such works as Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. If we have time, we will wind up with a discussion of poetic fiction in the form of traditional English and American ballads on much the same subjects as the rest of our readings. Two short (4-5 pg.) papers discussing thematic and/or structural commonalities between the readings; one long (7-8 pg.) final paper, which will have a small research component.

Section: 056
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

Course description not available.

Section:057
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 02W
Instructor: T. Pillai
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 274 02W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Note: English majors and students considering the English major should take English 326.

Section: 058
Instructor: E. Byville
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in the English canon; he is also one of the most versatile. Instead of specializing in one literary niche, Shakespeare produced masterworks in three of the dominant dramatic genres of his period (comedy, history and tragedy) and also in subcategories that are harder to define, such as tragicomedy, satire, romance and "problem plays." In this course we will read eight or nine works chosen to represent Shakespeare's exploration of dramatic conventions over the course of his career. Since this is an introductory class, however, our focus will be on the major works and on persistent themes such as family crisis, loss of identity, madness, fidelity and love. We will study the plays in several contexts, including as dramatic landmarks in literary history, as productions of the commercial theater in Elizabethan England, and as test cases for interpretive theory. In addition to occasional shorter assignments, students will write two papers and a final exam.

Note: English majors and students considering the English major should take English 326.

Section: 03W
Instructor: E. Fenton
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA

ENGL 277 03W is a writing intensive class.

This course will explore the literature of early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Readings will include Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, along with selections from various other authors.

Section: 04W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 pm - 12:20 pm
TBA

ENGL 278 04W 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, Edith Wharton, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, 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: 059
Instructor: E. Wiser
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

In this section, we'll study how race and sexuality are created, controlled, and diminished. We'll investigate how racial and sexual categories are enforced, and what happens when they are transgressed. We'll also look at sexual relationships between people, and how the entanglements of intimacy work with societal pressures to make or break relationships.

Possible texts may include Kate Chopin's The Awakening; W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; Barbara Ehrenreich's The Hearts of Men; Frances Harper's Iola Leroy; Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden; William Dean Howells's An Imperative Duty; Nella Larsen's Quicksand; Toni Morrison's Beloved; Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings; Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins; John Updike's Rabbit, Run; and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.

Section: 060
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 8:30 am - 9:45 am
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 607
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

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, naturalism, and modernism. Thematic issues will include how gilded age writers imagine class and how gender and race complicate national identity. Based on these discussions, students will write papers that use argumentative methods to defend their original and consequential interpretations of the works. 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.

Section: 061
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
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, and Parliament of Fowls; William Langland's Piers Plowman; 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.

Section: 062
Instructor: A. Bonvicini
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

This course will be an introduction to English literature from the Old to Middle English periods, c. 700-1500. We will focus on textual and visual descriptions of pained and decaying human forms, including the bodies of martyred saints, victims of the plague, and others. Readings will include Beowulf, Old English lyrics, excerpts from Malory's Morte D'Arthur and Froissart's Chronicles, selected Canterbury Tales, and some fifteenth-century drama. Required work: reading quizzes, announced and unannounced; two papers (5-6 pages each); mid-term and final exam. Students will be responsible for occasional, informal class presentations.

Section: 60W
Instructor: S. Lundeen
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 279 60W is a writing intensive class.

This course will focus on medieval English poetry and performance. Our texts will include many of the best-known works from the Old and Middle English periods, including Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as some lesser-known works. We will read primarily Modern English translations but will discuss the original language as well; most texts will be dual-language. Our focus will be on performance as a communicational exchange between author and audience. We often assume that people in the Middle Ages were private readers like us. The tradition of private reading assumes that most texts resided in the hands of the wealthy and that they had little social impact other than providing a pleasant way to pass the time. Modern ideas of performance shake up this tired way of seeing medieval vernacular poetry and illuminates the circumstances under which medieval narratives were created, experienced and circulated.

(crosslisted with BWS 282)

Section: 063
Instructor: W. Malcuit
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

This course will introduce students to African-American literature through the study of a wide variety of texts: poems, novels, short stories, personal narratives, and other non-fiction prose forms. We will read texts dating from the 18th to the 21st Centuries, with a particular emphasis upon texts produced during the 1920s (the Harlem Renaissance) and the 1960s (the Black Arts Movement). We will conclude the semester by reading contemporary authors such as Toni Morrison, Samuel R. Delany, and Octavia Butler. Issues we will engage throughout the course are the ways "race" is variously constructed in different historical moments, ways in which class, gender, and sexuality intersect with those constructions, and the ways African-American authors have embraced, rejected, or otherwise responded to the descriptive categories of "African," "American," or any combination thereof. Required work will include active classroom participation, reading quizzes, two papers, a midterm and a final.

Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

Section: 1WH
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

ENGL 282 1WHis a writing intensive class.

This course will serve as an introduction to texts produced by African-American writers from each major black literary period. We will begin by discussing the broad concept of "race" in order to gain a broader understanding of how representations of gender, sexuality, and class inform literary constructions of "blackness" and how these representations shift over historical time. We will pay special attention to the development of black subjectivity and how it is manifested through narratives of slavery, "passing," black nationalism, expatriation, etc. Readings for the course may include Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, selections from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. Because this is a writing intensive course, students should expect to complete several short critiques (1-2 pg.), several close readings assignments, a mid-term examination and a final paper.

Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

(crosslisted with WOST 283)

Section: 05W
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 283 05W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 064
Instructor: J. Bromley
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

In this course, we are going to discuss Medieval and Renaissance representations of women who get into trouble or cause trouble for others. We will be looking at various figures, including queens, adulterers, husband-killers, religious women, and cross-dressed women. We are going to look at how and why certain female figures caused so much anxiety as well as how the culture responded to them. This course will look at a number of texts from 1350 to 1660, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Book of Margery Kempe, Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women, Margaret Cavendish's Convent of Pleasure and others. In addition to discussing these texts, classroom discussion will also comprise comparing and contrasting these figures to more recent, yet similar representations of women. Significant emphasis in the grading will be placed on classroom discussion as well as short, frequent writing assignments and longer papers.

Section: 065
Instructor: T. Pearman
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 066
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 067
Instructor: G. Phillips SJ
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm & F 1:40 pm - 3:30 pm
Dumbach Hall 120 (M) & Cudahy Science 318 (F)

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: 06W
Instructor: A. Kessel
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 284 06W is a writing intensive class.

This course will travel through the history of cinema, examining film as a visual and narrative art form, as well as a technology and economic enterprise. We will study cinema from its beginnings in the silent era to the present. Films from various cultures (including Europe, Asia, and Latin America), as well as prominent American films and directors, will be explored.

Section: 07W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 288 07W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 61W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 288 61W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 09W
Instructor: O. Hadziselimovic
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 pm
TBA

ENGL 289 09W 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, memoirs, 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: 11W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

ENGL 289 11W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 12W
Instructor: S. Walsh
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA

ENGL 289 12W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 67W
Instructor: R. Sheasby
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TH 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 289 67W is a writing intensive class.

English 289, Society and Literature, will use the American Indian as a touchstone to see how different writers from varying periods viewed the original dwellers of this continent: Fenimore Cooper saw a "Noble Savage," Ken Kesey an existential hero, etc. At least three novels will be covered, plus an anthropological text, as well as a minimum of two films. Grades will be determined by four position papers, a midterm, a final, and a term paper, each worth a quarter. This course is writing intensive, and writing skills be a major part of the evaluative process.

Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

Section: 068
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 13W
Instructor: D. Zak
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 290 13W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 14W
Instructor: J. Jacobs
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA

ENGL 290 14W is a writing intensive class.

This core course will engage varied forms of literature-with a special interest in questions of value. We will practice what I call "transformative reading," reading that changes readers-reading that contrasts radically to reading for "information". Thus we will ask: What is valuable about any specific literary work? Why do we value it? In what ways do authors embody values in the fictions they create (here, we will stress the diversity of rhetorical strategies, of literary forms)? How do these creations form and inform us, their readers-change what we value and how we value it? What's the role of circumstances, those authors write into texts-as well as those that you, as reader, bring to those texts? We will explore at least one play, a history or romance or epic, selected poems, an essay or two, and a range of other pieces: short stories, fables, apologues (Johnson's RASSELAS), perhaps a Salzman novel, or one by Didion or Hemingway, perhaps a movie. Three critical papers will be required.

Section: 069
Instructor: P. Culliton
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TU 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA

Since good writing is impossible without good reading, students will look at many different texts, including contemporary single author collections and literary magazines, a book on craft, and many supplemental handouts, in order to help situate themselves with the modern and contemporary poetic climate. In addition to workshopping poems, students will also be asked to give a presentation, keep a personal anthology, participate in poetic collaborations, and attend readings throughout the semester. Some (possible) texts: Shake by Joshua Beckman, Satellite by Matthew Rohrer, Nice Hat. Thanks. by Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer, Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara, New Addresses by Kenneth Koch, the literary magazine Conduit and a craft book to be determined.

Section: 093
Instructor: B. Silesky
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TH 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA

This course helps students develop a critical understanding and appreciation of poetry (our focus will be contemporary American poetry-the very diverse poems being written and published today). Students will also gain a critical vocabulary necessary to discuss poetics with reasonable clarity and will gain practice in writing and revising poetry.
 

The Writing of Fiction (ENGL 318)

Section: 070
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Seminar
M 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: 071
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
W 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

>Section: 072
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TUTH 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA

Reading The Canterbury Tales is one of the high points of the English major. Every year students come in dreading the course only to find that Chaucer is a superb poet and that the course, although challenging, is rewarding and enjoyable. Learning Middle English takes special effort at first, but language and translation skills build up in the first few weeks, and soon you'll find that you able to handle Chaucer's language well. We'll read a good number (but not all) of the tales and will consider a variety of critical perspectives as we discuss them.

Requirements include class participation; a series of announced and unannounced quizzes; two papers (one 4-6 pages, one 8-10 pages); a mid-term and a final examination. Texts: The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson. The textbook will be ordered at Beck's only, nowhere else.

>Section: 073
Instructor: E. Wheatley
3.0 credit hours Seminar
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA

This course will trace the history of English drama from its Latin roots through the Middle Ages and into the early 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.

Section: 074
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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, Twelfth Night, 1 Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, 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 relationships between men and women, issues of race, class, and gender, and the representation of Shakespeare's plays in various media. In the McElroy Shakespeare Celebration we will explore scenes from Twelfth Night in their traditional form and as translated into American Sign Language. If possible, we will attend a performance of Troilus and Cressida or Macbeth at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Requirements: three essays (a critical essay, an essay on Shakespeare in performance, and a research paper), brief in-class tests, final exam and class participation.

Section: 075
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am

Representative plays chosen to illustrate the major genres, tragedy, comedy, history and romance, 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. Emphasis will be on the close textual analysis and on different interpretive strategies (e.g. historical, feminist, performative.) This year's McElroy Shakespeare Celebration will focus on Twelfth Night and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater is performing Troilus and Cressida; consequently, one special focus of the course will be on the relation between Shakespeare's comedies and his so-called "problem plays," Measure for Measure, All's Well that End's Well and Troilus and Cressida. The primary text will be the Norton Shakespeare. Papers, midterm, final.

Section: 076
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

This course will focus on the earlier seventeenth century (1600-1660), and examine texts in various genres (poetry, prose, and drama), with an emphasis on material not covered in English 297 or English 325. Among the topics we will consider are: the functions of literature in the culture of late Renaissance England; the relationship between the authors' aspirations as poets and as participants in political events; the relationship between the authors' gender and their literary products; and the literary, intellectual, and political contexts in which their work was produced. Requirements will include two papers, a midterm and a final.

Section: 077
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA

This course looks at the literature of the British Romantic period (roughly 1789-1832), a time of rapid, sometimes violent, political and cultural change (and resistance to that change)--revolution, empire, war, restoration, the radical reform movement, the campaign to abolish slavery, the beginnings of modern feminism. Many of the works that would later come to be seen as part of the "Romantic movement" were characterized by representations of extreme experience--gothic terror, erotic self-expression, intense sensibility; celebrations of the natural, the simple, and the primitive; the desire to transcend the boundaries of the senses, of culture, and of history. Not everything written during the period was Romantic, in this sense, and we will explore the boundaries of the critically constructed "movement" from inside and outside. Requirements include an in-class oral presentation, two critical papers, and a final exam. Watch Jones's blog for a detailed syllabus when it becomes available.

Section: 078
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

Two of the most important novels of the Victorian period, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Jane Bronte, both appeared in 1847. In this course we will examine these two novels, whose extraordinary breadth includes social, historical, political, moral and religious subjects. Our readings will include, in addition to the novels themselves, letters by Thackeray and poems by Bronte, as well as reviews, critical articles, and film and stage adaptations of both novels.

Section: 079
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA

In this course of studies we will endeavor to explore the modernists' works of Joyce, Woolfe, and Lawrence. Following on from this, we will survey the reactionary texts of the 30s; Isherwood, Auden, and Orwell. During the inter-war years of the first half of the 20th Century artists worked to develop styles and approaches to literature that were highly experimental. The 'call to action' in the 30s, largely a reaction to the economic depression, forced authors to take a political stand against the prevailing attitudes of the day. The class divisions of English society were viewed by authors as outdated, archaic, and irrelevant. The new world of industrialism left many feeling dehumanized, displaced and like pawns to the larger economic forces at work in society. Literature became for many a means to criticize the state, re-evaluate political discrimination and a way to advocate change. The works of MacLiam-Wilson, and Brian Moore analyze the Northern Irish state under British rule. The political upheaval of the early part of the 20th century spills over onto the latter part of the era, causing many to question old traditional ways of thinking.

Section: 081
Instructor: S. Venturino
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA

In this course we will consider how several important varieties 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, psychoanalytic, and Marxist approaches to literary analysis, as well as those associated with gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonialism, and deconstruction. During the semester, we will read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, some poetry and prose, and view scenes from films. Assignments include commentaries, two essays and midterm and final exams.

Section: 082
Instructor: B. Silesky
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA

This course will examine the prose poem, a form that is gaining more currency in American literature in our time. Its history and variations will be examined, from its first acknowledged appearance in 19th century France, along with other, earlier examples. Our study will particularly attend both its formal and contextual relation to verse, and to prose fiction. Students will write some prose poems based on various models, along with an academic paper, quizzes and examinations.

Section: 083
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 4:15 pm - 6:45 pm
TBA

In this course we will examine the rapid and profound social change that marked the "Jazz Age," and the ways in which literature and other cultural forms reflected and contributed to that change. We will read works by such authors as Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Nella Larsen, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Our studies will be interdisciplinary: we will cross over into music, film, and other fields in order to study the culture of the "Jazz Age" comprehensively. Topics to be discussed include, for example, the cult of the primitive, the rise of modern popular culture, the "New Woman," the Harlem Renaissance, and the relationship of jazz to these phenomena.

Section: 084
Instructor: V. Foster
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA

In this course we will read, discuss, write about, and view scenes from a variety of plays from the late-nineteeth century to the present. Dramatists will include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Beckett, Wertenbaker, Churchill, Kushner, and Parks. We will examine important dramaturgical developments such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, epic theatre, and theatre of the absurd and consider the relationship between dramaturgy and audience response. Topics for discussion will include personal, familial, social, and political relationships, questions of responsibility and the just society, and the place of theatre in society. Requirements: two eight-page research papers, brief in-class written assignments, final exam, class participation.

Section: 085
Instructor: S. Venturino
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA

How do novels teach us to organize and understand the world? How have novels offered the models, frameworks, and vocabularies for defining ourselves and our relationships with others? In this course we will read several early-twentieth-century novels to consider such questions with regard to individuals, nations, and cultures. Texts may include Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (Bedford Case Studies, 2nd ed.), Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (Norton Critical Edition), Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (Oxford), Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper Perennial), and Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories (New Directions). Assignments include commentaries, an essay, and midterm and final exams.

Section: 086
Instructor: E. Fenton
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA

Taking seriously the notion that "America" is not a single nation but rather a hemisphere encompassing many nations and peoples, this course will explore the various literatures of colonial encounter. Through readings of poetry and prose, we will consider what this place called "America" meant to different people at different times in its colonial history. The course will begin with indigenous and Spanish accounts of early colonial endeavors in the Americas--such as those produced by the Aztecs in the aftermath of Cortes's arrival in what is now Mexico City--and then move on to later, English narratives of settlement by figures such as Anne Bradstreet and Thomas Morton. We will conclude with the early American autobiographies of Ben Franklin and Olaudah Equiano.

Section: 088
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA

This course will focus on the multiple ways the black masculine body has been constructed and critiqued in 20th and 21st century American African-literature and culture. Beginning with Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and concluding with Toni Morrison's Paradise, we will examine how black masculinity has served as a simultaneous site of brutality, weakness, hypersexuality, criminality, and "cool." The course will engage a range of "texts" including, but not limited to novels, films, poetry, critical essays, and visual art. Our discussions of black masculinity will necessarily intersect contemporary discourses surrounding feminism, sexuality, and class. Requirements for the course include several short critiques (1-2 page), informal presentations, a mid-term exam, and a final paper.

Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.

Advanced Seminar: Class Acts
(ENGL 390)

[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]

Section: 14W
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA

ENGL 390 14W is a writing intensive course

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 that deals with class issues. 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 explore whether or not there is a working-class aesthetics. Reading class in literature is a matter of understanding how aesthetic taste and reading practices do not simply reflect but constitute class identity.

Texts we will likely read include selections from Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984) and Thornstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899); essays from the special issue of PMLA, "Rereading Class" (January 2000); essays by social historian Joan W. Scott, cultural critic Raymond Williams, literary scholars Rita Felski and Walter Benn Michaels, and journalists Barbara Ehrenreich and Thomas Frank. Literary works will include some of the following: novels such as Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (1905), D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913), F. S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925 ), E. C. Williams, When Washington Was in Vogue (1926), Zora Neale Hurston, Seraph on the Suwanne (1948), Ann Petry, The Street (1946), Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), or Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990); memoirs and documentary reports, such as Life as We Have Known It (1931), Orwell's The Road to Wigan Peer (1937), and Mother Knew Best (1974); and films such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Vera Drake (2004). Requirements include short writings, a 15-page seminar paper, a midterm, and an oral presentation.

[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]

Section: 15W
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

ENGL 390 15W is a writing intensive course

In this advanced seminar we'll examine video games--an increasingly significant form of cultural expression--from the perspective of the discipline of English and cultural studies, in particular applying the methods of textual studies, a way of analyzing the material production, reproduction, and reception of texts. The study of video games has only recently begun to emerge as an academic field, with its own university programs, international conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and theoretical debates. We'll learn about the field of game studies and will join its discussions of games and their place in the culture, in this case using the methods of textual studies, looking at the histories of individual games, and at the material conditions for their production and reception (or play), including platforms and versions as well as transmedia marketing (often by way of Alternate Reality Games). Our topic is the meanings of games as constructed in specific social and cultural contexts. Actual video games will be the primary objects of our attention, both play and study--games such as Myst, Halo 2, Grand Theft Auto, Bully, Adventure, Katamari Damacy, Facade, The Sims and Spore--but we'll also read theoretical works by authors such as Jerome McGann, D. F. McKenzie, Henry Jenkins, Nick Montfort, Jesper Juul, and Espen Aarseth. No particular gameplay skills or level of experience with games are required for the course. Requirements will include in-class demos, a gaming journal, and a final critical project with both written and gamelike components. Watch Jones's blog for the detailed syllabus.

[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]

Section: 16W
Instructor: J. Wexler
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

ENGL 390 16W is a writing intensive course.

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.

[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 - 9:00 pm

Section:02S

ENGL 393 02S is a service learning class.

Instructor: J. Heckman
1.0 - 3.0 credit hours Internship
TUTH 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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. 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 dates will be announced on the website; the orientations will take place at the Literacy Center. Please consult the schedule at the Literacy Center homepage.

Section: 083
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.

Section: 1WH
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA

ENGL 395 1WH is a writing intensive class.

Although Hamlet's thoughtful soliloquies are the most familiar moments from Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy, that drama generally is awash in action of the most extreme kinds. This seminar will examine a representative selection of plays from the period (by authors such as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Middleton, and Ford) that turn on murder, incest, infanticide, rape, witchcraft, and revenge, and that meditate on the possible psychology behind such deviant or criminal behavior. We will consider these plays from a variety of perspectives, including new historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and performative, and also ask how or whether Shakespeare's plays differ from those of his contemporaries. Student writing will culminate in a research paper suitable for submission as a writing sample. Required Texts: The Norton Shakespeare; English Renaissance Drama, ed. Bevington; Middleton, The Witch, ed. Schafer.

Section: 090
Instructor: V. Anderson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
F 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.

Section: 091
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TH 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.

Section: 092
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TBA
TBA

Course description not available.

WATER TOWER CAMPUS

Women in Literature (ENGL 283)

Section: 206
Instructor: S. Vinson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA

In this course we will explore representations of gender in twentieth century fiction, focusing on texts composed by female authors, including Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Toni Morrison's Paradise, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Carole Maso's The Art Lover. Throughout the course we will read novels closely and analytically, paying close attention to both style and structure in addition to literary themes and issues, with a goal of becoming more self-conscious about the strategies we use as readers and critics. Additionally, we will examine how authors investigate the function of memory in narrative creation and identity formation to complicate notions of memory as providing a truthful, singular account of history. Course assignments will include weekly response papers, two formal papers, a midterm exam, and a final exam.

Section: 62W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TH 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 290-62W is a writing intensive class.

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 and questioning their callings in life. You will write several essays and exams and keep a viewing journal.

Section: 21W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TUTH 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA

ENGL 310-21W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 22W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm


ENGL 310-22W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 63W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 310-63W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 64W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 310-64W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 65W
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Seminar
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 311-65W is a writing intensive class.

Course description not available.

Section: 626
Instructor: T. Pillai
3.0 credit hours Seminar
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 627
Instructor: TBA
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

Course description not available.

Section: 628
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TH 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.

Section: 66W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

ENGL 390-66W is a writing intensive class.

We will examine film in three ways: as an evolving field of study with important theoretical discussions and debates; as a personally and culturally situated activity; and as an changing viewing experience due to evolving technologies, like home videocassette and "DVD on Television." We will have in-class viewings and discussions. Our readings will include an anthology of film theory and a study of "fan" communities. Students will write papers, keep a journal, give an oral presentation and compose 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.

Teaching College Composition (ENGL 402)

Section: 800
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

This course will prepare you to teach college level composition. We will examine teaching activities that support the writing process. Drawing on insights from composition and rhetorical theory, we will study such topics as invention, revision and peer review. We will also address teaching methods such as supporting collaborative learning, designing effective assignments and evaluating and grading student work. We will also discuss composing in multimedia environments such as web sites and blog spots. Our class will be conducted as a workshop. Each evening we will discuss course readings and participate in in-class activities. You will write several papers and participate in peer review.

Section: 801
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours
TU 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

The central focus of this course will be on the emergence of networked public culture. The term "networked public culture" refers to the contemporary emergence of cultural forms produced online digitally through the peer-to-peer sharing and appropriation of visual, musical, and textual materials, forms that inevitably affect cultural production in the wider public sphere. Networked public culture tends to collapse traditional distinctions between production, distribution, and consumption (and between professionals and amateurs) in ways that dramatically contest more traditional notions of "culture," "originality," and the "artist." We'll begin by reading some classic texts in the history of cultural studies in the west (by Arnold, Horkheimer and Adorno, Benjamin, and Raymond Williams), and move on to read a more recent book on cultural studies (Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction, by Simon During). With these critical texts as a foundation we'll spend the rest of the semester studying visual, musical, and textual materials characteristic of networked public cultures, along with some critical and theoretical texts dealing with these new cultural forms. We'll pay particular attention to the networking of academic culture, research, and scholarship, but also to how the production, distribution, and consumption of music, creative writing, journalism, and the visual arts are being transformed by forms of cultural convergence associated with networked public culture (much of the material we will be reading, viewing, and listening to during this part of the course will be online). Requirements will include two short papers and a longer, final paper (or online project) on a topic of your own choosing.

Section: 802
Instructor: A. Frantzen
3.0 credit hours
TUTH 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
TBA

We will explore some of Chaucer's most influential poems, including The Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyde, and a variety of The Canterbury Tales, taking care to learn how Chaucer's language works on the page and sounds off of it. Rather than celebrate the latest theory buzz (which you can't avoid anyway), we study a text that played a founding role in the politics and aesthetics of the New Historicism, Hans Robert Jauss's Toward and Aesthetic of Reception (trans. 1982). Jauss will help us look at how Chaucer and his works functioned in English and American culture after the poet's death, starting with the vigorous reinterpretation of the poet's texts in the fifteenth century and extending to ninteenth- and twentieth-century attempts to create an American Chaucer. Since many people in the class will not be medievalists, this strategy will give us a chance to connect Chaucer to post-Chaucer periods that intersect with the interests of those in the class. Three papers, two shorter (7-8 pp.) and based on interpretive problems in Chaucer's work, and a longer paper (12-15 pp.) concerning Chaucer in a post-Chaucerian period. No exams or quizzes unless it becomes clear that you aren't getting the reading done in Middle English. Texts: The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson; Boitani and Mann, Cambridge Chaucer Companion (2nd ed., 2004); any translation of Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy; any text of Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen.

Section: 804
Instructor: F. Fennell
3.0 credit hours
TU 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
TBA

The topic for this course can best be captured by the phrase "breaking up the tea party." In other words, we will explore how major Victorian writers, reacting to what they perceived to be a stultified culture and an exhausted literary tradition, disrupted the conventions of their time and pushed into new territory, both in terms of what they said and how they said it.

Two major figures will anchor this study, one in prose, the other in poetry. Matthew Arnold has often been a whipping boy for modern theorists, but all too often on the basis of an uncritical and inattentive reading of him. Although Arnold began as a poet, the focus here will be on his literary and cultural criticism which we will examine in some detail, beginning with Essays in Criticism and moving through Culture and Anarchy and on to late works on religious questions such as Literature and Dogma. In order to see Arnold more clearly in his Victorian context, we will also read excerpts from the prose writings of two of his younger contemporaries, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.

The poetry to be studied in similar detail is that of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Often read as a proto-Modernist, Hopkins stylistically has more affiliations with our own time than with his. Like Arnold, the range of his thinking and experimentation disrupts us and our expectations as much as he disrupted the conventions he knew. And like Arnold we will locate him in his Victorian milieu by reading him against excerpts from other experimenters such as Swinburne and D. G. Rossetti.

Section: 805
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours
TH 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

Many intellectuals in the 1920s considered jazz, for good or ill, the representative cultural phenomenon of the era. In this course we will examine the rapid and profound social change that marked the "Jazz Age," a decade extraordinarily conscious and often critical of its own modernity. Our focus will be interdisciplinary: we will cross over into music, film, and other "high" and "low" arts in order to study the culture of the period more comprehensively, and to examine the cross-fertilization and mutual influences among fields of culture as the age of literary modernism reached its peak. We will read works by such authors as Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Nella Larsen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes as we consider such topics as, for example, the cult of the primitive, the rise of the "New Woman," the Harlem Renaissance, the development of modern popular culture, and the relationship of jazz to all of these phenomena. Work by Jazz-Age critics and by contemporary critics and cultural historians will supplement our readings.

Section: 806
Instructor: C. Castiglia
3.0 credit hours
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA

This course will examine both "high" and "low" romanticism, focusing on the conventions of romanticism as they emerged in popular genres such as crime thrillers (The Quaker City), temperance tales (Ten Nights in a Bar-room), fantasy literature (Sheppard Lee), literatures of reflection ("Reflections of a Bachelor") and sentimental literature (Uncle Tom's Cabin). From this context, we will examine the canonical romances of Hawthorne and Melville, focusing particularly on The House of the Seven Gables and Moby-Dick. Throughout our discussions, we will explore the relationships between intimacy and fantasy, democracy and embodiment. In addition, we will examine the racialization of romance in works by Martin Delany, Hannah Crafts, and Lucy Pickens. Students can expect to write 30 pages over the semester.