SPRING 2009 COURSES
LAKE SHORE CAMPUS
Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 271)
Section: 01W
Instructor: D Chinitz
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 01W 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. The bulk of our class time will be spent in discussion and analysis of these poems. Assignments will include writing exercises and short essays, reading quizzes, and midterm and final exams.
Section: 02W
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 271 02W is a writing intensive class.
Why should we care about poetry – and how should we care about it? And why do the answers to these two questions seem so similar? We'll start historically – who before us cared about poetry, and why? We'll study the pressure poems put on their historical moment, and how they're shaped by it in surprising ways: for example, our discussion of Beowulf will start, not with the Anglo-Saxons, but with the Victorians, who invented "Anglo-Saxon" literature in part to reinforce their own imperial representations of nation and race. Most of the authors in our anthology were white, male, and rich – how has literature been used to promote a series of questions and assumptions that they may have shared (sometimes called "the canon"), and how has it, even in these same authors, blown apart all the stereotypes and orthodoxies we'd expect to find? Beginning with Old English and moving past World War I, we'll watch the invention not only of English (and then British) culture, but of the English language itself, its twists and triumphs, detours and degenerations – and most importantly, we'll watch as language, especially literary language, is fashioned into the greatest vehicle of social (as well as aesthetic) contest.
Section: 054
Instructor: N. Kalich
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 8:15 am - 9:05 am
TBA
This course will focus on gaining an understanding and familiarity with both the content of individual poems, as well as the importance of form in poetry. The text for this course contains a variety of poems from a wide array of time periods. Therefore, students will be exposed to poetic tradition and the immense diversity within this literary art form. While the course will cover an expanse of time, there will also be a concentrated study on the Romantic and Modernist poetry movements later in the course, in order to expose students to the conventions of particular movements in poetry. There will be 3 short essays assigned, as well as a Midterm and Final Exam. Engagement with the material and in-class participation is required.
Section: 055
Instructor: L. Janowski
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Introduction to Drama (ENGL 272)
Section: 056
Instructor: A. Bonvicini
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
This course will examine the behaviors of families when they are confronted with catastrophes, disappointments, new possibilities, and uncertain futures. To this end, we will read dramatic texts that depict families tearing themselves apart, binding themselves together, and slowly becoming metaphors for the nation as a whole. The semester will be divided into three units: "Family Units (Real and Imagined)," "Husbands and Wives," and "Parents and Children/Children and Parents." The readings will include the following plays, available at the Loyola bookstore: Long Day's Journey into Night, Henry V, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers, Medea, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, King Lear, Death of a Salesman, and Hamlet. We will also take some time to view Todd Solondz's film Happiness (1998) during the first half of the term, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom (2001) during the second half of the term. Requirements will include a short paper (2-3 pages), a longer paper later in the term (4-5 pages), and mid-term and final examinations.
Section: 057
Instructor: L. Goldstein
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 am - 2:15 pm
TBA
This course focuses on the understanding, appreciation, and criticism of drama; extensive readings and several critical analyses are required.
We will study the function of dramatic devices in both a traditional and a modern sense. We will discuss the original dynamic of the public theater as well as the devices developed in ancient times, but then consider the challenges of a contemporary context and how many playwrights have reinterpreted traditions. As plays are meant to affirm or challenge popular notions of what is socially acceptable, some of the plays and films deal with such issues as class, race, nationality and sexuality. We will be reading plays and criticism from Ancient Greece, Renaissance England, and both early and late 20th United States, including film.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of drama's ability to express the deepest and most complex feelings and concerns of human beings as individuals, as family members, and as members of society: the individual's place in the universe, in relation to others, and in relation to the socio-political system that he or she inhabits. Students will also be able to demonstrate understanding of how plays are constructed in different ways to serve different purposes.
Introduction to Fiction (ENGL 273)
Section: 03W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
ENGL 273 03W is a writing intensive class.
This course is an introduction to structure and designs of prose fiction (short stories and novels). In this module we will concentrate on the process of reading and interpretation of literature (student-reader responses). A selection of short stories, accompanied by longer novels, will provide the basis of our investigation. We will analyze and discuss the style, structure, and themes within each of these works, focusing on the technical language and philosophical interpretation of literary criticism. Writers to be discussed are: James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, Oscar Wilde, Carson McCullers and Herman Melville.
Section: 04W
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
TBA
ENGL 273 - 04W is a writing intensive class
This course is an introduction to structure and designs of prose fiction (short stories and novels). In this module we will concentrate on the process of reading and interpretation of literature (student-reader responses). A selection of short stories, accompanied by longer novels, will provide the basis of our investigation. We will analyze and discuss the style, structure, and themes within each of these works, focusing on the technical language and philosophical interpretation of literary criticism. Writers to be discussed are: James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, Oscar Wilde, Carson McCullers and Herman Melville.
Section: 059
Instructor: S. Nassar
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 05W
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 273 - 05W is a writing intensive class
This course introduces students to a range of theories and methods for analyzing and writing about fiction. We will explore some typical definitions of fiction and discuss how various critics have tried to distinguish between the fictional and the real. We will also review basic theories about the nature and function of narrative and become familiar with a variety of critical approaches for analyzing fictional texts (formalist, psychological, historical, political, etc.). Readings will include a selection of short stories in English from a variety of historical periods, two or three contemporary novels and/or short story collections, and a selection of basic, introductory essays about fiction and narrative. Requirements will include two short critical essays, a mid-term examination, and a final 8-10 page essay.
Section: 060
Instructor: P. Jay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 am - 3:45 pm
TBA
This course introduces students to a range of theories and methods for analyzing and writing about fiction. We will explore some typical definitions of fiction and discuss how various critics have tried to distinguish between the fictional and the real. We will also review basic theories about the nature and function of narrative and become familiar with a variety of critical approaches for analyzing fictional texts (formalist, psychological, historical, political, etc.). Readings will include a selection of short stories in English from a variety of historical periods, two or three contemporary novels and/or short story collections, and a selection of basic, introductory essays about fiction and narrative. Requirements will include two short critical essays, a mid-term examination, and a final 8-10 page essay.
Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 274)
Section: 061
Instructor: C. Nicolay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
In this course, we'll examine eight of Shakespeare's plays in their original historical context, as cultural artifacts, and as dramatic texts that are still being renewed and reinterpreted in the twenty-first century. We'll also watch scenes and compare interpretations from various productions and screen one play in its entirety: Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film production of Much Ado About Nothing.
Requirements will include frequent in-class writing assignments, 2 short response papers, and a final exam.
Section: 06W
Instructor: T. Pillai
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 07W
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
This section of English 274 will approach Shakespeare's plays from cultural, theatrical, and literary viewpoints. Students will gain proficiency in analyzing such elements of drama as plot, character, theme, imagery, and verse forms. As well as reading a representative sample of the dramatic genres in which Shakespeare worked – comedy, history, tragedy, and romance – the class will become familiar with the personal, political and theatrical world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. To understand how Shakespeare's plays work on the stage, we will attend a performance of Macbeth at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier and will see extracts from videos of the plays.
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. Students will also be required to attend the McElroy Shakespeare Celebration.
Please note: English majors should take English 326, not English 274.
Chief American Writers to 1865 (ENGL 277)
Section: 062
Instructor: V. Bell
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
This course focuses on the study of selected American writers from the earlier period. These may include Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca, Thoreau, Equiano, Dickinson, Bradstreet, Melville, Douglass, and others. In this section, we will explore the question of what counts as "American literature" and who counts as an "American author" in the earlier period. We will examine theories of colonial encounters, race, gender, and nationalism in relation to literature from the period. Theoretical and critical readings may include work by Eric Cheyfitz, Mary Louise Pratt, Paul Gilroy, and others. Students will learn about the history of literary production and how writers moved generally from non-fiction to fiction and poetry forms. The course requires active class participation, midterm and final exams, and writing assignments that are made public to the class.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Chief American Writers 1865-Present (ENGL 278)
Section: 08W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Course description not yet available
Section: 09W
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 278 09W is a writing intensive class.
This course examines works by a variety of important twentieth-century writers. Class discussions will address formal and thematic features of the works. Formal considerations will include narrative technique, scene structure, character development, and the way these elements express the principles of realism, regionalism, and naturalism. Thematic issues will include how gilded age writers imagine class and how gender and race complicate national identity. Students will write response papers, two papers of medium length (5-6 pages), a mid-term exam, and a longer final paper (8-10 pages). Authors will include Henry James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, and James Weldon Johnson.
Section: 605
Instructor: J. Sitar
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
This course focuses on the study of fiction, poetry and drama produced in America from 1865 to the present. Through a comparative analysis of texts from different historical periods by writers from a variety of
backgrounds, the course will explore how literature deals with the intersection of individual subjectivity and national identity. It will also foster an ability to evaluate how literature both embodies, and reflects on, social, cultural, and historical change. The course will also pay some attention to understanding the creative process by examining how various literary works are constructed in aesthetic terms. Students in this course will learn a basic critical vocabulary for analyzing, describing, discussing, and developing oral and written arguments about American literary texts. The course will also focus on how multiple interpretations of literary works are possible, and how differing interpretations reflect particular cultural and historical conditions that change over time.
Section: 60W
Instructor: S. Bost
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 278 60W is a writing intensive class.
This course will focus on three central and related questions: What has American literature looked like across the historical period of 1865 to the present? What makes some writers of this period count as "chief"? How does the work of a "chief" writer represent the culture(s) we think of as American? In answering these questions, we will examine a variety of writings representing different cultures, different genres, and different historical moments, ranging from folk tales to Henry James's novella Daisy Miller, from the stories of Louisa May Alcott to the political essays of José Martí, from the Modernist poetry of T.S. Eliot to blues lyrics, from stories of Chinese immigration to postmodern experimentation.
Medieval Culture (ENGL 279)
Section: 10W
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 279-10W is a writing intensive class
Medieval masculinities: visions and variations on a theme
In this class we will be reading selected narratives and then watching film versions of these same narratives that dramatize ideals of men and masculinities during the medieval period. The ideal of the warrior-hero (Beowulf, for example) transforms into versions of the chivalric ideal, the knightly hero who can be found in the context of Arthurian romance (Lancelot, Tristan and Gawain, for example). We will investigate the way in which these written narratives transform into contemporary visualizations of medieval ideals, whether Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac or Hollywood’s First Knight; we can trace the way in which these ideals, these masculinities, have been historically and culturally constructed and yet have been translated into contemporary cultural currency. This class is writing intensive; there will be regular short response papers to movies and readings, as well as several short papers and a longer final paper or project.
Section: 61W
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 279-61W is a writing intensive class
Medieval masculinities: visions and variations on a theme
In this class we will be reading selected narratives and then watching film versions of these same narratives that dramatize ideals of men and masculinities during the medieval period. The ideal of the warrior-hero (Beowulf, for example) transforms into versions of the chivalric ideal, the knightly hero who can be found in the context of Arthurian romance (Lancelot, Tristan and Gawain, for example). We will investigate the way in which these written narratives transform into contemporary visualizations of medieval ideals, whether Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac or Hollywood’s First Knight; we can trace the way in which these ideals, these masculinities, have been historically and culturally constructed and yet have been translated into contemporary cultural currency. This class is writing intensive; there will be regular short response papers to movies and readings, as well as several short papers and a longer final paper or project.
African-American Literature (ENGL 282)
(crosslisted with BWS 282)
Section: 063
Instructor: W. Cheney
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
Surveying African-American literature from its earliest examples to its contemporary forms, this course considers genres ranging from poetry and slave narratives to essays and fiction. Authors will include Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Amiri Baraka, and Tayari Jones among others. The chief objective of this course is to improve students' abilities as readers of literature. Topics to be addressed include the varied responses to slavery, the shift in concern from racial slavery to racial identity, the role of gender difference within racial categories, and the exploration of alternatives to race as categories of identity.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: 064
Instructor: W. Malcuit
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 12:35 pm - 1:25 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). 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.
Section: 065
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). 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.
Women in Literature (ENGL 283)
(crosslisted with WOST 283)
Section: 066
Instructor: C. Nicolay
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
In this course, we'll examine works by several very different women authors: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Toni Morrison's Sula, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth. We'll also screen Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding. Despite their various perspectives, these writers (and filmmaker) all think about women in social and historical context. Some of the questions we'll discuss in this class include: How and why do societies exert control over women? How are women's roles in our society different from men's? Why? How have women's roles changed in Western society?
Requirements will include frequent in-class writing assignments, 2 short response papers, and a final exam.
Section: 067Instructor: H. Cramond
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Women in Literature examines literature by and about women, exploring what "women" can mean and how literature contributes to that discussion through various textual forms and strategies. Questions of race, class, and empire that are bound up with this construct will also be explored. Course texts include longer works by Virginia Woolf, William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, and Marjan Satrapi; shorter works by a range of authors including Jamaica Kincaid and T. S. Eliot; as well as theoretical, critical and historical texts. Assignments include response papers and two longer essays.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: 068
Instructor: L. Brown
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
This course focuses on the representation of women in literature, as discussed in a variety of literary works. We will read both poetry and fiction, beginning with texts from the mid-19th century and ending with a selection of contemporary literary works. We will discuss the changing representations of women in literature over time, and we will read some feminist texts in order to understand the historical and political context of our readings.
Section: 069 This course beings with the assertion that the problems and concerns that sparked "women's liberation" in the 1910s and 20s and "the sexual revolution" of the 1960s and 70s have not been solved. Crosslisted with Women's Studies, English 283 fulfills the "literary knowledge and experience" requirements of the Loyola Core. Focusing on literature written by contemporary women authors, this course is designed to both teach students about how gender affects literature (and the literary imagination) and to train them to analyze and make arguments about literary texts. Some of the authors under study include Maxine Hong Kingston, Michelle Cliff, Kiran Desai, and some contemporary "slam" poets. Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Instructor: E. Chu
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
Section: 11W
Instructor: S. Weller
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 283-11W is a writing intensive class
When we want to know about how women perceive the world around them, their communities, their language, their politics and passions, their lives, a foundational place to start is literature—the space where ideas and details paint a bird's-eye-view of the human experience. And while fiction and poetry create a stunningly sentient record and vivid imagining, I believe it is memoir where women writers face the slippery truth of their own lived experience, and attempt to find meaning therein. It is where they grapple with the memories of events and relationships that molded them into the writers and women they are, and where they wrestle with poetic reflection on the effect of these struggles. In this course we will read a selection of creative non-fiction memoirs by a wide range of contemporary women writers including Maxine Hong Kingston, Eva Hoffman, Patricia Hampl, Mary Karr, Marjane Satrapi, among others. 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.
Introduction to Film History (ENGL 284)
Section: 069
Instructor: G. Phillips SJ
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TBA
M 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm LECT
F 1:40 pm - 3:30 pm SCRN
The relationship of cinema to fiction and drama is studied by tracing the first half century of film history from Chaplin through Hitchcock. Representative films will be screened, but contractual agreements require that the screenings be open to class members only. The primary text will be Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema by Gene Phillips, S.J. Lectures, discussion, one term paper, midterm and final essay exams.
Section: 12W
Instructor: A. Kessel
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
CL-318
ENGL 284 12W 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.
Nature in Literature (ENGL 288)
Section: 071
Instructor: F. Allison
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
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Course description not yet available
Section: 13W
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 288 13W is a writing intensive class.
In this course (for university core credit) we'll study the cultural history of the relationship of people and the environment, as represented in a variety of works of British literature during a crucial period of literary history—the Romantic period of 1789-1832. Poetic and narrative works on consciousness, imagination, art, technology, on human speciation and the very idea of "Nature" in the modern sense, will raise key questions about the historical roots of our own concern with environmental, social, and political justice, for example, as well as questions about the social and "natural" contexts of literary art and representation. The class is writing intensive, and you'll keep a weekly blog on your readings and connections to current events. See Jones's web pages for the complete syllabus and readings.
Section: 62W
Instructor: M. DeLancey
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 288 62W is a writing intensive class.
We will treat the idea of “Nature” in the broadest possible sense, as that which is other than us, and we will be reading texts that provide the widest possible historical range of attitudes toward it, discussing them in the historical sequence in which they occur. The syllabus will include the following texts: the Bhagavad Gita; Plato’s Phaedrus; the Book of Job from the Old Testament; St. Paul’s Epistles; Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; a selection of poems by William Wordsworth; Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Society and Literature (ENGL 289)
Section: 072
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
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Course description not yet available
Section: 093
Instructor: T. Boyle
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 10:25 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course of studies will center on Irish society in literature. Since the late 19th Century to the present day, Irish writers have sought to reflect, critique and examine significant changes; increasing secularization, economic prosperity and political shifts in power, in their works. In just over a century the cultural landscape of Irish society has changed dramatically. We will explore how these writers respond to these developments. In particular we will analyze how religion has played a part in informing the imagination of Irish authors.
Section: W14
Instructor: O. Hadziselmovic
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 9:20 am - 10:10 am
TBA
ENGL 289-14W is a writing intensive class
This course examines the interaction between the individual and society in a number of works, both fictional and non-fictional: novels, 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.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Section: W15
Instructor: S. Walsh
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 289-15W is a writing intensive class
Course description not yet available
Human Values in Literature (ENGL 290)
Section: 074
Instructor: A. Higl
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
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In this course we will examine literary representations of and explorations of human values in extreme situations (i.e. life, death, and afterlife). How are values defined within the literary works we read? How do they manifest in these works through various characters, themes, and forms? How do these values both reflect and affect the values of the cultures in which the works were produced and in our own culture? We will read several poems, plays, and novels from a range of historical periods, including the medieval dream-vision poem Pearl, the play Everyman, Dante's Inferno, Shelley's Frankenstein, and Huxley's A Brave New World ( texts subject to adjustment before the beginning of the term). There will be two exams (midterm and final) and three papers (with an option for a creative project in place of the final paper) on various texts and topics.
Section: 16W
Instructor: J. Jacobs
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 2:45 pm - 3:35 pm
TBA
ENGL 290-16W is a writing intensive class
This course is appropriately titled Human Values in Literature, since literature without "human values" is impossible to conceive. However, the interesting artistic questions have to do with how these values are embodied in literary works--the enormous range of strategies writers use to probe values, the value of literature itself included. To explore these questions we will read a range of works--various poems, a narrative pseudo-history from the high middle ages, a late-twentieth century novel, a play, varied shorter texts from fables to conventional short stories. It is the art of inquiry--pluralistic exploration of issues--which will be at the core of this section. The teacher will not use the course either to promote or denigrate any doctrine: religious, economic, cultural, etc. There will be three major papers, a mid-term and Final.
South Asian Literature & Civilizations (ENGL 292)
Section: 075
Instructors: H. Mann (English) & T. Pintchman (Theology)
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
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This course offers an introduction to South Asian literatures and civilizations, spanning from what we know of the earliest peoples to contemporary times. Attention is given to both unity and diversity across the South Asian sub-continent. Topics addressed include religious thought and practice, literature, civilizational origins and development, the establishment of social institutions, artistic achievements, and modern challenges.
The course will fulfill two of the designated Core learning outcomes: literary knowledge and experience, and theological and religious studies knowledge. And it will also engage the required Core skill and value Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions. Finally, the course will meet the multicultural requirement of the English major.
Readings for the course include literary texts such as Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable, Raja Rao's Kanthapura, and R. K. Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma; and history and civilizational texts, including Barbara and Thomas Metcalf's A Concise History of India, Ainslie Embree and Stephen Hay's Sources of Indian Tradition, and Partha Mitter's Indian Art. Class requirements include regular attendance as well as film viewings, and response papers, quizzes, and a midterm and final examination.
Note: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Studies in World Literature (ENGL 312)
Section: 076
Instructor: H. Mann
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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Adopting an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this course will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches to the study of world literatures in English, with particular attention to the issues of modern-day colonization and decolonization as experienced in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Drawing on the work of leading postcolonial theorists like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Paul Gilroy, we will study the literary writings of E. M. Forster (UK), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Jean Rhys (Dominica), and Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka) among others. Discussion and research will center on such topics as colonial and postcolonial discourse, race, religion, nationalism, third world feminism, hybridity, diaspora, and globalization. Requirements include two papers, a midterm, and a final examination.
The Writing of Poetry (ENGL 317)
Section: 077
Instructor: J. Wilson
3.0 credit hours Seminar
M 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
This course will introduce students to creative approaches to poetry writing. Specifically, we will explore certain poetic techniques and examine various works by ancient, modern, and contemporary authors who have enlivened the terrain of poetry. In addition to testing out the waters of your own creativity, this course will offer a space to appreciate the richness of literature more broadly. Functioning as an introductory workshop where we'll share our own writing, over the course of the semester we will also explore how good writing—in a variety of forms—can take shape. Our class time will be spent in a several ways: whole class discussions, individual writing exercises, small group and paired collaborations, and, as the semester develops, small group workshops with your peers. By the end of the term, students will have had a wealth of hands-on experience with poetry writing, and students will turn in a final chapbook of the best work written over the course of the term.
The Writing of Fiction (ENGL 318)
Section: 078
Instructor: C. Sneed
3.0 credit hours Seminar
M 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
English 318 is a course designed to familiarize you with the vocabulary and practices of the fiction-writing workshop. By learning writing terminology and taking part in workshop discussions, you will be able to critique the work of your peers in a constructive manner and receive feedback on your own work. Together we will read and discuss published fiction writers to make a close study of contemporary writing as well as learn to identify and evaluate the elements of craft employed in these stories.
During the upcoming term, we will study and practice the elements of short fiction writing, including point of view, character development, dialogue, setting, tone, voice, imagery, figurative language, pacing, effective beginnings and endings, narrative structure.
Section: 079
Instructor: C. Sneed
3.0 credit hours Seminar
W 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
English 318 is a course designed to familiarize you with the vocabulary and practices of the fiction-writing workshop. By learning writing terminology and taking part in workshop discussions, you will be able to critique the work of your peers in a constructive manner and receive feedback on your own work. Together we will read and discuss published fiction writers to make a close study of contemporary writing as well as learn to identify and evaluate the elements of craft employed in these stories.
During the upcoming term, we will study and practice the elements of short fiction writing, including point of view, character development, dialogue, setting, tone, voice, imagery, figurative language, pacing, effective beginnings and endings, narrative structure.
Studies in medieval literature (ENGL 323)
Section: 080
Instructor: J. Ash
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
Men in love
Stories of the wild and dramatic passions that obsessed famous — or infamous — lovers such as Tristan and Isolde, Lancelot and Guinevere, or even Abelard and Heloise, with often disastrous or deadly results, continue to ignite the imagination of contemporary readers, even contemporary writers and film-makers. Perhaps we think that these passions are remote, being the stuff of myth or legend, or the stuff of “courtly love” quite removed from our own historical moment. We will be reading narratives of heroes and superheroes apparently desperately in love — Tristan and Isolde, Lancelot and Guinevere, for example. We may imagine that medieval heroes and superheroes in love will be “knights in shining armor” who must fight for and rescue “damsels in distress.” But there is much more than this. We will explore other textual examples that speak to us of passions and desires sometimes poetically, elegantly, other times brutally, crudely, more concerned with the immediate, the momentary pleasures of the body. We will engage with these texts in order to explore the experience and expression of desire, passion, pleasure, perhaps longing and loss. We will investigate the importance of the object of love and desire, the function of the beloved other to the lover, the man in love; but always, there is the matter of the body in the matter of desire. In terms of assessment, there will be several short papers and a longer final paper or project.
Plays of Shakespeare (ENGL 326)
Section: 081
Instructor: S. Gossett
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Representative plays chosen to illustrate the major genres, tragedy, comedy, and history, and to show stylistic and thematic development. Special attention to Shakespeare's principles of dramatic construction, to the growth of the English stage, and to the historical and social context of the plays, for which students will use The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare, Second Edition. Emphasis will be on the close textual analysis and on different interpretive strategies (e.g. historicist, feminist, performative.) Students will be required to attend a live performance of Macbeth at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. We will examine this tragedy from a variety of perspectives including generic, psychoanalytic, feminist and cultural materialist. Students will have an opportunity to do a short project on one of the many rewritings and restagings of the play, including films. This year's McElroy Shakespeare Celebration will focus on "Shakespeare, the Musical" and consequently, another special focus of the course will be on later adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. The primary text will be the Norton Shakespeare. Papers, midterm, final.
Section: 609
Instructor: T. Pillai
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
"To the Last Syllable of Recorded Time": Shakespeare and Futurity
The past, which manifests itself in forms as diverse as history, memory, and nostalgia, has for long been held by Renaissance scholars as a vital presence in the plays of Shakespeare. The future, on the other hand, remains marginalized in the discussions of Shakespearean literature and often is addressed only in the context of the plays' conclusions, where marriages or deaths implicate the time that is to come. But futurity is rampant throughout Shakespeare's texts, and his characters spend much of their time (and lines) on stage planning, dreading, awaiting, even appropriating the future course of events. Indeed, futurity is the driving force that inspires much of the action in the drama.
Our course will trace the intricate workings of futurity as represented in nine plays of Shakespeare. We will study a range of comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances, and will focus specifically on the ways in which the future is constructed in these texts through biological and political means. Often bodies and politics intertwine in the drama in a complex network of desires that leads to conflicts among characters. In these clashes futures are at stake, but so are characters' imaginations of the future. As the plays reveal, the battlegrounds of futurity are diverse, encompassing the womb, the tavern, and the grave as viable spaces for generating, contemplating, and manipulating what will be the future.
Each student will write two essays, make a presentation on an assigned topic, and possibly take a final examination. There may also be three pop quizzes. Extra credit, if offered, will involve student performances.
Studies in Medieval Literature (ENGL 328)
Section: 082
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
TBA
Studies in the Renaissance. James Biester. 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.
British Literature: Romantic Period (ENGL 335)
Section: 083
Instructor: S. Jones
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 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, a two-stage critical writing project, and a final exam. Books: The Longman Anthology of British Literature vol. 2A and Frankenstein (Broadview). See Jones's web pages for the complete syllabus.
Studies in Victorian Literature (ENGL 343)
Section: 084
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
Studies in the Victorian Period: Novels of Mystery, Horror and Sensation
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 novels listed below, we will examine the biographical and historical contexts that inform the novels, and will devote some time to the theory of the novel. We will read Charlotte Brontë's Villette, Charles Dickens' Bleak House, Wilkie Collins' Moonstone, Ellen Wood's East Lynne, and Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas.
Studies in Modernism (ENGL 344)
Section: 085
Instructor: P. Caughie
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
Modernism as an aesthetic and intellectual movement of the interwar period had long been defined in terms of key male figures, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce. In the 1970s and 80s, feminist critics challenged definitions of modernism based primarily on male-authored texts. In The Gender of Modernism, for example, Bonnie Kime Scott argues, "Modernism as we were taught at mid-century was perhaps halfway to truth. It was unconsciously gendered masculine" (2). Feminist criticism brought more women writers into the modernist literary canon, but it did more than that: it made gender an integral component of literary studies. By the 1990s, scholarship focused on gender, not just women, exploring the historical, social, and psychological systems within which sexual identity becomes meaningful.
This course will explore the gendering of modernism, through both primary texts of the time period and critical works of the past two decades. We will take a cultural criticism approach, exploring the complex relations among cultural institutions, new technologies, popular culture, social-political events, and the production of literature. Primary texts include sections from Bonnie Kime Scott's anthology, Gender in Modernism (2006) [and her earlier anthology, Gender of Modernism (1990), if available], Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), D. H. Lawrence's "The Woman Who Rode Away" (1925), Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) or Passing (1929), and essays and poems by Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. In addition, we will read sections of contemporary studies of gender and modernism, including Liz Conor's The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (2004), selected chapters from Michael North's Reading 1922 (2000), "Technologies of Gender" in Tim Armstrong's Modernism, Technology, and the Body (1998), and "The New Woman" in 1915: The Cultural Moment (1990). Requirements include an oral presentation, a research project, and a final exam.
Studies in British Literature: 20th Century (ENGL 348)
Section: 086
Instructor: J. Wexler
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
This course will examine how writers dealt with the crisis that T. S. Eliot described as "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." This course will examine how writers formulated the aesthetic problem of representing violence in the absence of religious belief and how their texts attempted to solve it. Readings include a variety of genres. Requirements include response papers, essays, and a final exam. This course fills the post-1900 requirement and the multi-cultural requirement.
Contempory Critical Theory (ENGL 354)
Section: 088
Instructor: S. Venturino
3.0 credit hours Lecture
MWF 11:30 am - 12:20 pm
TBA
In this course we will consider how several important strains of contemporary literary theory have developed, what they do in the world, and what we can do with them. Readings include critical works that have informed and established formalist, feminist, and Marxist approaches to literary analysis, as well as those associated with gender studies, cultural studies, reception theory, postcolonialism, and deconstruction. Texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Norton Critical Edition); Selden, Widdowson, and Brooker's Reader's Guide to Contemporary Theory (5th ed.), and a custom reader of criticism, poetry, and short stories. Assignments include three short papers, a midterm exam, and a final exam.
Literature from a Writer's Perspective (ENGL 357)
Section: 089
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
This course will examine "eccentric narratives", i.e., strange and unusual ways that fiction writers have used to tell their stories, e.g., shifting chronologies, genre-bending, multiple points-of-view, alternative versions of the same story, etc. We will be reading fictions by Susan Sontag, Peter Matthiessen, Marguerite Duras, Paul Auster, and Donald Barthelme, among others. Students will write two "eccentric" short stories of their own, as well as several mini-reports. Students are strongly recommended to have previously taken English 318, Fiction Writing.
American Literature 1914-1945 (ENGL 377)
Section: 090
Instructor: J. Kerkering
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
TBA
This course examines the work of selected American writers from the World War I to World War II, paying particular attention to theories of 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 Cather, Wharton, Hemingway, Toomer, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Du Bois, and Hurston.
Studies in American Literature: Latino/a (ENGL 379)
Section: 094
Instructor: S. Bost
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
This course will examine contemporary texts by U.S. Latina and Latino writers, emphasizing the diversity of experiences narrated by Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Mexican American writers in the United States. We will analyze the range of formal and aesthetic modes used by these writers, consider the politics of identity that these texts encompass, and evaluate the intersection between this body of writing and larger American traditions. Expect intense discussions about such topics as formal experimentation, language, religion, (im)migration, race, gender, sexuality, and class as we read novels by Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Rolando Hinojosa, Ana Castillo, Piri Thomas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, and Junot Díaz.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Studies in African-American Literature (ENGL 384)
Section: 612
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours Lecture
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
Mark A. Neal's seminal text, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and Post-Soul Aesthetics, describes a generation who "came into maturity in the age of Reaganomics and experienced the change from urban industrialism to deindustrialism, from segregation to desegregation, from essential notions of blackness to metanarratives on blackness, without any nostalgic allegiance to the past, but firmly in grasp of the existential concerns of this brave new world." (3) Neal's reference to "post soul" also demarcates an era of artistic production that has and continues to appropriate, revise, and critique the terms of racial and sexual identities and identifications, history, class, culture, and power of its preceding period, the Black Arts/Power movements. While the readings for this course will focus primarily on late 20th century and 21st century African-American literature, we will also engage other aspects of contemporary black popular culture (film, music, visual art) and critical texts that reflect upon and inform modern articulations of African-American identities. Some questions this course will consider are: How do post soul artists envision and produce new and complex formulations of race, particularly blackness? What kinds of critiques do post-soul artistic productions make of black nationalist and feminist discourses? In what ways do post soul writers re-construct, and even aestheticize, history? And finally, what is the "post" in "post soul?" Course readings may include Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Pervical Everett's Erasure, Tayari Jones' Leaving Atlanta, and poetry by Kevin Young, Major Jackson, and Toi Derricotte. Students should expect to complete a series of short reading responses, occasional in-class writing assignments, a mid-term exam, a final paper (8-10 pages), and to actively participate in class discussions. This course meets the multicultural and post-1900 period requirements of the English major.
NOTE: The section listed above fulfills the Multicultural Requirement for the English major.
Advanced Seminar: The Shame Experience (ENGL 390)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 17W
Instructor: B. Bouson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 10:00 am - 11:15 am
TBA
ENGL 390 17W is a writing intensive course.
This section of English 390, which counts towards the twentieth-century literature requirement in the English major, will focus on the depiction of shame in selected works by twentieth-century authors. Often referred to by affect theorists as the "master emotion," shame is "a multidimensional, multilayered experience," observes Gershen Kaufman. "While first of all an individual phenomenon experienced in some form and to some degree by every person, shame is equally a family phenomenon and a cultural phenomenon. It is reproduced within families, and each culture has its own distinct sources as well as targets of shame." This course will provide students with a brief introduction to and overview of shame theory, including psychological accounts of shame and its related feeling states (such as embarrassment, humiliation, and lowered self-esteem) and the classic defenses against shame (such as contempt or arrogance or shamelessness). The twentieth-century authors we will read include Kafka, Bellow, Russo, Munro, Allison, Morrison, and Mairs. There will be oral presentations, papers, a midterm and a final exam.
Advanced Seminar: Text and Technology (ENGL 390)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 390 is permission]
Section: 18W
Instructor: P. Shillingsburg
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 390 18W is a writing intensive course
This course offers students an overview of the history of literary communication, viewed from the aspect of its material circumstances and social context. In the last decades, there has been an explosion of interest in texts as material phenomena: as the products of sets of material and social agencies, at defined moments in time and place. This has led to a reassessment of every aspect of text: how they are made; who they are made for; their distinct histories of creation and reception.
This course takes students across the three revolutions which have determined and enabled the production of texts in the last 1500 years, with particular focus on literary texts in England: from oral to manuscript to print, and to electronic forms. This history begins with oral literature, and the characteristics of oral culture as can be seen underlying the first works of English literature. Comparisons are made with other instances of oral culture, and the issues arising from the first revolution: the move from an oral to a written culture, such as occurred in England across the medieval period. In this context, the course examines more modern instances of the collision of oral and written cultures (for example, McKenzie's work on the Treaty of Waitangi). The history to text technology then moves onto the manuscript culture prevailing in England up to the late 15th century (and indeed beyond), examining the developing modes of production of hand made books over the period and the ways in which this process affected the texts made in the period, as argued by Rouse and others. The next phase of literary production is marked by the advent of mechanized printing from 1450 and the massive changes this brought in its train. As well as the immediate effects of mass book production documented in the work of Eisenstein and Chartier, we look at detailed instances of how printing house practice and modes of publication affected the work of major English authors such as Shakespeare, Milton and Johnson. The effect of both new technologies such as steam-driven presses and mass paper production and new social practices such as circulating libraries and copyright laws is examined. The development of new modes of mass publication, such as the newspaper, cheap serials, and paperback book will also be studied, with case studies on how these underlie the works of the Romantics, Dickens, Joyce, Woolf and others. Finally, the introduction of electronic texts and digital communication ushers in the present stage of text technology – first as an oddity, but now as a massive presence in everyday life. We look at the effect this has had on the traditions of publishing established in the print era. We ask: is the book dead? How do these new electronic books differ from their print predecessors? We look at instances of 'born digital' texts; of literary hypertexts; of the convergence of 'literature' and other modes of communication (to the point that it may seem as if 'literature', as a meaningful category, might disappear); of the emergence of new models of creativity and publication.
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 Community Literacy Center (LCLC) and teaching adults to learn to read and write in English. Our adult learners are both native-born and foreign-born; the latter predominate. They range in age from 18 to 70. Interns work in the LCLC individually with adult learners and are assisted and supervised with all phases of tutoring. All interns new to the Center are required to attend an orientation session, to tutor one or two nights each week (one night for one credit hour, two nights for two or three credit hours), and (no matter how often you tutor) to meet with the instructor (6 p. m. on selected days) to discuss their tutoring experiences and integrate them with readings about adult literacy and second language acquisition. Interns write journal entries and papers combining research into literacy with reflections on their experience. The Literacy Center is open Mon. to Thurs., 7:00-9:30 p.m. The orientation program is offered on three separate evenings; tutors new to the Center must attend one session. Details are available on our website at luc.edu/literacy. The first meeting of the internship is the orientation session. The orientation will take place at the Literacy Center, 6576 N. Sheridan Road. Please consult the schedule at the Literacy Center homepage.
Internship (ENGL 394)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 394 is permission]
Section: 091
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Internship
English 394 provides practical, on-the-job experience for English majors in adapting their writing and analytical skills to the needs of such fields as publishing, editing, and public relations. Students must have completed six courses in English and must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher before applying for an internship. Qualified second semester juniors and seniors may apply to the program. Interested students must arrange to meet with the Internship Director during the pre-registration period and must bring with them a copy of their Loyola transcript, a detailed resume (which includes the names and phone numbers of at least two references), and at least three writing samples. Students may be required to conduct part of their job search on-line and to go out on job interviews before the semester begins. Course requirements include: completion of a minimum of 120 hours of work; periodic meetings with the Internship Director; a written evaluation of job performance by the site supervisor; and a term paper, including samples of writing produced on the job.
Honors Tutorial: Graham Greene's 20th Century (ENGL 395)
[Prerequisite for ENGL 395 is permission]
Section: 19W
Instructor: M. Bosco
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TR 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
TBA
ENGL 395 19W is a writing intensive course
Graham Greene, one of the great British authors of the 20th Century, was born in 1904 and died in 1991. Greene's 67 years of writing included over 25 novels, 2 collections of short stories, many travel books, plays, film scripts and film criticism, 2 biographies, 2 autobiographies, and countless literary and journalistic essays. Because his literary gifts were inspired by the cultural, political and religious conflicts of the 20th century, Greene's work is representative of the issues and dilemmas of his time. A master of the political and the detective genre, he nonetheless made his critical reputation on a series of novels that explored religious issues, specifically as constructed in Catholic tropes, themes, and images (he converted to Catholicism in 1926 and remained a Catholic, however tentatively). This course will investigate the correlation of Greene's oeuvre to the cultural, political and religious discourses of the 20th century, highlighting the place in which Greene's "Catholic" imagination serves to inform some of his greatest texts.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry (ENGL 397)
Section: 20W
Instructor: J. Wilson
3.0 credit hours Lecture
F 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 397 20W is a writing intensive course
As an advanced writing workshop in poetry, this course will focus on different approaches to making, revising, re-thinking, and re-working our own poems. This course will be informed largely by our readings of markedly different African American authors, with an emphasis on 20th and 21st Century poets who are pushing the boundaries of poetics in myriad ways. Rather than narrow in on mastery, this class will attempt to unearth new methods for writing poetry befitting the complexities of our experiences—zeroing in on influence, music, formal constraints, collage, and a variety of experimental exercises.
Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction (ENGL 398)
Section: 21W
Instructor: D. Kaplan
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 2:45 pm - 5:15 pm
TBA
ENGL 398 21W is a writing intensive course
Students will build upon and refine skills in the art and craft of writing fiction learned in English 318, Fiction Writing, through (a) reading master fiction writers; (b) writing three original stories; and (c) having these stories discussed and critiqued by the instructor and by fellow writers in a supportive workshop setting. Class participation is emphasized.
Special Studies in Literature (ENGL 399)
Section: 092
Instructor: J. Biester
3.0 credit hours Lecture
TBA
TBA
Students arrange for this course on an individual basis by consulting with the director of undergraduate programs and with a faculty member who agrees to supervise the independent study. Usually students will work independently and produce a research paper, under the direction of the faculty member.
Women in Literature (ENGL 283)
(crosslisted with WOST 283)
Section: 610
Instructor: M. Clarke
3.0 credit hours Lecture
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
This course will focus on influential writings by women, beginning with contemporary writers and moving back through history to trace the origins and evolution of a woman's intellectual tradition. We will read poets ranging from Stevie Smith to Phyllis Wheatley; fiction witers ranging from Flannery O'Connor to Charlotte Brontë; and essayists ranging from Virginia Woolf to Mary Wollstonecraft. We will use two texts: The Norton Anthology of Literature in English by Women and Villette, by Charlotte Brontë.
Human Values in Literature (ENGL 290)
Section: 63W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 290-63W is a writing intensive course
We will examine several films in which young people address important questions such as: Who am I becoming and who do others want me to be? What are my talents and strengths? What are my diversions and distractions? How can I pursue my own goals while being attentive to the needs of others?
We also will use theory to examine the dilemmas these characters face as they pursue, complicate, question, reconsider, and re-invigorate their callings. By examining these complicated individuals, and by discussing their stories, we will create a framework in which to address these same questions in our own lives.
The Writing of Poetry (ENGL 317)
Section: 620
Instructor: J. Wilson
3.0 credit hours Seminar
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
This course will introduce students to creative approaches to poetry writing. Specifically, we will explore certain poetic techniques and examine various works by ancient, modern, and contemporary authors who have enlivened the terrain of poetry. In addition to testing out the waters of your own creativity, this course will offer a space to appreciate the richness of literature more broadly. Functioning as an introductory workshop where we'll share our own writing, over the course of the semester we will also explore how good writing—in a variety of forms—can take shape. Our class time will be spent in a several ways: whole class discussions, individual writing exercises, small group and paired collaborations, and, as the semester develops, small group workshops with your peers. By the end of the term, students will have had a wealth of hands-on experience with poetry writing, and students will turn in a final chapbook of the best work written over the course of the term.
British Literature: The Renaissance (ENGL 325)
Section: 608
Instructor: M. Shapiro
3.0 credit hours Seminar
R 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
The course will cover selected works written between 1485 and 1660, a period in which the forms and models used by writers, as well as their primary concerns, shift from the what we might call medieval to what we might consider neoclassical. Shakespeare will hover over the course, but we will encounter him only as a writer of sonnets and narrative poetry, not as a playwright. We will read selected works by such major writers as Spenser, Sidney, Donne and Milton. as well important works by lesser known writers. We will read poetry (lyric and epic), prose (fiction and non-fiction) and drama (comedy and tragedy).
The text is the Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Sixteenth Century and the Early Seventeenth Century. Requirements for the course include participation in class discussion, critical/research papers, a midterm and final exam.
Advanced Seminar (ENGL 390)
Section: 64W
Instructor: J. Janangelo
3.0 credit hours Lecture
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
ENGL 390 64W is a writing intensive course
In our class, we will examine a range of important theories (e.g. gaze theory, theories of re-mediation and redeployment, and star studies) and apply them to some unique and influential films. Our goals our fourfold: to discern the possible relationships between reading theory and watching film; to use theory to scrutinize film's artistic and political aspects; and to see how seemingly "uncomplicated" studio productions can bear and reward such scrutiny. Most of all, we will work to learn more about ourselves as theorists and spectators.
GRADUATE COURSES
NOTE: All students who wish to take graduate courses must preregister with the English Department's Director of Graduate Programs, Dr. James Biester.
Teaching College Composition (ENGL 402)
Section: 800
Instructor: V. Anderson
3.0 credit hours
M 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
TBA
English 402 introduces students to current composition theory and investigates the ways in which theory informs practice in the First Year Composition classroom. Specifically, the course focuses on developing an informed teaching philosophy, designing a syllabus, creating and evaluating writing assignments, and teaching with various technologies. Major assignments include a semester syllabus, a pedagogical statement, sample writing prompts with evaluative criteria, and a textbook review. In addition to the "practical" work of designing a composition course for freshman writers, students can also expect to engage in the conversations and controversies within the field of composition studies.
Topics in Critical Theory (ENGL 420)
Section: 801
Instructor: B. Ahad
3.0 credit hours
MW 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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Historically, and to some extent presently, racial discourses and psychoanalytic theory have been considered fundamentally incompatible. Because conventional psychoanalytic theory generally denies race as a constitutive factor of identity, and the improper application of psychoanalytic thought tends to read as an assertion of Western hegemony over the black body, many scholars working broadly in the field of African American studies have either ignored or resisted psychoanalysis as a methodology for interpreting black subjectivity. However, as Hortense Spillers would argue, concepts that are fundamental to psychoanalysis, specifically "self-division; the mimetic and transitive character of desire; the economies of displacement [and] the paradox of the life-death pull," are "stringently operative in African American community." In this course we will examine various intersections of race and psychoanalytic thought by studying classic Freudian interpretations of key psychoanalytic concepts (the Oedipal complex, desire, melancholia, etc.) and, in turn, consider the ways that contemporary literary and film critics have appropriated, contested, and even disrupted these paradigms to account for the specificity of black experience. Students taking this course will be asked to consider the deployment of psychoanalytic theories to articulate the "fantasy" of race in literary and cultural analysis, the relationship between psychoanalysis and black textuality, and the way that writers and critics have challenged key psychoanalytic paradigms to account for the black subject. Readings for this course will include selections from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Claudia Tate's Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race, Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks' Desiring Whiteness, Kaja Silverman's The Subject of Semiotics, Frederick Douglass' Narrative, Toni Morrison's "Recitatif," Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, and of course, selected essays by Sigmund Freud. Students will be required to prepare short response papers, two seminar papers (one midterm and one final; each 10-12 pages), and guide class discussions on recent critical scholarship.
Topics in Literary Studies (ENGL 430)
Section: 802
Instructor: T. Kaminski
3.0 credit hours
T 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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This course will consider three eighteenth-century writers whose works examine or embody many of the dominant artistic, social, and moral concerns of the day: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. We will read a variety of satires and political tracts by Swift, as well as a representative sample of his poetry. In the case of Pope, we will look at examples of his discursive poetry (his epistles and formal-verse satires), as well as his mock-heroic satires (The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad). In our analyses of both Swift and Pope we will give extensive consideration to the nature of satire itself as a literary genre, including that most elusive of subgenres Menippean satire. We will consider Samuel Johnson as a moral writer (the Rambler essays and Rasselas), as a literary critic and biographer (Lives of the Poets), and perhaps even as a textual scholar (his edition of Shakespeare). Students will also be expected to read an abridged version of Boswell's Life of Johnson. The writing requirements will include one or two short papers (c. 5 pages), plus a longer paper (10-15 pages) that will be done in two drafts. Finally, on Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, 2009, Loyola will be hosting the annual conference of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region; all students in the class will be expected to attend at least some of the papers.
Chaucer (ENGL 447)
Section: 803
Instructor: B. Bouson
3.0 credit hours
W 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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This course will focus on some of the most important poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, including lyrics, dream visions, and a selection of The Canterbury Tales. We will also read works important to Chaucer, such as Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Macrobius' writings on dreams, and some of his likely source texts. Critical readings will engage with these works in their historical and literary-historical contexts. Students will learn Middle English grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Topics in Early Modern Literature: Shakespearean Adaptation (ENGL 450)
Section: 804
Instructor: M. Shapiro
3.0 credit hours
T 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Shakespeare derived most of plays from published sources. Today would be classified as a "mere" adaptor, the "mere" reflecting post-romantic notions of artistic inspiration and originality. Examining and perhaps suspending these notions, we will study Shakespeare's use of sources in selected plays, so that by noting what he kept. altered or cut, we can better understand both his dramatic craftsmanship and his artistic vision.
We will also study adaptations of Shakespeare's work by others, considering a varied array of sequels, prequels, radical revisions, "translations" into novels, films,and operas, and cross-cultural adaptations of various kinds. In each case, we will consider (1) how the adaptation might be understood as a critique of its Shakespearean original, and (2) how the adaptation uses the source to address issue of concern to audiences of its own day.
Requirements include participation in class discussion, oral reports, short and long critical/research papers, and perhaps a final examination.
Topics in Romanticism: Polite Satanism and Enthusiastic Devilry (ENGL 470)
Section: 805
Instructor: J. Cragwall
3.0 credit hours
TR 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
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An exploration of the cultural history of the demonic in seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century Britain. Few figures were more important to the age's intellectual history than John Milton's Satan, who towered over respectable poetry, and was reinvented by radical thinkers as a model for righteous rebellion, rational anarchy, and even a transcendent moral authority that annihilated God and the Christian religion. Meanwhile, the Devil dominated popular culture, as tens of thousands of men and women fell into screaming fits at Methodist revivals, while Joanna Southcott met him at tea-time, exclaiming, "Thou infamous Bitch!" Southcott's language was earthy, but as Lord Byron remarked, as his own very different Cain was successfully prosecuted for blasphemy, how else was "the first rebel and the first murderer" to talk? While much of our focus will be on poetry – Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron – we'll also read quite a bit of prose, including Frankenstein, Grace Abounding, George Whitefield's Short Account, and Southcott's A Conversation Between The Woman and The Prince of Darkness.
Modern Poetry (ENGL 481)
Section: 806
Instructor: D. Chinitz
3.0 credit hours
R 7:0 pm - 9:30 pm
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This course will highlight several kinds of "modernism" and investigate the process by which different ways of writing a modern poetry arose in dialogue with and, sometimes, in reaction against each other. We will consider such competing ideas as Decadence, Symbolism, Imagism, and "High Modernism," and the conceptions of modern art, the cultural politics, and the poetic techniques associated with them. Such rubrics, of course, hardly define a neat field of categories, and we will see that conflicting impulses frequently coexist within the work of a single writer, and that one notion of modernism often slides into another. While considering modern poetry from this literary-historical perspective, the course is also structured as a survey of several key poets, including W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot.