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SUMMER 2008 SCHEDULE
 
Term 1

Classes Start May 12th

Last Day of Registration May 12th

Last Day to Withdraw May 22nd

 Memorial Day May 26th

 Term 1 Ends Jun 2nd

 Term II

Classes Start Jun 3rd

Last Day of Registration Jun 3rd

Last Day to Apply for Degree Jun 5th

Last Day to Withdraw Jun 19th

Term II Ends Jul 3rd

10-Week TermClasses Start Jun 3rd

Last Day of Registration Jun 3rd

 Last Day to Apply for Degree Jun 5th

 Independence Day Holiday Jul 4th

 Last Day to Withdraw Jul 10th

 10-Week Term Ends Aug 7th

Term III

Classes Start Jul 7th

Last Day of Registration Jul 7th

Last Day to Withdraw Jul 24th

Term III Ends/Degree Date Aug 7th

 

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SPRING 2008 GRADUATES

Sutton Adams
Lauren Amburgy
Brittany Arnel
Katie Barnes
Ricara Boone
Megan Bowden
Nicholas Browning
Britney Broyles
Staci Calamaio
Jessica Clark
Ashley Coleman
Dustin Colgate
Devon Durrett
Justy Engle
Betsy Green
Ann Hagan
Hallie Hunt
Bethany Johnson
Darren McWaters
Alyssa Morgan
Elizabeth Morrison
Mallory Nall
Jennifer Oberhausen
Heather Owens
Sharon Patterson
Kimberly Patrick
Stephanie Ramser
Jessica Shelton
David Simpson
Zachary Smith
Rebekah Spiars
Marsha Steele
Sarah Voit
Jared Walters
Isaiah Watts
Nolan Werner

ENGLISH MAJORS WHO COMPLETED AN HONORS THESIS IN 2007 – 2008

Sutton Adams – “Out of a Coffin, into the Light: The Vampire Lestat and the Disruption of Identities”

Megan Bowden – “Androgynous Arrangements in Chopin’s and Paley’s Short Fiction”

Drew McClure – “The Experience of Personal Essay”

Scott Zurkuhlen – “Theories of the Avant-Garde and Manifestos: Taking the Aesthetic-Manifesto Out of Context and into Theory”

 

Department Advisers

Dr. Beth Willey

Dr. Tamara Yohannes

To schedule an appointment with either of the advisers, please call Pam Drake at 852-6801.

Undergraduate Studies Program
Department of English
University of Louisville
Office: (502) 852-6801
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Department of English
Undergraduate Studies

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Volume 3, Issue VI Summer 2008

 

Literature B

Coming Soon to an English Department Near YOU!!

Ghosts! Salsa! Supertramp! Man-Eating Swamp Monsters! The English Department is pleased to announce the “Special Topics” courses for Fall of 2008. Read on…IF YOU DARE!!

English 369: Minority Traditions in American Literature
Latina/o Popular Culture (Gabriela Nuñez)

This course examines Latina/o popular culture in the U.S. to analyze the daily practices of Latinidad, or ethnic Latina/o identity, by paying close attention to the ways Latina/o cultural production responds to stereotypes in mainstream popular culture and reconfigures cultural icons. While there are important similarities among Latinas/os, this course also examines the differences in histories, class, sexuality, gender, geography, as well as immigrant and non-immigrant experiences that define the heterogeneity of Latinas/os in the U.S.
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ENG 371: Pulp & Cult Fiction (Aaron Jaffe)
Pulp: 1.) any soft, soggy mass, 2.) the soft moist part, 3.) the inside of a tooth, and 4.) sensational literature printed cheaply on inexpensive paper.
Cult: 1.) religious-like adherence, 2. a fad, 3.) interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
Count Dracula of Monte Cristo, Sherlock Bond, Orlando Pimpernel, Svengali Dedalus, Supertramp, the Dude, the Beetle, Tarzan Presley, the original Homer Simpson, the good Dr. Thompson - we'll look at a literary family including some of these and perhaps other pulp/cult characters and investigate literary fan culture and readership.
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English 373: Women in literature: Chicana Literature (Gabriela Nuñez)
This course examines ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and socio-political agency by focusing on novels, short stories, poetry, and essays by women who identify as Chicana in the U.S. While we will focus on contemporary Chicana writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorna D. Cervantes, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga, and Helena María Viramontes, we will also engage with 19th century Mexican-American women’s writings in the U.S. as precursors to contemporary Chicana texts.
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English 373: Women in Literature: Monsters and Madwomen (Joanna Wolfe)
We will look at ways that women have traditionally been demonized for exhibiting masculine traits, such as authorship, and examine how women authors have contended with and attempted to transform such stereotypes. Texts will include work by Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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English 391: Studies in the Novel (Susan Ryan)
In this course we’ll examine American novels from the late 18th to the late 19th century. Among the questions we’ll be asking are the following: What makes a novel “American”? Is it a matter of the author’s birthplace or adopted home? The novel’s themes and settings? Which subgenres and narrative strategies have been especially influential in American literature? How have American novels represented the culture in which they were produced? How have they sought to change that culture? How might such matters as didacticism and aesthetics have intersected in these texts (and in their reception)?
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English 401: Jane Austen and Film (Karen Hadley)
Observing the proliferation of Austen adaptations of the past decade or so, this course will focus on a number of issues around the recent obsession with bringing Jane Austen’s novels to the screen. Attention will be given to the creative, collaborative, process of translating literature to the medium of film (and its increased attention to scenery, fashion, and physical beauty), with special focus on issues relevant to Austen’s texts such as passion, romance, wealth, manners, and social commentary. Is it (or why is it) the case, we will ask with one Austen critic, that translations too faithful to the books cannot achieve broad enough appeal for the movie industry?
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English 401: Theories of Literacy (Bruce Horner)
In the last few decades, "literacy" both as a subject and as an issue—the literacy "crisis"—has been the focus of a broad range of scholars working in a wide array of disciplines, including cognitive psychology, anthropology, literary criticism, history, sociology, rhetoric, classics, education, and linguistics. The purpose of this course is to make sense of both the range of this work, its development, and the uses to which it has been and might be put: to understand the relationships between the different ways literacy has been defined, the different sorts of significance attributed to it in history and theory, and the policies and pedagogies enacted to address it. By reading and reflecting on a variety of work on the histories, theories, and pedagogies of literacy, we should come to a better understanding of literacy as it has been variously constructed in recent scholarship on literacy, more generally in history and specific cultures, and also in our own experiences as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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English 515: Old English Language and Literature (Andrew Rabin)
Cannibalism! Beheadings! Dragons! Obscene Riddles! Vikings! Swamp-Monsters! This course will focus on literature of England before the Norman Conquest in all of its diverse (and often bloody) glory. As this course is designed to prepare students for further study in Old English literature and culture, we will focus of the acquisition of those linguistic skills needed to encounter Anglo-Saxon texts in their original language. Additionally, we will survey Anglo-Saxon history and culture, taking into account the historical record, archeology, manuscript construction and illumination, and the growth of Anglo-Saxon studies as an academic discipline.
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ENG 547: Modern British and Irish Literature (Suzette Henke)
The aim of this course is to engage in an examination and discussion of major modernist texts produced between 1901 and 1941 by some of the most important British and Irish authors of the modernist period: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. Class discussion will focus on intellectual, aesthetic, and political issues that characterized the “high modernist” period, 1914-41. Students will be required to write three research papers, deliver a class report, and take a final examination.
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English 552: Gender and Science Fiction (Dawn Heinecken)
This class will examine women’s contributions to the science fiction genre. The course will develop student’s critical reading, thinking, writing and presentation skills. Students will be expected to develop an understanding of the ways women have worked within the genre to explore issues related to gender, race, and class historically and currently. Students will be asked to consider the ways women writers have participated in on-going dialogues within the SF community, both developing, responding to, and resisting SF tropes, particularly those related to gender roles, identity, and social structure. Some areas we will consider include women’s early presence in the pulps, distinctions between women’s “soft”  SF and the “hard” SF of male writers, as well as the ways that women have used the extrapolatory nature of SF to explore feminist issues.
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English 575: Slave Narratives (Karen Chandler)
In this course, we will examine the slave narrative as an influential genre in American literature. The course will consider how conceptions of slavery have changed from the depictions in antebellum abolitionist narratives to those in the neo-slave narratives (fiction and film) that have emerged since the early 1960s. It will examine how the evolution of the slave narrative has reflected our culture’s changing understanding of selfhood and of American history.
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Nunez Picture

 Dr. Gabriella Nuñez will be joining the English Department faculty Fall 2008 semester. She will be teaching ENGL 369-01 – Minority Traditions in American Literature – CD1 and ENGL 373-01 – Women in Literature – CD2. Dr. Nuñez earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Literature from the University of California, San Diego. She was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latina/o Studies and English at Northwestern University (2007-08). Her research interests include contemporary Latina/o literature and popular culture, as well as nineteenth-century bilingual periodicals in the U.S. Professor Nuñez is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Investigating la frontera. This project interrogates discourses of criminality, gender, sexuality, and cross-border relations in contemporary Chicana/o and Mexican detective fiction. Dr. Nuñez is a welcome addition to our faculty.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

National Scholarship and Fellowship Winners

Ashley Harris – Critical Language scholarship to study beginning Arabic in Amman Jordan

English Department Scholarship Winners

Nicholas Browning – The Mary E. Burton Award
Jennifer Coyle – The Madeline and Joseph Woolfolk Thomas Award
Laura Brown – The Harry L. and Cecilia H. Smith Award
Sarah Imhof & Thomas Thornton – The Mary Phyllis Reidley Award

Kentuckiana Metroversity 2008 Writing Competition Winners

Nicholas Browning – Second Place in Academic Writing
Christopher (Drew) McClure – Second Place in Creative Nonfiction

YEAR END PARTY FUN!!!

 

Dr. Willey and Nick Browning

Dr. Willey & Nick Browning (highest GPA)

Year End Picture 1

 

DOOR PRIZE WINNERS AT END OF YEAR PARTY

John Kaelin
Alyssa Morgan
Chanel  Twillie
Dustin Colgate

 

 Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

          - William Wordsworth -



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