Class No.

Cat
ID

Cat No.

Section Number

Class Title

Day

Time

Room Location

Instructor

Credit Hours

3426

ENGL

202

1

INTRO CREAT WRITING

MWF

02:00pm-02:50pm

HM101

TBA

3

3427

ENGL

202

2

INTRO CREAT WRITING

MW

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM215

TBA

3

3772

ENGL

202

3

INTRO CREAT WRITING

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

EH215

Petrosino, C

3

3848

ENGL

202

75

INTRO CREAT WRITING

TTh

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM111

TBA

3

4731

ENGL

250

1

INTRO TO LITERATURE - H

MW

02:00pm-03:15pm

DA308

Griner, P

3

5680

ENGL

300

1

INTRO TO ENGL STUDIES-WR Note: This class is restricted to English Majors and Intended English Majors.

MWF

10:00am-10:50am

HM207

Willey, A

3

5681

ENGL

300

2

INTRO TO ENGL STUDIES-WR -- Note: This section has been canceled.

TBA

TBA

TBA

TBA

3

5682

ENGL

300

3

INTRO TO ENGL STUDIES-WR Note: This class is restricted to English Majors and Intended English Majors.

MW

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM223

Jaffe, A

3

6944

ENGL

300

4

INTRO TO ENGL STUDIES-WR
Note: This class is restricted to English Majors and Intended English Majors.

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

DA208B

Clukey, A

3

ENGL 300: Introduction to English Studies (Gothic theme)
This course is designed to help you read, think, talk, and write like an English major. It is designed as a sort of boot camp for literary analysis and communication that will help you develop the skills necessary to tackle even the most obfuscating verse and prose. The goals of this class are twofold. The first is to hone your literary-interpretative skills on a microcosmic level (through attention to word choice, sound, and language) and on a macrocosmic level (through attention to generic conventions, literary form, and theory). The second goal is to teach you to effectively communicate your newly honed interpretative abilities by using scholarly research to turn observations into compelling arguments and participate in critical discussions. Because the best way to learn to write well is to write often, you’ll try your hand at several different kinds of academic writing throughout the semester.
Along the way, we’ll read a variety of literary genres—poetry, drama, short stories, and novels—that either follow literary “conventions” (or, at times, outright invent them) and also texts that revise, adapt, or utterly reject those conventions (and perhaps, in turn, become conventional themselves). At the same time, we’ll read a series of essays that theorize literary form—that is, consider what is, how it works, and what it does that’s different from other forms of intellectual and popular writing. Sometimes these theoretical readings will reflect on the literary texts we're discussing, sometimes they will not, but all will help us rethink key generic concepts that we might take for granted like “plot,” “character,” and "style.”
This section of the course will be loosely organized around a gothic theme. We will likely read some of the following authors: Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Bram Stoker, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary Butts, Jean Rhys, Eric Walrond, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison among others. We will also watch one or more "gothic" or "horror" films like White Zombie, Rebecca, or the latest adaptation of Jane Eyre.

3428

ENGL

301

1

BRITISH LITERATURE I

MWF

10:00am-10:50am

DA104

Stanev, H

3

4285

ENGL

301

75

BRITISH LITERATURE I

TTh

07:00pm-08:15pm

SK111

Billingsley, D

3

This course surveys British literature from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries. We concentrate upon the reading and interpretation (both written and oral) of representative works; lectures and secondary readings provide historical and cultural background for understanding the works within the milieu of their creation. If this course is successful, at its end you should be able to do the following:

• read and understand representative works in the context of their original creation and as received in critical study, and demonstrate that understanding in your own brief close readings and critical commentary
• demonstrate basic familiarity with the prosody of English poetry by the practical scansion of selected poems
• place these works in their historical, social and cultural context, and explicate that context in critical discussion of the works and authors
• participate in and synthesize other readers' perceptions in oral and written discussion
• comprehend and express an informed historical-critical understanding of class, gender and literary culture issues in clearly organized, competently argued and well-supported academic prose

Texts: Greenblatt, et al., Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8^th or 9^th edition, Major Authors Volume A.  See the Blackboard tab “Course Documents” for additional materials, exercises and other information about specific daily assignments.

3429

ENGL

302

1

BRITISH LITERATURE II

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

HM108

Hall, D

3

This course is an unembarrassed chronological survey of British literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Romanticism to early Modernism. Attention to historical and cultural issues plays a major role in this course, as do critical reading, literary terms, and conventions. In addition to a substantial amount of careful reading, requirements include taking a test every two weeks, and taking a comprehensive final examination in the final examination period.

Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature—the 7th, 8th, or 9th edition will work (this is a three volume paperback set: D: The Romantic Period, E: The Victorian Period, and F: The Twentieth Century), used copies will do and you should be able to find them on line. And a good handbook to literature, such as Harmon & Holman, The Bedford Glossary, or Merriam Webster’s Reader’s Handbook (used copies will do and they need not be the most recent editions, which are, of course, the most expensive).

3431

ENGL

303

1

SCI AND TECH WRITING-WR

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

HM104A

Smith, S

3

This course is designed for those students who are preparing for careers in scientific and technical fields. It emphasizes the following learning goals: the practice of writing processes, secondary research, and problem-solving within various scientific genres; the study of the rhetorical character of technical discourse with its multiple purposes and audiences; the integration of a variety of written, visual, and oral elements of design; the use of writing technologies and new media to produce scientific texts; and the development of field-specific vocabularies for talking about scientific and technical writing. Students will practice composing and designing concise, reader-friendly documents, as well as writing collaboratively as a team. This course also emphasizes writing with numerical data, and the second half of the semester is devoted to team writing in collaborative projects.

3432

ENGL

303

2

SCI AND TECH WRITING-WR

TTh

02:30pm-03:45pm

HM015

Cross, G

3

Research repeatedly shows that good writing skills are critical in getting hired, keeping your job, and advancing. To prepare you for reading and writing in technical and/or scientific careers is the chief objective of this course. You will learn to write technical documents such as instructions . Less specialized but important documents including resumes and analyses of visuals will also be addressed. For the different kinds of writing, we will examine how the writing situation, purpose, audience, and process (e.g., individual or group) help shape the appropriate document. Scientific literature reviews will be addressed. Oral and visual presentation of technical material will be practiced, including desktop publishing and appropriate use of Excel charts, graphs, and figures. Emphasis upon sustainable technology will occur through involvement with the Solar Decathlon. Instruction will be provided through assigned readings, classroom discussions and activities, individual and group writing assignments, and individual conferences.

7724

ENGL

304

1

CREATIVE NONFICTION

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

HM113

Mozer, R

3

3433

ENGL

305

1

INT CR WRIT: POETRY

MW

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM121

Skinner, J

3

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is a workshop-style course in the writing of original poetry. While class sessions are used primarily to discuss work written by class members, some classes will focus on discussion of contemporary published work, and other issues relevant to creative writing.

COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Through the work of the course students will: build a vocabulary with which to discuss contemporary poetry; explore in some depth a number of contemporary published works and discern their strengths and weaknesses with increasing insight and clarity; learn to recognize the difference between levels of precision in language; learn something of the historical context for contemporary poetry; become familiar with some of the basics of prosody; and learn to profitably apply all of the foregoing to the improvement and growth of their own original poems, and to those of their peers.

5746

ENGL

305

2

INT CR WRIT:FICTION

TTh

02:30pm-03:45pm

HM121

Leung, B

3

In Intermediate Creative Writing: Fiction we will read and discuss a variety of contemporary literatures from diverse sources. Through the readings, writing exercises, and longer narrative projects, each student will work to advance their writing and thinking skills, ideally finding that these two things are not mutually exclusive. Elements of craft will be central to this course as will the complicating factors of genre, race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Students should be prepared to read peer work and to comment on it thoughtfully and critically. By extension, everyone has the right to expect the same from their peers. We will not be writing commercial fiction. Note: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed English 202 or its equivalent.

4730

ENGL

306

1

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

08:00am-09:15am

HM104A

Mozer, R

3

3434

ENGL

306

2

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

09:30am-10:45am

HM104A

Mozer, R

3

3435

ENGL

306

3

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

MW

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM015

TBA

3

3436

ENGL

306

4

HON: BUSINESS WRITING - WR Note: This section is restricted to students eligible for the Honors Program. Please call the Honors department at 852-6293 for more information.

MW

02:00pm-03:15pm

HM015

TBA

3

3437

ENGL

306

5

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

09:30am-10:45am

HM015

Cross, G

3

Research repeatedly shows that good writing skills are critical in getting hired, keeping your job, and advancing. To help prepare you for writing in business and the professions is the chief objective of this course. In this section of English 306, students apply rhetorical principles to practical writing tasks common in business and the professions, including preparing clear resumes, letters, memos, brochures, and preparing a persuasive proposal or report. Students will learn to vary their content, emphasis, style, and format to meet different audience needs in oral and written presentations. Emphasis upon sustainable business will occur through involvement with the Solar Decathlon. Instruction is provided through assigned readings, classroom discussions and activities, and individual and group writing assignments.

3438

ENGL

306

6

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

HM015

Sheridan, M

3

3439

ENGL

306

7

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

HM104A

Mozer, R

3

7309

ENGL

306

100

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: The section above is part of the Overseas Program.

TTh

08:00am-09:45am

PANAMA

TBA

3

7310

ENGL

306

101

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: The section above is part of the Overseas Program.

MW

08:00am-09:45am

PANAMA

Acosta, R

3

7004

ENGL

306

50

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

TBA

DISTNCE ED

TBA

3

7005

ENGL

306

53

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

TBA

DISTNCE ED

TBA

3

7006

ENGL

306

54

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

TBA

DISTNCE ED

TBA

3

7007

ENGL

306

55

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

TBA

DISTNCE ED

TBA

3

3923

ENGL

306

75

BUSINESS WRITING-WR Note: This section requires field work.

MW

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM015

Romesburg, J

3

3440

ENGL

306

76

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

MW

07:00pm-08:15pm

HM015

Romesburg, J

3

5724

ENGL

306

77

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM015

TBA

3

3924

ENGL

306

78

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

TTh

07:00pm-08:15pm

HM109

TBA

3

4059

ENGL

306

99

BUSINESS WRITING-WR

S

08:30am-12:00pm

HM111

TBA

3

3810

ENGL

309

1

INQUIRIES IN WRITING-WR Note: This section has been canceled.

TBA

TBA

TBA

TBA

3

3441

ENGL

309

2

INQUIRIES IN WRITING-WR Note: This section requires permission from the instructor.

T

01:00pm-03:45pm

HM113

Rogers, L

3

3442

ENGL

310

1

WRIT ABT LIT NONMAJOR -WR

MWF

09:00am-09:50am

DA209B

Claborn, John

3

“Writing About Literature: American Environments” is designed for non-majors. This course is divided into three different, but interrelating levels: we’ll examine literature about environments at the local, national, and global levels. Many of the writers we’ll study have written about environments in all their complexity, beauty, and sometimes ugliness. We’ll consider the views of working class and writers of color as well—views often left out of the mainstream environmentalist discourse. We’ll read Stephen Crane’s naturalist novel Maggie, William Attaway’s proletarian novel Blood on the Forge, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which sparked the modern environmentalist movement, Jamaica Kincaid’s memoir A Small Place, and Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums. Texts required: Stephen Crane, Maggie w/ The Open Boat, William Attaway, Blood on the Forge, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, and Mike Davis, Planet of Slums.

3443

ENGL

310

2

WRIT ABT LIT NONMAJOR -WR

MW

02:00pm-03:15pm

DA103

Rabin, A

3

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the standards, practices, and techniques of literary analysis.  We will be discussing what constitutes a strong argument and the means of persuading a reading audience.  In particular, we will focus on how to craft analytical claims, how to structure a critical argument, and how to perform close readings.

Our readings this quarter will be different examples of travel narratives, ranging from those found in the Bible to the modern novel.  In our writing and class discussions, we will consider both the journeys themselves and the ways in which travelers make sense of their experiences: how is our sense of self produced by our “home” culture and how does it change when—voluntarily or involuntarily—we journey from the familiar into the unknown?     We will examine what it means for the individual to re-imagine himself or herself within a “New World” and what what happens when the traveller narrates his or her tale to those left behind.  In doing so, we will interrogate the different assumptions, fantasies, desires, and expectations that historically have shaped Western encounters with non-Western cultures.  How do beliefs regarding racial origins and religious or cultural superiority color travelers’ interactions with those they encounter?  Considering these questions will require us to reexamine what is entailed by such concepts as “culture,” “travel,” “selfhood,” and “discovery.” The texts we will read each approach these themes from very different perspectives, and I encourage you to bring your own ideas and interests into class as well.

6950

ENGL

310

3

WRIT ABT LIT NONMAJOR -WR

TTh

02:30pm-03:45pm

SH103

Millar, Leslie

3

3444

ENGL

311

1

AMERICAN LITERATURE I Note: This section has been canceled.

TBA

TBA

TBA

TBA

3

4732

ENGL

311

2

AMERICAN LITERATURE I

TTh

09:30am-10:45am

DA308

Chandler, K

3

This survey of American literature from the 16th century to 1865 will explore writers’ use of various genres in examining the American experience and landscape. Among the themes the course will explore are concepts of nature and society, religion, questions of social obligation and purpose, and ideas of freedom. Considering the relationship between literature and its cultural contexts will be an important goal of the course.

8168

ENGL

311

3

AMERICAN LITERATURE I

MWF

11:00am-11:50am

DA110

Yohannes, T

3

This reading course surveys the literature written in the United States from its beginnings to the Civil War. We will take a two-fold thematic and chronological approach to the literature by using Herman Melville’s Moby Dick as a focus text for the entire course while simultaneously dividing the course into three periods and then reading shorter works from each period in installments dealing with similar themes, genres, contextual issues as the novel. This strategy will allow our discussions of the longer and shorter texts to interact with each other as we work to develop deeper understandings of the themes and cross-currents informing the literatures of the historical periods.

Strategically, this course requires each student to read, think, and write about the assigned literature daily and to come to class ready to discuss the important issues raised by the literature with the student’s team and with the whole class. Teams will be assigned during the first week of class and will remain functioning throughout the semester.

3445

ENGL

312

1

AMERICAN LITERATURE II

MWF

12:00pm-12:50pm

DA308

Anderson, D

3

English 312. This literature survey will introduce you to American literature from just before the Civil War to the present day. It will help you to relate these texts to their socio-historical contexts, such as Reconstruction, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of American political, military, and economic power, immigration, racial segregation and integration, and two world wars. In addition, the course will help you develop skills for analyzing, discussing, and writing about challenging poetry and prose, and the many perspectives they convey. Graded work will include in-class writing, quizzes, and essay exams that include identification questions.

3446

ENGL

312

2

AMERICAN LITERATURE II

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

DA308

Byers, T

3

7726

ENGL

325

2

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS

TTh

09:30am-10:45am

HM221

Stewart Jr, T

3

ENGL/LING 325 Introduction to Linguistics (3)
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 or 105.
Description: Introduction to the basic assumptions, methods and concepts of studying language, focusing on the way language influences human experience and the organization of human behavior. Examines the nature, structure, and use of language. May apply as elective in either Social Sciences or Humanities meeting divisional or out-of-divisional requirements. Core course for Undergraduate Minor in Linguistics.

7725

ENGL

325

50

INTRO TO LINGUISTICS Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

MWF

TBA

DISTNCE ED

Patton, E

3

3447

ENGL

334

1

SHAKESPEARE II

TTh

09:30am-10:45am

HM101

Wise, E

3

In conjunction with a rare opportunity which will occur this semester, my section of 334 will focus on the theme of sleep and dreams in the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare. In collaboration with the University of Louisville (both the Sleep Center at the Medical School and our own Belknap Theatre), Actors Theater of Louisville has commissioned three playwrights to write three one-act plays which together will be called Sleep Rock Thy Brain, an aerial drama that explores the brain science of sleep. Performances will feature both ATL’s apprentice company and U of L’s Theatre Arts student actors. Although Shakespeare is not be a direct influence on the new play, we will use this venture as a springboard to examine how sleep and dreams feature prominently in Shakespeare’s work, with emphasis on their significance in human psychology and their symbolism as exponents of transformation from imaginary to real. To that end, we will study A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, and The Tempest, among other works. Students will be encouraged to participate in the activities surrounding the ATL/U of L collaboration, Sleep Rock Thy Brain.

4502

ENGL

342

75

BLACK WOMEN NOVELISTS-WR-CD1

MW

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM123

Bani, M

3

5028

ENGL

369

1

MINORITY TRADS AMER LIT-CD1

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM121

Petrosino, C

3

ENGL 369: Minority Traditions in Literature (New Black Poetry)-CD1

Course Description:
In this 300-level course, we will read several book-length collections by contemporary African American poets. Our investigations will focus on the contributions of young or otherwise emerging voices to the “black poetry scene.” In what ways do these poets work with and against the “conventions” of black poetry? How do these poets refresh the seemingly well-trodden ground of history, identity, gender relations, and politics? Our discussions will focus on how black poets use the tools of poetry—e.g., form, music, breath, and space—to convey powerful arguments in language. Readings will be explored and contextualized through a number of graded writing assignments, each of which will be designed to help you learn to conduct literary analysis through close reading.

[Note: This course requires from each student significant commitments to reading, writing, and discussion. This is not a lecture course, so attendance is essential. Be aware that this course satisfies a College requirement for Cultural Diversity, but is also designed to meet the requirements of the English department.. Everyone will be held to the same grading standards, regardless of major.]

Texts:
The exact texts for this course have not yet been assigned, but students can expect to read 7-9 WHOLE, single-authored collections of poetry this semester. Electronic textbooks are not permitted in this course.

5686

ENGL

370

1

STUDY ABROAD

TBA

TBA

TBA

3

3353

ENGL

373

1

WOMEN IN LITERATURE - CD2

MWF

11:00am-11:50am

DA208A

Ryan, S

3

This course uses the work of American women writers from the early national period to the mid-twentieth century to explore two overlapping literary modes: sentimentalism and sensationalism. In the process, we will address matters of literary value/status; reform & activism via literature; and the complexities of reception. The course will fulfill a 1700-1900 period requirement for English majors.

Requirements:
Active participation in class discussion; midterm and final examinations; reading quizzes; and brief response papers.

4143

ENGL

373

2

WOMEN IN LITERATURE - CD2

TTh

11:00am-12:15pm

HM117

Mattingly, J

3

This course surveys 19th-century U.S. women writers, examining how they addressed issues of importance to and for women and how their words participated in conversations about the United States and its future. Texts required for the course include Hope Leslie, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Hidden Hand. Other short readings are available in a packet that may be purchased in Miller IT. Many of these texts may be read online at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html, http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html, and other sites.

By the end of this seminar, you should:
Understand issues of importance to 19th-century U.S. women
Be familiar with women’s participation in conversations important to the nation
Be acquainted with a wide variety of women who voiced their beliefs and concerns in public forums
Appreciate 19th-century women’s diverse writing styles

6278

ENGL

375

1

LGBTQ LIT - CD2

MWF

01:00pm-01:50pm

HM217

Kopelson, K

3

Engl/WGST 375-01 LGBTQ Literature—CD 2

This section of LGBTQ Literature is focused on themes of passing or “dangerous crossings.” Obviously, being (or identifying as) Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/or Queer is itself a “dangerous crossing,” a social transgression, but no one is just her/his sexual or gendered identity. Rather, sexuality and gender cross and are crossed by—always intersect with—race and social class and other facets of identity. This course will thus read texts that allow us to examine the intersections of identity positions.

We will read an eclectic mix of novels spanning the late 19th century to the mid-2000s, but all of which will feature characters who, to varying degrees, are marked by, or who pass among and between, multiple social identity categories or positions. We will examine how the meanings of gender and sexuality are always related to, and how they shift as they intersect with, race and/or class status. In addition to reading the novels themselves, we will read and respond to literary criticism on many of the novels as part of the course’s efforts to deepen your understanding of the conventions of analyzing and writing about literature.

The novels we read will likely include:
Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Ed.
Larsen, Nella. Passing. Penguin Classics.
Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. Delta.
Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues. Alyson Books.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family TragiComic. Mariner Books.

Course requirements will likely include but are not limited to: participation in class discussion; in-class and take-home written responses to the readings; and two analytical papers.

This course fulfills the General Education Requirements for the “Understanding Cultural Diversity” competency area (CD2).

7716

ENGL

382

1

CONT POETRY IN ENGL

MW

02:00pm-03:15pm

EH110

Skinner, J

3

Prerequisites: ENGL 102 or 105 
A study of selected poetry in English since 1955.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course we will examine a selection of published books of poems by American authors from 1955 to the present.  The course will examine the various ways autobiographical content has been used (or not used) in the work of American poets of the period, and how ideas about what makes a piece of writing a “poem” have changed/evolved during the period.  In addition, we’ll discuss other elements of cultural context as well as formal characteristics of the works.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Through the work of the course students will: become familiar with some of the American poets practicing during the period; build a vocabulary with which to discuss such work; consider various cultural forces the works reflect; explore constructions of “self” and “autobiography” and “poem” in the selections.

7680

ENGL

402

1

HON: FRANKENSTEIN & ITS CON-WR Note: This section is restricted to students eligible for the Honors Program. Please call the Honors department at 852-6293 for more information.

MW

01:00pm-02:15pm

HR204

Hadley, K

3

7683

ENGL

402

2

HON: 20TH CENT AVANT-GARDE-WR Note: This section is restricted to students eligible for the Honors Program. Please call the Honors department at 852-6293 for more information.

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

TH132

Golding, A

3

Eng. 402, "History and Theory of the (Literary) Avant-Garde":

This course engages the history, theory, and practice of avant-garde writing from the early twentieth century to the present. The title of David Antin's talk performance "What It Means to be Avant-Garde" could be taken as the governing rubric, allowing us to examine the nature and ambitions of avant-garde writing; what constitutes an avant-garde; the avant-garde and politics; the avant-garde and gender; questions of evaluation, reception, and institutionalization; the relationship of avant-garde writing to the academy; and whether “the avant-garde” is still a useful or viable concept.  We will take as our central examples movements or tendencies in American poetry from the post-World War II period, drawing from the Black Mountain school, the New York school, the Black Arts Movement, feminist avant-garde poetics, and Language writing and connecting this writing to parallel developments in the other arts, particularly the visual arts and performance.  To establish a context for this material, in the first half of the course we will address inter-arts avant-garde movements in other cultures and their influence on this later work (Italian Futurism, Russian Futurism, Dada, Surrealism) and read extensively in the work of major theorists of the avant-garde such as Peter Burger, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Paul Mann and others who will take us into consideration of the other arts.  Thus you will also become familiar with the key terms in the discourse surrounding avant-garde writing.

While this is mainly a literature course, one function of the avant-garde has often been to redefine what we mean by “literature,” and a recurring feature of the movements under discussion has been to consider literature in relation to the other arts. Hence I will welcome your bringing into the discussion examples from the visual and plastic arts, theatre, music, dance, digital media, and popular culture.  Within the framework of the above description, my approach will probably be somewhat improvisatory, and that will include a certain amount of online work: audio and video files, looking at relevant web sites.  There will be more emphasis on the questions and challenges that the work under discussion poses than on answers.

7717

ENGL

403

1

ADVANCED CW

MWF

12:00pm-12:50pm

DA207

Griner, P

3

Prerequisite: ENGL 305 or consent of instructor. A course designed for students who have had considerable experience in imaginative writing, and who wish to increase their aptitude as writers of drama, fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry.

Welcome to English 403. You know better than I do what you hope to get from the course, and the most important goals are probably the ones you discover and define. Personally, I expect to see all of you improve as writers, readers and critics. That doesn’t necessarily mean I expect you to become more polished writers; in some cases it may mean you’re more willing to take risks, while in others it may mean you’ll gain greater expertise in things you already do well.

Please keep in mind that this is a multi-genre course. You will be asked to read and critique poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and perhaps drama, and you must be prepared to do so.

This is a workshop-style course. Class sessions are used primarily to discuss work written by class members, which is distributed and studied in advance of the discussion.

7718

ENGL

413

1

BRIT LIT BEG TO SHKS-WR

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

HM217

Dietrich, J

3

We will read a selection of romances from the late medieval and early modern periods, asking about the roles played by texts in this era of cultural change. We will read some theoretical articles and chapters and bring theory to bear on interpretation. The goals of the course are for students to become familiar with literature of this historical period, to become better readers and writers, to learn to find, evaluate and use secondary sources in making an argument, and to get some practice using various interpretive methods. Likely texts include “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the “Lancelot” and one or two other romances by Chretien de Troyes, Malory’s “Morte D’Arthur,” some of The Faerie Queen, and some of Sidney’s “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia,” and –purposefully pushing the genre boundaries a bit—Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. (Final choices will depend greatly on what texts are available at a reasonable price.) Students should expect to complete daily writing assignments and three short essays requiring research.

6282

ENGL

415

1

19TH C BRITISH LIT-WR

MWF

09:00am-09:50am

HM113

Hadley, K

3

6283

ENGL

417

1

CONT BRIT & POCO LIT-WR

TTh

02:30pm-03:45pm

WS002

Journet, D

3

In this course we will read the novels listed below. Assignments will include two essays and response papers on each novel.

Being Dead. Jim Crace.

Disgrace. J.M Coetzee

The God of Small things. Arundhati Roy.

The Sense of an Ending.Julian Barnes.

Room.Emma Donighue.

7720

ENGL

418

50

AMERICAN LIT TO 1830-WR Note: This course is offered as part of the Kentucky Virtual Campus program.

TBA

DISTNCE ED

Yohannes, T

3

This on-line course will study American Literature from its beginnings to 1820, in other words from the Colonial period through the early 19th century. Since the expansion of slavery during this period paralleled, informed, challenged, and eventually deconstructed notions of the Enlightenment which dominate the period, we will use Olaudah Equiano's longer work, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, as a focus text through which to read the other autobiographies, poetry, and political and religious texts of the period.

The course will be divided into four shorter units after which formal papers of various lengths will be taken through at least two drafts.
Topic: Early American capture and distress narratives -- Paper Assigned: Research into the Historical Context of 1 of the assigned readings
Topic: Colonial Poetry -- Paper Assigned: Explication of an assigned poem
Topic: Enlightenment ideals/autobiography -- Paper Assigned: Considering the nature of Colonial Autobiography
Topic: Secondary Research - Equiano -- Paper Assigned: Metacognitive paper on Equiano's Narrative

7705

ENGL

421

1

FAULKNER,HEMINGWAY&FITZGERALD

MW

02:00pm-03:15pm

NS317

Jaffe, A

3

4503

ENGL

422

1

AMER LIT 1960-PRES-WR

MWF

11:00am-11:50am

DA108

Claborn, John

3

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the history, form, and theory of post-1960 American literature by focusing on postmodernism as a framework for understanding this period. “Postmodern” is a big tent word that designates both a historical period and an aesthetic. Historically, the postmodern era refers to the Cold War decades following World War II, a period of economic prosperity, as well as social and cultural revolution; it saw the rise of the postindustrial, consumer-based economy; media-driven, image-based politics and the Internet. This course will examine literature of this postmodern era and how it grapples with history’s emerging problems. We will read a selection of postmodernist poetry, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Art Spiegelman’s Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, and Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.

4115

ENGL

423

1

AFR-AM LIT 1845-PRES WR-CD1

MWF

10:00am-10:50am

HM111

Schneider, S

3

In this course we’ll survey the African American literary tradition from 1845 to the present.  We’ll look at how African Americans understood their roles as authors, with a particular focus on the ways that they used literary texts to create and negotiate cultural and political identities.  We’ll also look at how these questions were taken up by major literary movements like the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement.  Course texts may include works by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison, as well as critical essays by figures such as W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.

4733

ENGL

423

2

AFR-AM LIT 1845-PRES WR-CD1

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

HM111

Chandler, K

3

This survey will explore representations of children and adolescents in a range of African American literature, including both works that originally targeted adult readers and texts that were originally directed at young readers. Among the themes the course will explore are concepts of childhood and adulthood, ideas about learning, wisdom, and creativity, ideas about power, and concepts of identity, including the significance of color, ethnicity, gender, region, and class. Considering the relationship between literature and its cultural contexts will be an important goal of the course.

3448

ENGL

450

1

COOP INTERN IN ENGLISH Note: This section requires permission from the instructor.

TBA

TBA

Willey, A

1.00/3.00

8000

ENGL

470

1

STUDIES LIT MOVEMENT -WR

MWF

01:00pm-01:50pm

DA209A

Ryan, S

3

“Reformers and Their Critics in 19th Century American Literature”

This course will address the relationship between nineteenth-century U.S. literature and a range of movements, agendas, and practices of persuasion that we commonly label “social reform.” Some of the texts we’ll read pursue their reformist agendas with an earnestness that shocks our (post)modernist sensibilities; others critique the reform movements of their day, even as they advance more subtle, but no less political, agendas of their own. We’ll consider the following questions, among others: To what extent and through what means can (or could) literature effect social change? What rhetorical strategies did nineteenth-century authors use to advance their agendas? Is politically engaged literature, as some critics have suggested, less aesthetically pleasing than literature without an overt reformist purpose? Or is there an aesthetics of persuasion that might operate in place of, or alongside, other evaluative criteria? How do the texts we’re reading intersect with and illuminate such critical and historical paradigms as the public sphere, sentimentalism, domesticity, critical race theory, nineteenth-century feminism(s), and transnational American studies?

3449

ENGL

491

1

INT THEORY NEW CRIT-PRES

MWF

12:00pm-12:50pm

HM209

Schneider, S

3

Theory-with-a-capital-T-theory has enjoyed something of a mixed reception in the humanities.  For many people, “Theory” describes the writings of philosophers like Foucault, Adorno, Benjamin, DeMan, Derrida, and Deleuze—writings that are typically consider as dense and unreadable as they are important.  But in this class we’ll look at theory in a slightly different light, as the ways we make sense of reading, writing, and language, and how we use these different media to understand the world around us.  We’ll ask what the purpose of theory is, as well as more specific questions that come from thereadings themselves. What is a text, or a reader, or an author? What is therelationship between texts and language? Texts and society? Politics? History?  While these are in many ways questions too big to definitively answer, they are also the questions that theory helps us to ask.

5354

ENGL

491

75

INT THEORY NEW CRIT-PRES

TTh

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM121

Biberman, S

3

4116

ENGL

504

1

ADV CR WR II-FICTION

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

DA209B

Naslund, S

3

English 504-Fiction is an advanced workshop-style undergraduate course which can also be
taken for graduate credit. Most of the class time is used to discuss the fiction
written by class members. Students are required to produce two (three for graduate credit)
new short stories and a revision, to prepare and participate in class discussion, and to read
and discuss stories in Best American Short Stories 2011. Critical thinking, creative productivity,
and openess to the instructor's suggestions are required. The instructor is University
of Louisville Writer in Residence and a New York Times critically acclaimed, national bestselling author.

3451

ENGL

506

75

TEACHING OF WRITING-WR

MW

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM209

Horner, B

3

This course will be devoted to making useful sense of scholarship on the teaching of writing by examining the terms, concepts, assumptions, and concerns that seem to be key in some of the literature constituting that scholarship.  No course could adequately review the substantial literature on writing pedagogy. Readings for this course represent a small network of past and recent writings addressing writing pedagogy from the perspective of the teaching of college composition.  Students will be expected to approach these texts as part of ongoing scholarly conversations and debates that they are in a position to begin to engage with and to contribute to through their written responses to these readings, discussions of these, and in their essays.  In posing and pursuing questions about these texts—in journal responses, discussions, and position papers—students should become familiar with this writing pedagogy scholarship and find ways to make sense of it in ways that will be useful to them in their own thinking about and preparation for teaching writing.

5688

ENGL

510

1

GRAD COOP INTERNSHIP MA LEVEL Note: This section requires permission from the instructor.

TBA

TBA

Kopelson, K

3

5152

ENGL

518

1

FOUND OF LANG

MW

01:00pm-02:15pm

HM112

Patton, E

3

5154

ENGL

522

1

STR OF MOD AM ENGL

TTh

04:00pm-05:15pm

HM112

Stewart Jr, T

3

ENGL/LING 522 Structure of Modern English (3)
Description: The structure of English is provided within a contemporary theoretical framework such as government binding theory, optimal grammar theory, or cognitive grammar theory. Counts in the Theoretical Track of the Undergraduate Minor in Linguistics.

6289

ENGL

523

1

HIST-ENGLISH LANG

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

HM112

Stewart Jr, T

3

ENGL/LING 523 History of the English Language (3)
Prerequisites: ENGL 102 or 105; junior standing.
Description: The evolution of modern English in terms of social, historical, and linguistic forces which molded it; includes discussion of Anglo-Saxon metrics, Latin, French, and Danish influences, and cosmopolitan aspects of English. Counts in the Theoretical Track of the Undergraduate Minor in Linguistics.

7727

ENGL

535

1

APPLIED LING FOR ENGL TEACHERS

W

04:00pm-06:45pm

HM112

Patton, E

3

7706

ENGL

543

1

RELIGION,SCIENCE, COLONIALISM

MWF

01:00pm-01:50pm

DA104

Stanev, H

3

543-01: Religion, Science, Colonialism
This course will explore three of the most significant creative impulses behind the turbulent Stuart and Commonwealth years in England – colonial expansion, religious thought, and scientific exploration. We will not only study their separate impact upon the early modern imagination and the political and social events of the seventeenth century, but also consider ways in which all three appeared and reflected upon each other in the writings of seminal early modern authors, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton. We will read and discuss a wide range of plays, travel narratives, discovery reports, poems, scientific tracts, statements of religious doctrine, and utopian adventures. The major texts will include Shakespeare’s Tempest, Macbeth, and Othello, Jonson’s Alchemist, Rowley, Dekker, and Ford’s Witch of Edmonton, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Cavendish’s Blazing New World, Godwin’s Man in the Moon, Behn’s Oroonoko, as well as selected poems by George Herbert.

7707

ENGL

544

1

SML JHNSN:PREFIGURE OF POP CLT

TTh

02:30pm-03:45pm

DA208B

Hall, D

3

ENGL 544-01 is an exploration of the early rise of what is now known as popular culture as was manifested in the 18th century, more specifically as it is reflected in the works of Samuel Johnson, more particularly his biographical writings, in his periodical writings, and even in the dictionary, among other works.

7708

ENGL

549

75

GLOBAL MODERNISMS

TTh

05:30pm-06:45pm

HM209

Clukey, A

3

Global Modernisms—this course will take a “planetary” approach to modernist studies. In the first few weeks, we'll begin by looking at the ways that canonical modernists like Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster approach colonial/transnational themes and subjects. Then we'll turn to examples of marginalized modernisms from the colonial periphery that respond to, adapt, reject, or ignore European models. Course discussions will consider issues of historicity, colonialism, race, ethnicity, region, nation, and form. Our readings will be drawn from a wide swath of the globe: Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, and North America. Most of these texts will be Anglophone, but we will also read several in translation. Enrolled students who have any preferences they may email me before mid-November and I will take their interests into consideration when finalizing our booklist. A tentative syllabus will be sent out via Blackboard in early December.

Special Notes: Non-majors with an interest in transnational or postcolonial approaches to literature are welcome to enroll, but should be aware that this class will feature intensive reading and writing appropriate for 500 literature course.

7709

ENGL

564

1

POETS & POLITICS IN THE 20TH C

TTh

01:00pm-02:15pm

EH112

Golding, A

3

Eng. 564, "Selected Figures in American Literature," spring 2013 (Golding):

Under the rubric "Experimental Modernism," this course attends to the language experiments initiated by such US American writers as Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, William Carlos Williams, Jean Toomer and Gertrude Stein in the early 20^th Century.  The primary emphasis will be on poetic texts and essays by the poets; relevant critical, theoretical and historical background reading will also be assigned.  If Pound's dictum to "make it new" was the driving force behind this particular strain of modernist writing, what did that look like? What diverse forms did "experiment" take and why did these writers feel it to be such a powerful imperative?

In addition to discussing representative work from these and other writers, we will also examine--time permitting-- the cultural and aesthetic contexts of the emergence of experimental modern verse in the salons, networks of patronage, and little magazines of the period such as The Egoist magazine, Dial, BLAST, The Little Review, The New Age, The New Freewoman, and so on.

Prospective students should understand that the course explores a particular perspective on modernism, and does so mainly via poetry.  It is not a survey of US American modernist writing.  As a 500-level course, it is also not introductory, and I recommend that students who take it have at least some minimal background in the period.

7711

ENGL

577

1

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

MWF

10:00am-10:50am

HM112

Anderson, D

3

English 577/PAS 577. In this course, we will study the Harlem Renaissance (or New Negro Renaissance), the first nationwide literary and arts movement among African Americans, spanning from the early-to-mid 1920’s to the early 1930’s. We’ll look at major writers of the period, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Jean Toomer, and others, additional art forms, the cultural milieu in which this took place, and the social networks that were formed and supported by the movement. Graded assignments may include research papers, review of relevant scholarship, a class report, and an exam.