2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

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	ENGL 087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies CrsNo ENGL087F PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): D, Regaignon; P, Bromley Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Full course.
	ENGL 087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies CrsNo ENGL087H PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): D, Regaignon; P, Bromley Writing: Theories, Processes, Pedagogies. Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Half-credit. For Writing Fellows only.
	ENGL 088 PO - Poets in the 21st Century CrsNo ENGL088 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): C. Rankine Explores the work of a number of contemporary poets by reading their work and engaging with criticism written by and about them.
	ENGL 090 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Literature CrsNo ENGL090 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): Staff The Middle Ages and Renaissance form the buried foundation to all later literary endeavor. This class frontloads a number of ideas and events that are important for understanding the discipline. Organized in segments, it will cover nationhood, authorship, literary fame, the evolution of genre, post-coloniality and climate change.
	ENGL 091 PO - Enlightment, Romantic and Victorian Literature CrsNo ENGL091 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered 2013-14. Instructor(s): Offered alternate years; next offered 2013-14. Close study in historical context of selected works by such 18th- and 19th-century writers as Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Bronte, Browning, Dickens, G. Eliot, Hardy and Yeats.
	ENGL 092 PO - Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition CrsNo ENGL092 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar A survey of the most significant English-language Irish writing from Jonathan Swift to the present day, with attention paid to linguistic and stylistic virtuosity and to the politics of Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial experiences. Sterne, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Yeats, Moore, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, Heaney, Boland, Muldoon, Doyle, McDonagh and others. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 093 PO - Rock & Roll Writing CrsNo ENGL093 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Combining study and practice, we’ll read some of rock’s most popular and vital writers (Bangs, Marcus, Powers, Willis, Klosterman) and produce writing in a number of common genres of rock writing. Five graded assignments of varying lengths. Writing workshop format. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II CrsNo ENGL095 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Survey of U.S. fiction and poetry from the antebellum period to the present. Will touch on the emergence of realism, naturalism, modernism, post-modernism and the avant-garde. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 100 PO - Literature and Cultures of U.S. Imperialism CrsNo ENGL100 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Course addresses the history of U.S. imperialism through literature, historical readings and cultural theory. Emphasis on reading imperialism through the lens of critical gender studies and critical race theory. Covers lesser-known women writers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, Sitkala-Sam and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, as well as canonical novelists like Melville and Twain.
	ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature CrsNo ENGL102A SC An examination of the literature of America’s beginnings, culminating with the period of the American Renaissance. Using novels, poems, essays, personal narratives and short stories, we will probe the development of America’s national literary sensibility. Writers to be read in this course will include the Puritans, Jefferson, Paine, Wheatley, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass and others.
	ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature CrsNo ENGL102B SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment CrsNo ENGL103 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): S. Raff Reason and unreason, ethics and aesthetics, high minds and low bodies in poetry, drama and prose by such writers as Dryden, Locke, Rochester, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Burke and Sheridan, with some attention to French authors such as Voltaire.
	ENGL 104 PO - Literature of Romantic Period CrsNo ENGL104 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): A. Reed The major poets—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats—with some attention to both fictional and nonfictional prose.
	ENGL 105 PO - Literature of Victorian Period CrsNo ENGL105 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff
	ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers CrsNo ENGL106 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Novels, anti- and pro-slavery tracts, domestic manuals and other forms of women’s writing during the 19th century. Special attention to critical and historical sources examining the role of women in the public spheres and spaces of 19th-century United States. Knowledge of literary, cultural or critical gender theory required.
	ENGL 107 PO - William Blake CrsNo ENGL107 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mann Studies in Blake’s visionary poetry and painting, with special focus on “illuminated books” as both verbal and visual art.
	ENGL 111 PO - American Masculinities: Novel 19-20C CrsNo ENGL111 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins This course approaches (primarily) 19th-century novels through the framework of critical gender studies. We will look at the changing construction of race and gender in relation to masculinity from the late revolutionary period through the early 20th century. Authors considered include Brockden, Brown, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, James Crane, DuBois and Hemingway. Offered alternate years.
	ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance CrsNo ENGL112 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld Spanning prose, poetry and drama of the early modern period, the genre of “romance” describes perplexing, digressive narratives that revolve around cross-dressing, incest, the return of the dead, and the dissolution of the family. We will read from Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Mary Wroth’s Urania, and Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline, and Winter’s Tale. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture 1865-1917 CrsNo ENGL113 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Looks at the explosion of popular culture from the end of the Civil War to World War II via primary texts (advertising, popular and canonical novels, magazines, etc.) and feminist and cultural theory. Examines the ways that U.S. demographics – Black, European immigrant, working class, female, male and adolescent – were shaped by the popular discourses and the period.
	ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms CrsNo ENGL114 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): J. Jeon Asian/American Forms. This course examines Asian/American literary texts that exhibit self-consciousness about their own formal characteristics as a means of engaging with an d interrogating social and racial formations. Readings will include both texts written Asian Americans and texts that address Asianness in an American context. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 115 PO - Eating the Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies CrsNo ENGL115 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2008. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins This course will introduce students to the theoretical and historical conversations taking place in the new field of food studies. With a particular emphasis on 20th-century U.S. literature, film and food culture, we will discuss the ways in which food has been used to represent cultural difference. We will explore hunger, food ethics, disorderly eating, fat, race, gender, sex and chocolate.
	ENGL 116 PO - Excess: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis CrsNo ENGL116 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): P. Mann Interdisciplinary study of key “limit-texts,” chiefly in the area of sexual extremity. Readings from Sade, Masoch, Freud, Deleuze, Kafka and others; films by Pasolini and Oshima. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 117 PO - Poststructuralism CrsNo ENGL117 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): P. Mann Readings in Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Deleuze, Barthes, Lyotard, de Man, et al. Some familiarity with continental philosophy or critical theory recommended. Spring 2011; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films CrsNo ENGL118 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): A. Reed Investigates narrative as a fundamental mode of understanding and organizing human experience. Practice of storytelling in writers like Calvino, Diderot, Kundera, Borges, Proust, Kafka, Dante, Sterne, Woolf and Sartre; and in filmmakers like Lynch, Hitchcock, Roeg, Malick and Allen. Theories of narrative from Aristotle through Freud to Barthes.
	ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels CrsNo ENGL119 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): Staff Examines various genres of graphic narratives as literary products, with an eye toward understanding the interaction of images and text in the construction of meaning. Topics may include the history of the medium; economic factors; definitional tensions; differences in conventions between genres; and pop culture vs. high culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO or MS 049 PO or MS 051 PO .
	ENGL 120 PO - Queer Theories, Gay Fictions CrsNo ENGL120 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): A. Reed An introduction to gay studies that reads current literary and cultural theory together with fiction, film, photography, and painting. While concentrating on 20th-century texts and images (Peck, Rick, Delany, Warhol, Hockney, Camp, Hollywood, and Jarmish), we look back to figures like Sappho, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Caravaggio, da Vinci, Wilde, Proust, Stein, and James. Theorists include Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, Kristeva, Barthes, Wittig, de Laurentis, and D.A. Miller.
	ENGL 121 PO - Whitman, Dickinson and Poe CrsNo ENGL121 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Primarily studies in the poetry and selected prose of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson; the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe; and relevant literary criticism. Special attention to publishing histories, social contexts, relationships to other writers in the 19th century and influence on the development of American poetics. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives CrsNo ENGL122 AF When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology and the business of remedy. Prerequisites: An English, Africana Studies, Black Studies or Asian American Studies course.
	ENGL 123 PO - The Holocaust in Literature and Film CrsNo ENGL123 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mann Close study of novels, poetry and film on the shoah. Secondary readings in historical and philosophical texts.
	ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms CrsNo ENGL124 AF When Offered: Next offered 2013-2014. Instructor(s): V. Thomas AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance, and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement, but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science and philosophy.
	ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War CrsNo ENGL125C AF When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of African American literary tradition from African retentions, slave narratives and oral tradition, through memoir, autobiography, anti-lynching and revolutionary protest tracts, essays, poetry, criticism and the beginnings of the Black novel in English.
	ENGL 125D AF - Literature and Film of African Diaspora CrsNo ENGL125D AF When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course investigates the major critical issues and expressive methods of African Diaspora film. We will address aesthetics and representations of race, class, and gender, and resonances between written and visual texts in which artists theorize the African Diaspora.
	ENGL 125DLAF - Lit/Film of African Diaspora Lab CrsNo ENGL125DLAF When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): V. Thomas
	ENGL 126 PO - California Poetry CrsNo ENGL126 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2010. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Considers the variety of myths, histories, imaginations and products (literary, cultural, material) that are produced or revised by California poetry in 20th century. Readings may include work by Rexroth, Oppen, Miles, Jeffers, Miller, Duncan, Ferlinghetti, Spicer, Hejinian, Hillman, Hass and others.
	ENGL 127 PO - Pre-modern Psychology CrsNo ENGL127 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): A. Kunin This course investigates models of consciousness, affect and relation, primarily from the 16th and 17th centuries. How thoughts and feelings are generated, communicated and stored; what they are made of; where they occur; how they create links and divisions between people. Examples from philosophy, rhetoric, medicine, law, religion and literature. Topics will include friendship, love, melancholy, habit, suicide, diversion, meditation, wit, cowardice, dreams, madness and stupidity.
	ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales CrsNo ENGL128 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): J. McDonie This course serves as an introduction to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
	ENGL 129 PO - Spaces of Cultural Resistance CrsNo ENGL129 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This interdisciplinary course focuses on postcolonial literature, film, spatial theory and the means of imagining a successful post-Capitalist politics of decolonization, cultural reinvention and community. We will foreground texts that invite discussion of race, gender, sex and class in the context of globalization, new technologies, cultural dislocation, cataclysm and diaspora.
	ENGL 130 AF - Topics 20th Century African Diaspora Literature CrsNo ENGL130 AF When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): V. Thomas Rotating topics.
	ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narrative & Theories CrsNo ENGL132 AF When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): L. Harris This course examines the cultural productions of Black queer artists and scholars whose focus on race and sexuality at the intersections of Black, feminist and queer history and thought shape the content and form of a Black queer narrative in the latter 20th century (approximately 1985-2005).
	ENGL 132 PO - Contemporary Speculative Fiction CrsNo ENGL132 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): J. Jeon Contemporary Speculative Fiction. This course examines the genre of speculative fiction with a particular emphasis on alternative histories and stories of imagined futures. Although this genre has generally been associated with Science Fiction, recent writers have appropriated these modes for what is sometimes regarded as “serious” literature, thereby undermining distinctions between low-brow and high-brow cultural production. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 134 BK - Harlem Renaissance CrsNo ENGL134 BK When Offered: Next offered 2014-2015. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course is a survey of African American literature and culture produced during or linked to the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Central to the course is an ongoing survey and analysis of popular cultural forms such as the blues, social dance, film, and musical theater.
	ENGL 134 PO - Medieval Women Authors CrsNo ENGL134 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff A study of women writers from the eighth- to 15th-century writing in various genres, such as travelogue, drama, personal history, fable, verse and didactic literature. We analyze these texts as works of literature and as historical artifacts, through comparison with men who wrote in a similar genre/cultural context and also with women who exerted power in non-literary ways. Spring 2008; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 135 PO - The “American” Century CrsNo ENGL135 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): J. Jeon The “American” Century. This course examines twentieth-=century representations of America by both American and non-American writers, thinkers, and artists in literature, criticism, and other visual modes. A heuristic device, all texts in this class have the world “American” in their titles. The course will investigate the changing meaning of the word as the United States emerges globally as an economic, cultural, and military power. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 136 PO - Feminist Poetics CrsNo ENGL136 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk This course will offer students an introduction to feminist theory and criticism particularly as it intersects with poetics. By exploring poetry through the lens of feminist critique, students will gain skills in literary interpretation, theory-based scholarship, and argumentative reasoning. Students will read work by theorists such as Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, and Hélène Cixous; poets Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Diane di Prima, and Lorine Niedecker; and essays by Audre Lorde, Susan Howe, and Juliana Spahr. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO or GWS 026 PO .
	ENGL 137 PO - Fragment as Form CrsNo ENGL137 PO When Offered: Offered occasionally; last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): A. Kunin The fragment as form in early modern literature: aphorisms, diaries, letters, dictionaries, footnotes, ballads, poems, ruins and histories. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society CrsNo ENGL138 PO When Offered: Offered occasionally; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Henry James on Art and Society. How does art make life? How do you use a novel to love the world? We will try to answer these questions by studying James’s novels and tales. We will also consider some writings by Eliot, Adams, Wilde, Wharton, and William James. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration CrsNo ENGL140 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course investigates the world’s largest Prison Industrial Complex as narrated from the inside out. We focus on memoirs, novels, essays and poetry by and about inmates and critical writings on the prison system. Some argue that it’s a system of “Corrections” and paying a debt to society; others view it as the New Slavery.
	ENGL 141 PO - Shakespearean Drama CrsNo ENGL141 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld Shakespeare and the Technology of Dramatic Invention. Drawing on the theories and technologies of early modern performance, this class will consider how Shakespeare’s language both grounds and complicates questions central to the intersecting histories of rhetoric and theatrical production, including questions of gender, education, class, race and sexuality. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 142 PO - Shakespeare’s Poetic Practices CrsNo ENGL142 PO When Offered: Fall 2014. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld This course will consider Shakespeare’s practices in the context of classical and early modern poetic theory to investigate Shakespeare’s art objects and Shakespeare as art object. Possible reading includes Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s poetry and selected plays (Titus, Love’s Labour, Taming, Tempest). Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
	ENGL 143 PO - American Poetic Modernisms CrsNo ENGL143 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Readings in a diverse body of American poetry identified as high-, late-, alternative- or early-“modernist.” Premised on the notion of multiple modernisms, this class uses readings in literary theory and criticism to interrogate and refine the terms with which we categorize poetry from the first half of the 20th century. Readings will include Moore, Eliot, Pound, Toomer, Oppen, Rukeyser, Williams, Hughes and others.
	ENGL 144 PO - Psychoanalysis and Literature CrsNo ENGL144 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): S. Raff Considers psychoanalytic conceptions of the unconscious, identity, subjectivity, family, culture, religion and clinical practice with attention to their relevance to the study of literature. Intensive introduction to psychoanalysis followed by an examination of psychoanalytic theories of reading. Work by Freud, Lacan, Winnicott and others. Short literary texts may include Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Flaubert, James and Kafka.
	ENGL 145 PO - Gothic Tradition CrsNo ENGL145 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): S. Raff A close look at the founding phase of the Gothic literary tradition (Walpole, Godwin, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen) with a glance at its precursors, such as the “apparition narrative” and a survey of its monstrous progeny (Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, Pushkin, Poe, LeFanu, Henry James, Stoker, Carter, cyborg films). Short secondary readings include Burke, Sade, Scott, Freud, Kristeva, Sedgwick.
	ENGL 146 PO - Modernist Poetry CrsNo ENGL146 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk
	ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory CrsNo ENGL147 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann Introduction to the tasks and problems of contemporary literary theory. Readings drawn primarily from structuralism and poststructuralism.
	ENGL 148 PO - Literary Theory, Ancient and Modern CrsNo ENGL148 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann
	ENGL 149 PO - Korea’s IMF-Crisis Cinema CrsNo ENGL149 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013. Instructor(s): J.Jeon This course examines the remarkable moment of Korean Cinema in the decade following the so-called International Monetary Fund Crisis in South Korea which began in 1997. Global in orientation, the films of the period not only help make sense of the changing economic climate in the region, but also offer insight into the operations and effects of neoliberal economics worldwide. To this end, this class will consider the formal, artistic, and narrative aspects of filmmaking in relation to the geopolitical social contexts they engage. Students in the course will attend a weekly required screening and read theoretical texts that will give critical context to the films. All films have English subtitles; neither language background nor familiarity with Asian cinema is required. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 150 PO - Queer Theory and Literature CrsNo ENGL150 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins In this course, students will be introduced to foundational texts within the field of Queer Theory. Students will learn how to apply queer theory as a theoretical framework in their examination of cultural texts and use queer theory as a mode of analysis across disciplines. Prior knowledge of queer theory is not required, however, this course will be dealing with complex theoretical concepts that will require substantial reading and analysis.
	ENGL 151 PO - Topics in Medieval Lit & Culture CrsNo ENGL151 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. An exploration of literary culture in England and continental Europe, with an emphasis on the ways that literature interacts with political, religious and economic forces. Special topics vary from year to year. Course may be retaken for credit with instructor’s permission.
	ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World CrsNo ENGL153 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): Staff Poetry and prose, fact and fiction, piety and porno (or just about) — Chaucer wrote it all. We will learn Middle English, get familiar with one of the cornerstones of English literature and examine timeless issues like imperialism, gender roles and class warfare.
	ENGL 154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories CrsNo ENGL154 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff An examination of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. Emphasis on the formal, religious and political significance of love, sex and marriage in the comedies. Consideration of various uses and modes of history writing, as well as intersections between religion and politics (political theology) in the histories.
	ENGL 155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances CrsNo ENGL155 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): Staff An examination of Shakespeare’s later plays, with emphasis on traditional and newly emerging ideas about political, religious and gender relationships, including the analogy between family and state and alternative notions of contract and consent. The course considers how the literary genres of tragedy and romance can perform political critique and imagine political reform.
	ENGL 156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture CrsNo ENGL156 PO When Offered: Offered occasionally; last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Milton’s poetry and prose in the context of visual culture: primacy and shame of the visible; blindness; iconoclasm; and “dissociation of sensibility.” Some attention to theories of image-making in other early modern poetry, painting, fashion and design. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen CrsNo ENGL158 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2008. Instructor(s): S. Raff Austen’s novels and related texts, with attention to Austen’s place in literary tradition.
	ENGL 159 PO - Literature and the Natural World CrsNo ENGL159 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk This course will explore the ways in which 20th century writing, especially poetry, engages the concept of “nature.” Alongside primary texts in non-fiction and poetry, we will read selections from ecocriticism and theory. Some writers that may be included in this course are Aldo Leopold, Mary Austin, Forrest Gander, Robert Hass and Annie Dillard. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
	ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship CrsNo ENGL160 PO When Offered: Spring 2015. Instructor(s): D. Regaignon Exploration of authorship in a shifting technological and mediated landscape; topics include poststructuralist theories of authorship, auteur theory, corporate authorship and battles over copyright. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.
	ENGL 161 PO - James Joyce CrsNo ENGL161 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Examinations of Joyce’s works: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Exiles and Ulysses. Close reading of the texts and consideration of aspects of Joyce’s personal background, relation to previous literary history and great influence upon contemporary literature.
	ENGL 162 SC - Race and Ethnicity in 19th-Century American Literature CrsNo ENGL162 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 163 PO - T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf CrsNo ENGL163 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2009. Instructor(s): Staff A close reading of the major works, including criticism, with attention to how both shaped modernist aesthetics.
	ENGL 164 PO - W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Drama CrsNo ENGL164 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mann
	ENGL 165 PO - Modern/Postmodern Fiction CrsNo ENGL165 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff Close study and discussion of such novelists as Conrad, Woolf, Barnes, Rhys, C. Wolf, Silko, Morrison, Saadawi, Kozameh, Thornton and Coetzee, with additional reading and attention to issues of gender, race, class and state authority.
	ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels CrsNo ENGL165 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 166 AF - James Baldwin CrsNo ENGL166 AF Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course explores the work of one of America’s greatest writers whose importance resides in part in his calling into question national practices and injustices in regards to race, sexuality, religion, civil rights struggles and other political matters. Baldwin was a frequent expatriate with an enormous literary talent for capturing the pathos of being American across a range of social identities and issues. Also examines the themes and nuances of Baldwin’s essays, novels and plays.
	ENGL 166 PO - David Foster Wallace CrsNo ENGL166 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): K. Fitzpatrick A critical examination of the fiction and non-fiction, with attention to the critical debates surrounding that work.
	ENGL 166 PZ - Literature, Illness And Disability CrsNo ENGL166 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 167 PO - Contemporary Poetry CrsNo ENGL167 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): P. Mann English and American poetry from World War II to the present.
	ENGL 170 PO - Advanced Studies Seminar English CrsNo ENGL170 PO When Offered: Each semester. Advanced Studies Seminar. Advanced analysis and writing of an extended research paper. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO and, for English majors, approval of the major path proposal. English majors taking a second 170-series seminar for completion of the senior exercise must also enroll in ENGL 190 PO , Senior Exercise/Seminar Option.
	ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book CrsNo ENGL170A PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2010. Instructor(s): Staff From the evolution of writing through the Chinese invention of paper and printing, medieval illumination, Inca quipu, the printing industry in Europe, copyright, the Brazilian cordel and the politics of literacy, up to speculations about the future of the book. Hands-on work in Special Collections. Letter grade only. Prerequisite ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170B PO - Voice, Adaptation, & Authorship CrsNo ENGL170B PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2008. Instructor(s): Staff Examines the question, “Who’s the author?” We begin with the puzzle of film ‘authorship,’ confronting not only issues of voice and structure, but also the commercial and political relationships that impact how film art is produced in what Madonna calls ‘a material world.’ Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170C PO - Inventing the Great Books CrsNo ENGL170C PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar The idea of “Great Books” appeared in the late 19th century, responding to cultural fears about the failing authority of the Good Book and the democratization of cultural capital available through a storehouse of valuable works: a secular canon. This course explores the “invention” and dissemination of this powerful cultural notion. Readings from Arnold, Newman, Farrar, Joyce, F. R. Leavis, Denby, Gates, Lauter, others. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170D PO - Herman Melville’s Moby Dick CrsNo ENGL170D PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): K.Tompkins This research-intensive senior seminar will read Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick across the space of one semester, alongside critical theory, primary materials related to the history of whaling, exploration and America literature and history. We will also reason some of Melville’s shorter fiction. Students will produce a 30-35 page paper as well as organize a small day-long conference on the novel as which each student will present a short paper. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170E PO - To Defeat Theater CrsNo ENGL170E PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): A. Kunin Artists and philosophers often complain that theater makes inappropriate demands for love. This class revisits the antitheatrical tradition to explore ways of thwarting these demands, “to defeat theater” (in Michael Fried’s phrase) using the resources of theater. Readings selected from Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Moliere, Rousseau, Stein, Brecht, Stanislavski, others. Letter grade only. Prerequisite ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170F PO - Chaucer and His World CrsNo ENGL170F PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): Staff Poetry and prose, fact and fiction, piety and porno (or just about) — Chaucer wrote it all. We will learn Middle English, get familiar with one of the cornerstones of English literature, and examine timeless issues like imperialism, gender roles and class warfare. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170G PO - Shakespeare Seminar CrsNo ENGL170G PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld We will spend the entire semester studying a single play by Shakespeare, working that play from the full variety of critical angles and concerns available to us, including a range of literary and theatrical paradigms. The play will also serve as an index to a history of the early modern period, its central questions and its tentative answers. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
	ENGL 170H PO - Collaborations CrsNo ENGL170H PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): H. Gravendyk Examines collaborative works in the 20th- and 21st-centuries, attempting to theorize hybridity, experimentalism and genre. Texts will include the shared work of poets, visual artists, graphic novelists, musicians and screenwriters, alongside projects that interact with pre-existing texts, collaborate with anonymous sources or systems, or come out of editorial relationships. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170I PO - Tragedy and Philosophy CrsNo ENGL170I PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): P. Mann Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature CrsNo ENGL170J PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This senior seminar explores the complexities of Toni Morrison’s fiction and criticism in the contexts of Black feminist theory, African Diaspora literacies and American literary and social history. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170L PO - Genre Theory CrsNo ENGL170L PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): D. Regaignon Exploration of genre as a category of analysis that provides not only a means to define, describe and catalogue kinds of texts, but also to define, organize and generate rhetorical and social action in a textually-mediated world. Focus is on both literary and rhetorical theories of genre; students will select the particular written genres and texts. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170M PO - Irony in the Public Sphere CrsNo ENGL170M PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2010. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Since the 1830s, two parallel developments in irony have combined to create the kinds of large-scale public misreading of irony seen in countless contemporary examples. We’ll survey the state of irony theory, as well as the current and past states of ironic practice, striving to complicate the traditional understanding of irony. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170N PO - Gender and the Literature of US CrsNo ENGL170N PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): K. Tompkins Gender and the Literature of U.S. Empire. This course examines the literature of the United States through the lens of feminist, postcolonial and transnational literary theory. How did 19th-century writers - both canonical and marginal - re-think the nation and its boundaries? And in doing so, how did they rethink the contour of literature? We read Melville, twain, Delany, DuBois, Sa, Ruiz de Burton among others. Includes poetry, fiction, and drama. Prerequisite:ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
	ENGL 170P PO - Early Modern Environments CrsNo ENGL170P PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): C. Winiarski This course will consider the shifting boundaries between animal and human, nature and culture, wilderness and city in Early Modern literature, philosophy, and travel writing. We will consider the potential roots—or rhizomes—of modern environmentalism in the Early Modern period as well as the recent transplanting of ecocriticism into Early Modern studies. Readings from Shakespeare, Raleigh, Wroth, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Cavendish, Aristotle, and Montaigne. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170Q PO - Wordsworth and Proust CrsNo ENGL170Q PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): A. Reed Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170R PO - Reading The Faerie Queene CrsNo ENGL170R PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld Reading The Faerie Queene. Our object will be the imaginative world of a poem that Spenser described as his “endlesse worke.” I would like us to think about the labor of poetic practice . In the Faerie Queene, people transform into trees, lions, and hedgehogs but they also transform into abstractions (like, jealousy); the dead return to life, souls transmigrate, and poems are literally inscribed onto hearts. Students will produce a 20-25 page essay. Prerequisites: 67 and two English courses excluding creative writing and writing pedagogy courses. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170S PO - Austen and the Reader CrsNo ENGL170S PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2009. Instructor(s): S. Raff Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170T PO - Pre-Modern Psychology in Lit CrsNo ENGL170T PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): A. Kunin
	ENGL 170V PO - Spec Topic in Long 18th Century CrsNo ENGL170V PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2008. Instructor(s): Staff
	ENGL 170W PO - Old English Literature CrsNo ENGL170W PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): Staff England was the first European country to have a vernacular literary tradition, one that even pre-dates the arrival of Christianity. We will be reading a variety of genres of Anglo-Saxon literature in translation, with occasional comparison with the original text. We will also be reading secondary scholarship alongside the literary texts. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170X PO - Victorian Novel CrsNo ENGL170X PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2010. Instructor(s): D. Regaignon This seminar focuses on the dominant literary genre of the 19th century British empire: the novel. Readings will include novels by the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Wood, and Yonge, as well as readings in novel theory and cultural and literary criticism. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170Y PO - Metaphysical Poets CrsNo ENGL170Y PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): S. Raff Intensive study of the religious and erotic lyrics of the 17th-century Metaphysical poets. Some attention to their influence on modernist poetry and criticism. Serious consideration of exchanges between poetry and speculative philosophy. Readings will include poems by Donne, Herbert, Philips, Cowley, Hutchinson, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Traherne and Finch. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 170Z PO - Black Women Writing CrsNo ENGL170Z PO When Offered: Undetermined. Instructor(s): V. Thomas This course investigates Black women’s constructions of political consciousness and resistance from the 19th century to the present. Students will explore Black women’s thought and critical methods across genres including poetry, fiction, memoir, essays, autobiography, music, sermons, speeches, drama and film. Authors include Ida B. Wells Barnett, Lorene Cary, Davis, Hooks, Collins. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
	ENGL 174 SC - Contemporary Women Writers CrsNo ENGL174 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.

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ENGL 087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies

ENGL 087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Pedagogies

ENGL 088 PO - Poets in the 21st Century

ENGL 090 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Literature

ENGL 091 PO - Enlightment, Romantic and Victorian Literature

ENGL 092 PO - Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition

ENGL 093 PO - Rock & Roll Writing

ENGL 095 PO - Survey of American Literature II

ENGL 100 PO - Literature and Cultures of U.S. Imperialism

ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature

ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature

ENGL 103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment

ENGL 104 PO - Literature of Romantic Period

ENGL 105 PO - Literature of Victorian Period

ENGL 106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers

ENGL 107 PO - William Blake

ENGL 111 PO - American Masculinities: Novel 19-20C

ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance

ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture 1865-1917

ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms

ENGL 115 PO - Eating the Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies

ENGL 116 PO - Excess: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis

ENGL 117 PO - Poststructuralism

ENGL 118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films

ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels

ENGL 120 PO - Queer Theories, Gay Fictions

ENGL 121 PO - Whitman, Dickinson and Poe

ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives

ENGL 123 PO - The Holocaust in Literature and Film

ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms

ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War

ENGL 125D AF - Literature and Film of African Diaspora

ENGL 125DLAF - Lit/Film of African Diaspora Lab

ENGL 126 PO - California Poetry

ENGL 127 PO - Pre-modern Psychology

ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

ENGL 129 PO - Spaces of Cultural Resistance

ENGL 130 AF - Topics 20th Century African Diaspora Literature

ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narrative & Theories

ENGL 132 PO - Contemporary Speculative Fiction

ENGL 134 BK - Harlem Renaissance

ENGL 134 PO - Medieval Women Authors

ENGL 135 PO - The “American” Century

ENGL 136 PO - Feminist Poetics

ENGL 137 PO - Fragment as Form

ENGL 138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society

ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration

ENGL 141 PO - Shakespearean Drama

ENGL 142 PO - Shakespeare’s Poetic Practices

ENGL 143 PO - American Poetic Modernisms

ENGL 144 PO - Psychoanalysis and Literature

ENGL 145 PO - Gothic Tradition

ENGL 146 PO - Modernist Poetry

ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory

ENGL 148 PO - Literary Theory, Ancient and Modern

ENGL 149 PO - Korea’s IMF-Crisis Cinema

ENGL 150 PO - Queer Theory and Literature

ENGL 151 PO - Topics in Medieval Lit & Culture

ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World

ENGL 154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories

ENGL 155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances

ENGL 156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture

ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen

ENGL 159 PO - Literature and the Natural World

ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship

ENGL 161 PO - James Joyce

ENGL 162 SC - Race and Ethnicity in 19th-Century American Literature

ENGL 163 PO - T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

ENGL 164 PO - W.B. Yeats: Poetry and Drama

ENGL 165 PO - Modern/Postmodern Fiction

ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels

ENGL 166 AF - James Baldwin

ENGL 166 PO - David Foster Wallace

ENGL 166 PZ - Literature, Illness And Disability

ENGL 167 PO - Contemporary Poetry

ENGL 170 PO - Advanced Studies Seminar English

ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book

ENGL 170B PO - Voice, Adaptation, & Authorship

ENGL 170C PO - Inventing the Great Books