ENGL 3000-001: MWF 08:00-08:50 AM, ENGL 3000-004: MWF 09:00-09:50 AM with Instructor Scott Hagele
ENGL 3000-012: TR 03:30-04:45 PM, ENGL 3000-013: TR 05:00-06:15 PM with Instructor Charles Harding
ENGL 3000-014: MWF 10:00-10:50 AM, ENGL 3000-015: MWF 08:00-08:50 AM with Instructor Ewa Nowak
ENGL 3021-801: TR 12:30-1:45 PM with Professor Noah Eli Gordon
ENGL 3051-802: TR 11-12:15 PM with Professor Marcia Douglas
ENGL 3060-018: TR 11-12:15 PM with Professor Lori Emerson
ENGL 3116-001: TR 8-9:15 AM with Professor Lori Emerson
ENGL 3116-003: T 3:30-6 PM with Professor Marie-Laure Ryan
ENGL 3116-880: MWF 10-10:50 AM with Professor Eric White
ENGL 3217-001: TR 9:30-10:45 AM with Professor Ann Kibbey
ENGL 3226-880: TR 9:30-10:45 AM with Professor Cathy Preston
ENGL 3246-001: TR 12:30-1:45 PM with Professor Kelly Hurley
ENGL 3377-001: MWF 12-12:50 PM with Professor Ali Hasan
ENGL 3573-001: MWF 10-10:50 AM with Professor Richelle Munkhoff
ENGL 3665-001: MWF 11-11:50 AM with Professor Mary Klages
ENGL 3853-001: TR 11-12:15 PM with Professor David Glimp
ENGL 3856-001: TR 2-3:15 PM with Professor Ed Rivers
ENGL 3856-002: MWF 12-12:50 PM with Professor Richelle Munkhoff
ENGL 3856-003: TR 3:30-5:50 PM with Professor Bruce Kawin
ENGL 3000-001,-004: Shakespeare for Non-Majors
Instructor: Scott Hagele
001: MWF 08:00-08:50 AM, HLMS 211
004: MWF 09:00-09:50 AM, HUMN 1B90
Prereq: Sophomore Standing
Shakespeare has had a long history of delighting audiences and torturing undergraduates. Hopefully, by the end of this semester, only the former will remain true! This course will help you to better understand, appreciate, enjoy, discuss, and interpret some of Shakespeare’s greatest works. These readings will enable us to explore such exciting topics as love, gender, politics, death, psychology, identity, sexuality, religion, race, philosophy, and metadrama. In addition to closely analyzing the beautiful and challenging poetry, we will also engage with the theatrical elements of the plays through in-class acting!
Assignments: 8 short response papers, CU-Learn discussion postings, 1 longer paper, final exam
Texts: The Sonnets, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, The Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, King Lear
ENGL 3000-012, -013: Shakespeare for Non-Majors
Instructor: Charles Harding
012: TR 03:30 - 04:45 PM, ECON 13
013: TR 05:00 - 06:15 PM, HLMS 237
Prereq: Sophomore Standing
In this class we will read seven plays--three tragedies, two comedies, one romance and one history--focusing on a range of themes, including gender, race, family, identity, power and love. We will think across plays and genres to consider how Shakespeare addresses such issues through his plots, characters, and language. We will also consider how the plays have been represented on stage, in film and in art over the years. Our approach in class will involve group discussions and student presentations of ideas and insight into these works. Students will be expected to participate regularly in class and in an online discussion forum. Written work will include a personal journal, online posts, formal response papers, and a final exam.
ENGL 3000-014, -015: Shakespeare for Non-Majors
Instructor: Ewa Nowak
014: MWF 10:00 - 10:50 AM, MUEN E131
015: MWF 08:00 - 08:50 AM, HLMS 237
Prereq: Sophomore Standing
William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest playwright in the English language and has been dubbed the timeless writer, whose sensibility and knowledge of human nature transcend time while remaining rooted in an identifiable cultural realm. We will read Shakespeare's plays more or less chronologically in order to understand the author's artistic development starting with the historical play of Richard III, which will serve as an introduction to Shakespeare and his time. Then we will continue to explore an ancient history, two comedies, two tragedies, and two romances. While we are reading the plays, our focus will not be merely on interpretation but also on performance: we will keep in mind that they are not only dramatic poems but also theatrical productions intended for the stage. For this reason, we will watch various film adaptations of some of the plays we will be reading for class.
ENGL 3021-801: Intermediate Poetry Workshop
Instructor: Professor Noah Eli Gordon
TR 12:30-1:45 pm — HUMN 245
Prereq: CREATIVE WRITING MAJOR OR INSTRUCTOR CONSENT
Through group critique, discussion, experimentation, work and play, this course will create a space for you to simultaneously develop your poems and poetics. We will attempt to bridge the gap between intuitive artistic play and an intellectual understanding of the requisite work involved in the writing of poetry. This course will also include reading heavily in and around contemporary poetry, with some of the authors we’re going to investigate (Mathias Svalina, Eleni Sikelianos, Chelsea Minnis, and possibly Adrian Matejka) making visits to our classroom. The course will culminate in the creation of your own chapbook—a small booklet to both document our work together and further its reach.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Noah.Gordon@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3051-802: Intermediate Fiction Workshop
Instructor: Professor Marcia Douglas
TR 11-12:15 pm — HLMS 196
Prereq: CREATIVE WRITING MAJOR OR INSTRUCTOR CONSENT
This intermediate course will explore the fundamentals of fiction while guiding students towards assembling a portfolio of work. Throughout the semester we will read widely from a variety of authors, focusing on the various ways in which stories are born and shaped. Much emphasis will be placed on writing exercises and the peer review workshop. Our goal will be to become not only effective writers of fiction but better readers as well. We will examine short stories by contemporary writers such as Junot Diaz, Reginald McKnight, Jeanette Winterson, Dave Eggers, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, Lorrie Moore and Edwidge Danticat. Students will write three short stories, and work on a series of exercises.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Marcia.Douglas@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3060-018: The Visible Word, From the 20th-21st Century
Instructor: Professor Lori Emerson
Call No. 15438
TR 11-12:15 pm — CLRE 208
Prereq: SOPH Standing
In this class we will study and even imitate a range of writing practices, from the end of the 19th century through the 21st century, in which the material qualities of the letter and the word are foregrounded—the shape, size, texture, and sound of the letter/word. We will attempt to "read" the visual poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Stéphan Mallarmé and then we will move through the wild avant-garde, typographical experiments of Futurism and Dada, the concrete poetry of the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. and Canada, the late 20th century collaged novels of Tom Phillips and Mark Z. Danielewski, and we will finish by reading the conceptual writing and digital poetry of the early 21st century. We will also watch the recently released film Helvetica, a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. In addition to the novels of Tom Phillips (The Humument) and Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves), we will use the following electronic resources to supplement our reading (especially of twentieth-century and twenty-first century poets): Electronic Poetry Center (http://epc.buffalo.edu), PENNSound (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/), and Ubuweb (http://www.ubu.com).
Please contact the instructor for further information: Lori.Emerson@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3116-001/ATLS 3519: Digital Poetry
Instructor: Professor Lori Emerson
Call No. 23380
MWF 8-9:15 am — LIBR N424B
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
In this course we will examine a range of digital poems side-by-side earlier, bookbound poems to establish the extent to which digital poems are a continuation or
a definitive break from what has come before. We will also look at the surface-level effects of these digital poems and try to establish a working vocabulary for
critiquing these 21st century literary artifacts; further, we will look at how these poems have been constructed—what software has been used or hacked to create
these word objects? What can we learn from studying these works at the level of the code? We will also explore the ways in which the language of digital poems
mimics or becomes an object, sometimes complete with its own emergent behavior.
Throughout the semester we will also have the opportunity to compare our findings with the authors’ intentions through videoconference meetings and/or online
discussion forums. Further, since this course is as focused on the making and doing of digital poetry as much as on the critique and literary study of these poems,
at the end of the semester we will have a “demo day” where you will exhibit for students and faculty the digital poems you will have created in response to the poems
we will have studied in class.
Reading List:
With the exception of the following book which you will purchase directly from me, all reading assignments will be available online or as a pdf which you will download
from our course website on CU Learn:
- Strickland, Stephanie. V: WaveSon.nets / Losing l'Una. Penguin, 2002.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Lori.Emerson@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3116-001: Movies, Games, Books
Instructor: Professor Marie-Laure Ryan
Call No. 25476
T 3:30-6:00 pm — CLRE 104
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
Just as learning a foreign language can enhance your understanding of your native language, exploring the “media ecology” can sharpen your appreciation of
literature. In this course we will use storytelling as a point of comparison to examine the expressive potential of various media.
Literature is the language-based art, and its principal medium of realization is the book. But language-based art can also appear under other material
supports—oral expression, digital technology—and language can combine with other modes of signification for artistic effects—music, gesture, facial
expressions, images, movement, interactivity. In this course we will discuss stories told through books, drama, movies, paintings, spoken language and computer games,
as well as “multi-modal” stories—i.e. stories that rely on multiple types of signs—in order to compare and contrast the meaning-making abilities of
different media and to reach a better understanding of what is unique to literature. The texts to be studied will include: natural narratives (=stories spontaneously
told during conversation); The Odyssey; Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, a novel and its film version (to be
decided), Michael Joyce’s hypertext fiction Twelve Blue; stories told through pictures and sound; a graphic novel; experiments with creative typography;
fictions that experiment with Web 2.0 tools; literary word play (Oulipo), short computer games, as well as theoretical readings.
Please contact the instructor for further information: marilaur@gmail.com
ENGL 3116-880: Modern Literature and Science: The Prospect of an Evolutionary Universe (Honors)
Instructor: Professor Eric White
MWF 10-10:50 am — HALE 240
Prereq: Honors Standing
In the first half of this course, we will reflect upon a scientific perspective on cosmic history according to which the temporal unfolding of the universe may be understood as a stochastically self-organizing turbulent flow. After exploring the imaginative import of this perspective with reference to touchstone discussions of the aesthetic concept of the sublime, we will turn to a selection of modern literary texts—Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics—that collectively deploy a comparable figuration of existence as shapeshifting and metamorphic. In the second half of the course, we will undertake an excursion into a related problematic: the evolutionary becoming of terrestrial life. We will thus consider a series of science-fiction narratives including H.G. Wells's Island of Dr. Moreau, John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" and Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. In this last portion of the course, we will invoke a further aesthetic concept—the grotesque—to facilitate our articulation of the aesthetic significance of the prospect of an evolutionary universe.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Eric.White@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3217-001: Feminist Theory for a New Century
Instructor: Professor Ann Kibbey
Call No. 15447
TR 9:30-10:45 am — HLMS 137
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
This course focuses on new cultural and political feminist theory that has developed in the U.S. in the last decade. We will discuss and debate how feminist
authors have expanded the reach of feminist theory beyond traditional body politics. That is, rather than looking back to texts that originally defined these authors
as feminist, this course instead emphasizes how their work has developed since then.
Have the central issues of feminist theory shifted? If so, is that beneficial to women or not? Readings include Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (2007);
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch (2005); Judith Roof, The Poetics of DNA (2007); Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Elayne Rapping,
Law and Justice as Seen on TV (2002). Men welcome.
Writing for the course includes a long paper.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Kibbey@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3226-880: Folklore 1 (Honors)
Instructor: Instructor Cathy Preston
TR 9:30-10:45 am — HLMS 220
Prereq: Honors Standing
Folklore 1 (Honors) is designed as an interdisciplinary introduction to the non-institutionalized part of our lives: the stories and jokes we tell, the songs we sing, the games we play, the customs and belief practices that we participate in, and the material objects we make. While, in English department courses, students normally learn to read a variety of differently situated literary texts, in this course students will learn to document and “read” a variety of differently situated traditional, vernacular, and emergent cultural performances as texts. By the phrase “differently situated’ I refer to the ways in which one’s everyday-life-experience is enmeshed within the group and self-identity politics of class, gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, religion, age, occupation, region. Drawing on theoretical and methodological frameworks developed in the disciplines of literary theory, anthropology (and its sub-discipline, ethnography), sociology, psychology, socio-linguistics, history, communications, cultural studies, and folklore, we will work as a class to define the nature and function of folklore in our contemporary world.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Prestonc@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3246-001: Gothic Horror
Instructor: Professor Kelly Hurley
Call No. 24897
TR 12:30-1:45 pm — HLMS 137
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR STANDING
This course is concerned with the serious analysis of literature and film often dismissed as merely popular and escapist. Our time will be divided between consideration of various methodological approaches (structuralist, psychoanalytical, historical) to Gothic Horror and close readings of the texts themselves. Primary materials will include nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature by such authors as Octavia Butler, Steven King, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and H. G. Wells, and films from such directors as John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro, Alfred Hitchcock, George A. Romero, and Ridley Scott. Secondary readings will help us theorize the cultural instrumentality of Gothic Horror, and attempt to define the parameters of popular genres. Class time will be devoted primarily to discussion, but will include lectures and student presentations.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Kelly.Hurley@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3377-001: South Asian Literature
Instructor: Instructor Ali Hasan
Call No. 15450
MWF 12:00-12:50 pm — MUEN E417
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
South Asia in geographical terms is bigger than Europe and culturally ten times more diverse and so a course in South Asian literature in English can at best be an introduction. We will read the usual suspects—Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Arundhati Roy, Michael Ondaatje, but also Romesh Gunesekra's novel Reef, a sample of Tasleema Nasreen’s poetry, Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories and a Mulk Raj Anand novel. We will also do a fair amount of Urdu poetry including, Agha Shahid Ali’s English language ghazals, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry (in English translation) and Muhammad Iqbal’s famous poem Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa (Khushwant Singh’s translation).
Please contact the instructor for further information: Ali.Hasan@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3573-001: Later Shakespeare
Instructor: Professor Richelle Munkhoff
Call No. 15454
MWF 10:00-10:50 am — HLMS 137
Prereq: JR/SR ENGL/HUMN/THTR MAJORS
“Shakespeare” is many things: a man writing in a specific historical time and place, drawing on particular literary traditions and social customs; a businessman interested in and conscious of precise audiences and venues; a collection of texts that have come down to us over four centuries influenced by a series of printing and editorial practices, as well as by changing conventions of staging and production; and, most familiarly, an icon recognized across the globe often as a figure of individual genius, but one infinitely malleable, adaptable to different settings, contexts, media. In this course we will explore these various avenues to understand why Shakespeare remains important long after most of his contemporaries have slipped from popular cultural memory. This class will be primarily discussion-based examinations of the plays and focused mostly on the latter part of Shakespeare’s career. Texts will likely include: Henry V, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Richelle.Munkhoff@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3665-001: Survey of American Literature to 1940
Instructor: Professor Mary Klages
Call No. 24892
MWF 11:00-11:50 am — ECON 2
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR ENGL/HUMN/FILM MAJORS
This course will look at three major movements in American literature between the Civil War and the second World War: the rise of realism, the era of modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance. We will read poetry and prose by authors including Henry James, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Nella Larsen, and Langston Hughes. The course dynamic will focus on small and large group discussions and close reading; there will be short response papers and a final paper or project.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Mary.Klages@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3853-001: Milton
Instructor: Professor David Glimp
Call No. 24859
TR 11:00-12:15 pm — CLRE 207
Prereq: JR/SR ENGL/HUMN/THTR MAJORS
John Milton is among the most important and gifted poets to have written in the English language. This course examines Milton’s early development as a poet, samples his extensive writing in prose—focusing especially on pieces that illuminate his commitment to the English Revolution—and culminates with a careful study of his primary poetic achievements, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Given the scope of Milton’s imagination, our discussions necessarily will be wide ranging, though we’ll be concerned especially to address the following interrelated issues: Milton’s understanding of what it means to be a poet and what he strives to accomplish through his poetry; his ethical commitments and theological vision; and his changing political views, most centrally his frequently conflicted arguments for political freedom.
Please contact the instructor for further information: David.Glimp@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3856-001: Multimedia Composition
Instructor: Professor Ed Rivers
Call No. 15459
TR 2:00-3:15 pm — ATLS 1B25
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
For English majors this course fulfills the Genre / Theory requirement and is also open to non-English majors. The course teaches how to integrate language (written, spoken, or sung) with other media such as video, photography, music, animation, and web-site design. Students create projects that combine some form of language with at least one other medium so that the language enhances that other medium and vice versa. Typically, the projects issue in a CD, a DVD, a web site, or all three. The idea is to learn how to say more through a combination of media than any one medium can say alone. For full details and a picture, click here.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Ed.Rivers@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3856-002: Topics in Genre Studies: “Detective Fiction”
Instructor: Professor Richelle Munkhoff
Call No. 15460
MWF 12:00-12:50 pm — ECON 205
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
This course will explore the genre of detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle through the “Golden Age” of British authors like Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham, and hard-boiled writers in America such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. We will trace how elements established in these traditions develop in more contemporary literature by reading Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Ian Rankin, Sara Paretsky, and Miyuki Miyabe. We will consider issues of audience by examining how this genre moves through various media, from the 19th-century periodicals, pulp fiction, radio, and into film and television.
Please contact the instructor for further information: Richelle.Munkhoff@Colorado.edu
ENGL 3856-003: Narrative Complexity in Film
Instructor: Professor Bruce Kawin
Call No. 25475
T 3:30-5:50 pm — HUMN 125 / R 3:30-5:50 — HLMS 137
Prereq: SOPH/JR/SR Standing
A history of increasing narrative complexity in world cinema, from the single-shot film to the multi-shot film to Intolerance and from there to movies with intricate temporal structures, multiple narrators, reflexive voices, and so on. All films will be shown on video
Please contact the instructor for further information: Bruce.Kawin@Colorado.edu