APPROACHES TO TEXTUAL RESEARCH: WHAT CAN WE DO WITH TEXTS? In
posing the question, what can we do with texts, this course inquires into
diverse ways research into texts might occur when texts are understood as
produced through interactive exchanges with their audience(s) or reader(s).
We consider relationships between rather different groups and texts, whether
Oprah's Book Club, social action groups, or avant garde reading collectives.
The seminar will engage how texts configure their interactions with their
audience(s) and how some texts attempt to alter basic forms of consumption
or reading. Seminar members will have the opportunity of interacting with
Beverly Dahlen and her project, A Reading, and Joe Milutis's "New Jersey As
an Impossible Object," among other changing weekly investigations. For a
final project, students can elect to create their own text in relationship
to a chosen audience; to interact with selected communities through specific
texts, documenting this interaction; or to write a research paper on one of
the seminar subjects.

BIO

Jeanne Heuving's cross genre Incapacity (Chiasmus Press) won a 2004 Book of
the Year Award from Small Press Traffic, and her book of experimental poetry
Transducer (Chax Press) is just out. She has published multiple critical
pieces on avant garde and innovative writers, including the book Omissions
Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore and is currently
finishing work on a book-length manuscript, The Transmutation of Love in
Twentieth Century Poetry. She is a member of the Subtext Collective, on the
editorial advisory board of HOW2, and is a professor in the
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the University of Washington,
Bothell and an adjunct professor in the graduate program in English and in
Women Studies at UW, Seattle. She is the recipient of grants from the
Fulbright Foundation, NEH, and UW Simpson Humanities Center. In 2003, she
was the H.D. Fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.