466 A (Gay and Lesbian Studies)
MW 1:30-3:20
Cummings
ckate@u.washington.edu
The course examines ongoing tensions between sexuality and belonging from the l. 19th century to the present. In many of the texts we’ll consider, sexuality is understood as desire and desire as a productive force that connects us to other bodies and things, scrambles every identity and so queers the possibility of totally belonging to a social group (eg., American, Chicano, lesbian) or to a class of beings (eg., homosexual or male). We’ll track these tensions between sexual desire and belonging from modern representations of sexuality and race which trouble the hetero/homo and white/black binary through contemporary queer writers who, among other things, critique belonging to the nation-state, “the gay and lesbian community,” “the queer movement,” and same sex marriage, while promoting more dynamic modes of affiliation. In other texts, sexuality is identified with sexual identity and the latter with homosexuality, bisexuality, heterosexuality, maleness and femaleness. Here, the emphasis falls on sexual belonging and the tension produced by not fitting in. This type of belonging may be imposed, as in: medical assignment to a pathological sexual category or to a particular sex, cold war era identifications of homosexuals as “UnAmerican,” etc. It may also be “chosen,” as in “coming out” into a sex/gender community. Required reading will include a course packet, Chua’s Gold by the Inch, Kenan’s Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Linmark’s Rolling the R’s, and Obejas’ Memory Mambo. Students should expect to engage with queer theory and to participate actively in class discussions.

471 A (The Composition Process)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Dillon
dillon@u.washington.edu
Different approaches to the teaching of writing; kinds and purposes of LA writing including multigenre writing; impact of new testing and standards; ways of teaching the forms of language. There will be a group investigation project, a two-page Response paper each week to one of the readings for the week, a midterm, and a final (individual) report of an empirical investigation. Each of these will be worth 20% of your course grade, the final 20% being for class participation (includes presentation of group report). Class website: http://courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl471/. Texts: Tom Romano, Blending Genre: Altering Style; Edgar Schuster, Breaking the Rules: Liberating Writers Through Innovative Grammar Instruction.

473 A (Current Development in English Studies)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Moore
cvmoore@u.washington.edu
Language Ideology and History. Language ideologies inform cultural perceptions, educational philosophies, and public policy, and influence the ways that we think about individuals and their speech. This course examines some present-day ideologies of English, including ideas about a standard English, varieties of English, and the role of English abroad. We will consider the impact of these perspectives and ideas about English and investigate the ways that these ideologies were constructed through and informed by language history. How do present-day usage manuals reveal eighteenth-century cultural ideas about English? How do English dictionaries reveal our cultural values about language? How have English dialect stereotypes reflected social hierarchies over the last five centuries? This course will address these and other questions as we examine the historical development of present-day ideologies of English. Course requirements include two papers and several short response papers. Students are not expected to have previous experience with the history of English or with language study; interest in these questions and enthusiasm for the English language are the only prerequisites. Texts: Deborah Cameron, Verbal Hygiene; James Milroy & Lesley Milroy, Authority in Language; Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill, Language Myths.

483 A (Advanced Verse Workshop)
TTh 10:30-11:50
Bierds
lbierds@u.washington.edu
Intensive study of ways and means of making a poem. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 383, 384. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.) No texts.

484 A (Advanced Prose Workshop)
Wed. 4:30-7:20
Bosworth
davidbos@u.washington.edu
An intense workshop for the most committed fiction writers planning a lifetime of work in the field. High expectations for both the quality of the manuscripts and a willingness to assist other writers with their work. Prerequisites: ENGL 383 and 384. (Students who have not taken both prerequisites should see an English adviser in A-2B Padelford.) No texts.

491 A (Internship)
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Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only. Add codes in English Advising office, A-2B PDL.

492 A (Advanced Expository Writing Conference)
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Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken. Instructor codes in English Advising office, A-2B PDL.

493 A (Advanced Creative Writing Conference)
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Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken. Instructor codes in Creative Writing office, B-25 PDL.

495 A (Major Conference for Honors in Creative Writing)
MW 1:30-3:20
Sonenberg
mayas@u.washington.edu
Students will devise a writing schedule and produce a final portfolio of at least 40 pages of substantially revised creative work. No texts. Add codes in English Advising, A-2B PDL.

496 A (Major Conference for Honors)
MW 12:30-2:20
Weinbaum
alysw@u.washington.edu
This writing and research intensive seminar will walk students in the Department Honors Program through the process of writing an honors thesis. During the course of quarter you will produce a thesis abstract, annotated bibliography, thesis outline and a series of drafts of various lengths. These writings will be work-shopped and reviewed by your colleagues and by the faculty seminar leaders. Emphasis will be placed on acquisition of library research skills, critical prose writing, and effective peer review of written work. Add codes in English advising office, A-2B PDL.

496 B (Major Conference for Honors)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Simpson
csimpson@u.washington.edu
This writing and research intensive seminar will walk students in the Department Honors Program through the process of writing an honors thesis. During the course of quarter you will produce a thesis abstract, annotated bibliography, thesis outline and a series of drafts of various lengths. These writings will be work-shopped and reviewed by your colleagues and by the faculty seminar leaders. Emphasis will be placed on acquisition of library research skills, critical prose writing, and effective peer review of written work. Add codes in English advising office, A-2B PDL.

497/8 B (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
MW 12:30-2:20
Karl
(W)
agkarl@u.washington.edu
Literature and/as Economics in the Twentieth Century. This seminar will explore the manifold ways in which “economics” comes to bear upon literature, and in which literary and other creative productions articulate economic concerns. We will focus on texts from the first half of the twentieth century – a period that saw significant renovation and indeed shock in the areas of literature and economics – as well as a range of secondary and theoretical readings. Economic theory, history and criticism will serve as a framework for reading, even as we consider imaginative literary economies and the ways in which texts invoke economics in conjunction with articulations of the nation, empire, gender and sexuality – and posit economics as a site where these categories are contested. One of our objectives will be to explore how we can think about “economics” broadly, dynamically, literally and (at the same time) figuratively, as having to do with buying and selling; capital, currency and circulation; consumption and desire; politics and power; money and class. As diverse as the ways we will think about economics are the potential lines of inquiry we will take up – from the relationship of “modernism” to the strategies of capital, to the ways in which consumption comes to matter as a pervasive cultural trope, to the ways that economic policy and practice help re-define the nation and its subjects. Course requirements include consistent and engaged class participation, frequent shorter writing assignments, and a longer (10-15 page) final paper. Texts will include: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Jean Toomer, Cane; Djuna Barnes, Nightwood; Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight; Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies; and a photocopied course packet.

497/8 C (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
MW 1:30-3:20
George
(W)
elgeorge@u.washington.edu

Deflecting “Down Under”: Reviewing Australian Literature & Culture

"Seeing comes before words. . . It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” --John Berger, Ways of Seeing

This course focuses on Australian literature in verbal and audiovisual formats. We’ll be reading and critiquing these narratives with more discerning eyes, from multiple perspectives that allow us to see beyond the popular and commercial “Extra Shrimp on the Barbie” Australian image that Paul Hogan made famous two decades ago during the “Brand Australia” commercial campaign. Geared toward increasing tourism whatever the cost, this mass advertising effort continues to reinforce stereotypical images of Australia in the popular imagination. We will undertake a more comprehensive review to recognize serious and often tragic sociopolitical themes concerning race, class, gender and their relation to developing economies and national identities. Course requirements include engaged discussion, online critical research, PowerPoint (audiovisual) discussion leading and presentations, critical essay writing, and a final exam. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Written texts will include Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and Robyn Davidson’s Tracks, among other longer and shorter prose works. Film texts will include Tracey Moffett’s Nice Colored Girls, Peter Weir’s Gallipoli and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Russell Mulcahy’s Swimming Upstream, and Ray Lawrence’s Lantana.

497/8 D (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
TTh 9:30-11:20
Walker
(W)
codyw@u.washington.edu
Forms of Flattery: Imitation and Parody as Literary Investigation. Using W. D. Snodgrass’s De/Compositions as a guide, we’ll discuss why some poems, simply put, are better than others. Snodgrass selects 101 successful poems (by Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, etc.) and rewrites them, to disastrous effect. The results draw our attention to the more felicitous features (of tone, of music, of imagery) found in the originals. With these lessons in hand, we’ll write our own imitations (or forgeries) of time-tested poems, as we attempt (1) to better understand the poems in question, and (2) to win fame and glory in the classroom. We’ll also reserve several class sessions for a discussion of parody, about which Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote, “No neater or swifter vehicle of criticism has ever been invented. . 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Required texts will include a course packet and two books: Snodgrass, De/Compositions; Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes, eds., The Rattle Bag. The books may be purchased at Open Books: A Poem Emporium, located at 2414 N. 45th. (Hours: Tuesday to Thursday, 12 – 6, Friday & Saturday, 12 – 7). Open Books is one of only two poetry-only bookstores in the country. If you’re a student of poetry and you live in Seattle, you should feel obligated, I think, to darken its doorstep. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only.

497/8 E (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
TTh 10:30-12:20
Taranath
(W)
anu@u.washington.edu
Literature of Social Justice. This course examines recently-published feminist and social justice texts, and aims to develop a cross-disciplinary conversation. We will engage with a wide variety of texts and genres that describe personal, literary, and academic accounts of power relations and social differences. These include novels, documentaries, journalism, feature films, and memoirs. All texts share an interest in imagining a more just world. The range and heterogeneity of texts is deliberate, and through their examination we might be able to consider how an entity called social justice is articulated, negotiated, practiced, and challenged. Prior academic experience with issues and theories of social difference will serve you well in this course. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Texts: T. J. Cock and A. Bernstein, Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations: Conversations about Difference in the US and South Africa; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Imagining the New Britain; Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings; Graciela Limon, Erased Faces; Croteau, Hoynes, and Ryan, eds., Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics and Social Movement Scholarship.

497/8 F (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
TTh 11:30-1:20
Dunn
(W)
dickd@u.washington.edu
Memoir and Fiction. Two first-hand narratives of the holocaust and two fictional reconstructions provide cross-readings for us to consider literature as documentation and continuing response to the unthinkable. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Texts: Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning; William Golding, Free Fall; Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank; Bernard Schlink, The Reader; Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment.

497/8 G (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
TTh 12:30-2:20
Gillis-Bridges
(W)
kgb@u.washington.edu
Adaptation: Theory and Practice. The term “adaptation” describes the translation of a text from one genre to another. For some readers, texts lose much in the transition, with adaptations failing to equal their sources’ quality. However, in a Darwinian sense, adaptation allows organisms to endure environmental shifts. This alternate view suggests that, in the words of Robert Stam, adaptations “help their source[s] . . . ‘survive’ . . . changing environments and changing tastes. . . .” This class examines the theory and practice of adaptation. Our investigation will move beyond limited comparisons of “good” originals and “bad adaptations.” Instead, we will focus on the dialogue between multiple versions of the same story, asking how and why adaptations modify their sources in a particular manner. We will devote the first two-thirds of the quarter to case studies of Ghost World, Hamlet, Frankenstein, and Star Wars to consider how stories adapt to the aesthetic and commercial demands of multiple genres—novels, films, comic books, games and music. In the process, we will read adaptation theory and study the cultural contexts surrounding the source text and its various adaptations. During the last third of the term, students will develop their own web-based adaptations of selected works. Course assignments involve short analytical essays, a group project/presentation, frequent postings to the class discussion site, a Web-based adaptation, and a reflective portfolio. As a senior seminar, the course demands extensive student participation. Your questions and interpretations will guide our discussions. Expect to work collaboratively with other students and to confer with me as you determine the scholarly and technical demands of your adaptation. This section is computer-integrated, with students moving between a wired seminar room and a computer lab during most class meetings. The lab setting allows students to view and offer feedback on their peers' writing, work together on group activities, and conduct research. However, computer savvy is not a course prerequisite; students will receive instruction in all technical tools used in the classroom. Please note that there will be several film screenings outside of class. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Texts: Daniel Clowes, Ghost World; William Shakespeare, Hamlet; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; Terry Zwigoff, dir., Ghost World; students will also purchase one Star Wars novelization and one Star Wars comic of their choice.

497/8 H (Honors Senior Seminar/Senior Seminar)
TTh 1:30-3:20
Popov
(W)
popov@u.washington.edu
Comedy. This seminar will explore the genre of comedy. Its main objectives are (1) to read closely eight representative comedies, from ancient to modern times; (2) to grasp the esthetics of major writers such as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, and Beckett; (3) to examine some major theories of the comic, and develop an overall sense of the tradition and cultural contexts of comedy, how comedy has changed over time and which features have remained constant. Specific topics include: the origins of comedy; the forms and features of “high” and “low” comedy; the conventions and techniques of romantic and satirical comedy; types and functions of laughter; tragicomedy, travesty, and farce. Requirements and Grading: there will be a number of brief assignments on individual authors, all leading up to one longer (15 pages) or two shorter research papers (7-8 pages) on a major author, period, genre or problem. Your final grade will reflect the quality of your paper (80%) and your performance in class (20%). Please note: in order to come up with a good research project and have enough time for its execution it is essential that you read at least three or four of the works on the reading list before the first meeting. 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only. Reading List: Aristophanes, The Frogs; Plautus, The Braggart Soldier; Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Moliere, Tartuffe; Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; Synge, The Playboy of the Western World; Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Stoppard, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; photocopied course packet.

498 L (Senior Seminar) MW 10:30-12:20
Dornbush
(W)
dornbush@u.washington.edu
Modern Revisions of Classic Texts. In this seminar we'll explore modern revisions of four classic texts of the Western canon--Shakespeare's The Tempest, Bronte's Jane Eyre, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In addition to the four works, we'll read revisions produced by advocates for colonial and postcolonial cultures in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the cultures of the African diaspora. Readings from postcolonial and feminist criticism will accompany our discussion of the social, political, and interpretive controversies these works have generated. (Meets w. C LIT 493A, C LIT 496A) 497: Senior honors majors only (add codes in A-2B PDL); 498: Senior English majors only.