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10/23/2014
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSES
SPRING 2015
10600
First Year Composition
This is a 4-credit hour class that offers students extensive practice in writing clear and
effective prose. Students receive instruction in organization, audience, style, multi-media
and multi-modal writing, and research-based writing. This class typically meets four times
a week, with one day being spent in a computer lab and one day a week in conferences
with instructors. This course meets the required outcomes for Written Communication and
Information Literacy on the University Common Core. For more information about
English 10600, see http://icap.rhetorike.org/student.
10800
Accelerated First Year Composition: Engaging in Public Discourse
This a three-credit hour accelerated composition course that substitutes for ENGL 10600.
It is for students showing superior writing ability and who would like the challenge of a
faster-paced writing course. All sections of ENGL 10800 are service learning classes in
which students will engage in public writing and in community service outside the
classroom. This course meets the required outcomes for Written Communication and
Information Literacy on the University Common Core. For more information about
English 10800, see http://icap.rhetorike.org/student.
20300-001-64885
Research Prof Writ
MWF
10:30-11:20
Introduction to research sources and methods useful for professional writers, digital
electronic resources. Focus on collecting print and online information, interviewing,
surveying, and conducting observations; and on evaluating, summarizing, analyzing, and
reporting research.
20500-001-18837
20500-002-18839
20500-003-18841
20500-004-18843
20500-005-18840
20500-006-18838
20500-007-18842
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
Intro Creative Writing
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
08:30-09:20
10:30-11:20
02:30-03:20
03:30-04:20
09:30-10:20
02:30-03:20
03:30-04:20
Practice in writing short prose narratives and poetry for students who have finished
composition and wish to develop their skills further. Workshop criticism.
22700-001-59287
Elements Linguistics
MWF
12:30-01:20
This course is a basic introduction to the study of language. It is designed to sensitize the
students to language as a human phenomenon, a vehicle for communication, and to
acquaint them with the modern methods of linguistic research.
22700-H01-64935
Elements Linguistics-Honors
xlist LING201
TR
04:30-05:45
Raskin, Victor
The course is an elementary and largely non-technical introduction to language and the
study of language, linguistics. Modern methods of describing the sound, the word, the
sentence, and the meaning are introduced and illustrated with numerous examples drawn
from English and other languages. The types of extant languages, their differences and
similarities and language universals are discussed along with the problems of language
change and acquisition of language. The relations of language to human mind and nature
and to history, culture, and society are commented upon.
The average course grade is calculated on the basis of four unit quizzes. The course is
taught in the Macintosh-equipped instructional laboratory, and all the materials for the
course are available on-line.
23000-001-18859
23000-002-65237
Great Narrative Works
xlist LING201
Great Narrative Works
TR
09:00-10:15
Lein, Clayton
TR
01:30-02:45
Plotnitsky, Arkady
Reading and discussion of great narratives from Homer’s Odyssey to the present,
considering works from a variety of cultures and time periods in order to develop an
understanding of their ideas, structures, styles, and cultural values.
23200-001-1539
Arab Women Writers
Dahmen, Lynn
SLC PROF; xlist ARAB239, CMPL230, IDIS490, LC239, WGSS281
This class will take both geo-cultural and thematic approaches to Arab women writers
from North Africa, the Middle East and North America; topics will be explored through
the lens of feminist theory as well as with consideration of the impact of religion and
culture on gendered experience. We will explore the creative expression of women’s
experience in reference to spiritual life, gender relations, marriage, work, education, and
travel/immigration. We will read poetry, essays, short stories and novels and will view
several films. Writers to be read include: Leila Abouzeid, Ilfit Idilbi, Leila Aboulela,
Mohja Kahf and Assia Djebar. This course has no prerequisites. All readings are in
English.
23500-001-59302
Intro To Drama
TR
10:30-11:45
Lein, Clayton
English 235 introduces students to some of the major plays and playwrights of the Western
world from ancient Greece to contemporary America. Reading and discussion center on
such elements as plot structure, characterization, themes, and symbols in dramatic works.
23700-001-53542
Intro To Poetry
TR
12:00-01:15
Morris, Daniel
The aim of this course is to show students how to read poetry with profit and pleasure.
Primary emphasis, based upon the assumption that poetry is not as familiar to students as
other modes of expression, is on basic characteristics. In general, the instructor leads the
class in the reading of narrative and lyric poetry, and in discussion of matters of prosody,
technique, literary history, tradition, convention, theme, etc. All the teaching takes into
account that the course serves especially the non-major.
23800-002-43382
Intro To Fiction
MWF
09:30-10:20
Deering, Dorothy
Reading and discussion of short stories and 4-5 novels to promote awareness,
understanding, and appreciation of the range, values, techniques, and meanings of modern
fiction. There will be two or three tests and short papers (2-3 pages) on each novel.
23800-004-43380
Intro To Fiction
TR
01:30-02:45
Shoffner, Melanie
Using a variety of short stories and novels, this course will explore literary fiction through
young adult, historical and modern fiction. Students will engage in class discussion and
small group work to understand (and appreciate) literary structure, techniques and
influences.
24000-001-18881
Brit Lit Thru 18 Ct
xlist CMPL230, IDIS491
TR
09:00-10:15
Duran, Angelica
The course takes a 3-part journey of 1) influential works of the Anglo-Saxon through the
Medieval periods that help us understand how the united intellectual enterprise that
Francis Bacon called “the advancement of learning” split into the arts and sciences, 2)
onto some of the most revolutionary works from the Age of Milton, a.k.a. the English
Scientific Revolution, a.k.a the Age of Discovery, 3) then texts from the Enlightenment,
which tease out its outgrowths and help us understand what that split means for us today.
Class lectures and discussions will be supplemented by film viewings, SpringFest, and
more, based on students’ unique interests.
Note: students seeking to fulfill the B.I requirement for the Religious Studies minor or
major should register for IDIS490; students seeking to fulfill the A requirement for the
English minor or major should should register for ENGL240; students from all majors and
minors welcome.
24100-001-18883
Brit Lit Romantic Mod
TR
10:30-11:45
Felluga, Dino
Surveys authors, periods, and themes of British literature from the late eighteenth century
through the modern period.
25000-001-18885
25000-004-15366
Great American Books
Great American Books
TR
MWF
12:00-01:15
11:30-12:20
Mullen, Bill
Layfield, Allison
Selected works, such as The Scarlet Letter, MobyDick, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Walden,
Huckleberry Finn, Absalom, Absalom, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and
Beloved, closely read and discussed as to their literary qualities and their cultural
significance.
25000-003-18886
Great American Books
MWF
02:30-03:20
Saunders, James
We will consider works by authors such as Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale
Hurston, John Steinbeck, and Arthur Miller. Over the course of the semester, we will
discuss various historical, social and literary issues with regard to each of those works.
Class attendance and participation are essential and several essays will be required.
25700-002-18893
Lit Of Black America
MWF
02:30-03:20
Shackelford, Renae
A survey of literature written by black American authors. Close attention is paid to the
history of black literature and to the historical context in which it was written. We will
also discuss literary theories such as the color complex, elective affinity-vs-shared cultural
intimacy and others as they apply to the text of major works by black authors.
26200-001-15540
Greek Roman Classics
SLC PROF; xlist CLCS230
MWF
12:30-01:20
Syson, Antonia
Study of important works of Greek and Roman literature, their intrinsic literary values, and
their influence on later European and American writing and thinking.
26400-001-15048
Bible As Literature
MWF
10:30-11:20
Deering, Dorothy
My section of English 264 will read selected portions of the Hebrew Bible, New
Testament, and Apocrypha. The course will entail a close study of a variety of literary
forms and techniques: the structure of historical and biographical narratives (the Garden of
Eden, the Exodus from Egypt, the Crucifixion/Resurrection), development of plot and
character (in the stories of Abraham, David, Elijah, Jesus), and growth of prophetic and
poetic styles and traditions (Isaiah, Micah, Job, Psalms), and the distinctive features of
wisdom (proverbs, parables) and apocalyptic literature (Daniel, Revelation). Students will
write 10-12 one page papers. There will be no tests or final exam. Students will
participate weekly in team discussions of the reading.
26600-003-13347
26700-001-43040
World Lit To 1700 A D
xlist CMPL266
World Lit 1700 To Now
xlist CMPL267
MWF
09:30-10:20
Benskin, Joanna
TR
12:00-01:15
Alcantara, Christian
World Literature in translation. A comparative and chronological survey of the
masterpieces of Eastern and Western literature.
26700-003-69746
26700-004-14622
World Lit 1700 To Now
xlist CMPL267
World Lit 1700 To Now
xlist CMPL267
MWF
10:30-11:20
Huang, Y
TR
09:00-10:15
O'Neil, M
English 267 is designed to build on the backgrounds and interests of the students in order
to expand their literary world views. While the readings deal primarily with European and
American literatures, Asian, African, and South American works are frequently dealt with
as well. Text: Mack, et al., Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Vol. 2. Additional
texts may be selected.
30100-001-18900
30100-002-10901
Ways Of Reading
Ways Of Reading
TR
MWF
12:00-01:15
09:30-10:20
Plotnitsky, Arkady
Lukasik, Christopher
Close reading of and significant writing about selected literary texts informed by a variety
of critical and/or theoretical perspectives.
30600-001-49734
Intro Profess Writing
MWF
09:30-10:20
Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in
planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in
the arts and industry.
30900-001-66327
Computer-Aided Publish
TR
01:30-02:45
Haynes, Linda
In English 309, students will learn strategies for planning, writing, and revising the content
and design of documents; improve their management of electronic tools that are often used
in the workplace; learn the rules of design--and how to break those rules; integrate content,
design, and audience needs & expectations into readable, inviting documents; develop a
critical eye for design; and design a professional portfolio they can develop and use during
job interviews. Students can expect weekly readings, quizzes, and homework. Students
can also expect to juggle two or more projects at once; therefore, developing strong project
management skills is a must.
32800-001-18910
Engl Lang II: Strc & Mean
TR
10:30-11:45
Francis, Elaine
The structure of American English and its dialects, with emphasis on syntax and
semantics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and meaning. Implications of
recent theory for the teaching of English.
32900-001-10788
English Language III
xlist LC361, LING311
MWF
10:30-11:20
Niepokuj, Mary
The structure of American English and its dialects with emphasis on phonology and
morphology. Implications of recent theory to the teaching of English.
33900-001-15127
20th Cent British Lit
MWF
02:30-03:20
Linett, Maren
During the first half of the twentieth century, many writers saw themselves as breaking
from traditional literary forms and creating new, hybrid, experimental forms. In this class
we will read groundbreaking novels, short stories, plays, and poetry by English and Irish
authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot,
Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, J.M. Synge, D.H. Lawrence, Rebecca West, Jean Rhys,
and Kazuo Ishiguro. We will read poems and stories about World War I, texts sparked by
the movement for Irish independence, and texts prompted by the struggle for women’s
suffrage. And toward the end of the term we will consider more recent texts that reflect the
multicultural community Britain has become. Active participation is required.
34100-001-65354
Lit, Nature, & Travel
TR
03:00-04:15
Friedman, Geraldine
This course will explore the interconnections between Western concepts of nature, travel,
and literature. Throughout history, the motivations for travel to explore, study, or enjoy
nature have been and continue to be many. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
they were often driven by imperialist ambitions, the search for wealth, and scientific
discovery, and they also greatly influenced literature, painting, and aesthetics. So-called
voyages of discovery took Westerners to unfamiliar landscapes, climates, and habitats,
and, in spawning travel narratives, poetry, art, and scientific reports, they brought such
places to Western awareness and fired the Western imagination. At the same time,
Westerners also began to travel more in their own countries and further afield in Europe.
Travelers included adventurers, explorers often in the employ of governments, scientists in
search of new knowledge about the natural world, artists, and the literate upper- and
middle-classes with disposable income eager to enjoy the beauty of nature. Today, we
travel in nature more than ever, and although the reasons may have evolved and changed
from what they were in previous years, travel continues to generate a rich nature literature.
Over the ages, some of the issues and concerns raised in such writing have remained
constant, even though the answers may have changed. Among these we shall concentrate
on how nature travel influences how we think of ourselves as individuals, members of a
local community, a country, the world, and the universe; our ways of understanding,
seeing, and relating to our natural surroundings—both familiar and new, and imagining
our place in them, and ideas of how we should live in relation to the environment.
Our readings are likely to include travel narratives, and other literary genres such as
poetry, the novel, and the literary essay, and they will span the eighteenth century to the
present.
There are no pre-requisites for this course. Students from all colleges and departments are
welcome.
Requirements include careful reading and thinking about our readings, participation in
class discussion, a presentation, 2 papers, a midterm and a final, and other smaller in-class
and take-home writing assignments and quizzes.
For more information, contact Professor Friedman at friedman@purdue.edu.
35000-001-18914
American Lit To 1865
TR
01:30-02:45
Schneider, P Ryan
This course surveys American literature from the early seventeenth century through the
Civil War years and covers the development of genres including the captivity narrative, the
slave narrative, the Gothic, the Romance, the Sentimental novel, autobiography, and
poetry. We'll investigate the ways early American writers and their work were influenced
by important modes of thought (Calvinism, Enlightenment rationalism, Romanticism,
Sentimentality, Transcendentalism), and we'll study the relation between literature and key
social and cultural issues. Writers likely will include: John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson,
Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.
35100-001-53573
Am Lit 1865 Post WWII
MWF
04:30-05:20
Lamb, Robert
This survey in American literature since 1865 focuses on major literary movements
(realism, regionalism, naturalism, modernism, postmodernism); literary texts as
representations of such important and continually changing cultural matters as race,
gender, ethnicity, region, and class; and literary texts as works of art both drawing upon
and challenging inherited conventions. We will also explore the relations between
literature and such important historical phenomena as the Civil War and Reconstruction,
urbanization, immigration, modernization and modernity, America's rise to world power,
the first World War, the African American migration to northern cities, the Depression,
the Cold War, and the Nuclear Age.
Although a survey course cannot possibly include every important author, we will read a
wide diversity of texts, by such writers as Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James,
Charles Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen
Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot,
Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale
Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen,
Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty,
Bernard Malamud, J.D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, Allen
Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, John Barth, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver,
Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Beattie, Louise Erdrich, and Paul Auster. Because I don't
care for any of the standard anthologies, I have put together a four-volume course pack
that contains all of the readings, biographical introductions on the authors, and also my
own write-ups on each of the historical periods and genres. In addition to the course pack,
I will be ordering copies of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (U of
California Press/Mark Twain Library edition), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (Penguin),
and William Faulkner's Light in August (Vintage Corrected Edition).
This course is designed for students who enjoy reading, who take their education
seriously, and who want a strong foundation in this period that they can build upon in the
future. There will be two take-home midterms in each of which students will do one-page
explications (close readings) of 10 different passages selected from the texts we have
discussed in class. The first of these midterms will cover the period 1861 to 1900, and the
second will cover 1900-1945. There will also be a take-home final exam consisting of onepage explications of 8 passages from texts from the 1945-the present period, in addition to
a six-page essay on a topic covering the whole course. There is a good deal of assigned
reading, and approximately 34 pages of writing; students should take this into
consideration before enrolling in the course.
35100-002-18915
Am Lit 1865 Post WWII
TR
09:00-10:15
Morris, Daniel
Discussion, lecture, and group work concerning short stories, a few plays, a few novellas,
and some poetry by authors associated with the United States from 1865 to now.
Emphasis will be placed on 20th Century literature and culture, although texts from the
1865-1900 period will be presented. Written assignments will include several short
papers, a final paper, and a reading journal.
35800-001-54562
Black Drama
MWF
01:30-02:20
Shackelford, Renae
A critical analysis and discussion of selected representative works by African-American
dramatists--from William Wells Brown to the moderns.
36000-001-65355
Gender And Literature
TR
03:00-04:15
Sagar, Aparajita
This course introduces you to new ways to think about the question of gender as it is
represented in literature and as it, in turn, shapes novels, poetry, plays, and films. Our
writers include heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and bisexual women and men from a range of
historical periods and from communities across the globe (Africa, Asia, Europe, and the
Caribbean, as well as United States). We will ask how these writers have represented
gender and what links they have shown between gender-regimes and questions of power,
privilege, knowledge and culture more generally. Are gender regimes fixed and static for
all times, or do they shift and mutate in response to historical needs of their societies?
What sense do the writers give us of those who escape or unsettle the regime of gender in
their societies and in their times, and those who remain subjected to that regime? Over the
course of the semester, we will read 6-7 novels, works of poetry, and plays, and watch one
or two films. Expect to read 100-200 pages per week and to engage in very in-depth and
intense discussions in class. Requirements include active participation, two short papers
(5-6 pages each), additional 1-2 page in-class and take-home papers, a midterm and a final.
36500-001-15151
Lit And Imperialism
MWF
12:30-01:20
Lopez, Alfred
A study through cultural and theoretical works of the impact of imperialism on the ruling
nations.
36600-001-42916
Postcolonial Lit
TR
12:00-01:15
Marzec, Robert
A study of third world literature, film and theory that emerged during and after western
rule.
37300-H01-15135
Science Fict & Fantasy-Honors
TR
03:00-04:15
Felluga, Dino
This course will posit that speculative fiction (specifically, the speculative fiction one
finds on television and film) represents one of the only still viable generic forms that deals
with the present in an allegorical form. Starting from this premise, we will address a
number of issues in contemporary culture through the popular science fiction and fantasy
works we will be viewing, specifically postmodernism, our contemporary carceral culture,
politics and power, and late capitalism. The course will also serve as an introduction to the
major theories currently influencing English studies: narratology, theories of gender and
sex, postmodernism, theories of ideology, and psychoanalysis. As such, the course will use
my
web-based
Guide
to
Theory
as
one
of
its
primary
texts:
<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/>. I will suggest that speculative fiction gives
us a special access to the ways we make sense of the world in our everyday lives. By
pushing to the limits such issues as subjectivity, temporal sequentiality, and
representation, speculative fiction can uncover the ways ideology, narrative, and
epistemology function on a day-to-day basis. In short, as we progress through the semester,
we will be taking both science fiction and pop culture seriously, and will consequently be
dealing with a number of "serious" issues that concern us in our contemporary culture.
37700-001-65358
Major Modern Poetry
TR
12:00-01:15
Flory, Wendy
In this course we study poems by Hopkins, Owen, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Frost, Williams,
Stevens, Hughes (Langston and Ted), Auden, Heaney, Alexie, Erdrich, Walcott, Bishop,
Larkin, Rich, Plath, Ginsberg, O’Hara, Glück, Lee, Clifton, and Soto. Course assignments
are three short papers and a final examination.
37900-H01-15040
The Short Story
MWF
03:30-04:20
Lamb, Robert
Although stories are as old as human society, the “modern short story” is a distinct genre
that emerged in the early nineteenth century out of a mélange of older types of short
narrative (folktale, sketch, legend, parable, myth, fable, novella) and, over the next century
and a half, developed into one of the most popular of literary forms. The short story was
heavily influenced by the same historical genres through which the novel passed: the
romance, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. But although these two
kinds of narrative matured at the same time, they are distinctly different. Because of its
lack of space, the short story is closer to lyrical poetry than it is to the novel, and
storywriters have developed many techniques for saying more with less. Among these are
very compressed and suggestive language, indirection, characterization through a few
carefully selected details, the use of juxtaposition, and the omission of anything that does
not directly contribute to the story's effect. Storywriters work with the episode that
suggests the life; novelists address the life in all of its fullness. Storywriters work to a
single main effect; novelists work with multiple plotlines and many effects. Storywriters
focus on a significant moment in time; novelists treat change over time as one of their
most important concerns. Focusing on the moment, doing more with less, storywriters can
get closer than novelists to the pulse of life as felt, to the day-to-day moments of
experience that, taken together, add up to life. As Flannery O' Connor has said, stories do
not have less meaning than a novel, but the meaning they have is often implied rather than
stated and, as a result, readers have to respond imaginatively and fill in the blanks.
Texts: Because all the current anthologies are badly flawed, I've assembled a multi-volume
course pack that contains the right texts and the best available translations of foreign texts,
as well as: an overview on the rise of the short story that provides historical/cultural
contexts; examples of previous short narrative forms out of which the modern short story
developed; a list of questions to consider when reading a story; and my own lengthy
glossary of terms and techniques necessary for understanding the short story. For each
author we read, there is also a biographical head note and, whenever possible,
interviews/passages/essays by them discussing their own work, as well as criticism of their
stories by other storywriters. We will read stories by Nikolai Gogol, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin,
Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Sherwood
Anderson, Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frank O'Connor, Isaac
Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, Bernard
Malamud, Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, and
others.
Requirements: Students are expected to do the reading on a timely basis and to
participate in class discussions. There will be two take-home midterm exams; on each,
students will do 1-2 page close readings (explications) of 8 selected passages from the
texts. A final exam, also a take-home, consists of three parts: 5 explications; a 5-page
essay analyzing a story that we haven’t explored in class (I’ll hand out a list and each
student will choose their own story), and a 5-6 page essay on the short story from a list of
topics.
Purpose of the Course: The main goal of this course is to explore the development of the
modern short story as it emerged in the early nineteenth century in the works of
Hawthorne, Gogol, and Poe, was transformed along two separate lines in the works of
Maupassant and Chekhov, and then flowered into its present diverse state during the
periods of high modernism and postmodern fiction. Our main concern will be with the
genre: its development, its possibilities, and its achievements. There are three other
purposes in this course: to introduce you to some of the finest storywriters and short
stories ever written (I only wish we had time to do more of them); to help you become
more sophisticated and satisfied readers of short fiction; and to learn, grow, and have fun
doing so (which is sort of the whole point, after all).
38700-001-10283
38700-002-10288
Hist Film 1938-Pres
Hist Film 1938-Pres
WF
T
11:3 -12:20
06:30-09:20
Duerfahrd, Lance
Duerfahrd, Lance
This is an intensive study of international cinema. The goals of the class will be to develop
students’ capacity to read film, to articulate original responses to the medium, to enjoy
difficult movies and to become A1 cinephiles. The class will make you sweat. The films,
too. Particular attention will be given to the development of film form, image and sound
editing and the what you, the viewer, do to make the movie come alive, even after the final
credits. Some of the movements we will cover in weekly readings and screenings include
Film Noir, the French New Wave, Direct Cinema, and the Dogme 95 group. Films range
from Last Year at Marienbad to Borat. Directors include Fred Wiseman, Nicholas Roeg,
Agnes Varda, Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski, and John Waters.
39100-001-18931
Comp For Engl Teachers
MWF
11:30-12:20
Knoeller, Christian
Composition for English Teachers explores the theory, research, and practice of teaching
writing in middle and secondary grades. We examine the many roles of writing in the
overall English program with attention to instructional approaches and specific
assignments that involve student writing in a variety of genres. We consider the
pedagogical implications of relevant research and theory such as writing process models,
as well as reflection on our own experiences both as students and as future teachers of
writing.
The course emphasizes pedagogical questions involved in designing writing assignments,
providing response, and evaluating student work. Accordingly, assigned readings and
activities address specific classroom practices such as peer response, writing conferences,
writing portfolios, and grammar instruction. Approaching such topics from a practical,
hands-on perspective, we will design, fulfill, and critique writing assignments; in addition,
we will practice planning, presenting, and revising writing lessons. Overall, such ongoing
reflection on instructional practice is central to the course.
39600-002-14782
Intro To Rhet & Comp:
TR
09:00-10:15
The Power of Place: Space, Rhetoric, and Composition
Rickert, Thomas
There is increasing attention today to the power of place, both in the academic humanities
and the larger public. How does place affect us, shape us? What draws us to some places,
repels us in others, or invites us to change them? How does where we come from inflect
who we are? These and other spatial questions are also the concerns of rhetoric. They ask
us to think about how spaces persuade us, affect us, shape us. Our course will look at a
number of writings on place in order to understand place and its effects and appeals. We
also examine a number of popular movements that are centered on place, some of which
might include attention to architecture and civic design; desire for local foods and
products; concern for the environment; emerging technologies that transform our sense of
place, or create new kinds of places; and more. In addition to reading about place, we will
attempt to explore places (physical and digital; small and large) in various ways. Finally,
we will explore various writing projects that allow us to experience, describe, discuss,
share, and reflect on places that matter to us.
39600-003-15469
Wrld Narr: Vid Games & Narr Design TR
xlist ENGL596
10:30-11:45
Blackmon, Samantha
Every game designer and gamer knows that there is more to narrative than just words on a
page. This course looks at the ways that narrative gets developed in games. We will begin
by looking at the narrative elements in analog games that have been the foundation of
many digital games and move on to look at the elements in digital games that come
together to form the complete narrative.
We will read a variety of texts from literature (such as Snow Crash, Ready Player One,
Wolf in White Van), gaming manuals (Dungeons and Dragons), theory (First Person, Well
Played, Literary Gaming), and games themselves (digital and analog). You will be
required to play games as a part of this class. Some will be done during class time and
some will be done outside of class. You do not have to be a "gamer" to take this course,
but you will need to be open to playing games of various kinds.
Students will be required to write weekly responses to reading/playing, do presentations,
and complete a final project.
For more information please contact blackmos@purdue.edu.
40700-001-18937
40700-002-18938
Intro Poetry Writing
Intro Poetry Writing
TR
TR
12:00-01:15
01:30-02:45
Study of basic methods of composing poetry, with primary emphasis on the student’s own
work, submitted frequently during the semester. Workshop criticism.
40900-001-18940
40900-002-18941
Intro Fiction Writing
Intro Fiction Writing
TR
TR
01:30-02:45
12:0 -01:15
Leung, Brian
Writing of several short fictional narratives. Study of short story techniques in published
stories and student manuscripts. Workshop criticism.
41100-001-15162
Zora Neale Hurston
TR
01:30-02:45
Freeman-Marshall, J.
For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at
jlfreem@purdue.edu
41200-003-15146
American Women Poets
TR
09:00-10:15
Flory, Wendy
This course examines books of poetry by American women poets writing after World War
II, specifically Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Louise
Glück, and Louise Erdrich. The main focus will be close reading of the poetry, but we
will also consider biographical issues such as the influence of race and ethnicity (Clifton
and Erdrich), the role of place (Elizabeth Bishop), the invention of a radical feminist
poetic voice (Rich), the dramatization of psychological pain and poetic power (Plath), and
the crafting of an intricate, book-length, poetic sequence (Gluck). The written assignments
are three papers and a portfolio of commentaries on individual poems.
41300-001-15159
Queen Anne Boleyn in Literature
and Film ; xlist MARS420
MWF
10:30-11:20
White, Paul
Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, is among the most sensational and
controversial, as well as significant, queens in English history, and she has attracted the
attention of fiction writers and filmmakers, along with historians, as an enduring icon of
piety, beauty, heresy, and whoredom; for many she is a model of early modern feminism.
In sorting out all these contradictions and explaining her widespread international appeal,
the course will begin by looking at literary theorist Susan Bordo’s groundbreaking study,
The Creation of Anne Boleyn (2013), and move from there to interrogate Anne’s
representation in awarding-winning novels such as Hillary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies
(2012), in Philippa Gregory’s “pulp fiction” The Other Boleyn Girl (2002) on screen in
Anne of a Thousand Day and HBO’s The Tudors, and online in the explosion of websites
and blogs devoted to Queen Anne and the Tudors since about 2005. These materials will
be contextualized with reference to the representation of Ann in texts written during or
close to her own sixteenth-century lifetime, e.g., the love lyrics of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the
scandal-mongering ambassadorial postings of Gustave Chapuy, and the “martyrological”
writing of John Foxe. Participation in class and online in Blackboard Discussions is
essential; two short papers, a midterm, and a final.
41400-001-15157
The Black Male Image
MWF
12:30-01:20
Saunders, James
Literature frequently portrays the black male in such a way that reduces his humanity. In
some texts, self-fulfilling prophecy occurs in terms of his various interactions. In the
midst of such an environment, self-possession can become a distant goal to be achieved,
when it does occur, at an extreme personal and societal cost. Students will read novels
and, via lectures and discussion, examine these issues. Class attendance and participation
are essential and several essays will be required.
41900-001-18948
Multimedia Writing
TR
01:30-02:45
Johnson, Nathan
Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of
multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Students work with clients and in
teams to produce web sites, interactive media, software applications, and user
documentation.
41900-001-18949
Multimedia Writing
MWF
02:30-03:20
Multimedia writing for networked contexts. Emphasizes principles, and practices of
multimedia design, implementation, and publishing. Typical genres include Web sites,
interactive media, digital video, visual presentations, visual argument, and user
documentation.
42000-001-18961
42000-002-18959
42000-003-18966
42000-005-18970
42000-006-18958
42000-007-18963
42000-008-18965
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
07:30-08:20
08:30-09:20
09:30-10:20
10:30-11:20
11:30-12:20
12:30-01:20
01:30-02:20
42000-009-18956
42000-010-18971
42000-011-18968
42000-012-18969
42000-013-18972
42000-014-18953
42000-015-18964
42000-016-18955
42000-017-18960
42000-018-18967
42000-E01-42826
42000-E02-42824
42000-I01-42827
42000-Y01-18992
42000-Y02-46780
42000-Y03-46582
42000-Y04-18993
42000-Y05-18991
42000-Y06-58166
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
Business Writing
MWF
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
TR
TR
TR
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
TR
02:30-03:20
03:30-04:20
04:30-05:20
07:30-08:45
09:00-10:15
10:30-11:45
12:00-01:15
01:30-02:45
03:00-04:15
04:30-05:45
09:30-10:20
12:30-01:20
12:00-01:15
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
English 420 applies rhetorical principles to writing business letters, memos, reports, and
resumes. Specifically, students will learn to define their purposes, analyze readers, gather
and organize information, and develop an appropriate style. Writing assignments include:
communications for large organizations, such as memos, proposals, progress reports, and
final reports; business correspondence, such as routine, bad news, and persuasive letters;
and employment communications, such as resumes and job application letters. There is
approximately one writing assignment a week. All division/sections of English 420 and
420C are generally for students classified as 7 or 8.
42100-001-18998
42100-002-19002
42100-003-58127
42100-004-19000
42100-005-18996
42100-006-19001
42100-007-19003
42100-008-58126
42100-009-18999
42100-010-18997
42100-011-48995
42100-021-13519
42100-Y01-46583
42100-Y02-19010
42100-Y03-19009
42100-Y04-58167
42100-Y05-19011
42100-Y06-46659
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
Technical Writing
MWF
MWF
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
MWF
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
TR
07:30-08:20
01:30-02:20
03:30-04:20
04:30-05:20
01:30-02:45
04:30-05:45
08:30-09:20
12:30-01:20
01:30-02:20
09:00-10:15
10:30-11:45
03:00-04:15
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Arr 3 Hrs
Workplace writing in networked environments for technical contexts. Emphasizes context
and user analysis, data analysis/display, project planning, document management,
usability, ethics, research, team writing. Typical genres include technical reports, memos,
documentation, websites.
42201-001-13527
42201-002-13530
Wrtg Health Human Sciences
Wrtg Health Human Sciences
MWF
TR
02:30-03:20
03:00-04:15
English 422 applies rhetorical principles to writing in health, medical, hospitality,
nutrition, nursing and related fields in the Health and Human Sciences. All sections of
42201 are generally for students classified as 7 or 8. Prerequisites: ENGL 106, 108 or
equivalent, advanced undergraduate standing.
44200-001-19013
Shakespeare
MWF
12:30-01:20
White, Paul
Students will study representative comedies, histories, romances, and tragedies; however,
the number of plays considered will vary with each instructor. The nature of the course is
that of analysis and discussion.
44200-002-10930
Shakespeare
MW
04:30-05:45
Goodhart, Sandor
English 442 is designed to introduce Shakespeare, the world’s foremost dramatist, to
students. Ordinarily, students will study representative comedies, histories, romances, and
tragedies; however, the number of plays considered will vary with each instructor. Each
class is limited to twenty-five students. Although it is often necessary to explain, for
instance, the Elizabethan world view or problems of staging or representation, the nature
of the course is that of analysis and discussion.
48800-001-19018
48800-001-19018
48800-002-19019
48800-003-64936
48800-004-64937
48800-005-64938
Internshp Prof Writing
Internshp Prof Writing
Internshp Prof Writing
Internshp Prof Writing
Internshp Prof Writing
Internshp Prof Writing
W
W
03:30-04:20
04:30-05:20
Arr Hrs
Arr Hrs
Arr Hrs
Arr Hrs
Bay, Jennifer
Bay, Jennifer
Bay, Jennifer
Bay, Jennifer
Bay, Jennifer
Bay, Jennifer
This course provides on-the-job experience in various kinds of professional writing,
combined with a seminar in applied rhetoric. Students will work in selected internship
settings, participate in seminar discussions of their work, and analyze their experiences
through electronic journal entries. Service learning components may be involved in the
course.
49200-001-19023
Lit Secondary Schools
MWF
01:30-02:20
Knoeller, Christian
Literature in the Secondary Schools explores connections between theory, research, and
practice when teaching literature in middle and secondary grades. Course readings
introduce a variety of perspectives—including those of secondary English teachers
reporting on their own classrooms as well as other empirical researchers investigating
literature teaching at the middle- and secondary-school levels—that offer different visions
of literature teaching that can in turn inform our own instructional practices. The course
also addresses questions of social identity and diversity in textual interpretation —as well
as text selection—and their implications for shaping instruction.
Activities and discussions in class, as well as individual assignments and collaborative
projects, examine a wide variety of instructional practices, considering how each might be
refined or adapted to differing instructional contexts and purposes. Lesson presentations
by class members illuminate theoretical as well as practical aspects of literature
instruction, such as relationships between class discussion and student writing in response
to literature. Overall, the course models a reflective stance toward instructional practice
for ongoing development as teachers of literature.
50200-001-19026
50200-002-19031
50200-002-19031
50200-003-66227
50200-004-15372
Prac In Tch Literature
Prac Teach Cr Writing
xlist ENGL505-19038
Prac Teach Cr Writing
xlist ENGL505-19038
Prac Teach Oral ESL
Prac Teach Written ESL
T
Arr Hrs
03:00-04:15
Sagar, Aparajita
Platt, Donald
T
03:00-04:15
Solwitz, Sharon
Arr 1 Hr
Arr 1 Hr
Silva, Anthony
The courses 502A through 502W, which deal with teaching English as a second language,
literature, linguistics, freshman composition, Writing Lab, business writing, and technical
writing in the college classroom or lab, are open only to graduate teaching assistants in the
Department of English.
50500-001-19037
50500-001-19037
50500-002-19034
50500-002-19034
50500-003-19033
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
R
T
R
T
T
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
Dilger, C. Bradley
Dilger, C. Bradley
Haynes, Linda
Haynes, Linda
Kenzie, Daniel
50500-003-19300
50500-004-19036
50500-004-19036
50500-005-19035
50500-005-19035
50500-006-19038
50500-006-19038
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Teach First-Yr Comp II
Approaches/Creative Wr
xlist ENGL502-19031
Approaches/Creative Wr
xlist ENGL502-19031
R
R
T
R
T
TR
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
03:00-04:15
Kenzie, Daniel
Legg, Emily
Legg, Emily
Wallin, Jonathan
Wallin, Jonathan
Platt, Donald
TR
03:00-04:15
Solwitz, Sharon
Reading professional literature on the teaching of writing, linguistics, and ESL. Studies of
methodologies, issues of assessment, and the relationship between theory and pedagogy.
This course is not part of the degree requirement.
50700-001-14757
Poetry Writing
TR
04:30-05:45
Platt, Donald
A workshop for those experienced in the writing of poetry. Criticism by class and
instructor. Study of the work of established writers.
50900-001-14789
Fiction Writing
W
06:30-09:20
Solwitz, Sharon
Study of the techniques of writing short stories. Discussion of professional stories.
Exercises. Workshop.
51100-001-19043
Semantics II
SLHS PROF; xlist LING531
Wilber, Ronnie
An introduction to, and survey of, current semantic theories and methods with an emphasis
on English. Basic concepts of linguistic semantics and its relation to the other semantics:
compositional (transformational), model-theoretical (truth-conditional), pragmatic, and
contextual semantics.
51500-001-645892 Adv Professional Writ
TR
12:00-01:15
Johnson-Sheehan, R.
Writing proposals and grants. This course will teach you how to write proposals and grants
for professional, research, and academic purposes. You will learn how to analyze
problems/opportunities, develop plans for projects, describe qualifications, and develop
budgets. You will also learn how to analyze your readers, create a powerful visual design,
and write with a persuasive style. You will also learn how to create business plans and use
other entrepreneurial strategies to create new opportunities.
51800-001-19045
Engl Secnd Lg Prin/Prc
MWF
01:30-02:20
Berns, Margie
Examination of the interaction of various social and cultural contexts of learning and
teaching of language with principles of course and materials design. The objective is
twofold: (1) provide a principled basis for and practical experience in course and materials
design and development, and (2) prepare participants for a range of teaching situations.
53100-001-15156
Rise Of The Novel
T
04:30-07:20
Powell, Manushag
For many years, the general thinking about the development of the English-language novel
(cemented in large part by the towering influence of Ian Watt’s 1957 The Rise of the
Novel) went something like this: In the beginning, there were four Great Writers (Defoe,
Richardson, Fielding, Smollett—some folks also added Sterne; Watt actually doesn’t
bother with Smollett). They were Great, and created the Novel, largely sui generis, but it
probably had something to do with the middle class (also rising at the time).* Then, during
the Romantic period, thousands more novels were composed, but they were Not Great.
Ms. Austen was okay, though. Eventually some Victorian chaps invented Realism, and we
were back on track.
*Also there were some women milling about, but their work was mostly rubbish.
This course has very little interest in the above narrative. Not that the four (or five) Greats
aren’t just super terrific, mind you—in fact, they are—but the novel most certainly did not
come out of nowhere, or out of bourgeois masculinity left to itself, and there was a ton
more going on throughout its development across the Augustan and Romantic milieus than
the above story suggests. If you know nothing but the most famous texts of the four (or
five) Greats, then in truth you know little about either the novel or its cultural
interworkings with the eighteenth century (the best of all centuries). Rest assured that this
class will not leave you in such a regrettable position.
53200-001-15129
Engl Novel In 19 Cent
W
04:30-07:20
Allen, Emily
This course will function as an introduction both to the nineteenth-century British novel
and to the current field of nineteenth-century studies. Working across the span of the
nineteenth century, we will consider the development of the novel as aesthetic, political,
and material artifact. Coursework will include research assignments, multiple class
presentations, and a substantial term paper. Mostly, our job will be to read and discuss
long and glorious novels. (The reading list for this class is TBA, but likely novelists are J.
Austen, E. Brontë, C. Brontë, G. Eliot, C. Dickens, O. Wilde, and T. Hardy).
54700-001-15123
British Romanticism
TR
01:30-02:45
Friedman, Geraldine
Through intensive textual readings and supplementary materials, this course will approach
Romanticism as a discourse, constructed around such categories as subjectivity, interiority,
imagination, aesthetics, nature, history, nation, empire, and gender. The project of the
course is multiple. Its first goal is to provide an introduction to the canonical and some
non-canonical authors of the period. Readings will include works by such figures as
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Anna Seward, Wollstonecraft,
Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, De
Quincey, and Mary Shelley. On the level of theory, we will explore the ways in which
Romanticism both embodies and critiques a particularly powerful, distilled, and seductive
version of Western metaphysics, including its textual, political, and gendered effects. On
the level of history, we will seek to read Romantic texts with the political, social, and
cultural developments of the period, such as the French Revolution, the Reform
Movement, the accelerating rise of capitalism and colonial imperialism, and the emergence
of modern domesticity and its forms of desire. Secondary readings will supply an entree
into the history of the period, serve as an introduction to scholarship in the field, and help
to locate Romanticism in recent theoretical developments.
55700-001-15153
19th Cent Af-Am Narr
xlist AMST650
W
03:00-05:50
Patton, Venetria
Nineteenth-century African American Narrative will explore the movement from the slave
narrative to the African American novel. We will begin by studying archetypal slave
narratives such as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass and move on to early novels such as Clotel, Our Nig, Iola Leroy, Of
One Blood. We’ll also read some twentieth-century novels to explore the continuity of
themes and concerns within the African American narrative tradition.
56300-001-14811
Historical Linguistics
xlist LING541
MWF
01:30-02:20
Niepokuj, Mary
This course provides an introduction to the study of historical change. We will consider
various kinds of linguistic change from descriptive and theoretical standpoints. Since
much of the previous work in the field has involved Indo-European languages, the course
will naturally center around these languages, with data from non-Indo-European languages
cited whenever possible. Although we will use an introductory textbook as a preliminary
introduction to the material, approximately a third of the course will consist of reading
original articles which have proven significant to the field.
57000-001-58110
Intro To Semiotics
SLC PROF; xlist ANTH519, COM507, LC570, LING593
Broden, Thomas
The study of languages, literatures, and other systems of human communication includes a
wide range of phenomena that can be brought together by means of a general theory of
signs. The course deals with three fundamental areas: (1) verbal communication; (2)
nonverbal communication (iconic systems, gesture, body language, etc.); and (3)
communication through art forms.
59500-001-15134
Contemp Amer Fiction
TR
03:00-04:15
Duvall, John
This course will survey contemporary American Fiction since the late 1950s. My aim is
provide some understanding of the distinction between modernism and postmodernism.
An issue we will explore is the relation of the contemporary American novel to the
aesthetic past and to history. If the directed intertexts of modernism were, as T.S. Eliot
put it in describing James Joyce, instances of "mythological method," what are the
intertexts of contemporary narratives? To a certain extent, we will see history replace the
aesthetic past as the interext of the contemporary American novel. This turn to history,
however, does not grant a special privelege to history; rather, contemporary writers
acknowledge that any attempt to recover the past is always already implicated in fictional
gestures. In addition to fiction by such writers as Kathy Acker, Don DeLillo,
E.L.Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Ishamel Reed, and Leslie Marmon Silko,
we will read criticism and theory that attempts to define the aesthetic and cultural
postmodern. In particular, we will look at Fredric Jameson's dismay over the degraded
historicism of the present and Linda Hutcheon's celebration of historiographic metafiction
as an expressive form able to produce social critique.
There will be two shorter papers, an oral report, a longer paper, and a final examination.
59600-001-14653
Wrld Narr:Vid Games&Narr Desgn
xlist ENGL396
TR
10:30-11:45
Blackmon, Samantha
Every game designer and gamer knows that there is more to narrative than just words on a
page. This course looks at the ways that narrative gets developed in games. We will begin
by looking at the narrative elements in analog games that have been the foundation of
many digital games and move on to look at the elements in digital games that come
together to form the complete narrative.
We will read a variety of texts from literature (such as Snow Crash, Ready Player One,
Wolf in White Van), gaming manuals (Dungeons and Dragons), theory (First Person, Well
Played, Literary Gaming), and games themselves (digital and analog). You will be
required to play games as a part of this class. Some will be done during class time and
some will be done outside of class. You do not have to be a "gamer" to take this course,
but you will need to be open to playing games of various kinds.
Students will be required to write weekly responses to reading/playing, do presentations,
and complete a final project.
For more information please contact blackmos@purdue.edu.
59600-002-14821
Young Adult Literature
xlist EDCI551
R
04:30-07:20
Shoffner, Melanie
This course is a survey of young adult literature and a study of relevant literary criticism
and theories of reading. Attention will also be paid to the effective teaching of young
adult literature to adolescents.
59600-003-15126
Modernism & Disabity
M
04:30-07:20
Linett, Maren
This course combines an introduction to theoretical materials in disability studies with
readings of modernist texts that thematize disability. Questions that will drive the course
include the following: how has the conception of the “normal” developed and changed
over time? What cultural meanings are attached to various abilities and disabilities? How
have people with disabilities been understood in terms of their subjectivity, rationality, and
sexuality? How are mental disabilities seen differently from physical disabilities? And
most importantly for our purposes, how does disability interact with aesthetics to help
create formal properties of modernist literary works? A variety of theoretical,
autobiographical, and critical texts will guide our discussions of these questions as they
pertain to works by authors such as H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Olive
Moore, Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and
others.
59600-004-15132
“Bad” Mothers In Am Lit
R
04:30-07:20
David, Marlo
In this seminar, we will examine the multiple constructions of motherhood in 20th-century
American literature, paying special attention to fiction depicting “bad” maternal figures.
While there is no singular definition of a “bad” mother, this figure often appears in
literature in ways that indicate the social limitations of gender, race, class, and sexual
norms of any given time. These “bad” mothers are frequently represented as individuals of
questionable morality who fail to live up to norms of gender and sexual propriety or who
fail to uphold the naturalized expectations of reproduction. “Bad” mothers are cast as
antithetical to the idealized liberal American subject and citizen, and they are often blamed
for a variety of social problems. However, many American writers have subverted
normative expectations of motherhood by depicting “bad” mothers in ways that challenge
these norms. Therefore, the study of “bad” mothers offers ways of interrogating American
concepts of family, nation, citizenship, belonging, and freedom through ideologies of race,
class, gender, and sexuality in various historical periods. We will analyze the varied
factors that shape and define representations of motherhood and their impact on society
through literary works by Dorothy Allison, Octavia Butler, Anna Castillo, Kate Chopin,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, Ann Petry,
Suzan-Lori Parks, Tennessee Williams, and more. In addition to fiction, drama, and film,
we will also read interdisciplinary theoretical analyses of motherhood, particularly paying
attention to queer and feminist interventions.
59600-005-17040
Semantics II
SLHS PROF; xlist LING532
Wilber, Ronnie
An introduction to, and survey of, current semantic theories and methods with an emphasis
on English. Basic concepts of linguistic semantics and its relation to the other semantics:
compositional (transformational), model-theoretical (truth-conditional), pragmatic, and
contextual semantics.
60100-001-15154
60100-001-15154
Teaching College Lit
Teaching College Lit
TR
TR
09:00-10:15
09:00-10:15
Peterson, Nancy
Sagar, Aparajita
This course focuses on practical and theoretical issues related to teaching literature at the
college level. It is designed to meet the needs and interests of Ph.D. students in literature
and TCS—those who would like to be prepared to teach an introductory literature course
in Purdue's English department, and those who would like to design a literature course and
related documents as preparation for going on the job market. We will divide class time
between three matters: engaging with current pedagogical research in our discipline and
profession, that is, literature and cultural studies; designing strategies and toolkits for our
immediate and long-term use in teaching literature; discussing everyday and ongoing
issues that arise in and out of our classrooms when working with undergraduate literature
students.
PLEASE NOTE: This course is required for any Ph.D. student who has not yet taught a
literature course at Purdue and who wishes to be eligible to teach literature for English in
the future. Prerequisite: ENGL 50100, or department approval. If you have not taken
ENGL 50100, please email the instructors to ask for an override (asagar@purdue.edu and
njp@purdue.edu); include your name, degree program, and area of research interest.
60600-001-19073
Sem In Poetry Writing
W
04:30-07:20
Platt, Donald
This seminar will focus on the workshopping of poems by graduate students and the
discussion of issues of craft and content in contemporary American poetry. To supplement
the workshop and sample the diversity of our contemporary poetic climate, we will read
and discuss several recent collections (possibly Mary Rueffle’s Selected Poems, Kay
Ryan’s The Best of It, Maurice Manning’s The Common Man, Dean Young’s Fall Higher,
and Carrie Etter’s The Son). In our examination of these works, we will explore each
poet’s differing sense of aesthetics, themes and obsessions, and the design by which each
poet arranges poems to construct larger meanings within a book.
60700-001-64893
Craft And Theory Of Fiction
W
11:30-02:20
Leung, Brian
A study of the craft of poetry, fiction, or drama with some consideration of underlying
theories.
60900-001-19074
Sem In Fiction Writing
T
04:30-07:20
Solwitz, Sharon
An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Workshop critiques.
61400-001-15095
Middle English Lit
MWF
09:30-10:20
Armstrong, S. Dorsey
Study of representative works in the major literary traditions and genres of middle English
literature (exclusive of Chaucer): lyric, romance, satire, allegory. Detailed examination of
major works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and Pearl.
61700-001-14817
Contemporary English
TR
10:30-11:45
Staples, Shelley
This course is a descriptive overview of English grammar from a corpus-based
perspective, surveying English grammatical structures and major patterns of language use,
and developing skill in grammatical analysis. We will discuss both written and spoken
English grammar in the context of discourse and register characteristics, and will also
discuss classroom implications. Students will complete a final project related to their own
interests in applying the knowledge learned in the course (e.g., to ESL instruction).
61800-001-14654
Quantitative Research
xlist LING689
TR
01:30-02:45
Ginther, April
The course presents basic concepts of elementary statistics, data collection, data
management, sampling, and research design for quantitative analyses. The main purpose
of the course is to introduce basic characteristics of quantitative methodologies as applied
to questions about language. Practical aspects of design along with ethical considerations
that influence research projects will be considered. Class requirements: discussion of
assigned readings, a take-home midterm, and a final paper.
62200-001-59590
Comp St: Classical
W
11:30-02:20
Rickert, Thomas
The course historicizes issues in Rhetoric and Composition from its ancient, primarily
Greek beginnings to the Renaissance.
62500-001-64894
Emp Rsrch In Writing
F
11:30-02:20
Sullivan, Patricia
This course introduces empirical research designs appropriate for writing research.
Students will read and discuss descriptive and experimental research, will learn about
classes of statistics appropriate for various research designs, and will design research
projects to address problems which interest them. There will also be a group project and a
poster session.
62600-001-33654
Comp St: Postmodern
M
11:30-02:20
Salvo, Michael
The course historicizes how various postmodern theories and practices (cultural, political,
ethical, philosophical, technological, aesthetic) influence the study and teaching of written
discourse.
62700-002-59003
Syntax II
LHS PROF; xlist LING522
Wilber, Ronnie
This is an in-depth exploration of syntactic phenomena, including mechanics and
theoretical motivations. Emphasis is on constructing analyses and evaluating competing
analyses in terms of their explanatory adequacy for Universal Grammar. Topics include
structural representations, functional projections, LF phenomena, and motivation from
other interface phenomena. Although much of the discussion will focus on English, the
course will pay special attention to the appropriateness of theoretical analyses for other
languages, to crosslinguistic comparison, to motivation of changes in syntactic analysis,
and to the history of generative syntax.
62700-004-69968
Phonology II
SLC PROF; xlist LING 512
TR
09:00-10:15
Dmitrieva, Olga
For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at
odmitrie@purdue.edu
62800-001-14779
Natrl Language Process
xlist LING689
T
06:30-09:20
Raskin, Victor
The course will focus on both the linguistic and computational systems which
"understand" text in a natural language such as English and which perform various
intelligent tasks, e.g., machine translation, information retrieval, automatic abstracting, and
natural language interfacing for expert systems. The issues range from the formal
description of English (primarily syntax and semantics) which would enable the computer
to extract meaning from text, to the computational methods which make the procedure
possible. The course will begin with a general overview of natural language processing
and proceed first to simple formal syntactic descriptions and their computations resulting
in syntactic parsers and then to semantic descriptions and computational analysis of
meaning.
There are no prerequisites for the course but some background in
linguistics/semantics and/or computer science would be helpful. There will be a small
individual research project/paper at the end and no exams.
62900-002-69970
Corpus Research
xlist LING689
TR
03:00-04:15
Staples, Shelley
This course will examine issues in corpus linguistics, both as a research methodology and
as a field of study within Second Language Studies. The course has two major objectives:
to present an overview of the current state of research findings in this field; and to develop
the advanced analytical techniques required for students to carry out their own corpus
linguistic research projects. Class members will be asked to read and discuss assigned
texts and complete and present a term project.
63000-001-69971
Second Lang Writing
T
06:30-09:20
Silva, Anthony
This seminar will address major issues in ESL writing theory, research, and practice. The
topics addressed will include the historical context of ESL writing, characteristics of ESL
writers, ESL writers' composing processes, rhetorical and linguistic features of ESL
writers' texts, assessment of ESL writing, comparisons of ESL and first language writing,
reading/writing connections for ESL writers, and ESL writing pedagogy—approaches,
methods, and materials. Class members will be asked to read and discuss assigned texts
and to write journals, an article critique, and a term project.
63100-001-14806
World Englishes
xlist LING689
MWF
02:30-03:20
Berns, Margie
In-depth study of world Englishes as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, as a field of
study, and as a research paradigm. Readings will cover the history of the field, the key
issues driving research and scholarship, and the multiple disciplinary approaches adopted
for the study of world Englishes. Assignments include extensive reading, class
presentations, and a scholarly paper.
63300-003-11049
Arthurian Literature
MWF
10:30-11:20
Armstrong, S. Dorsey
A study of the development of the Arthurian tradition from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
History of the Kings of Britain to Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Considerable
attention will be paid to recent critical treatments of medieval Arthurian literature.
66500-001-15114
World Lit: 1492-1700 AD
xlist CMPL650
TR
10:30-11:45
Duran, Angelica
This seminar focuses on major texts written in or related to the seminal period of 14921700 (a.k.a the Age of Discovery, a.k.a the Early Modern Period, a.k.a…), when travel,
conceptions, and knowledge about the world were expanding in unprecedented ways.
Texts include English translations of Spanish Lope de Vega’s Discovery of the New World
and Cervantes’s Don Quixote (selections); English Dryden’s Indian Emperor and Behn’s
Widow Ranter; Chinese Cao’s Dream of the Red Chamber; French Cyrano de Bergerac;
selections from the 1649 English translation of the Qu’ran and the 1611 King James Bible;
and texts that students will select from their languages of expertise. Instantiating the
permeable borders of our readings and taking advantage of the course’s Tuesday/Thursday
format, one of the weekly class meetings will be instructor- and student-led discussions
and presentations, the other weekly class meeting, guest lectures by off-campus specialists,
including Sabina Knight (Smith College; author of the Oxford UP Very Short Introduction
to Chinese Literature); experts from the PU School of Languages and Culture and
Comparative Literature; a panel of PU faculty in STEM fields; and a field trip to an artistic
event.
66700-002-15254
Emm Lev In Phil Lit & Relg Sdy
W
06:30-09:20
Goodhart, Sandor
In this course, we will read slowly and carefully through the major work of Emmanuel
Levinas in philosophic, literary, and Jewish Studies in an effort to understand precisely his
arguments and his style of presentation. We will preface that reading with a consideration
of two short phenomenological treatises of the forties and fifties (Existents and Existence
and Time and the Other). Then we will read the two major philosophic works of Levinas
(Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being). Finally, we will read two collections on
Jewish Studies (Difficult Freedom and Nine Talmudic Readings). Here and there
throughout the semester, we will supplement our readings with selections from three
collections of essays on various topics (The Levinas Reader, Collected Philosophical
Papers, and Basic Philosophical Writings), plus a series of interviews in which Levinas
describes the full range of his work (Ethics and Infinity). Classes will proceed by close
reading of passages from each of the books. Students will be asked to examine Levinas's
writing through the development of weekly study questions, and encouraged in their final
papers to engage his work in more detail.
67300-001-15149
19th Cen Transnat Am Studies
xlist AMST650
M
04:30-07:20
Lopez, Alfred
For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at
alopez@purdue.edu
68000-001-14791
Minority Rhetoric
TR
01:30-02:45
Blackmon, Samantha
In this course we will look at education and social justice writings of the 19th and 20th
centuries which, while written primarily by authors of African descent, will gives us the
foundation to discussion how the theories and practices of scholars and educators, past and
present, can come together and serve as the basis for a pedagogy that can be used to teach
all students. We will look at a variety of works by authors such as Booker T. Washington,
W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, bell hooks, Victor Villanueva, Lisa Delpit, Mike
Rose, and Geneva Smitherman. Assignments for this class will include (but are not limited
to): weekly responses to reading, a seminar presentation, and a seminar paper.
68000-002-14794
WAC & Learning Transfer
TR
10:30-11:45
Dilger, C. Bradley
In the past ten years, writing studies has displayed considerable interest in writing transfer:
the motivation of writing skills, experiences, and knowledge native to one context in
another. For example, how does writing for a student or volunteer organization impact
writing for school? While much of the conversation about transfer concerns first-year
writing, scholars such as Doug Brent, Tara Lockhart and Mary Soliday, and Michelle
Navarre Clearly are all researching transfer in other contexts. My own study of writing
transfer at my former institution began because of questions about transfer into Writing
Instruction in the Disciplines (WID) courses, especially for students from community
colleges (hence our first project name, "Transfer @ transfer.").
With this in mind, we will consider writing transfer in the contexts of Writing Across the
Curriculum (WAC). Course texts will include essays and books from Yancey, Robertson,
& Taczak, David Russell, Christiane Donahue, Elizabeth Wardle, and Driscoll & Wells,
among others. We will begin with introductions to WAC and transfer, then investigate
their intersection in depth, considering both scholarship and research methods.
Deliverables will vary given students' academic focuses and experiences, but every student
will produce, test, and revise a short handout designed to help WAC/WID faculty in other
departments understand relevant research about writing (e.g. discourse community, genre,
motivation, etc).
For more details, please see http://dtext.org/s15/680/ or contact dilger@purdue.edu.
68000-003-14795
Sem In Public Rhetorics
TR
03:00-04:15
Johnson, Nathan
Seminar focuses on publics theory. Readings span rhetoric & composition, sociology,
literature, communication, and public policy studies. The course prepares students to
produce publishable scholarship informed by cross-disciplinary reading.
69600-001-14975
European Modernism
SLC PROF; xlist CMPL650, LC639
Coda, Elena
For a detailed description of this course please contact the instructor directly at
ecoda@purdue.edu