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Fall 2013 Schedule of Courses
The following courses are open to doctoral students in the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies. Advanced MA students and doctoral students in other programs may enroll only with permission of instructor.
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AML 6934-003 (95669)
American Modernist Poetry |
We will be reading a selection of poetry produced by American writers as part of the widespread aesthetic and ideological rupture retrospectively known as "modernism." We will be considering these works in the light of previous Anglo-American and European movements (realism, aestheticism, symbolism), and in relation to contemporaneous developments in music and the visual arts. We'll be thinking especially about how modernism revises the relationship of the poet to her/his audience, and how modernist writing proposes new models of aesthetic autonomy and political engagement. | |
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AML 6934-004 (95670)
Antebellum American Lit
Monday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 321 Dr. Adam Cunliffe Bradford, English (954) 236-1127 abradfo5@fau.edu
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This course will examine American literature and culture from the end of the early American republic (approx 1820) to the end of the Civil War (1865). Particular attention will be paid to the various social and historical pressures that conditioned the ways in which authors wrote, readers read, and texts were disseminated. Writers of the period include Cooper, Sedgwick, Fern, Simms, Poe, Emerson, Sigourney, Thoreau, Whitman, Brown, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Melville, and Fuller among others. Students should emerge from this course with a rich understanding of the way in which the literature of the period shaped and was shaped by the culture of which it was a part, with an increased ability to conduct archival research, and with a greater appreciation of the interdependence existing between what is traditionally considered the American Renaissance and the more popular literary fare of the period.
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AML 6938-002 (95668)
Contemp Af-Am Lit: Post-Soul
Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., AH 204 Dr. Sika Alaine Dagbovie-Mullins, English (561) 297-1083 sdagbovi@fau.edu
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In Touré’s satirical “The African-American Aesthetics Hall of Fame, Or 101 Elements of Blackness (Things That’ll Make You Say: Yes! That There’s Some Really Black Shit!),” the listing contains items and topics both comical (“Red Devil Hot Sauce,” “Under-car neon lights”) and serious (“Survival,” “Soul”). His “Aesthetics Hall of Fame” humorously invites readers to think about what constitutes authentic blackness. This course examines contemporary African American texts that question proscriptive notions of black identity. These post-soul texts, which often engage in postmodern experimentation and challenge racial essentialism, represent what some scholars see as a shift in African American literary production. Questions that will frame our discussion include: What characterizes a post-soul text? Are there common themes, concerns, or literary techniques? How does one define a black aesthetic? What is the difference between “new black,” “post-soul” and “post-black”? Most of the writers who we will study represent the post Civil-Rights generation whose work is informed by different social and political circumstances than previous generations, in part because they are what Trey Ellis coins “cultural mulattos.” Alongside our primary texts, we will read criticism that theorizes the post-soul aesthetic authored by scholars including Trey Ellis, Thelma Gordon, Mark Anthony Neal, and Bertram Ashe. Primary texts will likely include Trey Ellis’s Platitudes, Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle,Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Emily Raboteau’s The Professor’s Daughter, Mat Johnson’s Incognegro and Pym, Alice Randall’s Wind Done Gone, Percival Everett’s Erasure, and works by artist Kara Walker and comedian Dave Chappelle. |
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ANG 6490-002 (95701) Semnr in Cult Anthhr 1 (Gen) Tuesday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., SO 190 Dr. Michael S Harris, Anthropology (561) 297-3878 mharris@fau.edu
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ARH 6897-002
Seminar in Art History Friday, 9 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., AH 116 Dr. Brian McConnell, Visual Arts & Art History (561) 297-3871 mcconnel@fau.edu
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CST 7309-001 (95667)
Postcolonial Theory Tuesday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., CU 118 Dr. Taylor S. Hagood, English (561) 297-2306 thagood@fau.edu (core course for CLL program)
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This course is designed both to ground students in postcolonial theory and to push them toward productive theorizing in their specific fields based on principles of postcolonial theoretical discourse. The reading list therefore will reflect not only staples of postcolonial theory but also philosophical texts that have provided groundwork for postcolonial theorizing as well as theoretical texts that extend postcolonial inquiry into other critical fields. Readings will include Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, Edward Said’s Orientalism, Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Globalectics, Ania Loomba’s Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment, edited by Graham Huggan.
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ENC 6700-002 (95666)
Stdy Comp Methodology & Theory Friday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 118 Dr. Jeffrey R Galin, English (561) 297-1221 jgalin@fau.edu
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ENC 6930-002 (95665) Topics In Rhetoric Composition Composing the Institution Monday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 301 Dr. Barclay J. Barrios, English (561) 297-3838
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This course begins with two axiomatic understandings. First, institutions (in our case, universities) are created by and through discourse, which is to say that schools like FAU are composed. Second, institutions are designed to hold contradictions in close proximity without allowing them to cancel each other out, a truth which you have probably encountered at some point in navigating the bureaucracy which is FAU.
To help us understand how institutions/universities are discursively composed, we will be using a range of critical frameworks applied to a range of primary documents from FAU. Critical readings will include scholars from Composition and Rhetoric such as Bill Readings, Richard E. Miller, and Gerald Graff as well as a diverse range of broader theorists including Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser. Each critical reading will be used / tested against a primary document from FAU. So, for example, we might use an excerpt from Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to look at the Honor Code or we might “read” the Graduate College through Althusser or the College’s strategic plan using Chaos Theory. |
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ENG 6009-002 (95664) Principles & Prob of Lit Study Wednesday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., CU 301 Dr. Elizabeth Anne Swanstrom, English (561) 297-2793
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Principles and Problems of Literary Study (ENG 6009 002 (95664)) will introduce students to the essential strategies necessary for conducting advanced literary study: research and methodology, problems of textuality and critical assumptions, and the role of letters within the history of ideas. The objective of the course is for students to improve research skills, to become acquainted with key influential critical frameworks (both contemporary and historic) that shape literary discourse, to refine their skills in critical thinking and analytic writing, and to understand the vital but nuanced way that literature shapes--and is shaped by--cultural production.
Coursework will include assigned readings, participation, presentations, quizzes, and short papers (annotated bibliographies, explication papers, conference abstracts, close readings, etc.). |
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ENL 6455-002 (95663) Medieval Drama Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., AH 104 Dr. Daniel M Murtaugh, English (561) 297-3834
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FRW 6105-002 (95702) Histoire Litteraire Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., GS 202 Dr. Frederic Conrod, Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-3313
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This course looks at the evolution of all genres of French Literature from a historical perspective, how determining historical events impacted the literary expression, from the medieval chanson through the present production. Students will question the division of time periods, the different movements classified by -isms, and the function of literature in the writing of history, and vice versa.
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FRW 6938-002 (95697) Comparative Caribbean Ideals Wednesday, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., CU 120 Dr. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín, Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-0612 |
When Christopher Columbus described the islands he claimed for Spain in his first letter, an idealized image of that tropical, luxuriant space emerged. Edenic joy quickly gave way to the horrors that slavery and indentureship would bring to this strategic geographic location: the Caribbean. The tensions between the idealized views and the ideas generated by the coming together of the various races, ethnicities, cultures, and classes that converged present a theorizing challenge. In this class, we will examine some of the key issues that have led to the perpetuation of ideas related to the Caribbean. We will also wrestle with questions of what ideals recur in and about the Caribbean/the West Indies/the Antilles and the relationship of the Caribbean diaspora to them. Central to our discussions will be the ideological debates regarding identity formation (creolization, hybridity, sexuality, and gender) and the commodification of culture.
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ITT 5805-002 (95698)
Thry Prac of Italian/Engl Trns Dr. Myriam Ruthenberg, , Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-2682 |
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LIN 6107-002 (95661) Hst of the English Language Tuesday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., AL 343 Dr. Joanne Jasin, English (954) 236-1331 |
The History of the English Language, we will examine the causal relationship between historical events in England and key developments in the grammar and vocabulary of English in its early stages. We will also identify the ways in which English later became standardized with the establishment of dictionaries, rules of grammar, and the like. Following the transition of English from synthetic to analytic language will strengthen our understanding of the historical and grammatical basis for the language we use today.
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LIN 6938-003 (95690)
Evol of Lang: Endangered Langs Thursday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 321A Dr. Martha Mendoza, , Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-1090 mmendoza@fau.edu |
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LIT 6932-002 (96001) Spec Topics/Sci Fic-Fantasy Thursday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., AH 104 Dr. Thomas L. Martin, English (561) 297-2726 |
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LIT 6934-002 (95660) Post-War Spy Fiction Wednesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 127 Dr. Oliver S Buckton, English (561) 297-3836
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The most famous spy in fiction, James Bond, emerged in spectacular fashion following World War 2. Bond—aka 007—was the creation of Ian Fleming who had served in Naval Intelligence during the War. Bond’s international success—first in Fleming’s novels, beginning with Casino Royale (1953) and then on the big screen starting with Dr No (1962)—transformed the spy novel from a minor genre to a bestselling literary phenomenon. In 1961, the newly elected American President, John F. Kennedy, listed Fleming’s From Russia With Love as one of his ten favorite books, expanding Bond’s followers in the United States. Yet the fame of Bond’s spy adventures has overshadowed other key developments in spy fiction, which have offered contrasting, more realistic portrayals of the modern spy. In this course we will study novels by Ian Fleming as well as several key Bond films, going on to look at the reaction to Bond in the works of later British and American authors and filmmakers such as John Le Carré, Len Deighton, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, David Ignatius, and Daniel Silva. The course will the cultural significance of “Cold War” spies in fiction and film, and go on to examine the impact on spy fiction of the end of the Cold War, the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, and other global political events. The course will also explore the spy novel’s reflection of changes in class, gender, and sexual identities since 1945. The course format is lecture and discussion. Requirements include an oral presentation, and a research paper.
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PHI 6930-002 (95708)
Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., SO 390 Dr. Richard M. Shusterman, Philosophy (561) 297-0851
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SPC 6931-002 (95687) Burke Seminar Monday, 7:10 – 10 p.m., CU 130 Dr. David C. Williams, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (561) 297--0045
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This special topics course will examine the life and work of American rhetorical theorist and critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Kenneth Burke was an often renowned and sometimes reviled literary and rhetorical critic and theorist, a poet, novelist, writer of short fiction, erstwhile composer, book reviewer, music reviewer, occasional teacher, etc. He has been called, among other things, “the greatest literary critic since Coleridge,” the “greatest American critic since Emerson,” an “ideosyncratic crackpot of the first order,” and a “critical idiot savant.” He has been interpreted as a “quintessential modernist,” yet also a “proto-postmodern” who “anticipates” not only postmodernism but also post-structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response theory, and cultural criticism. Some see him as a closet metaphysician, others as a text-bound New Critic, and still others as a relativistic nihilist huddled nervously in his unending conversation. S.I. Hayakawa—either praising Burke for his perspicacity or lamenting the blindness of his own nihilism—once rather ambiguously declared, “Mr. Burke touches nothing without illuminating it.” Kenneth Burke is thus both tremendously influential as a theorist and a critic, yet also frequently misunderstood and occasionally reviled. The course will take a developmental and historical approach to studying Burke, with emphasis on his understanding of rhetoric and symbolic action as they are reflected in his theories of “dramatism” and “logology” as well as his approaches to critical practice.
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SPW 6356-002 (95699)
Monday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., SO 370 Dr. Nancy K Poulson, Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-3845
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SPW 6938-003 (95700)
Wednesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 121 Dr. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín, Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-0612
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SPW 6938-004 (95703) Spanish Golden Age Literature Tuesday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 128 Dr. Yolanda Gamboa, Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature (561) 297-2530 ygamboa@fau.edu |
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WST 6348-002 (95685) Wmn, Envr, Ecofem & Envr Just Thursday, 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 131 Dr. Jane E Caputi, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (561) 297-3865 jcaputi@fau.edu |
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WST 6564-002 (95684) Feminist Theory & Praxis Monday 4 – 6:50 p.m., CU 125 Dr. Jane E Caputi, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (561) 297-3865 jcaputi@fau.edu |
The course is designed to provide an overview of some of the current and major debates in contemporary feminist theory and praxis. We examine discourses emerging from feminism – a political movement aimed at identifying and eliminating sexist oppression ahd related social injustices, while and striving toward gender equity and liberation. Included in this exploration is a deepening of our understanding of gender and its intersections (e.g., with race, class, sexuality) as well as its framing of our social relations through the prism of power, privilege, and hierarchies. We encounter diverse thinkers, approaches and topics, including body politics, violence, ethics, religion and theology, sexual representations, and popular culture. | |
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CST 7905-001 / 002 / 003
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CST 7940-001 (80626)
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CST 7980-001 (83893)
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