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Reading and Writing Travel — LIT4265.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In her poem “Questions of Travel,” Elizabeth Bishop writes, Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? / Where should we be today? / Is it right to be watching strangers at play / In this strangest of theaters? This is the lament of every traveler, and the restlessness of these lines speaks directly to the literary practice we call ‘travel writing.’ We
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Reading and Writing: Archival Work — LIT4589.01) (cancelled 10/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The archive--and using archival materials as the generative basis for creative output--is having a moment. The visionary scholar-writer Saidiya Hartman has popularized once unknown terms like "critical fabulation" and "documentary poetics" through genre bending works like "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments"; erasure projects like poet Nicole Sealey's "The Ferguson Report: an

Reading and Writing: Autofiction — LIT4522.01

Fall 2020
Instructor:
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The term “autofiction” originated in France in the late 1970s to describe a certain kind of knowing, renegade, and mock-heroic school of autobiographical fiction that fell somewhere between William Burroughs and Marcel Proust. It was “writing before or after literature,” meaning its pretensions were so pure as to be somehow super-literary—the ordinary terms (autobiographical
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Reading and Writing: Hybrid-Genre Works — LIT4140.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
We will read and discuss an array of hybrid-genre works or writing that combines and coalesces two or more genres: poetry, fiction, criticism, and/or memoir. Some books will also cross media incorporating painting, photography, and film. Reading works by Rosa Alcalá, Dao Strom, Douglas Kearney, Mary-Kim Arnold, Evie Shockley, Elizabeth Powell, Tan Lin, Bhanu Kapil, and others,
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Reading and Writing: Literary Journalism — LIT4141.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
With the practice of journalism undergoing its most profound changes since the invention of the television, this course will steep students in the traditions of criticism, literary non-fiction, reporting and cultural journalism that thrived during the golden age of print and have persisted in the Internet era. We’ll work our way through literary criticism from Robert Boswell to
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Reading and Writing: Looking Beyond the Self — LIT4375.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This writing class will depart from the premise that other people and other lives are interesting, and that it is possible to write about them in fiction. We’ll consider some techniques for gathering knowledge about the world beyond the self, from audio recording to interviews to book research. (Our ability to conduct in-person interviews will likely be curtailed by the
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Reading and Writing: Poetry in Form — LIT4243.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Poetic form is as diverse as the poets who use them. Stretching from forms as old as the sonnet to as contemporary as the Twitter poem, poets utilize prosody to express specific concerns in shocking and beautiful ways. Every decision counts, and we will learn what those decisions are and the weight they carry for different poets. We will read extensively poems and craft essays
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Reading and Writing: Poetry of Trauma and Violence — LIT4290.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Phillip Williams
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Credits: 4
Students will read various poetry collections that deal with different forms of trauma: homophobia, lynching, war, sexual abuse, colonization, and the overall idea of how to define “violence.” There will be time to discuss prosodic interests of our poets as well as discuss how content and form work together to create a seamless work. We will then turn to our own work and
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Reading and Writing: the First Novel — LIT4282.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Some writers are born gradually over a body of work that allows them to develop a signature style and a series of concerns that will flower over time, while other writers are seemingly born complete–like Athena emerging whole from Zeus’s head–with their first novels. We will read a wide selection of remarkable first novels over the term (examples include Oranges Are Not the
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Reading and Writing: the Missing Person — LIT4138.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kathleen Alcott
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Traditionally, the fiction writer’s task has been to chart the space between inner and outer lives, illustrating for the reader how one operates on the other. But in the cases of certain fictive persons and their realities, is total access always the best way forward? In this craft seminar on experimental characterization, we will explore works in which the author defines the
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Reading and Writing: The Novel — LIT4326.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
What is the novel and how is it constructed? This course will treat the novel, primarily, as an exercise in form, and take students on in-depth tour of the traditions as they have evolved: the epistolary novel, the picaresque, the bildungsroman, the sturdy ‘realist’ or ‘naturalist’ novel, meta-fiction in its many different guises. We’ll read from the novel’s beginnings in the
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Reading and Writing: the Personal Essay — LIT4617.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Jo Ann Beard
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

The essay is an intellectual and an artistic endeavor, and work in the form means work in thinking—about life, values, our own ideas and the ideas of others. Good personal essays entertain, inform and move us through the rendering of, and reflection over, our own life experiences. Essays and stories by artists such as Virginia Woolf, E. B. White, Daniel Orozco, Annie Dillard

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Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Donna Faye Burchfield
Days & Time: M 1:40PM-3:30PM, W 10:00AM-11:50AM
Credits: 4

This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together. 

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Reading as a Collective Act: Thinking Through Dance and Performance — DAN4819B.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tania Perez
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course aims to experiment with generative and alternative forms of reading that can be thought of as not only a methodology, but as a practice that supports us as we engage in research with, alongside and through study in dance and performance. We will ask ourselves what it means to read and “make sense” of texts and events today…together.  *For BFA students this

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
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Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
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Reading into Refuge: Stories of Migration — LIT2340.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
The repercussions of the refugee crisis in Syria and at our southern border have once again thrust the politics of migration and refuge into the public discussion. In this course we will investigate the literature of forced exile and resettlement in order to understand how our collective narratives about emigration are formed, and to ask what it means for a writer to
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Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and works. The aim of this short course is to acquire a firm understanding of Marx’s central concepts.
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Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
***Time Change*** Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses. This course will be offered the first seven weeks of term.
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Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time:
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses.
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Reading Poetry: A Basic Course — LIT2357.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In what ways is reading poetry a fundamentally different practice from reading prose? What can we discover about a poem by examining its structure and the choices the poet made? In this introductory course we will trace the chronological development of poetry in English as we carefully consider a range of different poems from different historical periods, as well as
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Reading Poetry: A Basic Course — LIT2357.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In what ways is reading poetry a fundamentally different practice from reading prose? What can we discover about a poem by examining its structure and the choices the poet made? In this introductory course we will carefully consider a range of different poems from different historical periods, as well as a number of contemporary works, as we try to ascertain what a poem is,
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Reading Revolution — LIT4602.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
In this seminar, we join in consideration of our consciousness in the act of creation on and off the page, as a means and expression of revolution. We explore what a revolution in reading as writing and writing as reading means, in experience, for each of us; rather than relegating our understanding of consciousness to total mystery, the object of this class is to directly and
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