(Cross-listed with WGS 71601/WSCP 81601). Active participation in discussion and a term paper or project (for those registered for 4 credits) will be required; for first-year students the project could be a version of a component of the First Portfolio Examination. Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English. We will also talk about professionalizing matters including engagement with current scholarly conversations and theoretical discourses, creating conference presentations and scholarly articles as part of the dissertation writing process, and thinking about the dissertation as a draft of a first monograph.. A Wet Afternoon (short story); Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera (selections); Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How it Ends and Lost Children Archive (selections); Aime Cesaire, A Discourse on Colonialism (selection); Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (selections); Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World; Jacqueline Rose, On the Universality of Madness and Apathy and Accountability; Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (selections) ; David Greig, The Miniskirts of Kabul (play); Crystal Parikh, Writing Human Rights (selection) Joseph Slaughter, Novel Subjects and Enabling Fictions: The Formal Articulation of International Human Rights Law from Human Rights, Inc; Juliana Spahr, Du Boiss Telegram (selection); Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World and The Last Utopia (selection); Oxford Amnesty Lecture series (selection)Text of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights), Course Requirements vary by 2,3, or 4 credits. We will also examine the crucial role that affect management played in late medieval conduct literature, and we will consider how the production of self-restraint in such texts, particularly within the structures of the married household, helps form emotional communities that allowed emergent social groups new modes of self-identification. NYC College of Technology. Dissertation Workshop. Baruch, Wednesdays, 9:30 AM- 11:30 AM Rather than seeking to authenticate Asia, we will ask after the historical, cultural, political economic, and aesthetic potency of the definitions it comes to bear as it circulates in largely (though not only) U.S.-based academic discourses. Students will also be required to participate in an end of year symposium on queer theory. Dont delay, act now! Theoretically, we will examine the boundaries and objects of interest for the field, discussing how they intersect with but also remain distinct from other areas and approaches, and how various theories and methods (formalist, historicist, activist, etc.) Vibrations. Racial, Religious, and Sexual Queerness in Medieval Literature. Ed. is delivered in each semester. All the classwork, examinations, quizzes, writing assignments, lab work, etc. Rather than simply provide a description of cultural decolonization at large, this course will focus on a specific genealogy of genre in order to address contemporary difficulties in decolonial critique. Course organization will be roughly chronological, looking first at questions of freedom, reason, and logos in some foundational philosophical and political documents, then moving into medieval narrative and theology, and concluding with some skeptical work, perhaps by Margaret Cavendish. Critical theory will range across the relevant classics and recent good work in critical animal theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and biopolitics, especially from work that thinks ably and nimbly about racism and gender. Select Writing Intensive under the Course Attribute dropdown menu (you may have to scroll past the initial selections). Program in English Level 1 students. Tuesdays 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. 2/3/4 Credits. ToddCraig. Mondays 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM. Jonathan W. Gray. Arthurian stories continue, in our own moment, to shape a sense of the historical past, and particularly the Middle Agesas we see in a recent cultural production like the movie The Green Knight. Percussion: Max Roach, Evelyn Glennie. We will address academic career preparation as well as non-academic career paths into which scholarly and teacherly experiences translate. Fridays 11:45AM-1:45PM. Wayne Koestenbaum. How to find York College courses on CUNYfirst Global Search. This course is intended to address the shifting landscape of higher education by providing students guidance on non-academic career possibilities throughout their graduate studies, aswellpractical advice on how to navigate the academic job market. John Jay, Tuesdays, 12:30PM-2:30PM Brooklyn, Tuesdays, 4:30PM-6:10PM Broadview, 2000. Among the theorists and critics that we will read are: Roland Barthes, Hillary Chute, Will Eisner, Umberto Eco, Jared Gardner, Thierry Groensteen, Charles Hatfield, Marianne Hirsch, Scott McCloud, W.J.T. Well begin the seminar with Wordsworths itinerants: blind beggars, discharged soldiers, female vagrants, et al. With the help of now-available archives, previously unnoticed dimensions of past cultures can be explored. Last Springs experiment thrived even in the transition to Zoom meetings, so much so that the Workshop continued, unofficially, through the summer and on! With these questions in mind the course will attempt to plot three necessarily conflictual trajectories. Here, we will confront how the Arthur story can be (and has been) used both to prop up conservative ideologieswhite supremacy, British imperialismand to gesture toward new, potentially liberatory, possibilities that would work against these. (Cross listed with WSCP). These peoples live in circumstances of organized state abandonment, in Ruth Wilson Gilmores incisive phrase. All In-person and synchronous online class meeting days/times must be listed in the schedule of classes for students. Ishigurosthe Buried Giant? Likely works will include: Art SpiegelmansMaus, Allison BechdelsFun Home, David MazzucchellisAsterios Polyp, Emil FerrissMy Favorite Thing is Monsters, Chris WaresJimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Phoebe GloecknersA Childs Life and Other Stories, Jaime CortezsSexile, Lynda BarrysOne Hundred Demons!, G. B, TransVietnamerica,Jaime HernandezsWigwam Bam,and comic strips by Jennifer Camper, R. Crumb, Rudolph Dirks, Justin Hall, George Herriman, Frank King, and Winsor McKay, among others. Ed. You are welcome to read the texts in their original languages (Latin, Middle English, Old French, Hebrew,etc), but translations into modern English will beprovidedfor everything. This course encourages us to reexamine ideas about latinoness and rethink the canon of Latinx, African American and American literature. Our work in "Little Beasts" will draw on, among other fields, critical animal theory, feminist care ethics, and critical race studies. 2/4 Credits. Black feminisms have persistently been entwined with theorizations of the fleshthat difficult to define materiality that is not quite the body. Women's Equality Day - The City University of New York Readings: 20th and 21st-century memoirs from Woolf to Yiyun Li. Race, Caste and Empire. Student evaluations of faculty and courses are mandated by the CUNY Board of Trustees (Manual of General Policy, Article V, Policy 5.21, "Student participation in decision-making processes . What critical approaches and pedagogies correlate with the study of entanglement? This class can be adapted to parts of the New Portfolio Examination.ENGL 87200. How to Search for Class on CUNY Global Search 2/3/4 Credits. Hybrid classes offer a combination of in-person and online instruction/contact hours. Course restricted to students enrolled in Ph.D. programs. This seminar will give participants the opportunity to develop and complete their dissertation prospectus and/or draft dissertation chapters. Mondays 2:00PM 4:00PM. Students do not have to follow a strict schedule to engage in live classes or discussions, and the only requirement regarding when they turn in their work is the assignment deadline, not an arbitrary timeline. Global Search is a tool that allows students to findcourses across the university using filters such as colleges, semester, subject area, time, and online/in-person delivery. How do we move from the raw material of the archive to the publishable article or book? The modality allows students to access materials and assignments on a flexible schedule in accordance with deadlines set by the professor. On the one hand, we will attempt to take stock of the disciplinary discussion surrounding the Anthropocene and examine a range of critical perspectives and proposed alternatives in naming and timeline. Film studios, comic book companies, recording labels, broadcast and streaming services, even traditional book publishers will all be considered in both their privileged and independent forms. 2.) Class numbers for ROR and WIUs can be found by doing a "class search" in CUNYfirst. (46). Brent Hayes EdwardssEpistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. Oxford Worlds Classics. In the meantime: get started on your own plan to study abroad! Formations of U.S. Mondays 11:45AM - 1:45PM. Moving on, past the demolition job, into the practical: Our global search tool makes it easy to find the class you want, at the time you need. The course has three major aims. To see the class schedule at all colleges, please visit the Global Class Search. The archive on the vexed relations of capitalism and colonialism is immense but here we will focus on the politics of postcolonial theory and culture. Students are expected to produce a series of short essays and/or the equivalent to fulfill the written requirements of this course. Mary Wollstonecraft:Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. We will considerhow the Aestheticstand Decadent movements shaped the writing of the Harlem Renaissance. Our first common session will explore Critical Keywords in Animal Studies. We will read and discuss work by the following authors, activists, and theorists: Chris Abani, Sarah Brouillette, Octavia Butler, Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, Bernadine Evaristo, Silvia Federici, Matthew Gandy, Amitav Ghosh, Guerrilla Media Collective, Jennifer Haigh, Mohsin Hamid, Garrett Hardin, Fredric Jameson, Michael Hardt & Toni Negri, Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker, JustinMcGuirk, SandroMezzadra& Brett Neilson, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, Jos Esteban Muoz, Elinor Ostrom, Arundhati Roy, Raja Shehadeh, OliviaSudjic, Latife Tekin, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alys Weinbaum, Eyal Weizman. Tuesdays 11:45AM 1:45PM. For all registration dates and deadlines, see the GC academic calendar. A Shakespeareplay? In-person. As Walter Rodney once noted, colonial education was always hostile to the principle of praxis. Before we consider how to administer literacy programs, we review a consolidated history of composition concepts and research so that we can make informed decisions about what educational and programmatic leadership entails. These are also sent to all students by the Office of the Registrar. Reason, Freedom, and Animality will lean on the question of humans as the rational form of life, examining texts ranging from ancient Greeks to (at least) the early modern period, lingering mostly in the Middle Ages, but always with engagement with later 20th and 21st century philosophical texts. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. has recently observed, we need to understand the facts of genetics to overturn race theory: while race is socially constructed, genetic mutationsbiological records of ancestry are not, and the distinction is a crucial one. Readings will be in English. Some of the class will be spent exploring the efforts to decolonize universities/the syllabus/institutionsin light ofwork such as Tuck and Yangs Decolonization is Not a Metaphor. This class would be structured in a way that acknowledges that exigency has created fast-paced conversations that arent always consistent with decolonial methods. The Rights of Men. We will also think about how we make transhistorical arguments about cultural figures and how that shapes projects like dissertations or syllabi. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017. PDF How to Search for Class on CUNY Global Search Students will periodically report to the class about their progress in the archives and will write a term paper based on their research.ENGL 84200. (The syllabus is not yet fixed. Search for a program, discuss your global goals with your academic advisor, and reach out to . ENGL 86800. Readings will be drawn from Quijano, Onwueme, Glissant, Ngugi, Spivak, Fanon, Mignolo, Braschi, Mbembe, Cesaire, Roy, Marx, Arrighi, Wynter, Farah, Hamid, Bulawayo, Adichie, Piketty, and Vuong. Eric Lott. Arguably, cotemporary formations of the nineteenth century, as represented in current scholarship and conferences, would almost be unrecognizable to twentieth century scholars. First, while colonialisms economic project is not exactly a secret, we will suggest that part, at least, of its undoing rests on the ability to read capital, to understand the complex processes that produce and reproduce an economic logic as a hegemonic relation. Topics include but are not limited to: linguistic justice, abolitionist university studies, ungrading, classroom surveillance, anti-racist teaching practices, corporatization of educational technology, translingualism, adjunct labor, and accessible higher education. Assignment deadlines and exams days/times are maintained and included in the class syllabus. define, in sometimes contradictory ways, English studies. This course is an examination of the terms of our participation through a consideration of the institution and our own methodological and intellectual choices. Use the . The course will cover such topics as public humanities; non-academic writing; resume development; and c.v. development. ENGL 80600. Thursdays 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 2/3/4 Credits. We will think about representation and performativity as critical inflection points while looking at which critical avenues were not pursued. Some of the films we will study resemblepaintings; someresemble monologues, stand-up comedy, intimate encounters, documentaries, surveillance footage, collage. ENGL 82100. Such counter-critique will also introduce us to key examples of theory in this regard. Duncan Faherty&Lisa Rhody. In person: Room 3306. This course addresses such issues. Since the publication of Edward SaidsOrientalismin 1978, orientalism has served as a key concept across a wide variety of fields and discourses. Is there such a thing as a common orcommoningvoice or mode of narration? Program in English Level 2 & 3 students only. In this class we will enter into the debates on gender and globalization by focusing on the texts of feminist, counter-globalist, and anti-colonial writers and theorists of the Global South. Alternative. Postcolonial critique enjoins the (class) struggle to create praxis anew. Select York College and the term, then click Next. Requirement: a final project, which may utilize a variety of media. Stay tuned for updates on the students, faculty and programs that have led the way for CUNY to reconnect with the world. Yet there were also alliances between male decadents and feminist writers (Wilde promoted Schreiners novel The Story of an African Farm because of its bold challenge to realist conventions and depiction of colonialist malaise.) Mondays 6:30PM 8:30PM. Students from any field or period concentration will have the opportunity to explore online archives that are especially interesting to them and relevant to their work. and Trans. Periodization as a mode of speculation will focus our conversations around such key nodal points as 1848, 1898, 1914, 1945, 1989, 2001, and beyond. In taking up this body of material, we will be especially attentive to how such legends like the Arthurian may serve a number of political ends: the excavation of a point of national origin and the construction of a sense of national identity; the reinforcement, but also the potential reshaping, of certain gendered expectations and ideas about sexuality; the construction of ideas of ethnicity and race. Thirty years ago, LGQ early modern scholarship arrived with the publication of four monographsBruce Smiths Homosexual Desire in Shakespeares England (1991), Gregory Bredbecks Sodomy and Interpretation (1991), Valerie Traubs Desire and Anxiety (1991), and Jonathan Goldbergs Sodometries (1992)and one anthology, Goldbergs Queering the Renaissance (1993). Mondays 2:00PM 4:00PM. Peter Hitchcock. Mondays 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 0 Credits. The course centers the alternative ontologies of non-European peoples and social movements challenging empire, racism, sexism, and classism. No Adorno in this seminar, but at least one poem by Paul Celan. 2/4 Credits. And might this encounter, even, be productive for a creative movement into the future that, while not replicating anything like the medieval past, nonetheless remains cognizant of how that past, with itsviolencesand its beauties, might help us chart human and earth-bound futures that are less violent and more beautiful? Students should read Kang's _Traffic in Asian Women_ in preparation for the first day of seminar. In this seminar, we will pursue the idea that the temporalities inherent to the idea of singularity provide a way to open up and challenge abstract universality, not to defend or overturn universality but to reveal its residual potentialities. (Cross-listed with WSCP 81000). The format for the rest of the course is structured like professional academic work: an abstract for a conference (real or imaginary); the talk developed from the abstract (to be delivered in a seminar conference after the Thanksgiving break); a research paper based the conference talk geared toward submission for publication. When is it justice and when is it revenge? The implications for the study of literature, popular culture, history, and biography are immense. We will therefore attend to how the differential recognition of humanity and animality interacts with other hierarchized categories of human differences: gender, dis/ability, race, religion, and mental health. In this workshop, we will think together about the varieties of critical writingits tactics, pleasures, traits, problems, and wanderings. Because contemporary" is an elastic and unstable term, well read poems from not now as well as from now. Perhapspossibilitiesis the only word Ill let stand, if only because it suggests meagerness as well as amplitude. Thursdays 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. 2/3/4 Credits. Please join us. 2/3/4 Credits. Mondays 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM. Texts for "Little Beasts" will include representatives of major educational genres like fable collections and conduct literature; medical texts on fetal development, particularly on matters of gender (with engagement with Leah Devun's important new book,The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance); marriage laws and other medieval biopolitical texts; the anti-Semitic saint's life of William of Norwich (along with Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and Jewish responses of the Rhineland pogroms of 1096); child-focused narratives likeSirGowtherand theKing of Tars; writing onferal, isolated, or abducted children, including the strange story of the Green Children ofWoolpit, the Melusine Legend, and, from the 18th century, the story ofMemmiele Blanc, a Native American girl enslaved, brought to France, and trained into becoming French. 2/3/4 Credits. The Practice of the PhD in English II. More information on CUNY's policies regarding user accounts and credentials can be found in the Acceptable Use of Computer . How do classroom structures, policies, curricula, and interactions affect the teaching and learning that happens there? (Cross-listed with BAM 70500, section 2). Moreover, we will devote several weeks, not just to audience studies, but to the idea that the final labor on the creative assembly line is performed by the audience, who for the last two centuries have frequently shaped the final cultural positioning of enduring media artifacts much more than their creators might want to admit.
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