Professor: Dino Felluga This class will teach you how to surf (the Internet) and about the various ways that English studies have been transformed over the last few decades. Starting with some basic close-reading and analysis skills, we will then explore how those skills have been increasingly

applied to new areas of inquiry (film, culture, critical theory, and politics). We will also employ new digital tools that change the way we approach our subjects of inquiry, including Web annotation, timeline-building, gallery-building and geospatial analysis. As we

proceed, we will consider the nature of English studies: What is an English department and how does it relate to the rest of the university? What can you do with an English degree? Why is it necessary to fight for English in an increasingly STEM-oriented world?

ENGL 202 Fall 2020—Engaging English

Skills Delivered:

arguing through evidence — historical awareness —

traditional and visual literacy — hobbit awareness

— and more....

Texts Covered:

The Hobbit — The Silmarillion — The Lord of the

Rings — and more....

TOLKIEN:

ON PAGE AND SCREEN

Fall 2020

Please contact Professor Shaun Hughes

(sfdh@purdue.edu) for more information

ENGL 21900: Figures of Myth and Legend III

TTh 3:00—4:15pm

RUS 298 can count as an elective in the Russian major by substitution, and English 232 counts towards the

English major or minor.

MWF 1:30-2:20

Russian & Eastern European Fairy TalesRussian 298 / Languages & Cultures 231 / English 232

CDIS 239 / ENGL 232: Introduction to

Disability StudiesFall 2020

MWF 2:30 - 3:20Professor Linett

Have you ever thought about disability as a social and political

category? This class invites students to think about cultural

understandings of the body and of the terms “normal” and

“abnormal,” to learn how we might think of disability as a “body of

knowledge” that can inform artistic practice. Students who take

Introduction to Disability Studies can, with three additional classes, add a minor in Critical Disability Studies, housed in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies in the

College of Liberal Arts.

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to identify different models of viewing disability; understand the ways normalcy is socially constructed; distinguish between

impairment and disability; offer informed opinions on current eugenic practices; analyze disability as a factor in artistic creation; compare and contrast disability to other identity

categories such as race, gender, and sexuality; identify exclusionary practices that marginalize disabled people.

English 238:Intro to Fiction

Did you know that literary fiction has been shown to improve emotional intelligence and theory of mind?

Course Description:

Reading and discussion of fiction from different periods aimed at enhancing the student’s understanding of genre, form, and styles. Other topics might include: how fiction speaks for the fiction writer; how fiction grows out of and speaks to its historical moment; and how fiction addresses pressing social issues.

With:

MWF 1:30-2:20

English 250: Great American Books FALL 2020 TR 3:00 Professor Bob Lamb

All of the learning in this course takes place in the classroom, so I expect students to attend regularly and to be prepared. There will also be three 5-page essays and an 8-page comparative essay, chosen by each student from a list of essay topics (you may also address a topic of your own). These are not research papers. There are no exams. The goal of this course is to introduce students to five groundbreaking American novels. But more important, it aims to teach students how to become much more sophisticated and satisfied readers of literary texts and to enable them to see how these books are highly relevant to their lives; for students to learn the art and techniques of close, detailed reading; and for students to develop powerful critical thinking and writing skills that they can bring to their future reading of any books, not just literary texts, on their own. I also want students to have fun, because learning, growth, empowerment, and enjoyment are not supposed to be incompatible.

No previous knowledge of American literature is required

In this course we will read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (Penguin), Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Univ. of Cali-fornia/Mark Twain Library), Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (Scribner’s), Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (Harper Perennial), and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage/ Random House). I’ll also distribute my own handouts on the genres these novels represent (i.e., the romance, realism, naturalism, modern-ism/postmodernism), which explain their historical/cultural backgrounds, as well as other guides I’ve written up for you as aids to reading them. In class, we proceed through careful, close reading, analyzing the cultur-al and aesthetic significances of key passages, and employing a wide variety of methodological approaches (e.g., cultural, historicist, feminist, aesthetic, ideological, biographical, formalist) that I’ll explain as we go along.

There will be a major focus on gender, race, and class, among other topics

Bob Lamb has received 60 teaching awards and was named the Indiana Professor of the Year

ENGL 35200:

Native American Literature

Fall 2020 3:30 to 4:20 MWF

The ability to tell one’s own story to the world has been an act of resistance and empowerment for Native orators and writers, and this class is designed to listen to Native voices and stories with respect and understanding. Over the course of the semester we will discuss literature by some brilliant writers (Leslie Marmon Silko, Stephen Graham Jones, Louise Erdrich—to name just a few), and we’ll explore a range of genres—autobiography, poetry, essays, novels, and new media. This course requires intensive reading, but the literature is amazing!

Professor Nancy J Peterson

Students pursuing a major or minor in English, English Education, American Studies,

and Native American and Indigenous Studies will find this course especially valuable.

Native Voices

Indigenous Languages

Tribal Histories

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Resilience

Resista

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Professor: Dino Felluga This class will seek to explain and exemplify various theoretical approaches to culture by way of speculative fiction. Our content will be television and film, which have engaged a number of the ideas and theorists we will read and discuss in this course.

Science fiction has always been invested in exploring the most perplexing and pervasive issues in and ideological contradictions of society. Our own central concern will be our contemporary postmodern world.

The course will also provide an introduction to some of the most influential theoretical approaches influencing both English and pop culture (narratology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, and cultural critique).

Fall 2020—Science Fiction and FantasyENGL 373-01

English 373-02 : Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fall 2020MWF 12:30-1:20

Although stories are as old as human society, the “modern short story” is a distinct genre that emerged in the nineteenth century out of a melange 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. Because of its lack of space, the 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 language, the use of juxtaposition, omission, suggestion, indirection, and characterization through a few carefully selected details. 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.

The primary goal of this course is to explore the development of the modern short story as it emerged in the mid 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 contemporary fiction. Our main concern will be with the genre: its development, its possibilities, and its achievements. We also focus on craft and technique, which has proven very valuable to students who themselves are creative writers. There are three other purposes: to introduce you to some of the finest storywriters and short stories ever written; 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).

English 379: The Short Story Fall 2020 TR 4:30 Professor Bob Lamb

ENGLISH 382: The American Novel

Fall 2020 TR 12-1:15 Professor Flory

Well-known Books

Famous Authors

Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O’Connor, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich

Seen from a New Perspective

By Referring to the Lives of the Authors

We Will Explore

How Billy Budd, Sailor dramatizes the regrets Melville has at the end of his life.

How The Blithedale Romance shows why utopian schemes fail.

How James’s own fears influence his famous ghost story The Turn of the Screw.

How invested Fitzgerald is in the fates of the characters in The Great Gatsby.

How the black humor in Wise Blood stems from unacknowledged anxiety.

How Morrison’s Beloved is a ghost, a woman, and a faculty of the human mind.

How Tracks makes the tragedy of the Native American past into a family story.

Help Boilermakers become better writers.

Apply for ENGL 390, which will prepare you to work as a tutor in the Writing Lab. The course is designed to guide you in tutoring writers through theory and practice. Students will discuss and learn what it means to assist writers who all have different wants, needs, objectives, pressures, and identities. Writing Lab Tutors develop communication and leadership skills. Tutors also gain the attention of prospective employers, regardless of field or discipline. We are interested in reflecting the diversity of the Purdue community. Students from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

Applications are due Monday, March 2, 2020.

For information and application

materials:

https://bit.ly/2OK2jY6

or contact writing.lab@purdue.edu

ENGL 392: YA LitProf. Pacheco

T & Th. 10:30-11:45

This course surveys contemporary books written for young people between the ages of 11 and 18. It explores

genre conventions; representations of adolescent identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality; and the

benefits of reading YA Lit.

Description: This course will help you translate the worth of the English MaJOR and the humanities to the world beyond the university; provide tools to articulate your achievements; and preparE You for your professional and adult lives.

Tues. & Thurs.3-4:15 PM

With:

* Thinking about life after college?

* Want to read some Inspirational advice?

* Wondering How studying lit can help you Succeed?

* Trying to “adult” like, well, an aDult?

* Want to sharpen Your Career Planning skills?

* Ready for the future?

English 413: Studies in Literature and History From the Heavens to Outer Space Autumn 2020

Building on the excitement of the 50th anniversary of the 1969 first Lunar Landing, this course is based on the fundamental premise that great texts endure, transform, and inspire, encouraging creative and imaginative capacities and helping readers see the world from different perspectives and broaden their worldview. The two images of the cosmos – NASA’s “Earthrise” (1969) and Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889) – represent the best of enduring human rationality and creativity spurred by this course’s theme. Our readings on the “heavens” and related activities during the first half of the course include…

* The flights of divine beings, such as the god Mercury and Athena in The Odyssey

* Short works like Aesop’s fables (“The Tortoise that Wanted to Fly”), lyrics by Germany’s mystic St. Hildegard, and more

* The Bible’s Creation of the heavens (Genesis) and cosmic war complete with dragons, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, and angels (Revelation)

These readings and activities will set us up for those focused on “outer space”…

* Galileo’s Starry Messenger, which earned him a spot on the Inquisition’s list of heretical books and authors

* Selections from John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, which placed Hell in outer space for the first time and with annotations by Science Fiction writer (and Biochemistry professor) Isaac Asimov

* 20th and 21st-century texts to be based on student majors, minors, and interests

* On- and off-campus events, such as special lectures by NASA leaders, PU Archives & Special Collections (including the Neil Armstrong Archive) workshops, and film-viewing of the bio-pic First Man (2018), only appropriate here at Purdue, the “cradle of astronauts.”

TEXTS: •Course Packet at Chauncey Hill Mall Copymat •Strunk & White, Elements of Style at campus bookstores

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Angelica Duran English, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies <duran0@purdue.edu>* * “0” in email address is a zero Office hours: By appointment, HEAV G39B

Learn about the eugenics program of the early 20th century; read important literature informed by eugenic thinking, both in favor and against; increase your understanding of diversity and inclusion; build empathy; sharpen your analytical, research, and

writing skills.

English 413: Studies in Literature and History

LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF EUGENICS

Professor Linett

Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:30-5:45

English 413 is a capstone course for the English major