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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 30105
Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture
Online
This course offers the opportunity to practice the kinds of thinking and writing that graduate programs in the Humanities often expect: the concise summaries and synthesis of scholarship found in annotations, research proposals, footnotes, and literature reviews; the detailed and rigorous close textual and literary analysis that is often the basis and inspiration for scholarship; the descriptions of the larger political stakes and implications of our work that often fuel our writing; the self-reflection and personal narrative that grant applications and admissions processes ask for, as well as the ways we speak about our work to non-specialists in professional and social contexts. These skills are key to establishing and intervening in any scholarly conversation but the processes scholars use to learn them are rarely addressed in depth. In this course students will choose short exercises and writing challenges aimed at demystifying the process of scholarly writing and receive ongoing feedback on their work, as well as their process. The course does not culminate in a longer research paper or project; instead, it aims to help students develop a personalized process for drafting, revising, and reflecting. Most of the course can be conducted asynchronously online with ongoing opportunity for instructor and peer contact in two online synchronous sessions and one-on-one contact. Please contact Dr. Zebuhr directly with questions or concerns about course delivery and scheduling. NOTE: While this course may have some overlap with GENG 513, the course is significantly different from GENG 513 in its aims and goals.
3 Credits
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6:00 pm |
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 30106
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Online
The Lyric Essay: Convergences of Poetry & Prose. In Bending Genre, we will read and write in the liminal spaces between genres, mainly but not limited to those between poetry and prose. There are many names for these spaces—lyric essays, prose poetry, hybrid forms, autocriticism, graphic memoirs/novels etc.—and we will investigate what, how, and why they mean and say and are. Possible texts include those by Claudia Rankine, Hanif Abdurraquib, Franny Choi, Maggie Nelson, Ander Monson, and Nicole Walker. We will meet in person on Mondays and then asynchronously the rest of the week where we will exchange work and feedback via Canvas.
3 Credits