Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000
This course addresses four aspects of graduate studies in English: 1) English studies as a field and discipline; 2) research questions and practices; 3) connections to intellectual communities and networks (i.e. professionalization); and 4) the function of the university.
Goals of this course:
–delve into the historical and institutional context of literary study and consider how this background provides guidance for the profession
–develop tools for graduate study and for competing in the academic job market.
–review techniques of effective academic writing.
–probe various approaches to literary theory and criticism; also, explore how a single author can be interpreted from different critical angles
–discuss issues of textual authority, composition, reception, and dissemination.
–provide training in the use of research libraries and online archives.
–explore the Digital Humanities (DH)
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Anna Zeemont uploaded "Nobody Mean More To Me Than You" by June Jordan to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
This is an article from College English about how the poet-essayist-activist-teacher June Jordan navigated standardized vs. subjugated language practices in her CUNY class. It’s a super powerful essay and shows, among other things, how one’s personal experiences and positionally can be inseparable from one’s academic perspective. This essay was…[Read more]
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Anna Zeemont uploaded Lemonade Syllabus to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
This is a list of readings and other sources that are related to or alluded to in Beyonce’s visual album “Lemonade.” The file attached is just the first page, but you can view the whole thing here: https://diasporahypertext.com/2016/05/07/download-the-lemonadesyllabus-compiled-by-candice-benbow/
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Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded David Meltzer's Orf to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
I heard about this book reading an interview with Samuel Delany about literary pornography or pornographic literature, which he himself is a writer of. He mentions a time in the late 60’s when a publisher Essex House reached out to poets and literary fiction writers for erotic works with the only requirement being that the works focused on sex in…[Read more]
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Lou Catherine Cornum uploaded Rob Nixon- Intro to Slow Violence to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
I’ve attached the introductory chapter to Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which I read a couple years back and wanted to return to in context of works I’ve read since then. I’m particularly drawn to Nixon’s re-formulation of Mary Louise-Pratt’s concept of “planetary consciousness” which she describes in terms…[Read more]
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Kristi Fleetwood uploaded The Body Unbound to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
The article discusses the implications of body image when the superhero begins as a disempowered hero and gains superpowers over time.
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Kristi Fleetwood uploaded The Souls of Black Folk to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
This excerpt from DuBois’s work discusses the idea of “double consciousness” that all African Americans possess. By being oppressed, they’re able to see the roles of the oppressed as well as the oppressors.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded CV3 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
third example
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Shoumik Bhattacharya uploaded Impossible Desires to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Queer reading of Bollywood.
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Shoumik Bhattacharya uploaded Manto: Letter to Uncle Sam to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Indian short story writer.
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Luke Church uploaded Sun Ra Lecture to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
This link leads to an article that includes a UC Berkeley lecture that Sun Ra did for an American Studies course. The link also includes a reading list that Sun Ra put together. I couldn’t upload the link as a file, so instead I found a…[Read more]
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Luke Church uploaded Racialized Toxins and Sovereign Fantasies by Mel Y. Chen to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
In this article Mel Y. Chen focuses on “the extended meanings of toxicity” as they pertain to race by focusing on a case of lead panic in toys. I found this via Project Muse
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Marguerite Daisy Atterbury uploaded Letter to El Casino Ballroom by Leslie Marmon Silko to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
This is the first page of a letter from the Leslie Marmon Silko archive at the Beinecke (I’ll upload the second page following this post) by Silko to a Tuscon venue protesting the security checks she’s been subjected to in her regular attendance. Silko calls out what she calls the “death squad impersonators” who searched her, and asks whether…[Read more]
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David S. Reynolds uploaded Reynolds short bio to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Sometimes you’ll be asked to send a short professional bio. Here is mine, as an example.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded My c.v. to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Haven’t quite updated it, but it’s more or less right.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded CV3 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Third example.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded CV2 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
Second example.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded CV1 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
For our last class (May 11), I want each of you to write your current c.v. and upload it to the C.V.s folder. I’m uploading some sample c.v.s of ex-students of mine as examples you can follow.
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Felix Bernstein uploaded The Egyptian origin of monotheism and the murder of Moses-Richard Bernstein to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 7 years, 11 months ago
the first chapter of Bernstein’s book Freud and the Legacy of Moses (Cambridge University Press), which is helping to introduce me to Freud’s last published work, highly controversial at the time, that he nonetheless brought into publishing (including a Hebrew translation) at a time where the Jews were in a turbulent and precarious position. The…[Read more]
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