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		2008-09 Bulletin of the Duke University Graduate School

English (ENGLISH)

Professor Baucom, Chair (312 Allen); Associate Professor Psomiades, Director of Graduate Studies (316 Allen); Professors Aers, Applewhite, Aravamudan, Baucom, Beckwith, Clum, Davidson, Ferraro, Gaines, Holloway, Khanna, Moi, Pfau, Pope, Porter, Price, Quilligan, Smith, Strandberg, Torgovnick, Wald; Associate Professors Harris, Holland, Jones, Mitchell, Moses, Moten, Psomiades, Shannon, Somerset, Sussman, Tetel, Wallace; Assistant Professors Cohen, Metzger; Associate Professor of the Practice Malouf; Adjunct Professors Andrews and O'Barr; Senior Lecturing Fellows Gopen and Donahue; Lecturing Fellow Hillard

The department only admits students seeking a PhD (though see below on JD/M.A). In addition to the dissertation, the PhD in English requires completion of a minimum of eleven courses, a reading proficiency in at least one foreign language (the specific language to be determined by the student's major areas of academic concentration), and a preliminary examination of three subfields (one major, two minor) that consists of both a written and oral part by the end of the third year of study. Within six months of the preliminary exam, a dissertation chapter meeting is required with the thesis committee. A JD/MA degree is offered by the department in cooperation with the Law School. JD/MA students must apply for admission to the Law School, and must combine relevant course work in English with full-time work toward a law degree.

Particular faculty interests currently cutting across the chronological and geographical categorizations of literature include the cultural work of memory; orientalism; mourning, history and reconciliation; literatures and discourses of the Atlantic; diasporic literatures; religion; and science and technology. Students are encouraged to read broadly in English and American literatures (including four-nations British literature, English and America in the Black Atlantic, the Irish Atlantic and other Atlanticist literatures, Anglo-diasporic literatures, and postcolonial literatures). They are also encouraged to interrogate the constitution and writing of literary and cultural history, and to develop the specific range of linguistic, philosophical, and historical skills relevant to their chosen field and their chosen intervention therein.

For additional information, visit our Web site, http://english.duke.edu/grads/.

201S. Writing Poetry: Formal and Dramatic Approaches. A workshop comparing meter, stanza, and rhyme with free verse, to illuminate the freedom and form of all poetry. Narrative and conceptual content considered within the poem's emotive, musical dynamic. Group discussion of technique, personal aesthetic and creative process; revisions of poems. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Applewhite, Pope. 3 units.

202S. Narrative Writing. The writing of short stories, memoirs, tales, and other narrations. Readings from ancient and modern narrative. Close discussion of frequent submissions by class members. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Porter or Price. 3 units.

205. Semiotics and Linguistics (DS4). 3 units. C-L: see Russian 205; also C-L: Linguistics 205

207A. Introduction to Old English (DS1). An introduction to the language of the Anglo-Saxon period (700-1100), with readings in representative prose and poetry. Not open to students who have taken 113A or the equivalent. Instructor: Somerset. 3 units.

212S. Middle English Literature: 1100 to 1500 (DS1). Selected topics. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 209S

213S. Chaucer and His Contexts (DS1). The first two-thirds of his career, especially Troilus and Criseyde. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 213S

214S. Selected Topics Centered on the Seventeenth Century (DS2). Topics vary be semester. Instructor: Aers. 3 units.

220S. Shakespeare: Selected Topics (DS2). Instructor: Porter or Shannon. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 220S

221S. Renaissance Prose and Poetry: 1500 to 1660 (DS2). Selected topics. Instructor: DeNeef, Quilligan, or Shannon. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 221BS

235. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: 1660 to 1800 (DS3). Selected topics. Instructor: Aravamudan or Mitchell. 3 units.

235S. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: 1660 to 1800 (DS3). Seminar version of English 235. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

241S. Romantic Literature: 1790 to 1830 (DS3). Selected topics. Instructor: Applewhite, Mitchell, or Pfau. 3 units.

245. Victorian Literature: 1830 to 1900 (DS3). Selected topics. Instructor: Psomiades. 3 units.

245S. Victorian Literature: 1830 to 1900 (DS3). Seminar version of English 245. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

251. British Literature since 1900 (DS4). Selected topics. Instructor: Baucom, Moses, or Torgovnick. 3 units.

262. American Literature to 1820 (DS3). Selected topics. Instructor: Cohen, Davidson, Jones, or Wald. 3 units.

271BS. Special Topics Seminar II (DS2). Seminar version of 288. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1500-1660 course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

271C. Selected Topics in Feminist Studies (DS3 or DS4 as determined by instructor). Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

271CS. Special Topics Seminar III (DS3). Seminar version of 288. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1660-1860 course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

271ES. Special Topics Seminar IV (DS4). Seminar version of 288. Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1860-Present course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

271FS. Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology (DS1, DS2, DS3, or DS4). Seminar version of 288. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

276. Theater in London: Text. 3 units. C-L: see Theater Studies 216

277. Theater in London: Performance. 3 units. C-L: see Theater Studies 251

280. Twentieth-Century Reconceptions of Knowledge and Science (DS4). 3 units. C-L: see Literature 260

284. Contemporary Film Theory (DS4). Post-1968 film theory-Brechtian aesthetics, cinema semiotics, psychoanalytic film theory, technology, feminist theory, and Third World cinema. Instructor: Gaines. 3 units. C-L: Literature 282

288A. Special Topics I (DS1). Subjects, areas, or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a pre-1500 course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

288B. Special Topics II (DS2). Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1500-1660 course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

288C. Special Topics III (DS3). Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1660-1860 course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

288E. Special Topics IV (DS4). Subjects, areas or themes that cut across historical eras, several national literatures, or genres. Can be counted as a 1860-Present course for the diversified study requirement. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

288F. Special Topics in Criticism (DS3 or DS4). Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

299S. Special Topics in Linguistics. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

For Graduate Students Only

312. Studies in Middle English Literature. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units.

315. Studies in Chaucer. Instructor: Aers, Beckwith, or Somerset. 3 units.

321. Studies in Renaissance Literature. Instructor: DeNeef, Porter, or Shannon. 3 units.

324. Studies in Shakespeare. Instructor: Porter. 3 units.

329. Studies in Milton. Instructor: DeNeef. 3 units.

337. Studies in Augustanism. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

338. Studies in a Major Augustan Author. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

341. Studies in Romanticism. Instructor: Applewhite or Pfau. 3 units.

347. Studies in Victorianism. Instructor: Psomiades. 3 units.

348. Studies in a Major Nineteenth-Century British Author. Instructor: Pfau. 3 units.

352. Early Modernism 1870-1914. Challenges involved in considering 1870-1914 a literary period. Historicizing the concepts of idealism, realism and modernism, whit special attention to the relationship between literature and painting. British literature in a comparative, European frame. Authors studied will vary from year to year, and may include Eliot, Ibsen, Wilde, Strindberg, Shaw, Hardy, Loti, Gide, Zola, Fontane, Rilke, Forster, Colette, Alain-Fournier, Proust, Woolf. Instructor: Moi. 3 units. C-L: Literature 352

353. Studies in Modern British Literature. Instructor: Baucom, Moses, or Torgovnick. 3 units.

361. Studies in American Literature before 1915. Instructor: Cohen, Holloway, or Jones. 3 units.

368. Studies in a Major American Author before 1915. Instructor: Cohen, C. Davidson, Holloway, or Jones. 3 units.

375. Studies in Modern American Literature. Instructor: Applewhite, Ferraro, Holloway, Strandberg, or Wald. 3 units.

376. Studies in a Modern Author (British or American). Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

381. Special Topics Seminar. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

385. Studies in Literary Criticism. Instructor: Graduate faculty. 3 units.

388. The History of Rhetoric: Classical to Renaissance. The foundations of rhetorical studies from Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian through Longinus, Augustine, and Erasmus to Bacon and Ramus. No prerequisites. Instructor: Gopen or Hillard. 3 units.

389. The History of Rhetoric: Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Continuing study of the major texts in the history of rhetoric with special attention paid to J. Q. Adams, Campbell, Blair, Whately, Bain, Perelman, and Burke. Prerequisite: English 388. Instructor: Gopen or Hillard. 3 units.

390. Composition Theory and Pedagogy. Methodologies of teaching composition, with special emphasis on the theories of structural stylistics employed in the University Writing Program (UWP). All students registering in the course must hold a tutorship in the UWP, must attend the UWP training seminar and all scheduled UWP staff meetings, and will be observed teaching by a UWP director. Ungraded. Instructor: Gopen or Hillard. 3 units.

391. Tutorial in Special Topics. Directed research and writing in areas unrepresented by regular course offerings. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.

392. Tutorial in Journal Editing. Systematic exposure to all phases of academic journal editing. Restricted to holders of journal editing internships. Ungraded. Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.