Schedule

Note: Reading and writing assignments are due on the day indicated, to be completed before class starts. Texts marked with an (R) are available in the reader. When poetry is due, read all poem and select one by each author to read especially carefully.

Reading and Writing Schedule:

Jan 7: Introduction to the course and to Foucault

Foucault and Haraway: Bodies and Power
Jan 9: Foucault (R)
Jan 14: More Foucault, plus starting Haraway (R)
Jan 16: Haraway (R)
Jan 21: DAY OFF: Spend it reading Frankenstein
Jan 23: Review Foucault and Haraway

Romanticism, The Politics of Knowledge, the Body
Jan 28: Shelley, Vol. I & II, Summary Essay Due
Jan 30: Shelley Vol. III

The Harlem Renaissance:
Articulating African-American Bodies
Feb 4: Cullen, Hughes, Brooks (R)
Feb 6: Cullen, Hughes, Brooks (R)
Feb 11: Larsen Parts 1,2, Poetry Essay Due
Feb 13: Larsen Part 3

Feb 18: DAY OFF

The Body in Contemporary Aesthetics
Spike Lee: Legacies of Blackness in Popular Culture
Feb 20: Lee

Disability and Contemporary Culture:
Impairment, Dementia, Mental Illness
Feb 25: O’Connor (R)
Feb 27: Munro (R)
Mar 3: Franzen: “St. Jude,” “The Failure,” “The More He Thought About It…”
Mar 5: Franzen: “At Sea,” Final Essay Outline Due
Mar 10: Franzen: “One Last Christmas”

Wrapping Up and Synthesizing What We’ve Learned
Mar 12: Last day of class
Mar. 17: Final Essay due in Dr. Freudenthal’s mailbox