{"id":21104,"date":"2022-02-28T18:59:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=21104"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:25:23","slug":"graduate-courses-fall-2022-winter-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2022\/graduate-courses-fall-2022-winter-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2022-Winter 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Fall 2022-Winter 2023\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"fall-2022\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5002F-CLMD-6904F_S.Murray_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5002F: Studies in Theory I<\/a><\/strong> (cross-listed with CLMD 6904F)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/stuart-murray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Stuart Murray<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: The Alt-Left Politics of Pleasure:&nbsp; Identity, Consent, and Cancel Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course explores the perils and possibilities of \u201cpleasure\u201d in a social climate where bodies and pleasures are increasingly sites of suspicion and subject to new normative constraints, regulatory measures, and moral approbation. Our study of pleasure will comprise a sustained critique of identity politics\u2014both alt-right and alt-left\u2014as well as the ways that liberal political commitments to \u201cfree expression\u201d have become so highly contested across our contemporary culture wars. Through a reading of key theoretical, literary, and cultural texts, it seeks to better theorize the stakes of identity and informed consent at a time when neoliberalism and hyperindividualism have proven to be morally bankrupt as paradigms of ethical responsibility and free speech\/acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specifically, this course hopes to reflect critically on (1) informed sexual consent on campus and in the workplace, (2) the effects of social media and meme culture on identity, (3) cancel culture, and (4) the liberal political investment in \u201cfree speech\u201d on campus and in the press. While there has been no shortage of liberal outrage and moral indignation from the Left (it is sometimes ostentatiously \u201cwoke\u201d), these made-for-social-media sentiments of fleeting solidarity often conceal the many ways that the Left remains complicit in wider structural inequalities, including racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. If liberal individualism continues to be our basis for understanding pleasure, what might this mean for political action beyond our scripted expressions of outrage or injury? Might we begin to reconceive a politics of pleasure that does not abandon responsibility or consent, but that re-thinks them, first and foremost, as necessarily social and collective endeavours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Intro-to-Old-English_R.Norris_f22_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5207F\/4105A<\/strong><strong>: Studies in Old English <\/strong><\/a>(cross-listed with LING 4805A)<strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/norris-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Robin Norris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Introduction to Old English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris.jpg\" alt=\"Wilhelm Vi\u00ebtor, The front panel of the Franks Casket\" class=\"wp-image-21413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris-512x294.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris-320x184.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5207F_Norris-360x207.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wilhelm Vi\u00ebtor, The front panel of the Franks Casket, 1901<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest form of the English language is known as Old English.&nbsp;After 1000 years of language change, 76% of the most common Old English words are still in use today, and 83% of our most common words are from Old English.&nbsp;In this class, we will explore manuscripts and magic, riddles and runes, as well as the&nbsp;afterlives of the early Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5303F_Studies-in-Early-Modern-Literature-I_M.-White_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5303F\/4301A: <\/strong><strong>Studies in Early Modern Literature I<\/strong><\/a> (cross-listed with HUMS 4902)<strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/white-micheline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Micheline White<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Tudor Queens:&nbsp; Sex, Power, and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renaissance queens have long fascinated the reading public, but their political power and literary writings have only recently become the objects of academic study. In this seminar, students will develop an in-depth understanding of four Renaissance queens who made the most of their unusual social status and made lasting contributions to English culture. In this course, we will explore early modern attitudes towards the concepts of a \u201cqueen consort,\u201d a \u201cqueen regent,\u201d a \u201cqueen regnant\u201d and a \u201cdowager queen,\u201d and we will focus on the four queens\u2019 textual and visual productions including speeches, published prose works, diplomatic letters, poetry, translations, and portraits. Students will be introduced to early modern paleography and book history. Those who wish can also explore digital versions of manuscript writing. We will also consider the depictions of these queens in recent films and TV programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Parr (1512-1548) was the final wife of Henry VIII. Although she is often depicted in popular culture as the woman who nursed Henry in his old age, she was actually a literary powerhouse and one of the most influential religious activists of the 1540s. We will examine her three published literary texts, her narrow escape from being arrested and executed, and her scandalous marriage to Thomas Seymour after Henry\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Tudor (1516-1558) was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. After acceding to the throne in 1553 as queen regnant, she restored England to Catholicism and became famous for overseeing the burning of three hundred Protestants. For centuries she has been vilified as \u201cbloody Mary\u201d and as an incompetent ruler, but current scholars are offering new accounts of her political skills and successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was Parr\u2019s step-daughter and is one of the most famous British monarchs. As a queen regnant, Elizabeth obviously wielded extraordinary agency and yet her status as an unmarried woman was an on-going concern throughout her reign. Through an examination of her public speeches, private letters, portraits, proclamations, poems and prayers we will consider how she managed her image and how she contributed to important political, social, and literary developments. Recent movies will be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Stuart (1542-1587) acceded to the Scottish throne when she was only six days old and lived a life plagued by assassinations, political rebellion, and political intrigue. During her sixteen years of house arrest in England, Mary used poems and tapestries to attempt to negotiate with her cousin, Elizabeth I. We will consider Mary\u2019s political strategizing and the afterlife of her execution. We will consider her depiction in <em>Mary Queen of Scots,<\/em> directed by Josie Rourke (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5402F_18th-Cent-Lit_J.Murray_f22_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5402F\/4401A: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/murray-julie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Julie Murray<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Being Human in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does literature \u201cmake us human\u201d?&nbsp; Since the eighteenth century, such a sentiment has grounded justifications of literature\u2019s exceptional status, and its distinction from other kinds of writing. In this course we will explore how eighteenth-century readers and writers understood their relationship to books and to reading, and how the act of reading a book made readers <em>feel<\/em> something, or made them \u201cfeel human.\u201d We will also consider how eighteenth-century writers explored the question of the \u201chuman\u201d or \u201chumanity\u201d precisely by paying close attention to the non-human: to animals and inanimate objects. From gothic fiction, to the harrowing spectacle of London after the Great Plague of 1665, to \u201cit-narratives\u201d in which bank notes figure as central characters in a society transformed by commercial modernity, to horses that speak, to dogs that narrate their heroic adventures, to \u201cmonsters\u201d that learn to read, we will examine the fluid boundaries between literary animals, literary humans, and eighteenth-century readers. We will also consider the cultures of feeling and affect, sentiment and sympathy, by and through which they are formed and unformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5610F-CLMD-6903F_F.-Nudelman_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5610F: Studies in Contemporary Literature I<\/strong><\/a> (cross-listed with CLMD 6903F)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/nudelman-franny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Franny Nudelman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Documentary and Crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course considers crisis documentary from 1945 to the present. We will study documentary filmmakers, photographers, and writers who respond to the unanticipated and often incomprehensible crises of their age and, in the process, create new forms of documentary expression. Taking an expansive view of the field, we will consider documentary texts that deal with war, forced migration, climate emergency, poverty, gendered violence. We will ask: How do documentarians represent what they cannot yet fully understand? What role does literary and visual culture play in making disruptive change real? How have documentarians helped to define an ethics of witnessing? How are the methods and aims of documentarians transformed by new technologies and alternative forms of collectivity? Throughout, we will explore the power of documentary to respond to catastrophic events and uncharted social conditions as they unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-6003F_Theories-and-Foundations_G.Wlliams_f22_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 6003: Theories and Foundations<\/a><\/strong><br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/williams-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Grant Williams<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will survey a range of theoretical frameworks (from book history and formalism to gender and the cultural) by applying them to Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets\u2014the course\u2019s foundational literary text. The sonnets will allow us to digest and internalize abstract concepts and methods, while its criticism, theoretically diverse and innovative, will give us some models of how to put into practice these concepts and methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"winter-2023\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winter 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/CLMD-6102W-ENGL-5004W-MGDS-5002D_Memory-and-Migration_S.-Casteel_W23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5004W: Studies in Transnational Literatures <\/strong><\/a>(cross-listed with CLMD 6102W and MGDS 5002D)<strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/casteel-sarah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Sarah Casteel<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Memory and Migration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class explores the relationship between memory, migration, and aesthetic representation. We will consider the role of particular literary and artistic genres in producing, preserving, shaping, and circulating transnational and diasporic memories. How do writers and artists recover memories that have been disrupted or lost as a result of forced or voluntary migration? How do they negotiate between personal or familial memory and official, state memory? Among the genres we will address are memoir, graphic memoir, historical fiction, photographic portraiture, and landscape art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-4607B-5606W_WGST-4812A-5901A_J.-Medd_W23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5606W\/4607B: <span class=\"courseblocktitle\">Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (cross-listed with WGST 4812A\/5901W)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/medd-jodie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Jodie Medd<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: A GOAT in Woolf\u2019s clothing: Reading Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actor Jonah Hill recently referred to his co-star, Meryl Streep, as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/12\/jonah-hill-meryl-streep-goat-tonight-show-jennifer-lawrence\">The GOAT<\/a>.\u201d Streep took it as a teasing pet name, but Hill clarified it was an acronym for \u201cThe Greatest of All Time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), in fact, earned the pet name \u201cthe Goat\u201d as a child, for her mischievous antics. As an adult, she continued to sign letters to her intimates as \u201cthe Goat\u201d or even \u201cBilly.\u201d&nbsp; This course wagers that Woolf qualifies as a GOAT among English novelists (in Hill\u2019s sense) for her rich, complex and spectacularly experimental literary oeuvre. Indeed, the sharp juxtaposition between her high literary achievements (as The GOAT) and her irreverent humour and life writing (as the Goat) signals the range I hope we will study and enjoy together in this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A white, British, upper-middle class, woman, Woolf pushed against the limits of her time and place in ways that made for richly productive paradoxes and a powerful legacy: married, not only were her most passionate relationships with women, but she was also a key member of the \u201cBloomsbury group\u201d infamous for its <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-queer-bloomsbury.html\">queer configurations of desire<\/a>; an admitted highbrow literary \u201csnob,\u201d Woolf also taught at the Working Men\u2019s College and was strongly aware of economic disparities, social inequities, and the contortions of colonial-capitalism; a sharp critic of British imperialism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2012\/feb\/05\/bloomsbury-dreadnought-hoax-recalled-letter\">she also dressed in blackface<\/a>, masquerading with her friends as Abyssinian Royals to prank British Navy officials; now revered as a \u2018canonical\u2019 writer, her experimentalism was only possible because she and her husband started their own press so she would not be beholden to editors; neuroatypical and subject to the psychiatric treatments of her day, Woolf was an informed critic of medical approaches to mental trauma; a passionate lover of life\u2019s beauty and richness, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2014\/03\/28\/virginia-woolf-suicide-letter\/\">died by suicide<\/a> before the age of 60. Precisely <em>because<\/em> Woolf was born in 1882 to an upper-middle class household\u2014which she hotly critiqued for its stifling heteropatriarchal Victorianism, not to mention its cover for sexual abuse\u2014she became one of the most eloquent feminist thinkers and experimental writers of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, Woolf remains disarmingly relevant today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/why-anxious-readers-under-quarantine-turn-to-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway\">Woolf as pandemic reading<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/virginia-woolf-feminist_n_6534258\">Woolf as a feminist<\/a> (first, second, third, next wave?) and gender theorist; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2014\/03\/28\/virginia-woolf-suicide-letter\/\">Woolf and #MeToo<\/a>; queer studies; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/abs\/interdisciplinarymultidisciplinary-woolf\/law-is-on-the-side-of-the-normal-virginia-woolf-as-crip-theorist\/516397E2590BA68C6447A5B8BB18BE19\">crip studies<\/a>; imperialism; white privilege; ecocriticism; slow time; anti-militarism; new materialism; affect studies; the end times\u2026.Chances are virtually any pressing contemporary cultural or intellectual interest can be related to Virginia Woolf. Interested in artistic, literary, and\/or historical contexts? Our course invites you to explore Woolf and genre (biography, autobiography, memoir, elegy, the novel, etc.); twentieth-century modernity; modernist style; formations and definitions of modernism and the literary canon; visual art and aesthetics; Bloomsbury and Woolf\u2019s contemporaries; the Hogarth Press and the publishing market; the world wars and the rise of fascism; the history of feminism; history of science; political critique and philosophical inquiry; psychoanalysis and other psychological approaches (then and now)\u2026and more. You will also have the opportunity to explore Woolf\u2019s afterlife and legacies, such as the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/alicewalkersgarden.com\/2010\/10\/in-search-of-our-mothers-garden\/\">Alice Walker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artkabe.com\/\">Kabe Wilson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/index.php\/bookreview\/talland-house-a-novel\">Maggie Humm<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/winners\/michael-cunningham\">Michael Cunningham<\/a>, among other literary, film, and artistic adaptations and reworkings of Woolf\u2019s work and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seminar members will have the freedom to choose the focus of their research seminar, final paper, and informal written reflections over the term. Our course emphasizes peer exchange and the pleasures of intellectual community; cross-listed between English and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, this course welcomes enlivening conversations across disciplines and research interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"courseblocktitle\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5900W_H.-Reid_W23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5900W\/4401B: Selected Topic in English Studies I<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/reid-j-hugh-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Hugh Reid<\/a><br>\n<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: The Nature And Uses Of 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century Book Subscription Lists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course aims to provide students with the context and nature of subscription lists and give students the opportunity for original research in this field.&nbsp; Initially students will be given a theoretical background to subscription lists and lessons on how the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century book trade worked:&nbsp; how was paper made, how was type set, how were books printed and bound, what was the role of bookseller, of publishing congers, etc.&nbsp; The hope is that they will then have an understanding of the trade sufficient to deal with book subscriptions.&nbsp; Then each shall pick a subscription list to work on.&nbsp; This kind of work could not have been done at Carleton in the past because the library\u2019s holdings in antiquarian books was inadequate.&nbsp; Now, however, we can access almost all the books published in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century by subscription (some 3,000).&nbsp; Students may choose any list.&nbsp; For example, if they are interested in female poets they might chose Mary Leapor whose work was published posthumously by subscription.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the seminar, they will report on what they have learned and what has evaded them.&nbsp; As each student reports we will discuss how each may progress.&nbsp; There are so many things which we can learn from subscription lists and very little has been done in this field in the past.&nbsp; Some of the topics which may be examined might include the number of female subscribers, the number of people from the mercantile class, the number of members of the aristocracy, or from academia, or the clergy, or other sub groups.&nbsp; How did this subscription list fit into the publishing industry in the eighteenth century?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENGL 5900X: <\/strong><span class=\"courseblocktitle\"><strong>Selected Topic in English Studies I<\/strong> (cross-listed with CLMD 6903W)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/leckie-barbara\/\"><strong>Prof. Barbara Leckie<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Co-writing the Climate Crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the climate crisis through the lens of co-writing.&nbsp;The idea of co-writing will be treated capaciously: writing through and with other voices, conversations, people, places, and things. It will envision writing as a kind of craft or making in which we think out loud together. With respect to the climate crisis, humans write on and with land and climate; this course will, accordingly, ask if co-writing can broaden our sense of what writing means.The course will approach questions of co-writing via three interconnected categories: conversation; correspondence; and cohabitation. While each of these terms have a bearing on the larger questions of climate and the planetary that the course will address, they will also be approached, more narrowly, in relation to talking, writing, and teaching, respectively. Our discussions will be underpinned by the ways in which ideas of the co-, in general, help us to rethink the individual, the nation, and the land. Overall, we will read the work of Judith Butler, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Achille Mbembe, Anna Tsing, and Sylvia Wynter, among others, to consider more closely how disciplines in the humanities can contribute to climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5900Y_LAWS-5903X_P.-Kaisary_W23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5900Y: Selected Topic in English Studies<\/a> <\/strong>(cross-listed with LAWS 5903 and CLMD 6xxx)<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/philip-kaisary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Phil Kaisary<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Directions and Dead Ends in the \u2018Law &amp; Literature\u2019 Movement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course critically analyzes themes, approaches, and debates in the \u2018Law and Literature\u2019 movement and the related field of \u2018Law, Culture, and the Humanities.\u2019 The first half of the course begins by tracing the formation of the \u2018Law and Literature\u2019 movement from c. 1965 to the present day, paying particular attention to its goals, situation, theoretical investments, and ideological thrust. Observing that the movement is especially indebted, on the one hand, to liberal humanism, and, on the other, to post-structuralism, we will assess the productive capacities and critical limitations of the field as it is presently constituted. Having established a working knowledge of the field in theoretical and historical terms, we will move to consider the materialist critical traditions of cultural materialism and cultural Marxism, the major thinkers of which are conspicuous by their absence \u2013 or extreme scarcity \u2013 within Law and Literature scholarship. In opposition to the predominant approaches, we will consider the potential usefulness of cultural materialism and cultural Marxism to a reconstructed and reoriented \u2018Law and Literature\u2019 movement. In the second half of the course, we will undertake a series of experimental readings of primary materials (novels, films, legal texts) in an effort to develop a materialist approach to \u2018Law and Literature\u2019. The materialist interpretations that we will collectively strive to generate will draw on a variety of secondary readings and will be considered in relation to other approaches that have gained currency in \u2018Law and Literature\u2019. The course is open to graduate students in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. No prior knowledge of the field is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-6004W_J.-Murray_W23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ENGL 6004W: Approaches to the Production of Literature<\/span><\/strong><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/murray-julie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prof. Julie Murray<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: <span class=\"fontstyle0\">The Production of Literary Criticism at the Present Time<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course focuses on the current state of literary criticism as a bellwether of the discipline of literary studies more broadly. We will explore critiques of the discipline from a range of perspectives, including but not limited to: defences of disciplinary specificity in the various returns to form, formalism, and form-as-politics versus the \u201csalvaging\u201d of the discipline seen in recent years in the surging popularity of creative writing programs and the digital humanities; the flight from criticism\/critique on view in the form of Latourian \u201cpost-critique\u201d; and the current work of \u201cundisciplining\u201d visible in many fields\/periods\/areas of literary studies in response to the ongoing reckoning with racism, anti-blackness, and the anti-black foundations of the profession as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"summer-2023\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summer 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5900S_S23_J.-Cleveland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5900S\/ENGL 4609A: Selected Topic in English Studies I<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/cleveland-janne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Janne Cleveland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic<em>: <\/em>Performing Activism on Social Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seminar course will examine how social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok become spaces of performance within the context of activism and protest. We will consider how these platforms take on a theatrical dimension, and what the implications are for both the actors and spectators of these activist actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5900T-ENGL-4301A-HIST-4101A_P.-Nelles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5900T\/ENGL 4301A: Selected Topic in English Studies I <\/strong><\/a>(cross-listed with HIST 4101A)<strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/paul-nelles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Paul Nelles<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Travel &amp; Mobility in the Early Modern World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seminar explores the experience of travel and mobility circa 1500\u20131750. The early modern period experienced an unprecedented level of mobility, both within Europe and globally. People moved across space and across distance for all sorts of reasons: the faithful pilgrimaged to holy sites; merchants journeyed to buy and sell material goods; the sick moved for health; diplomats travelled to spy and negotiate; missionaries crossed oceans to save souls; non-Europeans experienced coerced migration in the form of African slavery and the colonial enclosure of indigenous peoples. The seminar considers the social and cultural context of early modern mobility at the local, transnational, and global levels. We also explore the technologies of travel \u2013 how did people move from place to place?&nbsp; where did they stay? what did they eat and drink? what mechanisms, practices, and sites facilitated movement in the early modern period?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seminar seeks to re-create the material and cultural world of early modern travel. We explore how linguistic and cultural difference were experienced, how travellers made sense of unfamiliar places, social customs, and cultural practices, and the \u2018things\u2019 that also moved on journeys. The class pays close attention to the sources that constitute early modern \u2018travel writing:\u2019 travel journals, letters, diaries, ship\u2019s logs, missionary reports, and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5901S-4115A_R.-Norris.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ENGL 5901S\/ENGL 4115A: Culture and the Text<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/norris-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Robin Norris<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topic: Leaves of Leaves: Plant Literacy and Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plants have been important throughout human history for both reasons of survival and culture. Although plants have been fundamental to mythologies around the globe, today plant literacy is at an all-time low.&nbsp;This class has multiple intersecting goals: to explore plants in literature and culture; to increase students\u2019 plant literacy; to explore the concept of literacy; and to re-evaluate how plant literacy influences our experience of literary texts. One abiding question will be the distinction between nature and the garden.&nbsp;This is an experiential learning course that requires field work to develop plant literacy, and assignments will be designed to bolster the experiential learning aspects of the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/ENGL-5120S_R.-Norris.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ENGL 5120S\/ENGL 4115B: Book Arts Workshop<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/norris-robin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Robin Norris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This experiential learning course immerses students in the practical arts and histories of book production, with its roots in the early Middle Ages. 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