ENGL 461

Fall 2011 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Topics in Literature

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced seminar on any of a variety of literary topics.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 461 class schedule data for fall 2011
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
40447	Lecture-Discussion	2G	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Gender & Educ in Enlightenment Section Info: Topic Section 2G: Gender and Education in the Enlightenment Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32350	Lecture-Discussion	2U	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Nazar, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Gender & Educ in Enlightenment Section Info: Topic Section 2U: Gender and Education in the Enlightenment Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
48330	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Topics in Bodies and Gender Section Info: Topic: Gender Benders - This course examines literary texts and other cultural documents (biographies, opera, films) from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, which all question the gender roles of their time through a representation of characters with unstable, ambivalent, or ambiguous gender identities. We will pay special attention to social and historical contexts and try to understand the function of transvestites, hermaphrodites, castrati and other gender benders in these texts. In addition to the primary literature, we will read selections from Thomas Laqueur?s Making Sex and Londa Schiebinger?s The Mind Has No Sex? to help us understand how biology and science are used to construct and justify gender identity at various historical moments. This course therefore has particular relevance to current debates about gender and sexual identity, marriage, reproductive rights etc. Texts Catalina de Erauso, Memoirs of a Basque Lieutenant Nun: Transvestite in the New World Choisy, L'H?ritier and Perrault, The Story of the Marquis/Marquise de Banneville Farinelli: Il Castrato (Movie) Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir. Meets with CWL/GWS 450.