ENGLISH 5000: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDY

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8	OCT 10	History of Theory IIII
		Williams, from Marxism and Literature, [1977, Canvas] OR Montrose, “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture” [1989; Canvas]	Critical essay summaries 1. Devon Pham 2. Jordan Hunt
9	OCT 17	Gender I
		Belsey, “Constructing the Reader / Deconstructing the Text” [1985; Canvas] OR Schwieckart, “Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading” [1986; Canvas]	Critical essay summaries 1. Nick Cook 2. Cullen Williams 3. Devon Pham
10	OCT 24	Gender II
		Sedgwick, from Between Men [1985; Canvas] OR Wittig, “One Is not Born a Woman” [1980; Canvas]	Critical essay summaries 1. Ray Frost 2. Devon Pham 3. Jordan Hunt
11	OCT 31	Some Classics You Will Need to Have Read
		Barthes, “The Death of the Author” [1967; Canvas] OR Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” [1975; Canvas]	Critical essay summaries 1. Nick Cook 2. Cullen Williams 3. Ray Frost 4. Melissa Mesch
14	NOV 28	Theories in Practice II	Critical essay summaries 1. Nick Cook 2. Cullen Williams 3. Ray Frost 4. Melissa Mesch
		Wicke, “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” [Canvas] OR Grady, "Vampire Culture" [1996; Canvas]
15	DEC 5	Theories in Practice III
		Castle, “Ambivalence and Ascendancy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” [Canvas] OR Valente, from Dracula’s Crypt [2002; Canvas]	Critical essay summaries 1. Jordan Hunt 2. Melissa Mesch