Usually offered in odd years. Contemporary literary representations of literacy, schooling, and language from a cross-cultural perspective. Students also analyze their own educational trajectories and experiences with writing and reading. Usually offered in even years. Will be offered in the fall of 2000.
Class consists of lectures, discussions, in-class presentations of scenes, and frequent papers.
Because Dostoevsky was an avid reader of Dickens, we shall address questions of influence, particularly with regard to their shared thematic interests. Usually offered in even years. This course focuses on texts that show the New World emerging from the collision and collusion of Native, African, and European imagining. Usually offered every third year. Last offered in the spring of 2000.