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About the Readings

Additional hard copies will be placed in the English Department Library, located in 7190 Helen C. White. Please contact Thom Dancer if you encounter technical difficulties while downloading the documents.

2005-06 Readings

Forum: The Profession of Literature (Thurs. Sept 15th, 4pm, 7191 HCW). Michael Berube, "Peer Pressure: Political Tensions in the Bear Market" only pages 100-110, Jane Gallop, "Resisting Reasonableness" (esp. 602-609), and Theodor Adorno, “Resignation” (sorry, the pdf of this has some words cut off; there is a better copy in the dept. library). This essay by Bruce Robbins is recommended for those who are interested in exploring yet another point of view on this issue.

Roundtable: What the novel knows, with Professor Joseph Litvak (Thurs. Sept 29th, 12pm, 7191 HCW). Roland Barthes, "A Sympathetic Worker," from The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "Elements of Anti-Semitism," from Dialectic of Enlightenment. Joseph Litvak, "Expensive Tastes: Adorno, Barthes, and Cultural Studies," from Strange Gourmets.

Roundtable: Feminist Theory in Public, with Professor Jane Gallop (Thurs. Dec 8th, 12pm, 7191 HCW). Anecdotal Theory: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Roundtable: Weird English, with Professor Evelyn Ch'ien (Thurs. Feb 16th, 12pm, 7101 HCW). Introduction to Weird English.

Roundtable: "Environmentalism and American Studies " with Professor Ursula Heise (Thurs. Apr 20th, 12pm, 7101 HCW). Lawrence Buell, "Global Commons as Resourse and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales" from Writng for an Endangered World and David Quammen, "The Song of the Dodo."

Forum: "What is Poetry's Public? Reading 'For the Union Dead'" (Sat. Apr 29th, 2pm, 7101 HCW). Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" (off site link: The Academy of American Poets).