2015 Fall Course Offerings
Barzak Workshop YSUT 5:10 – 7:50 pm
ENG 6967
COURSE FULL Book 1: In this workshop, we will focus on the development of the first part of a book-length fiction manuscript (50-75 pages). This
can be the opening of a novel, collection of short stories, or novel-in-stories. We’ll predominantly workshop your own material, but occasionally we
will be looking at books by professional authors that demonstrate both traditional and innovative novel openings, short story collections with varying
organizational principles, and novels-in-stories that take various operational structures. This workshop is the precursor to Spring 2016’s Book 2 Fiction
Workshop (Book 1 not required), in which students will develop and workshop the second part of a book.
O’Connor Workshop
KSU
Th
2:15 – 5:00 pm
ENG 64071
This is a graduate fiction workshop with an emphasis on student work. Participants may submit either short stories or novel excerpts, two to three manuscripts across the semester, depending on class size. We will also spend a small portion of each class
period discussing fiction technique in a variety of published texts. Brief critical commentary on each workshop manuscript and
published texts will be required.
C&T (Professor TBA)
CSU
W
6:00 – 8:50 pm
ENG615
Giffels Workshop
UA
W
5:20 – 7:50 pm
3300:689-806
Ricca C&T
CSU
Th
6:00 – 8:50 pm
ENG615
COURSE FULL In this MFA course, students will workshop a semester-long writing project, working either in long-form nonfiction or a series of related
essays, with exercises to develop a concept and advance the writing process. Please note: Enrollment limits observed. Through readings, writings, and
workshops, students in this seminar will consider the best practices for the messy variety of writings we term “nonfiction.”
We will read a variety of writers to consider form, genre, style, craft, and effect. How best can the truth be told -- transparent, crooked, or slant? The primary goal of the class will be to learn from other writers so as to best inform our own authorial choices.
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2015 Fall Course Offerings
Geither Workshop
CSU
M
6:00 – 8:50 pm
ENG612
Pagel Workshop
CSU
T
6:00 – 8:50 pm
ENG613
Biddinger C&T
UA
Th
5:20 – 7:50 pm
3300:689-805
KSU
M
5:30 – 8:15 pm
ENG66895
In this course we will create full-length plays and/or other kinds of theatrical experiences. Our reading will draw from conventional and experimental approaches and writing completed in the course may utilize any approach excepting adaptation of existing work.
By whom or by what agency is the behavior of the poem suggested, by what invisible architecture, we ask, is the poem developed. —Barbara Guest
Invisible Architecture: In this class we will design, construct, alter, and demolish poems with an eye for what makes writing a construction zone and how
poetry might serve as a serious physical embodiment or form for chaotic contemporary inquiry. Our primary focus will be on workshopping student writing;
we will also read book-length collections asking ourselves what is at stake in a particular poet’s work and how we might identify our own poetic urgencies,
aesthetics, plans, and tendencies.
COURSE FULL First Books: This course will offer students useful experience understanding the composing, revising, editing, and publishing of first
books of poetry. We will consider recent first books, and write creative work in response to them. Students will also read, and perhaps even conduct, interviews with first book authors. Ideal for poets in any stage of the thesis process. Attendance is important.
Internship
Robinson Internship
Community Outreach: In this class we will design, construct, alter, and demolish poems with an eye for what makes writing a construction zone and how
poetry might serve as a sThis course will prepare students to apply their knowledge of creative writing and teach in a community-based residency. It will
meet every Monday for the first month of the semester and shift to every other week after residencies begin. In class, students will explore what it means
to be a literary teaching artist in the field of service learning and study in-depth creative writing pedagogy currently used in the community. Students will
apply academic experience to community-based projects, build lessons, as well as appropriate writing samples and activities for a variety of populations.
Field experience in schools, hospitals, shelters, community centers, senior centers, and correctional facilities will be applied through a teaching residency.
Students will be expected to teach in the community at least once a week for eight weeks in a location agreed upon by the student and instructor.
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2015 Fall Course Offerings
Literature
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
Nunn
UA
M
5:20 – 7:50 pm
3300:665-801
Braun
UA
Th
5:20 – 7:50 pm
3300:689-803
Bolton
UA
W
5:20 – 7:50 pm
3300:689-802
Literary Criticism: This course explores modern critical theories and methods in literary research. While analyzing representative theorists and critics,
members of this seminar will find ways to use concepts of literary theory in their own writing.
The Doppelganger: This course investigates the evolution of the Doppelgänger figure in nineteenth-century British literature. For their final projects,
students will investigate one example of the Doppelgänger since 1950 and its relevance to shifting trends in thinking about this figure’s importance since
1800. Satisfies the M.A. in Literature requirement for British Literature 1660-1900 .
Wright/Ellison/Baldwin: Few books had the impact on American life and letters in their own time as Richard Wright’s Native Son or Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Just as Ellison was deeply influenced by Wright—though he wanted to create a very different kind of African-American voice—James Baldwin was
still dealing with the powerful presence of Wright in his book of essays entitled Notes of a Native Son. This class takes a close look at the work of these three
major African-American voices. Satisfies the M.A. in Literature requirement for American Literature 1865-present.
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Dyer
CSU
T,Th
6:00 – 7:50 pm
ENG695
Sonstegard
CSU
M,W
6:00 – 7:50 pm
ENG510
Poetry in the Long 18th Century
Literary Analysis: This introductory course to graduate study in British and American Literatures stresses close-reading techniques, engagement with
schools of literary criticism, and graduate-level argumentation. Students will endeavor to place works within historical contexts, note the nuances of language and literary genre, enter into texts’ interpretive ambiguities, and participate in literary criticism’s ongoing political and cultural debates. This course
is a “practical” introduction and not a survey, meaning that we will apply interpretive principles and critical techniques to primary works, rather than cover a
historical period or school of literary production. We will, however, ask of all our works a guiding question: What do literary “pictures” and “portraits” imply
about their subjects’ moral choices, as nineteenth-century social realism gives way to modernism and postmodernism, and as ideas of morality gradually
alter in turn? Answers should arise from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of
Dorian Gray, and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
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KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Fein
KSU
W
5:30 – 8:15 pm
ENG 6/76791
Camden
KSU
Th
6:35 – 9:20 pm
ENG 61000
M’Baye
KSU
Th
5:30 – 8:15 pm
76706
Gaston
KSU
M
4:25 – 7:05 pm
ENG 6/76102
Trogdon
KSU
T
4:25 – 7:05 pm
TBA
Seminar British and Irish Literature: Medieval Drama
Introduction to Research and Pedagogy in Critical Reading
Methods in the Study of Literature
Confessional Poetry: Literature of the United States after the Civil War
US Expatriate Writers in Paris
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Andrews
YSU
T,Th
9:30 – 10:45 am
ENG 6914
Strom
YSU
TH
5:10 – 7:50 pm
ENG 6923
Benton
YSU
M
5:10 – 7:50 pm
ENG 6927
Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature
Working Class Literature
Survey of Literature for Young People