Fall 2017 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Literature -- Then and Now (35419)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 315
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cihla002+ENGL3330+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- Then and Now: Queer life in the U.S. has changed significantly from the mid-twentieth century to today. By examining a selection of poetry, prose, and film, our class will try to answer the questions: how did we get to where we are today? and where do we go next? From the "lavender scare" to the Stonewall Riots to the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality to the genderqueer and trans movements, we will explore how LGBT+ authors and filmmakers have both responded to and shaped the ethos of our times.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35419/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 March 2017
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Literature -- Then and Now (65053)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cihla002+ENGL3330+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Then and Now: Queer life in the U.S. has changed significantly from the mid-twentieth century to today. By examining a selection of poetry, prose, and film, our class will try to answer the questions, how did we get to where we are today? and where do we go next? From the "lavender scare" to the Stonewall Riots to the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality to the genderqueer and trans movements, we will explore how queer authors and filmmakers have both responded to and shaped the ethos of our times.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65053/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 October 2016
Spring 2016 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Literature -- Adaptation and Performance (58806)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- GLBT 3610 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 229
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cihla002+ENGL3330+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Adaptation and Performance
In this class, we will explore queer literature and film by comparing texts with their adaptations. Novels and memoirs that have been made into movies or series, play scripts that have been produced, and poetry books that have spoken word aspects will be our focus. Our texts and films may include A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, and The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. Throughout, we will examine the ways that contexts inform texts, consider the effect of medium on message, and survey the current landscape of queer writing.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58806/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 October 2015
Spring 2015 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature -- Queer Futurity (60508)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- GLBT 3610 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 108
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Description:
- In Queer Futurity, we will examine visionary and speculative writing and films. From Specimen Days to The Stone Gods to Lilith's Brood, queer images of the future--both utopian and dystopian--provide commentaries on the present and the past. Varying representations of queer identity have been privileged or suppressed by popular culture, in response to the evolving pressures of heteronormativity and homonormativity. We'll look at how images of queerness have been replicated, manufactured, and commodified. As we examine texts published before and after Stonewall, we will discuss the shift from idealism to pragmatism, observing what has been gained as well as what has been lost, while asking: what is next? We will read such authors as Hilton Als, Octavia Butler, Michael Cunningham, Armistead Maupin, Adrienne Rich, Joanna Russ, Ely Shipley, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf. We will also reference such theorists and historians as Gloria Anzaldua, Judith Butler, Neil Miller, Jose Esteban Munoz, and Vito Russo. Our films may include Antonia's Line, Caravaggio, The Celluloid Closet and Paris Is Burning. Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick defined queer as “a continuing moment, movement, motive,” and in this class we'll learn the advantages of seeing meaning as performative, actively unfolding in reaction and response to contexts.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60508/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 December 2014
Spring 2014 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature -- Family as Origin and Invention (67542)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- GLBT 3610 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 215
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Description:
- In Family as Origin and Invention we will read a selection of authors whose work examines the complicated subject of family in GLBTIQ experiences. A mix of modern classics and recent releases, our texts show characters rebelling against normative constructs while envisioning alternative lives. We will look at the families that we are born or adopted into and those we improvise, gravitate toward, or carefully assemble. Through reading, writing, and discussion, we will define family from multiple perspectives. Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir FUN HOME and Jeanette Winterson's memoir WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? examine family as both origin and destination, the source that we rebel against with such force we come back around full circle, perhaps with greater compassion and understanding the second time around. In such "boarding house novels" as Jane Rule's THE YOUNG IN ONE ANOTHER'S ARMS, Alan Hollinghurst's THE LINE OF BEAUTY, and Armistead Maupin's TALES OF THE CITY we will see accidental relationships--lodgers, roommates, classmates, co-workers, neighbors, and friends--evolve into intentional communities or chosen families. Two novellas--Justin Torres's WE THE ANIMALS and James Baldwin's GIOVANNI'S ROOM--show how coming out transforms the definition of family, pushing it beyond conventional expectations. Kristin Naca's poetry book BIRD EATING BIRD demonstrates a cross-cultural, intra- and international sense of family, while Joy Ladin's poetry book TRANSMIGRATION notates the journey of the self from one gender to another in the context of family. We will write weekly reading journals or critical framing questions and two four-page papers. Final grades will be figured on the basis of fifty percent for papers, thirty percent for short writing assignments, and twenty percent for attendance and participation.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67542/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 2 December 2013
Spring 2013 | ENGL 3330 Section 001: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Literature -- Queer National Epics (66417)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
- GLBT 3610 Section 002
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 211
- Course Catalog Description:
- Literature/culture produced by/about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. Emphasizes importance of materials falsified/ignored in earlier literary/cultural studies. How traditional accounts need to be revised in light of significant contributions of GLBT people.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66417/1133
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