English 7635 Schedule
Spring 2017
** Last Updated: April 21, 2017 **
Week 1 | January 9 – 13 | Course Introduction
- Intro to 7635 (Read course docs, submit questions)
- Sign Up for Discussion Leader
- Read Jagose’s QT, Ch 1 – 5 (Scribd)
- Participate in Reading Response #1
Week 2 | January 16 – 20 | Well of Loneliness
- Instructor Blog #1: Connecting Jagose, Hall, and Forster
- RR #2: The Well of Loneliness
- For Your Consideration: Love’s “Spoiled Identity: Radcliffe Hall’s Unwanted Being“
Week 3 | January 23 – 27 | Maurice
- RR #3: Maurice
- FYC: Hartree’s “Homosexuality and Englishness“
Week 4 | January 30 – February 3 | Giovanni’s Room
- RR #4: Giovanni’s Room
- FYC: Armengol’s “In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room“
Week 5 | February 6 – 10 | Rubyfruit Jungle
- RR #5: Rubyfruit Jungle
- FYC: Donaghue’s “Chapter Six: Out” from Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
Week 6 | February 13 – 17 | Dancer from the Dance
- RR #6: Dancer from the Dance
- FYC: Schoop’s “The Gay Great Gatsby“
- FYC: Gay Sex in the 70s (documentary – this site requires an account but it’s free)
Week 7 | February 20 – 24 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- RR #7: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- FYC: Fuss’s “Inside/Out“
Week 8 | February 27 – March 3 | Fried Green Tomatoes
- RR #8: Fried Green Tomatoes
- FYC: Watch FGT (the film) and the documentary The Celluloid Closet
- For Week 9, complete your Midterm Reflections.
SPRING BREAK
Week 9 | March 13 – 17 (CCCC) | Midterm Reflections Due
- Midterm Reflection Due: Saturday, March 18 at 5:00 pm
- Finish reading Jagose’s QT, Ch 6 – 9, which may help you with ideas for your Seminar Paper
Week 10 | March 20 – 24 | Normal Heart & Seminar Paper Proposal
- Seminar Paper Proposal Due: Wednesday, March 22 by 5:00 pm
- RR #9: Normal Heart
- FYC: Watch And the Band Played On,”The Eighties: Episode 3: The AIDS Crisis” (Netflix), or We Were Here (Netflix) for background information on the discovery of AIDS and its impact on queer lives.
- FYC: Watch The Normal Heart (HBO – available with a free trial on Amazon — sometimes, it’s easier to read a play if you’ve seen it performed. The film is significantly different from the play, but watching it first might help you with reading it if you’re not used to reading dramatic texts.)
Week 11 | March 27 – 31 | Angels in America
- RR #10 Angels in America
- FYC: Watch Angels in America (free w/ Amazon Prime membership, which is free for students with an “edu” email address for one year)
Week 12 | April 3 – 7 | Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
- RR #11: Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
- FYC: Woodhouse’s “Five Houses of Gay Fiction“
Week 13 | April 10 – 13 | The Summer We Got Free
- RR #12: The Summer We Got Free
Week 14 | April 17 – 21 | Two Boys Kissing
- RR #13: Two Boys Kissing
- FYC: Banks & Alexander, “After Homonormativity“
Week 15 | April 24 – 27 | Seminar Paper Peer Review
- Upload drafts of your seminar papers on Monday and Tuesday, April 24 & 25 (instructions provided by email); provide peer reviews to two peers by Thursday, April 27.
Week 16 | May 2 | Seminar Paper Final Drafts Due by 5:00 pm