Books:
Michael Balint, The Basic Fault, Northwestern UP, ISBN 0-8101-1025-3
Judith Dupont, ed., The Clinical Diaries of Sandor Ferenczi, Harvard UP, ISBN 0-6741-3527-X
Adam Frank and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, eds, Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader, Duke UP, ISBN 0-8223-1694-3
Peter Gay, ed., The Freud Reader, W. W. Norton,
ISBN 0-3933-1403-0
R. D. Hinshelwood, A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, Free Association Books, ISBN 0-9469-60836
Adam Phillips, Winnicott Harvard UP, ISBN 0-6749-5361-4
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-684-85467-8


ENGL. 82300 - Milton and the Reinvention of Gender, Psyche, and Society
GC: W  6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Jacqueline DiSalvo [47193]

In Paradise Lost, Milton depicts numerous beginnings, of angels, devils, hell, paradise, both the universe and humanity, language, poetry, marriage, sex, sin, psychic disorder, politics, tyranny, etc. Milton wrote in revolutionary times and was himself one of the only active revolutionaries who were also great English poets.  We will read Paradise Lost , as well as Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained, within the context of both the English revolution and the cultural revolution of the Early Modern era. Within this context, the imagined beginnings of the epic express Milton's crucial role in this transformation and his influential invention and representation of  new forms of politics,  religion, gender, subjectivity and other seminal ideologies, discourses and institutions of  an emerging bourgeois  society. In particular we will be concerned with the relationship between external and internal change, with psycho-history, the development of new modes of masculine and feminine subjectivity, and gendered representations of the conflict between aristocratic and bourgeois society. Given this inter-disciplinary approach students will be responsible not only for close readings of the poems, but also secondary readings in both the criticism and relevant history. Some of this material will be presented in students' reports which, along with a final paper will be required.


ENGL. 84100 - Romantic Literature as Prophecy: Blake, Shelly and Byron
GC: M  6:30-8:30 p.m., Room TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Joe Wittreich [47195]

Seminar in Romanticism:  Imaginary Conversations.   If the Romantics did not know one another, nevertheless they often read one another.  We will place male and female voices against one another, and then read the emerging dialogues between Mary Woolstonecraft and William Blake, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jane Austen and Lord Byron.  Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication and Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Visions of the Daughters of Albion; Austen’s Persuasion and Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage, Prometheus, Prophecy of Dante and Marino Faliero; Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (with a glance back at Byron) and Shelley’s The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound.  Requirements:  one oral presentation and a final paper (20-25 pages).


ENGL. 85000 - American Pulp
GC: R, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Rm. TBA, 2/4 credits, Prof. Marc Dolan. Cross listed with ASCP 82000 [47197]

In a society like the United States (which at least aspires to cultural democracy), how far apart are elite and popular writing?  Are the well-wrought symbols of the avant garde all that different from the seemingly serendipitous myths of the most popular potboilers?  And which of these parallel impulses gives us the greatest insight into the times that produce their texts?  Is there a productive way for us to read works from both camps side by side?

This course will explore the blurred line between elite and popular writing in the United States from the antebellum period to the recent past by reading a series of paired texts from the dawn of the American mass market down to the golden age of paperback sales.   These pairings may include:

Walt Whitman, Franklin Evans (1842) w/ George Lippard, The Quaker City (1844)
E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand (1859) w/ Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902-1903) w/ Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (1914)
Valerie Taylor, The Girls in 3-B (1959) w/ Mary McCarthy, The Group (1963)
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959) w/ Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly (1977)

We will probably also spend a week dipping into H. P. Lovecraft’s tales of the Chthlhu mythos, which may very well fall into their own separate category. 

Brief theoretical readings (from such writers as Freud, Barthes, Brook, Levi-Strauss, Jameson, and Eco) will also be assigned in order to provide us with a series of theoretical prisms through which to approach our readings.  All methodologies are, however, more than welcome in the course.  In fact, if we are very lucky, the aggregate methodology of our discussions will be as unruly as the plots of the novels we are reading.

There are five course requirements:  (1) active participation in discussions; (2) a brief presentation with descriptive bibliography summarizing scholarship on a text and author that we are reading in common; (3) a descriptive bibliography in preparation for the final presentation and essay, (4) a final presentation of original scholarship on a relevant American text or texts that we are not reading in common; and (5) a 20‑25‑page final essay that treats your original scholarship in greater detail.

[Please note:  Although this syllabus is tentative, registered students should probably try to start reading The Quaker City and The Hidden Hand over the summer in advance of the course.  These initially serialized texts are quite long in book form; their authors were paid by the word.]


HIST. 70200 - Challenge of New Media in Hist
GC: W, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. David Jaffee, [47323]

New media is changing the way we research, write, present, and teach about the past. Students will explore theoretical and historical issues as well as learn hands-on skills in digital history.  We will examine critically historical databases, online scholarship, virtual exhibitions, historical simulations, and others.  More importantly, we will consider issues such as the future of historical narrative in cyberspace, the role of multimedia in conveying historical understanding, the future of historical communities, the possibilities of the new media classroom, and the challenge of digital scholarship.  Texts will include works by Barbara Stafford, Roy Rosenzweig, Edward Ayers, Lev Manovich, Robert Darnton.  Students will be asked to develop a proposal for a new media historical presentation.

HIST. 75400 - History of Religion Civil War to the Present
GC:  T, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Barbara Welter [47326]


MALS. 72100 - Major Feminist Texts
GC:  W, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Profs. Sandi Cooper/ Jacqueline Di Salvo, [47428] Cross listed with WSCP 80801      

This class will explore the recovered traditions of modern feminist thought beginning with Christine de Pizan in the 15th century and concluding with contemporary analyses. Guest speakers will alternate with student rapporteurs during class meetings. Texts will include works by such authors as Sor Juana de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, Clara Zetkin, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Judith Butler, Marge Piercy as well as documents addressing issues of race. gender, class and sexual orientation arising from second wave feminism. The class will conclude with a consideration of women and peace, human rights and global feminism.


PSYC. 80103 - Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Transgendr Res
GC: F, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Jeff Parsons, [47716] Cross listed with WSCP 81000

This seminar provides a forum for people interested in research and theory on issues facing members of the GLBT populations. Agenda is determined by the seminar participants and includes discussion of proposed, in-process, and completed research projects. Participants will also work collectively to develop new research projects, as well as examine existing datasets. Seminar participants will select the topics and specific research questions.


PSYC. 85600 - Sem on Gender & Env/Sex/Space
GC: W, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Katz, [47721] Cross listed with WSCP 81000

This course will address questions of space, place, and nature in relation to gender and sexuality from a variety of theoretical frameworks. A broad range of topics will be considered including gender and the built environment, urban design, public space, geographies of gender over the life course, ecofeminisms and feminist approaches to nature, embodied geographies, sexuality and space, and “discrimination by design.” Readings include feminist perspectives from environmental design disciplines and the social sciences concerning the production of built form, productions of nature, and the construction of social space. No prerequisite.


PSC. 71901 - Contemporary Political Thought
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Mark Blasius, [47047]

This course will examine how contemporary theorists conceive central ideas in political theory such as power and agency, rights and membership, social justice, and the distinction between public and private. It will involve studying some theorists of Anglo-American liberalism, critical theory from the Marxist tradition, postmodernism, gender and sexuality theory’s expansion of what is within the realm of politics, the politics of difference and recognition in democratic theory, and postcolonial thought.  This is a survey course in the history of political thought sequence, and emphasizes how specific theorists help us understand basic concepts and themes that give political theory its distinctiveness.  Readings may include selected writings of John Rawls, Susan Okin, Carole Pateman, Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Judith Butler, Iris Young, Nancy Fraser, Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Partha Chatterjee. Another concern of the course will be intellectual and historical context, in this case, how theory and the theorist engage with the political issues of our time.

PSC. 82503 - Gender Policy Making
GC: M, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 4 credits, Prof. Joyce Gelb [47044]    


PSC. 87002 - Political Modernization
GC: M, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 4 credits, Prof. Irving Markovitz [47041] 

This course is an inquiry into the causes of poverty and theories of "development" focusing on problems of class, gender, ethnicity and value.  The seminar will examine works having conflicting interpretations of the linkages between "rich" and "poor" countries; feudal and post-feudal societies and the obstacles and conditions to "development."


SOC. 86800 - Social Construction of Identity
GC: W, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Cynthia Epstein [47466]

There are various theories about the ways in which individuals’ identities are formed. Psychodynamic, psychological  sociological and evolutionary perspectives are among the theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. This course focuses on the social determinants of identity formation . It explores identity as a dynamic process and a political process. While not dismissing other models, the focus of the course will frame self, culture and society as interactive.

Using research work across disciplines and literary sources we will consider how the "public" world of social institutions such as the family, religion, work organizations, the  political sphere and the media connects with individuals’ notion of ”who they are” and what they may become. Variations by gender, class, race, nationality and ethnicity, will be considered; as well as mechanisms of social control from the most subtle to the most obvious and coercive.

In the course we will acknowledge the multiplicity of selves women and men may have in post-industrial society. We will study the personal and master narratives they tell and hear. We will consider how powerful “others” determine the minds, hearts and psyches of individuals; and also look at individuals’ resistance and agency in determining and preserving their identities.

Included in the course will be sections on theories of the self , the sociology of emotion , the sociology of culture, case studies of organizations’ specific practices devoted to molding  the identities of individuals, the impact of social movements and  organizational change on personality, and the influences on the crafting of selves from literature and popular culture.


SOC. 80500 - Psychoanalytic Sociology   
GC: W, 4:15-6:15 PM, Rm TBA, 3 credits, Professor Catherine Silver [47613] 

In this seminar on Psychoanalytic Sociology we discuss how psychoanalytic approaches—including the works of Freud, Bion, Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, Doi, Cixous, Irragary, and Castoriadis-- can be used to provide social criticism and re-interpretations of socio-cultural issues. Can psychoanalytic theories and clinical data provide frameworks to re-assess current sociological and cultural theories of “self”?  How do sociologists, feminists, and literary critiques use psychoanalysis in their analysis of identity in a post-modern and post-Fordist world?  And how can our understanding of racism, war, and violence, for example, be reshaped through cross-cultural psychoanalytic lenses? Does psychoanalytic thinking offer intellectual and emotional tools to break out of mainstream theorizing towards new forms of creativity? 

The seminar provides a broad overview of the use of psychoanalysis in a variety of non-clinical fields as well as focusing on specific themes (identity, generations, and bodies/emotions in organization). The discussion is based on research that draws upon psychoanalytic thinking and techniques applied to social, cultural and literary questions (Allison, Adorno et al., Butler, Baum, Cheng, Chodorow, Clough, Cushman, Elliot, Flax, Glass, Rose, Rustin, Sennett, and Smelser among others). 

Students are required to make oral presentations in class and select between three short think pieces based on the readings, a research/dissertation proposal or a research paper.

Maximum class size of 15 students


THEA. 86100 – History of American Theater: A Century of Protest
GC:  M, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Alisa Solomon [47412]

This course will examine how American social movements have employed theater as an instrument of social change. Looking at a range of plays and performances addressing women, workers, war, racial justice, and sexuality, we will attend to political and aesthetic questions of form, function, audience, and artistic and historical context. While understanding the role of such works in their own times will be paramount, we'll juxtapose suffragist agit-prop to feminist and lesbian-feminist agit-prop of the 1970s; labor union plays of the 1930s to the Living Theatre's efforts in Pittsburgh; Living Newspaper plays about sexually transmitted diseases to early plays about AIDS; and so on. In doing so, we will focus on dramatic strategies and their relationships to political goals. Of course we will consider how and when dramaturgical experimentation can itself be a political gesture. Thus we will range far beyond agit-prop and include poetic dramatists such as James Baldwin, Adrienne Kennedy, and Maria Irene Fornes. The course will be run as a seminar and will require a presentation, two short papers and one major research project.