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David St. John LA Review of Books Interview

University Professor David St. John of @usc_english @USC_CWPhD sits down with Michael Juliani of the @LAReviewofBooks to talk poetry, his reverence for the beauty of California and the American West, and more.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-question-in-the-mirror-a-conversation-with-david-st-john/#!

Celebrating William Shakespeare

Today we celebrate William Shakespeare — April 23 commemorates both his birth and his death. USC Dornsife’s Bruce Smith explains why the Bard has had such an enduring influence on literature and culture some 400 years later: http://ow.ly/7nWa50Ewnir

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Presenting ENGL 450: Caribbean Literature

On behalf of the whole department, you are invited to tomorrow’s English Honors Thesis Presentations!

The department hopes everyone continues to enjoy the last stretch of the summer, but with classes starting in less than two weeks, we’re excited to look ahead to the start of the Fall 2023 semester!

At present, seats are still available in various fall ENGL courses, including ENGL 450! ENGL 450 is the department’s newest course offering, having just gained final approval to be added to the schedule around the beginning of summer, so we’re excited to spread the word.

Taught by: Professor Corrine Collins
MWF | 12-12:50pm
Section: 32754R | 4 Units

Pre-Fall 2023 Categories >
ENGL: American Lit
CRWT: Lit After 1900
NARS: NARS 4
ENGL minor: American Lit
NRST minor: Euro/Am Literary Narratives *or* Global Narrative Traditions
-Incoming students following our new curricula may refer to their orientation materials for the relevant category information, or contact their primary assigned advisor.
-Non-major or -minor students are also welcome to enroll in the course as a Dornsife elective.

Register now while seats are still open reg! Once the first day of the semester begins, the course may still be addable, but only with instructor approval.

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Additional Image Text: Caribbean literature expresses the racial, cultural, and linguistic complexity of the region in its negotiation of overlapping diasporas, cultural hybridity, and histories of colonization, enslavement, and indentured servitude.

This class examines the historical conditions that have produced categories of normative gender and sexuality in the Caribbean, and the ways classism and colorism have inculcated and perpetuated gender and sexuality-based violence.

We will study the ways twentieth and twenty-first century writers present sexuality as both a way of being and an ever-unfolding processes of doing, and we will pay special attention to the culturally specific grammars of desire that exist within Caribbean frameworks of queerness.

Through examining these writers’ imaginative exploration of queer Caribbean subjectivities, past and present, we will explore literature and the erotic as a tools of anticolonial resistance, pleasure, and care.

Fall 2023 Undergraduate Welcome

Undergrads: we hope you’ve had a great start to your semester! Come celebrate with a catered lunch on Friday, 9/1 in the Taper Hall Ide Room (THH 420). We can’t wait to see you there!

Please Note: Students are absolutely not required to make any changes to their major/minor reqs as currently declared, but should students prefer the new curricula, they are welcome to change. If unsure how the courses you’ve already taken would apply to the new curricula’s requirements, please plan to hop on walk-ins with your primary assigned advisor to discuss.

Additional Image Text: Join us for our first in-person undergraduate student welcome since before the start of the pandemic! The first portion of the hour includes no programming to allow students to settle in with their catered lunch and simply mingle with fellow members of the department. To follow, Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Bea Sanford Russell and Undergraduate Studies Coordinator Laura Hough will share information on the newly approved curricula for both the English and Narrative Studies majors. Besides reaffirming the requirements of the curricula our continuing students are currently declared under, we’ll go into how the new curricula’s requirements differ.

Write Your Story in ENGL 303: Introduction to Fiction

Looking to write your own story? Based on student demand, we’ve opened a new section of ENGL 303! Due to the recent addition, this section is open registration with seats available for the Fall 2023 semester!

This course is an excellent option for creatives looking to hone in on their craft and those new to writing hoping to expand their imagination’s reach.

Taught by: Professor Sara Sligar
Tuesday | 2-4:50 PM
Section: 32687R | 4 Units

Categories met (same for pre- or since Fall 2023 curricula) >
CRWT: Intro to Prose Workshop
ENGL maj/min: Upper-div ENGL Elective
NARS: NARS 2 Substitution
-Non-major or minor students are also welcome to enroll in the course as purely a Dornsife elective.

Register now while seats are still available! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to cultivate your craft with an all-star faculty member!

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Additional Image Text: Study the craft of fiction and learn how to construct compelling and well-written stories in a new section of this popular course.

Open to all. No prerequisites. Counts for credit towards ENGL/CRWT. This particular section also counts as a substitute for NARS category 2.

Seats Available: ENGL 444m: Native American Literature

Our final Fall 2023 course highlight before the semester begins in just one short week is ENGL 444m: Native American Literature. This coming semester, Ojibwe novelist and nonfiction writer Prof David Treuer will be focusing the class on contemporary Native American lit!

Taught by: Professor David Treuer
MW | 2-3:20pm
Section: 32751R | 4 Units

Pre-Fall 2023 Categories >
English major tracks/minor: Upper-div ENGL Elective
NARS major: NARS 4
NRST minor: Global Narrative Traditions
-Incoming students following our new curricula may refer to their orientation materials for the relevant category information, or contact their primary assigned advisor.
-Non-major or -minor students are also welcome to enroll in the course as a Dornsife elective (or if on the pre-Fall 2015 GE system, the course also fulfills the Diversity requirement).

Register now while seats are still open reg! Once the first day of the semester begins, the course may still be addable, but only with instructor approval.

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Additional Image Text: Come read and explore contemporary Native American literature! Learn to read for pleasure and profit and to—through exciting and best-selling novels and short stories by Indigenous authors—see how America and its self-regard has been put together!

Readings include slasher novels like DON’T FEAR THE REAPER (Stephen Graham Jones) and the stylistic explosion that is FOOLS CROW (James Welch), lyrical prose from the Pulitzer-Prize winning Louise Erdrich, as well as well as antique (and politically suspect) short fiction from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

Your instructor is Native American (Ojibwe) novelist and nonfiction writer Professor David Treuer.