Spring 2015 English Majors’ Newsletter
Fall 2015 Upper-Level Course Schedule
ID
Course
Professor
14974 Engl 209-01
Miller
15084 Engl 209-02
Tracy
15140 Engl 303-01
Guler
15101 Engl 315-01
Hursey
15100 Engl 316-01
15079 Engl 317-01
Hursey
CarrollHackett
15145 Engl 318-01
Course Title
Intro. to Literary
Analysis
Intro. to Literary
Analysis
Visual Rhetoric
and Document
Design
Intro. to Dramatic
Writing
Day
MWF
MW
TR
TR
Writing Fiction
TR
M
Faulkner
Writing Poetry
Writing NonFiction
14980 Engl 319-01
Guler
Technical Writing
MWF
14981 Engl 319-02
Guler
MWF
15085 Engl 325-01
Tracy
15131 Engl 326-01
Barry
15030 Engl 327-01
Heady
15098 Engl 335-01
Lynch
15027 Engl 336-01
Van Ness
14964 Engl 350-01
Smith R
Technical Writing
Brit. Lit.: Medieval
to Ren.
Brit. Lit.: Rest. to
Rom.
Brit. Lit.: Victor. to
Contem.
Am. Lit.: Colonial
to Realism
Am. Lit.: Natural.
to Contem.
Intro. to
Linguistics
15142 Engl 356-01
McGee
The Art of Film I
TR
15007 Engl 362-01
Magill
Lit. of Diversity
MWF
15103 Engl 365-01
Smith S
Shakespeare
TR
TR
MW
TR
MWF
TR
MWF
MWF
Time
12:0012:50
4:005:15 P
11:0012:15
2:003:15 P
12:301:45 P
6:008:45 P
12:301:45 P
10:0010:50
11:0011:50
5:306:45 P
11:0012:15
12:0012:50
9:3010:45
9:009:50
9:009:50
2:003:15 P
1:001:50 P
8:009:15
Room
Gr G16
Gr 207
Gr 218
Gr G16
Gr G16
Gr 114
Gr 301
Gr G18
Gr G18
Gr 207
Gr 207
Gr 216
Gr G16
Gr 216
Gr G01
Gr 218
Gr 116
Gr G18
15024 Engl 380-01
McGee
15135 Engl 380-02
Miskec
BrockServais
BrockServais
15136 Engl 380-03
15137 Engl 380-04
15134 Engl 380-50
15088 Engl 381-01
Miskec
BrockServais
14988 Engl 382-01
Smith R
14989 Engl 382-02
Smith R
15094 Engl 382-03
Ruday
15096 Engl 382-04
Ruday
15087 Engl 384-01
Engl
15104 415/515-01
Engl
15118 421/522-01
Engl
14973 423/523-01
Engl
15099 444/544-01
Engl
15108 461/562-01
Miskec
15032 Engl 461-02
Engl
14970 470/570-01
Engl
15119 476/576-01
Engl
15018 478/578-01
Engl
15112 479/579-01
Smith S
Children's
Literature
Children's
Literature
Children's
Literature
Children's
Literature
Children's
Literature
Lit. for Young
Adults
Trad. & Mod.
English Grammar
Trad. & Mod.
English Grammar
Trad. & Mod.
English Grammar
Trad. & Mod.
English Grammar
Diversity in Lit
Young Readers
Drama
Major Figures in
Challender Fiction
Major Figures in
Taylor
Poetry
Literature &
Lynch
Culture
Lit. Crit. Senior
Barry
Seminar
Lit. Crit. Senior
Taylor
Seminar
LettnerProfessional Wrtg.
Rust
Skills
CarrollAdv. Fiction
Hackett
Writing
Adv. Creative NonFaulkner
Fic. Wrtg.
Wrtg. Mid. Sec. &
Southall
College
MWF
TR
TR
TR
TR
MW
MWF
MWF
TR
TR
W
TR
TR
MWF
TR
T
MWF
MWF
T
MWF
TR
1:001:50 P
11:0012:15
12:301:45 P
2:003:15 P
9:3010:45
4:005:15 P
10:0010:50
11:0011:50
11:0012:15
2:003:15 P
6:008:45 P
9:3010:45
2:003:15 P
11:0011:50
11:0012:15
6:008:45 P
2:002:50 P
8:008:50
6:008:45 P
3:003:50 P
12:301:45 P
Gr 207
Gr 216
Gr 216
Gr 216
Gr 216
Gr 218
Gr 101
Gr 101
Gr G01
Gr G01
Gr 216
Gr G18
Gr 114
Gr G16
Gr G16
Gr G18
Gr 216
Gr G16
Gr 114
Gr 201
Gr 101
Engl
15078 480/580-01
Southall
15159 Engl 482-01
Southall
14965 Engl 483-01
Ruday
14966 Engl 483-02
Ruday
The Teaching of
English
Dir. Teaching Secondary
Writing Elementary
Classroom
Writing Elementary
Classroom
MW
4:005:15 P
Gr 114
TBA
TBA
TBA
MWF
10:0010:50
Gr G01
MWF
11:0011:50
Gr G01
Fall 2015 Upper-Level Electives and Variable Topic Course Descriptions
RELI 242 World Religions (Heady M/W/F 11-11:50)
An investigation of the nature and development of religious practices and traditions in
other cultures, their teachings, rituals, institutions and ethics. The course includes
prehistoric religion, the major traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity,
Islam and some other traditions which have contributed to their development. This course
is recommended for students in the sophomore level and above. 3 credits. *Fulfills General
Education Goal 9.
ENGL 303 Visual Rhetoric and Document Design (Guler Tu/Th 11-12:15)
In this course, students will explore how visual elements work within different types of
documents. A combination of readings on the theories, research, and practices of visual
rhetoric will be used in order to better understand how people process visual information
and how that processing is influenced by social expectations and cultural contexts. This
course will provide students with scholarly grounding for their own academic and
workplace practice.
ENGL 362 Literature of Diversity: Genders and Bodies (Magill M/W/F 1-1:50)
Gender is a notion that confounds and confuses us, in no small part because it seems
naturalized to our body types of male and female. However, this connection of social
attitudes to biological bodies is in itself more complicated than a binary sex system. In fact,
we have a multiplicity of bodies and genders at work in the world even as we try and
understand them within the standard discourses of male and female, masculine and
feminine. This course will examine contemporary literature and film for its depictions of
gender as constituted through and around particular bodies. Thus, we will read with an
eye toward understanding how writers narrate the body, how they produce genders, and
how those two projects are always intertwined. Writers will include Margaret Atwood,
Jeannette Winterson, Leslie Feinberg, Alison Bechdel, and Richard Powers among others.
English 415 Ancient Greek Tragedy (S. Smith, Tu/Th 9:30-10:45)
A study of major works of ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Announcements
Professor Green’s online summer school sections of ENGL 400 will have special
themes. During Summer Session I, she will be teaching two sections of ENGL 400, both of
which will explore the topic of public school lunch reform. During Summer Session II, she
will be teaching one section of ENGL 400 that will explore the risks and rewards of
cultivating a life online via social media. Students will continue to explore this topic in both
of her 2015 fall semester ENGL 400 sections.
Changes to the Minor and the Concentration in Rhetoric and Professional Writing:
Beginning with the 2015-2016 catalog, two classes have been added to the list of
requirements of acceptable electives, and some requirements and electives have been
removed.
For the Concentration: ENGL 318 Writing Non-Fiction is no longer a requirement if you
start with the 2015-2016 catalog. ART 353 Artists’ Books or ART 457 Editions is a
requirement if you start with the 2015-2016 catalog.
For the Minor: ENGL 318 Writing Non-Fiction, ENGL 382 Grammar: Theory and Practice,
and ENGL 478 Advanced Creative Writing Non-Fiction no longer count as electives if you
start with the 2015-2016 catalog. ART 353 Artists’ Books or ART 457 Editions are options
as electives if you start with the 2015-2016 catalog.
Ruth Ozeki will receive the Dos Passos Prize for Literature on April 24th at 8 p.m in
Wygal Hall. She will offer a reading at the ceremony and will also attend a post-ceremony
dessert reception in Wygal. Both events are free and open to the public.
This summer Longwood will be hosting the Children's Literature Association's annual
conference June 18th-20th at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond. The conference,
which travels around the country and is hosted each year by select departments with
faculty in the field, features a multitude of national and international scholars of children's
and young adult literature presenting papers on everything from Lewis Carroll to The
Hunger Games. The title of this year's conference "Give me liberty, or give me death!": The
High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children's Literature, in keeping with the history of
Richmond, encourages papers dealing with topics on hauntings and death, as well as liberty
and freedom. Children's literature minors and Creative Writing students should take
special note, as well as any English or Modern Language major. For more information send
an e-mail to Dr. Jennifer Miskec, Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais, or Dr. Chris McGee.
Thinking about studying abroad? ENGL 445/545: Children's Culture in Croatia will be
offered again in May 2016. The course will be twenty days studying all aspects of
children's culture—literature, film, food, toys, and education—in beautiful, tropical Croatia.
For more information, contact Dr. Miskec at miskecjm@longwood.edu.
Faculty News
Dr. Elif Guler has recently co-edited (with Beth Hewett and Kevin DePew) Foundational
Practices in Online Writing Instruction, published by Parlor Press and The WAC
Clearinghouse on February 21, 2015. Dr. Guler previously taught hybrid writing courses
(which combined online and face-to-face instruction) at Old Dominion University.
Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction addresses the questions and decisions
that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing
programs and courses. The editors hope that the guidance provided in this collection will
encourage readers to join a conversation about designing OWI practices, contributing to
the scholarship about OWI, and reshaping OWI theory.
Dr. Heather Lettner-Rust, Dr. Lara Smith-Ferguson, and Micheal Mergen’s chapter "Sitting
Still in the Right Places: Remembering and Writing Civil Rights History in Prince Edward
County, Virginia" will be published this summer in an edited collection entitled Pedagogies
of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Archives, and Memorials. This
work is part of Routledge’s Studies in Rhetoric and Communication. She is also presenting
“‘Gotta See a Horse about a Cow’: Sharing WAW Strategies in a Lit-Heavy Department” at
the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Tampa, Florida where the
temperature ranges for the week of March 17th will be 74 ̊-75 ̊. Last fall, she was awarded
the Maude Glenn Raiford Junior Faculty Teaching Award. She humbly accepted.
Dr. David Magill has been pursuing his research interests in race and masculinity while on
sabbatical this term. He has published “Performing Community: Teaching Ethnic American
Literature Through the Short Story Sequence” in Multiethnic American Literatures: Essays
for Teaching Context and Culture (McFarland, 2014) and had the article “Racial Hybridity
and the Reconstruction of White Masculinity in Underworld” accepted for publication in
the collection Race in the Vampire Narrative, forthcoming in Fall 2015.
Dr. Sean Ruday's newest book, The Argument Writing Toolkit, is in press with Routledge
Eye on Education and is expected to be published in August of 2015. In July, Dr. Ruday will
present on grammar instruction at the Annual Conference of the Assembly for the Teaching
of English Grammar.