Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Discussion:

"Zane Grey on a Carousel in Indian Territory"
Identities reflection due
2 Discussion:

"Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart"
3 Attend One of the Talks at the MIT Women's Studies 20th Anniversary Symposium
4 Discussion:

"Notes of a Native Son"
5 Discussion:

"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision"

"Gender in a Time of Holy War: Fundamentalist Femiphobia and Post-9/11 Masculinity"
First essay submission day
6 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 5
7 Discussion:

Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Excerpts)
8 Discussion:

"Notes on My Mother"

"Reflections on Race and Sex"
Second essay submission day
9 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 8
10 Discussion:

"On Seeing England for the First Time"

"Wounded Chevy at Wounded Knee"

"Mother Tongue"
Third essay submission day
11 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 10
12 Silent Reading Session
13 Discussion:

"Nothing Personal"

"On Being the Object of Property"

"Text and Context: The Essay and the Politics of Disjunctive Form"
Fourth essay submission day
14 Discussion:

"Whose War"

"Father Stories"

"Looking at Emmett Till"
15 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 14
16 Discussion:

"My House"

"Where I Lived and What I Lived For"
Fifth essay submission day
17 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 16
18 Discussion:

"Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli"

"Prisoner of the Wired World"

"Quitting the Paint Factory"
Sixth essay submission day
19 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session18 Seventh essay submission day
20 Class Workshop of Essays Submitted on Session 19
21 Discussion:

"Essayists on the Essay"
22 Oral Presentations:

"A Modest Proposal and The Satirical Essay"

"The Travel Essay"

Discussion:

"Cat People"
23 Oral Presentations:

"Self-Reliance"

"The Female Chromosome"
24 Discussion:

"Learning to Drive"

"Here Be Dragons"
25 Last Class Meeting: Tea and Celebratory Reading at Rebecca's Final portfolios due