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PhD COURSES
Fall 2020
EL 68A: Required Course: Pro-seminar
Instructor: Ethan Guagliardo
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In the Pro-seminar students will be introduced to English graduate study and the profession more broadly. We will consider among other things the history of the profession, canon-formation, and modeling how to construct research questions through close attention to selected texts and current theoretical issues. This course moreover has a strongly practical orientation, focusing particularly on writing. The steps toward earning the PhD will be explained, and we will go over the different kinds of scholarly activity students will learn as part of the disciplinary formation. These will include: writing abstracts and book reviews, assembling bibliographies, understanding the expectations and form of the seminar paper, and revising seminar papers for publication.
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EL 68B: Special Topics: The Politics and Poetics of Literary Form
Instructor: Aylin Alkaç
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In this course, we will be analyzing examples from various genres and literary periods in terms of the historicity of their forms and content with specific emphasis on the situation-specific function of their aesthetic. Our aim will be to explore the political unconscious of the text and its poetics as they relate to notions such as reality and meaning, truth and goodness, being and identity. While studying older forms of epics, novels, poems, plays as well as their more contemporary examples to understand the relation of their formal structure to their historical moment of emergence, and to trace their evolution in time in view of their specific milieus, we will also try to develop a meta-commentary on the interpretive categories or codes through which we read texts.
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EL 68C: Special Topics on Poetry: Lyric and Gender
Instructor: Özlem Görey
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This course focuses on lyric poetry, with its emphasis on form and expression of personal feelings, and gender. It aims to analyze gender narratives underlying the lyric in the works of poets, particularly modern and contemporary female poets, through the theoretical lens of lyric and feminist theories The course explores the ways in which female poets generate feminist reconsiderations of the lyric subject by unsettling the solitary lyric “I”.
Spring 2021
EL 68P
Instructor: Cihan Yurdaün
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EL 68R
Instructor: Naz Bulamur
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EL 68S
Instructor: Hande Tekdemir
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EL 68T
Instructor: Aslı Tekinay
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Fall 2021
EL 69A : This is a tutorial course designed to focus on a specific literary movement or text or author/poet/dramatist for a detailed analysis. Topics vary from year to year.