Professor Jeffrey Gonzalez
| Course Calendar (subject to change)
You should complete all assigned readings before class. |
| Class | Authors | Assignment |
| F Sept 3 |   Judith Butler Jonathan Culler (Butler: public domain via Wikimedia |
Course introduction. Discuss Butler & Culler quotes (handed out in class).
If possible, complete bio assignment. Start reading The Awakening. |
| Unit 1 | Gender, Sexuality, & Identity Categories | |
| T Sept 7 | 
Kate Chopin (public domain via Wikimedia |
Read The Awakening 1-50.
Read “Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler” Norton 143-147. |
| F Sept 10 | Read The Awakening to page 101
Read 1st half of Judith Butler essay (Unit 1 folder). |
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| T Sept 14 | Finish The Awakening.
Read 2nd half of Butler essay. |
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| F Sept 17 | Read critical essays in The Awakening: 222-225; 236-237; 246-253. | |
| T Sept 21 | Read critical essays in The Awakening: 269-276; 301-309; 328-339. | |
| F Sept 24 | Paper 1 first draft | |
| T Sept 30 | Paper 1 final copy
Read Gloria Anzaluda, “El Otro Mexico” |
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| Unit 2 | Border Thinking: Language, Gender, Culture | |
| F Oct 1 | 
Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez (UNM) |
Read Santiago Vaquera-Vázquez, “Notes of an Unrepentant Border Crosser” |
| T Oct 5 | 
Sandra Cisneros (public domain via Wikimedia |
Read Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek pages 3-20, 27-35, 43-56 |
| F Oct 8 | 
Gloria Anzaldua (public domain via Wikimedia |
Read Gloria Anzaldua, from Borderlands/La Frontera |
| T Oct 12 | Read Cisneros, 63-84, 116-29, 136-end | |
| F Oct 15 | 
Alexandra Fitts (Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks) |
Read Alexandra Fitts, “Sandra Cisneros’s Modern Malinche: A Reconsideration of Feminine Archetypes in Woman Hollering Creek“ |
| T Oct 19 | 
Harryette Mullen (public domain via Wikimedia |
Read Harryette Mullen, “‘Silence Between Us Like A Language’: The Untranslatability of Experience
in Woman Hollering Creek” |
| F Oct 22 | 
Kathi Weeks (Center for Humanities) |
Position Paper 2 rough draft due
Read excerpt from Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work. |
| T Oct 26 | Paper 2 final copy due | |
| Unit 3 | Norms, Bodies, Work | |
| F Oct 29 | 
Herman Melville (public domain via Wikimedia |
Read Melville – “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” |
| T Nov 2 | 
Michel Foucault (iep.utm.edu) |
Read Foucault – “The Means of Correct Training” (p. 170-177) |
| F Nov 5 | Read Foucault – “The Means of Correct Training” (p. 177-184) | |
| T Nov 9 | 
Lennard Davis (UIC) |
Read Davis – “Constructing Normalcy” |
| F Nov 12 | 
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory) |
Excerpts from Garland-Thompson & Reed (pages to be announced). |
| T Nov 16 | Paper 3 drafts.
Read background materials for M. Butterfly. |
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| Unit 4 | Intersections: Selves, Others, Representation | |
| F Nov 19 | 
David Henry Hwang (public domain via Wikimedia |
Paper 3 final copies.
M. Butterfly Act I |
| T Nov 23 | 
Edward Said (public domain via Wikimedia |
Edward Said, “Introduction” from Orientalism |
| T Nov 30 | M. Butterfly, Act II & III | |
| F Dec 3 | Dorinne Kondo
(DorinneKondo.com) |
Dorinne Kondo, “M. Butterfly: Orientalism, Gender, and a Critique of Essentialist Identity” |
| T Dec 7 | 
David Eng (UPenn) |
David Eng, “In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly” |
| F Dec 10 | Paper 4 Draft | |
| T Dec 14 | Paper 4 Final Copy
Final exam prep |
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| F Dec 17 | Final Exam |
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