Schedule

Jan 27	Introduction to Course / Syllabus Review
Jan 29	Bendixen, “The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre” (iLearn) Karafilis, From “The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance” (pp 19-28; iLearn) Lindberg, Introduction to The Confidence Man in American Literature (iLearn) Rosenthal and Shafer, Introduction to Fake Identity: The Imposter Narrative in North American Culture (iLearn)
	The Gothic Novel and Anxieties of Deception
3 Feb	Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, Ch 1 – 4 Contexts: Dobson’s Encyclopaedia: “Ventriloquism” (pp286 – 290)
5 Feb	Wieland, Ch 5 – 8
10 Feb	Wieland, Ch 9 – 14 Crow, “Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: Gothic Novel in the US” (iLearn)
12 Feb	Wieland, Ch 15 – 21
17 Feb	Wieland, Ch 22 – end
19 Feb	Critical Contexts: Hesford, “The Question of Authorship in Wieland” (pp 370 – 379) Waterman, “Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic” (iLearn, esp pp 51-57, 62-63) Samuels, [Patriarchal Violence, Federalist Panic, and Wieland] (pp 393 – 405)
	Layered Masks: Fictions of Race and Gender in the early 20th -century African-American Novel
24 Feb	Nella Larsen, Passing, Introduction DuBois, Chapter 1 of The Souls of Black Folk (iLearn) Stamper, “A Brief, Convoluted History of the Word ‘Intersectionality’” (iLearn)
26 Feb	Larsen, Passing, Part I
2 Mar	Larsen, Passing, Part II
4 Mar	Larsen, Passing, Part III
	Interlude – Narrating Identity: Forms and Voices
9 Mar	Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Thick” and “Know Your Whites” from Thick (iLearn)
11 Mar	Film: The Hate U Give (2019)
	Reinventing the Self: Identity and Imposters in the “Great American Novel”
16 Mar	** Literary Analysis Paper Due ** F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby NPR Podcast, “A Short History of Americans Reinventing Themselves” (iLearn)
18 Mar	Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
23 Mar	Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
25 Mar	Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Hilgart, “The Great Gatsby’s Aesthetics of Non-Identity” (iLearn)
	S P R I N G B R E A K ** Over break: Read 1st half of Louisa Hall, Speak (through p. 157) **
	The Speculative Novel: AI and the Futures of Identity
6 Apr	Hall, Speak, through p. 157
8 Apr	Final Project Introduction
13 Apr	Hall, Speak, through end
15 Apr	Project Proposal Due
20 Apr	Final Project Work
22 Apr	Final Project Work
27 Apr	Final Project Work
29 Apr	Final Project Work
4 May	Final Project Work
6 May	Final Project Work
	Final Exam Presentations – TBA