Friday, 29 March 2013
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association - Student Convention Travel Grant
The RMMLA Student Travel Grant provides funding to the RMMLA convention in the amount of $250 each to two graduate students who would otherwise experience a financial challenge traveling to the convention to present a paper accepted for any one of the regular or special topic sessions held that year. Students finishing their studies and entering the job market are especially encouraged to apply. Two runner-up awards provide a waiver of the applicable convention registration fee.
The e-postmark deadline for submission of application materials to the Secretariat is June 1. Print submission of applications is no longer allowed. Awardees will be notified by July 1.
Please visit the RMMLA website for more information.
Grad Students
Don’t forget the free lunch and professionalization panel on Tuesday, April 2, 11:30-1:15, Dean’s Large Conference Room, 4th floor, Old Main (across from History. You have to walk through the Dean’s outer office to get there). Speakers: Susan Bernardin, Evelyn Funda, Steve Shively, Melody Graulich
If you plan to come, please put a note in Kristin Ladd’s box by Monday (April 1) by noon. We need to plan how much food to get. Hope to see you there.
Melody Graulich
If you plan to come, please put a note in Kristin Ladd’s box by Monday (April 1) by noon. We need to plan how much food to get. Hope to see you there.
Melody Graulich
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
REMINDER FOR 3rd and 5th YEAR STUDENTS!!
Students receiving GIs are assigned either two years of teaching for MA/MS students or four years of teaching for PhD students. Students are eligible to apply for up to one additional year of teaching. Additional course assignments are dependent foremost on the department availability and need for the courses. Because of that, there is no guarantee for additional teaching support. If course assignments are available, however, they will be given based on quality of the applicant’s teaching and consistent progress made toward the degree. Students cannot apply for teaching support beyond this one additional year. In order to apply for additional teaching support, student applicants must fill out an Application for Additional Teaching Assignments form with the assistance of their Supervisory Committee Chair. Instructions are on the form. Completed forms are due to Dr. Evelyn Funda, DGS, by April 15.
Withdrawal Policy:
The withdrawal policy, according to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, can be found at: http://www.usu.edu/registrar/htm/registration/after/add_drop.
Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities for Graduate Students
Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities for Graduate Students
Please click here to see the memo from Mark McLellan. The application links for these scholarships are as follows:
Please click here to see the memo from Mark McLellan. The application links for these scholarships are as follows:
- Seely-Hinckley Scholarships: http://forms.usu.edu/seely-hinckley/
- Martin Luther King Fellowships (Available for African American graduate students): http://forms.usu.edu/mlk/
- Dr. Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Fellowship: http://forms.usu.edu/patel/
- Dissertation Fellowship: http://forms.usu.edu/dissertation/
Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration
A Symposium at the Library of Congress
This symposium is contingent on passage of the federal US budget.
Sept. 26-27, 2013
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, will hold a symposium entitled Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration on Sept. 26-27, 2013. Cultural heritage archives serve as valuable repositories of memory and knowledge that document the ongoing community-based creativity of individuals and groups. During the past decade, there has been an increasing acknowledgement of the value and power of developing such archives at all levels, from very local and informal collections to large national and international repositories.
The Cultural Heritage Archives symposium aims to energize the discussion of ethnographic archival thought and practice by presenting fresh and dynamic strategies for contemporary archival realities. It will also provide a forum for new voices to present and discuss emerging archival initiatives as well as case studies focused on several key topics for a public audience. The symposium will combine longer presentations by invited speakers with short papers generated through this call.
Symposium Sessions:
* Session I: Users of Cultural Heritage Archival Materials
* Session II: Preservation and Digital Stewardship
* Session III: Archival Description
* Session IV: Education and Training
* Session V: Sharing Resources
* Session VI: Forging Archival Collaborations and Alliances
For a fuller description of the symposium and the individual sessions, go to: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/culturalheritagearchives/
Call for Papers
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 22, 2013
Proposals for short presentations (5-7 min.) should be submitted as email attachments and sent to folklife@loc.gov<mailto:folklife@loc.gov.
Please include the information requested below and indicate which of the six symposium sessions would be most appropriate for your presentation.
Name:
Affiliation:
Email address:
Title of your presentation:
Abstract of your presentation (300 words or less):
Preferred session:
Alternate session:
NOTE: We may have limited funds to support travel. If your proposal is accepted, would you like to be considered for a stipend to support travel to the symposium? If so, please provide a statement of need along with your proposal.
Reception for Susan Bernardin
There will be a reception for Susan Bernardin at the Caine house on Monday, April 1, 4-6. Everyone is invited. Graduate students are encouraged to attend.
On Tuesday, April 2, 11:30-1:15, Western American Literature will sponsor a professionalization panel for graduate students on such topics as picking a thesis topic or PhD program, giving conference presentations, and other topics with Susan Bernardin, Steve Shively, Melody Graulich, and Evelyn Funda. Free pizza and drinks. In the CHaSS Dean’s large conference room, behind the Dean’s office on the third floor in Old Main (South End).
On Tuesday, April 2nd, Susan will present a talk on contemporary American Indian art and literature in the Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum at 4 pm. The talk is entitled “Turtles all the Way Down: Sky Woman in the 21st Century.” A reception will follow, sponsored by the USU Art Department.
On Wednesday, in the English Department Speakers Series, Susan will give a talk on contemporary American Indian graphic novels and how to incorporate them into the classroom. The talk is entitled “Show and Tell: Visual Acuities, Narrative Possibilities: Native Graphic Texts.” It will take place in the Alumni Center, beginning at 11:30, with refreshments.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Mountain West Arts Conference
Thursday May 2nd at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center
RegisterNow!
We are pleased to announce conference offerings, including:
Sessions • Capturing a Community’s Imagination Through Strategic Engagement
• How to Pitch the Media: Free Press versus a Real Story 2.0
• A Life in the Arts: Inspiration and Sustainability
• Responsive Design - Lessons for the Arts
• Grantwriting World Café
Presenters Douglas McLennan- Founder and Editor, ArtsJournal
Suzanne Larson - Executive Director , Doctorow Foundation
Doug Fabrizio - Host/Executive Producer of KUER's RadioWest
Leslie Timmons - Professor, Caine College of the Arts Music Program, USU
Carrie Trenholm - Assistant Professor, Elementary Arts Education Endowed Chair, SUU
And much more!
Sessions • Capturing a Community’s Imagination Through Strategic Engagement
• How to Pitch the Media: Free Press versus a Real Story 2.0
• A Life in the Arts: Inspiration and Sustainability
• Responsive Design - Lessons for the Arts
• Grantwriting World Café
Presenters Douglas McLennan- Founder and Editor, ArtsJournal
Suzanne Larson - Executive Director , Doctorow Foundation
Doug Fabrizio - Host/Executive Producer of KUER's RadioWest
Leslie Timmons - Professor, Caine College of the Arts Music Program, USU
Carrie Trenholm - Assistant Professor, Elementary Arts Education Endowed Chair, SUU
And much more!
Don't miss our Conference Keynote:
Cherie Buckner-Webb "Cherie’s magic filled the room at the 7th Annual Governor’s Roundtable for Families and Children the moment she stepped on stage and shared her heart. She spoke to everyone as if speaking to each of us individually. Cherie reminded us that together we are doing great things and individually our dreams are achievable and can take us anywhere we want to go. After spending time with Cherie you, too, will believe in the impossible..."
The Honorable Dirk Kempthorne, Governor, State of Idaho and Patricia Kempthorne, First Lady
Connect with old friends and make new ones at this great event!
PAID INTERNSHIP IN NEW YORK STATE FOLK ARTS PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE
Applications are now being accepted for a paid internship supported through the internship program of the New York State Council on the Arts and New York Folklore Society. This year, the internship will be hosted by Long Island Traditions (LIT). The internship program enables current and recent folklore graduate students to learn about public folklore and New York State’s traditions through undertaking a special project which will also benefit the host organization. Candidates for the internship must be currently enrolled in a folklore graduate program or have graduated within the last two years. Priority will be given to current graduate students. The duration of the internship is 8 weeks, from mid-May to mid-July.
This internship will involve the development of an exhibition and public programs for an exhibition, “From Shore to Shore: Boat Builders and Boatyards of Westchester and Long Island”, which will open in July. The intern will carry out field research for the exhibition, and assist in the creation of exhibit panels, audio podcasts and public programs featuring local boat builders and restorers, including a weekend boat festival. The intern will learn about the maritime traditions of Long Island while learning how to integrate fieldwork into the development of festivals, tours and exhibitions. The internship will also allow for opportunities to visit other folklore organizations in the New York City metropolitan region, including suburban staff folklorists involved in maritime and occupational folklore documentation and presentation.
Applicants must be students currently enrolled in a folklore graduate program, or folklorists who have completed a folklore graduate program within the past two years. The intern will be expected to create a comprehensive internship plan and work agreement with LIT. For graduate students, the internship plan and work agreement should be prepared in association with the intern’s graduate program. Following the internship, the intern and LIT will be expected to submit a report evaluating the internship.
A stipend of $5000 will be provided. The stipend amount is intended to cover travel and lodging expenses as well as the intern’s fee – additional funding will not be provided for any travel or lodging expenses, except for gas expenses for fieldwork. The intern must have a car which would be used during the internship. Access will be provided to LIT’s audio recorders and digital cameras as well as a laptop computer. LIT will assist with identifying possible housing sites for the intern.
To apply, submit a resume and a letter describing the potential benefits of the internship for the applicant’s career goals as a folklorist and, for graduate students, its relationship to his or her graduate learning program. The application should also indicate how previous experiences in programming, field research and/or administration would contribute to an organization hosting the internship.
Applications must be received by Tuesday, April 2nd, and a decision about the successful candidate will be made by mid-April. Applications must be submitted electronically to Robert Baron, robert.baron@arts.ny.gov (please do not contact Long Island Traditions for information about this internship).
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Book Review: A Diplomat's Helpmate
Title: A Diplomat's Helpmate: How Rose F. Foote, wife of the first U.S. Minister and envoy extraordinary to Korea, served her country in the Far East
Author: Mary Viola Tingley Lawrence
Paperback: 50 pages
Publisher: H.S. Crocker Company (1918)
Archive.org location
A pretentious title to complement outlandish laudatory writing, A Diplomat's Helpmate: How Rose F. Foote, wife of the first U.S. Minister and envoy extraordinary to Korea, served her country in the Far East is a short but valuable piece of history transparently disguised in absurdly extravagant acclaim. Embellishments notwithstanding, this is a brief recount of events involving the wife of the first American Minister to Korea, Rose F. Foote.
Her biographer, Mary Viola Tingley Lawrence, was a personal friend and dutifully exaggerated Foote's accomplishments posthumously. Consequently, notable events are glossed over with patriotic zeal and otherwise useful personal accounts are unfortunately missing. For instance, nothing is mentioned of Foote's supposed domineering personality or her obstinate rivalry with the only other Western woman in Seoul. An example of Lawrence's flourishes:
The American lady at once commanded a prominent place in oriental diplomatic life. Her exceptional beauty and queenly bearing aroused admiration wherever she was seen.
For the reader's sake, included authentic photos of Foote betray this likelihood. Another example of Lawrence playing up Foote's prominence is in her retelling of the supposed feud between Foote and the Korean Queen. The grudge supposedly came about because of Foote's magnanimously arrival in Seoul where she was instantly loved and appreciated by all citizens. The Queen's alleged reaction:
The baffled Queen in a fury of rage beat upon her imprisoning walls, as she smarted under the taunting realization that the uncrowned occidental woman commanded a limitless freedom in her interference with the traditions that had been dearest to the Korean heart.
The book isn't all fluff, though. Rose Foote did indeed live a pioneering life abroad; after all, she was the first Western woman to enter Seoul. She accompanied her husband on this rather risky political assignment while in her fifties. Dutifully, she made the legation grounds social and accommodating of the status her husband garnered. It wasn't all tea parties, though; her perspective of her husband's witness of the abortive 1884 coup d'etat was graphically worth mentioning. It also seems that her time abroad proved to be too taxing on her health; she passed away six months after returning to San Francisco.
For a fifty page adulatory account, it's short and far too sweet. It's not exactly fiction, though, so a discerning eye can detect some of the genuine work that the Foote's accomplished. For those interested in the time period, it's worth a quick read-through.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
English Dept Contact Information
Evelyn Funda Advisor, Director of Graduate Studies
797-3653
RBW 312G
Candi Checketts
Staff Assistant to Evelyn Funda, Appointments for Evelyn, Forms, Blog, General Questions, Thesis Questions
797-2729
RBW 312E
Staff Assistant, Hiring, Payroll, Offices, Travel, Directed Studies/Thesis Credit Forms, Insurance
797-2734
RBW 201A
Rebecca Sanders
Staff Assistant, Appointments for Evelyn, Copy Codes/Machine Questions, Newsletter, Meeting Set Ups, Key Requests, Website, Canvas, Class Scheduling, Student Overrides, Syllabi
797-8062
RBW 201
Lori Hyde
Staff Assistant, Faxes, Room Reservations, Copy Machine Questions, General Questions, Pictures, Course Evaluations, Classrooms
797-2733
RBW 201
Information on Masters Programs
The Master of Arts and the Master of Science:
When applying to the School of Graduate Studies applicants should identify the degree they seek: “MA,” “MS,” or “PhD.” To earn the MA, they will need to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language while they are working towards their degrees. For further information on this language requirement and the acceptable ways of fulfilling it, see pp.104-105 of the graduate requirements in the General Catalog. Students who complete all degree requirements except for demonstrating proficiency in a foreign language earn the Master of Science degree.
Degrees and specializations:
Within the English master’s degree program, there are two possible specializations: Literature & Writing or Technical Writing. Within the American Studies degree, the two specializations are American Studies Standard and Folklore. Applicants should indicate their degree subject and their intended specialization on the application form: “English/Literature & Writing,” “English/Technical Writing,” “American Studies/Standard,” or “American Studies/Folklore.” Both the degree subject and the specialization will appear on the student's transcript and diploma.
Within the English master’s degree program, there are two possible specializations: Literature & Writing or Technical Writing. Within the American Studies degree, the two specializations are American Studies Standard and Folklore. Applicants should indicate their degree subject and their intended specialization on the application form: “English/Literature & Writing,” “English/Technical Writing,” “American Studies/Standard,” or “American Studies/Folklore.” Both the degree subject and the specialization will appear on the student's transcript and diploma.
MA/MS in
Literature and Writing
The graduate specialization in Literature and Writing offers an MA or MS in English to students who wish to do advanced work in the fields of literary criticism, composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. The aim is to professionalize students, helping them to become scholars and teachers of English. While any student having a strong undergraduate education in English, along with a desire to puruse that education further, is welcome to pursue the Literature and Writing specialization, the specialization does cater most directly to future PhD students in English, future two-year college instructors, and secondary educators.
The graduate specialization in Literature and Writing offers an MA or MS in English to students who wish to do advanced work in the fields of literary criticism, composition, rhetoric, and creative writing. The aim is to professionalize students, helping them to become scholars and teachers of English. While any student having a strong undergraduate education in English, along with a desire to puruse that education further, is welcome to pursue the Literature and Writing specialization, the specialization does cater most directly to future PhD students in English, future two-year college instructors, and secondary educators.
Technical Writing
The graduate specialization in Technical Writing is designed for students who already have some training and/or experience as practitioners of technical writing. It is taught entirely online, via the internet, and aims to prepare students to enter or reenter nonacademic workplaces, not just as practitioners, but also as developers and managers of technical documents. When they graduate, students will be qualified to determine and defend writing policy and practices in their workplaces. For more information, please visit the Technical Writing website.
Please click on the following links for more information regarding the Technical Writing Program:
MA/MS in American Studies
American Studies
The American Studies Program at Utah State University State University is designed to allow students freedom to pursue academic interests by permitting them to choose areas of concentration and relevant courses from a variety of departmental offerings. The program offers students a specialization in nonfiction writing about the American West, which includes creative nonfiction, place writing, memoir, narrative scholarship, essays, cross genre work, and popular culture or cultural studies essays for a nonacademic audience. The program's interdisciplinary structure provides students an opportunity to integrate studies in various fields into a broad understanding of American culture and its antecedents. Fore more information, please visit the American Studies website.
The American Studies Program at Utah State University State University is designed to allow students freedom to pursue academic interests by permitting them to choose areas of concentration and relevant courses from a variety of departmental offerings. The program offers students a specialization in nonfiction writing about the American West, which includes creative nonfiction, place writing, memoir, narrative scholarship, essays, cross genre work, and popular culture or cultural studies essays for a nonacademic audience. The program's interdisciplinary structure provides students an opportunity to integrate studies in various fields into a broad understanding of American culture and its antecedents. Fore more information, please visit the American Studies website.
Folklore
Folklore is allied with American Studies, and the MA degree is in American Studies, but Folklore students can have an international focus in their work. The academic folklore emphasis prepares students for teaching and researching. The public folklore emphasis prepares them for jobs in government, arts administration, and museum management. Both of these emphases allow for interdisciplinary, interdepartmental work in English, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, as well as other fields which may be germane to the student’s particular focus. Fore more information, please visit the Folklore webpage.
Creative writing
Although the department does not offer a graduate degree or specialization in creative writing, it includes a number of faculty who teach and publish creative writing. Utah State is an excellent place for students who have a background in creative writing and want to make it a significant part of their graduate work, perhaps with a view to an MFA degree. For instance, the Literature & Writing curriculum offers courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and students in that specialization may write creative thesis projects in any of those genres; and the American Studies Standard specialization offers students an emphasis in creative nonfiction writing on the American West.
The Theory and Practice of Professional Communication doctoral program is designed to meet the interests and needs of students who aspire to conduct advanced study and research of communicative practices of organizations and the professions. The program offers the opportunity to study professional communication, technology, and culture in a department with a long history of expertise and achievement in writing and technology.
Students have opportunities to study and work with advanced communication technologies, engage in extended fieldwork research experiences, and pursue tailored research interests within the field of professional communication. The program prepares students to become academic instructors/researchers or to move into administrative or research positions in nonacademic workplaces.
The department has a national reputation for its achievements in online education and continues to develop innovative ways to deliver state-of-the-art, Web-based instruction to students across the U.S. and around the world. Depending on their research and teaching interests, students may be actively involved in these efforts. Research facilities associated with the department allow Ph.D. students opportunities to participate in unique research and activities such as: computer lab classrooms, an Interactive Media Research Lab, and the Learning Games Initiative.
Folklore is allied with American Studies, and the MA degree is in American Studies, but Folklore students can have an international focus in their work. The academic folklore emphasis prepares students for teaching and researching. The public folklore emphasis prepares them for jobs in government, arts administration, and museum management. Both of these emphases allow for interdisciplinary, interdepartmental work in English, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, as well as other fields which may be germane to the student’s particular focus. Fore more information, please visit the Folklore webpage.
Creative writing
Although the department does not offer a graduate degree or specialization in creative writing, it includes a number of faculty who teach and publish creative writing. Utah State is an excellent place for students who have a background in creative writing and want to make it a significant part of their graduate work, perhaps with a view to an MFA degree. For instance, the Literature & Writing curriculum offers courses in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and students in that specialization may write creative thesis projects in any of those genres; and the American Studies Standard specialization offers students an emphasis in creative nonfiction writing on the American West.
Doctoral Program
The Theory and Practice of Professional Communication doctoral program is designed to meet the interests and needs of students who aspire to conduct advanced study and research of communicative practices of organizations and the professions. The program offers the opportunity to study professional communication, technology, and culture in a department with a long history of expertise and achievement in writing and technology.
Students have opportunities to study and work with advanced communication technologies, engage in extended fieldwork research experiences, and pursue tailored research interests within the field of professional communication. The program prepares students to become academic instructors/researchers or to move into administrative or research positions in nonacademic workplaces.
The department has a national reputation for its achievements in online education and continues to develop innovative ways to deliver state-of-the-art, Web-based instruction to students across the U.S. and around the world. Depending on their research and teaching interests, students may be actively involved in these efforts. Research facilities associated with the department allow Ph.D. students opportunities to participate in unique research and activities such as: computer lab classrooms, an Interactive Media Research Lab, and the Learning Games Initiative.
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Fall 2013 Offered Courses
ENLG 6882 Fiction Writing
This graduate fiction writing workshop will expose you to a variety of contemporary fiction, and give you the opportunity to share your own stories with others. Since we will have a variety of levels of proficiency in the class, we’ll approach craft from a pedagogical point of view that should be useful to everyone. But to this end, in Henry James’s words, “You must do it as you can!” I wholly expect you to grab this course by the reins and make it work for you. Part of this means reading closely for how a writer has accomplished a particular narratological feat, and part means living in a hyper-observant way--to quote James again--being “one of the people on whom nothing is lost.” The success of the workshop will depend on your complete engagement and full participation, your ability to recognize the narratological nuts and bolts of a story, to not always be swept along by plot, to be constructively critical of your peers’ work, and to keep in mind that the text is being critiqued, not its author.
Gabbert
ENGL 6770 - "Folklore and Work."
This class will examine the relationship between folklore and work, examining the emergence of expressive culture in a number of occupational settings. These include traditional occupations such as ranching, logging, and oil drilling as well as more white collar settings, such as among office workers and professionals such as attorneys, physicians, and stock brokers.
Hailey
ENGL 6420/7420—User Experience Analysis
Over time the term “usability” has been subsumed by a larger collection of user experience tests that include reader cognition, usability, Web analytics, emotion analysis and other enquiries that provide a much more comprehensive picture of user experience in digital media. In this class we will examine all of the traditional UX analysis methodologies plus a few that aren’t commonly known. Students who take this class and do well should be able to add user experience analysis to their resumes.
Jensen
ENGL 6340 - Brit Lit & Culture
This course will study the work of William Shakespeare in its original cultural context. We’ll read Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World (recommended summer reading); Andrew Gurr’s The Shakespearean Stage (fourth edition only), and four plays by Shakespeare, all published in the Bedford Texts and Contexts series: The Taming of the Shrew, The First Part of Henry IVth, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello. (Please note that the Gurr must be purchased in the fourth edition, and plays must be obtained in the Bedford editions; see our course listing on the USU Bookstore website for ISBNs.) There will be additional critical readings posted on Canvas or available through the Merrill-Cazier Library electronic databases; students will also conduct independent work on another Shakespeare play of their own choosing.
Dr. Colleen O'Neill
HIST/ENGL 6610: Graduate Seminar in American Western History
Fall 2013
Monday 4:00-6:30 pm
Old Main 323L
This course will introduce you to key works in US Western history. While its regional focus seems an obvious starting point to define its analytical scope, western history is an often contentious, and somewhat fractured field of study. No consensus exists about what the West is (or was) and how historians should tell its story. Many scholars, including the insurgent "new western" historians, offered totalizing narratives, either to make sense of a nationalist understanding of the past, or to rescue the histories of those peoples (and the natural world) who fell victim to the western expansion of the US government.
The readings are roughly organized chronologically and thematically. I've selected works that exemplify the kinds of questions scholars are asking in the field today. After sampling these readings and discussing them with your classmates, you will begin to see how and why the field is often so hard to define.
Nonetheless, by completing this course you will develop a deeper appreciation for the history US West, and its larger place in American history. Specifically you should be able to:
The readings are roughly organized chronologically and thematically. I've selected works that exemplify the kinds of questions scholars are asking in the field today. After sampling these readings and discussing them with your classmates, you will begin to see how and why the field is often so hard to define.
Nonetheless, by completing this course you will develop a deeper appreciation for the history US West, and its larger place in American history. Specifically you should be able to:
· locate western scholarship in its historiographical context
· identify and evaluate the central thesis in a piece of historical scholarship
· critically evaluate the author’s argument and use of historical sources
· conduct a productive and lively intellectual discussion
· understand the crosscurrents and tensions in western historical scholarship
· write a historiographical - review essay
· create a dynamic and positive intellectual community
Required Reading
You will find the following books available at the bookstore. (You might be able to find cheaper used and electronic copies elsewhere). These books are also available on reserve in the library. Additional readings will be posted on Canvas.
You will find the following books available at the bookstore. (You might be able to find cheaper used and electronic copies elsewhere). These books are also available on reserve in the library. Additional readings will be posted on Canvas.
· Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2009).
· Peter G. Boag, Re-Dressing America's Frontier Past (University of California Press, 2012).
· Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America(Oxford, 2010)
· Thomas Andrews, Killing for Coal: American’s Deadliest Labor War (Harvard University Press 2010)
· Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature, Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation (University of California Press, 2003)
· Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, Princeton University Press, 2002)
· Lawrence Culver, The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2012).
· Colleen O'Neill, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century(University Press of Kansas, 2005)
Moeller
ENGL 7480 - Computers & Writing
(C&W) draws its theory and practice from Rhetoric, Composition, Communication, and English and Literacy Studies, among others. C&W scholars have been consciously thinking about how technologies impact the ways people communicate through writing for at least 25 years. In this graduate seminar, we will read a history of C&W beginning with Benjamin’s seminal article, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), discussing New Marxism and play theory, and ending with a comparison of Actor-Network Theory and Activity Theory by way of Spinuzzi’s Network (2010). Along the way, we will explore various technologies like document design software, web design software, blogs, Twitter and other social media tools, wikis, and mobile technologies in order to discuss the influences these technologies have on written communication.
Students will be responsible for weekly readings and discussions, including regular blog posts, Tweets, and wiki updates as well as a final seminar project.
McNeill
ENGL/HIST 6700 - Folklore and Theory and Method
What is folklore? What do folklorists do? Why should you care? Take this course and find out! This course will offer students an introduction to the history and major concepts of the field of folklore studies, and will help students become familiar with its major approaches and theories, some basic research and fieldwork methodologies, and the unique resources that USU has to offer to folklorists.
Hailey
(C&W) draws its theory and practice from Rhetoric, Composition, Communication, and English and Literacy Studies, among others. C&W scholars have been consciously thinking about how technologies impact the ways people communicate through writing for at least 25 years. In this graduate seminar, we will read a history of C&W beginning with Benjamin’s seminal article, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), discussing New Marxism and play theory, and ending with a comparison of Actor-Network Theory and Activity Theory by way of Spinuzzi’s Network (2010). Along the way, we will explore various technologies like document design software, web design software, blogs, Twitter and other social media tools, wikis, and mobile technologies in order to discuss the influences these technologies have on written communication.
Students will be responsible for weekly readings and discussions, including regular blog posts, Tweets, and wiki updates as well as a final seminar project.
reading list
Foucault, M. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Delueze, G. and Guattari, F. Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Dyer-Witheford, N. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism
Dyer-Witheford, N. & de Peuter, G. Games of Empire: Global capitalism and video games
McAllister, K.S. Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Spinuzzi, C. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications
McNeill
ENGL/HIST 6700 - Folklore and Theory and Method
What is folklore? What do folklorists do? Why should you care? Take this course and find out! This course will offer students an introduction to the history and major concepts of the field of folklore studies, and will help students become familiar with its major approaches and theories, some basic research and fieldwork methodologies, and the unique resources that USU has to offer to folklorists.
Hailey
ENG 6470: Technical Book Authoring
Recommended Prerequisites: Proposal Writing, Advanced Editing
Course DescriptionThis course explores technical trade book publishing (that is, technical books you’d find on shelves of your favorite bookstore) as a writing genre, business, process, and product, as well as explores trade book publishing as a foundation for current trends in digital and self-publishing. Broad topics include the history of publishing as an industry and business, the rise and role of literary agents, the publishing process (from inception to published book), technology’s role as a topic and tool, and the author’s role(s), expectations, and dilemmas. Students will complete key parts of the publishing process, with special attention to identifying technical trade book publishers, identifying parts of a technical book, identifying and choosing a publisher, identifying audience, identifying topic niche and need, identifying and assessing competition, developing a book proposal, promoting yourself as the author for the book, planning for broad audience-specific content, identifying parts of a chapter, writing deep content on focused topics, and writing a book chapter.
Recommended Prerequisites: Proposal Writing, Advanced Editing
Course DescriptionThis course explores technical trade book publishing (that is, technical books you’d find on shelves of your favorite bookstore) as a writing genre, business, process, and product, as well as explores trade book publishing as a foundation for current trends in digital and self-publishing. Broad topics include the history of publishing as an industry and business, the rise and role of literary agents, the publishing process (from inception to published book), technology’s role as a topic and tool, and the author’s role(s), expectations, and dilemmas. Students will complete key parts of the publishing process, with special attention to identifying technical trade book publishers, identifying parts of a technical book, identifying and choosing a publisher, identifying audience, identifying topic niche and need, identifying and assessing competition, developing a book proposal, promoting yourself as the author for the book, planning for broad audience-specific content, identifying parts of a chapter, writing deep content on focused topics, and writing a book chapter.
Major Assignments
- Developing a technical book proposal
- Query letter
- Synopsis/concept statement
- Niche/audience analysis
- Competition analysis
- Promotion/publicity analysis
- TOC (to three levels of content)
- Chapter summaries
- Author qualifications
- Technical reviewers
- Cover blurbs and bio (side-topic)
- Developing a sample chapter
- Graphics and icons
- Intro
- Body
- End matter
- Completing the review process
- Peer review of chapters (and discussion of technical review)
- Chapter and graphic revision
- Chapter resubmission
Utah LitOps March 2013
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