Neville Hoad

Instructor:  Hoad, N            Areas:  I / H

Unique #:  35850            Flags:  Writing

Semester:  Fall 2013            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Six semester hours of upper-division coursework in English.

Description: In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass-culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity.

Texts: Oscar Wilde, Complete Works; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Eds. Holland and Hart-Davis); Reading packet

Requirements & Grading: Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties.

2 short response papers, 4 pages each: 20%; 1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion: 30%; Final research paper, 12-15 pages: 50%

Instructor:  Hoad, N            Areas:  I / H

Unique #:  83555            Flags:  n/a  [no writing flag in summer]

Semester:  Summer 2013, first session            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  n/a            Computer Instruction:  No

Prerequisites: Six semester hours of upper-division coursework in English.

Description: In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass-culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity.

Texts: Oscar Wilde, Complete Works; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Eds. Holland and Hart-Davis); Reading packet

Requirements & Grading: Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties.

2 short response papers, 4 pages each: 20%; 1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion: 30%; Final research paper, 12-15 pages: 50%

Colonialism And Psychoanalysis

In this course, we will track the emergence of psychoanalysis in the context of the intellectual production of an Imperial nineteenth-century Europe, its deployment by key anti-colonial thinkers like Fanon to recent scholarly attempts to re-think the relationships between psychoanalysis and colonialism as historical contingency, complicity, political critique and more.

Readings may include:

• Sigmund Freud: “Mourning and Melancholy,” “The Uncanny,” Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, The Ego and the Id, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the ego.”
• Melanie Klein: “Love, Guilt  and Reparation”
• Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth  
• Assia Djebar: Women of Algiers in their Apartment
• Kaja Silverman: Male Subjectivity at the Margins
• Ranjana Khanna: Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
• Wulf Sachs: Black Hamlet
• Albert Memmi: The Colonizer and the Colonized
• Chandra Chatterjee: Surviving Colonialism
• Ashis Nandy:  The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism
• Helene Cixous. “The Laugh of the Medusa”
• Gayatri Spivak. “French Feminisms in an International Frame.”
• Homi Bhabha. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse

Instructor:  Hoad, N            Areas:  V / G

Unique #:  35555            Flags:  Global cultures, Writing

Semester:  Fall 2012            Restrictions:  n/a

Cross-lists:  AFR 372G            Computer Instruction:  No

Only one of the following may be counted: AFR 374C (Topic: Literature of African AIDS), E 360S (Topic 2), 376L (Topic: Literature of African AIDS).

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Description: In this course we will read, watch and discuss emerging cultural representations of the current AIDS pandemic affecting sub-Saharan Africa alongside journalistic, social-science and historical accounts. Many genres will be covered including novels, films, and poems, in order to work through their respective strengths and weaknesses in the difficulty of representing the various aspects of a public-health crisis of overwhelming proportions.

Texts (available at the Co-op): John Le Carre, The Constant Gardener; Phaswane Mpe, Welcome to our Hillbrow; Carolyn Adalla, Confessions of an AIDS Victim; Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power; Stephanie Nolen, 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa; Jonny Steinberg, Sizwe’s Test; Meja Mwangi, The Last Plague; Mark Hunter, Love in the Times of AIDS; Ruth Whitney, Slim; *Course Packet of supplementary materials.

Films to be screened: Yesterday; Fig Trees; State of Denial; The Constant Gardener.

Requirements & Grading: The class will be run as a seminar. Attendance is mandatory. More than one unexcused absence will result in a grade penalty.

Class participation including one presentation will comprise 30% of your grade, two Response Papers of 2-3 pages (10% each) and 1 Final Paper of 8-10 pages (making up the remaining 50%).

Sexualities In Translation

Using several recent novels and films we will explore the utility of the intersection of queer and postcolonial theory in understanding representations globalizing sexuality.

E 349S (Topic 7) and 379N (Topic: Oscar Wilde) may not both be counted.

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Course Description: In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass-culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity. 

Texts: Oscar Wilde, Complete Works; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Eds. Holland and Hart-Davis); Reading packet

Grading: Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties.

2 short response papers, 4 pages each: 20%; 1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion: 30%; Final research paper, 12-15 pages: 50%

E 349S (Topic 7) and 379N (Topic: Oscar Wilde) may not both be counted.

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

Course Description: In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass-culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity.

Texts: Oscar Wilde, Complete Works; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Eds. Holland and Hart-Davis); Reading packet

Grading: Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties.

2 short response papers, 4 pages each: 20%; 1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion: 30%; Final research paper, 12-15 pages: 50%

Freud thought the Victorians were repressed about sex. Foucault thought that they were obsessed with it. Between the coinage of the term “Homosexuality” in 1869, the emergence of “New Woman” debates in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the competing stereotypes of “fallen woman” and “the angel in the house,” and the invention of sexology, Victorian writers, in a range of genres, had to engage “sex” in its full plenitude of contradictory meanings.

Primary texts might include

Hardy: Jude the Obscure; Rosetti: Goblin Market; Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Anonymous: Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal; Schreiner: Story of an African Farm; Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (exceprts); Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race; Burton (trans) Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights (excerpts), Eliot: Adam Bede, Von Krafft-Ebing: Psychopathia Sexualis (excerpts) among others

Secondary readings from Foucault, Marcus, Poovey, Lane, Walkowitz, Bland, Doan
 

Course Description: In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass-culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity.

Texts: Oscar Wilde, Complete Works; Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Eds. Holland and Hart-Davis); Reading packet.

Grading: Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties. 1 short response papers, 4 pages: 20%; 1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion: 30%; Final exam: 50%.

Prerequisites: Nine semester hours of coursework in English or rhetoric and writing.

E379N: Oscar Wilde (35100)

Neville Hoad
Parlin 215
Office Hours: TTH11-1
Spring 2010

In this class we will read almost all of the published oeuvre of the Anglo-Irish writer, Oscar Wilde: all his plays, critical essays and children’s stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, selected journalism and letters. We will also take advantage of the Oscar Wilde holdings at the Harry Ransom Center. We will also read Richard Ellmann’s definitive biography of Wilde. The course will contextualize Wilde’s life and work in terms of British aestheticism, Irish nationalism, the relationship between celebrity and the emergence of mass- culture and the place of Wilde in the imagining of modern homosexual identity.

Grading Policy

Attendance and class participation are mandatory. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in grade penalties.

2 short response papers: 4 pages each 20%
1 in-class presentation and participation in class discussion 30%
Final research paper 12-15 pages 50%

Drafts of the final research paper will be extensively workshopped in class.

Texts

• Oscar Wilde, Complete Works
• Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde
• Reading packet*

For more information, please download the full syllabus.