ENL 6256:
TOWARD MODERNISM: COLONIZING MONSTROSITY
IN THE VICTORIAN FIN DE SIÈCLE
Dr. C. Snodgrass; 4336 Turlington;
376-8362 (home); snod@english.ufl.edu
© Chris Snodgrass 2010
BASIS FOR EVALUATION AND FINAL GRADE
The course will try specifically to organize your efforts around developing
tangible professional skills, particularly the production of a strong conference
paper that can realistically be converted into a publishable professional
article.
To facilitate these ends, within
the first three or four weeks of the course each of you (with
assistance from me, if you’d like) will survey the readings for the semester
and choose a clearly defined and manageable project on particular works or an
aspect of a figure’s work. I encourage
you to submit and discuss with me a rough
draft two or three weeks before the semester.
I will evaluate your performance based
on the following specific work during the term:
(1) submitting each week, on no more
than two pages, the following:
a. two “hypotheses” or summarizing insights
(each no more than one-half page in length, single-spaced), and
b. distill from a
routine electronic search of relevant databases a list of some of the books, book chapters, articles, or other published scholarship on the
figure/figures studied for that week — in regular bibliographical format but not more than one page single-spaced (or one page per figure if more than one
writer is featured).
(2) assembling a fairly comprehensive
appropriate bibliography relevant to
your specific chosen project;
(3) producing the final 8- to 12-page
conference paper (but with
endnotes/footnotes in addition); and
(4) preparing for and participating
in discussions of the scheduled course material.
Categories 1 and 4 above will together
count toward approximately 50% of your grade.
Categories 2 and 3 will together count toward
the remaining approximately 50% of your grade.
SEEK HELP
AND ADVICE
I am not referring in this heading to
the belief that graduate school invariably drives students into
psychotherapy. Nor do I assume that
anyone who has made it into a nationally-ranked graduate program should already know “the ropes” and calling
attention to one’s naïveté only alerts the faculty that they may have made a
grave error in admitting you. If you are
confused or uncertain about virtually anything to do with either this course or
your graduate studies in general, I HOPE
YOU WILL FEEL FREE TO SPEAK WITH ME AT ANY TIME — PARTICULARLY (AND AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE) IF YOU ARE HAVING ANY PROBLEM.
Part of my job is to not only teach you something about the Victorian
period specifically, but also to try to help you survive the process
generally.
My office is in 4336 Turlington
Hall. I am very willing to meet by
appointment at any mutually convenient time.
Therefore, I tend to hold scheduled
office hours only within narrowly defined times. My scheduled OFFICE
HOURS this term (except
when I’m out of town) will be during 10th period (5:05–6:00 pm on Tuesdays and 8th
(3:00–3:50 pm) and 10th (5:05–6:00 pm) periods on Thursdays.
I’m also happy to stay and meet for as long as anyone wants to stay immediately
after class Monday. If you cannot see me during my office hours,
please telephone (best) or e-mail me for an appointment at another
time.