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Jane S. Cadwell
English
Jane S. Cadwell
B.A. Williams CollegeM.A.T. Smith CollegeM.Litt. Middlebury...
English
English
English
You’ll gain self-knowledge and learn to communicate with clarity through thought-provoking discussions of poetry, fiction, drama and creative...
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Drawing from a range of essays and literature about travel, this course seeks to equip students with the tools to process and reflect upon their own personal journeys, abroad and otherwise. Through a range of assignments, we will examine closely what it means...
Baseball: the American Narrative
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Baseball: the American Narrative
A. Bartlett Giamatti, former president of Yale and commissioner of Major League Baseball, believed that this game is “the plot of the story of our national life.” In this course we will look at how baseball reflects, embodies and illuminates...
Utopias & Dystopias in Literature
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Utopias & Dystopias in Literature
Fantastic societies have held a fascination for writers from Thomas More to the present day. Utopia, “no place,” represents an idealized society whose inhabitants willingly embrace its difference from our own world. Dystopic visions are the...
Writing the Body
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Writing the Body
“I’ve only ever wanted to write about what it feels like to be alive, and it turns out being alive is always about being in a body. We’re never not in bodies: That’s just our fate and our assignment.” (Leslie Jamison, “Why...
Crime Fiction
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Crime Fiction
This course introduces students to early works in the development of the “detective story” (Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and the ways in which those early works help establish the foundations for a variety of...
Homer’s Odyssey
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Homer’s Odyssey
In this interdisciplinary class, taught jointly by members of the Classical Languages Department and the English Department, we will read Homer’s Odyssey in translation and then trace its afterlife from antiquity to the present day. The hero Odysseus is...