Course Materials for LITCS 114, Winter 2016:
The Biopolitics of the Female Body in Twentieth-Century Literature
Course syllabus. Schedule and general guidelines for participating in the course.
Twitter stream for the course. Contains reminders about upcoming events, links to content about related topics, and pointers to electronic copies of documents distributed in class. Don't want to sign up for Twitter? You can always come back here and check for updates.
GauchoSpace login portal. Readings marked (GS)
on the syllabus are available here.
Blogging Assignment
Blogging assignment write-up. A long-winded description of how you are expected to fulfill this part of the course requirements.
Student blogs:
- Rose Spanbock's blog (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Christine Hamlin's Biopolitics of Christine (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Dasha Sadovnikova's blog (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Suzanne Becker's Pouvoir Sacra (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Hannah Atkinson's blog (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Korrin Alpers's Biopolitics of the Female Body (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Steenalisa Tilcock's Superfluous Writer (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Calvin Davison's blog (or subscribe to his RSS feed).
- Cassandra Miasnikov's Biopolitics of the Female Body (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
- Alyssa Evans's That Would Be My Hand (or subscribe to her RSS feed).
Presentation Schedule
Presentation assignment write-up. An overview of how you are expected to fulfill this part of the course requirements.
Students who need to switch presentation dates should let me know at least a week in advance, unless the need for a switch is motivated by a sudden catastrophe. The current schedule is:
- 14 January: Hannah Atkinson's presentation on parts I and II of Foucault's History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- 19 January: Patrick Mooney's presentation on part III of Foucault's History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- 28 January: Steenalisa Tilcock's presentation on part IV of Foucault's History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- 4 February: Christine Hamlin's presentation on part V of Foucault's History of Sexuality, vol. 1
- 9 February: Suzanne Becker's presentation on the introduction and part 3 of Agamben's Homo Sacer
- 16 February: Cassandra Miasnikov's presentation on the introduction and first part of Butler's Gender Trouble
- 23 February: Alyssa Evans's presentation on the second essay (
Violence, Mourning, Politics
) of Butler's Precarious Life - 23 February: Korrin Alpers's presentation on the fourth essay (
The Charge of Anti-Semitism
) of Butler's Precarious Life - 3 March: Calvin Davison's presentation on the first chapter of Esposito's Bíos
- 8 March: Rose Spanbock's presentation on Mbembé's
Necropolitics
Discussion Notes
Whiteboard snapshots. I try to capture whatever gets written on the board at the end of the day. Alas, my phone is not much of a camera; and, alas, these are removed from the context of the conversations that generated them and therefore rather decontextualized.
My own notes: These are often rather cursory, and we often wind up talking about other things when we all get into the same room; I prefer to let you pursue your own literary, theoretical, and practical interests when possible. These notes are just what I've prepped ahead of time.
- Notes from class on 5 January
- Notes from class on 7 January
- Notes from class on 12 January
- Notes from class on 14 January
- Notes from class on 19 January
- Notes from class on 21 January
- Notes from class on 26 January
- Notes from class on 28 January
- Notes from class on 2 February
- Notes from class on 4 February
- Notes from class on 9 February
- Notes from class on 11 February
- Notes from class on 16 February
- Notes from class on 18 February
- Notes from class on 23 February
- Notes from class on 25 February
- Notes from class on 1 March
- Notes from class on 3 March
- Notes from class on 8 March
- Notes from class on 10 March
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