Reviewing the material for my spec lit. class for this week and next week. It’s a little bit all-Russ-all-the-time. Hopefully they’re enjoying it. Or finding it annoying in productive ways. 🙂 Back to fantasy after this.
Week 7
Tues 10/8: In-class: Discuss readings, Workshop: Rough draft
Homework for Thurs:
READ: “How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Prohibitions,” Joanna Russ
WRITE: a journal entry on “How to Suppress…”
Thurs 10/10: In-class: Discuss readings
Homework for next Tues:
READ: On Strike Against God (opening), Joanna Russ
WRITE: a journal entry on “On Strike Against God,” finish writing paper
Week 8
Tues 10/15: In-class: Discuss readings (catching up on Fowler and Murphy)
Homework for Thurs:
READ: The Female Man (opening sections), Joanna Russ
WRITE: a journal entry on “The Female Man…”
PAPER #1 DUE (by midnight)
Thurs 10/17: NO CLASS (MA at conference)
Homework for next Tues:
READ: “Nothing Too Frightening,” Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2024
WRITE: a journal entry on “Nothing to Frightening” and post to Slack
WRITE: a creative paragraph or two imagining what your life would look like in another dimension, if you changed something fundamental about how society treats gender, race, class, neurodivergence, or any other identity category – post to the #exercises channel
FOURTH READING JOURNAL DUE (4 entries)
