[bioundgrd] Fwd: New 21L Literature classes

[Janice Chang]

>From: "Jamie Graham" <jamiecg at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: New 21L Literature classes - please distribute to your students
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:36 -0400
>
>Dear Undergraduate Advisors,
>
>Please let your students know of three exciting new classes we are 
>offering this semester!
>
>Visiting Associate Professor 
><http://lit.mit.edu/people/jpicker.php>John Picker from Harvard 
>University will be teaching two Literature courses. 
> <http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_samplings.php#21L325>21L.325 
>Small Wonders (R 10am-1pm) is a short class that focuses on short 
>novels: well-known works that take an uncluttered measure of the 
>individual's place in modernity. Students will examine the ways that 
>these texts articulate the human consequences of urban and rural 
>alienation, domestic and imperial rupture, and gender and racial 
>strife.  In 
><http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_seminars.php#21L705>21L.705 Major 
>Authors: Charles Dickens (MW 2:30-4), students will focus on 
>Dickens's self-presentation as the supreme entertainer of his day, a 
>title he dearly coveted and even died trying to uphold.
>
>Martin Luther King Artist/Scholar Ricardo Pitts-Wiley of Mixed Magic 
>Theatre and Cultural Events will be co-teaching 
><http://lit.mit.edu/program/fall09_intermediate.php#21L512>21L.512 
>American Authors: Classics Remixed (MW 11-12:30) with Wyn Kelley. 
>This course explores the arts of adapting classic works in new 
>forms. Inspired by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley's urban hip-hop theatrical 
>production Moby-Dick: Then and Now (see 
>http://www.mixedmagictheatre.org/), it begins with classic American 
>novels and the ways they creatively remixed materials in their own 
>historical time.
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>Best regards,
>
>
>Jamie Graham
>
>---
>
>Jamie Graham
>Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Academic Administration
>Literature Section @ MIT
>14N-407
>T. (617) 258-5629
>F. (617) 253-6105
>
>
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