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2. COURSE PLANNING FOR 1999-2000
Fall 1999 EH 635 READING LACAN
Judging from the number of graduate students who have recently requested private tutorials on Lacan, I am beginning to think it's time to repeat the formal course on Lacan that I offered a few years ago. The challenge in teaching Lacan is that he's barely readable and in addition, wrote a lot. It helps to have some sort of focus like gender, feminism, structuralism, language (not that these aren't virtually ubiquitous subjects and thus of limited use for narrowing the focus) or major texts. In the last Lacan course, we focused on feminism and psychoanalysis. Our readings were taken from Freud (Dora and Three Essays on Sexuality), Lacan (selections from Ecrit), Butler on gender performativity, with Duras's The Ravishing of Lol Stein (a text which forms the basis of Lacan's homage to Duras) as a test case.
If you are interested in such a course and would like to influence its focus and text selection, please send me an e-mail message.
Spring 2000 EH 500 or 600 THE BOOK/LIFE
I would like to design a course which grows out of my own Book/Life project. I propose to begin the course at the concept's source, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes. Then, as a demonstration of sorts, we will read the book I have selected for my own project, Gertrude Stein's Everybody's Autobiography. Each student will select a text that will serve as the focus for his or her own project. For the rest of the course we will read the texts the students have selected and workshop writing about these texts.
If you are interested in such a course, have ideas about what might be included in it, or would like to suggest other ways to structure it, please send me an e-mail message. |