English 375

I have removed the Houston Baker reading from the syllabus for Tuesday so that we can finish our discusion of Oroonoko the first-half of class and discuss the Black Atlantic the second-half of class. So, be sure to blog about Oroonoko (if you haven’t already) as well as the Black Atlantic. See you Tuesday, and [...]

Hey everyone, I hope you are enjoying the long weekend. I have converted the online versions of next week’s black mariner narratives to pdfs, which should facilitate our discussions of the texts in class. A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briiton Hammon, A Negro Man The Interesting Narrative of the Life [...]

From now on I will convert the online texts to pdfs in order to maintain consistent pagination to facvilitate class discusssions. I have converted Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn into a pdf which you can download here. I will do this for the black mariner narratives we will be reading for next [...]

I want to draw your attention to a new plugin I have enabled on everyone’s blog: a quick link to a wikipedia entry. If you look at my second comment on Lenore’s blog, you will see this functionality put to use. What does it do? When you wrap a term in double brackets the word [...]

As mentioned in class today at Emily’s behest, there are several different themes (another term for “skins”) your class blog can have. The following link to the WordPress theme browser (developed and hosted by Alex King, one of the creators of WordPress) will give you an idea of the various possibilities available to you. You [...]

As stated in class, please read the excerpt from Ania Loomba’s  Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism and the the first two acts of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.   Also, do not forget to post questions, ideas and reflections on the readings in your blog by tomorrow morning at 11 am. Additionally, be sure to post a flickr image [...]

This blog will act as a portal page for class discussions, assignments, and announcements. Each of you will also have your own blog wherein you will be expected to regularly post questions, thoughts and reflections about the in-class discussions as well as the readings. I will be checking your blogs daily and using your contributions [...]