Dear All, I hope that your new year started well. I'm writing to remind you to please register for your Spring 2018 English classes, if you haven't already. Any courses that are under-enrolled could be in danger of being canceled, so don't miss out on the classes you need/want! As of today, the following classes are open: * ENGL 662 [class no. 2024]: The English Language, Th 6:40 to 8:30 w/ Michael Sargent * ENGL 701 [class no. 2025]: Graduate Methodologies, T 4:40 to 6;30 w/ Annemarie Drury * ENGL 636 [class no. 2027]: Disability Studies, W 4:40 to 6:30 w/ Talia Schaffer * ENGL 781 [class no. 2036]: Golden Age of Children's Lit, T 6:40 TO 8:30 w/ Veronica Schanoes * ENGL 781 [class no. 67539]: Transnational Modernism in Italian & American Lit, TH 5:00 to 7:50 with Fred Gardaphe. Professor Gardaphe's class was added recently. A course description for his class is pasted below. In addition, the attached pdf file contains descriptions the rest of this semester's offerings. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Best, Bill COURSE DESCRIPTION Transnational Modernism in Italian and American Literature Team-taught by Distinguished Professors Fred Gardaphe and Anthony Julian Tamburri, this course examines the development of Modernism in Italy and how it impacted U.S. literature. This will be accomplished by viewing major writers in both countries through the lenses of ethnicity and gender. Beginning with four major Italian Modernists (Giovanni Verga. Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories; Maria Messina,Her Father's House; Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author; Aldo Palazzeschi. Man of Smoke, the course will introduce students to Modernism in an Italian context. Following this, students will explore the practice of Modernist writing in the works of American authors of Italian descent (John Fante, Ask the Dust; Mari Tomasi, Like Lesser Gods; Pietro di Donato, Christ in Concrete; Tina DeRosa. Paper Fish; Don DeLillo, Underworld; Carole Maso, Ghost Dance; Gilbert Sorrentino, Crystal Vision; Mary Caponegro, All Fall Down) to determine transnational influences on cultural development. Designed to introduce students to the development of Modern Italian literature and the role that ethnicity plays in the development of U.S. American modernist literature this course will help students examine and understand the transnational influences that shape the writers under consideration. It is also designed to give students alternative and comparative views of Italian and American Modernism. _________________________________________________ William Orchard Assistant Professor Assistant Director, MA Program Department of English Queens College/ CUNY worchard@qc.cuny.edu http://english.qc.cuny.edu/quick-links/william-orchard/