M-W Schedule Fall 2016

What is the Atlantic World? What are Intimate Domains?
Aug. 29: Introductions
Aug. 31: Bernard Bailyn, “On the Contours of Atlantic History” in Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. (co-taught with Professor Heath)

Brave New Worlds and First Contacts
Sept. 5: NO CLASS-LABOR DAY
Sept. 7: Christopher Columbus, Letter to the Treasurer; Amerigo Vespucci, Letter to Lorenzo de Medici; Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of the Kingdom of Guiana (selections)       Blog Entry Due (Response due the next day)

New World Marvels and the Rise of Atlantic Slavery
Sept. 12: William Shakespeare, The Tempest to the end of Act III
Sept. 14: Shakespeare, The Tempest to end     Blog Entry Due (Response due the next day)

Creating A New Atlantic Culture
Sept. 19: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe to p. 85
Sept. 21: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe to p. 120 (Class Leads: Haitham and Elwin)

Intimacy in the Age of Revolution
Sept. 26: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe to end        ESSAY ONE DUE (Class Leads: Carmen and Yonathan)
Sept. 28: Lenora Sansay, Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo (Class Leads: Rodrigo and Ashley)
Sept. 29 Field Trip to the New York Public Library: Alexander Hamilton: Striver, Statesman, Scoundrel

Oct. 3: NO CLASS
Oct. 5: NO CLASS
Oct. 6: Jane Eyre, Dir. Cary Fukunaga, Focus Features, 2011 (the film will be available for streaming on your personal devices through your library account)

Oct. 10: NO CLASS
Oct. 12: NO CLASS
Oct. 14: Blog Entry Due on Lenora Sansay’s Secret History. Class Field Trip to the Morgan Library: Charlotte Bronte Exhibit. We will meet in the library by coat check at 1250 pm. Please be on time as this will be a guided tour. Click here for directions.

Colonial Haunts
Oct. 17: Lenora Sansay, Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo   (Class Leads: Shalom, Stefano, Justin, Daniel)
Oct. 19: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Class Leads: Melisa and Scarlett)

Journey Back to the Source
Oct 24: Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea       (Class Leads: Matthew and Yhaya)
Oct 26: Octavia Butler, Kindred (Class Lead: Jamie) Blog Entry Due
Oct 27: Class Field Trip to the African Burial Grounds. Click here for directions.

Oct. 31: Octavia Butler, Kindred      
Nov 2: Butler, Kindred

Curses and Counterspells
Nov. 7: Butler, Kindred       
Nov. 9: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life to p. 50.

Nov. 14 Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life to p. 165.      Blog Entry Due (Response due the next day)
Nov. 16: Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life  to p. 201.    Class Field Trip to the Signature Theater: Suzan-Lori Parks, “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World.” We will meet at the theater’s box office at 700 PM. The play begins at 730, so please be on time, or you won’t be seated for the performance. The Pershing Square Signature Theater is located at 480 W 42 St. Click here for map

Nov. 21: Discuss the play and wrap up the novel — ESSAY TWO DUE (via Turnitin on Blackboard)
Nov. 23: No Class
Nov. 24: Thanksgiving

Nov. 28: Individual conferences
Nov. 30: Individual conferences
Dec. 5: Individual conferences
Dec. 7: Pizza Party

Dec. 18       ESSAY THREE DUE (via email as a MSWord document)