(S504)
Tina Modotti, "Julio Antonio Mella's Typewriter" (1928)
This course introduces graduate students at both M.A. and PhD levels to the essentials of conducting and presenting research in the profession of literary studies. The course is divided in two main parts: 1) developing a research paper in literary studies, and 2) developing that research project beyond the class paper. It will include sections on how to develop a research project (including organizing and drafting ideas, building different types of bibliographies, etc.), the basic components of writing literary criticism (conducting textual analysis, dealing with secondary literary criticism, and engaging theoretical work), distinguishing between and developing the varied forms in which research is presented, and grant-writing as a step in the research process. In addition to course readings on many of these topics, we will analyze examples in order to get a better sense of each type of writing, how it relates to others, and how to move a project from one form to another. An important element of the discipline and this course is peer-critique; we will utilize this revision tool throughout the semester, encouraging constructive critical dialogue among peers.
This course focuses on providing you with tools and methods that enable you to create cutting-edge scholarly work. In order to focus the course on methods, continuity in content will be established by using Federico Garcia Lorca’s literary work as the basis of research projects.
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