ENG8000HF
*NON-CREDIT/CREDIT*
Texts, Theories, and Archives
*NOTE: As of September 2011, this course is now a required course for all 1st year Ph.D. Students and 2nd year Ph.D.U (Direct Entry) Students. This course is restricted to English Doctoral students.
Course Description
A general introduction to research methods and scholarly practice; textual and editorial problems; physical bibliography; the history of the book.
Course Reading List
A list of recommended reading and the required exercises will be distributed at the first class. The Department's Check Lists of Scholarship keyed to the University of Toronto Library will be available on line.
Course Method of Evaluation and Course Requirements
Annotated Bibliography 40%; Seminar Proposal 40%; Participation 20%.
Term: F-TERM (September 2022 to December 2022)
Date/Time: Tuesday / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Room JHB 616 (Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street)
Delivery: In-Person
ENG9500HY
**NON-CREDIT/CREDIT**
Professional Development
**NOTE: This course is open only to 4th year Ph.D., and 4th or 5th year Ph.D. U. English students-- for whom it's MANDATORY.
Course Description
This course is intended to prepare University of Toronto Ph.D. students in English for the job search and more generally to provide them with an introduction to the professional skills that will be part of their lives after they finish the Ph.D. The course will meet the equivalent of 13 2-hour sessions, on selected Thursday afternoons through the academic year. Individual sessions will include the following topics: The Shape of the Profession; An Overview of the Academic Job Search and its Documents; Setting Up a Dossier; Preparing Letters of Application and C.V.s; The Teaching Dossier; Interviewing; Campus Visits and Job Talks; The Publication of Academic Research; An Assessment 0f the Year's Job Searches at U. of T. and Postdoctoral Fellowships. There will also be a session on Non-Academic Jobs (Publishing and Other Alternatives).
Course Method of Evaluation and Course Requirements
Most classes will feature the instructor and various guest faculty members discussing the announced topics. Guests from the Toronto publishing community and previous Ph.D. students will join the sessions on non-academic employment. Students wishing to receive a notation on their transcripts should register for the course.
Term: F and S-TERMS (September 2022 to April 2023)
Date/Time: Thursday / 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm (alternate weeks)
Location: Room JHB 616 (Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street)
Delivery: In-Person
ENG9900HS
NON-CREDIT/CREDIT
Professing Literature
***NOTE: As of September 2020, this course will be limited to 3rd year English Ph.D. students and 4th year Ph.D. U. students, for whom it is mandatory
Course Description
This seminar, required of and limited to Year-3 doctoral students, addresses the teaching of English literature at the university level. It is designed to provide the foundations for an informed, self-reflexive pedagogy and to help students develop effective methods for teaching English to undergraduate and graduate students. Guest faculty will discuss a range of pedagogical challenges and solutions. (Credit/Non-credit)
What has it meant, what might it mean, and what should it mean, to “profess” (pro-fateri, to confess before, to declare and admit before, to claim a knowledge you don’t have, to affirm an allegiance, to teach) in a literature department today, mostly in front of undergraduates? In a large university or small college? In a lecture? In a seminar? In remarks on written assignments? In assigned grades?
Course Reading List
Suggested readings and a schedule of exercises will be distributed on the first day of class.
Course Method of Evaluation and Course Requirements
Course Method of Evaluation: pass/fail, discussion and presentations.
Term: S-TERM (January 2023 to April 2023)
Date/Time: Tuesday / 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Room JHB 616 (Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street)
Delivery: In-Person