Syllabus (as of 15 January; subject to change)

Week 1 
Tuesday, 16 January
Introduction
Thursday, 18 January
Anne Fausto-Sterling, “Dueling Dualisms”
selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses (myth of Tiresias; myth of Iphis and Ianthe)
    Optional: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (content warning: SVSH)
selections from Diodorus Sicilus, The Library of History (IV.6.5 [paragraph about Hermaphroditus], XXXII.10–12 [paragraphs about intersex figures])
Community Guidelines Reflection
Week 2 
Tuesday, 23 January
“On the Hyena or the Brute,” in Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore, trans. Michael J. Curley
Images of hyenas from manuscripts of medieval bestiaries (link)
Leah DeVun, “The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex”
Introductory Text Due (750 words)
Thursday, 25 January
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii.1–36 (focus on stanzas 22, 29–30, 35–36); and gloss of Book III, canto vii
Virtual Symposium #1
Week 3 
Tuesday, 30 January
Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hermaphroditus” and “Fragoletta”
Analytic Essay P1 Due (750 words)
Thursday, 1 February
Honoré de Balzac, “Sarrasine”
Anne E. Linton, “Is She or Isn’t He?: Plotting Ambiguous Gender” (excerpts)
Week 4 
Tuesday, 6 February
Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes (pp. 309–67)
Analytic Essay P2 Due (750 words)
 
Thursday, 8 February
Honoré de Balzac, The Girl with the Golden Eyes (pp. 367–91)
Virtual Symposium #2
Week 5 
Tuesday, 13 February
Vernon Lee, “A Wicked Voice”
Analytic Essay P3 Due (750 words)
Thursday, 15 February
John Lyly, Galatea (acts 1–3)
Recommended: reread Ovid’s account of the myth of Iphis and Ianthe
Deadline for signing up for an additional draft
Week 6 
Tuesday, 20 February
John Lyly, Galatea (acts 4–5)
Virtual Symposium #3
Analytic Essay Draft Due (2400 words)
Thursday, 22 February
Peer Review Workshops 
Week 7 
Tuesday, 27 February
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (pp. 1–54)
Film Critical Reflections Due (200 words each)
Thursday, 29 February
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (pp. 55–83)
Virtual Symposium #4 (part 1)
Week 8 
Tuesday, 5 March
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (pp. 84–131)
Analytic Essay Final Draft Due (2400 words)
Thursday, 7 March
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (pp. 132–180)
Optional: “Soft, Hard; Penetrable and Capable of Penetration: Bodies Against Cisness,” Emma Heaney (video lecture ~45 minutes)
Virtual Symposium #4 (part 2)
Week 9 
Tuesday, 12 March
Heldris of Cornwall, Silence (translator’s introduction, xi–xxiv; lines 1–2656)
Research Essay Letter Due (200 words) 
Thursday, 14 March
Heldris of Cornwall, Silence (lines 2657–6706)    
Week 10
Tuesday, 19 March
Masha Raskolnikov, “Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness”
Research Essay P1 Due (750 words)
Virtual Symposium #5
Thursday, 21 March
“Transgender Fairies in Early Modern Literature,” Not Just the Tudors podcast episode with Ezra Horbury
Optional: Ezra Horbury, “Early Modern Transgender Fairies”
(Optional) Analytic Essay Additional Draft Due (2400 words)
SPRING RECESS
Week 11 
Tuesday, 2 April
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (acts 1–3)
Thursday, 4 April
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (acts 4–5)
Annotated Bibliography Due (~2pp.) 
Week 12 
Tuesday, 9 April
Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts”
Carnelian Seville, “how to meet the Piton mountain” (content warning: self-harm)
Alan Pelaez Lopez, “The Spine of Gorée Island”
Research Essay P2 Due (750 words)
Thursday, 11 April
Deborah Miranda, “Coyote Takes a Trip”
Louis Esme Cruz and Qwo-Li Driskill, “Puo’winue’l Prayers”
Week 13 
Tuesday, 16 April
Evan B. Towle and Lynn M. Morgan, “Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept”
Research Essay Draft Due (2400 words) 
Virtual Symposium #6
Thursday, 18 April
Amy Marvin, “Transsexuality, the Curio, and the Transgender Tipping Point”
Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton, “Known Unknowns: An Introduction to Trap Door”
Virtual Symposium #7
Week 14 
Tuesday, 23 April
Research Essay Writing Workshop
Thursday, 25 April 
Research Essay Writing Workshop
(Optional) Research Essay Additional Draft Due 
RRR Week
Scheduled Instructor Conferences
Finals Week
Tuesday, 7 May
Research Essay Final Draft Due (3200 words)
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