Stephen Donadio
Fulton Professor of Humanities; Editor, New England Review; Director, Literary Studies Program
Email: sdonadio@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5119
Office Hours: Spring Term: Thursday 11:00-12:00 or by appointment in Hesselgrave House 002
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Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
▲ indicates offered in the current term
▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
ENGL 7400 - Modern British Fiction
ENGL 7591 - Faulkner ▹
American Literature
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
ENGL 7767 - Studies in European Fiction
ENAM 0500 - Special Project: Lit
Special Project: Literature
Approval Requiredrequired; please apply online at http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/enam/resources/forms or at the Department office
Winter 2011, Winter 2012
ENAM 0710 - Senior Thesis: Critical Writ. ▲ ▹
Senior Thesis: Critical Writing
Individual guidance and seminar (discussions, workshops, tutorials) for those undertaking two-term projects in literary criticism or analysis. All critical thesis writers also take the thesis workshop (ENAM 710z) in both Fall and Spring terms.
Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
FYSE 1266 - Literary Narratives
LITS 0259 / ENAM 0259 - Cultural Crossings ▲
Cultural Crossings: Studies in Literary Influence
Centered on a range of provocative works conceived at different historical moments and in different cultural situations, this course will explore some of the persistent imaginative preoccupations and far-reaching literary ambitions that serve to link authors working in a wide variety of genres and traditions. Authors to be considered this semester will include Jonathan Swift, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Petronius, Thomas Carlyle, Herman Melville, Ivan Turgenev, Ernest Hemingway, Gustave Flaubert, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Saul Bellow. Depending on individual backgrounds and interests, students may be encouraged to undertake independent comparisons between some of the author’s works we are reading and works by other authors not included on this spring's list. 3 hr. lect.
Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012
LITS 0500 - Independent Reading Course ▹
Independent Reading Course
Intended for majors in literary studies preparing for the senior comprehensive examinations. At the conclusion of this course, students will take a one-hour oral examination (part of the senior comprehensive examination) in a specialization of their choice.
Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Fall 2012
LITS 0510 - Independent Essay Project ▲ ▹
Independent Essay Project
(Approval Required)
Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
LITS 0700 - Special Research
Special Research
Intended for majors in literary studies preparing for the written section of the senior comprehensive examinations.
Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012
LITS 0705 / ENAM 0705 - Senior Colloquium ▹
Senior Colloquium in Literary Studies
Study, discussion, and analysis of selected great works of world literature from the perspective of their achievements in thought and literary art, and considered as part of a vital literary tradition in which the works enter into dialogue with one another. The works to be considered this semester are Homer, The Odyssey (Lattimore trans.); Tolstoy, War and Peace (Maude trans.); Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Pevear & Volokhonsky trans.); Mann, The Magic Mountain (Woods trans.); Proust, Swann's Way (Scott-Montcrieff & Kilmartin trans. revised by Enright, Modern Library); Joyce, Ulysses (ed. Gabler). Open to nonmajors with approval of the instructor. 3 hrs. sem.
Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
LITS 0710 - Senior Honors Essay ▲ ▹
Senior Honors Essay
(Approval Required)
Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012