Tuesday, February 2
Jill Bolte Taylor, “My Stroke of Insight” (video lecture)
Eleanor Longden, “The Voices in My Head” (video lecture)
Nick Walker, “Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions”
Thursday, February 4
Higashida, The Reason I Jump, pp. xii – 89 (including David Mitchell’s introduction)
Nick Walker, “Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions”
Theryn Fleming, “Keeping a Commonplace Book”
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Tuesday, February 9
No class: Friday schedule
Thursday, February 11
Higashida, The Reason I Jump, pp. 90 – end (including “Afterword”)
Straus, “Autism as Culture”
Ralph Savarese and Lisa Zunshine, “The Critic as Neurocosmopolite; Or, What Cognitive Approaches to Literature Can Learn from Disability Studies” (a conversation)
Peter Elbow, “What Do We Mean When We Talk about Voice in Texts?”
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Tuesday, February 16
Farinella and Ros, Neurocomic
Reading Resposnes: Jay, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
Thursday, February 18
Thomas Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
Joseph LeDoux, “Let’s Get Physical: The Consciousness Problem” (from Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety)
Gordon Harvey, “Elements of the Academic Essay”
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla
Tuesday, February 23
Cowles, “Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82” (The New York Times)
Sacks, Anthropologist on Mars: Preface + “The Last Hippie” & “A Surgeon’s Life”
Fernando Vidal, “Brainhood”
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Presentations (Harvey’s Elements): Tajmattie, Jay (Thesis); Natasha, Sahla (Motive)
Thursday, February 25
Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: “The Landscape of His Dreams” + “An Anthropologist on Mars”
Grandin, from Thinking in Pictures
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Presentations (Harvey’s Elements): Grace, Mike (Evidence); Jessica, Klaudia (Analysis)
Tuesday, March 1
Sacks, “The Last Mariner” & “Witty Ticcy Ray” (from The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)
G. Thomas Couser, “The Cases of Oliver Sacks: The Ethics of Neuroanthropology”
Lennard Cassuto, “Oliver Sacks: The P.T. Barnum of the Postmodern World?”
Reading Resposnes: Jay, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
Presentations (Harvey’s Elements): Michael (Keyterms), Renee (Structure), Cara (Stitching), Ashlie (Sources)
Thursday, March 3
Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Foreward + Chapters 1 & 2
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla
Presentations (Harvey’s Elements): Brandely, Colin (Reflecting); Orienting (Jasbir)
Tuesday, March 8
Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Chapters 3 – 9
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Presentations (Harvey’s Elements): Daniela, Kaitlyn (Stance)
Thursday, March 10
Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Chapters 10 – 12 + Epilogue
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Tuesday, March 15
Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, 1 -41
Reading Resposnes: Janet, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
On Your Commonplace Books: A reflection on possible ideas for your research project / seminar essay.
Thursday, March 17
No class
Tuesday, March 22
Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, 41 – end
Gaipa, “8 Strategies for Critically Engaging Secondary Sources”
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla
Thursday, March 24
Jamison, An Unquiet Mind, 3 – 63
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Tuesday, March 29
Jamison, An Unquiet Mind, 63 – end
Tanya Lurhmann, “Redefining Mental Illness”
Research proposals due (on your commonplace book page)
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Thursday, March 31
Forney, Marbles, Chapters 1 & 2
Casey, “A Better Place to Live”
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (Chapter 6: Show and Tell)
Reading Resposnes: Jay, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
On Your Commonplace Books: Reflection on the evolution of your ideas for your research project / seminar essay.
Tuesday, April 5
Forney, Marbles, Chapter 3 – end
Ian Hacking, “Lost in the Forest”
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla
Thursday, April 7
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, 1 – 68
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Tuesday, April 12
Workshop: Finding and Evaluating Sources + Ballroom Diagrams (in the Rosenthal Library, Room 225)
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Thursday, April 14
Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, 68 – end
Francisco Ortega & Fernando Vidal, “Brains in Literature / Literature in the Brain”
Reading Resposnes: Jay, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
Tuesday, April 19
Casey, The Man Who Walked Away (to the end of Chapter 2)
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla
Thursday, April 21
Annotated Bibliography + ballroom diagram due (on your commonplace book)
Workshop: Annotated Bibliographies
Reading Responses: Renee, Ashlie, Michael (Chu), Kaitlyn, Cara
Tuesday, April 26
No class: Spring Break
Thursday, April 28
No class: Spring Break
Tuesday, May 3
Casey, The Man Who Walked Away
Reading Responses: Michael (Coccia), Brandely, Tajmattie, Jasbir
Monday, May 4
Draft of two paragraphs introducing your topic, explaining your motive, and articulating a
hypothesis (to me and your writing group, via e-mail)
Thursday, May 5
Powers, The Echo Maker, 3 – 53
Reading Resposnes: Jay, Daniela, Jessica, Colin, Stephany
Tuesday, May 10
Writing Workshop: Integrating Sources–Formatting, Orienting, Stance
Reading Responses: Natasha, Klaudia, Grace, Sahla (Bloggers: Focus your post on giving advice about a particular aspect of writing. You don’t have to be an expert. Just offer what you think are some helpful strategies or ideas others might want to consider as they write their essays–or videos or websites.)
Thursday, May 12
Workshop: Analysis and Reflection
Sunday, May 15
Draft of Seminar Essay + revised ballroom diagram due (to me and your writing group, via email)
Tuesday, May 17
Draft workshop + celebration
Thursday, May 19
Reading Day
Thursday, May 26
Seminar Essays due (to me, via email)
