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Dr.AlaimoFall2010,Thursdaysat6:00301PH/304PH

English6370:TopicsinLiteratureandEnvironmentLiteratureandFilmoftheOcean

CourseDescription:Despitethefactthatoceansarenotonlythelargestbutalsosomeofthemostimperiledenvironmentsontheplanet,theoceanhasgenerallybeenneglectedbyenvironmentalmovements,environmentaltheorists,andscholarsofanimalstudies.Whilethereareagreatmanyworksofliteratureabouttheocean,itiscrucialtostudyvisualrepresentationsofmarineenvironmentsandseacreaturessincevisualmediahavehadapowerfulimpactonhowweunderstandtheocean.Thiscoursewillintroducetheliterature,film,andscholarshipabouttheocean,askinghowthefocusonblue,ratherthangreen,shiftspredominantapproachesinenvironmentalcriticism,environmentaltheory,andanimalstudies.Wewillreadfiction,sciencefiction,poetry,theory,history,andnonfictionenvironmentalwriting,includingworksbyJulesVerne,RachelCarson,SylviaEarle,SamuelColeridge,HermanMelville,LindaHogan,JoanSlonczewski,StefanHelmreich,andothers.Wewilldiscussseveralfilms,includingJaws,Sharkwater,TheCove,WhaleRider,thefilmsofJeanPainleve,andexcerptsfromBluePlanet.Wewillalsolookatthevisualmediaincludedonscientificandactivistwebsites,someoftheearlydrawingsofoceancreaturesbyHaeckelandAgassiz,andrecent“coffeetable”photographybooks,asweanalyzethemeaningandimplicationsofmarineaesthetics.[Nopreviousknowledgeofoceansorenvironmentalcriticismisrequired,butstudentsshouldhavealreadytakenEnglish5300oritsequivalent.]

RequiredTexts:JulesVerne,20,000LeaguesUndertheSea(EnrichedClassic,SimonandShuster,2005).GaryKroll,America’sOceanWilderness,ACulturalHistoryofTwentiethCenturyExplorationRachelCarson,TheSeaAroundUs(anyedition;Icouldnotfindanobviousonetochoose)Melville,MobyDick:orTheWhale(ModernLibrary)[Illustrated]Hardcover.1992.DavidRothenberg,ThousandMileSong,BasicBooks(withCD)2010EpeliHau’Ofa,WeAretheOcean:SelectedWorks,UniversityofHawaiiPressSylviaEarle,TheWorldIsBlueLindaHogan,PeopleoftheWhaleJoanSloczewski,ADoorintoOcean.StefanHelmreich,AlienOcean:AnthropologicalVoyagesinMicrobialSeas.RequiredFilms:Youneedtorentorpurchasethefollowingfilms:BluePlanet,Jaws,Sharkwater,TheCove,WhaleRider.[SomeothershortfilmswillbeavailableonlineandothersIwillshowinclass.]NOTE:PDFsofmanyofthereadingswillbeavailableatMavSpace:.Usethis:https://mavspace.uta.edu/xythoswfs/webview/_xy-1227659_1 Youmayprintoutthereadingsyourselforyoumaybringelectronicversionstoclass.Youmusthavesomeannotatedversionofthereadingstoworkwithinclass,however.SinceIdonotusuallyallowcomputersinclass,pleasedonotopenupanyotherfiles,email,orinternetaccessduringclasstime—justtheelectronicversionsofthearticles.CourseObjectives&LearningOutcomes1.Studentsshoulddevelopasolidunderstandingofarangeoftheories,concepts,andquestionspertainingtothestudyoftheoceanandoceancreatures.Theyshouldcomprehendthehistory,meaning,andsignificanceofthetopicscoveredintheclass.Theyshouldlearnthemajordebates,theories,approachesandconceptsinenvironmentalhumanities,sciencestudies,andanimalstudies.2.Studentsshouldwriteandspeak,inaninformedmanner,aboutthereadingsand/orfilmsforeachweek,demonstratingtheirabilitytocompareandcontrast,evaluate,extend,andapplythetheories,arguments,concepts,andframeworks.Studentsshouldbeabletoanalyzeandinterpretthetextsandfilmsinawaythatisilluminatingforthecentralquestionsoftheclass.3.Studentsshouldwriteanoriginalseminarpaper,modeledafterascholarlyarticle,whichputsforthanoriginalthesisaboutatopicorquestionpertainingtotheliterature,photography,orfilmoftheocean.Thispaperwillbebasedonindependentresearcheventhoughitwillbepertinenttotheclass.Theyshouldpresentashortversionofthispaperatthefinalclass.

CourseRequirementsParticipation,twopresentations:15%Weeklypapers:25%Seminarpaper(includingpresentationofseminarpaper):60%AttendanceattwoHermannstalksoroneHermannsgraduateworkshop.Youmustcompletealltherequiredworkinordertoobtaincreditforthecourse.Eightshortresponsepapers(3double‐spacedtyped,stapledpages)willberequired.Thesewillbedueatthebeginningofclasseachweek(startingwithweektwo)andwillbehandedinagain,gatheredtogetherinafolder,atthefinalclassperiod.Thesepapersarenotmeanttobefullyfleshedoutargumentsoranalyses.Instead,thesepapersshouldcompareandcontrastthereadingsfortheweek,remarkuponthemostsignificantideas,evaluatethemeritsandlimitationsofparticularargumentsandtheoreticalframeworks,andraisesignificantandprovocativequestions.Theresponsepaperswillreceiveimmediatecommentsbutnotgrades;thesepaperswillbegradedinaportfoliomanner,alongwithyourpresentationandparticipation,attheendofthecourse.(IfthepapersareC,D,orFpapers,theywillreceivethosegrades,however.)Two15‐minutepresentations,whichyouwillsignupfor,willalsoberequired.(Awrittenversionofyourpresentationcanbehandedinasthatweek’srequiredpaper.)OneofthesepresentationswillbeanAnalysis/InterpretationoftheassignedreadingandonewillbeaSummary/Analysisofeitheroneofthe“seealso”texts,“additionalreadings,”oranothertextrelevanttothatweek’sdiscussion.One25‐pageseminarpaperandanoralpresentationofanabstractofthatpaperwillbeduethefinalclassperiod.Thesepapersshoulddemonstrateanunderstandingandengagementwiththeoreticalissueswehavediscussedinthecourse.Thepapermustincludeaone‐pageabstract.Ph.D.studentswillalsoberequiredtoattachafinalpageexplaininghowtheywouldrevisethepaperforpublicationandlistingfivejournalstowhichtheywouldsubmitthepaper.Theyshouldalsolistconferencesandpaneltopicsthatwouldbeagoodfitforthispaper.(Ideally,thepaperwillbepresentedataconferenceandthenberevisedforpublication.)Mechanics:Allpapersmustbe“typed,”stapled,andhaveasignificanttitle.PleasedoNOTuseplasticfoldersorpaperclipsforyourpaper—astapleissufficient.Allpapersaredueattheverybeginningoftheclass.Ineveracceptfaxedpapersoremailedpapers.Besuretokeepanextracopyofyourpaper.PleaseNote:plagiarismisaseriousoffenseandwillbepunishedtothefullextent.Participation/AttendanceYouractive,informedparticipationiscrucialtothesuccessofthecourse.Carefullyprepareforeachclassperiodbydoingthereadinginarigorousandinquisitivemanner.Everydaythatyoucometoclassyoushouldhavesomethingvaluabletosay.Iwillgradeonactualparticipation,ratherthanonmereattendance.However,ifyoumissclasstwoormoretimes,Iwillloweryourcoursegradeandifyoumissmorethanthatyouwillfailthecourse.

Recommended:Spendsometimebrowsingthroughsomeofthejournalsandwebsiteslistedbelow.Findscholars,essays,texts,andtopicsthatwillbeparticularlypertinentforyourinterestsandprojects.JOURNALS,PROFESSIONALASSOCIATIONS‐‐‐ASLE(AssociationfortheStudyofLiteratureandEnvironment),http://www.asle.org/‐‐‐ISLE:InterdisciplinaryStudyofLiteratureandEnvironment.­­­ASLEDiscussionlists:http://www.asle.org/site/resources/discussion­lists/;­­­JournalofEcocriticism:http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe;‐‐‐EnvironmentalEthics­­­EthicsandEnvironment‐‐‐AssociationforEnvironmentalStudiesandSciences:http://aess.info/;‐‐‐EthicsandEnvironment:http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics‐environmental/‐‐SLSA:SocietyforLiterature,Science,andtheArts;journal;journalConfigurations

WEBSITES:OceanConservancy:

http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home&cvridirect=true

CensusofMarineLife:http://www.coml.org/NOAA:http://www.noaa.gov/ocean.htmlMarineBio:http://marinebio.org/BlueVoice:http://www.bluevoice.org/Greenpeace:http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/oceansOcean.com:http://www.ocean.com/index.asp?LocationID=1&CatId=1SUGGESTEDADDITIONALREADINGFORSEMINARPAPERSorPRESENTATIONS:Thereareagreatmanyworksonanimalstudiesatthispoint.SeeDonnaHaraway,GiorgioAgamben,CaryWolfe,MathewCalarco,KellyOliver,LindaKalof,NicoleShukin,DominickLaCapra,JodeyCastricano,JonathanSafranFoe,HarrietRitvo,TempleGrandin,andothers.Thereareseveralgoodbooksaboutanimalsandenvironmentinfilm,specifically,byDavidIngram,JonathanBurt,andCynthiaChris.Foryourseminarpaperyoucouldfocusonoceanpoetry,sciencefiction,memoir,sciencewriting,novels,film,ortelevision.Oryoucouldfocusonaparticulartypeofanimal.Oryoucouldfocusonatheme,topic,ortheoreticalquestion.Ifyouwouldlikeanintroductiontoenvironmentalcriticism,readLawrenceBuell,TheFutureofEnvironmentalCriticism.IwouldstronglyrecommendthatallgraduatestudentsreadCalvinThomas’“MomentsofProductiveBafflement,orDefamiliarizingGraduateStudiesinEnglish”inPedagogy,5.1(2005):19‐35.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

OfficialUTAPolicies:AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct:TheUniversityofTexasatArlingtonisonrecordasbeingcommittedtoboththespiritandletteroffederalequalopportunitylegislation;referencePublicLaw92‐112‐The

RehabilitationActof1973asamended.WiththepassageoffederallegislationentitledAmericanswithDisabilitiesAct(ADA),pursuanttosection504oftheRehabilitationAct,thereisrenewedfocusonprovidingthispopulationwiththesameopportunitiesenjoyedbyallcitizens.Asafacultymember,Iamrequiredbylawtoprovide"reasonableaccommodations"tostudentswithdisabilities,soasnottodiscriminateonthebasisofthatdisability.Studentresponsibilityprimarilyrestswithinformingfacultyoftheirneedforaccommodationandinprovidingauthorizeddocumentationthroughdesignatedadministrativechannels.Informationregardingspecificdiagnosticcriteriaandpoliciesforobtainingacademicaccommodationscanbefoundatwww.uta.edu/disability.Also,youmayvisittheOfficeforStudentswithDisabilitiesinroom102ofUniversityHallorcallthemat(817)272‐3364.AcademicIntegrity:ItisthephilosophyofTheUniversityofTexasatArlingtonthatacademicdishonestyisacompletelyunacceptablemodeofconductandwillnotbetoleratedinanyform.AllpersonsinvolvedinacademicdishonestywillbedisciplinedinaccordancewithUniversityregulationsandprocedures.DisciplinemayincludesuspensionorexpulsionfromtheUniversity."Scholasticdishonestyincludesbutisnotlimitedtocheating,plagiarism,collusion,thesubmissionforcreditofanyworkormaterialsthatareattributableinwholeorinparttoanotherperson,takinganexaminationforanotherperson,anyactdesignedtogiveunfairadvantagetoastudentortheattempttocommitsuchacts."(Regents’RulesandRegulations,Series50101,Section2.2)SupportServicesAvailable:TheUniversityofTexasatArlingtonsupportsavarietyofstudentsuccessprogramstohelpyouconnectwiththeUniversityandachieveacademicsuccess.Theseprogramsincludelearningassistance,developmentaleducation,advisingandmentoring,admissionandtransition,andfederallyfundedprograms.Studentsrequiringassistanceacademically,personally,orsociallyshouldcontacttheOfficeofStudentSuccessProgramsat817‐272‐6107formoreinformationandappropriatereferrals.

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Minimalstandardsforclassroometiquette:1.TURNOFFallpagers,beepers,cellphonesandotherelectronicdevices!Youmaynothavethesedevicesturnedonwhileinclass.Youmaynottextmessageorreademailorengageinanyotherelectronicactivitiesduringclass.Theonlyexceptionisifyouchoosetoaccessthecoursereadingselectronically.2.ArrivetoclassONTIME.Itisdistractingtoboththeprofessorandthestudentstohavesomeonecomeinlate.Ifyoucomeinlate,youwillbemarkedabsent.3.ArrivetoclassPREPAREDtodiscussthetextsandmaterialsinaninformedmanner.Youareexpectedtomakeasubstantialcontributiontoeveryclass..4.TreatyourclassmateswithRESPECT.Learntodisagreewithoutbeingdisagreeable.Wewilloftendiscusscontroversial,volatiletopics,soeveryoneneedstolearnhowtodisagreewithsomeone’sviews,beliefs,orperspectiveswhilemaintainingasenseofcivility.

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SYLLABUSUnlessotherwisenoted,thereadingsareeitherintheassignedbooksoravailableasPDFsinour“GradOcean”MavSpacefolder.

Introductions

WeekOne.August26thFreud,onthe“oceanic.”W.JeffreyBolster,“OpportunitiesinMarineEnvironmentalHistory”SamuelTaylorColeridge,“TheRimeoftheAncientMariner”(findonlineorinanyanthology,withlinenumbers)TimothyMorton,fromEcologywithoutNature,“Introduction”andpages157‐160,195‐205.GregDening,“DeepTimes,DeepSpaces:CivilizingtheSea.”WilliamJ.Broad,“GardenofEden,”fromTheUniverseBelow:DiscoveringtheSecretsoftheDeepSea.MetteBryldandNinaLykke,“MapofMatrices”and“BetweenAmazementandEstrangement,”fromCosmodolphins:FeministCulturalStudiesofTechnology,Animals,andtheSacred.

19thCenturyOceanLiterature

WeekTwo.September2nd.JulesVerne,20,000LeaguesUndertheSeaTennyson,“Kraken”RichardOwen,“UnnumberedPolypi”Recommended:thefilmProteus(aboutHaeckl);HelenM.Rozwadowski,FathomingtheOcean:TheDiscoveryandExplorationoftheDeepSea(19thcenturyfocus).WeekThree.September9th.HermanMelville,MobyDickExcerptfromD.GrahamBurnett,TryingLeviathan:TheNineteenth­CenturyNewYorkCourtCaseThatPuttheWhaleonTrialandChallengedtheOrderofNature.LawrenceBuell,“GlobalCommonsasResourceandasIcon:ImaginingOceansandWhales”

WhaleSongs

WeekFour.September16th.DavidRothenberg,ThousandMileSong,BasicBooks(withCD)2010ElizabethGrosz,“Vibration,Animal,Sex,Music”WendyWheeler,“FiguresinaLandscape:BiosemioticsandtheEcologicalEvolutionofCulturalCreativity”Recommended:JoeRoman,Whale,(Seealsothelistofrecommendedworksattheendof

Rothenberg’sbook)

OceanHistoryandAutobiography

WeekFive.September23rd.GaryKroll,America’sOceanWilderness,ACulturalHistoryofTwentiethCenturyExplorationClareBrant,“TranslatingCuttlefish:UnderwaterLifewritings”[SignuptopresentononechapterbyEugenie,Cousteau,orothers.]Recommended:alltheprimarysourcesincludedinKrollandBrant.

EnvironmentalNonfiction

WeekSix.September30th.RachelCarson,TheSeaAroundUs.SylviaEarle,TheWorldIsBlueSusanPowerBratton,“ThinkingLikeaMackerel:RachelCarson’sUndertheSea‐WindasaSourceforaTrans‐EcotonalSeaEthic”[PDF]Recommended:TEDTalk(s)bySylviaEarleandothers:http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_wish_to_protect_our_oceans.html;moreofRachelCarson’soceanbooks,AlannaMitchell,Seasick.

OceanPoetryWeekSeven.October7th.Oceanpoetry:StanleyKunitz,“WellfleetWhale;”LesMurray,fromTranslations,MarkDoty,“Difference;”poemsbyLindaHogan,MaryOliver,andothers.JeanPainlevefilmsinclass.

OceaniaandPostcolonialEnvironmentalisms

WeekEight.October14th.EpeliHau’Ofa,WeAretheOcean:SelectedWorks.ChambersandChambers,“FiveTakesonClimateandCulturalChangeinTuvalu”Watchonline:Tuvalu:ThatSinkingFeeling:GlobalWarming,RisingSeas(ElizabethPollock,2005,16min.):http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/12/tuvalu_that_sin_1.html’TheDisappearingofTuvalu:TroubleinParadise:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=164774705355714870#(excerpt)

SimonFoaleandMarthaMacintyre,“GreenFantasies:PhotographicrepresentationsofbiodiversityandecotourismintheWesternPacific”

[Hermanns2010:Food,Literature,andCulture.Attendatleasttwoevents(seminarsorpresentations)onWednesdaythe13th,Thursdaythe14th,orFridaythe15th.YouwillgetanextraweekoffinNovembertocompensateforattendingthisevent.]WeekNine.October21st.Film:WhaleRiderBrendanHokowhitu,“TheDeathofKoroPaka:“Traditional”MäoriPatriarchy”LindaHogan,PeopleoftheWhale.Recommended:SeanCubbitt,“NatureandDestiny:ThePerfectStormandWhaleRider,”inEcoMedia;GretaGaard,“ToolsforaCross‐CulturalFeministEthics:ExploringEthicalContextsandContentsintheMakahWhaleHunt,”inHypatia16.1(Winter2001);HelenTiffinandGrahamHuggan,PostcolonialEcocriticism:Literature,Animals,Environment;ElizabethM.DeLoughrey,RoutesandRootes:NavigatingCaribbeanandPacificIslandLiterature,andCaribbeanLiteratureandEnvironment:BetweenNatureandCulture;BrendaPetersonandLindaHogan,Sightings:TheGrayWhale’sMysteriousJourney.

ScienceFiction,PopularScience,andTheory

WeekTen.October28th.JoanSlonczewski,ADoorintoOcean.LewisShiner,“TillHumanVoicesWakeUs”AntonisBalasopoulos,“’SufferaSeaChange’:SpatialCrisis,MaritimeModernity,andthePoliticsofUtopia”Recommended:PeterWatts,StarfishandMaelstrom;FrankSchatzingTheSwarm,StanislawLem,Solaris;KarenTravis,Matriarch.WeekEleven.November4th.BluePlanet,DiskOne,“OceanWorld,”DiskTwo,“OpenOcean:TheDeep”Jan‐ChristopherHorak,“WildlifeDocumentaries:FromClassicalFormstoRealityTV”SeanCubitt,“TheBluePlanet:VirtualNatureandNaturalVirtue”fromEcoMedia.TimothyMorton,“Ecologocentrism:UnworkingAnimals”CensusofMarineLifewebsite:http://www.coml.org/:watchvideosandbroseimages,read“aboutthecensusofmarinelife.”WeekTwelve.November11th.StefanHelmreich,AlienOcean:AnthropologicalVoyagesinMicrobialSeas[ClipsfromthefilmCrackingtheOceanCode,inclass]

WeekThirteen.November18th.Noclass.Dr.AlaimoattheASA.WeekFourteen.November25th.Noclass.ThanksgivingHoliday.[Notethatyouhavetwoweeksoff—enoughtimetowritethefirstdraftofyourseminarpaper!]

ActivistFilms

WeekFifteen.December2nd.DiscussJaws,Sharkwater,andTheCoveinclass.JulianMurphet,“PitiableorPoliticalAnimals?”Website:BlueVoice.organdOceanConservancy:http://www.bluevoice.org/andhttp://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home&cvridirect=trueRecommended:DavidIngram,“NorthAmericanOceanFauna”inGreenScreen;JonathanBurt,“Introduction”and“AnimalLifeandDeath”inAnimalsinFilm.

SeminarPapersandPresentations

WeekSixteen.December9th.PresentationsofSeminarPapers.CourseEvaluations.SeminarPapersdueinmymailboxby4:45,Monday,December13th.[Remembertoincludeallcommented‐uponweeklypapersaswell.]

PRESENTATIONSIGNUPSHEETPLEASESIGNUPFORTWODIFFERENTPRESENTATIONS.BESURETOMARKDOWN,ONYOUROWNSYLLABUS,WHATYOUHAVESIGNEDUPFOR.

19thCenturyOceanLiterature

WeekTwo.September2nd.JulesVerne,20,000LeaguesUndertheSeaTennyson,“Kraken”RichardOwen,“UnnumberedPolypi”Recommended:thefilmProteus(aboutHaeckl);HelenM.Rozwadowski,FathomingtheOcean:TheDiscoveryandExplorationoftheDeepSea(19thcenturyfocus).1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________WeekThree.September9th.HermanMelville,MobyDickExcerptfromD.GrahamBurnett,TryingLeviathan:TheNineteenth­CenturyNewYorkCourtCaseThatPuttheWhaleonTrialandChallengedtheOrderofNature.LawrenceBuell,“GlobalCommonsasResourceandasIcon:ImaginingOceansandWhales”1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

WhaleSongs

WeekFour.September16th.DavidRothenberg,ThousandMileSong,BasicBooks(withCD)2010ElizabethGrosz,“Vibration,Animal,Sex,Music”WendyWheeler,“FiguresinaLandscape:BiosemioticsandtheEcologicalEvolutionof

CulturalCreativity”Recommended:JoeRoman,Whale,(Seealsothelistofrecommendedworksattheendof

Rothenberg’sbook)1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

OceanHistoryandAutobiography

WeekFive.September23rd.GaryKroll,America’sOceanWilderness,ACulturalHistoryofTwentiethCenturyExplorationClareBrant,“TranslatingCuttlefish:UnderwaterLifewritings”[SignuptopresentononechapterbyEugenie,Cousteau,orothers.]Recommended:alltheprimarysourcesincludedinKrollandBrant.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

EnvironmentalNonfiction

WeekSix.September30th.RachelCarson,TheSeaAroundUs.SylviaEarle,TheWorldIsBlueSusanPowerBratton,“ThinkingLikeaMackerel:RachelCarson’sUndertheSea‐WindasaSourceforaTrans‐EcotonalSeaEthic”[PDF]Recommended:TEDTalk(s)bySylviaEarleandothers:http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_wish_to_protect_our_oceans.html;moreofRachelCarson’soceanbooks,AlannaMitchell,Seasick.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

OceanPoetry

WeekSeven.October7th.Oceanpoetry:StanleyKunitz,“WellfleetWhale;”LesMurray,fromTranslations,MarkDoty,“Difference;”poemsbyLindaHogan,MaryOliver,andothers.JeanPainlevefilmsinclass.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

OceaniaandPostcolonialEnvironmentalisms

WeekEight.October14th.EpeliHau’Ofa,WeAretheOcean:SelectedWorks.ChambersandChambers,“FiveTakesonClimateandCulturalChangeinTuvalu”WatchoneofthefilmsonTuvaluonline,suchas“TheDisappearanceofTuvalu:TroubleinParadise”http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=164774705355714870#.SimonFoaleandMarthaMacintyre,“GreenFantasies:PhotographicrepresentationsofbiodiversityandecotourismintheWesternPacific”1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________[Hermanns2010:Food,Literature,andCulture.Attendatleasttwoevents(seminarsorpresentations)onWednesdaythe13th,Thursdaythe14th,orFridaythe15th.YouwillgetanextraweekoffinNovembertocompensateforattendingthisevent.]WeekNine.October21st.Film:WhaleRiderBrendanHokowhitu,“TheDeathofKoroPaka:“Traditional”MäoriPatriarchy”LindaHogan,PeopleoftheWhale.Recommended:SeanCubbitt,“NatureandDestiny:ThePerfectStormandWhaleRider,”inEcoMedia;GretaGaard,“ToolsforaCross‐CulturalFeministEthics:ExploringEthicalContextsandContentsintheMakahWhaleHunt,”inHypatia16.1(Winter2001);HelenTiffinandGrahamHuggan,PostcolonialEcocriticism:Literature,Animals,Environment;ElizabethM.DeLoughrey,RoutesandRootes:NavigatingCaribbeanandPacificIsland

Literature,andCaribbeanLiteratureandEnvironment:BetweenNatureandCulture;BrendaPetersonandLindaHogan,Sightings:TheGrayWhale’sMysteriousJourney.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

ScienceFiction,PopularScience,andTheory

WeekTen.October28th.JoanSlonczewski,ADoorintoOcean.LewisShiner,“TillHumanVoicesWakeUs”AntonisBalasopoulos,“’SufferaSeaChange’:SpatialCrisis,MaritimeModernity,andthePoliticsofUtopia”Recommended:PeterWatts,StarfishandMaelstrom;FrankSchatzingTheSwarm,StanislawLem,Solaris;KarenTravis,Matriarch.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________WeekEleven.November4th.BluePlanet,DiskOne,“OceanWorld,”DiskTwo,“OpenOcean:TheDeep”Jan‐ChristopherHorak,“WildlifeDocumentaries:FromClassicalFormstoRealityTV”SeanCubitt,“TheBluePlanet:VirtualNatureandNaturalVirtue”fromEcoMedia.TimothyMorton,“Ecologocentrism:UnworkingAnimals”CensusofMarineLifewebsite:http://www.coml.org/:watchvideosandbroseimages,read“aboutthecensusofmarinelife.”1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________

WeekTwelve.November11th.StefanHelmreich,AlienOcean:AnthropologicalVoyagesinMicrobialSeas[ClipsfromthefilmCrackingtheOceanCode,inclass]1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________WeekThirteen.November18th.Noclass.Dr.AlaimoattheASA.WeekFourteen.November25th.Noclass.ThanksgivingHoliday.[Notethatyouhavetwoweeksoff—enoughtimetowritethefirstdraftofyourseminarpaper!]

ActivistFilms

WeekFifteen.December2nd.DiscussJaws,Sharkwater,andTheCoveinclass.JulianMurphet,“PitiableorPoliticalAnimals?”Website:BlueVoice.organdOceanConservancy:http://www.bluevoice.org/andhttp://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home&cvridirect=trueRecommended:DavidIngram,“NorthAmericanOceanFauna”inGreenScreen;JonathanBurt,“Introduction”and“AnimalLifeandDeath”inAnimalsinFilm.1.______________________________________________________________________________________2.______________________________________________________________________________________