English 2025-008: Fictions of Mind Dr.

Trey Strecker

Spring 2018 Reading and Assignment Schedule

Week 1
Wednesday, January 10
Introduction to the course
Friday, January 12
Franzzetto and Anker, “Neuroculture” (on Moodle)

Week 2
Monday, January 15—Martin Luther King Jr. Day
No Class Meeting
Wednesday, January 17
Shelley, Frankenstein (1-35; volume 1, through chapter III)
Friday, January 19
Shelley, Frankenstein (35-60; end of volume 1)
Final date for dropping courses without receiving a grade of “W,” 4:30 p.m. deadline

Week 3
Monday, January 22
Shelley, Frankenstein (61-101; volume 2, through chapter VIII)
Wednesday, January 24
Shelley, Frankenstein (101-133; volume 3, through chapter IV)
Friday, January 26
Shelley, Frankenstein (133-161; finish the novel)

Week 4
Monday, January 29
Reading and Writing about Fiction
Mellor, “Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein” (355-368)
Wednesday, January 31
Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1-19)
Friday, February 2
Stevenson, Strange Case (19-47)
Short Response Essay 1 (Shelley) Due

Week 5
Monday, February 5
Stevenson, Strange Case (47-62)
Wednesday, February 7
Myers, “Multiplex Personality” (134-136)
Stiles, “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain” (on Moodle)
Friday, February 9
James, “The Stream of Consciousness” (on Moodle)
Blinder, “The Autobiographical Self: Who We Know and Who We Are” (on Moodle)

Week 6
Monday, February 12—Mardi Gras Holiday
Wednesday, February 14—Mardi Gras Holiday (classes resume at 12:30 p.m.)
Friday, February 16
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (3-29)
Short Response Essay 2 (Stevenson) Due

Week 7
Monday, February 19
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (29-56)
Wednesday, February 21
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (56-94)
Friday, February 23
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (94-122)
Zunshine, “Theory of Mind and Experimental Representations of Fictional
Consciousness” (on Moodle)

Week 8
Monday, February 26
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (122-165)
Wednesday, February 28
Individual Conferences—No Class Meeting
Friday, March 2
Individual Conferences—No Class Meeting

Week 9
Monday, March 5
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (165-194)
Wednesday, March 7
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (1-34)
Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” (on Moodle)
Friday, March 9
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (35-74)
Short Response Essay 3 (Woolf) Due
Week 10
Monday, March 12
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (75-109)
Wednesday, March 14
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (110-154)
Friday, March 16
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (157-192)

Week 11
Monday, March 19
Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances (193-240)
Wednesday, March 21
Fortin, “Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances: A Meteorology of the Mind” (on
Moodle)
Friday, March 23
Short Response Essay 4 (Galchen) Due
Roth, “Rise of the Neuronovel” (on Moodle)
Final date for dropping courses, 4:30 p.m. deadline

Week 12
SPRING BREAK

Week 13
Monday, April 2
Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (1-33)
Wednesday, April 4
Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (33-73)
Friday, April 6
Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (73-111)

Week 14
Monday, April 9
Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (111-140)
Wednesday, April 11
Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (140-182)
Bein, “Present Women/Absent Men in Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men” (on
Moodle)
Friday, April 13
Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement (3-53)
Week 15
Monday, April 16
Powers, Generosity (57-102)
Short Response Essay 5 (Hustvedt) Due
Wednesday, April 18
Powers, Generosity (102-149)
Thursday, April 19
Rough Draft of Critical Essay Due (email to peer-review group and instructor by 5 p.m.)
Friday, April 20
Revision Workshop for Critical Essay
Powers, Generosity (149-197)

Week 16
Monday, April 23
Powers, Generosity (197-242)
Wednesday, April 25
Powers, Generosity (242-296)
Friday, April 27
Hopker, “Happiness in Distress: Richard Powers’s Generosity and Narratives of the
Biomedical Self” (on Moodle)
Review for Final Exam

If you choose to write Short Response Essay 6 (Powers), please email it to me before 5 p.m. on
Monday, April 30.

Final Exam: Wednesday, May 2—3:00-5:00 p.m.

Final Draft of Critical Essay Due