English: Stories of the Body

Advanced study in writing practice, craft, and theory. Representative topics: Innovations in Life Writing; Protest and Persuasion; Stories of the Body. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisites: ENGL 2702, ENGL 2740, ENGL 2750, ENGL 2760, or ENGL 2770; English major, Secondary Education major with a concentration in English, English minor, or Writing minor; minimum Junior standing.

Prerequisites: ENGL 2702, ENGL 2740, ENGL 2750, ENGL 2760, or ENGL 2770; English major, Secondary Education major with a concentration in English, English minor, or Writing minor; minimum Junior standing PACE students with permission and override

“The body is not mute, but it is inarticulate; it does not use speech, but begets it,” says Arthur Frank in The Wounded Storyteller. Stories of the Body is a prose-writing senior seminar that examines the translation of bodily experience into written testimony. We’ll read essays and short stories that fall under themes including beauty, death, illness, sex, nature, and parenthood. Students will write two short stories/essays and one 10-page story/essay, the latter of which will be workshopped, revised, and expanded to 15-20 pages.