Week 1 Anglo/Anglo-American Futurisms
W JANUARY 8 – First Day of Class! Introduction.
HOMEWORK: READ “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
F JANUARY 10 – Washington Irving, the Early Republic and Basic Time Traveling
HOMEWORK: WATCH Encino Man – available via MRC (in library use and for checkout) or through various pay streaming services.
Week 2 African/African-American Futurisms
M JANUARY 13: Chro-futurisms
HOMEWORK: READ “Afric-American Picture Gallery” by ETHIOP (first half: first, second, and third installments)
W JANUARY 15: Afro-futurisms
HOMEWORK: READ “Afric-American Picture Gallery” by ETHIOP (second half: fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh installments)
F JANUARY 17: FUTURISMS in Science Fiction
HOMEWORK: READ Octavia Butler’s Kindred [Prologue – The Fire]
Week 3 African-American Pastisms
M JANUARY 20: MLK JR DAY – NO CLASS
W JANUARY 22: Octavia Butler
HOMEWORK: READ Kindred [The Fall – The Storm]
F JANUARY 24: Kindred’s kinships – Screening Quantum Leap Episode
HOMEWORK: READ Kindred [The Rope – Epilogue]
SELECT 3 POTENTIAL TEXTS: post your selections and a brief explanation (one sentence) of each selected text describing why you are drawn to each text by Sunday January 26 midnight.
Week 4 African-American Pastisms and Anglo/Anglo-American Pastisms
M JANUARY 27: Kindred’s pasts and futures
HOMEWORK: WATCH Back to the Future available via UNC’s MRC or in pay and other streaming options
W JANUARY 29: Back to the future/past
HOMEWORK: READ Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Preface and explanation through Chapter VIII (8)
F JANUARY 31: Mark Twain
HOMEWORK: READ Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Chapters IX- XVIII (9-18)
Week 5 Anglo/Anglo-American Pastisms
M FEBRUARY 3 : Mark Twain and Satire – Screening Outlander Series
HOMEWORK: READ Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Chapters IX-XXVII (19-27)
W FEBRUARY 5 : Arthurian Legends in 19th century America –
HOMEWORK: READ Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Chapters XXVIII-XXXV (28-35)
F FEBRUARY 7: Connecticut Yankees
HOMEWORK: READ Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court XXXVI-END (36-end)
Week 6 Anglo/Anglo-American Pastisms
M FEBRUARY 10: ARTHURIAN COURTS IN AMERICAN IMAGINATIONS
HOMEWORK: Watch Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
W FEBRUARY 12: Excellent Adventures in Time Travel
HOMEWORK: LISTEN to “Hound Tall #35: Time Travel,” Hound Tall Discussion Series, 2017. (Podcast Episode)
F FEBRUARY 14: One Minute Time Machine and The Logic of Time Travel
HOMEWORK: READ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapters I-VIII
Keyword: post your final text and its keyword or phrase along with a brief explanation (one to three sentence) describing why this keyword/phrase best expresses the meaning, conflict, or complexity by Sunday February 17 at midnight.
Week 7 Time Travel – its mechanics
M FEBRUARY 17: HG Wells and Time Machines
HOMEWORK: READ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapters IX-Epilogue
W FEBRUARY 19 – Time Machines – Time Sled
HOMEWORK: WATCH Idiocracy (available on most streaming platforms as well as Internet Archive)
F FEBRUARY 21: Idiocracy
HOMEWORK: READ Robert Heinlein, “All You Zombies,” Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine 1959. (Short Story)
Week 8 Time Travel – its paradoxes
M FEBRUARY 24: Time Travel Paradoxes
HOMEWORK: WATCH Chris Marker’s La Jétée (link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfXCkFQtXw
W FEBRUARY 26: Time Travel Missions
HOMEWORK: READ Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book Chapters 1-8
F FEBRUARY 28: Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book Chapters 9-13
HOMEWORK: READ Connie Willis’s Doomsday
Week 9 Traveling to Nostalgic Pasts
M MARCH 2: Screening of Pleasantville
HOMEWORK: READ Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book Chapters 14-18
W MARCH 4: Screening of Pleasantville
HOMEWORK: READ Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book Chapters 19-23
F MARCH 6 Screening of Pleasantville
HOMEWORK: FINISH Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book 24-END
Week 10: SPRING BREAK
M MARCH 9 – SPRING BREAK
W MARCH 11 – SPRING BREAK
F MARCH 13 – SPRING BREAK
Sentence: post your research question or thesis sentence(s) by Friday at 5pm.
Week 11 Time Paradoxes of Looping
M MARCH 16: Doomsday Book – Recap!
HOMEWORK: WATCH TBD
W MARCH 18: TBD
HOMEWORK: READ Ken Grimwood’s Replay
F MARCH 20: Ken Grimwood – Looping Narratives
HOMEWORK: READ Ken Grimwood’s Replay
Extended Spring Break
Week 12 Time Paradoxes of Looping
M MARCH 23: Regroup – meeting via ZOOM – link here and in email:
HOMEWORK: Review Doomsday Book and take Doomsday book quiz before class
W MARCH 25: Doomsday Book!
HOMEWORK: Review Pleasantville
F MARCH 27: Pleasantville!
HOMEWORK: WATCH Groundhog’s Day
Week 13 Times Paradoxes of Looping Narratives
M MARCH 30: Groundhog’s Day’s Looping Narrative
HOMEWORK: READ Ted Chiang’s “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”
W APRIL 1: Ted Chiang’s Time-Traveling Gate
HOMEWORK: READ Ted Chiang’s “What’s Expected of Us”
F APRIL 3: What IS Expected of Us
HOMEWORK: READ Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom”
Week 14 Time Paradoxes of Multiverse
M APRIL 6: Prisms and Multiverses
HOMEWORK: Work on Prospectus – email for assistance or to set up a meeting Wednesday
W APRIL 8: Conferences!
HOMEWORK: READ Life after Life Pages 1-144 or “Be Ye Men of Valor” through the ninth chapter titled “Snow 11 February 1910”
F APRIL 10: GOOD FRIDAY
Prospectus: 1 Page Prospectus DUE by Saturday April 11
Week 15 Time Paradoxes of Looping Multiverses
M APRIL 13: Kate Atkinson – the author and her works
HOMEWORK: READ Life after Life pages 145-248 or “Like a Fox in a Hole”
W APRIL 15: Life after Life
HOMEWORK: READ Life after Life pages 249-328 – or all the chapters titled “A Lovely Day Tomorrow”
F APRIL 17: Kate Atkinson and Afterlives – Theories of Reincarnation: Eternal Reoccurrence
HOMEWORK: READ Life after Life pages 329-478 or “The Land of Begin Again” through “A Long Hard War”
Week 16 Looping Multiverses
M APRIL 20: A Long Hard War
HOMEWORK: READ Life after Life pages 479-END or “The End of the Beginning” through the end
W APRIL 22: LIFE AFTER LIFE AFTER LIFE AFTER LIFE
HOMEWORK: CREATE STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL
FRIDAY APRIL 24: LDOC – FINAL PAPER DUE!
Week 17 & 18
M May 4th at 8AM: FINAL EXAM FOR ENGL 146 002