Week 2: Faculty, Field, Footprint

In class

• Getting to know our faculty:
  • Visit: https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff
    • Table 1: Atkinson to Flores
    • Table 2: Groover to Wahpeconiah
    • Table 3: Wilson to Searfoss
    • Table 4: Vernon to Mannon
  • Share your findings with the class in a 1-2 minute presentation.
• Conversations:
  • The field: history, major areas, specializations
  • Academia: tenure-stream vs non tenure stream, rank, job market expectations
• Your Digital Footprint:
  • Exercise: Look yourself up. What can you discover about yourself online? What social networks you have accounts in?
  • Managing your online identity, creating or curating your digital footprint:
    • ORCID
    • Humanities Commons
    • HASTAC
    • Reclaim Hosting
    • Social Networks with Academic Presence: Twitter, Facebook
    • Google Scholar

Assignments

• Readings:
  • Viktor Shklovsky "Art as Technique"
  • Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt, Jr. (1350-1402)
  • Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" (1466-1469)
  • Louise Rosenblatt "Transactional Theory in the Teaching of Literature"
  • Wolfgang Iser (1670-1681)
• Writing Assignment:
  • Write a 1-2 page summary of the key concepts of Russian Formalism (Shklovsky), New Criticism (Brooks, Wimsatt, Barthes), and Reader's Response Theory (Rosenblatt, Iser).
  • Post this by Tuesday, August 30 in Google Classroom.
  • Read and comment on two classmates' postings before class on Thursday.

Class meets in Belk Library room 024 next week.