Thurs The Career **Academic's Handbook, Part III: Academic Employment, 113-178
*Goodwin, "Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization," Academic's Handbook, 73-80
*Budd, "On Writing Scholarly Articles," Academic's Handbook, 249-262
*Lucas and Murry, New Faculty: A Practical Guide for Academic Beginners, passim
*Goldschmithe et al., The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career, passim
Germano, Getting it Published, passim
Vesilind, "The Responsible Conduct of Academic Research," Academic's Handbook, 104-111
Rowson, "The Scholar and the Art of Publishing," 273-285
Campbell, "Effects of the Networked Environment on Publishing and Scholarship," Academic's Handbook, 286-296
Urgo, "The Affiliation Blues" (copy: excerpts from Symploke)
Terry Caesar, "Affiliation in a Career of Specialization" (copy: excerpts from Symploke
Di Leo, "On Being and Becoming Affiliated" (copy: excerpts from Symploke

•Bibliographies:
-Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
-Linguistic Bibliography for the Year
-Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
-MLA International Bibliography
-Dissertation Abstracts International

•Journals:
-Language (from the LSA)
-Journal of Germanic Linguistics (from SGL)
-Discourse and Society
-Discourse Studies

•Meetings:
-LSA: just after New Year's
-Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference : April
-NAHoLS/ICHolS: every two years; international
-MLA (comparatively few linguistics sections): Dec. 27-30

••ASSIGNMENT:
1) Go look at issues of at least two of the journals listed above (and note that there may be a "program edition" or a "call for papers" for the annual conventions in some of them); try out at least one of the on-line bibliographies, and see what trouble you have using it, or limits you discover.
2) Have prepared at least three questions about what you think are research difficulties or issues, dominant trends, professional issues, desirable foci. They may have the form "I get the impression that X is what's going on; yes or no?"
These may be collected.

Thurs ••PRACTICUM: LINGUISTICS BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT DRAFT DUE

Thurs The How-To: Structural Existence •Professional Organizations:
-American Association for Teachers of German
-American Association for Applied Linguistics
-American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
-Council on College Composition and Communication
-TESOL
-Modern Language Association

•Bibliographies:
-Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
-MLA Bibliography<
- Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
-International Review of Applied Linguistics
-Reading Research Quarterly
-ERIC
-Education Index
-PsychLit
-Dissertation Abstracts International

•Journals:
-TESOL Quarterly
-Modern Language Journal
-Studies in Second Language Acquisition
-FLAnnals
-Unterrichtspraxis (its equivalents are Hispania and French Studies)

•Meetings:
-ACTFL: November
-AATG: usually November
-CCCC: late spring

••ASSIGNMENT:
1) Go look at issues of at least two of the journals listed above (and note that there may be a "program edition" or a "call for papers" for the annual conventions in some of them); try out at least one of the on-line bibliographies, and see what trouble you have using it, or limits you discover.
2) Have prepared at least three questions about what you think are research difficulties or issues, dominant trends, professional issues, desirable foci. They may have the form "I get the impression that X is what's going on; yes or no?"
These may be collected.

Thurs LITERARY STUDIES: CLASSICAL AND CANONICAL
**Lipking, "Literary Criticism," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 79-97
**Hernandi, "Literary Theory," Introduction to Scholarship (I), 98-115
**Scholes, "Canonicity and Textuality," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 138-158
**Marshall, Literary Interpretation," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 159-182
**Culler, "Literary Theory," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 201-235
*PMLA: Special Millennium Issue, 115, # 7(December 2000) --SKIM!!
••ASSIGNMENT: Explain the "classical" role and projects of the study of literature in departments, and list/explain at least three ways that they have changed in the 10 years between the two editions of the textbooks (may be collected).

•Bibliographies:
-Modern Language Association
- H. V. Eppelsheimer and C. Kottelwesch, eds. Bibliographie der deutschen (Sprach- und) Literaturwissenschaft
-Germanistik: Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen
-The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
-Biblio-Data <http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/bibliodatass.html>
-FRANCIS
-Arts and Humanities Index
-OCLC
-Books in Print/Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher

•Professional Organizations:<
-Modern Language Association
-German Studies Association
-American Association of Teachers of German
-Scandinavian Studies Association
-Women in German
NOTE: almost every period, major scholar, or movement has its own specialty organization, with its own journal -- see list at back of September PMLA of "allied organizations" for partial listing, and dept. website

•Meetings:
-GSA: October
-Medieval Studies Association: in Kalamazoo, each spring
-AATG: November
-Scandinavian Studies Association: Apri
MLA: 27-30 December

-REGIONAL MLAs:
-South Central MLA (TEXAS): October
-South Atlantic MLA
-Rocky Mountain MLA
-Midwest MLA
-Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
-Northeast MLA

••ASSIGNMENT:
1) Go look at issues of at least two of the journals listed above (and note that there may be a "program edition" or a "call for papers" for the annual conventions in some of them); try out at least one of the on-line bibliographies, and see what trouble you have using it, or limits you discover.
2) Have prepared at least three questions about what you think are research difficulties or issues, dominant trends, professional issues, desirable foci. They may have the form "I get the impression that X is what's going on; yes or no?"
These may be collected.

Thurs **PRACTICUM: LITERARY STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT DUE

Thurs CROSSING DISCIPLINES AND LANGUAGES
**Bathric, "Cultural Studies," Introduction to Scholarship (II), 320-340
**Gunn, "Interdisciplinary Studies," Intro. to Scholarship (II), 239-261
**Denham, et. al, eds. A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies:
-Teraoka, "Multiculturalism and the Study of German Literature," 63-78
-Bammer, "Interrogating Germanness," 31-44
-Crew, "Who's Afraid of Cultural Studies," 45-61
-Kacandes, "German Cultural Studies," 3-28
-Chapter 32: Selected Annotated bibliographies, 529-536
*PMLA Forum on Interdisciplinary Studies, 111, # 2 (March 1996) (copy)
*Lefevere, Translating Literature (translation as particularly suitable as an approach for small languages)

-NOTE: area studies journals are in OTHER disciplines, not German; e.g
Hypatia (women and philosophy)
American Imago (psychoanalytic approaches to culture and lit.)
Central European History
Wide Angle (film studies)
Signs (feminism)
Comparative Literature

•Bibliographies:
-Historical Abstracts
-Nexis/Lexis<
-Philosopher's Index
-Arts and Humanities Index
-ArtsIndex
-FRANCIS

•Professional Organizations:
-Modern Language Association
-German Studies Association
-American Association of Teachers of German
-Scandinavian Studies Association
-Netherlandic Studies Association
-League for Yiddish

•Meetings:
-GSA: October
-Kalamazoo: Medieval Studies
-Scandinavian Studies Association: April

••ASSIGNMENT:
1) Go look at issues of at least two of the journals listed above (and note that there may be a "program edition" or a "call for papers" for the annual conventions in some of them); try out at least one of the on-line bibliographies, and see what trouble you have using it, or limits you discover.
2) Have prepared at least three questions about what you think are research difficulties or issues, dominant trends, professional issues, desirable foci. They may have the form "I get the impression that X is what's going on; yes or no?"
These may be collected.

Thurs **PRACTICUM: CULTURAL STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT DUE

Geistesgeschichte
**H. A. Korff, "Goethezeit und Ideengeschichte" (copy)
*Manon Maren-Griesebach, "Geistesgeschichtliche Methode" (copy)
*Rudolf Unger, "Literaturgeschichte und Geistesgeschichte" (copy = Zmegac, Methoden)
Emil Staiger, "Von der Aufgabe und den Gegenständen der Literaturwissenschaft" (copy = Zmegac, Methoden)
Karl Riha, "Literaturwissenschaft als Geistesgeschichte" (copy = Zmegac, Kritik)
Wilhelm Dilthey, "Allgemeine Sätze über den Zusammenhang der Geisteswissenschaften" (copy)
•non-German readers: Droysen, "Outline of the Principles of History" (copy)
Burckhardt, "On Fortune and Meaning in History" (copy)
Dilthey, "Patterns and Meaning in History" (copy)
••ASSIGNMENT: define the data, method, and goals of each school of interpretation (e.g., what it looks at, how, and why)

Thurs Text-Intrinsic Criticism, or "strong reading" (New Criticism, Formalism, and Phenomenology/Hermeneutics)
New Criticism
**W.K. Wimsatt & Monroe C. Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy," "The Affective Fallacy," (Adams, ed., copy, 944-959)
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (Adams, ed., copy, 760-766)

Phenomenology
*Martin Heidegger, "Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry," 757-765
Roman Ingarden, "Phenomenological Aesthetics," 184-197
Edmund Husserl, "Phenomenology," 657-663
Manon Maren-Griesebach, "Phenomenologische Methode" (copy)

Formalism and Prague School
**Jan Mukarovsky, "Standard Language and Poetic Language," (Adams, ed., copy, 975-982)
Boris Eichenbaum, "Theory of the 'Formal Method'," (Adams, ed., copy, 800-816)
Mikhail M. Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," 664-678
••ASSIGNMENT: define the data, method, and goals of each school of interpretation (e.g., what it looks at, how, and why)

Thurs Linguistic Approaches (Speech Act, Structuralism/Semiotics)
Linguistics
**Ferdinand de Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics," 645-656
Benjamin Lee Whorf, "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language," 709-723
Noam Chomsky, "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax," 37-58
* --- , "Managua Lectures 1 & 2" (copy)

Speech Act Theory
**J.L. Austin, "How to Do Things with Words," 832-838
John R. Searle, "What Is a Speech Act?," 59-69

Structuralism/Semiotics
*Y. Lotman & B.A. Uspensky, "On the Semiotic Mechanism of Culture," 408-422
Claude Lévi-Strauss, "The Structural Study of Myth," 808-822
••ASSIGNMENT: define the data, method, and goals of each school of interpretation (e.g., especially how a linguistic theory prescribes a text analysis)

Reception Theory
**Hans Robert Jauss, "Paradigmawechsel in der Literaturwissenschaft" (Zmegac, Methoden)
Hans Robert Jauss, "Literary History as a Challenge to L. Theory," 163-183
Wolfgang Iser, "The Repertoire," 359-380

Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," "Of Grammatology,","Difference," 79-136
Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?," "Discourse on Language," 137-162
Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Literary Commentary as Literature," 344-358
J. Hillis Miller, "The Critic as Host," 450-468
••ASSIGNMENT: define the data, method, and goals of each school of interpretation (e.g., what it looks at, how, and why)

Thurs Class project: sample interpretations in each school's style
••ASSIGNMENT: Precis due (see handout: 1 essay + interp. of "Bettelweib")

Post-Colonial and National-Identity Criticism
**Homi K. Bhabha, "DissemiNation" (copy)
Edward W. Said, "Secular Criticism," 604-622
Reingard Nethersole, "Models of Globalization" (copy)

Feminisms
*Sandra M. Gilbert, "Literary Paternity," 485-496
Lillian S. Robinson, "Treason Our Text," 571-582
*Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa," 308-320
Julia Kristeva, "Women's Time," 469-484
••ASSIGNMENT: define the data, method, and goals of each school of interpretation (e.g., what kind of identity it looks at, how, and why)

Thurs Class project: sample interpretations in each school's style
••ASSIGNMENT: Precis due (see handout: 1 essay + interp. of "Bettelweib")