Readings and Other Assignments should be completed before each class meeting.
Please note that dates may be subject to change. If so, announcements will be made in class and via the class website.
| Date | Reading | Other Assignments | In-class Workshop | |
| Week 1 | ||||
| Tuesday, January 21 | — | — | Introduction to class
Translation activity Assign Introductory Text |
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| Thursday, January 23 |
Read Translating Women packet with pieces on women who translate/ women in translation pieces Familiarize yourself with links in the articles (via course website) |
Community Guidelines bcourses post by 2pm Wednesday, January 22 Interest Inventory due (in Writing Folder)
Introductory Text due (on bcourses and in Writing Folder) Purchase course reader and course texts |
Community Guidelines
Women in translation discussion |
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| Week 2 Unit 1: Reading and Writing Women in Translation |
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| Tuesday, January 28 | Gabriela Mistral: “Locas mujeres” (Crazy Women) poems (from Lagar [Wine Press], 1954) | Purchase course reader and course texts | What is close reading?
Annotating close reading |
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| Thursday, January 30 |
Clarice Lispector: “Os laços de família” (“Family Ties”) (from Os laços de família, 1960) Writing Analytically Chapter 1: Five Analytical Moves (excerpt)
Writing Analytically Chapter 3: A Toolkit of Analytical Methods |
— | Heuristics toolkit | |
| Week 3 | ||||
| Tuesday, February 4 | Natalia Ginzburg: “Dear Giuseppe” (“Caro Giuseppe”) [from La città e la casa, The City and the House, 1985] | bcourses post | Form and content
From close reading to formulating questions |
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| Thursday, February 6 |
Elsa Morante: “The Mirrors” [from Aracoeli, 1982] Writing Analytically Chapter 8: “Using Evidence to Build a Paper: 10-on-1 vs. 1-on-10” |
— | From 10-on-1 to building body paragraphs with textual evidence
What is a college-level paper? Who is the ideal reader of an R1A paper? Assign Close Reading Text |
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| Week 4 | ||||
| Tuesday, February 11 | Jenny Zhang: “Our Mothers Before Them” (from Sour Heart, 2017) | Close Reading Text prewriting due (via bcourses) | What is a thesis statement?
What is the subordinating vs. the additive style? |
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| Thursday, February 13 | Jenny Zhang: “Our Mothers Before Them” (from Sour Heart, 2017) | Close Reading Text 10-on-1 body paragraph, key question(s) and working thesis due (via bcourses and print out for peer review before class) | Peer review interviews | |
| Week 5 | ||||
| Tuesday, February 18 | Translation across media (materials will be posted to website) | Close Reading Text due | Sign up for mandatory office hours next week | |
| Thursday, February 20 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (L’amica geniale, 2011) | — | What is an analytical claim?
From observations to claims Assign Analytical Essay 1 |
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Week 6 |
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| Tuesday, February 25 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011) | Analytical Essay 1 prewriting due by class time via email | The three-story house model | |
| Thursday, February 27 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011) | Post a draft of Analytical Essay 1 thesis statement to bCourses before class time, respond to two peers by 12pm Sunday | Building a body paragraph | |
| Week 7 | ||||
| Tuesday, March 3 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011) | Rough draft of Analytical Essay 1 due (2-3 pages; no introduction, no conclusion, just a thesis and body paragraphs) | Review sample analytical essay
Reverse outlining exercise to discuss logical progression and developing your argument |
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| Thursday, March 5 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011) | bcourses post | On titles
On introductions On conclusions Midsemester evaluations |
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| Week 8 | ||||
| Tuesday, March 10 | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011) | Bring in a (printed) complete draft of your Analytical Essay 1 (4-5 pages) for peer review | Editing vs. proofreading
Peer review My Brilliant Friend TV adaptation screening |
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| Thursday, March 12 | — | Final draft of Analytical Essay 1 due (4-5 pages) | My Brilliant Friend TV adaptation screening (contd.) | |
| Week 9 | ||||
| Tuesday, March 17 | — | Details to come | Creative Translation Projects workshop | |
| Thursday, March 19 | — | Details to come | Creative Translation Projects presentations | |
| Week 10 | ||||
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SPRING BREAK |
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| Week 11 Unit 2: Dramatizing Translation |
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| Tuesday, March 31 | Lara Cardella: Good Girls Don’t Wear Trousers (Volevo i pantaloni, 1988) | — | Assign Analytical Essay 2 | |
| Thursday, April 2 | Lara Cardella: Good Girls Don’t Wear Trousers (1988) | Analytical Essay 2 Pre-writing due via email | ||
| Week 12 | ||||
| Tuesday, April 7 | Lara Cardella: Good Girls Don’t Wear Trousers (1988) | — | Creating an effective outline: from prewriting to scaffolding | |
| Thursday, April 9 | — | Bring in a (printed) copy of Analytical Essay 2 working thesis statement and working outline for peer review | Peer review of working thesis statement and working outlineIn-class revision time | |
| Week 13 | ||||
| Tuesday, April 14 | Anne Lister: The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister (1819/1988) |
Analytical Essay 2 revised working thesis statement and outline due by Saturday at midnight Work on your Analytical Essay 2 3-4 body paragraphs |
Screening: The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister | |
| Thursday, April 16 |
Najat El Hachmi: Excerpt from La filla estrangera (The Foreign Daughter, 2015) Igiaba Scego: Excerpts from Adua (2015) |
bcourses post | Thinking European immigration and colonization through translation | |
| Week 14 | ||||
| Tuesday, April 21 | — | Analytical Essay 2 revised working thesis and 3-4 body paragraphs total | Peer review: backwards outline of Analytical Essay 2 3-4 body paragraphs | |
| Thursday, April 23 | Valeria Luiselli: “Home” (from Tell Me How It Ends, 2017) | Rough draft of Analytical Essay 2 (4-5 pages) due | Sign up for mandatory office hours next week | |
| Week 15 | ||||
| Tuesday, April 28 | Jhumpa Lahiri, “Impossibility” [“L’impossibilità] (from In Other Words, In altre parole, 2016) | Compile Final Portfolio Writing Gallery Slide (share with Marlena & Gianna via email) | ||
| Thursday, April 30 | — | Final draft of Analytical Essay 2 (6-7 pages) dueBring your laptop/tablet to class for Writing Gallery and final evals | End-of-semester Writing GalleryReflections and wrap-up
Final evaluations |
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| RRR week (May 4-8) | ||||
| Final Portfolio Letter due May 8, 12pm (via bcourses) | ||||
Translating Women 