Ecstatic Grief
ENGL 380
Spring 2026
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
In this hybrid forms workshop, we will devote ourselves to the study of the grieving body and composing hybrid texts as rituals of care. In the company of writers like Prageeta Sharma, Carolina Ebeid, Dawn Lundy Martin, dg okpik, Divya Victor, Christina Sharpe, angela rawlings, Heather Christle, Ilya Kaminsky, Mathias Svalina, Kristin Prevallet, Anne Carson, and Diana Khoi Nguyen, we will explore new elegiac forms and the many ways grief's dysregulation can reshape our syntactical tendencies. In part, this course is about learning to develop a writing practice that supports the grieving body as we consider the physiological effects of grief, the voice's connection to breath, lung health, epigenetic inheritance, and grieving rituals across the world. Special attention will also be given to cultivating community and the benefits of sustaining an embodied artistic practice during extreme times and how doing so may benefit the health of the whole artist. There will be presentations on assigned readings, in-class writing experiments, and intensive workshops of one another's work. The class will culminate in a book arts project and a poetics statement. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (English) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Diana Khoi Nguyen: ROOT FRACTURES
Dawn Lundy Martin: A GATHERING OF MATTER, A MATTER OF GATHERING
Carolina Ebeid: HIDE
K. Prevallet: I, AFTERLIFE
dg nanouk okpik: CORPSE WHALE
Anne Carson: NOX
Mathias Svalina: THANK YOU, TERROR
JENNIFER S CHENG: MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS
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Examinations and Assignments:
There will be bi-weekly presentations on the literature we read, as well as class discussions and workshops of one another's creative work. The class will culminate in a final book-arts project that consists of 10-15 pages of edited work as well as a 1,000 word reflective essay or poetics statement. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW upper-level workshop, elective.
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| Instructor(s): Vogel,Danielle Times: .....F. 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 12 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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