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Guidelines ENC1101 ENC1102 Writing Contest Winning Essays

Degrees Creative Writing Track Literature Track Technical Writing Track Minors Creative Writing Linguistics Literature Technical Writing and Editing Writing Honors Honors In The Major

Degrees Texts and Technology, Ph.D. Creative Writing, M.F.A. Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies, M.A. Rhetoric and Composition, M.A. Technical Communication, M.A. Certificates Professional Writing

Research Faulkner Journal Stylus: A Journal of First-Year Writing Literary Florida Review Cypress Dome

Professional Literary Arts Parnership Student Cypress Dome Society Sigma Tau Delta Future Technical Communicators Engineers Without Borders

Student Faculty

Events Highlights

James Campbell

Associate Professor

jcampbel@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Campus Location: CNH306G

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of Notre Dame (1996)

Research Interests

British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction

Selected Publications

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming “Kill the Bugger: Ender’s Game and the Question of Heteronormativity.” Forthcoming in Science Fiction Studies special issue on gender and sexuality.
"Just Less than Total War: Simulating World War II as Ludic Nostalgia." Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Ed. Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor. Nashville Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. 183-200.
“Interpreting the War.” The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War. Ed. Vincent Sherry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 261-79.
“Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism.” NLH: New Literary History 30.1 (1999): 203-16.
“‘For You May Touch Them Not’: Misogyny, Homosexuality, and the Ethics of Passivity in First World War Poetry.” ELH: English Literary History 64.3 (1997): 823-42.
“Enforced Aphasia: Language, Violence and Silence in Christopher Logue’s Homeric Poetry.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 7.4 (1997): 283-300.
“Coming Home: Difference and Reconciliation in Narratives of Return to ‘the World.’” The United States and Viet Nam from War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. McFarland and Company, 1996: 198-207.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
21979	LIT3313	SCIENCE FICTION	Rdce Time	Tu 10:30AM - 11:45AM
LIT 3313 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Science Fiction: PR: ENC 1102. An investigation of science fiction as a literary form, together with selected readings. Occasional. Science Fiction Literature A historically based survey of English language sf from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. We will cover definitions of the genre, aesthetic differences between science fiction and literary fiction, the origins of sf, the US pulp magazine era, the ‘Golden Age’ of the late 1930s to the 1950s, the New Wave, Cyberpunk, and contemporary trends. Overall, the course has two complementary foci: developing a sense of the meaning of science fiction as a specific discourse with its own history and aesthetics, and seeing science fiction as intimately related to its surrounding culture and thus the opposite of its stereotype of pure escapism. Reading materials include a course pack containing thirty-six stories, as well as four novels: The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Childhood’s Endby Arthur C. Clarke, Hothouseby Brian Aldiss, and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
11778	LIT4374	LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE	Face2Face	Tu,Th 3:00PM - 4:15PM
LIT 4374 CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Literature of the Bible: PR: Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENG 3014. Literary forms in the Bible — narrative, poetic, and dramatic — and their reflection in modern literature. Literature of the Bible The goals of this course are twofold: first, to give students a scholarly working knowledge of the Bible, and second to provide a beginning understanding of the various ways the Bible has been understood and interpreted in the last two thousand years. The first concern is a matter of cultural knowledge: the Bible is arguably the central text of Western culture and a knowledge of it is thus fundamental for any student in the humanities, irrespective of personal religious practice and belief. The second concern is a matter of discursive knowledge: quite a bit of an English major’s time is spent interpreting texts, and most of our ways of interpretation originated in techniques of biblical hermeneutics. There are two required texts: The Oxford Study Bible: The Revised English Biblewith Apocryphaand William Yarchin’s History of Biblical Interpretation.
11228	LIT4374H	HONORS LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE	Face2Face	Tu,Th 1:30PM - 2:45PM
LIT 4374H CAH-ENG 3(3,0) Honors Literature of the Bible: PR: Permission of Honors and ENC 1102H or equivalent credit. Literary forms in the Bible — narrative, poetic, and dramatic — and their reflection in modern literature. Honors content. Literature of the Bible The goals of this course are twofold: first, to give students a scholarly working knowledge of the Bible, and second to provide a beginning understanding of the various ways the Bible has been understood and interpreted in the last two thousand years. The first concern is a matter of cultural knowledge: the Bible is arguably the central text of Western culture and a knowledge of it is thus fundamental for any student in the humanities, irrespective of personal religious practice and belief. The second concern is a matter of discursive knowledge: quite a bit of an English major’s time is spent interpreting texts, and most of our ways of interpretation originated in techniques of biblical hermeneutics. There are two required texts: The Oxford Study Bible: The Revised English Biblewith Apocryphaand William Yarchin’s History of Biblical Interpretation.