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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

Dawn Trouard

Professor

dtrouard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
407-823-3695
Office Hours: Spring 2009 by appt. only
Campus Location: CNH207B

Education

Ph.D. in English from Rice University (1981)
M.A. in English from Texas A&M University (1975)
B.A. in English from Texas A&M University (1974)

Selected Publications

Books

Conversations with Anne Beattie (edited, with introduction and interview). Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2006.
Reading Faulkner's Sanctuary. (co-authored with Edwin Arnold). Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.
Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller. (edited, with introduction). Kent: Kent State UP, 1989.

Articles/Essays

“The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi." “Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe – Europe in the American South.” Ed. Richard Gray and Waldemar Zacherarasieswicz. Vienna: Austiran Academy of Sciences P, 2007. 257-76.
“From Texas with Love: Welty’s Collateral Snopeses.” The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor. Ed. Ed Piacentino. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. 86-101.
“Burying Below Sea Level: The Erotics of Sex and Death in The Optimist’s Daughter.” Mississippi Quarterly 56.2 (2003): 231-50.

Book Reviews

"Southern Women Writers, Racism, and Racists." Rev. of Sites of Southern Memory by Darlene O'Dell and Willa Cather's Southern Connections, by Ann Romines (ed.). Southern Literary Journal 36.3 (2004): 176-78.

Conference Papers/Presentations

“Seeing Cather and Welty through Vermeer’s Squared Windows: Preliminaries.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Williamsburg, VA. Mar. 2008.
“The Best Time They Never Had: Faulkner’s Bored Women.” Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference: Sexualties. Oxford, MS. July, 2007.
“Bent Gender/Bent Genre: Sex and the Excesses of If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.” Southern Studies Forum 2005: Poverty and Progress in the South. Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, The Netherlands. Sept. 2005.
"’Remembering How to Seem’: Teaching the Dead.” 18th Annual Holloway Lecture. McDaniel College. Westminister, MD. Nov. 2003.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number	Course	Title	Mode	Date and Time
11248	AML4300	MAJOR AMERICAN AUTHORS	Rdce Time	M,W 1:30PM - 2:20PM
AML 4300-0M01 Major Author: William Faulkner “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” Join me in a rigorous study of America’s most acclaimed modernist, William Faulkner. The focus will be on the fiction from Faulkner’s own “little postage stamp of native soil,” mythic Yoknapatawpha County. A native Mississippian, Faulkner captures in his fiction the crucible of race, class, and gender politics of 20th century America. He meant what he said: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Texts will include The Sound and the Fury (Norton), Sanctuary, As I Lay Dying, Light in August [Lib. of America], Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International [VI]), Go Down Moses and Other Stories (VI), and The Hamlet (VI). In addition, various key works of criticism, biography, and short fiction will supplement the major works. MLA Handbook 7th is required. PR: Grade of C (2.0) or better required in ENG 3014. This course may be repeated for credit only when course content is different.
21735	LIT6938	SPECIAL TOPICS	Rdce Time	W 7:30PM - 9:00PM
Teaching College Literature “[The student’s] taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.” Flannery O’Connor Even before Greek ceased to be part of the curriculum, how to educate has been debated and the collapse of the academy has been predicted. Standards seem to have never not been declining and the constant is the undervalued teacher. Recent books on the academy favor words like “ruins,” “failing,” and “clueless.” At some point, the text went missing and public universities erected their own golden arches and students checked out—happy or unhappy customers of their educational product. After exploring the historical literary and professional debates, we will investigate some pedagogical theories and identify practical techniques for teaching literature in the college classroom. Some questions will govern our explorations: What roles do authority and integrity play when teaching literature? How do we prepare to teach a literary work? What should happen as we teach? The course will be anchored by “the anxieties” Elaine Showalter takes up in Teaching Literature (Blackwell). Beyond the selected literary specimens, students will read extensively in works by critics and practioners like Barzun, Graff, Hall, hooks, Kolodny, Lauter, Scholes, and many others). There will be an opportunity to develop and test a lesson plan, problematize interpretation, debate grading practices, examine the trauma of syllabi development, and survive student insurrection.