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Topic |
Assignment due or Reading to complete |
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F 8/27 |
Course Intro. By Sandra Cisneros |
Access syllabus www.uta.edu/faculty/kulesz
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M 8/30
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Methods for Reading Life Narrative
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Smith & Watson, Read Chapter 1
Floyd & Foster, The Recipe Reader, Chapter One: “The Recipe in its Cultural Context." (especially pp. 6-8). (Bits and Bites due) Available at Library Reserve desk in Central Library or from Googlebooks
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W 9/1 |
Methods for Reading Life Narrative
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Smith & Watson, Read Chapters 2-4
(Bits and Bites due) |
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F 9/3 |
Methods for Reading Life Narrative
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Smith & Watson, Read Chapters 5-6
Campbell, “M.F.K. Fisher and the Embodiment of Desire: A Study in Autobiography and Food as Metaphor.” BIOGRAPHY, Spring 1997, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 181-202 (Bits and Bites due) Available through electronic reserve or at Library Reserve Desk at Central Library.
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M 9/6 |
Labor Day Holiday
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W 9/8 |
Methods for Reading Life Narrative
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Smith & Watson, Read Chapter 7 and scan appendixes
Heller & Moran, Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing. Intro. Pp. 1-44 (Bits and Bites due) Ch. 11, “ ‘A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective:’ Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Writing.” pp. 215-238 Available at Library Reserve desk in Central Library. (Bits and Bites due) |
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F 9/10 |
Cookbooks as Life Narrative and History |
Theophano, Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote. Intro. pp. 1-10 (click for link to Googlebooks) (Bits and Bites due)
Ch. 4. “Cookbooks as Autobiography,” pp. 117-154 (pages 117-134 online) Available at Library Reserve desk in Central Library. (Bits and Bites due) |
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M 9/13 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
Read entire text by today Caged Bird Reading Notes Due |
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W 9/15 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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F 9/17 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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“At one time, I described myself as a cook, a driver, and a writer. I no longer drive, but I do still write and I do still cook." ---Maya Angelou
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M 9/20 |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
[Bread baking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating |
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W 9/22 |
Food Memoirs |
Read: Barbara Frey Waxman, “Food Memoirs: What They Are, Why They Are Popular, and Why They Belong in the Literature Classroom” from College English Available from UTA library reserves (electronic version)
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F 9/24 |
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya |
Read entire text by today Bento Box Reading Notes Due |
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M 9/27 |
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya |
Read this Critical Article |
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Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America by Linda Furiya
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M 10/4 |
My Life in France By Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme
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Julia Child in popular culture |
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W 10/6 |
My Life in France By Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme |
Discuss Foreword through Chapter 4 My Life Reading Notes Due |
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F 10/8 |
My Life in France By Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme
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Discuss Chapters 5 through epilogue
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M 10/11
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My Life in France By Julia Child & Alex Prud’Homme
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"What I learned from Julia Child" Essay Due |
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W 10/13 |
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F 10/15 |
Hermanns Lecture
“Food & Culture” |
Attend lecture in sixth floor parlor UTA Central Library
Read articles from speakers and prepare Bits and Bites over lecture |
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M 10/18 |
Hermanns Recap |
Hermanns Bits and Bites Due |
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W 10/20 |
Food Writing |
blogs.salon.com/0001399/juliepowell.blogspot.com/ Blogs, Websites, Magazines, Newspaper, Television |
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F 10/22 |
Julie and Julia: By Julie Powell |
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M 10/25 |
Julie and Julia: By Julie Powell
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Julie/Julia Reading Notes Due |
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W 10/27 |
Julie and Julia: By Julie Powell |
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F 10/29 |
Julie and Julia Film Discussion
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View film: Julie and Julia You will watch this on your own time before class |
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M 11/1 |
Presentation preparation and sign-up |
Food Film Presentation and Essay
(Due on presentation day)
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W 11/3 |
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Childhood by Elva Trevino Hart
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Links to two articles:
Journal of International Women's Studies
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F 11/5 |
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Childhood by Elva Trevino Hart
Last Day to Drop a Class |
Barefoot Heart Reading Notes Due Discuss Chapters 2-6 What are dichos? How does Trevino-Hart use them and to what purpose?
Paula Gunn Allen: "Border" Studies: the Intersection of Gender and Color |
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M 11/8 |
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Childhood by Elva Trevino Hart
Final Essay working thesis due |
Discuss Chapters 7-10
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W 11/10 |
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Childhood by Elva Trevino Hart |
Bring and/or review Introduction to Scenes of the Apple by Heller & Moran |
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F 11/12 |
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Childhood by Elva Trevino Hart
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Final Discussion of text
Exam Overview |
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M 11/15 |
EXAM |
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W 11/17
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Presentations |
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F 11/19
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Presentations |
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M 11/22 |
Presentations |
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W 11/24
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No class these 2 days
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FINAL ESSAY DUE by Wednesday (11/24) at midnight. Submit through Blackboard SafeAssignment |
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F 11/26 |
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M 11/30 |
Presentations |
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W 12/1 |
Presentations |
Essays returned with comments and markings (You must have turned in a draft to receive ANY credit.) |
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M 12/6 & W 12/8 |
Presentations |
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F 12/10
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Class Evaluations & Wrap-Up
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Final Essay Due by noon TODAY--submit through SafeAssignment |
