The Writers’ Lab: Responding to Literatures in English (2026/2027: Periode 1)

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Cursusdoel

Successful students will:
  • Have developed the sophisticated critical vocabulary and analytical tools required to enable them to respond in a complex fashion to literary and cultural texts from the English-speaking world and the Celtic-speaking world (in English translation);
  • Display a high level of proficiency in written and spoken English and a command of academic referencing in these responses.

Vakinhoudelijk

In this course, you will engage deeply with literary texts and translations from the Anglophone and Celtic-speaking world from the early Middle Ages to the present, encountering a range of forms and genres whilst learning the discipline-specific tools and tactics you’ll need to effectively discuss and write about literature in the coming years. Over the course of the term, you will learn how to read and interpret literary texts—specifically, texts that share themes of translation, transformation, and conversation. In thinking across medieval and modern literatures, you will learn to make critical judgements about different forms of editing, translation, and the presentation of texts in modern editions, all while working to develop your own particular writing and revision process. Our thematic focus on conversation will also lend itself to the ways in which we’ll often talk about writing and close reading as forms of conversation: an individual writer’s conversation with primary texts (in the form of annotation and close reading), intertextual conversation and reading texts (primary and secondary) as lenses for one another, the writer’s engagement and positioning within broader literary-critical conversations, and of course, the conversations around texts and ideas that will take place in collaborative seminar activities and via shared digital reading responses. Through lectures, seminars, and your own independent reading and writing, you will get a handle on discipline-specific writing, speaking, and research skills: utilizing terms of literary analysis; thinking analytically; engaging in critical discussions (orally and in writing); reading and interpreting scholarly articles; and correctly utilizing and citing the ideas of others in your own writing.

Aanvullende informatie

If you have already taken English Literature & Culture (EN1V14003), you may not take Writers' Lab due to excessive overlap in content.

Werkvormen

Hoorcollege
Toelichting

The lectures will offer an essential introduction to the English and Celtic literatures taken up in the course, defining and explaining key concepts and theories in literary studies and providing historical contexts for the texts under study, whilst also modeling contemporary modes of literary-critical analysis on specific texts.

Werkcollege
Toelichting

The seminars—largely student-driven—will give you the opportunity to practice close reading and argumentation through group exercises, discussion, and presentations. Seminars will also take a process writing approach, with students presenting essay-related work and receiving peer and instructor feedback at various stages.

Voorbereiding

Students are required to read all set texts, write assignments, and to study material on literary concepts.

Toetsing

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 60% | ECTS 4,5

Academic thinking, working and acting Communication skills Mastering of methods and techniques

Toets

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

Academic thinking, working and acting Communication skills Mastering of methods and techniques

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.

Voorkennis

A command of English at exit-level of Dutch VWO (level B2 for all skills as described in the Common European Framework).

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • LITERATUUR
    Heaney, Seamus.. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition). Norton.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (trans. by Seamus Heaney, any edition)
  • LITERATUUR
    Gardner, John: Grendel (Vintage)
  • LITERATUUR
    Lisa Robertson, Debbie: An Epic (Wave Books)

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. R.G.J.L. Supheert R.G.J.L.Supheert@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. A. Scholten a.scholten@uu.nl
dr. G.C. Greiner g.c.greiner@uu.nl
dr. J.G.L.A. Riesthuis j.g.l.a.riesthuis@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 8 juni 2026 tot en met vrijdag 26 juni 2026

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