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Suzanne Scanlon

Assistant Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Education: BA, 1996, Barnard College, New York, NY. MA, 2003, English Studies, Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Current: Northwestern University Litowitz Fellowship in Creative Writing (MFA/MA). Publications: Promising Young Women (Dorothy, a publishing project 2012). Her 37th Year, an Index (Noemi Press, 2015). Fence Magazine, The Iowa Review, The American Scholar, Electric Literature, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, DIAGRAM. Bibliography: "Sorrow and the Feminine in Three Experimental Texts" Kristina Marie Darling, Los Angeles Review of Books; "I Long for Something Wild" Andrea Kleine, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 

 

Courses

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Description

This class will read texts that explore civil disobedience, protest, the role of the individual in society; the role of government in the lives of individuals; and the intersection of community, government and individuals. We will read from different historical periods, and explore how individual participation is essential for a functioning democracy. Readings will discuss different forms that participation takes, with special attention paid to various types of civil disobedience (Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, and others). Students in FYS I should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing (i.e. two essays and one in-depth revision) in addition to homework exercises and in-class writing.

Class Number

1458

Credits

3