Hi All,
This post (like the class email I just sent) contains several updates and important information. Please read carefully.
Overview
- Important Date(s)
- Readings for Next Week
- Schedule of Assignments Changes
- Signing Up for Panel Paper Presentations
- Office Hours
Important Date(s):
Saturday, September 9th at 4:00 pm
- Deadline to email me your top two priorities for the Panel Paper assignments [See Line H]
Readings for Next Week:
Next week, we will put the two slave narratives pieces in conversation with contemporary artists’ reflections and / or revisioning of slavery and slave narratives.
A) If you have not finished the Jacobs and Brown readings, you should do so.
B) You should read, watch, and view the various texts listed on the syllabus under “Neo Slave Narratives”
C) Because there are a bunch of little texts for Kara Walker, the link on the schedule of assignment page takes you to a post on the site dedicated specifically to the Kara Walker related texts. The Ailey video and the two poems (one by Shockley and the other by White) have links directly to the text.
D) Realistically, we won’t talk about all of these texts on Tuesday. However the hope is that we will start discussing the two poems on Tuesday. I then suggest looking at the Kara Walker selections. Ailey’s Revelations is the longest piece, and I am pretty sure we will not discuss it on Tuesday.
Schedule of Assignment Changes
E) FYI, We will begin discussing The Garies and Their Friends the following week (which is a change. We were supposed to start it next Thursday, but I pushed it back).
F) Since, I pushed the Webb novel back, I also pushed back the deadline for Panel A presenters back to our last class on Webb.
Signing up for Panel Presentations
G) We need to assign folks to specific panels, so that Panel A folks have enough time to get going.
H) Please email me your two main priorities for panel assignments by this Saturday, September 11th at 4pm (note: priorities could be your top two preferred panels, but they could also be your two least preferred panels, or your most preferred and least preferred, or whatever the two things you want me to keep in mind).
I) On the schedule of assignments, the panels are listed as “Panel A” “Panel B”; the central text for each panelist’s paper will be the main text for that week on the syllabus. If you’re confused, you can check the “Panel Assignments” page. You can find it on the drop down menu and as a link on the assignment description page.
J) If I do not receive your priorities, I will assign you to a panel.
K) I will post panel assignments by Monday morning on 9/13.
L) Panel assignments will be considered final by the end of class on Tuesday, 9/14.
Office Hours
M) I will hold some virtual office hours tomorrow, Friday, September 10th between 4-6pm. Zoom Link: (See Class Email)
N) If you wish to reserve an office hour slot, please email me prior to 2:00 pm tomorrow. Note: If no one signs up for the second half (5-6pm) before 2pm, I will cancel the second half.
P) Next Week Office Hours will be both virtual and in-person. The in-person office hours will be by appointment only.
- Virtual
- Wed 4:30 -6:00 pm
- In-Person:
- Tues: 12:00 – 12:45 pm (by appointment only; appointments must be confirmed by 10:00 am that Tuesday.)
- Thurs: 3:00 – 4:00 pm (by appointment only; appointments must be confirmed by 10:00 am that Thursday.)
Q) All virtual office hours this semester will use the same Zoom link, which you can access in the email version of this update sent on Thursday 9/9/21.
Best,
AC