COCU 6126 3.0 CC 8829 Modernist Literary Circles:

A Cultural Approach

When: WINTER 2013, Monday 3:00 – 6:00PM Where: Ryerson University Instructor: Dr. Irene Gammel Contact: gammel@ryerson.ca

Course Description

This course studies the culture of the early twentieth-century modernist salons in several world cities including New York, Paris, and London with a focus on New York Dada, the Left Bank Moderns, and Bloomsbury. The course explores a range of cultural expressions including print culture, visual culture and performance. More specifically, students investigate the synergies of different media and nationalities and probe the interrelationship and collaboration among artists, writers, art collectors, editors, and publishers; students also examine the relationship of space including interior design and architecture in the formation and flourishing of modernist salons and literary circles. Other topics include the economic basis and material culture regulating salons; the relationship between experimental avant-garde and mainstream expressions; the gender of salon culture; the legends and celebrity culture surrounding modernist salons; and the postmodern re-imagining of the modernist salon culture in recent novels and films.

Course Archive for Winter 2013

Soirée Invitation Soirée Poster  Soirée Photo Gallery

 Course Archive for Winter 2010

An Invitation to a Modernist Soiree:
Six Installations Celebrating Modernist Salon Culture

Press Release Soiree Invitation Soiree Photos Student Voices

Course Archive for Winter 2009

Make It New: Salon Portraits from New York to Toronto Exhibition November 30, 2009 – January 30, 2010 For student voices on the course, click here Read the Exhibit Press Release 2009 here Click here for the Exhibit Facebook site View Full Course Syllabus

Course Archive for 2008

LM8912 Modernity as a Public Event

When: Winter 2011, Monday 3:00 – 6:00PM Where: Ryerson University Instructor: Dr. Irene Gammel Contact: gammel@ryerson.ca Literatures of Modernity Symposium: Experience the Modern Through Literature and Art View Photos From the Symposium View Details Click here for Symposium Program Click here for Symposium Press Release Click here for Symposium Abstracts

Course Description

LM 8950 Unreal Cities: Reading the Metropolis

When: Winter 2009, Monday 3:00 – 6:00 PM Where: Ryerson University JOR 1043 Instructor: Dr. Irene Gammel Contact: gammel@yerson.ca

Course Description

The metropolis has been central to the experience of modernity for millennia. Topics include the personalities of cities, the literary representation of architecture and space, cosmopolitan imagination, the gender of city, nostalgia, the divided city, the racialized and gendered city. Unreal Cities: Reading the Metropolis may adopt an historical focus, examining the city as a space of modernity from the Bible, through the Iliad and the Aeneid, to The Wasteland; or it may focus on the literature of a particular city such as London, New York, or Paris; or it may focus on the city within a specific literary movement such as Romanticism, Realism, or Modernism.

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View the Poster of The Metropolis Lecture Series 2009

ACS 800 Contemporary Study: Senior Group Project
A Canadian Icon at 100: Showcasing Anne of Green Gables

Course Description This version of ACS 800 brings a group of students together for a unique collaborative showcase project that coincides with the centenary anniversary of Anne of Green Gables in 2008. Students will be able to explore crucial theoretical questions related to this literary classic by planning, organizing, marketing, publicizing and hosting a public event that can take the form of an exhibition, a conference, a website, a lecture series, or a combination of these, depending on student interest. Students will hone their literary, cultural, and research skills, will critically trace the creative imagination of L. M. Montgomery, and may liaise with the L. M. Montgomery Estate, as well as with local and national archives, institutions and media (limited enrolment). Textbook -L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Broadview edition, 2004; or Norton edition, 2007. For more information on the students' showcase event, click here.

• Dadaists, Avant-gardists, and Modernists
• American Literature from 1865-1914
• Feminist Readings
• Modernist Women: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
• Canadian Prose Fiction
• L. M. Montgomery
• L. M. Montgomery: Hauptseminar (Graduate course)

• Introduction to Fiction
• English Literature from 1832 to the Present
• Survey of Literature in English from 1785 to the Present
• Writing by Women
• Continental Literature in Translation
• Introduction to English: Forms and Approaches
• Introduction to American Fiction
• Introduction to the Western Tradition
• English Composition
• Advanced Expository Writing

"L. M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture."
Connected: School Libraries at the Millennium. Association for Teacher-Librarians' Association (ATLC) Conference. Charlottetown, PEI, May 14-17, 1998

"Workshop for Student Conference Presenters."
English Department, 1999-1994 (preparation for Annual Atlantic English Student Conference); Women's Studies Programme, 1994-1996

"A brief tour of new teaching approaches."
History Department, UPEI, 1996 (with J. P. Boudreau)

"Coming Out of the Research Closet: Teaching with Posters, Peer-reviews, and Undergraduate Conferences."
SCENT Series, UPEI, 1995 (with J. P. Boudreau)

"Voicing Research in the Classroom: Interactive Conference-Style Presentations in Under-graduate Education."
15th Annual Conference on Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. June 14-17, 1995 (with J. P. Boudreau)

"Effective Tutorials and Essay Marking."
English Department, McMaster University, workshops for graduate teaching assistants, 1992-1993