Literature
Yasmine Shamma, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of American
Literature at the Honors College
of FAU. Her current primary role
is educating the honors students
in the entire canon of American Literature. Before
moving to Jupiter, she was a lecturer at the University
of Oxford for five years, where she taught Victorian,
Modern and Contemporary Poetry. It was there that
she also earned her doctorate degree in contemporary
American poetry, and her dissertation was invited for
publication with Oxford University Press. She earned
her M.A. from Georgetown University with high
distinction, and her B.A. from the American
University of Beirut with honors. She has also worked
as a writer, editor, events coordinator, educator and
speech-writer throughout the Middle East, America
and the U.K. In 2016, Professor Shamma was
awarded the H.D. Fellowship in English or American
Literature at Yale.
How to Read a Poem: An Introduction to Approaching Modern Poetry
This class will introduce students to the ways in
which literary scholars read poems. The emphasis
will be on reader-response theory — that is,
encouraging the reader to respond to the text in as
many ways as possible, and so enliven literature.
There will be an emphasis on approaching form, and
reading modern poems. Poetry by Robert Frost, T.S.
Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Frank O’Hara and
Ron Padgett will be considered. Towards the
conclusion of the class, students will be also
introduced to postmodern poetry and challenged to
read a few seemingly difficult poems with the tools
they have acquired in class. Open to new and old
poetry readers alike!
Register Early! There is a $5 charge for registering on the day of a one-time lecture or event.
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| Course # W1T6 — One Time Event
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| Place: | Room 151 (Annex), Lifelong Learning Complex, Jupiter Campus |
| Dates: | Tuesday, March 7 2017 |
| Time: | 1:30 - 3 PM |
| Fee: | $25 / member; $35 / non-member |
| Class Cancelled |
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