(† denotes text on e-reserve/chalk)
Note: The current reading load is very ambitious. I have often scanned far more of each text than I plan to assign.
1.1 (8 Jan) Signup sheet distributing, name-remembering, goal describing, and comfort zone establishing (assignments for the benefit of the instructor and students alike).
1.2 (10 Jan) Anderson† / Mosse “Introduction”†
2.1 (15 Jan) Mosse “Fascism and Sexuality”† / Theweleit†
[chalk posts begin]
2.2 (17 Jan) Connell, “The Social Organization of Masculinity”† / Miller†
3.1 (22 Jan) Roth, The Great American Novel (1972)
3.2 (24 Jan) Roth
4.1 (29 Jan) Malamud, The Natural (1952)
4.2 (31 Jan) Malamud
5.1 (5 Feb) Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (1982)
[mandatory office hours meetings end]
5.2 (7 Feb) Kinsella
6.1 (12 Feb) Gilroy† / Giulianotti, “The Cultural Politics of Play”† / Crawford, “Conceptualizing Sport Fans”† / Kuper “Gazza, Europe, and the Fall of Margaret Thatcher,” “Celtic and Rangers, or Rangers and Celtic” /
6.2 (14 Feb) Hornby, Fever Pitch (1992)
[first paper due]
7.1 (19 Feb) Hornby
7.2 (21 Feb) Buford, Among the Thugs (1993)
8.1 (26 Feb) Buford
8.2 (28 Feb) King, Football Factory (1996)
9.1 (4 Mar) King
9.2 (6 Mar) Giulianotti, “The Twentieth-century Sport”† / Kuper “FC Barcelona and the Scottish Question,” “Dutch and English: Why Bobby Robson Failed in Holland,” “Short, Dark, Americans,” “Argentina, Campeon!” and “From Boston to Bangladesh: At the 1994 World Cup” / Crawford “Sport Fan Communities”†
10.1 (11 Mar) Kelly / James† / Brown “Meaning of Baseball...”†