Fwd: [UCSBADVS] Fwd: [Course Promotion] Summer Session B, English 10: The Gender of Letters through Lit & Comp"

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From: Jessica Good <jg...@hfa.ucsb.edu>
Date: Tue, May 26, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Subject: [UCSBADVS] Fwd: [Course Promotion] Summer Session B, English 10: The Gender of Letters through Lit & Comp"
To: UCSBADVS <ucsb...@ltsc.ucsb.edu>

Hello, 

We still have some space in our English 10 offering this summer. Feel free to pass along to your students as you see fit!

Best,

Jessica

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From: Alice Fulmer-Zelinka <alice...@ucsb.edu>
Date: Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Subject: [Course Promotion] Summer Session B, English 10: The Gender of Letters through Lit & Comp"
To: English Undergraduate Advisor <undergra...@english.ucsb.edu>
Cc: Jessica Good <jgo...@ucsb.edu>

Dear students,

Hi there -- my name is Alice Fulmer-Zelinka and I'm a fifth year PhD candidate here in the English Department. I'll be teaching an English 10 this summer, and it's based on a syllabus I'm really proud of and have had a chance to workshop through previous iterations of this course. It's called "The Gender of Letters through Lit & Comp". We'll read classics and deep cuts of epistolary literature (ie, written as personal letters or epistles), starting in the premodern period. We end with two novels from the last thirty years: Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) and Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019). These last two texts -- both coming of age novels -- foil each other in unique ways, as well as the older texts like The Letters of Abelard and Héloïse (c. 12th century). There are some difficult passages throughout all of our readings, but we navigate the syllabus together as a trauma informed classroom -- content warnings provided when appropriate.

If you've yet to fulfill your Writing 2/A2 requirement for your Bachelors, English 10 is a great way to get that taken care of! My 6 week course with an evenly staggered homework and reading flow may be just the thing for you. Please see the attached graphics for more info.

See you this summer!

Warmly

Alice

Alice Fulmer-Zelinka PhD Candidate, Department of English, UCSB

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