hese assignments are due in class on the dates indicated (i.e. the readings listed for a particular day will be discussed on that day). There will be NO LATE assignments accepted for daily grades or make-ups of in-class quizzes or assignments. Both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change. For all online texts, you should bring in a printed copy of the text on the day it is being discussed in class.

• CP = Course Packet
• SW = Hans' Steampunk World
• YP = Young's Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
• TSIO = Goh and Chng's The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia

Week 1 (1/25 - 1/29)

• Tuesday: Course Introduction; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The danger of a single story" (TED Talk)

• Thursday: "How to Email Your Professor" (CP 3-5); Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's "What is Steampunk?" (CP 6-8); Jeff VanderMeer's "The Future of Steampunk: Will Clockwork Gears, Mechanical Corsets, and Dirigibles be Enough?" (CP 9-27)

 Week 2 (2/1 - 2/5)

• Tuesday: Bring Printed Course Packet in Binder to Class; Joseph Bruchac’s Killer of Enemies (1-95); Liz Sonneborn's "Lozen" (CP 28-29); "Introduction: Montage" (YP 1-8)

• Thursday: Daniel José Older's "12 Fundamentals of Writing “The Other” (And The Self)" (CP 30-38); Mike Perschon's "Steam Wars" (CP 39-78); Blog Workshop (in-class) (bring laptops)

 Week 3 (2/8 - 2/12)

• Tuesday: Joseph Bruchac’s Killer of Enemies (96-174); Diana M. Pho's "Introduction: Going Global, or Re-Engineering Steampunk Fiction" (SW 18-24); Professor Calamity's "My Machine, My Comrade" (CP 79-80)

• Thursday: Introduction to Google Maps (bring laptops)

Week 4 (2/15 - 2/19)

• Tuesday: Joseph Bruchac’s Killer of Enemies (175-270); Jay Lake's "Shedding Skin Or How the World Came to Be" (SW 25-33)

• Thursday: Google Maps Lab (bring laptops)

Week 5 (2/22 - 2/26)

• Tuesday: Joseph Bruchac’s Killer of Enemies (271-358); "Subaltern knowledge" (YP 9-25) 

• Thursday: Map Pins Due;  Jess Nevins' "Introduction: The 19th-Century Roots of Steampunk" (CP 81-85); Balogun Ojetade's "The Hand of Sa-Seti" (SW 178-195); Robert Liow's "Spider Here" (TSIO 139-152)

Week 6 (2/29 - 3/4)

• Tuesday: In-class practice AP exam

• Thursday: Map Essay Due; Jaymee Goh's "Hidden Strength" (SW 33-50); Lucien Soulban's "Forty Pieces" (SW 111-136)

Week 7 (3/7 - 3/11)

*Be sure to set up a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/  ) before class on Tuesday and bring a mobile device or computer that you can tweet from during class  

• Tuesday: Metropolis (watch in class); Rick Klaw's "The Steam-Driven Time Machine: A Pop Culture Survey" (CP 86-90)
  http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/metropolis/

• Thursday: Metropolis (watch in class); Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska's "Defining Science Fiction: Narrative Themes" (CP 91-115)

Week 8 (3/14 - 3/18)

• Tuesday: Finish Metropolis; In-class practice AP exam 

• Thursday: First Blog Deadline (midnight); Amal El-Mohtar’s “To Follow the Waves” (CP 116-126); Olivia Ho's "Working Woman" (TSIO 115-138); Amy Kit-sze Chan's "When Cyberfeminism Meets Chinese Philosophy: Computer, Weaving, and Women" (CP 127-136)

Week 9 (3/21 - 3/25)

• Day 1: Spring Break - No Class

• Day 2: Spring Break - No Class

Week 10 (3/28 - 4/1)

• Tuesday: Omeka Lab (bring laptops)

• Thursday: Benjanun Sriduangkaew's "The Governess and We" (SW 217-236); Kate Osias's "The Unmaking of The Caudro Amoroso" (TSIO 101-114)
  *"The Governess and We" is a steampunk revision/clapback to The King and I

Week 11 (4/4 - 4/8)

• Tuesday: Steamboy (watch in class): "History and power, from below and above" (YP 26-44); Jake von Slatt's "At the Intersection of Technology and Romance" (CP 136-139)

• Thursday: Steamboy (watch in class)

 Week 12 (4/11 - 4/15)

• Tuesday: A.J. Hartley's Steeplejack (9-92); Edward W. Said's "Introduction to Orientalism" (CP 140-151)

• Thursday: Exhibit Items Due; Tai Chi 0 (watch in class)

Week 13 (4/18 - 4/22)

• Tuesday: A.J. Hartley's Steeplejack (93-204); Tai Chi 0 (watch in class)
  
  
• Day 2: Exhibit Essay Due; A.J. Hartley's Steeplejack (205-325); "The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview" (CP 152-155)
• Saturday, April 23:  Exhibit Essay Due

Week 14 (4/25 - 4/29)

• Tuesday: Final Project Proposal Due (by midnight); Pear Nuallak's "The Insects and Women Sing Together" (TSIO 191-208); Malon Edwards' "Mary Sundown and the Clockmaker’s Children" (SW 317-332)
   
  
• Thursday: Revisions of Map Essay Due; Ken Liu's "Good Hunting" (SW 333-357); Timothy Dimacali's "On the Consequence of Sound" (TSIO 11-24)

• Sunday, May 1: Paper Palooza (2-6pm)

Week 15 (5/2 - 5/6)

• Monday, May 2: Paper Palooza (4-8pm)

• Tuesday: Conferences
   
  
• Thursday: Conferences  

Week 16 (5/9 - 5/13)

• Day 1: In-class workday
   
  
• Day 2: Revision Exhibit Essay Due; Final discussion and gallery day    
   
  
• Friday, May 13: All Blog Posts and Extra Credit Responses Due; Study Day - Office Hours from 11am-3pm
  

  Tuesday, May 17th

Final Essay Due to D2L Dropbox @midnight