ENGL 11
The Brontes and the Visual Art Journal Winter 2019

This is not the current course catalog

Academic courses from all disciplines at Williams often require the use of a journal to help students focus on their work. This course will push that concept to its limit as we explore some of the classic writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. Our goal will be to find real and tangible ways that visual art journaling can enhance our learning of literature. We will create and record visual insights as we read, and we will explore how this practice can help us conceive what we are reading. In addition to reading the entirety of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre we will read Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights as well as selections from Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. There will also be readings from various authors and artists on the subject of journaling as a tool for learning. Adjunct Instructor Bio: Patricia Malanga received her BA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts in 1990. While working as the Academic Assistant in the English Department here at Williams for the last 20 years, she has explored her love of literature and her love of the visual arts. This course will be the culmination of those interests.