1. The City in English Culture
London Summer 2017
The City in English Culture

2. Pictures from 2013 and 2015
Clockwise from upper right: some 2013 students in front of the Museum of London; 2015 students on the Brick Lane Immigration and Street Art walk; a group of 2015 students in the Lake District, on the shore of Ullswater; 2015 students in the Prints and Drawings Reading Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum; all of the 2015 participants in front of Kensington Palace.

3. The Aims
The opportunity to deepen and broaden your knowledge of English and world literature, culture, and history by studying in one of the world’s great cities.
The opportunity to study in small classes with full-time faculty known both for their scholarship and teaching.
The opportunity to study abroad while spending less money that you would in programs funded by private universities (Penn, Arcadia, etc.).

4. The Instructors
Steve Newman: established program in 2013; widely published in Eighteeenth-century and Romantic literature English and Scottish literature; CLA, Temple, and national teaching awards
Srimati Mukherjee, multiple-award-winning teacher in the First Year Writing program and author of Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete (Routledge 2016) and essays on film in journals such as The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and South Asian History and Culture. 

5. The Courses
English 0834 | Representing Race (3 credits) or English 0934 | Honors Representing Race (3 credits) Instructor: Steve Newman For Temple students, English 0834 and for Temple Honors students, English 0934 are GenEd Race and Diversity (GD) courses.  
English 0822 | Shakespeare at the Movies (3 credits)  Instructor: Srimati Mukherjee For Temple students, English 0822 is a GenEd Arts (GA) course.  
English 2202 | Introduction to English Literature,  (3 credits): Fulfills a required survey for the English major and can also be used for the minor. Instructor: Steve Newman  
English 3711 | Intermediate Film (3 credits) or Film and Media Arts 3680 | Foreign Studies in FMA (3 credits): Fulfills one of the level electives required for the major. Instructor: Srimati Mukherjee
Temple students who successfully complete (with a C- or better) credit-bearing coursework worth at least three semester hours in this program will satisfy the World Society (GG) requirement.

6. The Fieldtrips: A Sampling
All: 3 Shakespeare plays, a play tbd, daytrips to Oxford and Hampton Court Palace
Shakespeare in the Movies: A tour of the Globe Theatre
Representing Race: Slavery and the City Walk, Jewish London Walk, Museum of Immigration
Intro to English Lit: William Blake Walk, Kew Botanical Gardens, a trial in London’s Central Criminal Court
International Film: Tours of Camden Market and Brick Lane
Optional: Lake District daytrip, theater and overnight stay in Oxford

7. Where We’ll Learn When Not on Fieldtrips: 17 Southampton Place, Bloomsbury
From middle picture, upper row, clockwise: 17 Southampton Place (academic space); the London Review Bookshop Café, one of my favorites (3 mins from 17 Southampton); Lincoln’s Inn Great House, part of a complex of buildings where law is taught, dating back to the 13th century; a photo of some members of the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes and who lived and met in homes very nearby; Bloomsbury Square, a stone’s throw away from 17 Southampton; and The British Museum, perhaps the world’s greatest museum, a 5 minute walk from 17 Southampton.

8. Lodgings and Neighborhood
N. B. This remains to be determined, but we have some confidence that students will again stay in Blithehale Court in Bethnal Green in East London. The participants in 2015 loved the accommodations, which have private bedrooms and bathrooms and a shared kitchen/living room, as well as the neighborhood.
Clockwise from upper left: A well-regarded restaurant nearby; Blithehale Court; the London Buddhist Centre, one of the largest in the UK; Bethnal Green Gardens, right across the street from Blithehale; a bit of typical British eccentricity; the Tube station just a couple of blocks away.

9. Other places students go
Thanks to London’s proximity to other amazing places, here are some of the places students in 2015 went to on the weekend:
Paris
Amsterdam
Dublin
Edinburgh
Bruges, Belgium
Liverpool (Beatles tour)
Stonehenge
Highclere Castle (of Downton Abbey fame)

10. The Procedure
Application deadline February 15, 2017 but the sooner the better
For more information about costs, procedure, link to application, see
If interested in more info from the faculty director, contact Steve Newman: