Course Catalog

ENGL 101

Writing

An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 103

Special Writing Topics: The Rhetoric of Humor and Satire

What makes us laugh? How does humor work? This writing workshop will examine the rhetorical underpinnings of humor and satire and consider humor and satire as political and cultural commentary. Readings will include classic satirical essays by writers such as Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain as well as work by modern humorists. The class will also analyze contemporary media sources in popular culture, including the Internet, stand-up comedy, Saturday Night Live, and films or television programs chosen by students.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 110

Creative Writing: Fiction

An introduction to fiction writing, critiques of student and professional work.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 111

Creative Writing: Poetry

An introduction to the writing of poetry, workshop discussion of poems by students and established poets.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 201

History of Drama

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 202

Expository Writing Workshop

This intermediate workshop is designed for students who have achieved mastery in introductory-level college writing and who want to refine their writing abilities. Students will focus on developing stylistic strategies and techniques when writing for numerous purposes and audiences. Students will choose from these writing forms: interview, travel article, op-ed piece, memoir, sports article, criticism, humor, and science and technology article.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 204

Introduction to American Literature I

A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some that are well known—such as Emerson, Melville, Dickinson—and some who are less familiar—such as Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 204

Intro Amer Literature-I

A survey of literature, written and oral, produced in what is now the United States from the earliest times to around the Civil War. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual developments and the politics, economics, and societies of North America. Authors to be read include some who are well known-like Emerson, Melville, and Dickinson-and some who are less familiar-like Cabeca de Vaca, John Rollin Ridge, and Harriet Jacobs.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 205

Intro to Amer Lit II

A survey of literatures produced in the United States since about 1865. We will examine relationships among cultural and intellectual currents and the political, economic, and social development in the United States during this period, focusing particularly on race, gender, and class as analytic categories. Authors to be read include some who are well known-such as James, Hemingway, and Faulkner-and some who are less familiar-such as Freeman, Chesnutt, and Hurston. Enrollment limited.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 205

Introduction to American Literature II

This course surveys major works of American literature after 1865, from literary reckonings with the Civil War and its tragic residues, to works of "realism" and "naturalism" that contended with the late 19th century’s rapid pace of social change, to the innovative works of the modern and postmodern eras. As we read works by authors such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, we will inquire: how have literary texts defined and redefined "America" and Americans? What are the means by which some groups have been excluded from the American community, and what are their experiences of that exclusion? And how do these texts shape our understanding of the unresolved problems of post-Civil War American democracy? For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 208

Argument and Research Writing

A writing workshop emphasizing the development of argumentation and research skills. Students learn how to read and evaluate logical arguments, formulate research questions, explore print and electronic resources, and frame persuasive arguments in papers of substantial length. Frequent practice in writing and revising.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 211

Survey of English Literature II: 1700 to the Present

Through readings in novels, drama, poetry, and prose from the Restoration to the 20th century, this course will examine shifts in the forms, functions, and meanings of English literature in the context of cultural and historical changes. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 212

Contemporary Black Women Writers

The past decade has witnessed a flowering of cultural production from young black women. This course locates contemporary black transnational women writers—from the 1990’s to the present—within a larger tradition of black women’s literary and cultural production and black feminist thought. We will consider issues of race, gender, sexuality, cultural trauma, subjectivity and aesthetics in the post-civil rights and postcolonial context in which these contemporary works of fiction arise. Our primary goal is to examine the ways in which these black women writers revise the political and aesthetic concerns of their predecessors. We will read texts from the US, the Caribbean and West Africa in order to engage the possibilities and limitations of theorizing from a black transnational frame of reference.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 213

20th-Century African American Literature

This course will introduce students to a broad survey of 20th-century African American fiction, essays, and poetry by such celebrated writers as DuBois, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Petry, Hughes, Baldwin, Brooks, Baraka, Jordan, Killens, Morrison, Lorde, and Walker. Our discussions and strategies for reading will be informed by consideration of relevant social, historical, and political contexts. In addition to discussing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, emphasis will be on identifying and tracing recurring ideas/themes, as well as on developing a theoretical language to facilitate thoughtful engagement with these works. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 214

Slavery and Abolition in America

This course will trace 19th-century ideas about slavery, freedom, race, and identity through the writings of social activists and the exploration of cultural artifacts (speeches, newspapers, photographs, images, and icons). Authors will include Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 217

Introduction to African American Literature

This course surveys African American literature in a variety of genres from the 18th century to the present. Through the study of texts by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and others, we will explore the ways these writers have represented and influenced the history of people of African descent in the United States, from slavery and abolition to Jim-Crow segregation and struggles for civil rights; how their work has intervened in the construction of race and imagined the black diaspora; and how their innovations in literary form have engaged with continuing political questions of nation, gender, sexuality, and class. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 220

Crime and Passion: Studies in Victorian Literature

This course introduces students to major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). It will focus on texts–-fiction, non-fictional prose, and poetry-–in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. Texts to be studied include Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, D.G. Rossetti’s Jenny, and M.E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. (Please note: this course requires substantial amounts of reading; Victorian novels are long!) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 225

Writing Broad Street Stories

This course combines community learning and writing as a means of discovering how we define others and ourselves through journals, diaries, essays, and stories. Students explore Broad Street as a social and cultural metaphor, with a wide variety of readings depicting “the other” and reflecting the voices of members of underprivileged and privileged classes throughout history. Students perform community service as a part of course activities.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 226

The Spirit of Place: Writing with an Active/Reflective Eye

In this course we will write about "place," and explore how writers render ideas of location, nature, and the environment, ranging from wilderness to city streets. We will move from simple descriptions to an exploration of the larger issues that arise in the interactions between people and places. Readings will include Gretel Erlich and Barry Lopez, among others, who have artfully evoked the spirit of place.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 230

Words Alive: Native American Literature

A survey of the rich traditions of oral and written literature created by North American Indians. We will begin with some classic texts of story, song, and autobiography, and move to contemporary fiction and poetry. We will also listen to recordings and view films of oral literature, chant, and the storytelling tradition. Course requirements include written responses to texts, an oral report, a midterm, and a final project. Participants must review a history of Native Americans before the class begins. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 234

Renaissance in America

In the most general terms, a "renaissance" refers to a flowering of creative activity, a revival and revision of "classical" texts and themes, and a period of optimism regarding human potential. This course will focus on the 19th century "American Renaissance" and the "Harlem" or "New Negro" Renaissance of the 20th century, as well as several larger aesthetic, cultural, and political questions. These include: how, why and by whom is the definition of "classical" applied? By what means and to what ends are "old" artistic forms made "new"? What social, political, and artistic conditions define the cultural climate before, during and after a renaissance? Texts will include prose, poetry, and short fiction by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Chesnutt, DuBois, Schomburg, Locke, McKay, Toomer, Cullen, Hughes, and Hurston. We will also use the collections of The Wadsworth Atheneum to view key examples in the visual arts.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 235

Global Short Fiction

This course will introduce students to a cast of writers from a variety of backgrounds who have used the form of the short story to project dramatic experiences and convey sometimes unique cultural ethos. In addition to examining thematic concerns and stylistic choices, we will explore how different writers have adapted the conventions of the short story and incorporated elements of other traditions to suit their narrative purpose. We will read some North American and European writers, but the emphasis will fall on writers from traditionally underrepresented parts of the world. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

THDN 237

Caribbean Dramatic Lit

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 240

19th-Century British Romance

This course will examine the modes of romance and romanticism within 19th-century British literature. We will look at the popular forms of poetry, the novel, and the essay in order to examine gothic, fantastic, and psychologically interior elements that in Victorian literature sometimes work beyond a so-called “realistic”-exterior, that is, an explainable, socio-economically circumscribed kind of writing. We will look at characters that may not fit into our current notions about Victorian “respectability”; we will discuss the gothic and romantic structures that shape their sensibilities and subjectivities; and we will examine the relation between the visible and invisible, the canny and uncanny, and the tangible as well as the ghostly. Readings will include works by Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Wordsworth, G. G. Lord Byron, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Alfred Tennyson. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 244

Inventing Literary Ireland

An account of Irish writing from the Irish Revival to the modernism of Joyce, from the realism of the 1930s and 1940s to the postmodernism of the Eoin McNamee. Rather than attempt to define a single Irish literature, this course will investigate the many versions of Ireland and Irish identity in writings by canonical figures such as Yeats and Joyce to contemporary writers such as Jennifer Johnston and Roddy Doyle. We will also consider the role of Irish film in the 1980s and 1990s. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 245

Gender and Characterization in Victorian Novels and Poems

This course will look at evolving notions of literary heroines and heroes in British literature from the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries (1850-1925). During the time of industrialization, increasing urbanization, changing laws, growing Empire, and new ways of imagining social organization and personal subjectivity, there is a corresponding change in the types of characters, heroines and heroes included, in literature. Through our readings, we will explore various modes in novel writing, including verse novels, big novels, and humorous novels. We will also address formal innovation in poetry and fiction and consider the relationship between major trends in contemporary literary theory and Victorian literature. Readings will include works by such authors as Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Anthony Trollope, Charles Swinburne, Grant Allen, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 247

Poetry Of(f) The Page

A close listening course which foregrounds poetry’s sound text by means of reading aloud, audio and videotapes, live poetry readings and Slams, and live class performance. We will explore: today’s audio-text in relation to early oral tradition; sound text and written text as two different texts generated by any given poem; sound as artistic medium; the place of the spoken poem in our current U.S.A. culture(s). The class community will do some writing, but the focus is on sound--speech, hearing, listening as embodiment of text. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 249

Poetry's Ambassadors

This course will examine the work of United States poets laureate from 1986 to present. We will discuss the history of laureateship, investigate the process by which a U.S. laureate is selected, what the laureate’s duties are, and how a U.S. laureateship compares with the official functioning of poets in other parts of the world. Finally, we will explore the relationship between the official voice of poetry as embodied by the laureate, and the multiple voices of poetry in our diverse culture. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 254

Working, Buying, Becoming

How do writers talk about what we do for a living, what we buy and what race we give ourselves? Does our skin color, our job or our Jeep Cherokee define us? We seek to understand how these factors influence our perceptions of who we are and how we fit into society. Race, gender and the market economy -- and the ways these concepts change throughout American history -- will become key issues for us to consider. Our reading will cover a broad swath of time, from Crevecoeur and Equiano in the 18th century to Thoreau, and Frederick Douglass in the 19th century and Sui Sin Far and "Rivethead" in the 20th century.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 256

“I Am Here”: Poets in Exile

Through selected readings of exiled poets living in the U.S., and of U.S. poets living in exile, this course explores the dynamic of forced, or voluntary absence from one’s own country as it relates to the poet and the poem. We will discuss “exile” as not only a matter of citizenship, but also a matter of language. We will use the work of Czeslaw Milosz as a grounding force for our exploration. This is a reading intensive/writing intensive course. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 260

Introduction to Literary Studies

This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques of close reading. The course will show students how to apply this critical vocabulary to a wide range of literary genres from different historical periods, and to develop the writing and research skills necessary for composing clear and compelling arguments in the interpretation of a text. Note: This course is required of all English majors. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 263

Performing History in Literature

Writers often reconstruct personal and private moments in the lives of historical figures. Playwrights in particular tend to indulge in dramatic flights of historical fancy, and audiences in turn get to play the voyeur. In this course, we will read plays that try to bring history to life. What are the limits (if any) on dramatic license? We will look at works by a range of playwrights, including Shakespeare, Sondheim, Stoppard, Brook, and Oyamo. This course is designed for students who love history, drama, and the challenge of re-imagining the past in intelligent and creative ways.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 265

Introduction to Film Studies

This course provides a general introduction to the study of film and focuses on the key terms and concepts used to describe and analyze the film experience. As we put this set of tools and methods in place, we will also explore different modes of film production (fictional narrative, documentary, experimental) and some of the critical issues and debates that have shaped the discipline of film studies (genre, auteurism, film aesthetics, ideology). For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the film studies minor.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 268

Filmmaking Practice for Film Readers

This course focuses on close, specific analysis of only four films during a semester, in terms of filmmaking practice. Learn practical cinematography issues such as lens choice, camera position, motivated movement, and lighting; learn the theory and practice of film sound; learn the practical elements of the continuity system and other systems of organizing time and space on screen. The limited filmography for this course will consist of one classical Hollywood sound film, two international features which push the boundaries of the continuity system, and one contemporary movie. Class will consist of lectures with film clips, demonstrations, and discussion. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 270

Introduction to Creative Writing

An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers.

1.00 units, Tutorial

ENGL 271

Recent American Fiction

An examination of tradition, trends, and trailblazing in American fiction since 1990. Along the way, we will ask and answer such questions as: What does American fiction suggest about our national identity as “the American century” closes and a new millennium unfolds? What distinguishes the contemporary novel as a unique vehicle of cultural transmission? And what is the status—and likely future—of serious fiction in the U.S.? Our reading will include novels and story collections by authors such as Tim O’Brien, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Alice McDermott, Francisco Goldman, Denis Johnson, Ha Jin, Russell Banks, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Lorrie Moore, and Gish Jen. This course satisfies the requirement of course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 273

London: A Literary Life

This course will consider the wide variety of ways in which the city of London has been represented in British literature. We will read works ranging from early modern comedies and satires to modern murder mysteries and post-colonial novels. Our examination of these different literary genres will be supplemented by historical readings that illuminate the cultural contexts out of which London’s vivid literary character has emerged. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 274

In Good Taste: Literature and Culinary Culture

The representation of food in literature often serves as a highly effective way in which to represent, in concrete and compelling terms, specific ideals and social problems, such as the role of the sacred in everyday life; developing definitions of “civilized” behavior and the idea of “good taste”; and issues of national, class, and ethnic identity. We will survey a range of poems, plays, novels, memoirs, cookbooks, and films that provide insight into the relationship of food, literature, community, and cultural identity. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 276

How Stories Get Told—and Why

On the most basic level this course explores just about the full range of narrative forms—novels and short stories, oral tales and jokes, epics and ballads, narrative within plays and within lyric poems, and non-fictional narratives from news articles to works of history. On a more analytical level the course examines techniques of narrative such as plot, fabula, narrative voice, point of view, beginnings, endings, and pace. On the deepest level the course explores the extent to which story-telling is the most fundamental and important way in which we organize whatever we experience and whatever we think we know. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 277

The Strange Meaning of Things

How important is your “stuff” to you? What does it mean? When is a thing just a thing, and when does it represent something else? In this course, students will examine the literary representations of material culture, including clothes, tools, collections of things, paintings, jewelry and books, in a range of works from the Renaissance to the present. We will analyze what different kinds of things mean at different periods of history, and how writers invest them with magical, religious, satirical and sentimental significance. Readings will include drama, novels, poetry, poltergeist tales, and journalism, as well as some history, and anthropological and literary theory. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 280

Native American Renaissance

What are the problematics of the term "Native American Renaissance?" Who are major American Indian authors today, and how have their contributions redefined American literary history? Often forgotten or marginalized, Native American literatures present images of America which challenge conventional biases and encourage alternative ways of seeing and telling. This course will explore some myths and realities of Native American life through literature. Using oral tales, early political documents, and autobiographies as well as short stories, poetry, and novels, we will study literature in its historical and cultural context in an attempt to understand better the contemporary texts in this course. Writers studied will include N. Scott Momaday, Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Linda Hogan, and Diane Glancy. Special attention will be given to such issues as racism, cultural invisibility, split consciousness, gender roles, spiritual realism, survival, and empowerment through connection with land, community, and humor. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 284

Studies in Poetry. In the Field: Poem and Environment

This course explores poems as they relate to the environment, and poems as created environments of their own. The reading consists of a broad selection of poems for background and range, and three books of poems for in-depth study. As the course title implies, the exploration occurs not only in the classroom, but out “in the field.” This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 285

Scheming Poets

A close-reading and writing-intensive course that focuses on how poets use rhetoric to shape meaning. We will examine how poets play with language in order to persuade and move audiences. Topics will include the allure of musical effects, the hidden arguments in figures of speech, the mystery of voice on the page, and the subversive roles that poets create for readers. Class will be interactive and participatory, with informal poetry exercises, short analyses, and presentations.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 287

Lit in Context: Harlem Renaissance

Spanning the decade of the 1920's, the Harlem Renaissance was a movement of profound African American creative expression. This course approaches the Harlem Renaissance through its contradictions and conflicts, examining the way that differing aesthetic, political, and generational perspectives shaped the movement as a whole. One project in this class will focus on the journals and magazines of the time-Crisis, Opportunity, and Fire!!, to name a few-to investigate the cultural contexts that shaped the literature we will read. Other texts may include James Weldon Johnson's BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY, Alain Locke's THE NEW NEGRO, poetry by Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset's PLUM BUN, Nella Larsen's PASSING, and Jean Toomer's CANE.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 288

Am Fic:Home Fires Burn

A survey of American fiction from the end of World War II, through the Cold War 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and concluding in the aftermath of the U.S.-Vietnam War. Included will be novels and short stories by Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Stone, and Joyce Carol Oates. Students should be prepared to read a novel a week, or its equivalent, as well as occasional secondary readings for historical context. Evaluation will be through a combination of quizzes, short papers, mid-term and final exam. Enrollment limited.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 290

Introduction to Literature and Psychology

Emphasizing the roots of literature’s power to generate emotional and aesthetic responses, and exploring the relationship between literary work and dream work, this course examines how literature transforms fantasies toward meanings. Authors to be studied include Shakespeare, Kyd, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Shelley, Poe, Virginia Woolf, Freud, Erikson, Holland, Stoppard, Plath, and Hughes. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 297

Writing the Public Sphere: Theory and Practice

This course will examine the way written language works in the public sphere. Students will read and write about the following sorts of questions: In what ways can writing best promote public dialogue and deliberation? How is the digital landscape changing our conception of writing? Is the opinion essay as a form dying? As books evolve, what happens to the habits of contemplation and reflection fostered by the sustained, quiet reading of traditional texts? How do the changing ways that people acquire news affect the process by which public opinion is formed? In addition to a focus on theories of the public sphere, the class will also be a workshop for student writing. Students will write, revise, and engage with classmates’ writing in various genres aimed at asserting their views on public issues, from traditional essays and op-eds to blogs and multimedia forms.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 300

The Art of the Essay

An advanced writing workshop intended to help students find their own subjects and styles as essayists. We will read and write personal essays that express authors’ unique responses to ideas and experiences in deeply reflective ways. Our study will include essays by Seneca, Montaigne, Woolf, Dillard, and others from various historical periods that have explored their responses to the world in engaging and complex detail.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 301

Literature and Meaning: from Aristotle to Queer Theory

This course explores the different ways in which literature has been—and can be—interpreted and justified. Students will read critical theories from Platonism to feminism and queer theory, and will apply these theories to selected texts by Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Conrad, and others in order to define their own literary theory. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 302

Writing Theory and Practice

A study of the art of discourse, with special emphasis on the dynamics of contemporary composition and argumentation. This course examines rhetorical theory from the Classical period to the New Rhetoric, as well as provides students with frequent practice in varied techniques of composing and evaluating expository prose. A wide selection of primary readings across the curriculum will include some controversial ideas about writing from Plato’s Phaedrus, the heart of Aristotle’s Rhetoric, and examples of the best writing in the arts and sciences. By invitation only. For students admitted to the Writing Associates Program.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 303

Amistad & Other Rebellions

The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The Amistad affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 303

Ante-Bellum Literature: Amistad and Other Rebellions

The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The Amistad Affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 303

Amistad & Other Rebellions

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 305

Victorian Poetry

This course will focus on the achievements of Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Arnold, Swinburne, Hopkins, and Hardy in relation to nineteenth-century aesthetics and poetics. We will study the forms and history of specific lyric, dramatic, and epic genres as well as topics that have made Victorian poetry immensely popular and controversial: revivals of medieval and Italian Renaissance subjects and art; the relationship between poetry and the visual arts; socially conscious versus art-for-art's sake aesthetics; the gendering of lyric as feminine and epic as masculine; devotional poetics and the crisis of faith; and the impact of psychological theories and Darwinism.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 306

Memory and History in African Literature

Through the close reading of eight works by African writers—encompassing a variety of forms and genres, touching on traditional Africa as well as contemporary ideas—the course will explore the variety of styles, forms, and themes in African writing. The course will examine narrative strategies, aesthetic choices, and the broader historical forces and cultural experiences informing the work of African writers. A good deal of the class will be devoted to exploring each writer's engagement with a facet of Africa’s historical or post-colonial experience, and how each author seeks to reshape historical experience in fiction, drama, or memoir. We shall also investigate writers' use of memory, their integration of folktale in their narrative, and their experimentation with the wider resources of orature. We will pay attention to the tension between the individual and community, how each text defines private and public spheres, and how each writer responds to the Euro-American canon. Through the texts, we will explore such broad subjects as the roots and impact of slavery; fault lines in indigenous African societies; the colonial subjugation of Africa; the emergence of neo-colonial nation-states in Africa; post-colonial anxieties and disillusionment, and the evolution of gender relations. For the English major, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 307

Race and Gender in Contemporary American Fiction

A study of American fiction since the 1940s. Particular emphasis will be placed on the emergence of powerful new traditions of “minority,” “ethnic,” and women’s writing. Among the books to be read are works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Rolando Hinojosa, Junot Diaz, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Maxine Hong Kingston. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 308

Gender Race & Ethnicity

A study of American fiction since the 1940s. Particular emphasis will be placed on the emergence of powerful new traditions on "minority" and women's writing. Among the books to be read are works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Rolando Hinojosa, Leslie Silko, and Maxine Hong Kingston. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800, a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 308

American Migration

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large-scale internal migration reshaped the human geography of the United States. Southerners moved north, farm-dwellers moved to cities, the displaced sought economic promise in new regions. The literature written by and about these migrants presents an opportunity to study the impact of geography and environment on human imagination and cultural practice. We will read narrative representations of historic departures and resettlements, including African-Americans' Great Migration to the industrial north and Dust Bowl refugees' flight to California, in texts by such authors as Willa Cather, William Attaway, John Steinbeck, Carlos Bulosan, and Harriette Arnow. We also will write our own migration narratives and explore representations of a more recent example of internal migration—the displacement of New Orleanians by Hurricane Katrina. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 309

British Poetry After Modernism

A study of English and Anglophone poetry from the end of World War II to the present. After looking at the late work of key Modernists like Eliot and Auden, we will consider the rapidly changing and expanding notions of “British” poetry during the last five decades. Among topics to be examined are: expatriates who made their careers in America and elsewhere; writers who redefined “English” poetry for a new, post-war reality; and increasingly dominant voices from Ireland and the Commonwealth. Authors will include Dylan Thomas, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, and Derek Walcott. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 311

Afro-Asian Intersections

This seminar examines Asian American and African American literary and cultural production comparatively. We will look at primary texts, supplemented by theoretical and historical readings from various fields, including performance studies, literary studies, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, gender studies, legal studies, and post-colonial studies, in order to critique representations of racial formations relationally rather than as strictly defined categories of identity that have, traditionally, been studied in segregated disciplines (such as Black studies, whiteness studies, Asian and Asian American studies). Along these lines, we will also account for the ways in which race intersects with other categories of identity, such as sexuality, gender, nation, and class. Texts will include works by Ann Cheng, WEB Du Bois, Christina Garcia, Moon-Ha Jung, Bill Mullen, Mira Nair, Patricia Powell, Gary Okihiro, Vijay Prashad, and Anna Deveare Smith. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 312

Modern Poetry

An introduction to British and American poetry, 1885-1945. In response to the challenges of modernity, poets produced work of unprecedented variety, experimental daring, and complexity. Authors will include Yeats, Pound, Eliot, H.D., Frost, Williams, Stevens, Moore, Crane, and Auden. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 313

America the Multicultural

This course considers questions of identity, immigration, ethnicity, and race as they figure in a range of American texts. We will focus on authors who, by their own volition or not, have been identified as "minority writers" and who comprise an emerging multicultural canon. Among our questions: What is the usefulness, what are the limitations of various cultural categories? How do authors create and/or respond to the pressures of cultural identification? How do these pressures translate into aesthetic choices? And what are our responsibilities as diverse readers of diverse texts? Authors will include James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Martin Espada, as well as visual artists such as Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, and Shahzia Sikhander. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 314

Manhattan

Historian Russell Shorto wrote in his book about the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam that it "would become the first multiethnic, upwardly mobile society on America’s shores, a prototype of the kind of society that would be duplicated throughout the country and around the world. It was no coincidence," he continues, "that on September 11, 2001, those who wished to make a symbolic attack on the center of American power chose the World Trade Center as their target. If what made America great was its ingenious openness to different cultures, then the small triangle of land at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is the New World birthplace of that idea, the spot where it first took shape. . . . Manhattan is where America began." In this course, we will examine a variety of literary texts and a number of films to test Shorto’s hypothesis and to discover the diverse ways in which Manhattan has been imagined, constructed, and experienced. Among the works we will likely read are Child’s Letters from New York, Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain; films may include Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York and Woody Allen’s Manhattan. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 315

Girls Growing Up in Victorian Literature

This course examines the evolution of the concept of adolescence in the Victorian period, focusing in particular on representations of girls growing up. What language did authors use, and what concepts did they employ, to capture young girls’ experiences in an era before the theorization of adolescent development? Answers will be sought in a broad range of texts, some canonical, some less well-known. Other major topics the course will address include matters of faith and doubt; the role of the private sphere in the creation of the self; the place of marriage in the social arrangement; cultural policies of inclusion and exclusion; imperial adventures and imperial invasions. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 316

Words Alive: Native American Literature

A survey of rich traditions of oral and written literature created by North American Indians. We will begin with some classic texts of story, song, and autobiography, and more to contemporary fiction and poetry. We will also listen to recordings and view films of oral literature, chant, and the storytelling tradition. Course requirements include written responses to texts, an oral report, a midterm, and a final project. Participants must review a history of Native Americans before the class begins.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 317

The Inward Journey/The Outward Reach

We will explore the discovery of self in tension with the development of cultural, social, and political awareness in contemporary poetry. The United States will be our focus, but we will turn our eyes to the world beyond as well. We will read poets such as Espada, Rich, Komunyakaa, Doty, and Brooks. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 318

Literacy and Literature

Literature is produced and consumed by literate people. Nothing could be more obvious. But how do the different ways writers and readers become literate influence the ways they write and read? How have writers depicted the process of acquiring literacy and imagined its importance? In this course, we will examine in both theoretical and historical terms the nature of literacy and the roles texts play in the formation of individual literacies. With a focus on the 19th- and 20th-century U.S. (and particular attention to the case of African Americans), we will look at schoolbooks, texts for young readers, and representations of literacy in literary works ranging from slave narratives to novels to films. We also will study theories of literacy from philosophical, cognitive, and educational perspectives. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 319

Constructing Thought: A Short, Fun Course in Sentence Diagramming

This half-credit course is for language fanatics. Whether you are a "good" writer or a "bad" writer, "good" or "bad" at English grammar, if you love the shape and flow of sentences, this course is for you. For 75 minutes each week, we will gather and explore the structure of the basic unit of thought in written English. We will diagram rock lyrics; we will diagram Shakespeare; we will diagram Biblical quotations, we will diagram Joyce, we will diagram love letters. We will search out and diagram quirky sentences from the news and the internet. We will attempt to diagram undiagrammable sentences and discover why they fail to work as units of thought. We will find multiple ways to speak a diagrammed sentence, and multiple ways to diagram the same sentence and discover its varied meanings.

0.50 units, Lecture

ENGL 320

Ralph Ellison and American Modernism

This reading and writing intensive seminar offers an in-depth examination of the writings of Ralph Ellison. Attending closely to Ellison’s fiction and non-fiction, as well as to a good sampling of the relevant critical literature, students will attain the sort of familiarity with Ellison that can come only from detailed study of his work. We will also use Ellison as a point of entry to further explore the subject of American culture. We will pay particular attention to Ellison’s responses to migration, the function of culture, the role of the artist, the search for identity, and the meaning of America. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 321

Curiosity and Literature

This course will examine the way curiosity transformed literature and culture in the age of inquiry, when Peeping Tom was invented, modern science was institutionalized, and the detective novel was born. We will read texts that explore both approved and unapproved kinds, such as witchcraft, voyeurism, and the exhibition of monsters. Texts will include drama, journalism, poetry, satire, and novels by Aphra Behn, Defoe, Johnson, and others. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 and for a course emphasizing poetry. Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 322

Revisions of Shakespeare

Examination of works by Chekhov, Bergman, Wilde, Carne, Pirandello, Woolf, Freud, Jones, Olivier, Cukor, Stoppard, Bate, Allen, Branagh, and others in light of selected plays by Shakespeare. Course themes include creativity in the theater, life as a dream, sex roles and gender as performance, the presentation of self in everyday life, and performativity as being. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the literature and psychology minor, as well as for fulfillment of the English major requirement for a theory course or of a course concentrating on literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 323

Theories of the Sister Arts

In the classical tradition, painting is the sister to poetry. According to this formulation, poetry is a speaking picture, while painting is a silent poem. London in the 18th century saw a massive increase of visual material--from illustrated books, to private exhibitions, to museums, to giant panoramic landscapes. In addition to reviewing some of the spectacular visuals of the period, we will look at poems about paintings, writing about art, and theories of taste, seeing and reading. Expect to learn about Protestant iconoclasm, ekphrasis, iconicity, antitheatricality and literary pictorialism. Primary source materials will include works by Lessing, Hogarth, Winckelmann, Pope, Addison, Reynolds, Hume and Blake. Contemporary theory will include works by W.J.T. Mitchell, Heffernan, Jay and Berger that explicitly consider "ways of seeing" in addition to works by Bourdieu, Foucault, Barthes, and Williams that help us place the sister arts into the larger context of cultural studies. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 324

The Resisting Reader

Using feminist, narratological, and reader-response approaches, we will re-examine a number of canonical American texts read “against the grain.” That is, we shall pay attention to the inadvertent ways in which both central and marginal figures are distorted in order to create stories that re-enact central American myths of adventure, manliness, conquest, and manifest destiny. Authors will include Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, and possibly Stowe, Cather, Richard Wright, Mailer, and Erdrich, among others. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 326

Representations of Miscegenations

The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of those varied representations. Examining both primary and secondary texts, including fiction, film, legal cases, historical criticism, and drama, we will explore how instances of interracial contact both threaten and expand formulations of race and “Americanness” in the U.S. and beyond. How is miscegenation emblematic of other issues invoked, such as gender, nation, and sexuality? How do enactments of interracial contact complicate the subjects that they “stage”?

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 326

Black Women Writers

Through readings in fiction, autobiography, essays and some poetry, this course will investigate the conditions and experiences shaping Black female identity in the United States. Although the focus will be on 20th century African American women writers, some selections by earlier writers, and writers from outside the United States, may be included as a way of exploring similarities (and differences) that exist between Black women's writings, experiences, and ways of knowing trans-historically and across the diaspora. Among the recurring issues/themes we will investigate are the impact of race, class, gender, and sexuality on Black women's experiences and artistic vision, the quest for self-determination and self-actualization, the significance of spirituality, and the politics of Black women's roles within the community, family and nation. Writers studied will vary from semester to semester, but may include: Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Gayl Jones, Harriet Jacobs, Jamaica Kincaid, Sapphire, Mariama B,, Maya Angelou, Gloria Wade Gayles, June Jordan, Alice Walker, Harriet Wilson, Ann Petry, and bell hooks. Prerequisite: English 213, 217, or other courses in African-American literature. Permission of the instructor is required

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 327

Reading and Writing Women's Fiction

This is both a course on literary interpretation and an opportunity for creative fiction writing. We will read a series of women’s texts, from Jane Austen onwards, as literary critics and as practitioners, thinking about themes, trends, preoccupations, and the practical application of technical excellences. For English majors, this course counts as an elective.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 328

Overlords & Undertones

A course in the dynamics of oppression and resistance, especially as they appear in language and narrative. We will be looking at various texts-novels, films, poetry, plays-to see both the ways dominant groups and discourses repress difference, and the ways repressed groups and coded or subterranean discourses keep themselves and their languages alive. Readings drawn largely from gay, black, and women's literature; films from Hollywood to Havana, with an early stop at the Trobriands, to meditate on the islanders' peculiar way of playing cricket. This course is also a part of the curriculum for the interdisciplinary minor in Progressive American Social Movements.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 328

Contemporary Fiction: Not Realism

Two competing aesthetics have dominated American and English fiction during the past century—realism, and everything that is not realism, from the rigorously avant-garde or "post-modern" to pop sci-fi and fantasy and "high-low" hybrids. In much of the rest of the world, realism is regarded as an outdated or minor form. In class we will examine some of the reasons for this split, though our readings will be almost entirely of non-realist works that explore and interrogate the imaginative, verbal and formal possibilities of fictional narrative. We will begin with some writings by still influential precursors and writers of the past century (selections from among Kafka, Beckett, Borges, Bernhard, Nabokov, Calvino, Dick) to contemporary writers such as Coetzee, Murakami, Rushdie, Bolano, Aira, Foster Wallace, Markson, and younger writers such as Junot Diaz, Tom McCarthy, Marissa Pessl, and Rivka Galchen. There will be a selection of critical readings as well. Recommended for creative writing students and enthusiastic readers of fiction from other disciplines. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 329

Listening on the Lower Frequencies

The last words of Ralph Ellison’s "invisible man" are these: "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you." An African American, he finds himself invisible in American culture; nevertheless, he suspects that his plight is, on the lower frequencies, ours. In this course on Southern literature and culture, we will try to amplify those frequencies so that we can hear how they transmit the voices and values of women and of African Americans. We will examine some studies of Southern culture, read some novels (Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chopin’s The Awakening, and Welty’s Delta Wedding, among others), listen to some blues and country music, and read at least one play by Tennessee Williams. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 330

After Beloved: Black Women Writers in the 21st Century

This course considers the critical acclaim for and commercial hype over black women’s writing in the 20th century as a jumping off point for discussions of black women’s literature since 2000. Considering the rich diversity of aesthetic and thematic approaches in 21st century African American women’s texts, we will consider what is distinctive about this work, as well as if and how it forms a continuum with an earlier canon. Some topics for discussion will include class identity, genre, the avant-garde and the influence of Oprah Winfrey. We will read poetry by Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander and Claudia Rankine, fiction by Octavia Butler, ZZ Packer, Kim McClarin and Jamaica Kincaid, and the work of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. In order to form a basis for comparison, we will read a handful of foundational works published in the 20th century: Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and poetry collections by Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 331

The Art of Argument

An advanced interdisciplinary workshop in argumentation, with frequent practice in writing and speaking. Students will explore the dynamics of language and logic in a variety of contemporary contexts, as well as engage in interactive debates on both academic and "real world" topics.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 332

Short Story Masterpieces

In this course we examine the resilient form of the short story through a wide selection of both classic and contemporary writers. To list just some examples, we'll read work by Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, Welty, Cheever, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, and Ha Jin. Our main text is The Art of the Short Story (Dana Gioia and R.S. Gwynn). We'll perform close textual readings, use various critical approaches and literary terms, and set the stories in the context of their historical periods and literary traditions. What is also important in this course is that we view the works from the authors' perspectives, and learn to read like a writer through the analysis of some of the basic elements of short fiction. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 333

Creative Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction, sometimes called “the fourth genre,” has had a resurgence in recent decades. It is “nonfiction” in that the writer strives to be clear about what really happened, and to be honest about expression of opinion, imagination, or autobiographical narrative. It is “creative” in that its writers consciously create art: they are attentive to craft, to language, and to the movement of narrative structures. This class is a writing workshop in which students will produce a series of creative nonfiction essays. We will read various published authors with an eye to how their work is constructed, but our primary focus will be on students’ writing. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective, for writing and rhetoric minors, it counts as a core course.
Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270 or Permission of Instructor

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 334

Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

Students will write and rewrite fiction. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 335

Literary Nonfiction Narrative

This workshop explores the form of writing that combines the craft of fiction writing with the skills and practices of the journalist. We will read some of the foremost 20th-century and contemporary practitioners of this form of writing (V.S. Naipual, Joseph Mitchell, Joan Didion, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Rory Stewart, Alma Guillermoprieto, Susan Orleans, Jon Lee Anderson, etc., and selections from some of their important precursors: Stephen Crane, Jose Marti) and discuss, often, the form's complex relation to literary fiction, the tensions and difference between journalism and imaginative works, and so on. The workshop will begin with practical writing assignments: first paragraphs, setting, character, how to develop meaning, short pieces, etc., with the final goal being to produce a New Yorker magazine-like (in length and craft) piece using some aspect of the city of Hartford. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 336

Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

Students will do in-class exercises, and write and revise their own poems. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing majors.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 337

Writing for Film

An introduction to the craft of screenwriting with a strong emphasis on story selection and development. Students will complete a full-length screenplay over the course of the semester. We will read and analyze scripts that have been made into films, and we will workshop student work through the semester. Writing experience recommended. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the film studies minor. Not open to first-year students. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 338

Political Rhetoric and the Media

George Orwell called political language “the defense of the indefensible,” and yet democracies need a lively public culture of argument and debate in order to come to terms with complex issues, define values, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will explore the contemporary state of our political rhetoric in the United States, with a focus on the dynamic interactions of television, radio, print, and cyberspace. Students will participate in electronic discussions with peers across the country as they debate current issues generated by national election campaigns.

1.00 units, Lecture

PBPL 338

Political Rhet&Media

George Orwell called political language "the defense of the indefensible," and yet democracies need a lively public culture of argument and debate in order to come to terms with complex issues, define values, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will explore the contemporary state of our political rhetoric in the United States, with a focus on the dynamic interactions of television, radio, print, and cyberspace. Students will participate in electronic discussions with peers across the country as they debate current issues generated by national election campaigns.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 339

Festival and Drama

This course will examine ways in which performance is in many cultures linked to the festivals of many different kinds. More basically, it will examine the ethos of what can be called “the festival world” in contrast to the “workaday world.” We will consider ways of regulating time (festival time vs. clock time), the demands of vocation vs. leisure, play vs. work. In addition to studying festival drama, we will examine the idea of festivity and play as establishing an alternative to the “public” world of politics and vocation in selected works of literature. Specific works to be studied will include Euripedes’ Antigone in the context of Greek festivals, German faschtnachspiele, or carnival plays by Han Sachs, Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I, and Dickens’ Hard Times. Particular attention will be paid to Caribbean Carnival as street theater, evolving from emancipation festivals in the 19th century. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 340

Childhood in America

An investigation of the changing conception of childhood in America as reflected in a variety of textual and graphic materials for and about children. Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature after 1800. This course fulfills major requirements for English and American Studies majors; if there is room, others will be admitted.
Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher.

1.00 units, Lecture

EDUC 340

Childhood in America

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 340

Jazz in American Literature

Hailed by some as America’s most significant cultural contribution, jazz has occupied a place of tremendous importance in the cultural life of the 20th century. This course examines representations of jazz in American literature in order to understand a few of the many ways American writers have drawn on jazz to enrich their themes and enliven their style. In addition to familiarizing themselves with the music of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, students will read works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Frank O’Hara, Norman Mailer, Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Harper, and Toni Morrison. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 340

Gender Race & Ethnicity

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 341

Possessions: Mysticism and British Empire

This course will examine how British literature represents mystical life in relation to concepts of the British social body in the 19th century. Gothic works, loss-of-faith novels, spiritualist fiction, and literature with mystical amalgams of distinct belief systems (such as spiritualist Buddhism) will be covered. Central questions we will ask include how do expressions of mystical life relate to national identity and how does an increase in faith perspectives in the late 19th century relate to the expansion of the British Empire? The readings include works by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sheridan LeFanu, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Marie Corelli, and Cora Linn Daniels.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 342

Black Women Writers

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 342

Tragedy and Metatheatre

Through close reading works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Racine, Pirandello, and Tom Stoppard, and by examining commentaries by Aristotle, Freud, Frye, Winnicott, and Girard, this course analyzes violence and the sacred, role-playing, and the relationship between play-watching and dreaming. This course satisfies the requirement of course emphasizing literature written before 1800. This course may be used to fulfill literature and psychology minor requirements.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 343

Women and Empire

This course examines women's involvement in British imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. What part did ideologies of femininity play in pro-imperialist discourse? In what ways did women writers attempt to “feminize” the imperialist project? What was the relationship between the emerging feminist movement and imperialism at the turn of the 20th century? How have women writers in both centuries resisted imperialist axiomatics? How do women authors from once colonized countries write about the past? How are post-colonial women represented by contemporary writers? Authors to be studied include Charlotte Brontë, Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard Kipling, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Alexander McCall Smith. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 344

Representing the Old World and the New 1500-1700

How did encounters with the indigenous cultures of the Americas shape the literary, religious, scientific, and political imaginations of European writers? This course will focus in particular on the works of early modern English writers from More to Behn; English works will also be juxtaposed against selected Incan, Aztec, Spanish, and French texts (read in translation) that illuminate the broader contexts within which writers were shaping a distinctly English imagination of the nature and significance of colonial conquest. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 345

Chaucer

A study of The Canterbury Tales and related writings in the context of late medieval conceptions of society, God, love, and marriage. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 346

Dream Vision and Romance

A study of two major medieval genres as they are developed in the works of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, and Malory. The course will explore the structural and stylistic as well as the political, social, and psychological issues raised by these genres and the individual authors' treatments of them. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 347

After Beloved: Black Women Writers in the 21st Century

This course considers the critical acclaim for and commercial hype over black women’s writing in the 20th century as a jumping off point for discussions of black women’s literature since 2000. Considering the rich diversity of aesthetic and thematic approaches in 21st-century African American women’s texts, we will consider what is distinctive about this work, as well as if and how it forms a continuum with an earlier canon. Some topics for discussion will include class identity, genre, the avant-garde and the influence of Oprah Winfrey. We will read poetry by Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander, and Claudia Rankine, fiction by Octavia Butler, ZZ Packer, Kim McLarin, and Jamaica Kincaid, and the work of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. In order to form a basis for comparison, we will read a handful of foundational works published in the 20th century: Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and poetry collections by Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 348

Women Writers of the Middle Ages

This course will study works in a variety of genres, from the lyric and the romance to the autobiography and the moral treatise, written by medieval women in England, Europe, and Asia. In addition to analyzing the texts themselves, we will be examining them within their social, historical, and political contexts as we discuss such issues as medieval women's literacy, education, and relationships to the male-authored literary traditions of their cultures. Through the term, we will be trying to determine the degree to which we can construct a recognizable woman's literary tradition for this period. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 348

Women Writers of Midages

This course will study works in a variety of genres, from the lyric and the romance to the autobiography and the moral treatise, written by medieval women in England, Europe, and Asia. In addition to analyzing the texts themselves, we will be examining them within their social, historical, and political contexts as we discuss such issues as medieval women's literacy, education, and relationships to the male-authored literary traditions of their cultures. Through the term, we will be trying to determine the degree to which we can construct a recognizable woman's literary tradition for this period. Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature before 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 349

Colonialism/Postcolonialism

An introduction to literature and cultural theory by writers engaging with the British Empire, both past and present. While familiarizing ourselves with Anglophone works from India, Africa, and the Caribbean, we will also look at English representations of imperialism from the 19th and 20th centuries. What is the relationship between imperial identity and national identity? How have historically marginalized figures responded to different forms of oppression, both by colonial forces and by governing structures and institutions? Authors include Salman Rushdie, Bessie Head,V.S. Naipaul, Tsitsi Dangarembga, George Orwell, Tayeb Salih, Aimé Césaire, Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman, and Jamaica Kincaid. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 350

Lost Worlds: Fiction & Film

The idea of a “lost” or undiscovered world has remained compelling from the adventures of Odysseus onward to the films of Steven Spielberg. Writers and filmmakers use images of a lost world to represent the “primitive,” the powerful, the mysterious, the ideal -- whatever is not everyday experience. The course will compare a number of such representations, both in fiction and in film, examining how the media shape particular images as they do. Among the texts will be novels by Herman Melville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Hilton, and Michael Crichton, and films like Lost Horizon, Jurassic Park, and both versions of The Lost World. Students should plan to be available on Monday evenings for film screenings. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 351

Shakespeare

In this course we will study selected Shakespeare plays, with an emphasis on plays in performance and plays in their cultural contexts. Plays to be studied may include: King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. These choices are subject to change. This course fulfills the English major requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a literary theory course.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 352

Shakespeare: Tragedy and History

Shakespeare’s tragedies and British histories are plays fraught with bloody political violence, desperate soul searching, and the unyielding weight of human suffering. The course builds a narrative about the shaping of modern subjectivity as influenced by Protestantism, literacy, and early modern English politics. We will supplement careful textual analysis with critical secondary readings, and we will pay special attention to the ways in which Shakespeare used and manipulated the conventions of genre. Note: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 353

Challenging Authority: Literature of the 17th Century

The early 17th century was one of the most important and contentious periods in English history, and literature was a formative part of its rich culture of debate and innovation. The Stuart monarchy was trying to establish an absolutist culture, and the resistance to it led to the first political revolution in modern Europe. The 17th century also witnessed the movement of women into public life and print as highly vocal poets, preachers, prophetesses, and political theorists. Advances in scientific inquiry reshaped how writers thought about the cosmos and their place in it. Readings will include works by Donne, Jonson, Marvell, the women poets Lanyer and Bradstreet, the quasi-scientific writings of Bacon and Burton, and samplings from the period's rich popular literature and pamphlet wars. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 354

17th Century Poetry

A study of the relationship between the individual poetic voice and society during a century of violent social change. Readings will include Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Marvell, and Milton.

1.00 units, Lecture

THDN 354

Revisions of Shakespeare

Examination of works by Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, and Kenneth Branagh in light of selected plays by Shakespeare. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800, a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context. Film screenings will be scheduled accordingly.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 356

Milton

In this course, we will consider the works of John Milton, with attention to how his prose and poetry synthesizes long-standing intellectual and literary traditions and grapples with issues that still engage us today: the relation of men and women, the realities of loss and mortality, the concept of significant individual choice, and the power and limitations of language as the tool with which we forge an understanding of the world. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260.

1.00 units, Lecture

THDN 356

Festival & Drama

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 358

Nine Major British Poets: Pope to Browning

We will read important works by Pope, Blake, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, and Browning along with a few of the many significant biographical and critical essays. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 359

Victorian Heroines

In an era characterized by the prominence of women writers and by its female monarchy, this course will investigate the variety of ways Victorian writers construct heroines and other exceptional women. Our focus will be on literary texts (fiction and poetry), but we will read them in the context of selected other Victorian writings: conduct literature, biographical texts, aesthetic debates, the Crimean War, and writings by and about Queen Victoria. The course's goal is to give students a detailed knowledge of some Victorian literature, and to enable them to read these works in dialogue with Victorian history: specifically, with attention to the gendered economics of the literary marketplace, to the emerging feminist movement in England, to the role of women in wartime, to the conditions of the working-class, and to the authorizing (and disabling) presence of Queen Victoria. Texts will include: Bronte's Jane Eyre, Tennyson's The Princess and Maud, Barrett Browning's Mary Barton, Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Shaw's Candida, and selected writings by Hemans, Carlyle, Ruskin, Jameson, Mill, Ellis, and some recent critics.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 360

Shakespeare on Film

In this course, we will study selected films based on Shakespeare plays. Though we will read the Shakespeare plays as prelude to film analysis, the films will be studied as independent texts. The film script (adapted from or based on a Shakespeare play) will be treated as one aspect of the text. Students will concentrate on analyzing camera angles, mise-en-scene, lighting, sound, editing, and script as aspects of a composite text. We will also discuss film genres and look at the signature work of specific directors, such as Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Plays may be selected from Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and King Lear. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 361

The Enlightenment

A study of English and French writers of the 18th century including Swift, Pope, Boswell, Johnson, Voltaire, Fielding, Rousseau, and Sterne. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 362

Victorian Readers & Spectators

This course will study 19th century texts (fiction, poetry, and criticism) that reflect on the experiences of readers and spectators in Victorian England. Against the background of aesthetic theories and social constructions of race, class, and sexuality, we will examine representations of theater and theatricality, travel abroad, museums, the Great Exhibition of 1851, education, and taste. Authors include: Ruskin, Pater, Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, the Brownings, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Wilde.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 363

William Blake: The Poet as Radical

A study of the poet’s exploration and elaboration of radical political, social, religious, and poetic alternatives to established opinion and institutions. Readings in all of Blake’s poetry include the visionary epics (the illuminated books), Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Locke and The Bible. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 and for a course emphasizing poetry.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 364

Literary Transformations in the 18th Century

How do writers transform traditional literary forms to express new perceptions of identity, sexuality, society, and nature? In this course, we will examine the way the poets, playwrights, journalists, and fiction writers of Restoration and 18th-century England imitated, reworked, and finally rejected old genres to forge new kinds of literary expression. Readings include works by Aphra Behn, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Goldsmith. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 365

Jane Austen and the Romantic Period

Is Jane Austen a Romantic or a rationalist? A conservative or a feminist? Why is she so popular now and how was she regarded in her own time? This course will analyze Jane Austen’s entire opus while exploring what influences that helped to shape her world and her writing. Readings will include all of Austen’s work, Romantic poetry, 18th-century novels, and theoretical, critical, and historical texts. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, or a critical theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 366

Dickens/Chaplin

This course treats the work of Charles Dickens and Charles Chaplin from a critical perspective that recognizes their remarkable similarities. Charles Dickens was undoubtedly the most popular artist of the 19th century. He worked in the dominant popular form of the period (the novel) and his work was immediately and widely disseminated in both English and via translations. The fictional worlds and characters he created formed a mythology that addressed and made sense of the experiences of early modern life for millions around the world; the adjective "Dickensian" testifies to how familiar his characteristic blend of comedy and melodrama has become. Though working during a different period (the 20th century) and in a different form (film), Charles Chaplin is remarkably analogous to Dickens. Like Dickens, Chaplin was his century's most popular global artis, his work addressed some of the fundamental issues of contemporary social life, and he employed a blend of comedy and melodrama that merited its own adjective ("Chaplinesque"). Looking at the evolution of these two major figures over the course of their careers, this course also provides an introduction to the techniques and themes of popular melodrama and comedy. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 367

Nineteenth-Century British Gothic

This course will examine the gothic novel in late-18th and 19th-century British literature. With plots involving suspense, mystery, crime, the supernatural, incest, impersonation, vampirism, theft, and murder, gothic novels constitute the conventions of the 19th-century domestic romance gone wild. The deception and disorder that make these plots so enticing also subvert fixed domestic and social order characterizing fears about a rapidly changing Victorian world. Readings will include works by Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, and Bram Stoker. We will also cover trends in criticism of the gothic that rely on contemporary gender, queer, and postcolonial theory. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 368

"Cross-Cultural" Writing

We live in a time of unprecedented migrations and intermingling of formerly separate peoples, of dissolving borders, of the collapsing sense of distances. For at least two decades now, world literature has been revitalized by the cross-cultural experiences of many new writers, who in their works straddle more than one culture in unprecedented ways. What makes for literary originality at a time when so many are writing out of a similar, highly politicized, cultural context? We will begin by reading “predecessor” writers who were driven to reach from one culture to another, often in the face of political and cultural pressures to which they responded in such highly original ways that they initiated their own lines of literary tradition. We will study their works, but also the writers themselves, and the environments that shaped them. We will then move on to contemporary writers. Readings will be drawn from such predecessors as José Marti, Machado de Assis, Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, V.S. Naipaul; and such more recent writers as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jhumpa Lahiri, André Aciman, Jessica Hagedorn, Junot Diaz, Dagoberto Gilb, José Manuel Prieto, and Zadie Smith. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

POLS 368

Political Rhet&Media

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 369

Latino Literature: Rewriting the Americas in the 21st Century

Latino fiction of the past 15 years has come a long way from civil rights conversations and autobiographical narratives of growing up as “the other.” Latinos in the United States are employing innovative textual and linguistic strategies to imagine and define a new place for themselves in U.S. society and in the Americas. Textual narratives from authors Hector Tobar, Alfredo Vea, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas, Coco Fusco, José Rivera, Erika Lopez, Dagoberto Gilb, Demetria Martínez, Salvador Plascencia, et al, will assist us in understanding this new positioning, in tandem with visual narratives from youtube, film, and performance art. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 370

Reading Stowe and Hawthorne: Tragedy, Romance, Haunted Houses, Passionate Reformers, Weird Science

In this course, we will study in relation to one another the antebellum novels, short works, and personal writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe. These major American authors both produced fascinating, suspenseful, moving, and eerily-weird writing, so first and foremost, we will have some fun reading. We will examine the development, associations, and cultural significance of these two authors. Hawthorne and Stowe grappled with some of the most influential ideologies and political debates of their historical moment; they thought a lot about what makes good writing and what writing can do for human beings; and they both connected themselves to vital writing communities and traditions in America and abroad. Reading their work will tell us a lot about 19th-century literary movements and antebellum American culture. We will also use our explorations of these two writers to gain a better understanding of American literature and culture in general. Scholars have looked to their works as important reflections of American ideals and American identity. While reading and discussing Stowe and Hawthorne, then, we will be able to discuss how American literature and culture has developed, as well as how the study of American literature has changed over time. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 370

Toil&Trouble:Ren Witch

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 371

English-Language Writing in the Era of Globalization

Five centuries of European colonization spread the European languages across the planet. English is now virtually our global lingua franca. With immigration, global mass media and the internet blurring borders and ideas of national and cultural identity as never before, it is obvious that the “borders” between national literatures are blurring as well. This class will study the work of contemporary writers from around the world—Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Oceania— who, sometimes because it is their first language and sometimes as a matter of (anguished) choice, write in English, often in order to depict worlds that can seem alien to that language. Some of these writers are immigrants to England or the United States whose works express bi-national, bi-cultural or bilingual sensibilities; some are firmly rooted in one particular place; some seem determined to free themselves from specific national or cultural contexts. The writers whose work we will study will be drawn from the following: Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Solinka, J.M. Coetzee, Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean Rhys, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Flanagan, Alma Guillermo Prieto, Monica Ali, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat and Monica Truang. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 372

The Harlem Renaissance

This course treats a selection of novels, essays, short fiction, and poetry by African American writers of the period, including Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jesse Fauset, and Jean Toomer. Emphasis is on identifying the characteristics that unify this body of literature and on investigating the significance of the Harlem Renaissance within the African American literary tradition. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 373

Feminist Literary Theory

This course will survey the field of feminist literary theory, tracing topics such as recovering female literary traditions, the intersection of race, class and gender, women’s creativity and silence, gender and genre, sexuality and embodiment, globalization, and literature as activism. Authors studied may include: Audre Lorde, Patricia Williams, Joan Scott, Diana Fuss, Jane Tompkins, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Chandra Mohanty, Assia Djebar, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Bonnie Zimmerman, Alice Walker, and Nancy Armstrong, among others. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 374

Escape and Exile: Caribbean Fiction

In this course we will focus on themes of exile, immigration, the colonial notion of the "mother country," and the elusive concept of home in Caribbean novels and short stories. Our discussions will also be informed by literary portrayals of national, racial, religious, and gender identity. We will read classic novels by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Samuel Selvon, and V.S. Naipaul, contemporary narratives of displacement by Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Andrea Levy, and Opal Palmer Adisa. Finally we will read essays by George Lamming and Caryl Phillips, as well as Audre Lorde's "biomythography." For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 375

American Short Fiction—19th Century

In this course we will read short fiction by both canonical writers, like Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Twain, and Crane; lesser-known writers, like Alice Cary, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Chesnutt, and John Milton Oskison; and some writers who have in recent times reemerged from obscurity, like Jack London, Kate Chopin, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. We will consider how fiction changed in the course of the 19th century and in what ways, if any, race, gender, ethnicity, and geography shape modes of narrative. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 376

Home Fires Burning: America in Fiction 1945-1975

A survey of American fiction from the end of World War II, through the Cold War 1950s, 60s, 70s, and concluding in the aftermath of U.S.-Vietnam War. Included will be novels and short stories by Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, Robert Stone, and Joyce Carol Oates. Students should be prepared and willing to read a novel a week, or its equivalent, as well as occasional secondary readings for historical context. Evaluation will be through a combination of quizzes, short papers, mid-term, and final exam. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 377

Surviving Ulysses

This is a course in the major works of High British Modernism. The poetry and prose of this period were characterized by tremendous ambition, radical experimentation, the questioning of conventions and the creation of new ones. In the first half we concentrate on a single author, James Joyce, reading his major fiction (excluding Finnegan’s Wake). In the second half we will assess the challenge Joyce -- specifically his masterpiece Ulysses -- presented to his contemporaries: poets influenced by his use of myth (Eliot, Pound, H.D.); Irish writers confronted with a self-proclaimed national epic (Yeats, Beckett); other aspirants to the High Modern novel (Huxley, Woolf).
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 379

Melville

Though a superstar during his early career, Herman Melville watched his reputation decline as his literary ambitions escalated. One review of his seventh novel bore the headline, "Herman Melville Crazy." Not until the 20th century did even his best-known work, Moby Dick, attract considerable attention, but it now stands at the center of the American literary pantheon. Melville's work merits intensive, semester-long study not only because he is a canonical author of diverse narratives—from maritime adventures to tortured romances to philosophical allegories—but also because his career and legacy themselves constitute a narrative of central concern to literary studies and American culture. Through reading and discussion of several of his major works, we will explore Melville's imagination, discover his work's historical context, and think critically about literary form. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 380

Scribbling Women: 19th-Century American Women Writers

This course will trace the rich and diverse tradition of women’s writing in 19th-century America. Reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as cultural artifacts such as newspapers and photographs, we will consider the contexts that influenced women’s writing and evaluate women authors’ contributions to literary, political, and social movements during the 1800s. We will pay particular attention to representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in women’s writing. African American, Euro-American, Hispanic, Native American, middle- and working-class women authors will be studied, and may include Maria Stewart, Maria Cummins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Zitkala-Ša, Louisa May Alcott, Caroline Kirkland, Frances E.W. Harper, Emily Dickinson, and Nancy Prince. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 381

Symbolists, Aesthetes, and Decadents

The study of the major tradition of poetry and prose running from Poe in the United States through Baudelaire and the French symbolists Verlaine and Mallarme, to British aesthetes and decadents—Rossetti, Swinburne, Hopkins, Wilde, Conrad, and Symons—and to modern poets such as Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Lowell. This course will explore the history, poetics, and aesthetics of this international literary movement. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 383

Modern British Fiction

This is a course in British fiction between 1890 and 1945. The prose (novels and stories) of this period is characterized by tremendous ambition, radical experimentation, the questioning of old conventions and the creation of new ones. Authors will include Wilde, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 384

Modernism/Modernity

Concurrent with the growth of Modernist studies in the last 15 years or so has been decreasing agreement about the nature of Modernism itself. In this course, we will consider the various competing accounts of Modernism (the artistic movement) and Modernity (the period) current in cultural theorists' attempts to reshape the Modern canon; we will also examine influential interpretations of modernist politics, aesthetics, technologies, and media. Readings will be divided equally between literature (familiar and less-familiar authors) and theory/philosophy (Nietzsche, Bergson, Adorno, Bourdieu, Jameson and others).
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 385

Early Modern English Travel Writing

This course examines seemingly disparate literatures of travel from Early Modern England, including travel writing anthologies, news, trading company or embassy reports, illustrated accounts of adventure, trade and encounter, travel logs, translations, and promotional literature about New World colonial living. Highlighting a crucial but understudied moment in the development of travel writing as a genre -- the period is often labeled with the blanket description "age of discovery" -- this course is bookended by a brief look back at medieval precursors and forward to the 18th century era of the Grand Tour and empire. Authors include John Mandeville, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Smith, Aphra Behn, and Mary Montagu. For English majors, this course satifies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 386

Approaching the Victorian Novel

We will take as our object of study middle- and late-Victorian novels that are notable for their popularity, their controversial nature, or their status as representative Victorian novels. Some themes of particular note in our readings will be utopian visions, possessive individualism, gothic approaches, and novels about the ghostly (the ectoplasmic). We will view these novels through various lenses, including cultural studies, commodity culture, and queer theory. We will practice various collaborative ways of thinking, writing, and speaking theoretically about Victorian novels as opposed to learning about how to apply theory to fiction. Readings will include works by Charlotte Brontë, Sheridan LeFanu, George Eliot, George Meredith, Henry James, Charles Darwin, and John Stuart Mill. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 387

Romantic Poetry

The study of the revolutionary impulse in poetry, criticism, and essays between the years 1788 and 1832 in England. Readings will include women writers as well as traditional male authors. Emphasis will be on Wollstonecraft, Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 388

Hysteria and Literature

This is a literature and psychology course examining the relationship between memory disturbances, trauma and literary form in works by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Helene Cixous, Bernhard Schlink, Sylvia Path, Juliet Mitchell, and Kenneth Branagh.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 389

Wars of the Mind: Romantic and Rational Impulses from Voltaire to World War I

In this course, we will focus on the ways in which Romantic writer re-configured many of the major tenets of European Enlightenment thought, focusing in particular on attitudes toward freedom an restraint, on the notion of the individual, on concepts of the will, and on the conception of individual identity in relationship to social process. We will read works by Voltaire, Goethe, Blake, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Thormas Mann, and Shaw.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 391

Transatlantic Correspondence:Commonalities and Disparities in Contemporary Irish and American Poetry

Using form as our jumping off point, we will examine the work of contemporary Irish and American poets in terms of conversations that seem to be happening both across the Atlantic divide and exclusively within either tradition. Looking at work by Seamus Heaney, C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, Galway Kinnell, Ciaran Carson, Jorie Graham, Michael Longley, Robert Hass, Eamon Grennan, and Charles Wright among others, we will consider the sorts of structures, traditional or otherwise, the poems seem to be inhabiting, and how the subject matter under consideration is determining the shape of that habitation. Rather than taking the poets up one by one, we will work out of compelling clusters of poems that seem to develop from a shared concern—responses to major shifts in history in the work of Heaney or Kinnell, attempts to wrestle with cultural identity in Williams or Muldoon, meditative dealings with the natural world in Wright and Longley, and so on. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 392

Tolkien and Modern British Culture

In the wake of three blockbuster movies, J.R.R. Tolkien’s position in popular culture is more robust than ever. His status within academia, however, remains a matter of sharp controversy. All but absent from college curricula, his works are still left mainly to readers of science fiction and fantasy novels. This course will reconsider his claims as a "serious" author. We will read, in its entirety, the fiction he published during his lifetime. In addition, we will consider him in a series of contexts: his influences, his times, our times. We will read him alongside his contemporaries: can the literature of his period be reconfigured to make a place for his work? For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 395

19 C Novl:Fictn/Sexualty

This course examines the invention of a number of novelistic forms in 19th century England as part of the invention of "modern" men and women. It explores the characteristics of emerging genres (such as Gothic fiction, the industrial novel, sensation fiction, detective fiction, naturalism, the adventure novel) as they shaped theories of gender difference and the Victorian body and reconfigured conflicts between forces of patriarchy and feminism, reform and revolution, professionalism and class. Includes readings from Darwin, Mill, Freud, and Foucault together with such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Mary Barton, The Woman in White, Lady Audley's Secret, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, and She. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 399

Open Semester

No Course Description Available.

4.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 401

Theories and Methods of Literary Studies

This seminar is designed to introduce students to the field of literary studies at the graduate level, to provide a perspective on varied critical vocabularies, and to explore the development of literary theories and methods from classical to contemporary times. Emphasis will be placed on a broad examination of the history and traditions of literary theory, the ongoing questions and conflicts among theorists, and practical applications to the study of works in literature. Students will write weekly, have opportunities to lead class discussion, and work in stages to compose a substantial critical essay based on research and the development of their own perspective on understanding and evaluating a literary text. (Note: English 401 and English 801 are the same course.) For the English graduate program, this course is required of all students and we recommend that entering students enroll in this course during their first year of graduate study. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or an elective.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 402

Intrepid Explorers, Unruly Natives, and Tacky Tourists: American Travel Writing, 1800-2000

Navigating the Mississippi River, the Oregon Trail, or the Transatlantic crossing as well as constructions of race, class, and gender, American travel writers assert personal and national identity in their texts. Our exploration will begin with the quintessentially masculine figure of the traveler and then turn to women travel writers who question traditional femininity and African American and Asian American authors who challenge racism and social injustice. Finally, we will consider the perspective of the “natives” and their response to travel accounts written by tourists and colonists. We will also study the growing field of travel criticism and address issues of colonialism, globalization, and tourism. Authors may include: Mary Louise Pratt, Jamaica Kincaid, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, William Wells Brown, Nancy Prince, June Jordan and selected contemporary travel writers. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a course emphasizing cultural context.
Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 403

Amistad and Other Rebellions

The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The AMISTAD affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 404

Theory and Practice of Rhetoric

Aristotle defined Rhetoric over 2,000 years ago as "the art of discovering, in any given case, the available means of persuasion." This course is designed to introduce students to the theoretical traditions of this art of persuasion and its transmission from classical to contemporary times. We will test theory against practice as we examine multiple modes of expression in oral, print, and electronic cultures. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the effects of rhetorical action and interaction on the lives of communities, along with analyzing the dynamics of evolving social and structural concepts of author, audience, purpose, and genre—ranging from classical orations to personal essays to hypertext webs. Students will have an opportunity to experiment with as well as study genres of interest to them. This course is required of English master's students in the new concentration: writing, rhetoric, and media arts.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 405

American Literature: The Remix

In this course, students will examine the ways in which a series of books are in direct and indirect conversation with another. We will do so by reading several "classics" of 19th- and 20th-century American literature side-by-side with both contemporary and modern authors whose own work echoes or rewrites those "classics" in especially startling or suggestive ways. Given these concerns, we will be as interested in issues of continuity as we will be in matters of distinction. Another aim of this course will be to challenge insufficiently dynamic understandings of culture and the artificial barriers that have together served to separate "American literature" from various ethnic American and African American literatures. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 406

Contemporary Composition Studies

In the past few decades, the teaching of writing has become subject to intense theoretical analysis and debate, and this course will explore the burgeoning field of composition studies. We will look first at the history of composition instruction in the United States from the 19th century to the present, and then examine the competing theoretical frameworks that currently inform the teaching of writing. We will read Mina Shaughnessy, James Berlin, Peter Elbow, David Bartholomae, Patricia Bizzell, and many others, considering the larger philosophical and political differences that are reflected in struggles over how writing should be taught. (Note: English 406 and English 891 are the same course.) For English majors, this course counts as an elective; for writing and rhetoric minors, it counts as a core course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track; it counts as an elective for the literary studies track.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 408

American Realism and Urban Life

In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, American cities enjoyed the benefits of explosive economic growth but suffered the consequences of widespread poverty and class polarization. As both literal places and imagined spaces, cities embodied the excitement and opportunity of the "American dream" even as they provoked profound social and cultural anxieties. With immigrants arriving by the million and poor industrial workers living in striking proximity to the capitalists whom industry enriched, American cities were powder kegs of ethnic, racial, and class animosity—and frequently they exploded. During the same period, the school of literature we now call realism flourished, and realist authors wrote novels preoccupied with urban life. In this course, we will consider why rapid urbanization may have provoked literary realism and how literary realism in turn shaped our understanding of the urban center. Reading texts by authors such as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, John Dos Passos, and Richard Wright, we will examine the ways realist novels represent the covert tensions and outright unrest of the turn-of-the-century American metropolis. We will grapple with questions including: What is the fate of individualism in a crowd? How do developments such as factories, mass transit, department-store shopping, and the expansion of mass media change the ways people think about themselves and their membership in a social class or ethnic group? How does city life shape people's cognition of the world around them and the ways art and culture represent that world? (Note: English 408 and English 808 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track and an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 409

William Faulkner

A study of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels including The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Go Down, Moses with emphasis on style, structure, and the writer’s response to culture and history. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 410

What is Romanticism?

Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the passing of the First Reform Bill in 1832, Europe experienced unending social and political turbulence, and produced perhaps the first truly international artistic movement: Romanticism. In this course, we will examine the literary and theoretical production of this brief but eventful period, looking as much at the rivalries and disagreements between authors as at their points of overlap. Focus will rest on major British writers (Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and especially Wordsworth), but we will also consider marginal or forgotten figures, as well as important continental voices. (Note: English 410 and English 810 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a literary theory course. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track or an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 411

Electric English

In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes attempts to invent a machine that would enable anyone to write books using an enormous wooden frame filled with wires and random words on movable bits of paper. While our contemporary machines are made of plastic, not wood, and seem so much more sophisticated and powerful than Swift’s imaginary device, the rhetorical and literary questions raised by his satire are more relevant than ever in the digital age. This seminar will explore what happens when writers and readers go online. How do the new media arts affect the way we read and understand literature? What changes when literary protagonists become avatars of story? What do we make of hypertext novels and poetry machines on the Web? We will seek to establish whether there is a distinctively new phenomenon that can be called “digital literature.” If so, how do we define and evaluate it, and how do we place it in relation to a history of literature and literary aesthetic? We will ground our conversations in a small sampling of traditional works of fiction and poetry from print culture, comparing these texts with a range of rhetorical and literary experiments taking place online. NOTE: For the graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track; it counts as an elective for the Literary Studies track. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For undergraduate Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts minors, it counts as a core course.

1.00 units, Seminar

WMST 412

Feminism & Literature

Taking gender as its fundamental category of analysis, this course will examine landmark texts in the history of feminism's relation to literature, bringing feminist insights to bear on a variety of authors, including Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Sigmund Freud, Isak Dinesen, Doris Lessing, and Kenneth Branagh. This course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or a course emphasizing literature after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 413

Practical Criticism

An analysis of complex texts by a variety of writers and from many periods and genres. The texts will be chosen by the participants. (Note: English 413 and English 813 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For graduate English students, this course counts as an elective for either the literary studies track or the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 414

Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams: Representative American Dramatists

In this course we will study selected plays by Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, with a focus not only on the individual plays but on the broader dramatic and cultural contexts in which these two authors wrote and in which their plays were initially performed. We will consider some early sea plays of O’Neill’s as well a selection of his mythic and autobiographical plays. Plays of Williams will include THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, among others. We may view films of major plays. This course is open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For graduate students, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the Literary Studies track of the English M.A. It serves as an elective for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track of the English M.A. For undergraduate students, this course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a cultural contexts course.

1.00 units, Seminar

WMST 415

V.Woolf&Bloomsbury

Study of Woolf's fiction, criticism, and biography with allied works by or about Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, Vita Sackville-West, and E. M. Forster. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a critical theory course.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 417

Southern American Women Writers

Beginning with Margaret Mitchell's epic novel and film Gone with the Wind, this course will examine the ways in which southern women writers have depicted the culture of the south in the 20th century. We will focus on the shorter fiction of six writers, tentatively including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and one or two selected recent writers.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 418

17th-Century Poetry

The poets of the early modern period made their contribution to an English literary tradition against a dynamic context of religious, political, and social change. Poets studied in this course will include Lanyer, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Philips, Bradstreet, and Milton. (Note: English 418 and English 818 are the same course.) For graduate students in the literary studies track, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing English literature or a cultural context. It counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800.
Prerequisite: English 260 with a minimum grade of C-.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 419

Literature and Controversy: British Readers and Writers, 1798-1837

The Romantic period witnessed numerous and persistent controversies in the fields of art and politics, from the heated responses to the revolution in France to the often bitter reviews that filled the pages of newspapers and magazines. This seminar examines the culture of "controversialism" in Romantic-era England by attending to particular debates, such as the "Pope controversy" and what Coleridge called "the whole long-continued controversy" over the Lyrical Ballads. In addition to literary texts, we will consider political speeches and critical reactions that reflect the historical context of a Great Britain increasingly divided along lines of cultural identity, ideology, and, importantly, "taste." Why, we will ask, is art such a charged category for Romantics? How do authors reflect and re-imagine reader relations? In what ways have we inherited and challenged Romantic visions of art and society? (Note: Engish 419 and English 819 are the same course.) Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 420

Wars of the Mind: Romantic and Rational Impulses from Voltaire to World War I

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 423

Shelleys, Woolfs, Plath/Hughes

This course examines the works, lives, and cultural contexts of Mary and Percy Shelley, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Themes of discussion include literary collaboration and inspiration, the history and psychology of marriage, archival work on these three literary marriages, and how Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern gender roles inform literary texts and their reception.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 424

Reading Victorian Narratives

This course offers an advanced investigation into major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). We will concentrate on texts—fiction, non-fictional prose, poetry—in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. In seminar sessions and in written work we will interrogate textual constructions of sexuality and gender, considering the potential for slippage between high-conservative ideals and actual lived experiences. Our readings will be informed by a range of modern critical, theoretical, and socio-historical examinations of Victorian literature and culture. (Note: English 424-02 and English 824-02 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 426

Victorian Literature and Materiality

In this course we will read objects as well as literature. An imagist poet, William Carlos Williams, wrote, “(No ideas/but in things),” and this will be, in turn, a central premise of the course. Just as the 19th century is marked by a huge increase and proliferation of printed text, it is also marked by commodity culture and the domain of things. We will explore innovative reading practices in this course for getting a better handle on both texts and objects through units focused on museums; labor and commodities; houses; objects of desire; and electricity and ephemera (or immaterial culture). We will try to re-imagine Victorian literature by (re)touching our reading practices. As an ancillary benefit, the course will continually interrogate the nature of objects, ownership, subjectivity, and desire. Readings are likely to include works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Marie Corelli, and Oscar Wilde. (Note: English 426 and English 826 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 428

The Literature of Social Protest

This course will consider American fiction and poetry that address the issues of social change and social protest. Among the works that may be discussed are Jack London's The Iron Heel, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, as well as poetry by Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Denise Levertov, and Robert Bly.(Note: English 428 and English 828 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies a literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004.
Not open to first-year students.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 430

Performing Heritage: (Self) Representation, Otherness, and Power

The issue of personal and cultural identity and self-representation shall be discussed in relation to specific performative practices, both in the spheres of hegemonic power and subaltern resistance. We will consider the double-edged aspect of representation: on the one hand, as a colonial instrument designed to invent and classify "the other," and also as a vehicle of empowerment for subaltern groups and subjects. In the latter sense, self-representation is often conceived as a way of achieving political and cultural representation within a dominant society. But we might then interrogate to what extent, for example, indigenous people are able to appropriate technologies of representation, and how they can (if at all) control the reception others have of their work. Our discussion will consider how the struggle for indigenous self-representation may lead to social agency and empowerment and the implications it has within the framing of an "intangible heritage." This is a composite graduate and undergraduate course. This course satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 431

Writing Women of the Renaissance

The course will focus on literary works written by Renaissance women, as well as key representations of gender found in selected plays and poems by male writers of the same period. (Note: English 431 and English 833 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies the literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 432

Turns in the South

This course will emphasize representations of the US South in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. The course will begin with V. S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South; it will include works by Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams. Films will include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Gone with the Wind, and Tomorrow (an adaptation of a Faulkner short story).

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 436

19th-Century Gothic Fiction

In this course, you will become acquainted with the castles, mansions, monasteries, lunatics, ghosts, and monsters that kept (and continue to keep) readers awake with a light on at night. Authors will include members of the Shelley circle in England (poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, fiction writers Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and John Polidori), Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry James. The reading will be supplemented by historical and critical reading, which will help us to establish what was at stake in the genre in the past and why it still persists in the present. Topics will include how gothic represents threats to the social order, cloaks and exposes taboo sexuality; approaches or evokes the sublime; constructs the alienated self; anticipates Freudian concepts of the "unconscious" and "uncanny"; and demonizes peoples (ancestors, ethnicities, races, etc.). We will also consider how present day literary critics and theorists have constructed male versus female traditions of gothic and treated the genre as political allegory. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructor. For graduate students, this course satisfies the requirement of author-centered study. For undergraduates: a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 437

Writers of the American South

This course will focus on 20th century U.S. Southern writers, within the context of the complex history of various regions of the South. Beginning with V.S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South, authors to be studied may include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy. We will view selected films of a few of the novels read. NOTE: Satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 438

Modernism/Modernity

What was Modernism? Concurrent with the growth of Modernist studies in the last 15 years or so has been decreasing agreement about the nature of Modernism itself. In this course, we will consider the various competing accounts of Modernism (the artistic movement) and Modernity (the period) current in cultural theorists' attempts to reshape the modern canon; we will also examine the influential interpretations of modernist politics, aesthetics, technologies, and media. Readings will be divided equally between literature (familiar and less-familiar authors) and theory/philosophy (Nietzsche, Bergson, Adorno, Bourdieu, Jameson, and others). (Note: English 438 and English 838 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in British literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

AMST 439

Topics in Film:Star Sysm

Film industries produce not only films, but stars. In this seminar we will explore how both individual stars, and the phenomenon of stardom itself, are constructed, and how the meanings and effects of both have altered over time. Readings range from recent film theory to more general cultural and political history, with emphasis on the interaction of the mechanics of stardom and the production of gender models and stereotypes, from Joan Crawford to Susan Sarandon and from John Wayne to Kevin Costner. Film screenings will be scheduled accordingly. English 265, Introduction to Film Studies, or Art History 105, History of World Cinema, recommended but not required.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 439

Special Topics in Film: The Evolution of the Western Film

The course examines how the Western genre emerged from global popular culture at the end of the 19th century to become one of the most powerful and complex forms for expressing the experience of Modernity. After a careful consideration of the political and philosophical implications of the Western, we will track the development of the genre as it responds to the ideological contradictions and cultural tensions of 20th-century American history, focusing on broad trends within the mainstream, the contributions of individual directors, and the global dissemination of generic elements. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Lecture

WMST 439

Topics in Film:Star Sysm

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 442

Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean Diaspora

This course will look at the literary and filmic production of Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cuban Americans in the United States, from the 19th-21st centuries. Through the literature and cinema of these groups we will not only study the socio-cultural situation and history of this heterogeneous Diaspora but will also explore and come to question central themes traditionally used to discuss Latinos in the US: identity, language, culture, community, exile, space, and memory. In examining a literary and cultural production that spans three centuries, we will read texts in translation from the original Spanish, bilingual texts, and texts written in originally English. A reading knowledge of Spanish helpful but not essential.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 443

Theaters of the Urban Streets

This comparative drama course will focus on the relationships between varied forms of drama that originated in festival or other communally based open-air, urban theater settings, ranging from Ancient Greece to the modern Americas. We will consider basic concepts of social and cultural organization, but the main focus of this course will be "reading" both literary texts and cultural events as if they were texts. We will pay particular attention to epistemologies associated with imagination (as the guiding principle of theater) and logic or reason (as the alternative epistemology). The literature read in the course will include plays by Sophocles and Euripedes, medieval Corpus Christi plays, and German fastnachtspiele or carnival plays, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, contemporary American performance art, and festivals, and play cycles such as carnival or Ramleela that have their origins in the distant past. (Note: English 443 and English 843 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800, literary theory, or cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing cultural context in the literary studies track, or an elective in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 444

British Romanticism

Vast and icy oceans, fields of daffodils, dark satanic mills—the Romantic period was fraught with contradictions, including country and city, nature and art, beauty and sublimity, revolution and reaction. Authors of the period used their writing to make sense of these and other seemingly irresolvable splits in their world. Coleridge's Kubla Kahn has constructed an ordered pleasure garden atop a sublime ice cave; William Blake suggested the marriage of heaven and hell. This class will examine some of the major poetry, novels and tracts that shaped the period. Sometimes portraits of hearth and home and sometimes tales of violence and horror, these texts demonstrate a psychological complexity and an understanding of literature and authorship that signals modernity. To better understand its historical conditions, we will supplement our readings with visual art and other cultural productions in an attempt to define and understand the period in a way of thinking and writing which we have come to call Romanticism. Authors will include the major Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth) as well as Smith, Inchbald, Wollstonecraft, Lewis, Austen, and Burke. Critical readings will accompany the primary texts. (Note: English 444 and English 844 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 445

From Moll to Mother, Rake to Rhett Gender and Culture in Selected Novels

In this course, we will examine female and male stereotypes in selected novels form the beginning of the 18th through the middle of the 20th centuries. Novels to be studied include MOLL FLANDERS, TOM JONES, PAMELA, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, BLEAK HOUSE, NORTH AND SOUTH, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SISTER CARRIE, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, and GONE WITH THE WIND. The final novel will be chosen by the students in the course from a selection of novels written within the last decade. The course will emphasize the relationship of fictional representations to a variety of cultural contexts.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 450

Living Writers

Students will read work by selected authors giving readings or lectures at Trinity and in the vicinity; attend events featuring the authors themselves; and write both response papers and more contextualized literary critiques of living authors. Each student will also prepare for and conduct an interview with a selected author, for both class and written presentation. For students interested in contemporary prose and poetry and in placing creative writing within the context of both current trends and deep traditions in literature. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 451

The Harlem Renaissance

This course will explore the flourishing of black literary and cultural production from the 1920s until late-1930s known as the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro movement. We will look at the aesthetic, social, psychological and political objectives of the period and how these goals are addressed through essays, literature, music and visual art. We will also interrogate the construction of a “New Negro” identity. How is such an identity defined? What artists are deemed acceptable models of this identity? What artists or modes of cultural expression are excluded or silenced? How do issues of gender, class and sexuality factor into the construction of a New Negro identity? In addressing these questions, we will examine the Harlem Renaissance as a precedent for other black aesthetic movements in the later part of the 20th century.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 453

Frontier to Factory: Defining America in 19th-Century Literature

Interrogating American identity in the national or individual sense requires that we grapple with the places that so often define what we consider to be American experience. As 19th-century American authors wrestled with the difficulty of fully representing what it means to be American they frequently depicted and revised our ideas of quintessentially American places—the frontier, the home, the city, the factory, the countryside, and the contrasting idea of "abroad." For example, reading Upton Sinclair, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' various portrayals of the factory helps us understand not only how the factory functions as a symbolic site in American consciousness, but also how diverse authors build and challenge the meaning of labor, class, race, and nation. Reading widely across the 19th century and into the 20th, we will trace the literary conversations that construct and constantly rewrite our understandings of these American spaces and ask how they contribute to our ideas about American identity. We will consider the impact of race, class, and gender on these literary conversations and read a diverse group of authors that may include: Washington Irving, Thomas Detter, Zitkala-Ša, Frank Webb, Stephen Crane, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Upton Sinclair, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Charles Chestnutt, Henry James, Herman Melville, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Dean Howells, and Henry David Thoreau. (Note: English 453 and English 853 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 455

Gendered Projections

What is gender, or what do we imagine gender to be? Is there any difference between these two questions? In what specific ways is gender socially constructed? How and by whom are these constructs instilled and maintained, and how do competing forces of history, politics, economics, race, class, region, sexuality, and nationality influence and complicate each person's experience of gender? This course will chase some answers to these and other questions, exploring 20th-century literature, playwriting, and cinema for the different and often unstable notions of gender that these works "project" for us. As a seminar in literature, the course aims to highlight how various projections of gender are inseparable from such seemingly formal considerations as voice, genre, style, and point of view. Also, because gender itself constitutes such a dense network of social relations, we will assess the ways in which literature and art generate their own social relations, with important implications not only for gender but for countless other concepts and ideologies. Thus, in each of the seminar's four units—loosely focused around Anglo-American, African American, Latin American, and expatriate American literature—we will read and analyze texts in order to detect their particular concepts of gender, or the questions they raise about gender. Throughout the course, we will think critically about how differences in form, era, or cultural context affect the varying conclusions or implications related to gender in these works. Primary texts shall include Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Memory Mambo, Lolita, the films American Beauty and Butterflies on a Scaffold, as well as important essays in gender theory, feminist and gay/lesbian studies, psychoanalysis, critical memoir, and other branches of scholarship. (Note: English 455 and English 855 are the same course.)For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 457

Novels Into Film

In this course we will study selected adaptations of novels into film, examining some of the basic theoretical and practical issues involved in adapting a text from one medium to another, using as case studies selected novels and films. Text to be studied may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (comparing the 1926 version to the 1996 version), Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Scorsese film), John McDonald, The Executioners with two films: Cape Fear, (1962, J. Lee Thompson) and (1991, Martin Scorsese); Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1972, Coppola film); Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca (1940, Hitchcock). Other films and novels may be chosen, but the focus of the course will be the nature of the individual adaptation in relationship to the issues generically involved in adapting prose fiction to the medium of film. We will read the films as texts in their own right. This course counts as a core course for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track of the English M.A. or en elective in the Literary Studies track; for undergraduate English majors, it counts as a course emphasizing literature after 1800 or a literary theory course.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 459

Ethnic Cultures and American Literatures

This seminar will examine both fiction written by “ethnic” American writers and other texts that discuss issues of ethnicity, race, borders, bi-lingualism, bi-culturalism, immigration, and the like. Writers whose work might be studied include Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Lan Cao, Leslie Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Rebecca Goldstein, Grace Paley, Rolando Hinojosa, and Gloria Anzaldúa. (Note: English 459 and English 859 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track. It satisfies a literary history requirement for the old requirements, predating fall 2004.
Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 460

Shakespeare on Film

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 464

McLuhan 5.0—Challenges and Opportunites of the Digital Revolution

This course will look at the ways in which Old Media are in decline. Alas, chances are good that we will be able to study the shuttering of a major newspaper in real time. We will examine the new tricks some older outlets are using to revive themselves. Of course, we will look at the structure, nature and implication of Web 2.0 models and whatever sits beyond that. We will use the work of McLuhan to give us a tree of theory on which to hang our new ornaments. Participants should be willing to blog and participate on sites such as Facebook. (Note: English 464 and English 864 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or as an elective; for writing, rhetoric, and media arts minors, this course counts as a core course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track and as an elective for the literary studies track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 466

Teaching Assistantship

Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.

0.50 units min / 1.00 units max, Independent Study

ENGL 468

Edith Wharton and Henry James

Their lives stretched from a pre-industrial time of horses and carriages to a modern era of automobiles and skyscrapers. As members of social and cultural elites, they were front-line observers of the original Gilded Age (to which many have likened our own historical moment). With Victorian mores on the wane, they and their characters contended with complicated and shifting ideas about gender and marriage. In this course, we will study the work of two American writers who represented these profound social changes in intricate psychological dramas written in some of the most stylistically accomplished prose in the English language. By reading and discussing short stories, novels, and essays by Edith Wharton and Henry James, we will consider their influence on each other and on the literary categories of realism and modernism; their works’ implications about gender, identity, and power; and the historical and economic context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note: English 468-05 and English 868-17 are the same course.) For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it satisfies the requirement of an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural context.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 470

Film Theory: An Introduction

This course introduces the most important theoretical models which have been used to explain how films function as art, ideology, language, history, politics and philosophy. Some theorists are mainly concerned with the aesthetic potentials of the cinema: How do categories such as realism, authorship and genre explain and enhance our experience of films? Other theorists are focused on the relations between films and the societies that produce them, or on general processes of spectatorship: How do Hollywood films address their audiences? How do narrative structures shape our responses to fictional characters? As the variety of these questions suggests, film theory opens onto a wide set of practices and possibilities; though it always begins with what we experience at the movies, it is ultimately concerned with the wider world that we experience through the movies. Theorists to be examined include Munsterberg, Eisenstein, Burch, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin, Altman, Gunning, Mulvey, Metz, Wollen, Havel, Benjamin, Pasolini, Deleuze and Jameson. (Note: English 470 and English 870 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 475

Orwell, Auden

Near contemporaries, George Orwell and W.H. Auden were, respectively, the most important social critic and leading British poet of their generation. Although they were close on many views, each regarded the other with wariness or outright hostility. This course follows their careers from the 1930s to the 1950s, tracing their agreements and disagreements on important issues of the day: the proper role of the British Left; the position of the artist in society; the best way to resist Fascism before and during World War II; the new world that emerged after war’s end. We will read widely in the critical and literary work of both authors. (Note: English 475 and English 875 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a British literature course or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track or an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. It satisfies the requirement of author-centered study for older requirements, predating the fall of 2004.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 476

Blogging On

More than eight million Americans have created and maintained "blogs" which Merriam-Webster defines as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks." But what is a blog? What kind of writing goes on there, and how does it differ, rhetorically, from other kinds? How does information pass from blog to blog and what is the impact of this new activity on mainstream culture? Participants in this seminar will read and analyze blogs. Most students will, in lieu of a final paper, produce and maintain a blog (although those who wish to do a more traditional analytical paper will be accommodated). Other readings in the course will include The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore as we work on a theoretical framework for understanding the way information spreads. (Note: English 476 and English 866 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context, or as an elective. For writing and rhetoric minors, this course counts as a core course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track, and as an elective for the literary studies track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 480

Literary Losers

Why is it that certain writers, very well-known in their own times, later disappear from view or are trivialized as, for example, “The Sweet Singer of Hartford” or “stuff for boys who don’t read”? In this course we will examine a number of case studies of such writers: Lydia Sigourney, Alice Cary, Jack London, Amy Lowell, and, happening right now, Tillie Olsen. We will also consider the extent to which such writers have come back into view. And we will look at one or two contrary cases: writers who were not seen as terribly important in their own times but who later became central to American literary study, like Herman Melville. In other words, we will study the question of “canon formation” in depth.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 488

Hysteria and Literature

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 492

Fiction Workshop

Advanced seminar in the writing of fiction. Class discussions devoted primarily to the analysis of student fiction, with some attention to examples of contemporary short stories. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers, and an advanced creative writing workshop. This course satisfies the requirement of a 400-level workshop for creative writing majors.
Prerequisite: English 270 and one of the following English 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, or Theater and Dance 293 (formerly Theater and Dance 393).

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 493

Advanced Playwriting

Students will write their own full-length plays and do reading of drafts at various stages of completion. At the same time, students will examine the structural stragegies and other craft decisions made by famous playwrights in some of their best known full-length works. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite: C- or better in Theater and Dance 393 or English 337 or Permission of Instructor.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 494

Poetry Workshop

Advanced seminar in the writing of poetry. Class discussions devoted primarily to the analysis of student work, with some attention to examples of contemporary poetry. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers, and an advanced creative writing workshop. This course satisfies the requirement of a 400-level workshop for creative writing majors, and a senior project.
Prerequisite: English 270 and one of the following English 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, or Theater and Dance 293 (formerly Theater and Dance 393).

1.00 units, Lecture

AMST 495

Sr Seminar: What U Have Read

This is your final year as an English major; this course is your senior seminar. There are books and authors, that, once upon a time, you thought every English major should have encountered. But you still haven’t. One of this seminar’s main purposes is to allow you to do so. One of its other purposes is to ask, and, we will hope, to answer the question: Why? Why did you or do you think every English major should have read this book or author? Why haven’t you? Why, now has or hasn’t the text satisfied your great expectations? Along the way, we will also be discussing related issues such as canonicity and canon changes, the structures of the major in English, and the (perhaps changing) reasons why you’re in this major. Obviously, the students in this course will generate (and debate) its reading list and syllabus. The instructor will generate the requirements.
This course open to senior English majors only.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 495

Senior Seminar: Ulysses

We will study Ulysses closely, reading it twice, and will examine how critics have gone about interpreting it. This course satisfies the requirement for a senior project.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 496

Senior Seminar: The Poems of W.B. Yeats

We will read Yeats's poems, a play or two, and some of his prose, along with biographical, cultural, and critical background. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For senior English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 497

One-Semester Senior Thesis

Individual tTutorial in writing of a one-semester senior thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required.

1.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 498

Senior Thesis Part 1/Senior Colloquium

This course is designed to teach senior English majors the techniques of research and analysis needed for writing a year-long essay on a subject of their choice. It is intended to help the students to write such year-long theses, and to encourage them to do so. It will deal with problems such as designing longer papers, focusing topics, developing and limiting bibliographies, working with manuscripts, using both library and Internet resources, and understanding the uses of theoretical paradigms. This course is required of all senior English majors who are planning to write two-semester, year-long theses. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.)

2.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 499

Senior Thesis Part 2

Individual tutorial in the writing of a year-long thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Seniors writing year-long, two-credit theses are required to register for the second half of their thesis for the spring of their senior year. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.)

2.00 units, Independent Study

AMST 559

Topics in Film:Star Sysm

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 801

Theories and Methods of Literary Studies

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 802

Theory and Practice of Rhetoric

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 808

American Realism and Urban Life

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 810

What is Romanticism?

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 811

Electric English

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 812

Caribbean Civilization

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 813

Practical Criticism

An analysis of complex texts by a variety of writers and from many periods and genres. The texts will be chosen by the participants.(Note: English 413 and English 813 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800. For graduate English students, this course counts as an elective for either the literary studies track or the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 814

Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams: Representative American Dramatists

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 815

Festival and Drama

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 817

Poetry of Paradise

This course will focus on representative works of 17th-century English literature, with particular emphasis on the literary, historical, and cultural contexts that help to inform our understanding of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in British literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. Open to undergraduates with Permission of Instructor.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 818

17th-Century Poetry

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 819

Literature and Controversy: British Readers and Writers, 1798-1837

The Romantic period witnessed numerous and persistent controversies in the fields of art and politics, from the heated responses to the revolution in France to the often bitter reviews that filled the pages of newspapers and magazines. This seminar examines the culture of "controversialism" in Romantic-era England by attending to particular debates, such as the "Pope controversy" and what Coleridge called "the whole long-continued controversy" over the Lyrical Ballads. In addition to literary texts, we will consider political speeches and critical reactions that reflect the historical context of a Great Britain increasingly divided along lines of cultural identity, ideology, and, importantly, "taste." Why, we will ask, is art such a charged category for Romantics? How do authors reflect and re-imagine reader relations? In what ways have we inherited and challenged Romantic visions of art and society? (Note: English 819 and English 419 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 820

Imagining Home: A Comparative Novel Cours

In this course, we will study a selection of comparative novels that create conceptions of home, ranging from a desire for a place of one’s own to the notion of home as either an idealized retreat from an unpleasant public sphere or a place of imprisonment. Authors to be studied include Dickens, V.S. Naipaul, Kate Chopin, Paule Marshall, Sinclair Lewis, and one recent American author to be determined. These issues will be considered within the context of various ethnic, racial, and cultural distinctions as well as individual choices. Note: This English course counts toward the American Studies Program.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 822

Edmund Spenser

Spenser's poems, written at the height of the English Renaissance, continue to amaze readers with their fantastic imagination of unseen worlds both mythic and divine. Moreover, Spenser's poetic evocations of geographically specific places, including Ireland and America, reflect Spenser's powerful engagement with issues related to English plantation and territorial expansion. In this course we will consider how Spenser's eclectic and allusive works connect to a variety of literary, cultural, and critical contexts, with particular attention to their status as "colonial texts".

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 823

Shelleys, Woolfs, Plath/Hughes

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 824

Reading Victorian Narratives

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 825

Writing the Self: American Ethnic and Racial Identities

Autobiography, "autoethnography," and autobiographical novels have all served to construct ideas of what ethnic and racial identity mean in the United States. In this course we will read a number of literary and critical texts that take as their subject writing the self. We will explore a variety of genres, from slave narratives to spiritual autobiographies to social realist novels to postmodern collages. We will explore how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and national origin intersect to build an American identity. Texts may include Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; George Copway, The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road; Jo Sinclair, Wasteland; John Okada, No-No Boy; Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera, as well as theoretical work by Hazel Carby, Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 827

Wars of the Mind: Romantic and Rational Impulses from Voltaire to World War I

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 828

The Literature of Social Protest

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 830

Senior Seminar: Amistad and Other Rebellions

The period prior to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women’s economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this seminar we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in antebellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The Amistad affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well. This course satisfies the requirement of a senior project.

1.00 units, Seminar

AMST 831

Lwr Freq: South Lit/Cult

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 831

Southern American Women Writers

1.00 units, Seminar

AMST 832

Amistad&Other Rebellions

The period leading to the Civil War witnessed intense conflicts not only about slavery and race but about the spread of capitalism, restrictions on women's economic and social rights, the growth of cities, and a variety of other social issues. "Literature" in this period was seldom seen as standing apart from these issues. On the contrary, art, politics, and social issues were generally seen as heavily intertwined. In this course we will look at the relationships between a number of issues prominent in ante-bellum America and works of art which at once expressed ideas about such issues and helped shape responses to them. The AMISTAD affair will provide one instance; we will examine two or three others as well.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 832

Turns in the South

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 833

Writing Women of the Renaissance

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 834

Victorian Fiction, 1851-1867

The years from the Great Exhibition (1851) to the Second Reform Bill (1867) were a period of enormous vitality in the English novel. The explosion of serial publication and circulating libraries; the rise of consumer capitalism at home and imperial dominance abroad; and the variety of worship and readership resulted in the production of novels with narrative power and cultural authority. Within this period, we will survey many of the major authors of Victorian fiction while attending closely to a specific set of historical developments, class relations, and gender issues. We will read eight representative works of fiction: Dickens's Bleak House (1852-53); Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1852); Charlotte Bronte's Villette (1853); Gaskell's North and South (1854-55); Collins's The Moonstone(1860); Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862); George Eliot's Felix Holt, The Radical (1866); and Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset (1866-67). These texts include industrial novels, sensation fiction, multiplot novels, fictional autobiographies, historical fiction, and mysteries, demonstrating the enormous formal variety hidden under the deceptive phrase "nineteenth-century realism." In addition, students will present two oral reports, one on a major critical book treating the fiction of this period, another on an important intellectual document.
This course is only open to seniors and graduate students.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 835

American Autobiography: Cross-Cultural Perspecitves

Drawing on recent autobiography criticism and theory, this course examines ways that life-writing by a cross-section of mostly 20th Century American authors continues to expand and re-vision the “conditions and limits of autobiography” in the western literary tradition. Topics we will explore include the relationship between storytelling and self re-creation; the precarious role of memory in autobiographical practice; and the politics of race/ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality both in shaping personal experience and in determining modes of self-representation

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 836

Early Gothic Fiction

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 837

Writers of the American South

This course will focus on 20th century U.S. Southern writers, within the context of the complex history of various regions of the South. Beginning with V.S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South, authors to be studied may include Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy. We will view selected films of a few of the novels read. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirements of a core course in the literary studies track or an elective in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course or a course emphasizing literature written after 1800.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 838

Modernism/Modernity

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 839

Special Topics in Film: The Evolution of the Western Film

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 840

Writing "Black" Britain

When the Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury docks in 1948, it brought the first wave of post-war immigration into labor-scarce Britain. Massive labor recruitment from India, Pakistan, and the West Indies brought tens of thousands of “commonwealth subjects” who changed and challenged British culture and politics. The collective experience of becoming "black" British citizens, the continuous struggle to define what that meant and, in the process of redefining "Britishness" for the culture as a whole, has been at the very center of cultural production by those who are still disparagingly referred to as "immigrants." This course will focus on the ways in which black British culture forged for itself an identity and political agenda and has resisted the assault of the British "mainstream" and fundamentally called into question "authentic forms of Englishness." We will be attentive to the shifts in political and theoretical debates of the past several decades in order to map what Frederic Jameson has usefully described as the "social ground of a text." Authors will include: CLR James, Sam Selvon, George Lamming, VS Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Joan Riley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Meera Syal, Hanif Kureishi, and Beryl Gilroy.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 841

Literary Losers

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 842

Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean Diaspora

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 843

Theaters of the Urban Streets

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 844

British Romanticism

Vast and icy oceans, fields of daffodils, dark satanic mills—the Romantic period was fraught with contradictions, including country and city, nature and art, beauty and sublimity, revolution and reaction. Authors of the period used their writing to make sense of these and other seemingly irresolvable splits in their world. Coleridge's Kubla Kahn has constructed an ordered pleasure garden atop a sublime ice cave; William Blake suggested the marriage of heaven and hell. This class will examine some of the major poetry, novels and tracts that shaped the period. Sometimes portraits of hearth and home and sometimes tales of violence and horror, these texts demonstrate a psychological complexity and an understanding of literature and authorship that signals modernity. To better understand its historical conditions, we will supplement our readings with visual art and other cultural productions in an attempt to define and understand the period in a way of thinking and writing which we have come to call Romanticism. Authors will include the major Romantic poets (Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth) as well as Smith, Inchbald, Wollstonecraft, Lewis, Austen, and Burke. Critical readings will accompany the primary texts.(Note: English 444 and English 844 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1800, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in British literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 846

Making Americans: Ethnicity in American Literature

From the moment Crevecoeur recorded his impressions of "the American, this new man" in 1782, people within and outside the United States have continued his effort to define what it means to be an American. Over the course of this country's history, American identity has been shaped by complex racial, ethnic, and social tensions and interactions. This course will treat ethnic American literature of the 20th century as a series of engagements with ideas of nation and belonging. We will look at these texts as attempts by Americans-newly arrived immigrants as well as Native and African Americans, the earliest of the United States' marginalized people-to carve out space for themselves within normative ideas of American nationhood while attempting to preserve their cultural pasts. Course texts may include Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky, John Okada's No-No Boy, Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones, Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Fistfight in Heaven, and Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 847

The Literature and Culture of Adoption in 20th Century America

America's fascination with adoption has become a public phenomenon in recent years. From Rosie O'Donnell to the growing number of Chinese baby girls adopted by Americans to the "Internet Twins"--essentially sold by an adoption broker over the Internet--adoption requires us to reconsider cultural attitudes toward family. In addition, adoption in American literature invokes broader questions of alienation, identity conflict, and self-fashioning. In this course, we will examine representations of adoption in a variety of fictional and autobiographical texts spanning the century, including Charles Chesnutt's THE QUARRY, William Faulkner's LIGHT IN AUGUST, Betty Jean Litton's TWICE BORN, and Barbara Kingsolver's PIGS IN HEAVEN. In addition, we will pay close attention to the social and historical contexts out of which these adoptions narratives emerge.

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 849

Contemporary American Poetry

Since l970, American poetry--always a rich polyphony of voices--has become even more diverse. We will take a close look at some of the poets who have transformed the formal shape, political vision, and aesthetic consciousness of American verse. Among the writers whose work we will read and discuss: Adrienne Rich, Lyn Henjinian, Audre Lorde, John Ashbery, Rita Dove, Li-Young Lee, Andrew Hudgins, Jorie Graham, Gary Soto, Czeslaw Milosz, Donald Justice, and Joy Harjo.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 850

From Moll to Mother, Rake to Rhett Gender and Culture in Selected Novels

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 851

The Harlem Renaissance

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 853

Frontier to Factory: Defining America in 19th-Century Literature

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 855

Gendered Projections

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 857

Novels Into Film

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 859

Ethnic Cultures and American Literatures

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 860

Shakespeare on Film

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 864

McLuhan 5.0--Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Revolution

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 865

The Media and the Presidential Election

In this course, students will use the current presidential election as a living laboratory as they explore the role of the media in shaping perceptions, presenting content, and providing criticism. Students will follow the election in each news medium (including the Internet), interview consultants and "spin doctors," analyze television broadcasts, including television election ads, and prepare a talk radio show. The course will focus also on such issues as media bias, corporate ownership, and FCC regulation. We will also look at the nature of "content" in the political process and how it corresponds (or doesn’t) to literary notions of "text." The instructor has worked for 32 years in daily newspapers and talk radio. This course will count as a core course in the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track and an elective for the literary studies track in the English M.A. This English course also counts towards the American Studies graduate program. It is advisable to register early.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 866

Blogging On

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 868

Edith Wharton and Henry James

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 869

Senior Seminar: Over the Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity's Rainbow is, despite its sprawling length and mind-numbing complexity, arguably the most important and influential literary text to emerge from the U.S. of the 1960s. Both individually and in groups, concentrating on both social and literary contexts, we will use the methods of British cultural studies to investigate the conditions and constituents out of which Pynchon’s daffy and difficult novel emerged, as well as the contexts in the discourses through which it was declared a “masterpiece” and endowed with literary value. Students taking this course should be skilled close readers and eager researchers, capable of thinking and arguing for themselves, yet also able and willing to work together to inventory one text’s raw materials and enabling conditions, and map out that text’s cultural meanings and effects. For the English Graduate Program, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature, or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 870

Film Theory: An Introduction

This course introduces the most important theoretical models which have been used to explain how films function as art, ideology, language, history, politics and philosophy. Some theorists are mainly concerned with the aesthetic potentials of the cinema: How do categories such as realism, authorship and genre explain and enhance our experience of films? Other theorists are focused on the relations between films and the societies that produce them, or on general processes of spectatorship: How do Hollywood films address their audiences? How do narrative structures shape our responses to fictional characters? As the variety of these questions suggests, film theory opens onto a wide set of practices and possibilities; though it always begins with what we experience at the movies, it is ultimately concerned with the wider world that we experience through the movies. Theorists to be examined include Munsterberg, Eisenstein, Burch, Kracauer, Balazs, Bazin, Altman, Gunning, Mulvey, Metz, Wollen, Havel, Benjamin, Pasolini, Deleuze, and Jameson. (Note: English 470 and English 870 are the same course.)For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course, or a course emphasizing literature after 1800. For the English graduate program this course can count as an elective for the literary studies track, or a core course for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 871

Post-Colonial Approaches to Victorian Literature

This course examines Victorian literature through the lens of colonialism and postcolonial theory. Readings and class discussions will address the various definitions given to such terms as empire, colonialism, and imperialism and also consider the relation between metropole and colony in order to better understand the literature and culture of Victorian Britain. Additionally, the course focuses, in part, on depictions of religious practices, especially the unique ways in which Victorian literature often fictionalizes these practices, blending such traditions as Christianity, Spiritualism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam to refigure personhood through imagining global spirituality. Finally, this course will introduce students to primary special collections research, allowing each student to devise his or her own research project on literary depictions of the British Empire. Readings will include works by Wilkie Collins, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Cora Linn Daniels, and Elizabeth Gaskell. This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 875

Orwell, Auden

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 880

Poetry Writing

The American poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that “To have written one good poem….it’s like sitting out in the yard in the evening and having a meteorite fall in one’s lap.” The aim of this course is to encourage the fall of one such meteorite into each class member’s lap. Beginning and more advanced writers, teachers, and professionals curious about how writing poetry might improve their prose, may all find this course useful. As part of our search for useful and relevant models, we will read poems from the whole of the world literature, from Sappho to Czeslaw Milosz, with particular attention paid to modern and contemporary American poetry. The course will be taught workshop-style, built around weekly writing assignments and in-depth discussion of poems produced by class members. A final portfolio will be required.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 881

Women Writers of the Middle Ages

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 883

Shakespeare, in England and America

This course will involve close reading of selected Shakespeare comedies, tragedies, and history plays. We will pay attention to the internal sturcture of the plays, to generic differences between comedies, tragedies, and histories, and to nuances of language, while also considering the plays within the context of the Renaissance culture. We will examine cultural contexts largely by looking at how issues framed thematiclly within the texts interface with issues of the 1590s and early 1600s. We will also pay attention to production histories of selected plays and to modern filmic representations of some plays. American Studies students taking this course will focus on Shakespeare in America, i.e. they will trace production histories of the plays we study through the 19th and 20th centuries in America. Toward this end we will study the shift in cultural focus of Shakespeare from "lowbrow" to "highbrow." This course satisfies the requirement of an author-centered, literary theory, or cultural contexts course. Also listed under American Studies Graduate Program.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 884

Psychoanalysis & Shakesp

This course will examine from a psychoanalytic viewpoint the concept of character dramatized in Shakespeare's works and Shakespeare himself as a character in works by other writers.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 890

Theory and Practice of Rhetoric

Aristotle defined Rhetoric over 2,000 years ago as "the art of discovering, in any given case, the available means of persuasion." This course is designed to introduce students to the theoretical traditions of this art of persuasion and its transmission from classical to contemporary times. We will test theory against practice as we examine speaking, writing, and visual images in oral, print, and electronic cultures. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the effects of rhetorical action and interaction on the lives of individuals, along with analyzing the dynamics of evolving social and structural concepts of author, audience, purpose, and genre--ranging from classical orations to personal essays to hypertext webs. Students will have an opportunity to experiment with as well as study genres of interest to them. This course is required of English Master's students in the new concentration: Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 891

Contemporary Composition Studies

1.00 units, Lecture

ENGL 892

Methods&Theories of Ltry Stds

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Seminar

ENGL 933

Graduate Teaching Assistantship

No Course Description Available.

1.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 940

Independent Study

A limited number of tutorials are available for students wishing to pursue special topics not offered in the regular graduate program. Applications should be submitted to the department chairperson prior to registration. Written approval of the graduate adviser and department chairperson is required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.

1.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 953

Research Project

The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.

1.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 954

Thesis Part I

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 955

Thesis Part II

Continuation of English 954 (described in prior section).

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 956

Thesis

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 959

Creat Wr Project 2:Fictn

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 960

Creative Writing Project 1: Poetry

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 961

Creat Wr Projct 2:Poetry

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 963

Creat Wr Projct 2:Playwr

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 964

Creat Writ Proj 1&2:Fic

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 966

Creative Writing-Playw l & ll

No Course Description Available.

2.00 units, Independent Study

ENGL 999

Connecticut Historical Society Internship

The Connecticut Historical Society offers graduate internships to matriculated English students in five key areas: Museum Collections, Library, Public Programs, Exhibitions, and Technology. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information.

1.00 units, Independent Study