Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

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Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate ...

Instructor: Hiltner, Ken

Surveys a wide range of literary genres by authors from ...

Instructor: Olguín, Ben V.

This course examines the relationship between working-class and/or grassroots activism ...

Instructor: Blake, Felice

Designed to introduce students to critical approaches to the study ...

Instructor: Blake, Felice

Surveys the major literary movements of the Renaissance through texts ...

Instructor: Henderson, Olivia

Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

Instructor: Carlson, Julie

This course looks at the underside of eighteenth-century literature to ...

Instructor: King, Rachael

We read, discuss, and write about Transatlantic literature in English, ...

Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn

Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing ...

Instructor: Huang, Yunte

An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

This course focuses on the essential elements of fiction writing. ...

Instructor: Thomas, Cathy

We will develop a literary approach to climate change by ...

Instructor: Shewry, Teresa

The focus of this course is less with superheroes and ...

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

Explores life stories produced by Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and ...

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

This course is dedicated to the shorter fiction of Henry ...

Instructor: Maslan, Mark

Philip Roth was a central and controversial figure in American ...

Instructor: Maslan, Mark

Critically examines literary and cultural works that address the relationships ...

Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi

A creative writing workshop course where students develop creative works ...

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

This course introduces students to the ocean humanities. This branch ...

Instructor: Jue, Melody

Studies in historical and contemporary media systems including orality, writing, ...

Instructor: Casey, Jim

This course considers how a series of wishes, lies, and ...

Instructor: Duffy, Enda

What is creativity? How do creative ideas emerge? Is the ...

Instructor: Carlson, Julie

Reading happens somewhere between texts and readers. What does reading ...

Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio

Studies late 20th & early 21st Century African American Post-Modern ...

Instructor: Batiste, Stephanie

Introduces the literary genre of science fiction (SF) through the ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

This course focuses on the role of obscenity and censorship ...

Instructor: Thomas, Cathy

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

Instructor: Maslan, Mark

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

James Joyce’s Ulysses is possibly the greatest novel ever written. ...

Instructor: Duffy, Enda

This course explores the genre of the novel through the ...

Instructor: King, Rachael

This course will examine how sciences in the plural have ...

Instructor: Jue, Melody

In this class, we will get to know one of ...

Instructor: Reeve, Daniel

Drawing from theories of literature and the environment and Asian ...

Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi

The English Department’s Doctoral Colloquium provides support and guidance for ...

Instructor: Blurton, Heather