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Courses

Spring 2017
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 10S
    Seminar for Introduction to Literary Study

    A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled ...

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 25
    Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions

    How have language, reading, and literature responded to revolutions in ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 25S
    Seminar on Intro to Literature and the Culture of Information

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar on Intro to U.S. Minority Literature

    Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 100SO
    Seminar for Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Southern Literature

    A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    Not open for credit to students who have completed English ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 105B
    Shakespeare, Later Plays

    Major works of Shakespeare from 1603-1613, including such plays as ...

  • ENGL 122CF
    Cultural Representations:
    Cli-Fi - The Fictions of Climate Change

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 122EE
    Cultural Representations:
    British Comedy, Social Transformation, and the End of Empire

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 122ME
    Cultural Representations:
    Metamorphosis, Embodiment, and Environment

    What do narratives of metamorphosis tell us about the human ...

    Haber, Baron
  • ENGL 128FT
    Literary Genres:
    Fairy Tales

    Detailed readings in, and critical examinations of, specific literary forms. ...

    Zinn, Emily
  • ENGL 128GN
    Literary Genres:
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

    Our concern in this class will be less with superheroes ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 133SO
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Southern Literature

    Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 133TL
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Transpacific Literature

    Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134NA
    Journeys into Blood:
    Late 20th and 21st Century Native American Narrative

    This course as journey focuses on “decolonizing methodologies” through living ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 134NM
    Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States:
    Native American Memoir

    This course examines indigenous-authored memoirs and historical narratives of hemispheric ...

    Lopez, Felicia
  • ENGL 149
    Media and Information Culture:
    Mediating Text

    Throughout this course we will examine a number of works ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 150
    Irish Literature and Culture

    This course will consider how a whole series of wishes, ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 151JC
    Studies in British Writers:
    J.M. Coetzee

    Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, J.M. Coetzee writes fiction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 152A
    Chaucer:
    Canterbury Tales

    Intensive study of the Canterbury Tales.

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 162
    Milton

    An intensive study of Milton.

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 165HR
    Human Rights and Literature

    This course will explore a range of human rights topics ...

    Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl
  • ENGL 165PL
    Prison Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to the historical, ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 170IC
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Imagination and Creativity

    How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 187FM
    Studies in Modern Literature:
    Fiction in the Age of Metrics

    Metrics, indicators, targets, rankings, audits, assessments, polls, statistics, big data, ...

    Steffen, Heather
  • ENGL 187LJ
    Studies in Modern Literature:
    Literature, Law, and Global Justice

    Topics vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 192
    Science Fiction

    The course examines science fiction as a literary genre. Emphasis ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Bad Sex: Censorship, Deviance, and Failure

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Graphic Novel

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Multimedia Criticism

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    The Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Culture

    In Victorian London in 1848 a group of young artists ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Ecofictions - The Human/Non-Human Mesh

    This small seminar looks at ways of imagining relations among ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors English Senior Thesis

    The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 232
    Early Modern Political Thought

    Building on last year’s ENGL 231, “Modernity and Early Modernity,” ...

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 233
    Romantic Legacies:
    Human Writes

    This seminar examines British Romantic-era investments in rights and the ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    High Theory and Cognitive Criticism

    There are many competing theories of literature. The aim of ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Uneasy Bedfellows: Marxism and Queer Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

    Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 151BR
    Studies in British Writers:
    The Brontes

    Nearly two centuries ago, the Brontë sisters took the British ...

    Caldwell, Janis
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