Fall 2020

  • GREY CAMERA AGAINST BOOKS BACKDROP
    Studies special topics in popular culture; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours for different topics. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
  • MAN WEARING WHITE SHIRT RIDING BLACK BMX BIKE
    This class will read and think about weird and new weird fiction as well as some of the theoretical and scholarly debates surrounding this topic. Briefly put, weird fiction emerged in the late nineteenth century as a loose genre of texts concerned
  • code on a computer screen
    We all know that computers do not have feelings. Yet how might we leverage technology to think about what it is to be human; to identify the emotional state of a speaker; to anticipate the affective response a text aims to produce in a reader or
  • A hand drawing a hand
    Reading, Response & Self-Reflection in American Literature A word is dead, when it is said, Some say鈥 I say, it just begins to live That day                    鈥擡mily Dickinson We are
  • books on a table beside an armchair
    This course takes a deep dive into the writings of Toni Morrison, the foremost African-American novelist of our time. Winner of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for Literature, Toni Morrison鈥檚 works probe vital questions about race, gender, and power
  • Zora Neale Hurston
    This course examines how what we have come to think of as 鈥渢he canon鈥 is entwined with the US鈥檚 ethnic literary tradition. We will explore how the two are not only inseparable but in fact mutually constitutive, marking the major shifts in US
  • view from a sailboat at sea
    Explores American literature as a site of cultural intersection between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed:
  • gold framed art on a red wall
    This course will explore from multiple points of view why ruins are so popular:  whether those be architectural, literary, or political, or all of these simultaneously. We will read poetry, novels, and look at paintings of ruins.  Although
  • London, England
    The Georgian era, named after the reigns of Georges I鈥揑V (1714鈥1830), was a period of major economic, social, and cultural upheavals, during which Britain became a modern, global superpower, thereby setting the stage for the world we live in.
  • rooftops in England
    Surveys key trends and works in British literature from 1660 to 1900 by focusing on issues such as modernity; national identity; political, economic, social, and scientific revolutions; reading and media technologies; and the relationship between
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