Graduate Literature Courses
Introduces graduate level study of Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern writing. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background and secondary criticism. Cultivates research skills necessary for advanced graduate study. Topics
John Milton is among the most important and gifted poets to have written in the English language. His poetry (and prose) are centrally occupied with questions about the nature of personhood and about the claims, obligations towards, and
Beowulf is much stranger, sadder, and more timely than you think. Experience the poem in its original language, using the skills built in Introduction to Old English (Engl 4003/5003)! Students will produce daily translations, and seminar-style- ENGL 5529-001 Media History: Print Lab, Thora Brylowe
ENGL 5529-002 Literature and Culture of WWI, Jeremy Green - ENGL 5169-001 Native American and Indigenous Film, Penny Kelsey This seminar examines contemporary, emergent Native North American film and visualities in relationship to cultures and identities, knowledge and epistemic production, time and
- ENGL 5059-001 The Later Romantics, Jill Heydt-Stevenson This graduate course will explore a central phenomenon during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the relationship between literature and the fine arts. In their writings,
- ENGL 5029-001 Medieval Genres, Katie Little The Middle Ages has long been synonymous with "quiet hierarchies," Christian dogmatism, and primitive thinking. And yet, it was also (or instead) a time of great literary invention and experimentation
- ENGL 5019-001 Professor Sue Zemka Introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. MA Designation: Required for 1st year MAs ENGL 5019-002 Professor Julie Carr Introduces a
- ENGL 5003-001 Tiffany Beechy Hw忙t! English looked a lot different 1000 years ago. Although it sounds 鈥渙ld,鈥 the history of English has everything to do with how we use the language today. This course provides an introduction to Old
Incest. Seduction. Suicide. Abandonment. Immolation. Cross-dressing. Revolution. For fun, toss in ventriloquism and hauntings. Welcome to the early American novel. Even such a simple welcome raises all sorts of questions: at what point does America