Engaging theory and criticism from scholars with roots in both “communication” and “English” traditions, we will survey the ways that academic rhetoricians have described, analyzed, enacted, critiqued, and advocated for the role of rhetoric in understanding and intervening in public culture.
Learn more about this courseThis course has two main purposes: 1) to provide Associate Instructors teaching W131 for the first time with various strategies for connecting reading and writing, preparing assignments, and evaluating student writing; and 2) to engage new instructors in reflective practice through readings, speakers, and discussion of a variety of approaches and materials.
Learn more about this courseW513: Writing Poetry is a graduate workshop for Creative Writing MFA fiction students interested in writing poetry, English graduate students working toward an M.A. or the Ph.D.
Learn more about this courseThrough reading and experience we will explore the creative process as well as the assumptions and practices unique—and not so unique—to creative writing classes.
Learn more about this courseThis course will interrogate the persistence of the West’s romance with the Troy story.
Learn more about this courseThis course on the relations between genre and politics in early modern Europe will address not only the long-studied links between particular genres and political identifications – such as the associations between Parliamentary supporters’ preference for epic and royalists’ for romance during the English Civil Wars – but also, more deeply, the ways that generic conventions shape and respond to habits of political thought.
Learn more about this courseIn 1657 Christian Huygens built the first functioning pendulum clock. By 1680 the British clockmaker Thomas Tompion began manufacturing watches with balance springs. Between these two inventions the accuracy of the mechanical clock increased dramatically, from about fifteen minutes lost per day to about fifteen seconds—and time became, for the first time in human history, cheap, portable, and precise.
Learn more about this courseThe organizing rubric for this class involves the question: how does form respond to catastrophe?
Learn more about this courseThe term “post-colonialism” emerged in the 1980s, signifying an impulse among scholars to periodize history and to identify colonialism as central to an understanding of international/global configurations of power.
Learn more about this courseReadings for this course will attempt to address all of these matters and a few others, including postcolonial, cosmopolitan, and materialist readings of Irish culture.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, we will explore some of the major milestones in the development of rhetorical theory from antiquity to the early Enlightenment.
Learn more about this courseOur workshop will focus on five key components that both emphasize storytelling fundamentals while preparing students for a rapidly changing publishing marketplace: Learning how to read critically; Articulating criticism constructively; Defining uniqueness; Revision; and finding/creating a community of writers.
Learn more about this courseThis graduate course in poetry writing is limited to students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing. In this poetry seminar, we will explore the craft and creation of poetry with an emphasis on story telling.
Learn more about this courseTaking on various kinds of essay writing (reportage to arts criticism to personal), we’ll discuss how writers have used the form to deliver analyses of culture and politics while developing narratives of personal experience. We will detail the different techniques essayists employ throughout their collections in order to describe how they improvise personal identities from their engagements with America’s multilayered social arrangements.
Learn more about this courseThis course will use the colorful history of remakes, adaptations, and re-mediations of Edgar Allan Poe’s works to ask questions about literature as medium, and how best to talk about what gets "transferred" across media.
Learn more about this courseThirty seven years later, this seminar advances what literary and cultural critic Kathleen Woodward memorably termed “an aging Modernism” in 1980. Extending her path-breaking observations as well as those of other leading age theorists such as Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “Modernist Studies New and Old” explores how transformative talk about aging—broadly conceived, widely envisioned—infused modernist achievements across the long twentieth century.
Learn more about this courseIn 1657 Christian Huygens built the first functioning pendulum clock. By 1680 the British clockmaker Thomas Tompion began manufacturing watches with balance springs. Between these two inventions the accuracy of the mechanical clock increased dramatically, from about fifteen minutes lost per day to about fifteen seconds—and time became, for the first time in human history, cheap, portable, and precise.
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