In reading a selection of poetry and plays, this course will explore a range of relational tensions built into practices of hospitality—those between host and guest, host and hostess, have and have not, citizen and stranger, humans and the natural world.
Learn more about this courseThis course surveys the rise, efflorescence, and ultimate endurance of the Gothic mode. Why did it rise when it did? Why did it take the novel as its principal medium of expression?
Learn more about this courseWe will spend a third of this class surveying research methods into archival literary studies that includes hands-on special collections at our local resources, online digital archives, and recent developments in archival theory that dovetail with our topic-at-hand.
Learn more about this courseIn this introduction to cultural theory we'll focus on the foundational texts and intellectual history of cultural studies. Beginning with the Frankfurt School’s turn toward the problem of culture and methods derived from psychoanalysis, we'll proceed to the Birmingham Center for Cultural Studies’ incorporation of structuralism, and thence to the challenge of poststructuralism.
Learn more about this courseThis course is intended to provide students with a better understanding of what constitutes a research method. Is it a set of tools? A heuristic? An ideology?
Learn more about this courseIn order to come to grips with Milton and his historical moment, we will read closely and carefully his poetry and (rather less of) his prose.
Learn more about this courseThis graduate seminar explores the decolonial turn in writing and rhetorical studies with emphasis on new and emerging methods for articulating local projects that challenge hegemonic models of thinking while contributing to a more expansive vision of the knowledges and worlds that comprise our field.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, I hope to make students conversant with Marxist concepts and their importance for generating debates and practices in anti-colonial struggles.
Learn more about this courseThe focus of R608 is modern and contemporary rhetorical theory, and we will approach this content through the explosive battles that have erupted in rhetoric and the humanities over this period.
Learn more about this courseThe proseminar has three primary goals: 1. Support you as you teach English W131 in IU’s Composition Program 2. Cultivate your identity as a university-level teacher 3. Enculturate you into the field of rhetoric and composition, including theoretical and pedagogical issues related to writing and the teaching of writing.
Learn more about this courseW513 is an intensive workshop in the writing of poetry. We will focus on discovery, craft, form, poetics, process, and revision.
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 courseBy focusing on three texts of “connected” stories/narratives, our workshop will examine five key components that both emphasize storytelling fundamentals while preparing students for a rapidly changing publishing marketplace.
Learn more about this courseThis class, while called a workshop, will actually be more like a workout.
Learn more about this courseOne of the many hallmarks of contemporary American literature is genre deconstruction. Just like Richard Pryor in the 1970s, writers are capaciously reimagining the relationships between content and form, form and form, and content and audience.
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