Readings in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1500-1660
This course explores the theoretical intersections of critical race theory and feminism as they commingle – or do not – in scholarship on the Renaissance.
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Readings in 19th Century British Literature and Culture
This course resists those critical tendencies by studying a range of Romantic and Victorian narrative literature in conjunction with twentieth- and twenty-first-century narrative theory.
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This course looks at the emergence of both new realist modes and a "revival of romance" in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century writing as modes of response to the emergence of American modernity.
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This course will have two theoretical foci. On the one hand, it will put into dialogue different conceptions of environmentalism and the notions of “nature” they entail. On the other hand, we will be considering the role of the imagination in efforts both to bear witness to the slow violence – the long-term, often invisible ecological and social damage – that has been set in motion by oil extraction, chemical production, hydropower, resort tourism, and agri-business and to formulate alternative models of development and of socio-ecological relationships.
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Readings, reports, and discussions on different aspects of American culture.
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This course will stage a conversation across three fields: psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and cognitive science, so as to assess a recent set of integrative accounts of body and mind.
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In this introduction to cultural theory we'll focus on the foundational texts and intellectual history of cultural studies.
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This seminar will explore race and ethnicity in American comic strips, comic books and graphic novels.
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This course asks what might become of sex without sexuality. From its psychoanalytic and feminist inheritances, queer theory offered the crucial thought that the normative categories of gender and sexuality are mutually determining.
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First and foremost, this is a class about field methods as tools for rhetorical scholarship. But in familiarizing ourselves with what those methods are and what they do, we will also be thinking critically and theoretically about the “field” as both a material and rhetorical space of practice that locates bodies, words, visual symbols, memories, and objects in meaningful interaction.
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Building on the basic grammar and language skills learned in first semester Old English, this course will study some of the most fascinating sections of Beowulf—from monster-slaying and heroic feats to pagan burials and betrayals—in order to learn what makes it an exceptional poem.
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What is Victorian Studies? Where are its origins? Where is it going? This course will survey the past, present, and future of Victorian Studies as an interdisciplinary scholarly enterprise.
Learn more about this courseTeaching of Composition in College
Both practically and theoretically, our proseminar will extend discussions about teaching composition begun during the required week-long orientation in August.
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Through 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.
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This course is intended to invite consideration of fundamental issues in the theories and practices of humanities teaching both inside and outside of the contemporary university.
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This semester we’ll be reading various interconnected texts.
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In this poetry seminar, we will emphasize evolution—both yours and the writers we will be reading.
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In this class we will look at the ways that writers past and present walk, meander, march, meditate, escape, stroll, make pilgrimages, protest, trespass, ascend and descend.
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