The course this semester will be an introduction to Old English. It is designed to provide all the language background necessary for the professional study of Old English texts, including the essentials of Old English phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and dialect variation.
Learn more about this courseStudents will define a project and secure both a faculty and an external sponsor.
Learn more about this courseIn this seminar, we will be thinking about the ars moriendi and its relationship to apocalypse in two scales, looking at representations of the death of the human being and the death of the nonhuman world. We will consider questions such as: What do human life and civilization mean in the face of inevitable decay and death?
Learn more about this courseIn this readings course, we will track the development and change of critical methodologies by reading some of the most exciting and aesthetically significant writing of the early modern period, in a wide variety of genres.
Learn more about this courseThis seminar will begin from the position that Derrida’s final seminar on The Autobiographical Animal: The Animal That Therefore I am (to follow)* is, in fact, his most important work; and we will begin by reading and discussing it as a springboard that will motivate us in our readings of literature, particularly opposition literature, and most particularly satire, written at the emergence of the “experiment in democracy” whose conclusion we seem to be witnessing every day. Are we at the end of this experiment, and if so, what has it taught us?
Learn more about this courseThis course aims to explore the African American literary canon through a comparative understanding of the experiences offered by this new wave of immigrants.
Learn more about this courseThis introduction to the interdisciplinary field and methods of cultural studies will be focused by an investigation into the quotidian and unrarefied domain of everyday life.
Learn more about this courseIn this seminar, we will be thinking about the ars moriendi and its relationship to apocalypse in two scales, looking at representations of the death of the human being and the death of the nonhuman world. We will consider questions such as: What do human life and civilization mean in the face of inevitable decay and death?
Learn more about this courseWith this course, I aim to engage the interests of graduate students from all three main areas of our English department: literary studies, rhetoric, and creative writing. We’ll put current works of fiction in “conversation” with various rhetorical theories, pondering how the two sides of this “dialogue” can illuminate each other.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, we’ll trace the historical roots of today’s rhetoric of poetry and anti-poetry, lyric and anti-lyric, the tradition and “the other tradition,” examining the tacit conceptions of the literary that shape our reading, writing, and teaching of poems.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, we will survey the lengthy historical trajectory of writings on the will, culminating with its reappearance in the work of some contemporary theorists, who remain strongly at odds on the subject.
Learn more about this courseThe focus of R608 is modern and contemporary rhetorical theory, both in Composition and Communication Studies, and this semester the way we will approach that content is to engage the great theoretical battles that have erupted on pressing theoretical issues in the field over this modern-contemporary period.
Learn more about this courseWhat is Victorian Studies? Where are its origins? Where is it going? This course will consider the past, present, and future of Victorian Studies as an interdisciplinary scholarly enterprise.
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 courseW511 Writing Fiction is designed for students who are not in the fiction track of the MFA program.
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 courseOur workshop will focus on reading, discussing, and writing linked short stories. As a class we’ll emphasize storytelling fundamentals while preparing for a rapidly changing publishing marketplace.
Learn more about this courseThis class will be a festival of the imagination, a making zone, a laboratory, a collaborativity, a workshop in the sense of making things, like a shop where you make work, and together.
Learn more about this courseThis craft class will focus on 20th and 21st century poems of loss and mourning and poems of praise, joy, and celebration. We’ll also be looking at the ever-changing and evolving history of the genres.
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