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 Registration for fall 2026 opens on March 16th! Fall 2026 Course Descriptions ENG 8 000           What’s Hot? Introduction to Literary Theory         Dr. Michael Dowdy ENG 8460           Serious Whimsy          Dr. Joseph Drury ENG 8560           Victorian Publics & Populations         Dr. Mary Mullen ENG 9720-002     Literatures of US Empire         Dr. Yumi Lee ENG 9720-001     Climate Fiction         Dr. Heather Hicks ENG 8000 What’s Hot? Introduction to Theory Across the Discipline of English Dr. Michael Dowdy CRN 22734 Tuesday 7:30-9:30 pm This course will be run as a seminar in which each week, a different graduate faculty member will introduce you to a body of theor...

  Fall 2024 Courses ENG 8 000  What’s Hot? Introduction to Literary Theory Dr. Heather Hicks ENG 8106  The Fabulous Middle Ages Dr. Brooke Hunter ENG 8560  Victorian Publics & Populations Dr. Mary Mullen ENG 8640 Modernism & FanFic Dr. Megan Quigley ENG 9520  Reading the Ethnic Canon Dr. Yumi Lee Summer 2024 Course Description ENG 9640 The Modern American Novel Dr. Jean Lutes Summer 2024 Course Description ENG 9640: The Modern American Novel Dr. Jean Lutes CRN 11087 MTWR from 11:00 am to 01:20 pm Summer Session II: 7/1/24 - 7/29/24 This course studies significant works of American fiction written in the first half of the twentieth century and considers how writers responded to the sweeping changes that characterized modernity in America. As we chart modernism’s emergence, we will look both backward and forward, discussing how writers extended and challenged nineteenth-century literary traditions, as well as how they anticipat...

Fall 2023 Course Descriptions  ENG 8000 What’s Hot? Introduction to Literary Theory  Dr. Heather Hicks  THE 8200 Legacies of Revenge in Drama, Fiction, Comics and Film  Drs. Chelsea Phillips & Alice Dailey  ENG 9640 Crime Fiction & Gender  Dr. Jean Lutes  ENG 9710 Contemporary American Poetry: The Documentary Turn  Dr. Lisa Sewell  ENG 9730 The Art of Translation   Dr. Adrienne Perry    Summer 2023 Course Description  ENG 9530 Moby Dick  Dr. Travis Foster    ENG 9530: Moby Dick  Dr. Travis Foster  CRN 12006  MTWR from 11:00 am to 01:20 pm   Summer Session I: 5/31/23 - 6/28/23  This course provides an opportunity to read, study, and discuss Herman Melville’s 1851 novel,  Moby-Dick; or,  The Whale . The story tracks two parallel quests: the antagonist Captain Ahab’s attempt to kill and thereby take revenge on the white whale; and the narrator Ishmael’s attempt to ma...

Spring 2023 Graduate English Course Offerings Read on for info on our upcoming spring courses. Registration opens on Oct. 27th! ENG 8106 Love & War in Medieval Romance Dr. Brooke Hunter CRN 33293 Thursday 5:20-7:20 pm Medieval romances—the mode of literature that tells stories of chivalry, ladies, love, and martial prowess—shaped ideas about everything from racial and cultural identity to best practices for flirting. Focusing on the romances of King Arthur and other English heroes, this course will consider three main questions: how romances structure the experience of love, sexuality, and gender; how romances shape the practice of religion and notions of religious otherness; and how romances construct ideas about peoples ( nationes ) and political power. We will trace the romance and its conventions from the early origins of the form in historical epics through the addition of courtly love narratives as we also examine works that challenge and critique these conventions. By n...