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ENGL 1670
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This one credit seminar class is concerned with all aspects of identity – from gender, to race and class – through readings drawn primarily from literature but also from other disciplines. This class is ... view course details
ENGL 2000
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An introductory survey of literary and cultural criticism and theory, with a more general focus on developing critical thinking skills. The course draws on literature and film and gives students a solid ... view course details
ENGL 2010
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Though it is now the global language of communication, English was once considered the vulgar tongue of a backwater. In this course, we will go to the sources of what we have come to call English literature ... view course details
ENGL 2270
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This class aims to give students a good historical and critical grounding in Shakespeare's drama and its central place in Renaissance culture. Our study will include attention to dramatic forms, Shakespeare's ... view course details
Combined with: PMA 2670
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 2515
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This course explores some of the key questions raised in modern fiction by studying novels by women from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Jane Austen's Emma, Virginia ... view course details
Combined with: FGSS 2515
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 2707
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Homer and Euclid, Stein and Einstein, manifestos and manifolds, "negative capability" and "imaginary numbers." This seminar exists somewhere in the ampersand between "Arts & Sciences" and will concern ... view course details
ENGL 2761
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From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present moment, movies -- and in particular Hollywood -- have profoundly influenced the ways in which people see, think and talk about the world. Focusing ... view course details
Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2760, PMA 2560, VISST 2300
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 2770
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This team-taught course uses literature and popular culture, alongside literary, social, and cultural theory to consider how people from different cultures encounter and experience each other. The course ... view course details
ENGL 2800
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An introductory course in the theory, practice, and reading of fiction, poetry, and allied forms. Both narrative and verse readings are assigned. Students will learn to savor and practice the craft of ... view course details
ENGL 2880
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This course offers guidance and an audience for students who wish to gain skill in expository writing—a common term for critical, reflective, investigative, and creative nonfiction. Each section provides ... view course details
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Section Topic
Topic: Feeling Human: Animals, Humans, the Posthuman
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- MWF
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Surendranathan, H
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This course considers how emotions and their effects on the body and the environment constitute what it feels like to be a human. To investigate these affective stances, this course will study narratives where human identity is constituted or disrupted by meeting nonhuman and posthuman identities. We'll also consider how emotion and related categories are a kind of cognition from the perspective of contemporary affect theory. Course materials may include the films Her (2013) and The Shape of Water (2017), fiction by A.S. Byatt and Téa Obreht, and scholarship by Donna Haraway, Brian Massumi and Ruth Leys.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Creative Nonfiction: Identity Matters
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- MWF
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Anica, R
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We hear the term identity politics all the time, but why is the self so politicized when everyone has one? In this course, we will consider the self as a body, a part in a system, and a tool for change. By looking at various works by writers such as Gloria Anzaldua, Richard Rodriguez, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sherman Alexie, and others, we will critically reflect upon what it means to be a person in a body full of intersections, and discuss ethnicity, class, race, gender, nation, and religion to examine ourselves. Through personal essays, we will engage in self-inquiry, self-discovery, and self-invention to raise important questions about who we are and who we can.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Culinary Encounters of the Other Kind
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- MW
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Thompson, B
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What does it mean to say you’re hungry for something? This course explores the joyful and the dark sides of eating and traces how food informs the ways in which we ingest the world, particularly the parts of it unfamiliar to us. We will consider how the meeting of food, word, and image inform larger social categories and reflect on the way food affects how we think about others, putting it in conversation with literature, art, current events, film, imperialism, and history. Possible texts include Monique Truong's The Book of Salt, art by Kara Walker, Kyla Wazana Tompkins’ Racial Indigestion, the Iroquois White Corn Project, fiction by Chimamanda Adiche, The Search for General Tso, Greek myths, and Rabindranath Tagore’s “Hungry Stones.”
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Section Topic
Topic: Creative Nonfiction: Exploring the Personal Essay
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- TR
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Green, C
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In this course, we will read and write personal essays, exploring the various possibilities within the genre. We will explore the power of image and specific detail, the uses and limits of the first-person narrating self, and the boundary between public and private. Reading will focus on contemporary essayists, possibly including Leslie Jamison, Claudia Rankine, Eula Biss, Hilton Als, and John Jeremiah Sullivan; we will also read older essays, including those of Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and James Baldwin. We will also pay close attention to students' writing, with workshop feedback. Working through drafts, students will develop fuller skill at criticism and revision.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Art and Argument: the Personal Essay in America
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Prior, M
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How have contemporary American writers engaged with the personal essay to respond to the last fifty years of American history and culture? And what importance might we ascribe to the personal essay in current American social and intellectual milieus? In this course we will read essays by such authors as James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Rebecca Solnit, Teju Cole, and Yiyun Li that consider the complexities of place, culture, race, and art. Through class discussion, composing personal essays, and collaborative writing workshops, students will explore how the personal essay's various forms and foci are inflected by the interplay between socio-historical moment and authorial intention.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Addictive Media or How to Survive What You Love
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Price, Z
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What is addiction in the 21st century? The substances of addiction have changed throughout history, but so too has our definition of addiction, who can be addicted, and how we should treat it. This course will examine addiction through an assortment of different media texts, from science fiction films to documentaries to Snapchat. We will analyze movies such as The Social Network, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Her as well as television shows like Breaking Bad, hook-up apps like Tinder, and popular video games like League of Legends. By the end of the course, we will create our own definitions of addiction that adequately address the dangers as well as possible benefits of addictive media.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Fans, Fantasies, and Feminism
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Glaubman, J
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“Fan fiction” is sometimes taken to mean the opposite of “literature”—a kind of writing supposed to have neither artistic nor commercial value, the (embarrassing!) public expression of fantasies that would be better left private. We’ll read some feminist scholarship to help us answer that charge. When we’re not getting our theory on, we’ll go full-on media nerd, cultivating a shared canon of fannish classics like Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Harry Potter. We’ll consider fiction on the edge, like Fifty Shades or Star Wars novels. And we’ll read plenty of fan fiction and watch loads of fan vids. Warning label: Students who take this course should be aware that the syllabus contains sexually explicit material, much of it homoerotic.
ENGL 2935
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This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details
ENGL 2960
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Poems are among the most highly structured linguistic objects that human beings produce. While some of the devices used in poetry are arbitrary and purely conventional, most are natural extensions of structural ... view course details
ENGL 3080
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An introduction to Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and the Icelandic family saga-the "native" heroic literary genre of Icelandic tradition. Texts will vary but will normally include the Prose Edda, the Poetic ... view course details
Combined with: MEDVL 3080
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3110
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In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Combined with: ENGL 6110, MEDVL 3110, MEDVL 6110
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3240
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No description available. view course details
Combined with: COML 3240
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3390
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that students who have read Jane Austen must be in want of an opportunity to continue that delicious experience, and that those who have not read her novels should. ... view course details
ENGL 3500
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Critical, historical and interdisciplinary study of major works by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Lawrence, Eliot, Yeats, Wilde, Hardy, and Hopkins. The emphasis will be on the joy of close reading of ... view course details
ENGL 3560
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The Western nation-state has failed to solve the two most pressing, indeed catastrophic, global problems: poverty and climate change. This failure is due to the inability of national policy to imagine ... view course details
ENGL 3650
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Powerful voices emerged in the United States' first hundred years that continue to reverberate and to shape the ways in which we understand ourselves as Americans. We will give special attention in this ... view course details
Combined with: AMST 3650
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3670
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An introduction to recent American fiction through close reading of novels and short fiction since 1970. Some consistent themes will be resistance and revolt, ideas of gender, race and identity, power ... view course details
Combined with: AMST 3670
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3713
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How and why is a book "translated" into an opera? The plays, novels, and poetry we will read in this course were seized upon by composers because of their gripping stories and the strong emotions they ... view course details
Combined with: COML 3971
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3785
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In these latter days, apocalyptic narratives abound—stories that help us imagine the end of times, address or avoid real-world crises, and make sense (or fun) of history. We'll read and view works in such ... view course details
ENGL 3790
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This course offers an exciting trip to the intricate world of Nabokov's fiction. After establishing himself in Europe as a distinguished Russian writer, Nabokov, at the outbreak of World War II, came to ... view course details
Combined with: COML 3815, RUSSL 3385
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 3820
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This course focuses upon the writing of fiction or related narrative forms. May include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments and prompts, ... view course details
ENGL 3840
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This course focuses upon the writing of poetry. May include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments and prompts, and workshop peer review ... view course details
ENGL 4180
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When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Combined with: ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180, MEDVL 6180
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 4470
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Why do so many people read book after book and view film after film about Harry Potter? One answer would be that they want to continue engaging with a set of memorable characters. As they respond to ... view course details
ENGL 4520
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From the decolonization of Ireland to the fall of Paris, from the séance to the laboratory, from Cubism to Hollywood, we'll use two lives to tell what Stein called "Everybody's Autobiography." Though rarely ... view course details
ENGL 4521
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This seminar will investigate the narrative uses of history and memory in US fiction, focusing particularly on the impact of gender on these representations. How do US writers use history in their fiction, ... view course details
ENGL 4733
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How should decent, anti-racist people respond to the new racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States? What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? ... view course details
ENGL 4766
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No description available. view course details
Combined with: PMA 4866
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ENGL 4800
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This course is intended for creative writers who have completed ENGL 3840 or ENGL 3850 and wish to refine their poetry writing. It may include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form ... view course details
ENGL 4801
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This course is intended for narrative writing students who have completed ENGL 3820 or ENGL 3830 and wish to refine their writing. It may include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form ... view course details
ENGL 4910
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The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar ... view course details
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Shakespeare and Marlowe
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- M
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Correll, B
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This honors seminar may be used as one of the three pre-1800 courses required of English majors. The seminar brings together two of the most striking and influential writers of the early modern period. Pairing and comparing their work introduces questions not only about their sensational lives and texts but also about power (including the power of classical authority), gender/sexuality, literary influence and the work of cultural adaptation. The only prerequisite for the course is an adventurous mind; no previous exposure to the authors is assumed. For students who are familiar with Shakespeare, the goal of this course is to establish a larger cultural and literary context for close and critical study of both writers. We will include some film, as another kind of adaptation, and there will be some reading in (translated) primary sources: Ovid, Virgil, Plutarch.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: American Paranoia
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- T
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Attell, K
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Following the lead of Richard Hofstadter's classic 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," this course will examine the "paranoid style" in contemporary American fiction and film. The paranoias and plots we will encounter vary considerably (personal paranoias, political conspiracies, governments turned enemy, surveillance technology run amok, apocalyptic-millennial paranoia). Yet when viewed together they seem to cohere as a distinct style within post-WWII American narrative. We will ask how paranoid style responds to the contemporary American context and how the fears dominating these narratives shape their aesthetic form. Why has paranoia arisen as such a distinctively American attitude? What is the paranoid afraid of? (Should we be paranoid, too?) Novels by Nabokov, Pynchon, Reed, Dick, DeLillo, Didion, Roth; films by Coppola, Romero, Bigelow, Baldwin.
ENGL 4926
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What does it mean to have a relationship with a work of literature? This course explores three relationships between text and human: one of authorship and authority, one of critique and criticism, and ... view course details
ENGL 4930
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Students should secure a thesis advisor by the end of the junior year and should enroll in that faculty member's section of ENGL 4930. Students enrolling in the fall will automatically be enrolled in a ... view course details
Choose one discussion and one independent study.
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Lorenz, P
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Anker, E
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Cohn, E
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Caruth, C
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Levine, C
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Warrior, C
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Haenni, S
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Peraino, J
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Attell, K
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Boyce Davies, C
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Braddock, J
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Brady, M
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Brown, L
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Chase, C
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Villarejo, A
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Cheyfitz, E
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Correll, B
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Crawford, M
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Culler, J
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Davis, S
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Diaz, E
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Faulkner, D
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Mort Hutchinson, V
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Fulton, A
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Galloway, A
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Gilbert, R
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Hanson, E
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Hill, T
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Londe, G
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Juffer, J
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Kalas, R
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Long, K
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Monroe, J
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Mann, J
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Raskolnikov, M
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ENGL 4940
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This course is the second of a two-part series of courses required for students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English. The first course in the series is ENGL 4930 Honors Essay Tutorial I. view course details
ENGL 4950
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Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ENGL 6000
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An introduction to practical and theoretical aspects of graduate English studies, conducted with the help of weekly visitors from the English department. There will be regular short readings and brief ... view course details
ENGL 6110
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In this course, we will read and discuss some of the earliest surviving English poetry and prose. Attention will be paid to (1) learning to read the language in which this literature is written, (2) evaluating ... view course details
Combined with: ENGL 3110, MEDVL 3110, MEDVL 6110
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 6180
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When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews—that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Combined with: ENGL 4180, JWST 4180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180, MEDVL 6180
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 6190
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No description available. view course details
Combined with: MEDVL 6190
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 6390
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This seminar will be a close encounter with the poetry of Keats and Wordsworth, occasioning an exploration of how to write and read literary criticism. Some questions we'll consider: How can we think about ... view course details
ENGL 6556
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This course will serve as an introduction to trauma theory as it (re)emerged near the end of the 20th century as well as a rethinking of its fundamental terms in light of new theoretical developments and ... view course details
Combined with: COML 6556
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 6620
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ENGL 6707
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ENGL 6725
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For a description, please visit http://english.cornell.edu/courses. view course details
Combined with: COML 6920
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ENGL 6733
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How should decent, anti-racist people respond to the racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States? What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? Or ... view course details
ENGL 6766
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The function of the theatre critic is well understood, but the role of the dramaturg remains mysterious in the American theatre. Yet theatre critics and dramaturgs use many of the same research, analytic, ... view course details
Combined with: PMA 6866
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ENGL 6785
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Poems are among the most highly structured linguistic objects that human beings produce. While some of the devices used in poetry are arbitrary and purely conventional, most are natural extensions of structural ... view course details
ENGL 7800
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The MFA poetry seminar is a required course for MFA poetry students. view course details
ENGL 7801
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The MFA fiction seminar is a required course for all MFA fiction students. view course details
ENGL 7850
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In general, Reading for Writers examines literary works through the eyes of a writer, focusing on the craft of literature. While the class is geared toward MFA students, all graduate students are welcome ... view course details
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Revolution
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Vaughn, S
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This course will look at writers, living and dead, whose work does something so unusual--in the form it defines for itself, in its choice of subject, in its construction of voice, or the conversation it initiates with other art forms--that it may alter the way we think about what fiction can do or be. Readings will include short stories (including some flash, sudden or minute fiction) and novels (plus an occasional foray into poetry) and may include works by Donald Barthelme, Jamaica Kincaid, Willa Cather, Junot Díaz, Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Davis, W. G. Sebald, Italo Calvino, Denis Johnson, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and W. G. Sebald.
ENGL 7940
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This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details
ENGL 7950
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This course should be used for an independent study in which a small group of students works with one member of the graduate faculty. After getting permission of the instructor, students should enroll ... view course details
ENGL 7960
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This seminar will help prepare graduate students for the academic job market. Though students will study sample materials from successful job applicants, much of the seminar will function as a workshop, ... view course details