Courses
Studies special topics in popular culture; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours for different topics. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.
This class will read and think about weird and new weird fiction as well as some of the theoretical and scholarly debates surrounding this topic. Briefly put, weird fiction emerged in the late nineteenth century as a loose genre of texts concerned
We all know that computers do not have feelings. Yet how might we leverage technology to think about what it is to be human; to identify the emotional state of a speaker; to anticipate the affective response a text aims to produce in a reader or
Reading, Response & Self-Reflection in American Literature A word is dead, when it is said, Some say— I say, it just begins to live That day —Emily Dickinson We are
This course takes a deep dive into the writings of Toni Morrison, the foremost African-American novelist of our time. Winner of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for Literature, Toni Morrison’s works probe vital questions about race, gender, and power
This course examines how what we have come to think of as “the canon” is entwined with the US’s ethnic literary tradition. We will explore how the two are not only inseparable but in fact mutually constitutive, marking the major shifts in US
Explores American literature as a site of cultural intersection between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information:Arts Sci Gen Ed:
This course will explore from multiple points of view why ruins are so popular: whether those be architectural, literary, or political, or all of these simultaneously. We will read poetry, novels, and look at paintings of ruins. Although
The Georgian era, named after the reigns of Georges I–IV (1714–1830), was a period of major economic, social, and cultural upheavals, during which Britain became a modern, global superpower, thereby setting the stage for the world we live in.
Surveys key trends and works in British literature from 1660 to 1900 by focusing on issues such as modernity; national identity; political, economic, social, and scientific revolutions; reading and media technologies; and the relationship between