Fall 2020 Graduate Courses

Fall 2020 GRAD: Graduate Literature Courses

ENGL 5003: Intro to Old English

Hwæt! English looked a lot different 1000 years ago. Although it sounds “old,” the history of our language has everything to do with how we use English today. Old English and medieval culture are the bases for Tolkien’s Middle Earth, of course, but they are also often used in modern nationalist movements. Learn how to think about “origins” in accurate ways that honor the past without living in it. This course provides an introduction to Old English, the ancient ancestor of Modern English (as Latin is the an...

ENGL 5019: Survey of Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

Introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Taught by Julie Carr.

ENGL 5029: British Literature and Culture Before 1800

This course is first and foremost an introduction to one of the most widely-read and influential poets in English literature – Geoffrey Chaucer. In order to appreciate Chaucer’s great skill as an author, we will be reading his works alongside some of his sources and the work of some of his contemporaries: the Middle English poem Pearl with Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, Dante’s Inferno with Chaucer’s House of Fame; Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy with Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Miller’s Tale. As is pe...

ENGL 5529: Studies in Special Topics

Studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. Topics vary each semester. Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: IAWP 6100 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Section 002: Weird and New Weird Fiction ...

ENGL 5549: Studies in Special Topics 2

The Modernist Object  Readers have traditionally prioritized human characters in literature, finding in those figures a correlative for our own experience of the world. In doing so they have affirmed a subject/object binary in which people exercise varying degrees of control over an allegedly inert material world. However, recent work in literary and cultural studies, philosophy, sociology and anthropology has worked to trouble this opposition. In complex and intriguing ways, contemporary “thing theory” and...

ENGL 7119: Advanced Literature and Culture of the United States

After Foucault  Michel Foucault’s post-structuralist oeuvre looms over the final four decades of the twentieth century, having contributed the essential concepts of genealogies, biopower, disciplinary society, discursive formations, archeologies of knowledge, and the redistributions of power that elude top-down conceptions. Yet Foucault’s insistence on the centrality of language has been critiqued as unequal to some of the emphatically material crises we now collectively face. Indeed, Foucault himself claim...

ENGL 7489: Advanced Special Topics

Psychic trauma can be understood as both a violent breaching of subjective boundaries with long-term aftereffects, and the event that caused the breach. The traumatized individual returns compulsively to the unbearable experience again and again in thought, memory, and dreams, but is unable to move beyond it. We will read theoretical material by psychologists and psychoanalysts, historians, and cultural scholars, and study representations of trauma in film and literature. Please note that the theoretical ma...

Fall 2020 GRAD: Graduate Creative Writing Courses

ENGL 5229: Poetry Workshop

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate poetry and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's approval of an application manuscript. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Taught by Noah Eli Gordon.

ENGL 5239: Fiction Workshop

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate fiction and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's approval of an application manuscript. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Taught by Jeffrey DeShell.

ENGL 5259: Nonfiction Workshop

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate nonfiction and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's approval of an application manuscript. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Taught b...

ENGL 5559: Studies in Special Topics 3

Studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. Topics vary each semester. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information:Departmental Category: Graduate Courses Section 001 with Khadijah Queen Practical Poetics Taught by Khadijah Queen. ...