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ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Writing for the Real World (Spring 2019)

What do employers want? If you Google that question, you will find that they want, almost above all else, and in every field, people who can communicate effectively in both speaking and writing. This course teaches how to do it in the real world––the world after graduation. It does so...

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ENGL 4026-001: Special Topics in Genre, Media and Advanced Writing, Black Romanticism

How black is Romanticism? This question will be the central concern of our course, which will investigate the roots of British and American culture in the routes of trans-Atlantic economic trade of the late eighteenth century. We will contest the implied racial and national purity of British culture by examining...