ENGL 4685

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 absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new...

Instructor: Prof. Cheryl Higashida Course on literature and culture of the "long civil rights" movement spanning the twentieth century to the present. A central question we'll explore: what is and should be the relationship between art and activism? We will study the relationship between social and cultural movements such as...

Instructor: Prof. Karen Jacobs Positioning itself at the crossroads of contemporary literature, geography, and new materialist philosophies, this course will explore how American millennial fictions map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and evacuate spacetime; and in tandem it will consider how theoretical texts on space and time (re)conceptualize these...

Positioning itself at the crossroads of contemporary literature, geography, and new materialist philosophies, this course will explore how American millennial fictions map and navigate, construct and alter, inhabit and evacuate spacetime; and in tandem it will consider how theoretical texts on space and time (re)conceptualize these categories. In the wake...