Graduate Literature Courses

This course is the payoff for having learned the grammar of Old English in Introduction to Old English (which is the prerequisite for the course unless you see me for permission)! You will continue to develop your skills in Old English reading and translation as you read shorter canonical texts...

Ready to travel the Spaceways? Our propulsion system will be Afrofuturism, the contemporary cultural movement driven by “African American voices” with “other stories to tell about culture, technology and things to come.” We’ll begin with theoretical readings (Rammellzee, Kodwo Eshun, Fred Moten, Ytasha Womack), then explore its Caribbean heritage in...

This course studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.

This graduate seminar will investigate the production, circulation, and translation of 20th- and 21st- century Afro-diasporic cultures that track the Middle Passage and traverse Africa, Europe and the Americas. Taking a cultural materialist approach to literature, visual arts including film, and music, we will think about these works less as...

This course has two goals—to introduce you to Mexican and Latino cultural forms and theory, mostly literary, from the 18 th to the 21 st century. The second is to explore theories of information and New Realist studies, specifically, Ferraris’ theories of documentality, in order to explore the how Mexicans...

This course focuses on the role played by the intersection of commerce and culture in the creation of a global imaginary in the long eighteenth century. In particular, we shall study the feedback loop that obtained between financial capitalism and joint-stock companies like the South Sea, Mississippi, and East India...

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what romantic poetry was and who the romantic poets were, at the time the nature of poetry...

The plays that survive from the Middle Ages were written for street performances, services in churches and monasteries, entertainment in great halls and outdoor stages, but never for theaters as such. As games and/or worship more so than texts per se, these plays require as much an anthropological as a...

This course introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. MA-Lit Course Designation: Required for 1st year students

This course introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. MA-Lit Course Designation: Required for 1st year students