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ENGL 3116-002: Topics in Advanced Theory, Computational Literary Analysis (Spring 2019)

We all know that computers don’t have feelings. But 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 audience member? What kinds of...

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ENGL 2036-001, 002: Introduction to Digital Media in the Humanities (Spring 2019)

Serves as an introduction to media studies specifically from a humanities perspective. Studies both histories and theories of media from the 20th and 21st centuries. Touches on methodologies for undertaking media studies (including distant ready and media archaeology). Objects of study may include such topics as film, radio, social media...

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ENGL 4685-001: Special Topics in American Literature, Spacetime in the US Millennial Novel (Spring 2019)

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...

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ENGL 2655-001: Introduction to American Literature I, Early Ethnic American Writing (Spring 2019)

This course will explore traditions and intersections of American Indian, African American, Latinx, and other ethnic American literary writing from “discovery” (contact) to settlement (the colonies) to nationhood (revolution) to near dissolution and tentative resolution (the Civil War). In this course, writings that are often treated as entries that “augment”...

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ENGL 2115-001: American Frontiers (Spring 2019)

The frontier’s myths and promises have both inspired and impeded U.S. American enterprises. On one hand, the frontier stands for freedom, fresh starts, and rugged individualism. At the same time, the frontier is a site and source of genocide, dispossession, and lynch mob mentality. This class will explore the ways...

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ENGL 4624-001: Special Topics: Transnational/Historical/Interdisciplinary Approaches, 1600-1900, Global Encounters (Spring 2019)

Literary texts, works of art, and consumer goods have played a major role in the spread of globalization. In this course we shall focus on a key moment in its long history: the 200-year period that began with the consumer and financial revolutions of the eighteenth century and culminated in...

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ENGL 3204-001: Developments in the Novel (Spring 2019)

Surveys key developments in the formal and socio-cultural history of the British novel, from its rise in the long eighteenth century to its preeminence during the Victorian era. Readings may include works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, Charles...

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ENGL 3164-001: History and Literature of Georgian Britain (Spring 2019)

Georgian England runs roughly from 1714-1837, a period that encompasses a period of extraordinary change: Great Britain, arguably the most powerful nation in the world by 1800, gains and loses and then gains another empire, cities (especially London) grow explosively, modern industry begins, the novel as a literary genre is...

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ENGL 2504-001: British Literary History After 1660 (Spring 2019)

In this class, we will read a variety of works written between the middle of the 17th to the middle of the 20th centuries. Authors we will read include Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Austen, E. Bronte, Tennyson, Browning (Elizabeth and Robert), Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, and others. Emphasis on the historical context...

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ENGL 4013-001: Intermediate Old English I (Spring 2019)

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...

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