Graduate Literature Courses

Introduces graduate level study of Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern writing. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background and secondary criticism. Cultivates research skills necessary for advanced graduate study. Topics will vary. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted...

John Milton is among the most important and gifted poets to have written in the English language. His poetry (and prose) are centrally occupied with questions about the nature of personhood and about the claims, obligations towards, and risks associated with collective life. Milton’s efforts to understand what it means...

Beowulf is much stranger, sadder, and more timely than you think. Experience the poem in its original language, using the skills built in Introduction to Old English (Engl 4003/5003)! Students will produce daily translations, and seminar-style class discussions will involve both linguistic and literary aspects of this enigmatic poem. Reading...

ENGL 5529-001 Media History: Print Lab, Thora Brylowe ENGL 5529-002 Literature and Culture of WWI, Jeremy Green

ENGL 5169-001 Native American and Indigenous Film , Penny Kelsey This seminar examines contemporary, emergent Native North American film and visualities in relationship to cultures and identities, knowledge and epistemic production, time and indigenous futurisms. Cultural narratives and tribal knowledges (i.e., “oral traditions”) have played and continue to perform key...

ENGL 5059-001 The Later Romantics, Jill Heydt-Stevenson This graduate course will explore a central phenomenon during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the relationship between literature and the fine arts. In their writings, William Blake, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, Thomas Love Peacock, Felicia...

ENGL 5029-001 Medieval Genres, Katie Little The Middle Ages has long been synonymous with "quiet hierarchies," Christian dogmatism, and primitive thinking. And yet, it was also (or instead) a time of great literary invention and experimentation: the beginning of a literature in English, the emergence of new genres, and challenges...

ENGL 5019-001 Professor Sue Zemka Introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. MA Designation: Required for 1st year MAs ENGL 5019-002 Professor Julie Carr Introduces a variety of critical and theoretical practices informing contemporary literary and cultural studies. MA Designation: Required for 1st...

ENGL 5003-001 Tiffany Beechy Hwæt! English looked a lot different 1000 years ago. Although it sounds “old,” the history of English has everything to do with how we use the language today. This course provides an introduction to Old English, the ancient ancestor of Modern English (as Latin is the...

Incest. Seduction. Suicide. Abandonment. Immolation. Cross-dressing. Revolution. For fun, toss in ventriloquism and hauntings. Welcome to the early American novel . Even such a simple welcome raises all sorts of questions: at what point does America become “America”? what role does literature play in that transformation? at what point does...