This is a co-curricular course. We will learn about the sounds of poetry in the ear and the shapes of poetry on the page; we will discuss social and political uses of poetry; and we will delve into the techniques by which poets imbue their words with multiple layers of meaning. Section 10 Instructor: Christiane Buuck Second, how might climate change and its attendant problems manifest differently across space and time? English 3398 (30): Methods for the Study of Literature. Salinger, Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Justin Torres, Carmen Machado and Trevor Noah. Section 20 Instructor: Maya McOmie What kinds of tools do I need? Instructor: Jennifer Patton The special topic of this course is “The Outsider in the Court Room,” so we will read some actual cases and also a variety of fictional representations of law in action, and consider how the rights of outsiders are protected, or sometimes forgotten, by the law. Our in-depth exploration will include selected comedies and tragedies, not to mention a lot of fun along the way. This course will examine the ways in which graphic narrative considers new ways of narrating history and representing time. Folklore minor course. You will start by learning the secret to uncovering your favorite author's creative blueprint, identifying the formal elements that your author uses like nobody else. English 3465 (10): Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing We will focus on the major British poets of the nineteenth century, embracing both the Romantic and Victorian periods. We spend each day in a flood of communication about illness and disability (and related ideas, including “health,” “wellness,” and “self-care”). Their century was rocked by the invention of the train, the telegraph, the photograph, and the bicycle. Any modern edition you purchase must have line numbers, glosses of difficult words and longer explanatory notes. Instructor: Sebastian Knowles GE: Literature, English 3364: Special Topics in Popular Culture—Vampires  English 2291: U.S. Instructor: Karen Winstead and Staff Potential text(s): Readings will include a 2,000-year-old murder trial; some medieval animal trials; Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice; the Amistad trial; Wilkie Collins’s novel The Law and the Lady; Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men; and a collection of famous trials available online. This class will dive into Butler's pathbreaking speculative fiction, from her time-bending novel Kindred about confronting the realities of enslavement to her lesser-known works that established her as a founder of Afro-Futurism. Instructor: Sandra MacPherson Instructor: Jonathan Buehl This course's purpose is to familiarize students with literary studies in such a way as to prepare them for advanced courses in all literary fields and the genres of Creative Writing. Instructor: Christopher Rinaldo Santantasio Resumes look nothing like CVs, and transitioning to them can be daunting. Instructor: Staff To that end, we will be reading, writing and thinking about diversity as we explore how the country has (and is currently being) shaped by the wide range of people who live and work here. *Traditional and online sections available Instructor: Mark Conroy At the end of the term, students will verbally present their research during our in-class Colloquium. Discussion and practice of the conventions, practices and expectations of scholarly reading of literature and expository writing on issues relating to diversity within the U.S. experience. Instructor: Beverly Moss GE: Writing and Communication—Level 1. This course will emphasize interdisciplinary interactions through discussions, texts and writing projects and will ask students to challenge their growing skills in composition and analysis through multimodal assignments. Potential text(s): Laura Da’, Tributaries; Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter; Tommy Pico, Nature Poem; Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound is a World; Louise Erdrich, Tracks; Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth; Tommy Orange, There There; eds. A recurring subject for the class will be the tension between the episodic and the serial—between individual aesthetic experiences and sprawling fictional universes. Students will also get a chance to build their own environmental sci-fi/fantasy worlds. English 4592 (10): Special Topics in Women in Literature and Culture: Women and the Black Atlantic. Students will contribute to a team-based, immersive research project designed to document the ways that diverse communities express and preserve a sense of place in the face of economic, environmental and cultural change. Jemisin. Instructor: Staff During this period Britain gained, and lost, a position of huge influence in the world, as rapid and far-reaching industrial and technological change transformed human life and people's sense of how it should be lived, creating a cultural and intellectual legacy which still informs current ideas and debates. This survey will introduce students to the vibrant minds and culture that produced the masterpieces of our British literary heritage. Yet ironically, it was Jonson and not his friend and rival Shakespeare who was the more celebrated dramatist in the later seventeenth century. Research projects will be centered around the requests of partnering organizations. Practice in the fundamentals of expository writing, as illustrated in the student's own writing and in the essays of professional writers. Course Requirements: Attendance, participation n discussions, two exams (midterm and final, and at least two short essays (5 pages each). English 4569: Digital Media in English Studies: Digital Protest and Online Activism  English 3372 (30): Science Fiction and/or Fantasy — Tolkien's Monsters  Instructor: Lauren Squires In achieving this goal, we will pay close attention not only to how we define monstrosity but also to how monsters are constructed and utilized in both text and image to various rhetorical ends. Later, you’ll learn how to combine that knowledge with the three foundational tools of rhetoric, and in a series of structured workshops, craft and showcase your stories for your peers and your own digital portfolio. Giants. We’ll think about disabled people in terms of identity and culture, but we’ll also think about the way disability itself functions to shape our ideas about ourselves, and others. We will examine how these two genres—fantasy and children's lit—grew up together, and we will explore the varying influences on these writers, from myth and folklore to Christianity, Taoism and Existentialism to feminism and critical race theory. English 4533: The Early British Novel—Origins to 1830. Girl meets boy, girl loses boy, girl marries boy in the end. You will be provided with a good deal of feedback on your prose and several opportunities to refine your style, organization and collaborative writing strategies. Analysis and discussion of student work, with reference to the general methods and scope of all three genres. Folklore theory and methods explored through engagement with primary sources: folktale, legend, jokes, folksong, festival, belief and art. Instructor: Jack Rooney  Students investigate and explore linguistic variation, accents of American English and the implications of language evaluation in educational settings. To improve students’ analytical reading, writing, thinking and research skills, this course focuses on creative nonfiction published in the Best American series—essays that reflect the experiences of and issues concerning people living in the United States. Instructor: Scott DeWitt  An introduction to the theory and practice of editing and publishing literature. Instructor: Brian McHale GE: Diversity (Social Diversity in the U.S.), English 2367.01 (150): Language, Identity and Culture in the U.S. We will also look at “model” poets for prompts and inspiration. Our reading list is diverse and challenging, and I ask and expect you to read with an open mind. I will order a selection of modern editions of the plays on the syllabus. English 4998H: Honors Research At the same time (as the title hints), it borrows from the Gothic, also for social criticism. Folklore Minor course. GE: Diversity (Social Diversity in the U.S.), English 2367.03: Documentary in the U.S. *This class will introduce students to fiction as an art form. What sort of story gets its author admitted to a top MFA program, or published in the New Yorker, or even nominated for a Booker or Nobel? English 4572: Traditional Grammar and Usage GE: Cultures and Ideas Two years of travel in the Mediterranean exposed Byron to the shifting dynamics of British imperial culture—but also gave him the freedom to explore his emergent sexuality. We will close with two contemporary novels: Ali Smith's Autumn (first post-Brexit novel) and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, astirring meditation on the human. This course offers an introduction to the language and aesthetics of cinema, familiarizing students with the basic building blocks of film, the forms that movies use to tell stories, move viewers emotionally, communicate complex ideas and dramatize social conflicts. Throughout the semester, we will focus on detailed analysis of films, analyzing closely the ways in which the multiple elements of moviemaking come together to make meanings. By the end of the semester, students will produce and workshop 1-2 substantial pieces of writing.