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ENGL 882-01 Queer Cinema
Section Description: “To queer” means to spoil or ruin—at least according to most dictionaries. To queer theorists, it means to analyze, contest, or subvert the power of “the normal.” “Queer Theor
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ENGL 641-01: Latinx Literature Now
Section Description: This graduate seminar focuses on literary and other cultural material produced by writers of US Latinx heritage published in the second decade of the twenty first century, as
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ENGL 601-01: Aqueous Modernities
Section Description: The imagination of the waters as immense, sublime spaces of adventure, peril, and exploration has fueled literature and art for centuries. This course focuses on how such imag
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ENGL 540-01: Early Modern Text Culture
Section Description: All literature is mediated by the creation and transmission of texts. This seminar will cover the material culture of handwritten documents and early books—that is, manuscript
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ENGL 511-01: Global Medieval Literatures
Section Description: Our focus in this course on global medieval literatures will be on the cultural construction of emotion -- in particular, romantic love -- in the courtly literatures of mediev
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ENGL 720-01: Introduction to Disability Studies
Section Description: This course examines the role that disability plays in our culture. We will study the ways disability gets constructed in discourses ranging from law and policy, to film, play
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ENGL 675-01: Class Fictions in the Contemporary US
Section Description: “Economic inequality” has become a familiar term adopted by media pundits, academics, politicians, and activists to encompass the devastating consequences of the most recent
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ENGL 631-01: Black Women Writers
Section Description: In her 1993 Nobel Lecture, Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to win the Nobel prize in literature, stated: "Narrative has never been merely entertainment for me. It is, I
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ENGL 6170: Race, Law, and Lit
Section Description: This course explores the intersections between race, law, and literature. We will consider how law has defined racial identity according to strict boundaries, and how literat
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ENGL 530-01: New Approaches to Shakespeare
Section Description: While recent critical evaluations of Shakespeare's plays and poetry have developed new perspectives from which to view his work, scholars have also revisited older approaches
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