Archive: Course Information

• ENGL 7290: Queer Memoir

  Section Description: Is memoir always already queer? Are queers always already in a state of remembering/memorializing? How do historically bound, ever-changing notions of lgbtq identity and liber

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• ENGL 728-01 Public Sphere Writing

  Section Description: As humanists, we study language, literature, and culture not only for their value in the academy but also because we believe they matter to society. For us and for those outsi

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• ENGL 628-01: Race, Place, & Representation

  Section Description: Atlanta. DC. New Orleans. Flint. The South. The inner city. MLK Boulevard. The Black Belt. In the U.S., there is an abundance of case studies on the racialization of place. I

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• ENGL 606-01: Katrina Culture

  Section Description: “If you weren’t angry after Katrina, you had to be in the market for a soul”—Patricia Smith, poet and former Boston Globe reporter Today, “Katrina” signifies much more than t

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• ENGL 546-01: Milton & His Readers

  Section Description: If the New Criticism found the ideal objects for its analysis in the well-wrought urns of John Donne, and the early debates of New Historicism played out on the Shakespearean

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• ENGL 680-01: Testimonial Fiction & US Latinx Literature

  Section Description: English 680 traces the emergence on the US literary and cultural scene of a body of expressive work dedicated to the critical representation and analysis of the histories and

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• ENGL 627-01: Literature & the Global South

  Section Description: What is the Global South? How does it differ from the Third World? How does it relate to the idea of the postcolonial? How does thinking from the Global South offer new archi

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• ENGL 534-01: Shakespeare and Film

  Section Description: Shakespeare’s lasting role in public culture is due in large part to his openness to interpretation: there are always new Shakespeares to discover. This seminar is about the

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• ENGL 513-01: Critical Approaches to World Literature

  Section Description: In this seminar, we will read a wide range of classics world literature -- including the Thousand and One Nights, the Kebra Negast, the Shanameh, the Tale of Genji, the Popol

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• ENGL 722-01: Approaches to Teaching Writing

  Section Description: What should students learn in a writing class? And how can we best help them learn about writing? Scholars and teachers of writing have been debating these questions for deca

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