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ENGL 503-01: Literatures of Medieval Women
Section Description: European women’s experiences and behaviors varied across the space of Europe in the period known as the Middle Ages, as they still do now. Many of these women’s issues are ou
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ENGL 727-01: Narratives of Teaching & Learning
Section Description: The university is the setting of many novels, stories, plays, and films. But how well do these texts represent the actual experience of teaching and learning? What do they tel
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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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