Course Offerings

Fall 2024

Shakespeare, or What You Will
Professor M. Lindsay Kaplan

Global Romanticism
Professor Manu Chander

Afterlives of U.S. Imperialism
Professor Christine So

Black Women Writers
Professor Angelyn Mitchell

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Nicole Rizzuto

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Patrick O’Malley
Professor Kathryn Temple

Spring 2025

Global Medieval Literatures
Professor Sarah McNamer

19th Century Literature: Class & The American Dream
Professor Lori Merish

Latinx Literature Now
Professor Ricardo Ortiz

Digital Humanities & Rhetoric
Professor Phil Sandick

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché
Professor Rabih Alameddine

Global Black Feminist Poetics
Professor Mecca Sullivan

Approaches to Teaching Literature
Professor Sherry Linkon

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2023

The Early Modern Animal
Professor Daniel Shore

The Culture of the Thirties
Professor Brian Hochman

Reading Race in American Culture
Professor Angelyn Mitchell

Race, Law, and Lit
Professor Christine So

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Seth Perlow

Queer Memoir
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Patrick O’Malley

Spring 2024

Wordsworth & Coleridge
Professor Duncan Wu

19C British Lit: The Brontes
Professor Nathan Hensley

Race and Surface
Professor Peggy Lee

Race, Place, & Representation
Professor Amani Morrison

Testimonial Fiction & US Lat. Lit.
Professor Ricardo Ortiz

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché
Professor Rabih Alameddine

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor J Palmeri

Professional Writing
Professor David Lipscomb

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2022

Race & Religion in Early Modern Drama
Professor Lindsay Kaplan

19th Century Ecologies
Professor Nathan Hensley

Philip Roth, Meta/Autofiction
Professor Jacques Berlinerblau

Literature & Commodity Culture
Professor Lori Merish

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Seth Perlow

Hybrid Forms
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Daniel Shore

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Sarah McNamer

Spring 2023

Critical Approaches to World Literature
Professor Sarah McNamer

Toni Morrison
Professor Angelyn Mitchell

Literature & the Global South
Professor Cóilín Parsons

Latinx Literature Now
Professor Ricardo Ortiz

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché

Queer Cinema
Professor Caetlin Benson-Allott

Disability, Art, and Culture
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor Sherry Linkon

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Caetlin Benson-Allott

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2021

19C US Literature: Class/American Dream
Professor Lori Merish

Global Modernisms
Professor Nicole Rizzuto

20C Poetry
Professor Mark McMorris

Intro to Critical Theory
Professor Seth Perlow

Digital Approaches to Literature
Professor Rikk Mulligan

Intro to Public Humanities
Professor Kathryn Temple

MA Capstone Seminar
Professor Kathryn Temple

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Kathryn Temple

Spring 2022

The Early Modern Animal
Professor Daniel Shore

The Culture of the Thirties
Professor Brian Hochman

James Joyce
Professor Cóilín Parsons

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché

Disability, Art, and Culture
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor Sherry Linkon

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2020

Critical Approaches to World Lit
Professor Sarah McNamer

Shakespeare and Film
Professor Lena Orlin

Literature & the Global South
Professor Cóilín Parsons

Testimonial Fictions & US Latinx Lit
Professor Ricardo Ortíz

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Seth Perlow

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor Sherry Linkon

MA Capstone Seminar
Professor Matthew Pavesich

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Amanda Phillips

Spring 2021

Milton & His Readers
Professor Daniel Shore

Katrina Culture
Professor Pamela Fox

African American Lit & Criticism: Race, Place, and Representation
Professor Amani Morrison

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché

Public Sphere Writing
Professor Sherry Linkon

Queer Memoir: Theory & Practice
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2019

New Approaches to Shakespeare
Professor Lindsay Kaplan

19C Ecologies
Professor Nathan Hensley

Race, Law, and Lit
Professor Christine So

Black Women Writers
Professor Angelyn Mitchell

Class Fictions in the Contemporary US
Professor Pamela Fox

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Daniel Shore

Introduction to Disability Studies
Professor Libbie Rifkin

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor Norma Tilden

MA Capstone Seminar
Professor Matthew Pavesich

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Patrick R. O’Malley

Spring 2020

Global Medieval Literatures
Professor Sarah McNamer

Early Modern Text Culture
Professor Lena Orlin

Aqueous Modernities
Professor Nicole Rizzuto

The Culture of the Thirties
Professor Brian Hochman

US Lit & Commodity Culture
Professor Lori Merish

Latinx Literature Now
Professor Ricardo Ortiz

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Carolyn Forché

Queer Cinema
Professor Caetlin Benson-Allott

Narratives Teaching & Learning
Professors Margaret Debelius & Eddie Maloney

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.

Fall 2018

Literatures of Medieval Women
Professor Kelley Wickham-Crowley

Victorian Sexualities
Professor Patrick R. O’Malley

Global Modernisms
Professor Nicole Rizzuto

Asian American Literature & Culture
Professor Christine So

American Poetry: Afterlives of the Lyric
Professor Seth Perlow

Introduction to Film Theory
Professor Caetlin Benson-Allott

Introduction to Critical Theory
Professor Daniel Shore

Approaches to Teaching Writing
Professor Norma Tilden

MA Capstone Seminar
Professor Sherry Linkon

MA Thesis Seminar
Professor Cóilín Parsons

Spring 2019

Critical Approaches to Chaucer
Professor Sarah McNamer

Hamlet
Professor Lena Orlin

US Literature: Class/American Dream
Professor Lori Merish

Dickens
Professor John Pfordresher

Toni Morrison
Professor Angelyn Mitchell

Lannan Seminar*
Professor Aminatta Forna

Modern & Contemporary Poems & Poetics
Professor David Gewanter

Poetry & Poetics: African Diaspora
Professor Mark McMorris

Queer Memoir: Theory & Practice
Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink

* = The Lannan Fellows Program meets during the fall and spring semesters. You must apply and be admitted into the Lannan Fellows Program in the fall semester; after fall semester participation, you will be enrolled in this 3-credit course during spring registration.