English (ENGL-GA)

Study of the language, literature, and culture of the Anglo-Saxons from about AD 500-1066. Oral readings of the original texts and a survey of basic grammar. Representative prose selections are read, but emphasis is on the brilliant short poems?Caedmon?s Hymn, The Battle of Maldon, The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Dream of the Rood?that prepare the reader for the epic Beowulf.

Various topics in the history and theory of performance, including animality, spectatorship, mass culture, and others.

Various topics in literary theory, including animality, culture, and others.

Introduction to scholarly field of digital humanities focusing on particular aspects of discipline-based and cross-disciplinary applications of tools and concepts.

This M.A. thesis colloquium is designed to support students researching, writing, and revising their theses (a project of about 30-35 pages or 9000 words).

Reading and discussion of the text of Canterbury Tales.

Topics within the field of Medieval literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor.

Topics within the field of Medieval literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor.

Topics within the field of Renaissance Literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor

Shakespeare’s major comedies, histories, and tragedies.

Topics within the field of 18th-Century Literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor.

Topics in political, philosophical, and critical approaches to romanticism.

Topics within the field of British Romantic literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor. They would characteristically focus on issues associated with critical, historical, and philosophical approaches to Romanticism.

Victorian poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose in cultural context.

The problem of modernism in English prose fiction from Pater to Joyce and Woolf.

Examines Irish literature of different periods, genres and styles. May focus on one author, for example, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett.

Studies in major authors and themes.

Studies in major authors and themes.

Readings in 20th-century American fiction and nonfiction prose, with emphasis on the theory of fictionaReadings in 20th-century American fiction and nonfiction prose, with emphasis on the theory of fictional genres, literary innovation, stylistic experimentation, and recurrent themes in the modern novel; Dreiser, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Cather, Steinbeck, Lewis, and Wolfe.

Intermediate-level study of literary and theoretical works pertaining to the eras of decolonization and globalization.

Intermediate-level study of literary and theoretical works pertaining to the eras of decolonization and globalization.

Topics within the field of Black Literature and African American Literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor.

Mutual influence of ?literary? and philosophical texts; philosophical and rhetorical terminology; poetics, politics, and law; poetics, aesthetics, and hermeneutics; critique, criticism, and deconstruction; theories of fiction and memory.

Studies in the interaction of literature and modern culture.

Topics may include the formal properties of literary modernism, its social and political contexts, or particular modernist authors.

Approaches to the work of contemporary poets. Context varies yearly.

Representational drama of Scribe, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg, Gorki, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw, O?Casey, O?Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, and Osborne.; nonrepresentational drama of B?chner, Strindberg, Kaiser, O?Neill, Jarry, Apollinaire, Ibsen, Yeats, Eliot, Brecht, Pirandello, Artaud, Genet, Ionesco, Beckett, and Pinter.

Considers the history, production, circulation, and use of paper in the social production of knowledge, the shared imagination of value, and the mutual relations of consumers and commodities.

Comparative examination of major schools of contemporary criticism, American and European, describing the variety of critical perspectives and how they are interrelated.

Application, exemplification, and reception of literary theory; history of criticism and theory. Critical configurations like the division of the public sphere and private space.

Content varies.

Content varies.

Classical, medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical texts from English and Continental literature.

Introduction to web development and digital publication for students in the Humanities. Surveys principles of current technologies for the creation of digital editions and applies them through practice as they learn the skills and techniques for formatting and publishing archival materials in a web-based environment.

An introduction to major methodological and theoretical approaches to literature and culture through the close reading and contextualization of select literary works.

Individualized research project.

Individualized research project. Taken for pass/fail.

Individualized research project. Taken for pass/fail.

This course is designed to prepare doctoral students in the task of formulating an advanced research project, and to assist them in developing it as a contribution to academic research in their field.

Prepares doctoral students in their third year for submission of the dissertation proposal.

The Workshop on Professional Practices is intended to acquaint advanced Ph.D. students with the protocols of the profession and to offer them some experience in crafting four kinds of documents crucial to advancement in the profession, such as the curriculum vitae (cv), the conference paper, the fellowship application, the dissertation abstract, and the job letter.

Prepares doctoral students in their third year for submission of the dissertation proposal.

Provides a basic foundation in pedagogy and a forum for doctoral students to learn elements of effective teaching of undergraduates at the university level.