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.

Study of representative prose and verse texts from 1100 to 1500, read in the original dialects, with emphasis on the continuity of literary traditions and creative innovation.

Shakespeare?s major comedies, histories, and tragedies

Literature that emerged with the breakup of the British Empire, with representative works from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

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.

History of the English language from its beginnings in the fifth century to the present, with special emphasis on the Indo-European origins of English; Old and Middle English; internal developments in phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary; and the rise of a standard dialect.

Introduction to the linguistic study of the English language, with special emphasis on phonetics, syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and the linguistic study of style.

Study of the current research on the composing process and its implications for classroom teStudy of the current research on the composing process and its implications for classroom teaching. Considers all aspects of the writing process from prewriting through final product. Participants may be observed in a classroom setting.

Survey of representative Western arguments about the nature of discourse, from Plato to Erasmus. Topics include epistemological, ethical, and literary values and the questions of the power, authority, and purposes of language.

Varied content, approaches, and organization. Possible topics include, among others, linguistic approaches to literature, philology and literary history, speech-act theory/pragmatics and the study of literature, Standard English and the idea of correctness, and dialect and literature.

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).

Introduction to the aims and methods of doctoral work in the institutional context of the literary profession.

A survey of Latin scripts of the European Middle Ages and Renaissance (500-1550) and of methods and materials of medieval book production.

Reading and discussion of the text of Canterbury Tales.

Troilus and other works.

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

Marlowe, Jonson, Kyd, Marston, Tourneur, Webster, Middleton, Rowley, Ford, Chapman.

Shakespeare’s major comedies, histories, and tragedies.

The poetry of Donne, Herbert, Jonson, and selected minor poets; the prose of Hooker, Donne, Bacon, Browne, and Burton.

The poems of Milton, with emphasis on the major works Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, together with selected readings in Milton?s prose.

The major works of Dryden, Swift, and Pope, together with the works of such contemporaries as Bunyan, Butler, Rochester, Marvell, Behn, Astell, Addison, and Steele.

Topics within the field of children’s literature vary from one course to another, depending on the instructor. They would characteristically ask such questions as: how do literary scholars and cultural historians respond to the historical and literary children we encounter?; What problems arise when writing about children and childhood?

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

Prose and poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, with romantic prose.

Prose and poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with romantic prose.

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.

Topics within the field of Victorian literature vary from semester to semester, depending on the instructor. They would characteristically focus on issues associated with critical, historical, and theoretical approaches to the period.

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

Novels selected from those of Dickens, Thackeray, the Bront?s, Mrs. Gaskell, Trollope, George Eliot, Meredith, Hardy, Samuel Butler, and Gissing.

The emergence of modern British literature from the 1800s to the 1920s

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

Topics include pulp; fictions and documents of the permanent war culture; popular music; graphic, avant-garde, children?s, and postcolonial narrative and film. Readings include Beckett, Burgess, Sillitoe, Spark, Lessing, Rushdie, Amis, Ishiguro, Alan Moore, Ballard, Dyer, Sinclair, and Welsh.

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

American literature, 1607-1800, in its cultural setting. Topics include the literature of exploration and promotion; American Puritan poetry and prose; writing in the early South and the middle colonies; rise of the epic, the novel, and the theatre during the American Revolution, with related study of music and painting of tAmerican literature, 1607-1800, in its cultural setting. Topics include the literature of exploration and promotion; American Puritan poetry and prose; writing in the early South and the middle colonies; rise of the epic, the novel, and the theatre during the American Revolution, with related study of music and painting of the period; the beginning of American romanticism.

Brown, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, and Thoreau.

Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

The poetry and fiction of the post-Civil War era, including Dickinson, De Forest, Howells, Twain, Garland, James, Crane, Frederic, Chopin, and Norris.

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.

Examines works of prose fiction produced in the United States since the end of World War II in 1945.

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.

Examination of the common ground of literature and psychology in the light of modern psychoanalytic theory.

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.

Studies in major poets, with emphasis on the intrinsic character of poems; Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Stevens, Williams, Eliot, Crane, Auden, Thomas, Lowell, and Hughes.

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.

Part one: a survey of the classical genres, e.g., epic, pastoral, elegy, and satire; their decline in the 18th century; and, in their place, the rise of the modern lyric. Part two: an examination of the structure of poetic texts, with special attention to their representation of cognitive states and processes.

Major texts in critical theory from Plato to the present century are examined in order to raise fundamental questions concerning the origins, nature, and uses of literature.

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.

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.

Continuity/discontinuity of rhetoric and poetics with deconstruction as criticism. First- and second-degree deconstruction. Theory of metaphor and tropes; allegories of reading.

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

European romantics to contemporary theory, with reference to neoclassicism.

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.

Advanced study of literary and theoretical works pertaining to the eras of decolonization and globalization.

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.