2021-2022 Academic Catalog 
    
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2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • ENG 020 - Introduction to Literary Analysis

    This seminar-sized course introduces students to three or more types of literary form (fiction, poetry, and one other genre). Students will learn the most important tools of literary analysis, including the uses of metaphoric language, sound effects, rhetorical devices and will practice writing effective essays that analyze elements of literary form. Does not count for English major or minor.

     

     

     

     

     

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
  

  • ENG 101 - Introduction to Creative Writing

    This course will introduce the basics of creative writing, including poetry, creative prose, and the short story. We’ll start with poetry and shorter prose pieces, then move toward longer writing assignments. Beginning assignments will focus on the basics of creative writing, including word choice, invention, rhythm, and sound. Later assignments will explore characterization, voice, dialogue, setting, and conflict. This course will include weekly outside reading assignments, and you should plan to write frequently and copiously. Classes will be taught in seminar fashion and will include a combination of short lectures, writing exercises, class discussion, and workshops where you will discuss each other’s writing. By the end of the course you will have compiled a final portfolio of your own creative work. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course counts as one of the introductory courses. 

     

     

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Each Semester
  

  • ENG 102 - From Cli-Fi to Frankenstein: Reading and Writing Climate Narrative

    Stories of social disruption, restructuring, and transformation have long been at the heart of literature’s ways of radically re-imagining what ails us. In this course, we explore “nature” at large and climate change specifically, as a phenomenon affecting our transformations. We will reflect, individually and collaboratively, through a series of assignments, on narratives about climate change, environmental justice and sustainability, to name a few, and their effects upon our experiences of the everyday. We will engage with fiction, scholarly essay, creative nonfiction, memoir, journalism and ecopoetics. We will write imaginatively and critically, and along the way, explore both contemporary and historical writings of race, class and ethnicities, including indigenous populations, humans, animals, nature and the sacred.Offered periodically.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 105 - News Writing

    Covers the basics of news writing, from reporting an event to writing an obituary. Students learn how to collect information, conduct interviews and organize writing into crisp news copy. Class work includes weekly deadline writing assignments. Homework: weekly writing exercises based on textbook examples and field assignments, as well as readings from texts and daily newspapers.

    Prerequisites: VE Prerequisite

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
  

  • ENG 106 - Creative Writing: Fiction

    For students who are inspired to write short or long stories. Equal emphasis on writing well and creating boldly, with focus on giving and receiving criticism in the workshop format. Students will be encouraged to “find their voices” by experimenting with style, genre and structure. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course counts as one of the introductory courses. 

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
  

  • ENG 107 - Creative Writing: Poetry

    Creative Writing: Poetry/Workshop A significant part of the class will be dedicated to exploring each student’s poetry through a constructive workshop approach. Each week, students will respond to prompts that focus on specific source material, poetic devices, or both. The course encourages participants to be open to a wide range of poetic styles and influences as they embark on writing assignments and critiques, and to look closely at the work of established poets. As the semester progresses, students will experiment with revision and create a portfolio of poems representing their best work. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-1) requirement. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course counts as one of the introductory courses.

     

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
  

  • ENG 110 - Lyric Architectures: Reading Poetry

    This course will help you to become a better close reader of modern poetry and introduce you to a selection of British poets. We will read poetry and essays by major poets of the British canon, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Christina Rossetti, Yeats, Eliot, Larkin, and Heaney. We will also read selections from recent poets who experiment with poetic form and interrogate conventional understandings of British national identity, including work by Wole Soyinka, Louise Bennett, Eavan Boland, and Thom Gunn. Our central aims will be to enhance your comprehension of poetic form and to investigate connections between poetry, politics, and culture. Strongly recommended for English majors in the first or second year; seniors by permission. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-1) requirement.

    Formerly titled ENGLISH POETRY I.

    Special Topic S’22: Histories, Aesthetics, Politics

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
  

  • ENG 111 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction

    True stories, well told. Creative nonfiction is like jazz-a mix of flavors, ideas, techniques. Some are new; others as old as writing itself. We are story, essay, journal article, research paper, reported journalism, memoir, even poem; personal or not, or all of the above. In this course, we will read examples and tell our own stories as well as other people’s. We’ll operate in part as a studio devoted to writing; we’ll discuss what we read and explore craft and technique. We will workshop our own work. Students submit a final publication-ready portfolio.

    For Creative Writing minors, this course counts as one of the introductory courses.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: N/A

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 113 - Literature of Baseball

    ENG 113 Literature of Baseball/First-Year Seminar

    Baseball has often been cited as “America’s game,” in the sense that it is thoroughly interwoven into the history of American culture. Many writers, particularly in the 20th century, have seen in the game fertile ground for describing their interpretations of the American experience. It is a game which offers tremendous variety within rigidly set boundaries. In short, baseball is a metaphor to which Americans return repeatedly to express their sense of identity. It is this general theme that this course will explore: why is baseball so attractive to American writers of all types, and how do they use the game and its players as the basis for suggesting who we are? Offered periodically.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 115 - Speculative Fiction

    Speculative fiction (more popularly known as science fiction) entertains the “what if” and presents alternative conceptions of history, society, and identity. Committed to exploring the possibilities and limitations of the alternative and the different, these works interrogate established boundaries of identities and provide critical perspectives on prevailing beliefs and ideologies. The course moves chronologically through works that fall loosely under the speculative fiction subgenres of fantasy/horror, alternative histories, future dystopias, and political allegories. We will also devote some attention to formal analysis, specifically the ways in which speculative fiction narratives experiment with and break from traditional literary conventions to offer new ways of perceiving, constructing, and deconstructing our social realities. Authors include Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ted Chiang.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement Required

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 116 - The Secret Lives of Books

     

    Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, not to mention judging by its ink and paper, by its typeface and layout, even by damage or by marks left by earlier readers. Books tell stories with the words printed inside them, of course, but they also tell stories just by being physical objects. In this course, students will learn to become book sleuths. Readings and seminar discussions on the history and theory of the book will be enhanced by a series of hands-on workshops at Special Collections as well as off-campus field trips. While the full scope of the class extends from the earliest periods of the written word through current-day digital advances, emphasis will be given to specific historical periods (the development of moveable type, the proliferation of print in the early hand-press period, mechanization during the Industrial Revolution, changing paradigms of electronic textuality today) in order to understand the interplay of technology, culture, and society over time.

    Course Designation/Attribute: HP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every 3 years or so.
  

  • ENG 120 - Introduction to Shakespeare

    This course takes a deep dive into 16th and 17th Century culture by way of an introduction to the works of William Shakespeare. We will read small selections of poetry as well as plays covering the genres of history, tragedy, romance, and comedy. Our discussions will explore topics of gender, sexuality, disability, race, religion, and class and, as such, will develop your skills of literary analysis. We will also use our readings to examine the ways that Shakespeare has expanded into a modern cultural phenomenon in film and theatre. Your short writing assignments will serve to supplement our discussions, while a general introduction to archival methods and digitized rare books will help provide some context to Shakespeare’s era. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-1) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Prerequisite

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 122 - Terror of the Gothic

    In this course, we will explore our delight in terror through the world of nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, novels like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a world of pain and destruction, fear and anxiety. In tracing the recurrent themes of sin, family dynamics, politics, and nature within Gothic fiction, we will examine both the relationship of this fiction to the dominant culture of the nineteenth century, as well as to social and political revolution. Following current literary scholarship, we will pose questions about representations of violence; the significance of fantasy and fear; and the role of gender, race, class and sexuality in this body of work. Throughout the course, we will examine the legacy of this fiction in our modern cultural obsession with horror through film. First-Year Intensive.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement Required

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 123 - Voicing the Verse: Poetry in Performance

    This course will focus on the creativity and craft involved in both writing and oral presentation. Through diving into texts and techniques ranging from Homer to Hip hop, students will examine and become more knowledgable about how language, spoken and unspoken, is used to create meaning and connections with an audience. In addition to writing, reading, and/or rehearsing poetry, storytelling, rap, spoken word, slam poetry, political speeches, etc…, students will weekly write 300-400 word observations focusing on how aspects of language and/or performance were effectively used in any creative media with which they’ve engaged. This course is especially useful for students interested in careers in which writing and public presentation are required. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-1) requirement.

     

     

     

    Course Designation/Attribute: AP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Most years in spring semester.
  

  • ENG 124 - Devil in the House

    The domestic sphere, especially in the nineteenth century, is associated with the bourgeoisie, banality, and conservative family values. In reality, the domestic encompassed economic insecurity, social transgression, sexual violence and queered ideas of marriage. Focusing on the nineteenth-century novel, this course links the domestic with divorce, violence, and poverty, as well as feminism. In tracing the heterogeneity of households and the multiple meanings of the domestic, we will also consider the contemporary household. Offered periodically.
     

     

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 131 - Border Crossings: Narratives of Travel, Exile, and Immigration

    The course examines contemporary narratives of travel, exile, and immigration from around the world. Close readings of texts will ground our interrogation of borderlands, diaspora, exile, code-switching, identity, race, class and gender.The course will be run as a seminar with student presentations, group work, and research projects as key components. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement Required

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 133 - Women Writers I

    Examines how women writers before 1900 address, confront, avoid, subvert and question traditional notions of gender, culture, domesticity, history, ethnicity and sexuality. Close attention is paid to textual reading, the historical and intellectual context of works, and different critical approaches to women’s writing. Authors include Behn, Burney, Austen, Sedgwick, Chopin, Gilman, Foster and Wilson. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-1) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 134 - Survey of Women Writers II

    Examines developments in British and American prose fiction by women in the 20th century. Authors include Cather, Woolf, Lessing, Rhys, Silko, Morrison, Winterson, Cisneros and Kincaid. Close attention is paid to textual reading and defining, revising and challenging traditional definitions and expectations of women’s writing on various levels: thematic, linguistic and formal. The course also addresses current critical approaches to women’s writing. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: IDND 018  or VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 135 - The Short Story

    This course involves intensive reading of stories that exemplify a variety of fictional methods and affords the student some knowledge of the history of this literary type. Attention will be paid to the international scope of the short story, particularly in the 20th century. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
  

  • ENG 136 - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and the Environment

    This course considers the rise of the post-apocalyptic narrative in English within the ongoing context of environmental disaster and climate change. We will begin in the 1970s with works such as Soylent Green and Dawn of the Dead that link consumptive capitalism to the downfall of the planet. We then move to consider a range of contemporary post-apocalyptic genres (the zombie story, the contagion narrative, eco-horror) that respond to real-life environmental catastrophes. We will explore a variety of issues in this speculative landscape-from race and racialization, gender and reproductive futurity, contact and contagion, empire and displacement, and economic precarity-and consider how the post-apocalyptic narrative form is uniquely suited to engaging these themes. For undergraduate English Majors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B2) requirement.

     

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 139 - Queer Literature

    From the coded sighs of “the love that dare not speak its name” to the out and proud writers of the present moment, this course traces a non-linear history of literary engagement with queerness. “Queer,” in this context, is more than an umbrella term for LGBTQ+; it constellates a range of identities, ideas, and experiences, and it encompasses both political and aesthetic interventions. In this course, we will read works by queer authors and works that depict queer life, developing a set of queer reading practices and considering the essential questions of what it means for literature itself to be queer, and how queerness might be an element of literary form. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 140 - Major British Writers I

    What does it mean to belong? How do people inhabit spaces and negotiate identities? These questions are relevant today but were also relevant for writers in the long medieval and early modern periods in England. This course provides a foundational and historical study of English literature up to the late 17th century. We will discuss prose, poetry, and drama by such writers as Chaucer, Marie de France, Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Donne, Africanus, and Behn while interrogating their cultural, political, and social contexts. While the course traditionally employs the lecture style, our sessions will often mix this format with more interactive student-led discussions, presentations, and writing workshops.

    This course is the first part of the ENG 140-141 sequence. It satisfies either the Historical Sequence (B-1; pre-1850 portion) or Period (D-1; at the 100-level) but does not double count.

     

    Prerequisites: IDND 018   or VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 141 - Major British Writers II

    The sequence ENG 140 - ENG 141 takes an historical approach to British literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. This course focuses on British literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, including authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and Zadie Smith. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 143 - Terrible Beauty: The Art of Tragedy

    This course examines the historical evolution of tragedy and its central place in Western literary expression. Beginning with the three classical exemplars, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we trace tragedy through Roman closet drama (Seneca), Renaissance masters (Shakespeare) and European interpretations (Racine, Schiller), to both modern experimental tragedy (Miller) and modern attempts to revive the classical model (Eliot). For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies either the the Genre (C-2) or Period (D-1) requirement but does not double count.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 144 - Mona Lisas and Madhatters: The Art of Comedy

    This course introduces students to the genre of comedy in the Western tradition, from its ancient origins in Greek culture to the 21st century.  While dramatic comedy is emphasized, consideration also will be given to its manifestations in fiction and other media.  Authors read may include Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, Shakespeare, Jonson, Congreve, Sheridan, Wilde, Synge, and Stoppard.

    As a complement to departmental offerings in other genres (tragedy, romance, epic, short story, and gothic), this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement for undergraduate English majors.

     

    Prerequisites: IDND 018   or VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 145 - Fabulae: The Genre of Romance

    This course examines the tradition of the romance genre, from classical antiquity to the present. Texts read range from early Greek “novels” and Medieval metrical romances, through the Gothic tale and Romantic poetry to contemporary forms such as science fiction, fantasy and horror. Along the way, students will be able to see how the general conservative elements of a given literary form are transmuted to accommodate a number of specific contexts. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Prerequisite

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 146 - The Epic

    Explores the tradition of epic poetry, in both its primary and secondary forms, as well as examining the extension of the epic vision to its later manifestations in lyric verse and prose fiction. The course begins with the Epic of Gilgamesh, and extends to the twentieth century. Authors and texts covered include Gilgamesh, Homer, Beowulf, Milton, Blake, Shelley, Melville and Eliot. For undergraduate English Majors, this course fulfills the Genre (C-2) requirement.

     

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 164 - The Gothic

    The Gothic, one of the most popular genres in nineteenth-century Britain, explores the dominant culture through its dark underside. In detailing both individual and national transgressions, this literature responds to significant cultural movements of the time, such as the advent of psychology and the explosion of revolutionary politics. This course traces Gothic literature from its origins in representations of fear and pain to its culmination in portrayals of alienation and monstrosity. To fully understand the genre, we will read a wide range of authors including Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as critical literature on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theories of psychology and politics. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 165 - American Ethnic Writers

    This course surveys literature written by African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latinx American writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  We will read from a range of genres, including novels, short stories, poetry, memoir, and graphic storytelling.  In the course, we will discuss works that speak to confronting and navigating the following themes: war, racism, migration, alienation, sexuality, community, and resistance.  This course partially fulfills the Historical Sequence requirement (B-2) for the English major.

    Prerequisites: VE Prerequisite

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 180 - Major American Writers I

    The sequence ENG 180-ENG 181  takes an historical approach to American literature from Puritanism to the present. This course concentrates on early American literature, circa 1620-1860, by authors such as Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Edwards, Franklin, Emerson, Douglass, Dickinson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and others. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-1) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 181 - Major American Writers II

    The sequence  ENG 180  - ENG 181 takes an historical approach to American literature from Puritanism to the present. This course traces the evolution of American literature and its major aesthetic movements from circa 1860 to the present. Writers and poets include Melville, Twain, Crane, Wharton, James, Williams, Eliot, Hughes, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Pynchon, and Morrison. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 182 - African American Literature I

    Addresses major periods and principal authors of the African American canon. Readings may cover a historical span that could range from the 18th century to the present or could represent focused concern with select authors and/or a given literary movement. Students are expected to gain a historically as well as a culturally contextual appreciation of the literature produced by writers of African descent in the Americas. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-1) requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: HP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 183 - African American Literature II

    Explores the aesthetic modes configuring the evolution of African American literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially the novel. Focus is on the experimental and innovative sensibilities regulating the evolving canon of postmodern writing produced by Americans of African descent. Authors studied may include David Anthony Durham, Percival Everett, Minister Faust, Edward P. Jones, Gayl Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, John Ridley, Fran Ross, Carl Hancock Rux, Olympia Vernon, Colson Whitehead and Kevin Young. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-2) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 185 - African American Women Writers

    Understanding that the literary canon often excludes the voices of women of color, this course begins to fill the gaps of the canon by examining Black women’s writing in America during the 20th and 21st century. Conducting a textual analysis of these authors across a historical timespan, students will develop an understanding of the ways African American women used writing to address, confront, avoid, subvert, and question the white patriarchal gaze. Writers and poets include Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Octavia Butler, Ida B. Wells, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison.

    For English majors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-2) requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: HP, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 199 - The Text, the World, and the Critic

    What compels us to read, especially particular texts? This is among the key questions we explore in this course, which introduces the core skills and concepts necessary for the study of literary criticism. Reading a diverse and inclusive range of texts through various theoretical lenses, we will practice close reading of primary texts; comprehension and application of theoretical lenses to primary texts; persuasive argumentation; strategic review of scholarship; and incorporation of relevant theory, scholarship, and other critical approaches into a seminar paper. Our reading will also provide us with an essential literary framework through which to engage with our literary studies. Through our exploration of both traditional and nontraditional texts, the course will examine issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class through power, intersectionality, and identity. While developing fundamental skills of literary criticism and a literary framework, this course will also engage in questions central to the discipline. How and why do texts become canonical, or seen as worthy of literary importance, and how do systems of power affect canon formation? How does the discipline not only enact oppressions, but also effect transformation in allowing us to imagine different points of views or worlds? This course will develop questions and skills to pursue critical analysis not only of literary works but also a number of modes of expression, from popular culture to political discourse. This course is strongly recommended for students who have recently declared a major in English, or who are planning to declare an English major in their sophomore year. The course is required for all English majors and fulfills the A requirement. For WGS majors, can count as the Methods course. 

     

    Prerequisites: VE placement or IDND 018  and a decision to delcare a major in English.

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every spring semester.
  

  • ENG 201 - Peer Learning Assistant

    Peer Learning Assistants (PLAs) are undergraduate students who are selected by a faculty member to facilitate teaching and learning activities. These activities may include: providing feedback on drafts of writing assignments, leading small group discussions, working with individual students who are having difficulty, and facilitating group project work (in or out of class & online).
    Registration is by instructor permission only

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall/Spring
  

  • ENG 202 - Imagining Place: Writing Health, Science and the Environment

    An in-depth introduction to narrative writing with a focus upon environmental science, social justice and public health. We will explore the history of nature writing and look at writing as action in the age of climate change. Using multidisciplinary frameworks, we will reconsider our position in relation to the natural world and our current epoch. We have a real world project to discover as well: one of the largest toxic dumps in the country was “cleaned up” with $55 million but many in the community are sick and health markers are elevated. In this class, we produce four pieces of narrative, and in the process discover how the writing voice acquires authority built on documentation and research. We will explore genre, voice, audience and technique in a variety of academic and professional exercises, and introduce elements of multi-source, sound storytelling-using the creative non-fiction approach, scene work, observation, exposition, transition and subtext. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the advanced requirement.

    May be repeatable for credit.

     

    Course Designation/Attribute: POP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 203 - Creative Writing Genre Study: Hybrid Selves - Using Hybrid Forms to Explore Race, Gender, and Sexuality

    In this class we will examine and produce works of literary art that challenge our definition of genre. Whatever you want to call them-and we will, of course, wade into the mires of nomenclature-slipstream or hybrid literary art forms such as flash fiction, prose poems, lyric essays, hyperfictions, etc. have become increasingly visible in contemporary literature. Writers such as Claudia Rankine, Maggie Nelson, Layli Long Soldier and others are using these forms to explore questions of race, gender, sexuality and all the other ways we exist, and are defined, as people in the world. Our goal will be to approach these texts as scholars and artists for the purposes of understanding how challenging traditional formal expectations allows us new ways to discover, celebrate, express, explode, chart (and many other verbs!!) personal, communal, and national identities in our work.

    So, simply, what are hybrid forms? To start, and we can reconsider this as we explore, a hybrid work is a literary object that merges elements of different traditional forms-as in the prose-poem or the lyric essay or the academic memoir. And, of course, even weirder mashups are possible: collage texts, graphic novels, hyperfictions, and bafflers such as Anne Carson’s “fictional essays in poetry.” As Clarkies know, labels can be pretty flimsy definitions and obviously designating such pieces ‘hybrid’ implies reductive/conventional definitions of genre. In this class we will investigate what conspicuous awareness or transgression of these formal boundaries exposes and allows.

    For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the advanced requirement.

    Prerequisites: Any 100-level English class or instructor permission

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 206 - Writing the Novel

    This course is designed for students who want to write a novel. Through careful study of published works, students will unpack the role and function of central elements of a novel - character, setting, plot, point of view, voice, etc. - and apply these techniques to their own novel through weekly writing exercises. For their final, students turn in a polished version of the first 10,000 words of their novel as well as a query letter in which they practice pitching their novel to a potential agent. For Creative Writing Minors, this course counts as one of the advanced courses. This course can be repeated once for credit. Students who took BOTH ENG 206 and ENG 209 prior to F’20 cannot take ENG 206 and earn credit.

     

    Prerequisites: Any 100-level English class or instructor permission

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 207 - Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction

    This advanced creative writing workshop in fiction offers students who are serious about writing fiction a supportive seminar setting to present their work for discussion and suggestions, to learn how to critique the writings of others, and to participate in discussions about the art and craft of writing fiction, including the use of characterization, setting, plot, conflict, and dialogue. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course counts as one of the advanced courses.

    Prerequisites: ENG 101, 106, 107, 111, or permission of the Instructor.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 208 - Writing the Borderlands

    In this bilingual Spanish/English creative writing course, students will write poems, stories, and/or nonfiction pieces in either or both languages. We will examine several texts by Latinx authors as we consider questions of translation, code-switching, audience, and the political choices these writers make when writing in both languages. The first two-thirds of the course will focus on textual analysis, craft lessons, a translation project, and generating new writing, while the last third will be dedicated to writing workshops. Students also learn how to submit work to literary journals for publication. The final consists of a Chapbook (small book) of revised writing. There are no language requirements, though some familiarity with Spanish will enrich your experience of the texts. This class counts as an advanced course toward the Creative Writing minor and the Spanish minor, as well as the Latin American and Latinx Studies Concentration.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018  

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 211 - Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry

    ENG 211 Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry/Workshop: While a significant part of the class will be dedicated to exploring each student’s poetry through a constructive workshop approach, this course also requires in-depth critical feedback in every class and a series of annotations that address elements of craft.  We will look closely at the work of established poets, especially contemporary poets, and trace lineages and influences from particular poets’ work back to their roots.  In addition to assigned readings and exercises, a new poem a week is expected. As the semester progresses, students will experiment with revision and create a portfolio of poems representing their best work. 

    For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-1) requirement. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the advanced requirement.

    Prerequisites: ENG 107  or permission of the Instructor.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 212 - The Making (and Breaking) of Poetic Style

    Using the early and most recent work of several modern and contemporary poets, we will trace their stylistic development as well as use their work as prompts for our own writing. Part literary study, part workshop, this course will identify the characteristics that constitute “style” and how a style might change over time.

    For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-1) requirement. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the advanced requirement.

    Prerequisites: ENG 107  or ENG 211  or permission of instructor.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 213 - Utopias/Dystopias: Writing Resistance and Identity

    In her 2014 National Book Award speech, science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin said, “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society… writers who can remember freedom - realists of a larger reality.” In this class we will strive to be the writers Le Guin called for. Animated by the question “What if?”, speculative fiction interrogates received ideologies and questions the naturalness or inevitability of social structures and systems of power, “reality” as we know it. This course considers how minority groups have used speculative fiction as a vehicle for writing alternative conceptions of history, society, and identity. Ranging from visionary utopias to nightmarish yet strangely familiar dystopias, these stories make space for those relegated to the margins, pointing not only to what can be but to what already is. Science fiction, in its circuitous way, does not predict, so much as describe. This creative writing class will involve weekly writing exercises, discussion of science fiction texts, and workshop, and will culminate in a novelette-length speculative fiction final project. Students also learn how to submit work to literary journals for publication. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the advanced requirement.

    Prerequisites: Any 100-level English class or instructor permission

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 214 - Creative Writing Capstone: Multi-genre Advanced Workshop

    In this advanced creative writing course, students will spend the semester working on individual writing projects in their chosen genre (poetry, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction, which includes memoir). Central to this class is the workshop, where students will present their ongoing writing for supportive feedback and discussion. Outside readings in literature and on craft will be assigned which correlate with student work. Recommended as the final course for students pursuing a minor in Creative Writing. Prerequisites include any introductory creative writing course and one other creative writing course, or permission of the instructor. For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course fulfills the Capstone requirement.

    Prerequisites: One introductory course (ENG 101  , ENG 106  , ENG 107  , or ENG 111  ) and one advanced course (ENG 206  , ENG 207  , ENG 209  , or ENG 211 ) or permission of the Instructor. Seniors only.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 215 - Publishing & Literary Journals

    This Problems of Practice (PoP) course will introduce students to working at an online literary journal. Beginning assignments will including sending out calls for submission, reading and voting on subs. Later assignments will explore the process of editing works accepted for publication, preparing the next issue for launch, and working on special-edition issues. This course will include weekly outside reading assignments based on submissions the journal receives, and you should plan to read frequently and copiously. Classes will be taught in seminar fashion and will include a combination of short lectures, class discussion, and workshops where you will discuss submissions for potential publication. By the end of the course, you will have played a significant role in the publication of the next issue and written a final reflection on your experience.

    For undergraduate Creative Writing minors, this course satisfies the Advanced Creative Writing Course requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: POP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Each Semester
  

  • ENG 225 - American Print Culture 1700-1900

    The years from 1700 to 1900 witnessed a transformation of print culture from the handpress period to an age of mechanical reproduction. The rapidly increasing availability of inexpensive print technologies had a tremendous impact on habits of publishing, of writing, and of reading itself. In this course, students will examine how the material contexts of print culture in early America affected and were affected by notions of authorship, readership, gender, genre, and popular and elite taste. Some sessions will be conducted at the American Antiquarian Society where students will be able to examine archival material in hands-on workshops. For the final research paper, students will be encouraged to use resources from the AAS, from Goddard Library Special Collections, and/or from the many new digital humanities archives now available online.  For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement.

     

     

     

    Course Designation/Attribute: POP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 230 - Reading Voraciously: Food and Literature in the 20th Century

    To claim that “cooking can produce something that approaches an aesthetic emotion,” was daring in 1954, when Alice Toklas situated herself among the modernists with the bold claim that cooking was a form of art. Yet she was also situating herself within a long literary and philosophical tradition of thinking aesthetic taste alongside gustatory taste. Taking up the idea of food as an aesthetic phenomenon, this course traces a transnational history of literary thinking about food within the long twentieth century, with special attention to the relationship between food and such identity categories as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement or the Theory (E) requirement but does not double-count.

    Course Designation/Attribute: AP, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 231 - Queer Modernisms

    Modernist writers often use the term “queer” with what feels like a knowing wink. This is not an anachronism; though the field of queer theory brought the term into wider usage in the 1990s, the rise of literary modernism at the dawn of the twentieth century coincided with a shift in its connotations, as “queer” came to encompass not just difference or oddity, but difference of a specifically sexual variety. In this course we will explore queer modernism from multiple angles, reading works by authors who both lived and wrote about queer lives, tracing their engagement with emerging social and medical discourses of sexuality, and interrogating the role of queerness within modernist innovations in literary form. Taking an intersectional approach to the field, we will also consider how queerness overlapped with and complicated other discourses of difference, including questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class.

    In addition to canonical queer modernists such as Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein, we will read authors who have been relegated to the margins of the field, including Richard Bruce Nugent, Eliot Bliss, and Gale Wilhelm, as we consider the relationship between queerness and canonicity. Our transnational approach will reveal both multiple models of modernism and a wide range of experiences of queerness. To provide a theoretical context for this exploration, we will read widely in contemporary queer theory, focusing especially on texts that see difference as a site of potential solidarity and emphasize literature’s power to challenge multiple, overlapping systems of oppression.

    For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement or the Theory (E) requirement but does not double-count.

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 232 - Modernist Literature

    Virginia Woolf famously wrote that, “on or about December 1910 human character changed.” In this class, we will test that claim, thinking about what it means to “be modern,” what it means to “be modernist,” and what the two have to do with each other. We will also consider the many meanings of “modernism,” understood variously as a literary movement that flourished within coteries like Bloomsbury, the salons of 1920’s Paris, and the Harlem Renaissance; a literary style governed by the imperative to “make it new” and an embrace of aesthetic difficulty; and the literature of the period between the two World Wars. Taking a transnational approach to the field, we will juxtapose texts from the margins of modernism with more canonical work in order to investigate modernism’s relationship with mass culture, politics, and everyday life. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the D-3 requirement. For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course.

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 234 - Virginia Woolf

    Most famous as a novelist and a feminist, Virginia Woolf was also an essayist, a pacifist, a biographer, an anti-imperialist, and a diarist. In this class, we will read Woolf in multiple genres, delving into the relationship between literary form and political thought, and exploring her theorization of everyday life. As we read chronologically through her major novels and literary and cultural criticism, students will take a self-directed path through her essays and letters, highlighting connections between her life and her work, as well as recurring ideas and images. Above all, we will follow her advice on how to read a book, to “open your mind as widely as possible.”

    For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirment. For undergraduate English majors, this course also counts toward the Specialization in British Literature or the Specialization in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

    For undergraduate English minors, this course satisfies one of the 200-level seminar requirements.

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 238 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature

    This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and other Latino/Latina writers in the United States over the last thirty years.  Through a variety of Latino/Latina writing, we will explore the ways in which these writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation, and ethnicity in their works.  We will also examine the ways in which Latinas(os) have manufactured identities within mainstream society, as well as the developement of cultural hybrids and other forms of cultural registers.  Representative works of various genres will be read and analyzed within a cultural context;  the testimonio, the auto ethnographic essay, the narrative (novel and short story), drama, poetry and film.  Authors include Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas and Piri Thomas.  For English majors, this course satisfies the D-3 requirement. For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 245 - Mythopoetics

    This course examines modes and qualities of literary expression where we will find that narratives and poetry convey different expectations, which are also embedded in a variety of worldviews. Frequently, however, authors will attempt to craft these expectations and worldviews to accommodate nontraditional visions. Toward this end, we will read works by authors who strive to come to grips with their own experiences of the world. For English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Theory (E) requirement.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 248 - Contemporary Literary Theory

    Investigates and develops several theoretical approaches to literature in the late-20th and 21st century, attempting to provide glimpses into the range of theoretical issues and concerns. We look particularly at identity formation in contemporary literary, political, economic, cultural and social arenas. May also look at a literary text in relation to theory. General areas of study are selected from among the following: textual criticism, new criticism, psychoanalysis/reader response, structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, gay and lesbian theory and Cultural Studies. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Theory or Criticism (E) requirement.

    SPECIAL TOPIC S’22:  Theory for the 21st-Century

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year

    Placement Guidelines
    N/A
  

  • ENG 250 - Medieval Literature

    Explores medieval literary culture of Western Europe by means of literary theoretical and classical texts. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-1)requirement. Themes vary each year, and the seminar can be taken more than once for credit, as long as each time a different theme is chosen. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement.

    SPRING 2022 -The Canterbury Tales

    In The Canterbury Tales, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer adopts an authorial persona (also named Chaucer) who relates his experiences in a company of pilgrims as “to Caunterbury they wende, / The hooly blisful martir for to seke.” The travelers pass the time by swapping stories, which the narrator relates with the caveat that he is only ventriloquizing: as an accurate reporter, he cannot be reproached for simply repeating what others have said.

    This “inside/outside” role allows the narrator to comment on the people he observes, often adopting an ingenuous tone that exposes their flaws and foibles. In this way, the project participates in and expands upon the tradition of medieval estate satire: works that portray figures familiar in 14th century English society in terms of their hypocrisies and vices. In retelling “their” stories, the narrator sketches a diverse range of classes, professions, and characters representing a uniquely eclectic collection of cultural and social “types” (a battle-stained knight; hypocritical clergy; dishonest tradesmen; a genteel Prioress; the loquacious proto-feminist Wife of Bath, etc.). In this seminar, we will explore how this diverse cast enables Chaucer to work with, critique, and subvert a wide array of genres, from chivalric romance to misogynist polemic, from animal fables to cautionary tales, and from saints’ lives to tales of sex work, robbery, and even murder. Readings will be in Middle English (with links to modern translations); no previous Middle English knowledge is required.

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 253 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare

    This Shakespeare seminar examines how language and power influence emerging notions of race, gender, class, disability, nationality, and religion in the early modern world. The course explores recent trends in Shakespeare studies such as critical race studies, health humanities, sexuality studies, ecocriticism, border studies, and more that allow us to understand and critique the place of Shakespeare in our world today.

    For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-1) requirement.

     

    Prerequisites: ENG 120 , ENG 140, or TA 214   and IDND 018  or VE Placement, or permission of the Instructor.

    Course Designation/Attribute: VE, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 255 - Studies in the Renaissance

    WORKING MY NERVES: EMOTIONS IN THE RENAISSANCE

    Have you ever used your feelings to get something you really wanted or needed? This course goes beyond Shakespeare and revisits the English Renaissance by examining the work of emotions in literature. I mention “work” intentionally because that is precisely what emotions do - they bring people together and drive them apart; they work upon our own hearts, bodies, and minds. Our course analyzes poetry, prose, and drama to develop an understanding of how happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise stand at the intersection of personal experience and historical or scientific fact. We will discuss texts by writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Elizabeth Cary, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Wear your heart on your sleeve and bring your feelings along for the ride. It’s going to be an emotional rollercoaster. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-1) requirement. For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course.

    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 256 - Ecologies in Crisis

    This course asks participants to explore the idea of `ecology’ in a broad philosophical perspective, with particular consideration to literary responses to climate change in different cultural and political contexts.  We will think comparatively about the representation of ecological crises, and about likenesses and differences in literary portrayals of environmental thought-including relationships between human and non-human species and objects. The course will explore the cultural and philosophical frameworks that govern dominant modes of extraction and commodification, regimes of energy and power, understandings of waste and disposability, and the existential crisis posed by mass extinctions.  As we question the larger social, cultural, and psychological origins of the climate crisis, we will consider the philosophical foundations of `anthropocentrism’ (a world order that prioritizes human experience), questions of ontology and modern ways-of-being, cross-cultural models for understanding the idea of nature, and tensions within enlightenment and premodern modes of knowledge regarding the environment. Readings will be divided between literary fiction and non-fiction and social theory. Students should enjoy reading social theory and working with abstract ideas (more than 50% of the readings will be theoretical).For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies either the Period (D-3) or the Theory (E) requirement, but does not double count.

    Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors. First-years and sophomores should email Prof. Levin for permission to enroll.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 262 - Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature

    Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement. For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course. This course can be repeated with a different topic.

     

    SPECIAL TOPIC Spring 2022 - “Tomes of Solid Witchcraft”: Major Women Poets

    This course examines how women speak poetically to each other across time, beyond the confines of what Virginia Woolf called the “private house.” We view them as originators of meaning, thematically broaching issues of identity, society, religion, politics, and what it means to be intelligent, articulate, and transcendent of cultural circumstance and restraint. Poems read will be drawn from Charlotte Smith, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver and Joy Harjo.

    For undergraduate English majors, this Special Topic satisfies the Poetry (C-1), or the Period (D-2) or (D-3) requirement.

    For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 263 - Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Romantic Literature

    The course examines the formation of  British national identity through its troubling origins in women’s subordination, class hierarchy, slavery, colonial rule and imperialism.  Focusing on the slave narrative, confessional poetry and the political and domestic novel, this seminar will explore the ways in which Romantic writers attempted (and often failed) to articulate an alternative national narrative against the national hegemony, which erased state acts of exploitation and terror.  To better understand the concept of national trauma, we will also read extensively in psychoanalytic and critical social theory related to genocide, accidents and torture.  For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-2) or the Theory (E) requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 264 - Queer Victorians

    The Victorian period was full of writers addressing what we now consider themes of “queer” sexuality and gender. Often, however, these themes have gone unrecognized. Victorian texts, which hold a multivalent emphasis on kinship, desire, matrimony, domesticity, and familial life, stand as a rich resource for analyses of same-sex desire, gendered and sexual subjectivities, and closeting and homophobia. Through texts by authors such as Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, and Charles Dickens we will look at depictions of nonnormative desires and identities and resistance to heteronormativity. We will also explore gender and sexuality through intersectional frameworks that consider how class, race and nationality impacts gender and sexual identities. To provide a theoretical context for this exploration, we will deploy queer theory to understand the way power works to institutionalize and legitimate certain forms and expressions of sexuality and gender while stigmatizing others. Through this “disruptive” knowledge, we will question norms of sexuality and gender and the oppression and violence that such hegemonic norms justify. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement or the Theory (E) requirement but does not double-count.

     

     

     

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 272 - Radicalism and the Black Arts Movement

    1966 to 1967

    The Black Arts Movement remains the most radical realization of a literary culture in the history of the United States. Resulting from centuries of racial oppression, this movement is to be understood as black Americans’ revolutionary use of art to express deep-seated existential rage and political critique in order to generate social change and psychological reconstruction. Accordingly, this course will examine the historical factors responsible for the emergence of the Black Arts Movement and will pay special attention to the thinkers and writers responsible for the articulation of its aesthetic manifestos and the production of its literary canon. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 273 - Black-Asian Solidarities: A Literary Exploration of Racial Constructions in America

    The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the viral racism that communities of color face in the United States. In particular, media narratives about the spike in anti-Asian discrimination in the US are dominated by a fiction of antagonism between Black and Asian Americans. This course will investigate how this narrative originates and persists, and counter it by examining the long histories of solidarity and intimacy between Blacks and Asians in the US. Understanding social experiences of marginalization require an understanding of their ideological basis. In tandem with the literature we study, it is necessary to unpack the legal constructions of personhood and citizenship as they evolve throughout US history, from founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution through key legislation and executive orders that regulate public and private lives, including but not limited to immigration, naturalization, and citizenship; enslavement and labor; and marriage and family. With this knowledge about legal narrative informing our readings of literary and cultural productions, students will develop tools and strategies to demystify the cultural folklore that sustains institutionalized racism in America. In doing so, students will fill their anti-racist toolkits with strategies, resources, and community connections necessary to begin the work of facilitating courageous conversations around race and racism at Clark and beyond: students will deliver primers on Black-Asian solidarities and lead conversations about shared texts with high school students and grassroots organizations in Massachusetts.

    For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.

    For undergraduate English minors, this course satisfies one of the 200-level seminar requirements.

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI, POP

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 275 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature

    This seminar provides an introduction to contemporary global literature in English. The writers we will discuss come from very different backgrounds-from South Asia to Africa to the Caribbean-but they are all engaged with making sense of the legacy of colonialism and the emergence of something we might call global culture. These texts are exciting stylistically because of their inventive uses of language and narrative structure: their experiments with form capture the sense of new nations coming into being, new approaches to cultural tradition, and the new status of English as a global language. The stories they tell entertain while also providing original perspectives on histories of empire marked by political struggle, violent conflict, and global inequalities.   Topics we will consider include: the idea of the “postcolonial”; the relationship between literature and political resistance; the transformation of metropolitan English writing and language; “subalternity” and problems of representation; writing from a position of displacement, exile, and diasporization; and the persistence of colonial narratives in contemporary forms of imperialism. The specific focus of this course will change from year to year, but authors to be discussed may include Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Derek Walcott, and Zadie Smith. For English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 276 - Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics

    In “The Race for Theory,” Barbara Christian asks who “Theory” is for and suggests that the drive to continuously invent “new” and “original” theories about “Literature” is rather a tool to maintain exclusive and elite boundaries around the academy, boundaries which ultimately constrain our imaginations of how we study literature. Taking seriously Christian’s proposal that creative work is itself media for theorizing, especially for artists from marginalized backgrounds, this course examines 20th century and contemporary Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latinx American cultural productions. We ask how these works theorize the historical and present-day geopolitics that shape the how racial and ethnic “Others” come to be in relationship with the United States and the forces that define their belonging within and/or exclusion from the physical and imagined boundaries of the nation, national and cultural citizenship, and political participation. Surveying a broad spectrum of literature, film, memoir, poetry, and theory, students will familiarize themselves with signal debates in studies of race, ethnicity, and migration and gain a foundation in contemporary Ethnic American literature. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-3) or the Theory (E) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE Placement

    Course Designation/Attribute: DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 279 - Fictions of Asian America

    With particular emphasis on the multiple meanings of “fiction,” this seminar examines the ways in which the Asian American identity is constructed, imagined and contested in American literature and popular culture. Analyses will focus primarily on how texts and films produced within the last decade maintain or challenge established boundaries of the Asian American identity. Specific issues to be investigated include the model minority discourse and the demands of assimilation and citizenship; ethnic authenticity and hybridity; gender roles and sexual anxieties; cultural memory and nostalgia; and the commodification of Asian cultures and identities. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 280 - Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Transpacific Speculations

    This course considers how an abiding interest in the potential of the Asia Pacific region has informed speculative fiction of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on transpacific discourses that frame the martial, ideological, and cultural encounters between North America and Asia(s), we begin by considering how Asia-and Asianness-was imagined and construed in early American fiction and popular culture. We then move to consider works of Asian diasporic literature and film that subvert these depictions and speculate on the environmental and geopolitical viability of an “Asian future.” We will explore a range of issues within this speculative landscape, including (but not limited to) race and racialization, gender and reproductive futurity, contact and contagion, empire and displacement, economic precarity, and environmental catastrophe.

    For undergraduate English Majors, this course satisfies the Genre (C-2) or Period (D-3) requirement.

    Prerequisites: VE or ENG 020  

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 281 - Special Topics in 19th-C American Literature

    Special topics in 19th-century literature through the Civil War invite in-depth consideration of how extraordinary cultural, political, and technological changes made this one of the most vibrant and studied periods of the American literature.  For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement.  May be repeatable for credit.

    F’21 Special Topic: 19th C Utopian Literature

    Utopian literature is, inherently, a social and political critique. It embodies an idealistic outlook but also a profound dissatisfaction with the status quo. Through utopian fiction, authors attempt to imagine cultural perfection, thereby expressing what they believe to be both right and wrong within their present-day surroundings. This course will focus on the intersections of utopian literature and history in the nineteenth century in the United States with an emphasis on fiction but a grounding in fact. Students will read a wide variety of utopian literature while also examining real-life utopian experiments in 1800s America along with related events in American history. The course will also engage with utopian fiction’s transnational roots and influences. Students will also study what is lacking in some utopian expressions along with the results of both realized and unrealized utopian hopes.  

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 282 - American Literary Renaissance

    This course examines the literature of the decade of 1850 - 1860 in America - the Age of Emerson, Whitman, Melville,and Thoreau. For English Majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement.  For English Minors, this course counts as a 200-Level Seminar.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 283 - Visions of Representation

    Explores the problematic assumptions of literary representation underlying American realism through selected works of American writers. Conventional interpretations of realist writing are often challenged by issues of race, class, gender, and cultural contexts. Examines works by Twain, Howells, James, Dreiser, Jewett, Cather, Cooke, Chopin, and others. Satisfies the Period (D-2) requirement for undergraduate English majors.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: N/A
  

  • ENG 290 - Capstone

    During fall semester of senior year, the Capstone seminar offers English majors a final culminating experience, during which students demonstrate their sophisticated engagement with fundamental skills of literary criticism (astute close reading; persuasive argumentation; clear, elegant writing; comfort navigating conventions of citation and style; familiarity with broad contours of literary history; facility with a range of theoretical and scholarly methodologies) first through a shared reading of a text (or texts) on a common theme, and then with a major independent research project. Capstone provides opportunity for each student not only to demonstrate mastery of literary criticism but also to articulate the meaning and import of their own unique course of study in major. Each student develops their final independent project out of their specialized interest and expertise within the English major and/or their sense of interdisciplinary connections with a secondary major, minor, or concentration. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Capstone (F) requirement. Senior English majors only. Only offered in the fall.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Only offered in the fall.
  

  • ENG 292 - Toni Morrison

    Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison forever reconfigured how the world studies literature and race. Reading her novels, poetry, and non-fiction, we will examine how Morrison’s writing enhances African American literary theory by critiquing the role race plays within the literary canon and society as a whole. Implementing Morrison’s strategies such as removing the white gaze and discovering the Africanist presence, we will explore the historical and psychological themes of race, colorism, the ancestor, motherhood, multigenerational trauma, and love. The course is discussion and inquiry-based, so students must read, participate, moderate, and challenge themselves to think critically. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement or Theory (E) requirement but does not double-count.
     

    Course Designation/Attribute: AP, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 293 - Special Topics in African American Literature

    Special Topics in African American Literature.  For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.  For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English course.  May be repeatable for credit.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 294 - African American Literary and Critical Race Theory

    Utilizing the theoretical approaches found in African American literary criticism of the 20th and 21st century, this course will evaluate the complex relationship of racial thought in African American literary theory. Creating an understanding of the relationship of literature to the larger experience of African Americans, students will analyze the dialogue of racial identity, Black feminist/womanist thought, Poststructuralism, queer theory, intersectionality, cultural studies, essentialism, and critical race theory from the 1920s to today. For undergraduate English major and minors, this course satisfies the Theory (E-1) requirement.

    Course Designation/Attribute: AP, DI

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 296 - Writing the Thesis

    This course is designed to guide students through the thesis-writing process, focusing on the technical and structural challenges involved in crafting a multi-part argument. We’ll think about how to make sure ideas are expressed clearly, cogently, persuasively, and within the standards of the discipline. Our approach will emphasize both the writing process and the finished product, combining reading and discussion with peer workshops. This course is required for all English Honors and MA thesis writers planning to complete their theses this semester.

    Corequisites: ENG 297 - Honors  

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
  

  • ENG 297 - Honors

    Honors in English Senior Year

     

    Invited and interested students are asked to identify an area of interest with an adviser and apply in writing to the department chair with a brief description of the project in the spring of their junior year. Once accepted into the Honors program, and with the adviser’s approval, students register for ENG 297 Honors in English for one credit in each of the two semesters of their senior year. The adviser and the student will agree on the project’s stages; the final thesis is due at the end of the spring semester. A second reader, chosen by the student and the adviser, participates in the final evaluation. Details are available in the handbook for English majors.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 298 - Internships

    Academic experience taking place in the field with an opportunity to earn credit.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered for variable credit every year
  

  • ENG 299 - Directed Study

    When asking a faculty member to sponsor directed study courses (299), the student should: 1) demonstrate competence to deal with the materials as literature and 2) present a well thought-out proposal. The student must take the initiative in selecting readings or carrying out the special project. Offered for variable credit.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 300 - Pedagogy I

    A one-on-one with a departmental faculty member on pedagogy.
  

  • ENG 301 - Pedagogy II

    An advanced one-on-one with a department faculty member enabling the graduate student to acquire expertise in teaching. TAs only.

    Prerequisites: ENG 300 
  

  • ENG 302 - Pedagogy III

    For second-year graduate students who have been awarded a teaching assistantship. Advanced mentoring and classroom assignments as arranged with individual department members. Information available from the chair.

    Prerequisites: ENG 300  and ENG 301 .
  

  • ENG 303 - Pedagogy IV

    A continuation of ENG 302 . See its listing for a complete description.
  

  • ENG 325 - American Print Culture, 1700-1900

    The years from 1700 to 1900 witnessed a transformation of print culture from the handpress period to an age of mechanical reproduction. The rapidly increasing availability of inexpensive print technologies had a tremendous impact on habits of publishing, of writing, and of reading itself. In this course, students will examine how the material contexts of print culture in early America affected and were affected by notions of authorship, readership, gender, genre, and popular and elite taste. Some sessions will be conducted at the American Antiquarian Society where students will be able to examine archival material in hands-on workshops. For the final research paper, students will be encouraged to use resources from the AAS, from Goddard Library Special Collections, and/or from the many new digital humanities archives now available online

     

     


     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 330 - Reading Voraciously: Food and Literature in the 20th Century

    To claim that “cooking can produce something that approaches an aesthetic emotion,” was daring in 1954, when Alice Toklas situated herself among the modernists with the bold claim that cooking was a form of art. Yet she was also situating herself within a long literary and philosophical tradition of thinking aesthetic taste alongside gustatory taste. Taking up the idea of food as an aesthetic phenomenon, this course traces a transnational history of literary thinking about food within the long twentieth century, with special attention to the relationship between food and such identity categories as gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 331 - Queer Modernisms

    Modernist writers often use the term “queer” with what feels like a knowing wink. This is not an anachronism; though the field of queer theory brought the term into wider usage in the 1990s, the rise of literary modernism at the dawn of the twentieth century coincided with a shift in its connotations, as “queer” came to encompass not just difference or oddity, but difference of a specifically sexual variety. In this course we will explore queer modernism from multiple angles, reading works by authors who both lived and wrote about queer lives, tracing their engagement with emerging social and medical discourses of sexuality, and interrogating the role of queerness within modernist innovations in literary form. Taking an intersectional approach to the field, we will also consider how queerness overlapped with and complicated other discourses of difference, including questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class.

    In addition to canonical queer modernists such as Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein, we will read authors who have been relegated to the margins of the field, including Richard Bruce Nugent, Eliot Bliss, and Gale Wilhelm, as we consider the relationship between queerness and canonicity. Our transnational approach will reveal both multiple models of modernism and a wide range of experiences of queerness. To provide a theoretical context for this exploration, we will read widely in contemporary queer theory, focusing especially on texts that see difference as a site of potential solidarity and emphasize literature’s power to challenge multiple, overlapping systems of oppression.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 332 - Modernist Literature

    Virginia Woolf famously wrote that, “on or about December 1910 human character changed.” In this class, we will test that claim, thinking about what it means to “be modern,” what it means to “be modernist,” and what the two have to do with each other. We will also consider the many meanings of “modernism,” understood variously as a literary movement that flourished within coteries like Bloomsbury, the salons of 1920’s Paris, and the Harlem Renaissance; a literary style governed by the imperative to “make it new” and an embrace of aesthetic difficulty; and the literature of the period between the two World Wars. Taking a transnational approach to the field, we will juxtapose texts from the margins of modernism with more canonical work in order to investigate modernism’s relationship with mass culture, politics, and everyday life.

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 334 - Virginia Woolf

    Most famous as a novelist and a feminist, Virginia Woolf was also an essayist, a pacifist, a biographer, an anti-imperialist, and a diarist. In this class, we will read Woolf in multiple genres, delving into the relationship between literary form and political thought, and exploring her theorization of everyday life. As we read chronologically through her major novels and literary and cultural criticism, students will take a self-directed path through her essays and letters, highlighting connections between her life and her work, as well as recurring ideas and images. Above all, we will follow her advice on how to read a book, to “open your mind as widely as possible.”

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 338 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature

    This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and other Latino/Latina writers in the United States over the last thirty years.  Through a variety of Latino/Latina writing, we will explore the ways in which these writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation, and ethnicity in their works.  We will also examine the ways in which Latinas(os) have manufactured identities within mainstream society, as well as the development of cultural hybrids and other forms of cultural registers.  Representative works of various genres will be read and analyzed within a cultural context;  the testimonio, the auto ethnographic essay, the narrative (novel and short story), drama, poetry and film.  Authors include Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, Achy Obejas and Piri Thomas

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 340 - Introduction to Graduate Study in English

    Since many forms of literary theories proliferate, Prof. Levin strongly recommends that M.A. candidates take a course in literary theory to complement this course. Introduction to Graduate Studies will examine theories and methodologies pertinent to the study of literature by way of a focus on a special topic. For fall 2019, the special topic will be `Literary Studies in a Global Context’. What is the role of the humanities in the present moment? How does literature respond to pressing issues such as global inequality and climate change? How has literature imagined modes of globalization from the early modern to contemporary periods? M.A. candidates not specifically exempted are required to take this course.

    Prerequisites: Seniors by permission only

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every fall semester
  

  • ENG 342 - Graduate Seminar: Special Topics

    Each year the English Department offers a graduate seminar on a topic related to the research interests of one of our faculty. Ideally, participants will find ways to use the methods and scholarship modeled in the class to enrich their own thesis work. The seminar is open to students in the English masters program and to graduate students in other departments as well.

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 345 - Mythopoetics

    This course examines modes and qualities of literary expression where we will find that narratives and poetry convey different expectations, which are also embedded in a variety of worldviews. Frequently, however, authors will attempt to craft these expectations and worldviews to accommodate nontraditional visions. Toward this end, we will read works by authors who strive to come to grips with their own experiences of the world. Texts will include Eliot’s Four Quartets, Joyce’s Ulysses, Plath’s Ariel, and representative poems by Wallace Stevens.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 348 - Contemporary Literary Theory

    Investigates and develops several theoretical approaches to literature in the late-20th and 21st century, attempting to provide glimpses into the range of theoretical issues and concerns. We look particularly at identity formation in contemporary literary, political, economic, cultural and social arenas. May also look at a literary text in relation to theory. General areas of study are selected from among the following: textual criticism, new criticism, psychoanalysis/reader response, structuralism, poststructuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, gay and lesbian theory and Cultural Studies.

    Special Topic S’22: Theory for the 21st-Century

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year
  

  • ENG 350 - Medieval Literature

    Explores medieval literary culture of Western Europe by means of literary theoretical and classical texts. Themes vary each year, and the seminar can be taken more than once for credit, as long as each time a different theme is chosen.

    SPRING 2022 -The Canterbury Tales

    In The Canterbury Tales, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer adopts an authorial persona (also named Chaucer) who relates his experiences in a company of pilgrims as “to Caunterbury they wende, / The hooly blisful martir for to seke.” The travelers pass the time by swapping stories, which the narrator relates with the caveat that he is only ventriloquizing: as an accurate reporter, he cannot be reproached for simply repeating what others have said.

    This “inside/outside” role allows the narrator to comment on the people he observes, often adopting an ingenuous tone that exposes their flaws and foibles. In this way, the project participates in and expands upon the tradition of medieval estate satire: works that portray figures familiar in 14th century English society in terms of their hypocrisies and vices. In retelling “their” stories, the narrator sketches a diverse range of classes, professions, and characters representing a uniquely eclectic collection of cultural and social “types” (a battle-stained knight; hypocritical clergy; dishonest tradesmen; a genteel Prioress; the loquacious proto-feminist Wife of Bath, etc.). In this seminar, we will explore how this diverse cast enables Chaucer to work with, critique, and subvert a wide array of genres, from chivalric romance to misogynist polemic, from animal fables to cautionary tales, and from saints’ lives to tales of sex work, robbery, and even murder. Readings will be in Middle English (with links to modern translations); no previous Middle English knowledge is required.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 353 - Advanced Studies in Shakespeare

    “Shakespeare and Race”

    Race and racism are not inventions exclusive to the modern age. The problem runs much deeper, and much earlier. This Shakespeare seminar examines how language and power influence emerging notions of racial difference, particularly Whiteness and Blackness, in the early modern world. In addition to reading and writing about Shakespeare’s works in their context, the seminar explores theory and recent studies in critical race studies, disability studies, Black feminist theory, border studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and more that allow us to understand and critique the place of Shakespeare in our world today. We will also center literature and drama by writers of color that speak back to Shakespeare and complicate both his and our notions of race and ethnicity. This course builds on introductory knowledge of Shakespeare and/or general English literary history.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 355 - Studies in the Renaissance

    WORKING MY NERVES: EMOTIONS IN THE RENAISSANCE

    Have you ever used your feelings to get something you really wanted or needed? This course goes beyond Shakespeare and revisits the English Renaissance by examining the work of emotions in literature. I mention “work” intentionally because that is precisely what emotions do - they bring people together and drive them apart; they work upon our own hearts, bodies, and minds. Our course analyzes poetry, prose, and drama to develop an understanding of how happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise stand at the intersection of personal experience and historical or scientific fact. We will discuss texts by writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Elizabeth Cary, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Wear your heart on your sleeve and bring your feelings along for the ride. It’s going to be an emotional rollercoaster.

    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 356 - Ecologies in Crisis

    This course asks participants to explore the idea of `ecology’ in a broad philosophical perspective, with particular consideration to literary responses to climate change in different cultural and political contexts.  We will think comparatively about the representation of ecological crises, and about likenesses and differences in literary portrayals of environmental thought-including relationships between human and non-human species and objects. The course will explore the cultural and philosophical frameworks that govern dominant modes of extraction and commodification, regimes of energy and power, understandings of waste and disposability, and the existential crisis posed by mass extinctions.  As we question the larger social, cultural, and psychological origins of the climate crisis, we will consider the philosophical foundations of `anthropocentrism’ (a world order that prioritizes human experience), questions of ontology and modern ways-of-being, cross-cultural models for understanding the idea of nature, and tensions within enlightenment and premodern modes of knowledge regarding the environment. Readings will be divided between literary fiction and non-fiction and social theory. Students should enjoy reading social theory and working with abstract ideas (more than 50% of the readings will be theoretical).

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 362 - Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature

    Special Topics in 19th-Century British Literature. This course can be repeated with a different topic.

    SPECIAL TOPIC Spring 2022 - “Tomes of Solid Witchcraft”: Major Women Poets This course examines how women speak poetically to each other across time, beyond the confines of what Virginia Woolf called the “private house.” We view them as originators of meaning, thematically broaching issues of identity, society, religion, politics, and what it means to be intelligent, articulate, and transcendent of cultural circumstance and restraint. Poems read will be drawn from Charlotte Smith, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver and Joy Harjo.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 363 - Traumatic Tales: National Trauma in Romantic Literature

    The course examines the formation of British national identity through its troubling origins in women’s subordination, class hierarchy, slavery, colonial rule and imperialism.  Focusing on the slave narrative, confessional poetry and the political and domestic novel, this seminar will explore the ways in which Romantic writers attempted (and often failed) to articulate an alternative national narrative against the national hegemony, which erased state acts of exploitation and terror.  To better understand the concept of national trauma, we will also read extensively in psychoanalytic and critical social theory related to genocide, accidents and torture.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
  

  • ENG 364 - Queer Victorians

    The Victorian period was full of writers addressing what we now consider themes of “queer” sexuality and gender. Often, however, these themes have gone unrecognized. Victorian texts, which hold a multivalent emphasis on kinship, desire, matrimony, domesticity, and familial life, stand as a rich resource for analyses of same-sex desire, gendered and sexual subjectivities, and closeting and homophobia. Through texts by authors such as Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, and Charles Dickens we will look at depictions of nonnormative desires and identities and resistance to heteronormativity. We will also explore gender and sexuality through intersectional frameworks that consider how class, race and nationality impacts gender and sexual identities. To provide a theoretical context for this exploration, we will deploy queer theory to understand the way power works to institutionalize and legitimate certain forms and expressions of sexuality and gender while stigmatizing others. Through this “disruptive” knowledge, we will question norms of sexuality and gender and the oppression and violence that such hegemonic norms justify.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
  

  • ENG 372 - Radicalism and the Black Arts Movement

    1966 to 1967

    The Black Arts Movement remains the most radical realization of a literary culture in the history of the United States. Resulting from centuries of racial oppression, this movement is to be understood as black Americans’ revolutionary use of art to express deep-seated existential rage and political critique in order to generate social change and psychological reconstruction. Accordingly, this course will examine the historical factors responsible for the emergence of the Black Arts Movement and will pay special attention to the thinkers and writers responsible for the articulation of its aesthetic manifestos and the production of its literary canon. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Period (D-3) requirement.

    Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
 

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