Department of English
Graduate Seminars
MA and PhD Seminars
Literature & Literary History
- 2104 Early English Literature
- 2105 Middle English Literature
- 2106 Medieval Literature and Culture
- 2107 Medieval Society & Dissent
- 2108 Arthurian Literature
- 2110 History and Representation
- 2115 Geoffrey Chaucer
- 2118 Allegory and Iconography
- 2120 Early Modern London
- 2125 English Renaissance
- 2126 Shakespeare
- 2127 Shakespeare, Cinema, & Society
- 2128 Renaissance Discourses of Gender
- 2132 Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama
- 2133 17th-Century Poetry
- 2140 John Milton
- 2134 Topics in 17th-Century Culture
- 2121 Medieval To Early Modern
- 2143 Debauched Puritan
- 2150 Restoration & the 18th Century
- 2151 18th-Century Social Theory
- 2152 The Long 18th Century
- 2153 Defoe and Swift
- 2154 18th-Century Novel
- 2155 Sensibility
- 2156 The Culture of Advice
- 2160 William Blake
- 2170 British Romanticism
- 2175 Victorian Women Novelists
- 2176 19th-Century British Novel
- 2177 Charles Dickens
- 2178 Victorian Intellectuals
- 2180 George Eliot
- 2190 The Fin de Siècle
- 2191 Yng Britain: Class/Nation/Youth
- 2192 Oscar Wilde and the 1890s
- 2210 American Renaissance
- 2214 The Long Poem
- 2215 Literature of the South
- 2216 The Negro Question
- 2221 Literature of Reform 1820-1890
- 2230 Anglo-Am. Cultural Exchange
- 2235 Periodicals and the Public
- 2243 New World Slave Narrative
- 2245 Black Literature
- 2247 African American Autobiography
- 2248 Abolitionist Discourse
- 2249 W.E.B. Dubois
- 2250 20th-Century American Lit.
- 2251 U.S. Culture 1929-73
- 2255 American Drama
- 2256 Dramatizing American Women
- 2257 Disciplining American Drama
- 2279 Studies in U.S. Fiction
- 2280 Contemporary American Novel
- 2286 American Literature 1890-1900
- 2320 The Avant-Garde
- 2325 Modernism
- 2326 Modern Poetry
- 2329 Contemporary Novel
- 2350 Post-Modernism
- 2382 Irish Literary Revival
- 2387 Imperialism and Modernity
- 2389 Third World Literature
- 2392 Literature of Slavery
- 2395 Caribbean Literature
- 2605 Novels and Novel Readers
- 2606 Utopian and Dystopian Literature
- 2607 Lit., Landscape, Architecture
- 2608 Ethics, Politics, Literature
- 2610 The Novel: Texts and Theory
- 2611 The Self as Child
- 2615 Imperialism and Childhood
- 2641 Memory, Narrative, Nostalgia
- 2649 Literature of Adoption
- 2665 Feminist Poetry
- 3000 Dissertation Research
- 3101 Discourse of Primitivism
- 3103 Literature of Slavery
- 3169 Topics in 19th-Century Culture
- 3205 Henry Adams
Criticism & Theory
- 2000 History of Criticism (core)
- 2005 Contemporary Criticism
- 2010 Modern Critical Practice
- 2011 Issues in Cultural Studies
- 2013 Criticism in Society
- 2018 Theories of Reception
- 2020 Ideology and Criticism
- 2021 History and Spectacle
- 2022 Post-Structuralism
- 2023 Michel Foucault
- 2024 Edward Said
- 2027 Roland Barthes
- 2029 Jacques Lacan
- 2032 Gender and Discourse
- 2033 Feminist Theory
- 2035 Black Literary Criticism & Theory
- 2040 Institutions of Literature
- 2043 Theories of Popular Culture
- 2053 Metaphor and Critical Theory
- 2054 Sexuality and Representation
- 2055 Literature and Hegemony
- 2327 Aesthetics and Politics
- 2385 Postcolonial Discourse
- 2388 Third World Feminisms
- 2394 Diaspora/Transnational Identity
- 3113 Pre-Enlightenment Criticism
- 3115 Readings in Critical Theory
- 3118 Theories of Reception
- 3119 Bakhtin School Rhetoric/Poetics
- 3121 Marxist Literary Criticism
- 3128 Historical Discourses of Gender
- 3130 Interrogating Canonicity
- 3141 Intellectuals
- 3143 Critique of Humanism
- 3145 Theory and Emergent Subjects
- 3210 Karl Marx
- 3225 Jacques Derrida
- 3226 Walter Benjamin
Film Studies
- 2025 Jean-Luc Godard
- 2451 Film History/Theory
- 2455 Film Historiography
- 2457 Film and Ethnography
- 2460 Film and Literature
- 2461 Genre and Film
- 2462 Comic Theory and the Cinema
- 2463 Cinema and Nation
- 2464 Masculinity in Cinema
- 2465 Cinema, Comedy, and Society
- 2466 Film and Modernism
- 2467 Cinema and Trauma
- 2470 Women and Film
- 2471 Maternal Discourse in Film/Literature
- 2472 Black Images in American Cinema
- 2475 Cinema and the Body
- 2476 History of American Film
- 2477 Hollywood Cinema
- 2480 Film Directors
- 2609 Melodrama
- 3440 Roberto Rossellini
- 3445 Gilles Deleuze & Cinema
- 3450 Cinema and Desire
- 3460 Film Theory/Literary Theory
- 3462 Authorship in Cinema
- 3464 Surrealism & Cinema
- 3465 Theories of National Cinema
- 3475 Cinema and the Body
Composition, Literacy, & Pedagogy
- 2034 Women and Literacy
- 2208 Culture of American Literacy
- 2500 Seminar in Pedagogy (core)
- 2501 Topics in Literacy
- 2502 Literacy and Pedagogy
- 2515 Seminar in Rhetoric and Literacy
- 2516 Professionalism & the American University
- 2517 Archives of English Curriculum
- 2519 Writing and Agitations of Power
- 2525 Composition Studies
- 2530 (F)Acts Of Interpretation
- 2533 Advanced Research in Composition
- 2536 Working the Field: Representing Others
- 2538 Literature and Instruction
- 2540 Writing and Difference
- 2554 The Scholarship of Teaching
- 2565 Producing Books, Producing Subjects
- 2566 Figuring Writing
- 2567 Practices and Texts
- 3300 Composition History/Theory/Practice
- 3320 Arts & Theories of Discourse
- 3350 Literacy and Pedagogy
- 3354 The Scholarship of Teaching
- 3355 History of Rhetoric
MFA Seminars
English Writing
- 2010 Fiction Workshop
- 2080 Graduate Playwriting
- 2092 Writer’s Journals
- 2094 Readings in Contemporary Fiction
- 2095 Topics in Fiction
- 2210 Poetry Workshop
- 2290 Readings in Contemporary Poetry
- 2291 Underground and Avant-Garde
- 2292 Contemporary Poetry in Translation
- 2293 Topics in Poetry
- 2310 Nonfiction Workshop
- 2390 Readings in Contemporary Nonfiction
- 2392 Documentary Film Writing
- 2400 Topics in Nonfiction: Magazine
- 2401 Topics in Nonfiction: Electronic Media
- 2402 Topics in Nonfiction: Newspaper
- 2403 Structure/Techniques of Creative Nonfiction
- 2501 Topics in Creative Writing
- 2900 Manuscript Writing for the MFA
