215 courses with the subject ENG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
An opportunity to experience and reflect analytically in writing on the diverse cultural and intellectual life at Wake Forest, with an emphasis on literary studies, rhetorical studies, and creative writing events and topics. Pass/fail only. May not be repeated.
Introduction to ways literary artists shape experience, focusing on one topic or selected topics; primarily discussion; writing intensive. (D)
Emphasis on important writers representing different periods and genres; primarily discussion; writing intensive. (D)
Emphasis on important writers representing different periods and genres; primarily discussion; writing intensive. (D) Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 173
Emphasis on important writers representing different periods and genres; primarily discussion; writing intensive. (D)
Emphasis on poetry, fiction, or drama; primarily discussion; writing intensive. (D)
Gateway course for the major. Significant works from the British literary tradition before 1800 and introduction to key ideas in literary interpretation. Required for all majors. (D)
or ENG 275 American Literature
Gateway course for the major. Significant works from the American literary tradition. Either ENG 275 or ENG 266 required for all majors. (D)
Select at least one 200-300 level writing or creative writing course Select at least one 200-300 level course matching the following criteria: Pre-1800 Literature
Semester-length practical experience in literary publishing while working at WFU Press, the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America. Interns learn aspects of editorial review, production, proofreading, marketing, and promotion. Students must submit a formal application through WFU Press before registering (wfupress.wfu.edu). Pass/Fail. Does not count toward the English Major or Minor. May be repeated once for credit.
Independent study with faculty guidance. Granted upon departmental approval of petition presented by a qualified student. May be repeated once for credit.
Study of selected work from an important American or British author. May be repeated once for credit. (D)
Study of a significant literary theme in selected works. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. (D)
A survey of the development of English syntax, morphology, and phonology from Old English to the present, with attention to vocabulary growth.
An introduction to the Old English language and a study of the historical and cultural background of Old English literature, including Anglo-Saxon and Viking art, runes, and Scandinavian mythology. Readings from Beowulf and selected poems and prose. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Study of Old English prose and poetry in the original language, with a focus on translation and interpretation. Texts may include riddles, epic poetry (including Beowulf), charms, saints' lives, laws, and philosophical texts. Students will build on the language skills acquired in ENG 305, or in previous independent study. Fulfills pre-1800 literature requirement. P- ENG 305 or prerequisite override required. (D)
A linguistics approach to grammar study. Includes a critical exploration of issues such as grammatical change and variation, the origins and effects of grammar prescriptions/proscriptions, the place of grammar instruction in education, and the politics of language authority. Also listed as LIN 309.
Examines the literature and culture of medieval Europe, emphasizing global connections with other literatures of the period including North African, Syriac, Welsh, Old Irish, Latin, French, German, Italian or Norse traditions. All texts will be taught in modern translation or Middle English. Fulfills pre-1800 literature requirement. (CD - Depending on topic covered.) (D)
The origin and development of the Arthurian legend in France and England, with emphasis on the works of Chretien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
The origin and development of poetic genres and lyric forms of medieval vernacular poetry. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Interdisciplinary investigation of poetry and song in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Study of the evolution of poetic and musical genres and styles, both sacred and secular. Students must complete a project or projects on the technical or theoretical aspects of early song. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, with some attention to minor poems. Consideration of literary, social, religious, and philosophical background. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
British drama from its beginning to 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare. Representative cycle plays, moralities, Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. Also listed as THE 320.
Several representative works illustrating Shakespeare's development as a poet and dramatist. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. Also listed as THE 323.
Concentration on the poetry of Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Wyatt, and Drayton, with particular attention to sonnets and The Faerie Queene. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Selected topics in Renaissance literature. Consideration of texts and their cultural background. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. May be repeated once for credit pending approval of instructor. (D)
The poetry and selected prose of John Milton, with emphasis on Paradise Lost. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvel, Crashaw; prose of Bacon, Burton, Browne, Walton. Consideration of religious, political, and scientific backgrounds.
Representative poetry and prose, exclusive of the novel, 1660-1800, drawn from Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Wollstonecraft. Consideration of cultural backgrounds and significant literary trends. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
An intensive study of the works of British novelist Jane Austen, and her cultural contexts.
Primarily the fiction of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
British drama from 1660 to 1780, including representative plays by Dryden, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. Also listed as THE 336.
Selected topics in 18th-century literature. Consideration of texts and their cultural background. Fulfills pre-1800 British literature requirement. (D)
Thematic and/or theoretical approaches to the study of gender in literature. (D)
Thematic and/or theoretical approaches to the study of sexuality in literature. (D)
Women writers in society. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. (D)
Studies of the relationship between environmental experience and literary representation. (D)
Selected topics in poetry. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. (D)
Selected topics in fiction. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. (D)
Selected topics in drama. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. (D)
(3 h) Explores the works of major playwrights of England and Europe from 1875 to the present. May also include contemporary production of classic plays. Emphasizes plays currently being presented in London theatres. Offered in London. (D)
A review of the beginnings of Romanticism in British literature, followed by study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley; collateral reading in the prose of the period. (D)
Selected topics in European and/or American Romanticism with a focus on comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical approaches to literature. (D)
A study of the novel and other forms of fiction by British authors in the 19th century. Focus varies by semester. (D)
A study of significant British poets of the 19th century and their experiments with form and collaboration. Attention to recurring themes running through the poems and to current theoretical and critical topics in the field. (D)
Readings include significant works by authors from the Caribbean and authors writing about the Caribbean. Critical, historical, and cultural approaches are emphasized. All texts are in English. (CD, D)
Writings by Americans of Mexican descent in relation to politics and history. Readings in literature, literary criticism, and socio-cultural analysis. Fulfills the American literature requirement. Also listed as
A survey of representative examples of postcolonial literature from geographically diverse writers, emphasizing issues of politics, nationalism, gender and class. (CD, D)
Examination of themes and issues in post-colonial literature, such as: globalization, postcolonialism and hybridity, feminism, nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, the impact of the Cold War, and race and class. (CD
Selected topics, such as development of genres, major authors and texts, and cultural influences. Readings in poetry, fiction, autobiography, and other prose. (D)
Literature of and about science. Topics will vary and may include literature and medicine, the two culture debate, poetry and science, nature in literature, the body in literature. (D)
A study of modern Irish literature from the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance to contemporary writers. Course consists of overviews of the period as well as specific considerations of genre and of individual writers. (D)
Selected issues in Modernism. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical approaches to works and authors. (D)
Consideration of certain figures and schools of thought significant in the history of literary criticism. Builds on ENG 290 Foundations in Literary
A study of Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, and later British writers, with attention to their social and intellectual backgrounds. (D)
The major works by James Joyce, with an emphasis on Ulysses. (D)
A study of modern and contemporary poets of the English language, exclusive of the United States poets, are read in relation to the literary and social history of the period. (D)
The development of Irish literature from the 18th century through the early 20th century in historical perspective, with attention to issues of linguistic and national identity. (D) Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 175
Main currents in modern drama from 19th-century realism and naturalism through symbolism and expressionism. After an introduction to European precursors, focus is on representative plays by Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Yeats, O'Neill, Eliot, Hellman, Wilder, Williams, Hansberry, and Miller. (D)
Origins and development of American literature and thought in representative writings of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal periods. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Introduction to the diverse field of literature about race and racial formation as experienced by African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Chicana/o, Latinx, and Native American writers. The course introduces key genealogies of thought in critical race theory, intersectionality, diaspora, identity, alienation, assimilation, multiculturalism, stereotyping, systemic racism, and social justice. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (CD, D)
Writers of the mid-19th century, including Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
, Selected topics in the relationship between literature and film, such as film adaptations of literary works, the study of narrative, and the development of literary and cinematic genres. (D)
Novels and short fiction by such writers as Brown, Cooper, Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Davis. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
A historical overview of drama in the United States, covering such playwrights as Boucicault, Mowatt, O'Neill, Glaspell, Wilder, Williams, Miller, Hansberry, Albee, Shepard, Norman, Hwang, Vogel, Mamet, and Wilson. Also listed as THE 375.
Readings and critical analysis of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century, including Bradstreet, Emerson, Longfellow, Melville, and Poe, with particular emphasis on Whitman and Dickinson. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Survey of writings on Jewish topics or experiences by American Jewish writers. Explores cultural and generational conflicts, responses to social change, the impact of the Shoah (Holocaust) on American Jews, and the challenges of language and form posed by Jewish and non-Jewish artistic traditions. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (CD, D)
Study of Southern literature from its beginnings to the present, with emphasis upon such major writers as Tate, Warren, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, and Styron. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Reading and critical analysis of autobiographical texts in which the ideas, style, and point of view of the writer are examined to demonstrate how these works contribute to an understanding of pluralism in American culture. Representative authors may include Hurston, Wright, Kingston, Angelou, Wideman, Sarton, Chuang Hua, Crews, and Dillard. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Study of such writers as Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Reading and critical analysis of selected fiction, poetry, drama, and other writings by American authors of African descent. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (CD, D)
Includes such writers as Stein, Lewis, Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Wolfe, Wright, Ellison, Agee, Flannery O'Connor, and Pynchon. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Select topics in LGBTQ2S+ history, literatures, and culture. Subjects may include historical and present-day constructions of sexuality as well as recent and ongoing debates about gender, sexuality, health, embodiment, race, politics, power.
Examines the roles of digital media and technologies in structuring the knowledge and experience of literary works with topics in social media writing, video game narratives, immersive fictions, digital humanities, the role of generative AI, and more.
Readings of modern and contemporary American poetry in relation to the literary and social history of the period. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
A tutorial in an area of study not otherwise provided by the department; granted upon departmental approval of petition presented by a qualified student. May be repeated once for credit.
Selected topics in the development of fiction by American writers of African descent. Fulfills the American literature requirement. Also listed as AES 387. (CD, D)
A conference course centering upon a special reading requirement and a thesis requirement. For senior students wishing to graduate with "Honors in English."
Readings of works by American poets of African descent in theoretical, critical, and historical contexts. Fulfills the American literature requirement. Also listed as AES 389. (CD, D)
An introduction to the principles and techniques of modern linguistics applied to contemporary American English. Also listed as LIN 390.
Interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical approaches to works and authors.
World literatures in English from the 19th through the 21st Centuries with special attention paid to global legacies of colonialism, global Black studies, Indigenous studies, studies of migration and diaspora, environmental criticism, global capitalism, and more. (SWC)
Examines the dramatic works of playwrights from various racial and ethnic communities such as Asian American, Native American, African American, and Latino. The course will include consideration of issues, themes, style, and form. Also listed as ENG 393. (CD)
The course will consider varieties of form and substance in plays and performance texts from Godot to the present. Readings will cover such playwrights as Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, Wertenbaker, Albee, Shepard, Fornes, Mamet, Wilson, Soyinka, Fugard, and Foreman. Also listed as THE 372.
A study of post-World War II American poetry and fiction. Fulfills the American literature requirement. (D)
Study of the British novel and short story, including works by Rushdie, Amis, Winterson and Ishiguro. (D)
Internship that involves both hands-on experience and academic study. Students will partner with a literature faculty member to integrate work in the community and engagement with his or her academic plan of study. P-Prerequisite override required.
A practicum course focused on career design and career planning, specific to career options in humanities fields. The course will broaden awareness of career opportunities available to English majors and minors. Pass-Fail Only. Cannot be repeated.
Examines a genre of popular fiction—mystery, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, YA, etc.--with an emphasis on literary and cultural studies. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different genre.
Study of selected work from an important American or British author. May be repeated once for credit.
Study of a significant literary theme in selected works. May be repeated s when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic. 9 ENG 604. History of the English Language. (3 h) 9 Survey of the development of English syntax, morphology, and phonology 3 from Old English to the present, with attention to vocabulary growth.
Survey of the development of English syntax, morphology, and phonology from Old English to the present, with attention to vocabulary growth.
Introduction to the Old English language and a study of the historical and cultural background of Old English literature, including Anglo-Saxon and Viking art, runes, and Scandinavian mythology. Readings from Beowulf and selected poems and prose.
This course offers an intensive study of the poem, with emphasis on language, translation skills and critical contexts.
A linguistics approach to grammar study. Includes a critical exploration of issues such as grammatical change and variation, the origins and effects of grammar prescriptions/proscriptions, the place of grammar instruction in education, and the politics of language authority.
Examines theological, philosophical and cultural assumptions of the Middle Ages through the reading of primary texts. Topics include Christian providential history, drama, devotional literature, the Franciscan controversy, domestic life and Arthurian romance.
The origin and development of the Arthurian legend in France and England with emphasis on the works of Chretien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory.
The origin and development of poetic genres and lyric forms of medieval vernacular poetry.
Interdisciplinary investigation of poetry and song in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Study of the evolution of poetic and musical genres and styles, both sacred and secular. Students must complete a project or projects on the technical or theoretical aspects of early song.
Emphasis on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, with some attention to minor poems. Consideration of literary, social, religious, and philosophical background.
British drama from its beginnings to 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare. Representative cycle plays, moralities, Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies.
Thirteen representative plays illustrating Shakespeare’s development as a poet and dramatist.
Concentration on the poetry of Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Wyatt, and Drayton, with particular attention to sonnets and The Faerie Queene.
Selected topics in Renaissance literature. Consideration of texts and their cultural background. May be repeated once for credit pending approval of instructor.
The poetry and selected prose of John Milton with emphasis on Paradise Lost.
Poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvel, Crashaw, prose of Bacon, Burton, Browne, Walton. Consideration of religious, political, and scientific backgrounds.
Representative poetry and prose, exclusive of the novel, drawn from Addison, Steele, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell. Consideration of cultural backgrounds and significant literary trends.
An intensive study of the works of the British novelist Jane Austen, and her cultural contexts.
Primarily the fiction of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, and Austen.
British drama from 1660 to 1780, including representative plays by Dryden, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.
Selected topics in 18th-century literature. Consideration of texts and their cultural background.
Thematic and/or theoretical approaches to the study of gender in literature.
Thematic and/or theoretical approaches to sexuality within literary studies.
Women writers in society. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic.
This course studies the relationship between environmental experience and literary representation.
Selected topics in poetry. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic.
Selected topics in fiction. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic.
Selected topics in drama. May be repeated when the course is taught by a different professor on a different topic.
Internship that involves both hands-on experience and academic study. Students will partner with a literature faculty member to integrate work in the community and engagement with his or her academic plan of study.
A practicum course focused on career design and career planning, specific to career options in humanities fields. The course will broaden awareness of career opportunities available to English graduate students. Pass-fail only. Cannot be repeated.
A review of the beginnings of Romanticism in British literature, followed by a study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley; collateral reading in the prose of the period.
Selected topics in European and/or American Romanticism with a focus on comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretical approaches to literature.
Representative major works by Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy, the Brontes, and others.
A study of the Brownings, Tennyson, Hopkins, and Arnold or another Victorian poet.
Readings include significant works by authors from the Caribbean and authors writing about the Caribbean. Critical, historical, and cultural approaches are emphasized. All texts are in English.
Writings by Americans of Mexican descent in relation to politics and history. Readings in literature. literary criticism, and socio-cultural analysis.
A survey of representative examples of postcolonial literature from geographically diverse writers, emphasizing issues of politics, nationalism, gender, and class.
Examination of themes and issues in postcolonial literature, such as: globalization, postcolonialism and hybridity, feminism, nationalism, ethnic and religious conflict, the impact of the Cold War, and race and class.
Selected topics such as development of genres, major authors and texts, cultural influences. Reading in poetry, fiction, autobiography, and other prose.
Literature of and about science. Topics vary and may include literature and medicine, the two-culture debate, poetry and science, nature in literature, the body in literature.
Study of modern Irish literature from the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance to contemporary writers. Course consists of overviews of the period as well as specific considerations of genre and of individual writers.
Selected issues in Modernism. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical approaches to works and authors.
Consideration of certain figures and schools of thought significant in the history of literary criticism.
A study of Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf and later British writers, with attention to their social and intellectual backgrounds.
The major works by Joyce, with an emphasis on Ulysses.
A study of 20th-century poets of the English language, exclusive of the U.S. Poets will be read in relation to the literary and social history of th period.
The development of Irish literature from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century in historical perspective, with attention to issues of linguistic and national identity.
Main currents in modern drama from 19th-century realism and naturalism through symbolism and expressionism. After an introduction to European precursors, the course focuses on representative plays by Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Yeats, O’Neill, Eliot, Hellman, Wilder, Williams, Hansberry, and Miller.
Origins and development of American literature and thought in representative writing of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal periods.
Introduction to the field of American Ethnic literature, with special emphasis on post World War II formations of ethnic culture: Asian American, Native American, African American, Latino, and Jewish American. The course highlights issues, themes, and stylistic innovations particular to each ethnic group and examines currents in the still developing American culture. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 397
Studies of Romanticism in American literature. Focus varies by topic and genre, to include such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Selected topics in the relationship between literature and film, such as adaptations of literary works, the study of narrative, and the development of literary and cinematic genres.
Novels and short fiction by such writiers as Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Wahington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Rebecca Harding Davis.
An historical overview of drama in America, covering such playwrights as Boucicault, O’Neill, Hellman, Wilder, Williams, Inge, Miller, Hansberry, Albee, Shepard, Norman, Mamet, and Wilson.
Readings and critical analysis of American poetry from its beginnings, including Bradstreet, Emerson, Longfellow, Melville, and Poe, with particular emphasis on Whitman and Dickinson.
Survey of writings on Jewish topics or experiences by American Jewish writers. Explores cultural and generational conflicts, responses to social change, the impact of the Shoah (Holocaust) on American Jews, and the challenges of language and form posed by Jewish and non-Jewish artistic traditions.
Study of Southern literature from its beginnings to the present, with emphasis upon such major writers as Tate, Warren, Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, and Styron.
Reading and critical analysis of autobiographical texts in which the ideas, style, and point of view of the writer are examined to demonstrate how these works contribute to an understanding of pluralism in American e culture. Representative authors include Douglass, Brent, Hurston, Wright, Kingston, Angelou, Wideman, Sarton, Hellman, and Dillard.
Study of such writers as Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather.
Reading and critical analysis of selected fiction, poetry, drama, and other writings by American authors of African descent. May be repeated once for credit if topic varies.
Includes such writers as Cather, Lewis, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Wolfe, Baldwin, Ellison, Agee, O'Connor, Styron, Percy, and Pynchon.
Readings of modern American poetry in relation to the literary and social history of the period.
A tutorial in an area of study not otherwise provided by the department; granted upon departmental approval of petition presented by a qualified student.
Selected topics in the development of fiction by American writers of African descent. May be repeated once for credit if topic varies.
Readings of works by American poets of African descent in theoretical, critical, and historical contexts.
Introduction to the principles and techniques of modern linguistics applied to contemporary American English.
Interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical approaches to works and authors.
Examines the dramatic works of playwrights from various racial and ethnic communities such as Asian American, African American, and Latino. Includes consideration of issues, themes, style and form.
Considers experiments in form and substance in plays from Godot to the present. Readings cover such playwrights as Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, Wertenbaker, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, Wilson, Soyinka, and Fugard.
Study of post-World War II American poetry and fiction by such writers as Bellow, Gass, Barth, Pynchon, Morrison, Ashbery, Ammons, Bishop, and Rich.
Study of the British novel and short story, with particular focus on the multicultural aspects of British life, including works by Rushdie, Amis, Winterson, and Ishiguro.
An internship for the observation and practice of undergraduate pedagogy, placing an MA student into a core literature, writing, or creative writing course taught by a permanent faculty member, typically in the first semester of the student’s second year. Arranged by permission or invitation of the supervising faculty member. Must be taken as an overload in addition to the coursework for the degree. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 3 hours.
Study of selected works from an important American, English, or Global Anglophone author.
Study of a significant literary theme in selected works. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
This graduate seminar offers an introduction to the field of Composition Studies (also known as Composition-Rhetoric). Students examine the field's historical perspectives, research traditions, guiding theories and constructs, classroom practices, and approaches to writing assessment.
In this graduate seminar, students explore major issues and perspectives in rhetorical theory, including histories of rhetoric, elements of rhetorica criticism, and methods of rhetorical analysis. May be repeated once.
In this graduate seminar, students examine significant writing theories and practices focused on one area of study within the international field of Writing Studies. May be repeated once.
This graduate workshop is meant to improve and consolidate prose-writing skills and expand artistic ambitions, preparing students for further study (an MFA or PhD program) or a career in writing, editing, or teaching. May be repeated once.
This graduate workshop is meant to improve and consolidate poetry-writing skills and expand artistic ambitions, preparing students for further study (an MFA or PhD program) or a career in writing, editing, or teaching. May be repeated once.
This graduate workshop is meant to develop students' creative writing skills in one or more genres in the context of a particular topic, as well as to expand artistic ambitions and prepare students for further study (an MFA or PhD program) or a career in writing, editing, or teaching. May be repeated once.
A variety of forms of early medieval narrative (history, saga, chronicle, poetry, hagiography), with a focus on issues of genre and narrative form, connections between story and history, and the text's relation to the culture that produced it. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary viewpoints (artistic, archaeological, geographic), and on contemporary narrative theory.
Emphasis is on the origin and developments of the Arthurian legend in England and France, with primary focus on Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Attention to social and intellectual backgrounds.
A diverse corpus of medieval poetry, both lyric and narrative, is explored in an effort to trace the origin and evolution of the idea and meaning of “romance,” a term signifying, for the medieval audience, narrative poetry in the vernacular, and, for our purposes, that uniquely new concept of ennobling love that emerged in the 12th century.
Emphasis on selected Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the longer minor works, with attention to social, critical, and intellectual background. Lectures, reports, discussions, and a critical paper.
Using an historical approach, this seminar examines the relationship between the theater as an institution and centers of authority during the Tudor and Stuart periods. The plays—tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies—are approached as the products of a dynamic exchange between individual authors and the larger political and social concerns of the period.
Emphasis on The Faerie Queene; attention to the minor works; intellectual and critical background. Lectures, discussions, and class papers.
Introduction to critical and scholarly methodology for the study of the literature; particular emphasis on Spenser's Faerie Queene and Sidney's l Arcadia.
Representative text from all genres, examined in light of critical methodologies in the field of Shakespeare studies. Emphasis is on reading primary sources as well as on discussion of the impact that historical, cultural, and religious developments had on Shakespeare, the theater, and the thematics of his plays.
Non-dramatic literature of the 17th century, exclusive of Milton. Emphasis on selected major writers. Lectures, discussions, and presentation of studies by members of the class.
Milton. (3 h) The work of John Milton, primarily Paradise Lost, within its cultural environment. Some attention to connections between Milton's writings and that of his contemporaries.
Introduction to Early Modern literature, spanning a variety of genres, periods, and regions and including historical contexts, critical methodologies, and secondary criticism in Early Modern studies.
A study of two major British novelists of the 18th century. Lectures, reports, critical papers. Authors for study chosen from the following: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, and Austen.
Literature. (3 h) Selected topics in Restoration and 18th-century literature. Consideration of texts and their cultural background.
An examination of selected writers and/or theoretical questions focusing on issues of gender.
Thematic and/or theoretical approaches to sexuality within literary studies.
Study of one or more major British novelists of the 19th century. Lectures, reports, discussions, and a critical paper. Authors for study chosen from the following: Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Hardy.
Study of several British poets chosen from the major Romantics, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, and Yeats.
Examination of major writers, topics, and/or theoretical issues from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Studies of the poetry and poetic theory of three major American writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Writers chosen from the following: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, or Williams. Discussions, reports, and a critical paper.
Theoretical issues and themes in 20th-century poetry.
Examination of themes and issues in postcolonial literature and/or theory, such as: globalization, identity and hybridity, feminism, nationalism ethnic and religious conflict, the impact of neo-imperialism and economic policy, and race and class.
Selected topics such as development of genres, major authors and texts, and cultural influences of Victorian Literature. Readings in poetry, fiction and autobiography, and other prose. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 399
ENG 763 Studies in Modernism This course will examine elected issues in Modernism, from interdisiplinary, comparative, and theoretical approaches.
Review of historically significant problems in literary criticism, followed by study of the principal schools of 20th-century critical thought. Lectures, reports, discussions, and a paper of criticism.
Examination of major writers, topics, and/or theoretical issues in 20th- century British literature. In addition to fiction, the course focuses on drama, theory, prose readings, and poetry.
Study of one or more of the major British novelists of the 20th century. Authors chosen from among the following: Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, or Woolf.
Study of major themes, theories, individual authors, or periods, which might include discussions of mythology, folklore, landscape, poetics, narrative strategies, gender, and politics.
Introduction to studies in American literatures, spanning a variety of genres, periods, and regions (U.S., Black Atlantic, Caribbean, Central American, South American, and hemispheric literatures), including historical contexts, critical methodologies, and secondary criticism in the field.
Examination of how ethnic writers narrate cultural histories and respond to and represent the ambiguity of cultural location. Literary topics include slavery, exile, the Holocaust, immigration, assimilation, and versions of the American Dream.
Writers of the mid-19th century, including Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville.
A study of novels and short fiction by such writers as Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Rebecca Harding Davis.
Close reading and critical analysis of selected American poets, such as Bryant, Longfellow, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Using an historical and critical approach, this seminar examines autobiography as an activity which combines history, literary art, and self-revelation. Lectures, reports, discussions, a critical journal, a personal narrative, and a critical paper. Authors for study chosen from the following: Douglass, Brent, Hurston, Wright, Angelou, Crews, Dillard, Moody, Malcolm X, Kingston, Wideman, or Sarton.
Study of the principal fiction of one or more major American writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lectures, seminar reports, and a research paper. Authors for study chosen from the following: Twain, James, Howells, Adams, Crane, Dreiser, Wharton, or Cather.
Critical readings of selected works of major American writers of African descent within the contexts of the African-American and American literary and social traditions. Covers such genres as autobiography, fiction, drama, and poetry. Lectures, reports, discussions, and a critical paper.
Study of the principal fiction of one or more major American writers of the 20th century. Writers are chosen from the following: Cather, Lewis, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Wolfe, Baldwin, Ellison, Agee, O’Connor, Percy, or Pynchon.
Seminar devoted to the close study of some of the most important novels produced in the United States since World War II.
Seminar devoted to the close study of some of the most important poems written in America since World War II.
A tutorial in an area of study not otherwise provided by the department; granted upon departmental approval of petition presented by a qualified student.
Introduces students to the expectations and resources of graduate study in English. Emphasis on scholarly habits, research orientations, and building a community of peers.
Introduces students to the scholarly practices, research tools, and professional expectations of graduate study in English. Emphasis on reading and writing at the graduate level, thesis planning, and professional development.
Examination of theories of grammar and attitudes toward the English language reflected in the literature of selected periods.
May be repeated for credit. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
May be repeated for credit. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.
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