The English Department's main office is in Muenzinger D110.

Spring 2020 Graduate Courses

 
A PDF version of the Spring 2020 English courses schedule can be found here.

 

 

Content List: Graduate Literature Courses

ENGL 5023: Intermediate Old English II - Beowulf

Beowulf is much stranger, sadder, and more timely than you think. Experience the poem in its original language, using the skills built in Introduction to Old English (Engl 4003/5003)! Students will produce daily translations, and seminar-style class discussions will involve both linguistic and literary aspects of this enigmatic poem. Reading List: Beowulf Taught by Dr. Tiffany Beechy. MA Designation: Elective

ENGL 5029: British Literature and Culture Before 1800 - Lyric and Legal Personhood in the English Renaissance (Spring 2020)

John Milton is among the most important and gifted poets to have written in the English language.  His poetry (and prose) are centrally occupied with questions about the nature of personhood and about the claims, obligations towards, and risks associated with collective life.  Milton’s efforts to understand what it means to be a person and what it means to live a life engaged with other persons in acts of collective governance are advanced in relation to the social struggles leading up to the English Civil ...

ENGL 5059: British Literature and Culture After 1800 (Spring 2020)

Introduces graduate level study of Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern writing. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background and secondary criticism. Cultivates research skills necessary for advanced graduate study. Topics will vary.  Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.  Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information: Departmental Category: Gra...

ENGL 5169: Multicultural/Postcolonial Studies - LatinX Undocumentality (Spring 2020)

This course has two goals—to introduce you to Mexican and LatinX cultural forms and theory, mostly literary, from the 18th to the 21st century. The second is to explore theories of documentality, necropolitics and spectrality, in order to explore how Mexicans have engaged and been constituted by discourses of what I am calling “un/documentality.” By exploring the necropoetics of “un/documentality,” we will engage how “acts” across historical, political and aesthetic boundaries constitute and reveal “traces”...

ENGL 5459: Introduction to the Profession (Spring 2020)

What does it mean to undertake graduate studies in English in 2019? The objective of this seminar, which has both conceptual and applied components, is to give each student the opportunity to consider how their intellectual pursuits and professional plans fit into to the broader issues at the heart of the study of English and the humanities in the twenty-first century and how these, in turn, inform their individual academic goals. We shall draw on and select together a wide range of sources—scholarly public...

ENGL 5529: Studies in Special Topics - Teaching English (Spring 2020)

Studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. Topics vary each semester.  Taught by Dr. Mary Klages. Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: IAWP 6100  Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours.  Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information: Departmental Category: Graduate Courses MA Designation: Required for 1st Year...

Content List: Graduate Creative Writing Courses

ENGL 5229: Poetry Workshop (Spring 2020)

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate poetry and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's approval of an application manuscript.  Taught by Khadijah Queen. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours.  Requisites: Restricted to English Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information: Departmental Category: Graduate Courses  

ENGL 5239: Fiction Workshop (Spring 2020)

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate fiction and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Enrollment requires admission to the Creative Writing Graduate Program or the instructor's approval of an application manuscript.  Taught by Marcia Douglas. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours.  Requisites: Restricted to English Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only. Additional Information: Departmental Category: Graduate Courses

ENGL 5559: Studies in Special Topics (CRW) - Philosophy, Literature, and Death (Spring 2020)

Simon Critchley, in his book The Book of Dead Philosophers, argues that thinking about death is fundamental to our being human: "To philosophize, then, is to learn how to have death in your mouth," But how do we acquire “death in our mouths”? How do we think death? And what does this thinking have to do with literature, with reading and writing? This course will examine these questions. Reading List:  Being and Time — Martin Heidegger Introduction to a Reading of Hegel — Alexandre Kojève The Station H...

Upcoming Courses

Graduate Level