The lives of peoples from the English-speaking Caribbean are extensively explored in dramatic works, films, music, art, novels and stories produced in...
This course introduces students to literary and cultural works by women writers across the globe. Students will read and discuss narratives by writers...
The first half of the twentieth century can be characterized as a period that defined itself in reaction to the past. Across the Western world,...
The second half of the twentieth century is characterized as Postmodernist in that the self-reflexive literature and culture of the period are both an...
This course introduces students to a variety of Asian literatures and cultures. Literature written by people of Asian descent in Asia, Canada, and...
Often described as the "Age of Revolutions," the first half of the nineteenth century is characterized by revolutionary new ways of understanding the...
Modernism, the neogothic, the Decadent Movement, cinema, the telephone, the typewriter, sexology, psychology - the second half of the nineteenth...
How does a national literature reflect on its people? Works studied in this course may include various genres from colonial to contemporary times....
Students will learn to recognize and identify different conventions defining genres of popular literature such as romance and sensation; gothic and...
By exploring the ways images in photography, painting and film, as well as in literary and non-literary writing, are scripted and can be read as text,...
Shakespearean drama was an important medium for entertainment and for reflecting contemporary socio-political realities on stage. A mark of...
Aristotle describes rhetoric as a method of discovering the available means of persuasion in a situation. This course introduces students to the...
From the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century to the electronic publications of the digital age, books have been central to the...
"Criticism is as inevitable as breathing," T.S. Eliot declared. This course seeks to demonstrate that literary criticism is both vital to the life and...
English scholars use a variety of research methods, including archival, ethnographic, bibliographic, and digital. This course explores a range of...
Love it or hate it, television stands alone as a medium in its ability to influence the way we live and view the world. What is it about the immediacy...
The senior seminar provides students the opportunity to develop advanced English research, presentation and writing skills in a discussion-based...
This course provides individualized instruction in the selection of a topic, the planning and implementation of a research plan, and the writing of a...
This course brings students together for a project that combines literary theory with practice. Students showcase their own research in a public forum...
Introducing students to collaborative and seminar-based methods of theoretical study, this course builds on the program's backbone in literary and...