Category: Literary and Cultural Studies
Instructor: Boutelle T 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (1993) fundamentally changed the way we think about African American literature. Whereas…
Instructor: Huh R 2:00 PM – 4:50 PM The term “ambivalence” was coined in the early 20th century to describe a psychological disorder descriptive of individuals who confront…
Instructor: Cole ASYNC Disability Studies began as an academic field in the latter 20th century in response to activist challenges to legal and social limitations imposed on people…
Instructor: Boutelle TR 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM In this survey of U.S. Ethnic Literature, we’ll be reading contemporary novels and autobiographies from racialized immigrants, migrants, and natural-born…
Instructor: Weissman R 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM This course provides an introduction to the many literary and critical theories that have shaped central and contemporary conversations about…
Instructor: Andersen | MWF 2:30 PM – 3:25 PM In 1841, New Yorkers eagerly lined the docks, waiting for the final chapters of Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity…
Instructor: HennesseyMWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud argues that “Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be…
001 Instructor: Andersen MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM002 Instructor: Hogeland TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM This course explores ways of experiencing, analyzing, and making sense of…
Instructor: Andersen MWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM Nineteenth-century melodrama combined music, spectacle, intense emotions, and sweeping gestures to stage sensational stories that pit ordinary heroes against powerful villains. Due…
Instructor: Savannah TR 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM This course explores the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker and their contributions to Black women’s literary traditions….
Instructor: Leech MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles in the study of linguistics. Students will study the…
Instructor: Schiff TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM A seminar focused on depictions of contemporary America in novels, short stories, and films. We will likely read fiction by…
Instructor: HuhTR 12:30 1:50 PM While we often discuss literature in terms of appreciation (e.g. “I hate that book!” or “That’s my favorite novel!”), the analysis of literature…
Instructor: Carlson TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Writing, Picturing, and the Shock of the New The best writers reimagine the world we think we know; they help…
Instructor: Hennessey MWF 12:20PM-1:15PM In 1977, the film Star Wars (subtitled as A New Hope) changed the film industry and the structure of film narrative. Before Star Wars,…
Instructor: Hennessey MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM This course is a comparative study of literature from Africa, the Americas, Asia as well as Europe. The class will…
Instructor: Heller TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM In this course we will read the Harry Potter novels to examine their major themes and to explore why the…
Instructor: OziasTR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM Learning Community This course surveys the second half of the American literature, from 1900 to the present, emphasizing major literary figures,…
Instructor: Reutter ASYNC As individuals, members of communities, and citizens of nations and the world, our health and well-being depend on personal, social, financial, and cultural situations; medical…
Instructor: Leech | MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM Centuries after his death, Shakespeare is still studied, performed, filmed, and adapted by artists all over the world. Shakespeare’s…