Category: Literary and Cultural Studies
Instructor: Heller | TuTh 2:00PM – 3:20PM This course surveys the rich diversity of literature of the Victorian age (1832-1901). Since this is the golden age of the…
Instructor: Weissman | WF 11:00 AM- 12:20 PM What is fascism, and how have literary works and films represented and responded to it? In this course we will…
Instructor: Carlson | Tu 3:30 PM – 6:20 PM For the last two centuries, poets have ranged their discourse against the ideologies of industrial capitalism that drive the…
Instructor: Reutter | TuTh 2:00 PM- 3:20 PM Disability studies began as an academic field in the latter 20th century in response to activist challenges to legal and…
Instructor: DiMaggio| Tues 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM This course provides a survey of poetic, fictional, political, autobiographical, and critical texts central to representations of pregnancy, reproduction, and…
Instructor: Luckett | TuTh Online SYNC 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Theatre in the US is always already in a state of crisis, as proclamations of theatre’s imminent…
Instructor: Carlson | TuTh 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM How did “nature” and “ecology” get imagined into being? How can we reimagine them today? What is the role…
Instructor: Das | WF 02:00 PM – 03:20 PM This class focuses on a contemporary selection of post-2000’s dystopian fiction from across the world, examining how it reimagines…
Instructor: Hennessey TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM Amazing Books is a relatively new course, but it’s quickly become a favorite of students and professors alike. I often…
Instructor: Leech MWF 12:20 PM – 01:15 PM This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles in the study of linguistics. Students will study the…
Instructor: Weissman | TuTh 02:00 PM – 03:20 PM This theory survey is an introduction to major schools of thought that have shaped the study of literary and…
Instructor: Anderson | MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM From taking selfies to writing dating profiles, narrating and presenting a self to the world is a part of…
Instructor: Reutter | TuTh 12:30PM – 1:50 PM National news has buzzed with health and wellness-related debates on issues including widespread opioid abuse, pharmaceutical price-fixing, healthcare disparities, family…
Instructor: LaPointe | WF 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm What counts as reality, and who gets to decide? In this course, we read speculative fiction that challenges how…
Instructor: Williams | TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM In this course, students will examine major works and ideas in American literature from 1776-1865. Beginning with The Declaration…
Instructor: TBD |Online Asynchronous This course will examine the relationships between medicine and literature. We will read, discuss, and interpret a wide variety of literature from different canonical…
Instructor: Leech | MWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM Centuries after his death, Shakespeare is still studied, performed, filmed, and adapted by artists all over the world. Shakespeare’s…