Category: Literary and Cultural Studies
Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Caplan WF 11:00AM-12:20PM Jews and Race will look at the historical and aesthetic role of Jewish identity in American discourses about race and ethnicity. It…
Instructor: Alexis Morrisroe TR 11:00AM – 12:20PM This class explores how Holocaust education and the way we remember and memorialize the Holocaust and contemporary genocide has changed and…
Instructor: Carlson R 2:00 PM – 4:50 PM For the last two centuries, poets have ranged their discourse against the ideologies of industrial capitalism that drive the Anthropocene. Today’s…
Instructor: Glaser M 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM Disability and Lit will focus on disability and illness in literature and culture (with a primary focus on literature of the…
Instructor: Heller TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Vampires, ghosts, detectives, and double lives: in this class, we’ll explore how nineteenth-century Gothic texts dramatize the fears and transgressions…
Instructor: Reutter TR 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Disability Studies began as an academic field in the latter 20th century in response to activist challenges to legal and…
001 Instructor: Andersen MWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM002 Instructor: Hogeland TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM003 Instructor: Andersen MWF 1:25PM- 2:20PM This course explores ways of experiencing,…
Instructor: CarlsonTR 11:00 AM 12:20 PM How did “nature” and “ecology” get imagined into being? How can we reimagine them today? What is the role of cultural texts…
Instructor: Ozias MWF 1:25 PM 2:20 PM In this course, students will explore World Literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read the likes of Sui Sin…
Instructor: Dorsten MWF 2:30 PM – 3:25 PM How much do we really know about the mind and mental illness? We think we know what madness means, but…
Instructor: Hennessey TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM How better to encounter literature than through a series of absorbing, moving, and thought-provoking books, experienced and analyzed in discussion…
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: Weissman TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM This survey of contemporary critical theory is an introduction to major schools of thought that have shaped the study of literature…
Instructor: Andersen MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM This course will introduce students to works in English Literature from the Old English Period to 1789, focusing on the…
Instructor: Reutter | TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM National news has buzzed with health and wellness-related debates on issues including widespread opioid abuse, pharmaceutical price-fixing, healthcare disparities,…
Instructor: Bullins MWF 11:15 AM – 12:10 PM Stephen King is a giant in American literary fiction. His novels have sold over 350 million copies, he has written…
Instructor: Heller | TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Just as musicals include both ensemble numbers and solos, the genre tells stories of both communities and individuals. In fact,…
Instructor: Ozias MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM In this course, students will examine major works and ideas in American literature from 1776-1865. Centered on themes reimagined by…
Instructor: Reutter TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM As individuals, members of communities, and citizens of nations and the world, our health and well-being depend on personal, social,…
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…