| ENGL 101-01 |
Literature and Food
Instructor: Siobhan Phillips
Course Description:
This course looks at how literary texts take on some key questions of food and culture, including the status of the body, the preservation and evolution of tradition, the effects and redress of hunger, the morality of pleasure, and the relationship of humans to the non-human world. We will consider a range of genres-fiction, poetry, memoir, essay, reportage-to understand how elements of artistic form alter potential answers to the questions thatfood presents.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 212 |
| ENGL 101-03 |
The American Comic Book
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-01. This course explores the history, aesthetics, and business aspects of the American comic book. Attention will also be given to the comic book's relationship with other media, such as animation and live-action film and television.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 220-01 |
Introduction to Literary Studies
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
In literary studies, we explore the work texts do in the world. This course examines several texts of different kinds (e.g., novel, poetry, film, comic book, play, etc.) to investigate how literary forms create meanings. It also puts texts in conversation with several of the critical theories and methodologies that shape the discipline of literary study today (e.g., Marxist theory, new historicism, formalism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, etc.). This course helps students frame interpretive questions and develop their own critical practice. Prerequisite: 101. This course is the prerequisite for 300-level work in English.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 410 |
| ENGL 220-02 |
Introduction to Literary Studies
Instructor: Jacob Sider Jost
Course Description:
In literary studies, we explore the work texts do in the world. This course examines several texts of different kinds (e.g., novel, poetry, film, comic book, play, etc.) to investigate how literary forms create meanings. It also puts texts in conversation with several of the critical theories and methodologies that shape the discipline of literary study today (e.g., Marxist theory, new historicism, formalism, gender theory, postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, etc.). This course helps students frame interpretive questions and develop their own critical practice. Prerequisite: 101. This course is the prerequisite for 300-level work in English.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
EASTC 303 |
| ENGL 321-02 |
American Renaissance, 1820-1865
Instructor: Caleb Murray, Jacob Sider Jost
Course Description:
In this survey of the American Renaissance we will consider dominant aesthetic, political, and intellectual trends of the period. The American Renaissance saw an explosion of creativity and national optimism that paralleled the US's economic and political expansion. But the American Renaissance also engendered poetic, literary, and philosophical critique, as writers explored the shadow side of Americas domestic growing pains and global ascendency. Theoretical topics will include racial and gendered antagonisms and contradictions in 19th century American culture and literature; additionally, we will pay attention to the ways in which national politics and economy influenced the rise of a uniquely American literary voice. Course readings will draw from canonical heavyweights such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 331-01 |
Shakespeare and Tragedy
Instructor: Jacob Sider Jost
Course Description:
An exploration of tragedy through primary texts (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Racine, Cary, above all Shakespeare), canonical theories (Aristotle, Hegel, Frye) and recent critical discussions (Martha Nussbaum, Rowan Williams.)
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| ENGL 331-02 |
U.S. Poetry of the Modernist Era
Instructor: Siobhan Phillips
Course Description:
This course examines U.S. poetry of the first four decades of the twentieth century, focusing on how authors experimented with new forms and techniques of verse writing to engage with changing social and political conditions. Authors studied will include T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, and Muriel Rukeyser.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 304 |
| ENGL 351-01 |
Cybernetics
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 320-01. This course approaches cybernetics as a framework for thinking about how beings, machines, and environments respond to one another through shifting patterns of communication and control. We will explore how writers, filmmakers, and theorists have used cybernetic ideas to rethink knowledge, perception, ecology, and the shifting relations that join humans to the systems they inhabit. Moving from mid-century reflections on information and self-regulation to contemporary narratives that imagine automation, networks, adaptive environments, and ecological feedback, the class traces how cybernetic thought has opened new ways of understanding relation, agency, and interdependence. Texts may include fiction by E. M. Forster, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ted Chaing; theory by Norbert Wiener, Evelyn Fox Keller, and W. Ross Ashby; and films and television such as The Matrix Reloaded, Westworld, and Ghost in the Shell.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 301 |
| ENGL 403-01 |
Methods and Models of Literary Scholarship
Instructor: Sarah Kersh
Course Description:
Permission of instructor required. This class will prepare students for writing a senior thesis by exploring some central questions of literary scholarship. Our class will begin with various analyses of a single novel, using this focus to exemplify possibilities in framing and investigating a scholarly question. Meanwhile, students will pursue a series of independent projects that test different parts of the research process for other primary texts of their own choosing.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, R
EASTC 303 |
| ENGL 403-02 |
Methods and Models of Literary Scholarship
Instructor: Siobhan Phillips
Course Description:
Permission of instructor required. This class will prepare students for writing a senior thesis by exploring some central questions of literary scholarship. Our class will begin with various analyses of a single novel, using this focus to exemplify possibilities in framing and investigating a scholarly question. Meanwhile, students will pursue a series of independent projects that test different parts of the research process for other primary texts of their own choosing.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
EASTC 303 |