TR 10:00 - 11:50 am | CRN 12066 | Professor Ulrick Casimir | Students will learn about how literature from the Caribbean has been shaped by historical and cultural contexts, such as colonialism, slavery, and decolonization. The course will look at the intersection of cultural forms to consider how writing from the Caribbean has grown and shifted over the last hundred and fifty years.
TR 10:00 - 11:20 AM | CRN 15670 | Professor Kirby Brown | This course explores the multiple ways contemporary Indigenous women writers take up literary form as sites of subversion, resistance, refusal, recovery, and resurgence.
TR 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm | CRN 12061 | Instructor: Katy Brundan | How did women write novels in the nineteenth century while under the suffocating shadow of the Angel of the House? How did they harness Gothic tropes to express “heretic” thoughts? What happened when they wrote sensational novels about murderous women or realistic novels about falling in love?
ASYNC WEB (7/18 - 8/14) | CRN 41845 | Professor Anna Carroll | From the battlefields of classical epics to the stages of slam poets, from the Japanese haiku to the Italian sonnet, from Shakespeare to Kendrick Lamar, this class will give students an overview of enduring poems and fresh approaches to lyricism and style.
ASYNC WEB 6/21 - 7/17 | CRN 42283 | Professor Eleanor Wakefield | What is a story, and what roles do stories play, for us as individuals and for our culture? What validates a particular interpretation of a literary text, and how do various interpretations contribute to our understanding of a story’s meaning? What is the relationship between the story being told and the language through which we read it?
ASYNC WEB (6/21 - 7/17) | CRN 42281 | Instructor: José Cortez | This course will introduce students to the genre of testimonial literary discourse, or testimonio: an authentic narrative, told by a witness who is moved to narrate by the urgency of a situation (e.g., war, oppression, revolution, etc.).
The choice to become an English major felt, for me, at once inevitable and daunting. Literature has always been my
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ASYNC WEB (7/18 - 8/14) | CRN 41837 | Professor Katherine Kelp-Stebbins | By reading a range of comic-art forms, we will investigate the medium’s complex interplay of word and image as well as the role of cultural factors in the publication history of comics.
