Department of English

Graduate Courses in Language and Literature

Semester I, 2007-2008

All courses carry four credits, unless otherwise noted.

Language and Linguistics

CAS EN 513 A1 Modern English Grammar

A systematic analysis of English, applied to the reading of literature and the writing of essays.

Pearce Tue, Thu 3:30-5

CAS EN 515 History of the English Language I

How do the experiences of young adults contribute to development of the English language? Examination of how, from early American English to current times, they learned and changed their native tongue at home, in schools, and neighborhoods.

Green Tue, Thu 8-9:30 

CAS EN 518 A1, B1 Linguistic Problems in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language

Application of linguistic concepts to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Includes description of contemporary English grammatical structures that pose problems for learners and teachers. Prereq: consent of instructor.

Saitz A1 Tue 4-7 Meets with EN 518 B1

Saitz B1 Tue 4-7 SED Students Only/Meets w/ EN 518 A1

Literature  

CAS EN 521 A1 Literature of the Middle Ages I

Heroic poetry in England , Iceland , France , and Germany ; the rise of romance; lyric poetry.

Levine Tue, Thu 2-3:30

CAS EN 528 A1 Literature of the Eighteenth Century II

The Age of Johnson. The great critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson dominated late eighteenth-century London intellectual life. Explores Johnson’s multi-faceted achievements and those of his principal colleagues – Boswell, Goldsmith, Reynolds, and Burney.

Redford Tue, Thu 9:30-11

CAS EN 529 A1 The Romantic Age I

Studies in British literature from 1789 to 1832. Romanticism considered in light of social, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical issues. Authors will include Blake, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Godwin.

Wagenknecht Tue, Thu 9:30-11 

CAS EN 531 A1 Victorian Literature I

1830-50: Carlyle, Mill, Tennyson, Browning, Ruskin, Newman, Charlotte Brontë and others

VanWinkle Tue, Thu 12:30-2

CAS EN 533 A1 American Literature: Beginnings to 1855

American literature from the beginning to the brink of the Civil War. Puritan origins, print culture, American poetic taste, entertainment, and the debate over slavery. Works by
Bradstreet, Jefferson, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Stowe, Jacobs, and Melville.

Otten Mon, Wed, Fri 12-1

CAS EN 535 A1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

Exploration of major poets of the long twentieth century from Thomas Hardy and W.B Yeats through the War Poets, Lawrence, Eliot, and Auden to Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland.

Riquelme Tue, Thu 2-3:30 

CAS EN 543 A1 The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

The development of the novel form in its social-historical context. Authors may include Austen, Thackeray, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and others.

Fogel Tue, Thu 9:30-11

CAS EN 545 A1 The Nineteenth-Century American Novel

From beginnings through the nineteenth century. Works by Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, and others.

WebReg Restricted Korobkin Mon, Wed, Fri 2-3

CAS EN 546 A1, B1 The Modern American Novel

From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others.

Mizruchi A1 Mon, Wed, Fri 10-11

Matthews B1 Mon 3-5, Wed 3-4

 CAS EN 547 A1 Contemporary American Fiction

Syllabus varies from semester to semester but this course may be taken only once for credit. Examination of a range of American fiction (stories, novellas, novels) written since WW II. Authors include Bellow, Roth, Ozick, Pynchon, DeLillo, Morrison. Topics include modern disenchantment, faith and science, “world-making,” and the fate of character. Chodat Tue, Thu 11-12:30

CAS EN 565 A1 Spenser

An extended study of The Faerie Queene, exploring Spenser's deep admiration for, and profound criticism of, Elizabeth's political and cultural regime.

Martin Tue, Thu 9:30-11

CAS EN 579 A1 Studies in American Writers: American Renaissance Poetry

Poetry by Whitman, Dickinson, Emerson, Poe, Melville, and others from 1820 to 1875.

WebReg Restricted Van Anglen Mon, Wed, Fri 3-4

 CAS EN 584 A1 Studies in Literature and Ethnicity: Literature of the Migrant

Primary focus on the experiences of immigration and exile, with reading also of fiction on other kinds of human migrations. Works by Willa Cather, O.E. Rölvaag, Nabokov, V.S. Naipaul, Shusaku Endo, and contemporary authors.

Ha Jin Wed 12-3

 CAS EN 587 A1 Literacy and African American Literature

Focuses on classical theme of literacy in African American literature, with an emphasis on stories of black physical and intellectual freedom, socio-cultural awareness, and political empowerment. Authors include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Audre Lorde.

Jarrett Tue, Thu, 2-3:30

 GRS EN 604 A1 Literary Criticism I

Survey of works forming a tradition in literary criticism and theory, from the classical period to the late nineteenth century, emphasizing such themes as the defense of literature and criticism; representation; interpretation; taste; aesthetics; and uses of the vernacular.

Patterson Mon, Wed, Fri 10-11 Meets w/ EN CAS 404

GRS EN 665 A1 Critical Studies in Literature and Society: Money and Marriage

Marriage as literary plot, legal contract, market commodity, gendered constraint in the American novel 1796-1913. Readings in law, economics, history, criticism. Authors include Veblen, Gilman, Foster, Southworth, Howells, Norris, Wharton, James.

Korobkin Mon, Wed, Fri 11-12 Meets w/ EN CAS 465

GRS EN 666 A1 Critical Studies in Literature and Society: Census and Anti-Census

The love-hate relationship between literature and demography in fiction, poetry, history, and visual art. Works by Defoe, Swift, Hume, Bruegel, Gogol, Frost, Atwood, Olson, Ariès, Foucault, others. “Unofficial” witty counts studied alongside official population history.

Fogel Tue, Thu 12:30-2 Meets w/ EN CAS 466

GRS EN 696 A1 Critical Studies in Literary Topics: Models of Mind in Theory and Literature

Examination of literary and scientific efforts to model human cognition and understanding. Philosophical readings on language, interpretation, and cognitive science are read alongside works by Woolf, Beckett, Ashbery, Powers, and others.

Chodat Tue, Thu 3:30-5:00 Meets w/ EN CAS 496

 GRS EN 699 A1 Teaching College English I

The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in English. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.

TBA Arranged

GRS EN 729 A1 Blake

Complete works, but emphasis on how to read them evolves in relation to evolution of contemporary literary theory. Milton a special concern vis-à-vis tradition, allusion, psychoanalysis.

Wagenknecht Thu 12-2:30

 GRS EN 766 A1 Milton

This course will explore the prose and poetry of John Milton in the context of both the seventeenth century and our current critical moment. Issues will include Milton 's god, gender, republicanism, genre, literary approaches to the English civil wars, and colonialism.

Murphy Thu 3:30-6:00

 GRS EN 773 A1 Pre-detection: Crime Narratives, 1760-1845

English, American, and French crime literature leading up to the emergence of the modern detective story, 1760-1845. Attention to models of narrative reconstruction and notions of evidence, induction, and investigation in emergent historical and criminological sciences.

Rzepka Mon 3-5:30

 GRS EN 781 A1 Native American Literature and the Canon

Examines how Native American cultures figured in the development of canonical literature in the U.S. and, in turn, how modernism influenced Native American poetry and prose. Readings by Emerson, Thoreau, Child, Longfellow, Whitman, Eliot, Moore, Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, and others.

Patterson Wed 12-2:30

 GRS EN 782 A1 Contemporary Novel

Genesis of the Contemporary American novel. Topics include ethnicity, urban apartheid, radical feminism, the new immigration, and religious fundamentalism. Emphasis on historical approaches to the novel, drawn from literature, history, anthropology, and religion.

Mizruchi Fri 12-2:30

GRS EN 785 A1 Queer Theory

Intensive study of various lesbian, gay, and queer theories, with consideration of how they emerged from gender studies. Readings include works by Barthes, Foucault, Sedgwick, Butler, Edelman, D.A. Miller, and Halberstam.

Monk Wed 5-7:30

GRS EN 792 A1 Introduction to Recent Critical Theory and Method

A selective study of recent literary theory and criticism, with emphasis on comparison of critical frameworks and methodologies. Fulfills the graduate requirement in literary theory.

Matthews Tue 3:30-6:00