Courses

• CAS EN 468: Critical Studies in British Literature
  Topic for Spring 2013: Humanism & Novel. Instead of following the history of the novel from the eighteenth century forward, this course looks backward, tracing the modern novel (Defoe, Haywood, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, and Austen) back to Renaissance and early modern Humanism and the Deist movement.
• CAS EN 471: Critical Studies in American Literary Movements
  Topic for Fall 2012: Modernity in the Atlantic World. An "Atlantic Studies" introduction focusing on the historical conditions that unite Britain and America in a single, though internally various, culture. Readings include Gilroy, Bailyn, Ellison, Roach, Defoe, Paine, Equiano, Douglass, Dickens, and James.
• CAS EN 474: Critical Studies in Literary Genres
  Topic for Spring 2013: TBA.
• CAS EN 475: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
  Topic for Fall 2011: Representing Gender in American Literature and Film. Gender representations in American literature, film, graphic novels--1950's through present. Emphasis on cultures of consumption, class and social mobility, critique of gender, and backlash. Works: Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, A Streetcar Named Desire, Diary of a Teenage Girl, Paris Is Burning.
• CAS EN 476: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
  Topic for Spring 2013: Queer Drama and Performance. How twentieth-century and contemporary theaters have shaped perceptions of sexuality. Plays by Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Tony Kushner, Henry David Hwang, and Taylor Mac, as well as gender theory, and the performativity of queer culture beyond traditional stages.
• CAS EN 478: Critical Studies in British Writers
  Topic for Fall 2010: Home and World. How do novelists and filmmakers imagine the home in relation to nation and world? How do they portray homelessness? Considers novelists from Defoe to contemporary authors like Sebald. Films include Reed's "The Third Man" and Ray's "The Stranger.?
• CAS EN 480: Critical Studies in American Writers
  Topic for Spring 2012: Pragmatism and Literature. Major American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Henry James, Crane, Du Bois, and Frost) read in relation to classical pragmatist philosophers such as William James, Peirce, Dewey, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• CAS EN 482: Critical Studies in Modern Literature
  Topic for Fall 2011: Poets on Poetry. Essays and other prose by early and late twentieth-century poets along with much close reading and some poetic theory. Stevens, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Pessoa, Moore, Crane, Williams, Mandelstam, Brodsky, Auden, Jarrell, Olson, O'Hara, Koch, Hughes, Howe, others.
• CAS EN 483: Critical Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
  Topic for Fall 2012: Narratives of Development. How do fictional and non-fictional works refract the conflicting stories people who live side by side tell about their pasts? Authors discussed include Achebe, Fanon, Armah, Naipaul, Kincaid, Vassanji, and Farah.
• CAS EN 485: Representing Gender in American Literature and Film
  Explores representations of gender in classic American literature and film. Treating such subjects as "rites of passage in cultures of consumption," "struggles for vocation among writers and filmmakers," this course considers gender as accessible only through particular histories. Students who took CAS EN 475 A1 for credit in Fall 2011 cannot take EN 485 A1 for credit in Fall 2012.
• CAS EN 486: Critical Studies in Anglophone Literature
  Topic for Fall 2010: Comparative Readings in Postcolonial Literature. Examines how postcolonial writers have explored the themes of historical upheaval and modernization. Focuses on the fictional and non-fictional works of V.S. Naipaul and compares them with works of Wole Soyinka, Jean Rhys, George Lamming, J.M. Coetzee.
• CAS EN 491: Independent Study
  Application forms available in CAS Room 105.
• CAS EN 492: Independent Study
  Application forms available in CAS Room 105.
• CAS EN 493: Critical Studies in Literature and The Arts
  Topic for Fall 2012: How do novelists and filmmakers imagine the home in relation to nation and world? How do they portray homelessness? Novelists from Defoe to contemporary authors like Sebald are considered. Films include Reed's "The Third Man" and Ray's "The Stranger."
• CAS EN 495: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2011: Aestheticism. Is aestheticism a profound philosophy of creativity, a commodification of the artwork, the liberation of alternative sexualities, or the emergence of a new elitism? "Art for art's sake" in Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Poe, James, and Wharton.
• CAS EN 496: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Spring 2012: Animals and Literature Since 1800. Can we cast ourselves into the inner lives of alien creatures, from amoebas to elephants? Animals in literature and film, and theoretical shifts in the category of animal. Authors include Byron, Hardy, Darwin, Woolf, and Kafka.
• CAS EN 502: Crafting a Nonfiction Voice Workshop
  A writing workshop that explores the notion of voice on the written page. Through reading, analysis, writing exercises, and independent projects, students become familiar with techniques for recreating the voices of others and for shaping a distinctive nonfiction voice (or voices) of their own.
• CAS EN 503: Fiction Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 504: Fiction Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 505: Poetry Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.

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