Courses

• GRS EC 991: Dw Int'L Econ 1
  
• GRS EC 992: Dw Int'L Econ 2
  
• GRS EC 993: Ds Int'L Econ 1
  
• GRS EC 995: Dw Econ REGION1
  
• GRS EC 996: Dw Econ REGION2
  
• GRS EC 999: Ds Other Fl Eco
  
• GRS EI 699: Teachng Coll Ei
  
• GRS EI 701: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
  An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
• GRS EI 703: Annotation
  Studies in allusions, sources, dating, topical contexts, annotation as a part of the work itself, and marginal glosses, among other topics.
• GRS EI 704: Editions
  Seminar on advanced editorial considerations raised by the works of one or more authors.
• GRS EI 901: Dir Stdy
  
• GRS EI 902: Directed Study
  
• GRS EN 604: History of Criticism 1
  Survey of major philosophical discussions of literature from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century. Figures include Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Themes include art's relation to truth, ethics, and politics; interpretation; aesthetic judgment; the sublime.
• GRS EN 606: Literary Criticism II
  Survey of literary critical perspectives and trends in humanistic theory relevant to literary interpretation from the middle of the twentieth century onward, including formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, gender studies, new historicism, and post-colonial studies. Frequent writing assignments of varying lengths.
• GRS EN 665: Critical Studies in Literature and Society Topic for Fall 2011: Enlightenment In America
  A literary introduction to some varieties of Enlightenment in the Americas. Reading essays, sermons, novels, poems, and objects produced between 1690 and 1845, course traces the ideologies and technologies of "Progress" in Britain's Colonies, the Caribbean, and the United States
• GRS EN 666: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
  Topics vary.
• GRS EN 668: Critical Studies in British Literature
  Two topics are offered for 2010-2011. Topic for Fall 2010: Literature and Science. While literature and science turn different lenses on the world, both disciplines identify patterns and construct narratives of change over time. This course explores microscopic worlds, vast cosmoses, evolution and ecology; writers include Swift, Tennyson, Darwin, Twain, and Pynchon. Topic for Spring: Time and Literature, 1800-1930. We examine models of time (pace, narrative, scale) in Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist texts during major transformations in science and technology (geology, dinosaurs, Darwin, railways, film, and Einstein). Authors include Byron, Tennyson, Hardy, Wells, Proust, and Woolf.
• GRS EN 674: Critical Studies in Literary Genres
  Topic for Spring 2011: Transatlantic Crossings. Examination of 19th century American and European travel narratives, focusing on the questions of American identity, mobility, discovery, and imperialism. Authors include Jefferson, Tocqueville, Stowe, Dickens, Kemble, Twain, James.
• GRS EN 675: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender: Representing Gender in American Literature and Film
  Gender representations in American literature, film, and graphic novels from the 1950's through the present. Works include Lolita, Catcher in the Rye, Streetcar Named Desire, Diary of a Teenage Girl, and Paris is Burning.
• GRS EN 676: Gender in Literature and Film
  Topic for Fall 2010: Representing Gender in American Literature and Film. Gender representations in American literature, film, graphic novelsâ??1950's through present. Topics: "Cultures of Consumption," "Class and Social Mobility," "Critique of Gender," "Backlash." Works: "Lolita," "Catcher in the Rye," "Streetcar Named Desire," "Diary of a Teenage Girl," "Paris is Burning."

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