Courses

• CAS EN 380: Twentieth-Century African American Novel
  Topic for Spring 2013: Transformations of Genre in the Twentieth-Century African American Novel. Major works drawn from the Harlem Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement, and the contemporary period. Authors may include Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Anne Petry, Ralph Ellison, Octavia Butler, John Wideman, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison. Also offered as AA 502.
• CAS EN 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS EN 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS EN 404: Literary Criticism I
  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.
• CAS EN 405: Advanced Writing of Fiction
  The writing of short stories and perhaps longer fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences.
• CAS EN 406: 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 length.
• CAS EN 463: Hamlet/Macbeth: Appropriation and Performance
  Analysis of these plays through historical context, performance histories, and contemporary dramatic and prose appropriations. Theoretical considerations of adaptation and appropriation, including such topics as intertextuality, performance as interpretation, cultural politics, canon formation, and the global marketplace of culture.
• CAS EN 465: 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.
• CAS EN 466: Critical Studies in Literature and Society
  Topics vary.
• 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
  Topics vary.
• CAS EN 475: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
  Topic for Fall 2013: Early Modern Women Authors. A survey of European women writers from the 1400s to the early 1600s, and of the modern critical thinking that has redefined their literary-historical importance. Christine de Pizan, Theresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Gaspara Stampa, Elizabeth I, and others. Also offered as CAS XL 470 B1.
• 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
  Topics vary.
• 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: Crst Mod Lit
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS EN 483: Critical Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
  Topics vary.
• 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
  Topics vary.

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