Courses

• GRS EN 729: The Shelley-Byron Circle
  The "Satanic School": The works of Percy and Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, focusing on their association in Switzerland and Italy, 1816-22. Works include Percy's Prometheus Unbound and The Cenci, Mary's Frankenstein, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
• GRS EN 733: American Enlightenment
  Literary introduction to some varieties of Enlightenment in the Americas, covering Salem witch trials, American and Haitian Revolutions, the Great Awakening, slave narratives, Gothic fictions. Works by Franklin, Equiano, Wheatley, Rush, Paine, Freneau, Copley, Jefferson, Sansay, Emerson, Poe.
• GRS EN 734: Social Difference and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism in American Literature
  Against the backdrop of recent scholarship, the course examines how Cahan, Howells, James, Wharton, Dreiser, and Dunbar indexed materialism, philanthropy, literary marketplace, and cultural capital in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and political ideology.
• GRS EN 744: Less Read Nineteenth Century British Novels
  Studies in less often read major novels from the British nineteenth century, including "The Heart of Midlothian," "Mary Barton," "Hard Times," "Villette," "Daniel Deronda," and "New Grub Street." Some emphasis on cultural thickness and old sectarian groups versus modern populations.
• GRS EN 745: Information Revolutions and Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature
  What happens to literature with the rise of mass print culture, quantitative science, bureaucracy, and facticity? Poe, Dickens, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, Browning, Henry James, and Wilkie Collins. Historical methods, plus some information theory, philosophy of science, and digital humanities tools.
• GRS EN 746: The South in Modern American Fiction
  Exploration of how US South figured in imagining national modernity. Modernism as problematic with Southern bent: Faulkner, Welty, Toomer, Erskine Caldwell, Hurston, R.P. Warren, Wright, O'Connor. Equal attention to broad, systematic examination of scholarship on major topics in modernism.
• GRS EN 763: History of the English Play
  The context, social values, and formal techniques of the innovative, often bizarre, popular "historical" dramas that became authorized "history" (English, Roman, and British) for subsequent centuries. Special attention to interplay of social division, hierarchy, gender, and nation-building.
• GRS EN 775: Theories of Gender and Sexuality
  This course explores the recent history of literary critical approaches to gender and sexuality, organized around a special topic. Readings include classic and recent theoretical works, and literary texts from a range of historical periods.
• GRS EN 776: Stevens and Auden: Rhetoric and Poetry
  Modernism tried to forge a new unrhetorical language, but two radically different poets, Stevens and Auden, both "return to rhetoric" as a condition of thought and language to be exploited and reformed. Focus on public/private divide, poetry in war times.
• GRS EN 778: Succession and Early Modern Tragedy
  Early modern stagings of the logic and tragedy of succession. Readings include historical texts on Tudor- Stuart succession crises, several Shakespeare plays (incl. Lear, Macbeth), less canonical plays (Spanish Tragedy, Massacre at Paris), and contemporary letters (Queen Elizabeth, Arbella Stuart).
• GRS EN 781: Time and Narrative Since 1800
  This interdisciplinary course pairs history of science and technology with narrative theory to explore how literary texts play with time. How do geological theories, railways, industrialization and Einstein affect the pace of narrative or the feeling of simultaneity in Hardy or Woolf?
• GRS EN 784: Philosophical Fictions
  Postwar versions of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry. Novelists such as Sartre, Wright, Bellow, and Sontag are read alongside the theories they dramatize or defend, as well as selections from Plato, Schlegel, Bakhtin, Lukács, Davidson, Nussbaum.
• GRS EN 786: Caribbean Provocations
  Significant texts from the Anglophone Caribbean from 1912 to the present, challenging to read and to theorize. Locally inspired innovations in form, language, and perspective across genres. Likely authors: Naipaul, Harris, Kincaid, Walcott, Antoni, McKay, Goodison, Morris, Roach, Brathwaite, Johnson.
• GRS EN 787: Birth of Modern Drama
  A survey of the origin and development of modern theatre from roughly 1835 to 1900. Writers may include Buchner, Wagner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Boucicault, Wilde, Nietzsche, and Shaw.
• GRS EN 788: Transnational Modernism
  This interdisciplinary course explores how globalization shaped the emergence of modernist styles in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Topics include transatlantic migration; the effects of mobilization and world war; the rise of black internationalism; and modernist indebtedness to Asian cultures.
• GRS EN 794: Professional Seminar
  Developing professional skills and preparing for advanced independent scholarship for English doctoral students in the last semester of coursework. Course includes preparation for comprehensive exam and dissertation prospectus; conference paper submission; publication; fellowship and job applications.
• GRS EN 993: Directed Study in English
  
• GRS EN 994: Directed Study in English
  
• GRS ES 623: Ecosystem Biogeochemistry
  Nutrient and biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems; global biogeochemistry. Topics include anthropogenic effects on ecosystem cycles and productivity, wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, ecosystem restoration, ocean productivity, climate change and temperate, tropical, and aquatic ecosystems, oceans and the global CO2 budget, marine sediment chemistry. (Offered alternate years.)
• GRS ES 640: Marine Geology
  Examines the evolution of ocean basins and marginal seas, changes in structure and composition of ocean basin throughout the last billion years, and the contribution of oceanic geological processes to the chemistry and biochemistry of earth.

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