Courses

• GRS EC 912: Dissertation Workshop in Econometrics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 915: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 916: Dissertation Workshop in Economic Theory 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 951: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 1
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• GRS EC 952: Dissertation Workshop in Empirical Microeconomics 2
  Presentation and discussion of dissertation topics and work in progress.
• 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
  A consideration of the major editions of an author or authors. Subject varies.
• GRS EI 802: Advanced Topics in Editing: Word and Image
  An historical and critical description of the relation between printed text and forms of illustration in selected works dating from 1500 to the present day.
• GRS EI 901: Directed Study
  Directed study in a topic in editorial studies.
• GRS EI 902: Directed Study
  Directed study in a topic in editorial studies.
• GRS EN 699: Teaching College English I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in English. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS EN 705: Seminar: The Writing of Plays 1
  A workshop in the writing of plays. Manuscripts are read using professional actors from the Boston community, and plays are discussed in class. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• GRS EN 706: Seminar: The Writing of Plays 2
  A workshop in the writing of plays. Manuscripts are read using professional actors from the Boston community, and plays are discussed in class. Individual conferences. Limited enrollment.
• GRS EN 717: Before Class: Early Modern Distinctions
  The symbolic violence of social distinctions in Elizabethan culture: gender, wealth, religion, race, occupation, learning, birth, accent, etc. Major and minor Tudor-Stuart works; humanist philosophy and Shakespearean drama alongside libels, graffiti, and court transcripts; social theory from Castiglione to Bourdieu.
• GRS EN 722: Medieval Performance
  Introduction to performance culture in the four centuries before Shakespeare. Reads liturgical and sacramental ritual, guild and court drama, civic and royal pageant, heresy trials, lyric poetry and song, through terms developed by contemporary language and performance theory.
• GRS EN 723: (In)subordination and Early Modern English Literature
  Resistance to authority in literary and non-literary texts by poets, playwrights, and ordinary people. Attention to non-aesthetic texts as well as to major works by Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Heywood and others.
• GRS EN 724: Old Age in Early Modern Literature
  An introduction to the discipline and practice of "literary gerontology" or age studies through a survey of Elizabethan and Jacobean representations of late life. Attention to relevant classical and continental resources as well as modern critical contexts.
• GRS EN 725: English Secular Lyric of the Seventeenth Century
  Faced with authorial challenges posed by ascendant female writers, how did male poets in seventeenth- century England defensively conceive, construct, and maintain a "masculine line" in secular lyrics? Hetero- and homosocial relations in Donne, Jonson, Drayton, Carew, Herrick, Marvell, Rochester, others.
• GRS EN 727: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry
  Major concentration on Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson. Students may choose other poets from a list including Davenant, Marvell, Cowley, Philips, Behn, Wilmot, Killigrew, Prior, Finch, Montagu, Addison, Gray, Collins, Smart, Seward.

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