Courses

• CAS EN 476: Critical Studies in Literature and Gender
  Topic for Spring 2015: Sex, Gender, and the Body in Medieval Literature. Focusing on the medieval era, this course explores the history of sexuality and gendered identities, as well as sexuality's radical potential to disrupt and transform bodies and selves over time. Medieval literature, alongside critical readings in gender and sexuality studies.
• CAS EN 480: Critical Studies in American Writers
  Topic for Fall 2014: 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 Spring 2017: Approaches to the Postcolonial Novel. Modern stories from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. An introduction to historical background and critical approaches to the works of authors such as Amos Tutuola, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, and Daniyal Mueenudin.
• 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" and "struggles for vocation among writers and filmmakers," this course considers gender as accessible only through particular histories.
• 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 Spring 2016: Film Theories. Intensive study of major theories of film (Soviet montage, semiotics and structuralism, feminist psychoanalytic theory, genre theory, postmodernism, digital means of production) discussed in relation to exemplary films, screened weekly. Also offered as CAS CI 510.
• CAS EN 495: Critical Studies in Literary Topics
  Topic for Fall 2016: Time and Literature 1800-1930. From 1800-1930, momentous changes in technology (railway, telegraph, photography) and science (geology, Darwin, Einstein) inspired a re-conception of time. This course examines narrative time in Byron, Wordsworth, Hardy, Woolf, and Proust in relation to these strange new ideas about time.
• 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.
• CAS EN 506: Poetry Workshop
  A workshop in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 507: Seminar: Creative Writing, Fiction
  A workshop in the writing of fiction. Manuscripts read and discussed in class. Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 508: Seminar: Creative Writing, Poetry
  Individual conferences. Enrollment limited chiefly to graduate students.
• CAS EN 509: Playwriting 1: Analysis to Inspiration
  A seminar in the fundamentals of dramatic form, structure, characterization, and theme. Students read and discuss playwrights such as Brecht, Chekhov, and Shepard and, through written exercises, develop their individual plays.
• CAS EN 510: Playwriting 2: Writing Short Plays
  A seminar in the writing of short, original plays, addressing structure, language, and theme. Students read and discuss the masters of modern drama, and writing exercises are assigned to stir the imagination and develop craft.
• CAS EN 512: Readings for Writers: Contemporary Literary Nonfiction
  Intensive reading seminar for students interested in literary nonfiction, a wide-ranging, sometimes controversial genre in which writers use techniques associated with fiction and poetry to make meaning of facts. Explores the wealth and breadth of contemporary literary nonfiction -- memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, travel, science, and medical writing -- with an eye toward helping students think about their own nonfiction writing practices.
• CAS EN 513: Modern English Grammar and Style
  This course shows how to systematically analyze grammar and style of sentences and longer units of discourse. Explores academic and popular debates on grammar and grammar instruction and helps the student become a better speaker and writer.
• CAS EN 518: Linguistic Problems in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
  Application of linguistic concepts to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Includes description of contemporary English grammatical structures that pose problems for learners and teachers.

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