Topics vary. Topic for Fall 2018: Jane Eyre's Sisters. A close study of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is followed by a look at 19th and 20th century writers who appropriate and revise aspects of Bronte's novel in an American context. Authors include Jacobs, Alcott, Stoddard, Rhys and Mukherjee. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Topic for Spring 2019: Transnationalism and American Literature. Challenging nationalist assumptions, this course traces the development of U.S. literature by exploring the formative impact of the immigrant experience; the middle passage; expatriation; black internationalism; translation; and transpacific exchange. Readings by Crevecoeur, James, Cather, Stein, Hughes, Wright, and others.