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CAS EN 343: Modern Irish Writers
Readings in Irish fiction, drama, and poetry, with attention to historical context, aesthetics forms, and values, from 1890 to the present, by such writers as Wilde, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Bowen, Beckett, Heaney, Boland, Muldoon, and Carr. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration. -
CAS EN 345: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
The development of the American novel in 19th C America: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Moby- Dick, plus Twain, Jacobs, Southworth, Chesnutt. Formal/aesthetic questions will be linked to cultural/historical ones including race and slavery, gender, individualism, and representing America. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 346: Modern American Fiction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing.
American fiction from roughly 1900--1950. Questions of realism and aesthetic experiment, mobility and cosmopolitanism, changing racial and gender dynamics, youth culture, growing American economic and military power. Authors may include Twain, Dreiser, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hurston, Wright, Salinger, Nabokov. -
CAS EN 347: Topics in Contemporary Global Fiction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Introduction to contemporary fiction by authors outside Europe and North America. Themes addressed include migration, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, decolonization, citizenship, ethnic conflict, and changing notions of cultural identity. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. -
CAS EN 348: Topics in Modern Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior/senior status.
May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Topic for Fall 2019: An introduction to modernist literature & culture, detailing the transformations of poetry and fiction amid the early twentieth century's widespread social and technological upheavals. Possible writers include Conrad, Proust, Stein, Eliot, Joyce, Toomer, Freud, Kafka, Woolf, Barnes, Beckett, and more. -
CAS EN 349: Contemporary American Fiction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
US prose fiction from the last few decades, exploring questions of individualism, community, identity, technology, media, religious belief, violence, post-WWII political changes, and our relation to history. Authors may include Roth, Robinson, DeLillo, Pynchon, Morrison, and Lahiri, among others. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community. -
CAS EN 356: Drama and Performance, 1945 - Present
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Theater history and performance art from 1945 to today. Analysis of plays through the lens of performance theory, blurring the line between the aesthetic and the social. Playwrights may include Brecht, Hansberry, Valdez, Moraga, Beckett, Kane, Deveare Smith, Shange, Parks. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation. -
CAS EN 360: Toni Morrison's American Times
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent).
Using historical and literary sources to make visible the interactions between the world of the novel and that of American history, the course examines how Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Love depict crucial times in American history. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 363: Shakespeare I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Six plays chosen from the following: Richard II, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale. Some attention to the sonnets. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 364: Shakespeare II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Six or seven plays chosen from the following: Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
CAS EN 365: Studies in Non-Cinematic Media
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
This course covers a range of aesthetic and cultural issues related to non- cinematic media, encompassing the study of photography, television, video art, video and online gaming, new media and more. Topics vary by semester. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. -
CAS EN 369: Haruki Murakami and His Sources
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Students read works by Haruki Murakami and by writers who shaped him or were shaped by him, reflect on the nature of intertextuality, and gain a perspective on contemporary literature as operating within a global system of mutual influence. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. -
CAS EN 370: Introduction to African American Women Writers
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing. First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120)
This course studies the cultural contexts and the ongoing relevance of significant works by African American Women Writers. Works by Jacobs, Butler, Harper, Hurston, Brooks, Kincaid, Morrison and Marshall complemented by critical articles lay out this rich tradition. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking . -
CAS EN 371: African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent).
Examines literary representations of race, ethnicity, gender and class through the lens of cross-cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. Which strategies do these women writers use to speak to their often- mainstream readers? How do they challenge traditional gender roles? Effective Fall 2021, this course this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 373: Detective Fiction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Major writers in the history of literary crime and detection, mainly British and American, with attention to the genre's cultural contexts and development from the eighteenth century to the present, as well as the literary features and standards of aesthetic evaluation of works in this genre. Authors may include Godwin, Poe, Conan Doyle, Chandler, contemporary authors. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 375: Topics in Literature and Film
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Major themes and techniques explored by both writers and filmmakers. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Fall 2021: Black American Cinema. A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and/or more. -
CAS EN 377: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
An exploration of the literature of the "New Negro Renaissance" or, more popularly, the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. Discussions of essays, fiction, and poetry, three special lectures on the stage, the music, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. -
CAS EN 385: Auteur Filmmaking
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
An intensive exploration of the work of a single filmmaker or group of filmmakers, paying special attention to theoretical problems of authorship and artistic control. How do filmmakers respond to studio pressure, historical events or government censorship? How do personal styles develop and transform in a collaborative medium? What does it mean to think of the director or writer or producer of a film as its author? Course content varies by semester. Topic for Fall 2022: How do we define women's film today? This course explores the work of a range of contemporary female filmmakers, discussing culturally- inflected depictions of female subjectivity, race, class, and sexuality. Directors including Varda, Bier, Nair, Wang, and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. -
CAS EN 386: Topics in Anglophone Literature
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
May be repeated for credit as topics change each semester. Two topics are offered Fall 2019. Section A1: Post-colonial Theater. A cross-cultural study of national theater movements during decolonization, reading plays by world-class Anglophone dramatists of the twentieth century in three different settings: Gregory, Synge, and Yeats (Ireland); Walcott and his Trinidad Theatre Workshop; Soyinka and Ladipo (Nigeria). Section B1: Feminist Comics. Focusing on recent work, this course examines comics that interrogate the experience of being gendered female. We ask how the texts we read develop spaces of resistance against heterosexist violence and discrimination based on race, class, age, and perceived ability. -
CAS EN 389: Fictional Forms
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing.
Topic for Spring 2020: Fables and Tales. Stories have designs on you. How the "grammar" of storytelling shapes meaning in stories from Aesop's Fables, The Arabian Nights, the Grimms' Household Tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Boccaccio's Decameron, and some contemporary sources.
