English (ENGL)

HONORS: An Honors Program in English is offered for qualified students; see the English Department website (www.wlu.edu/english-department/about-the-departments-offerings/honors-program) for details.

Department Head: Edward Adams

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Edward Adams, Ph.D.—(1993)-2012
Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University

Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.—(1996)-2008
Jo. M and James M. Ballengee Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Howard N. (Hank) Dobin, Ph.D.—(2005)-2005
Professor of English
Ph.D., Stanford University

Christopher Gavaler, M.F.A.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Virginia

Genelle C. Gertz, Ph.D.—(2003)-2010
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

Wan-Chuan Kao, Ph.D.—(2013)-2013
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., City University of New York

Suzanne P. Keen, Ph.D.—(1995)-2001
Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Professor of English and Dean of The College
Ph.D., Harvard University

Deborah Miranda, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
John Lucian Smith Jr. Term Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Washington

Holly C. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2005)-2011
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Rod T. Smith, M.A.—2005
Writer in Residence
M.A., Appalachian State University

Kary D. Smout, Ph.D.—(1991)-1998
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University

James Perrin Warren, Ph.D.—(1984)-1996
S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University

Lesley M. Wheeler, Ph.D.—(1994)-2006
Henry S. Fox Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University

 

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  English major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Creative Writing minor

Courses

• •  ENGL 201 - Advanced Expository Writing
• •  ENGL 202 - Topics in Creative Writing: Playwriting
• •  ENGL 203 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 204 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 205 - Poetic Forms
• •  ENGL 206 - Topics in Creative Writing: Nonfiction
• •  ENGL 207 - Eco-Writing
• •  ENGL 215 - Making Comics
• •  ENGL 230 - Poetry
• •  ENGL 231 - Drama
• •  ENGL 232 - The Novel
• •  ENGL 233 - Film
• •  ENGL 234 - Children’s Literature
• •  ENGL 235 - Fantasy
• •  ENGL 236 - The Bible as English Literature
• •  ENGL 237 - The Bible as Literature: Exile and Return
• •  ENGL 240 - Arthurian Legend
• •  ENGL 242 - Individual Shakespeare Play
• •  ENGL 250 - Medieval and Early Modern British Literature
• •  ENGL 252 - Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 253 - Southern American Literature
• •  ENGL 255 - Superheroes
• •  ENGL 260 - Literary Approaches to Poverty
• •  ENGL 261 - Reading Gender
• •  ENGL 262 - Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
• •  ENGL 285 - Reading Lolita in Lexington
• •  ENGL 291 - Seminar
• •  ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature
• •  ENGL 293 - Topics in American Literature
• •  ENGL 294 - Topics in World Literature
• •  ENGL 295 - Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies
• •  ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors
• •  ENGL 305 - Writing Outside the Lines
• •  ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 307 - Fresh/Local/Wild: The Poetics of Food
• •  ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir
• •  ENGL 311 - History of the English Language
• •  ENGL 312 - Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages
• •  ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
• •  ENGL 316 - The Tudors
• •  ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
• •  ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
• •  ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
• •  ENGL 330 - Milton
• •  ENGL 334 - The Age of Unreason: Studies in 18th-Century Literature
• •  ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
• •  ENGL 336 - Ghost in the Machine
• •  ENGL 341 - The Romantic Imagination
• •  ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
• •  ENGL 348 - Victorian Poetry: Victorian Pairs
• •  ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers
• •  ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature
• •  ENGL 351 - World Fiction in English
• •  ENGL 352 - Modern Irish Literature
• •  ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British and Irish Poetry
• •  ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama
• •  ENGL 355 - Studies in British Fiction Since 1900
• •  ENGL 358 - Literature of Gender and Sexuality Before 1900
• •  ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
• •  ENGL 360 - Cowboys and Indians
• •  ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures
• •  ENGL 362 - American Romanticism
• •  ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1945
• •  ENGL 364 - American Poetry at Mid-Century
• •  ENGL 365 - Studies in Contemporary Poetry
• •  ENGL 366 - African-American Literature
• •  ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel
• •  ENGL 368 - The Modern American Novel
• •  ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction
• •  ENGL 370 - Contemporary North American Fiction
• •  ENGL 373 - Hitchcock
• •  ENGL 375 - Literary Theory
• •  ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient
• •  ENGL 384 - Ireland in Literature, History, and Film
• •  ENGL 385 - Preparatory Reading for Study Abroad
• •  ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
• •  ENGL 387 - Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland
• •  ENGL 388 - Exploring the West of Ireland
• •  ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700
• •  ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900
• •  ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900
• •  ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions
• •  ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing
• •  ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah
• •  ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis