2023-2024 University Catalog archived
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English
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: 2023-2024: Holly Pickett
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
John Lucian Smith, Jr. Memorial Term Professor of English
Ph.D., Yale University
Lubabah Chowdhury, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Brown University
Christopher Gavaler, M.F.A.—(2014)-2018
Associate Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Virginia
Genelle C. Gertz, Ph.D.—(2003)-2016
Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College for Strategic Initiatives
Ph.D., Princeton University
K. Avvirin Gray, Ph.D.—(2022)-2022
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Lena Hill, Ph.D.—(2018)-2018
Professor of English and Provost
Ph.D., Yale University
Wan-Chuan Kao, Ph.D.—(2013)-2019
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., City University of New York
Diego A. Millan, Ph.D.—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., Tufts University
Holly C. Pickett, Ph.D.—(2005)-2023
Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Kary D. Smout, Ph.D.—(1991)-1998
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., Duke University
Beth A. Staples, M.F.A.—(2018)-2020
Assistant Professor of English and Editor of Shenandoah
M.F.A., Arizona State University
Taylor Walle, Ph.D.—(2016)-2022
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Lesley M. Wheeler, Ph.D.—(1994)-2006
Henry S. Fox Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University
Major
Minor
ENGL 201 - Introduction to Creative Writing
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
A course in the practice of creative writing, with attention to two or more genres. Pairings vary by instructor but examples might include narrative fiction and nonfiction; poetry and the lyric essay; and flash and hybrid forms. This course involves workshops, literary study, and critical writing.
ENGL 202 - Creative Writing: Playwriting
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 4
A course in the practice of writing plays, involving workshops, literary study, critical writing, and performance.
ENGL 203 - Creative Writing: Fiction
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3-4
A course in the practice of writing short fiction, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing.
ENGL 204 - Creative Writing: Poetry
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
Not open to students with credit for ENGL 214; only one of these courses may be taken for credit. A course in the practice of writing poetry, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing.
ENGL 206 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
A course in the practice of writing nonfiction, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing.
ENGL 207 - Eco-Writing
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Every Tuesday expeditions involve moderate to challenging hiking. An expeditionary, multi-genre course (fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry) in environmental creative writing. Readings focus on contemporary “EcoWriters.” We take weekly expeditions, including creative writing hikes, a creative writing visit to a Thai Forest Buddhist monastery, and a creative writing visit to the workshops of a landscape painter and bloomsmith. The course involves moderate to challenging hiking. We research the science and social science of the ecosystems explored, as well as the language of those ecosystems. The course has two primary aspects: (1) reading and literary analysis of multi-genre eco-literature and (2) developing skill and craft in creating EcoWriting through the act of writing in these genres and through participation in “writing workshop.”
ENGL 210 - Topics in Creative Writing
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. A course in the practice of creative writing, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing.
ENGL 214 - Environmental Poetry Workshop
ENV 214 FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
Not open to students with credit for ENGL 204; only one of these courses may be taken for credit. A single-genre poetry course in the practice of writing environmental poetry, involving poetry workshops, the literary study of environmental poetry (historical and contemporary), and critical writing.
ENGL 215 - Creating Comics
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 4
Same as ARTS 215. A course which is both a creative-writing and a studio-art course. Students study graphic narratives as an art form that combines image-making and storytelling, producing their own multi-page narratives through the writing of images. The course includes a theoretical overview of the comics form, using a range of works as practical models.
ENGL 222 - Introductory Topics in British Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Introductory topics in British literature, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers. May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different.
ENGL 223 - Introductory Topics in American Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Introductory topics in American Literature, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers.
ENGL 224 - Introductory Topics in World Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Introductory topics in world literature, taught in English and supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers. May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different.
ENGL 229 - Protest Poetry
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. What kind of work can poetry do in the world? Students in this class study Civil Rights Era poetry, poetry about environmental crisis, and other bodies of work that try to change minds and hearts, including protest poems, prayers and curses, and poetry in performance. Students also put poetry into action, first by collaboratively organizing a benefit event for the Rockbridge Area Relief Association, then by creating activist projects for causes of their own choosing.
ENGL 230 - Poetry and Music
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. An introduction to the study of poetry in English with an emphasis on music. Students then investigate a series of questions about poetry and music, including: What’s the relationship between lyric poetry and song lyrics? What makes a poem musical? What kinds of music have most influenced poetry during the last hundred years, and in what ways?
ENGL 231 - Drama
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. An introductory study of drama, emphasizing form, history, and performance. Organization may be chronological, thematic, or generic and may cover English language, western, or world drama. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the interpretation of theatrical texts.
ENGL 232 - The Novel
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. An introductory study of the novel written in English. The course may focus on major representative texts or upon a subgenre or thematic approach. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the history and theory of modern narrative.
ENGL 233 - Introduction to Film
FILM 233 FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Same as ENGL 233. An introductory study of film taught in English and with a topical focus on texts from a variety of global film-making traditions. At its origins, film displayed boundary-crossing international ambitions, and this course attends to that important fact, but the course’s individual variations emphasize one national film tradition (e.g., American, French, Indian, British, Italian, Chinese, etc.) and, within it, may focus on major representative texts or upon a subgenre or thematic approach. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the history, theory, and basic terminology of film.
ENGL 234 - Children’s Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. A study of works written in English for children. The course treats major writers, thematic and generic groupings of texts, and children’s literature in historical context. Readings may include poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and illustrated books, including picture books that dispense with text.
ENGL 236 - The Bible as English Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Students may not take for degree credit both this course and ENGL 237. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. An intensive study of the Bible as a literary work, focusing on such elements as poetry, narrative, myth, archetype, prophecy, symbol, allegory, and character. Emphases may include the Bible’s influence upon the traditions of English literature and various perspectives of biblical narrative in philosophy, theology, or literary criticism.
ENGL 237 - The Bible as Literature: Exile and Return
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 4
Students may not take for degree credit both this course and ENGL 236. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Stories of leaving, and one day returning, are found in nearly every book of the Bible. Leaving Eden, Ur, or Israel; being sold from one’s homeland into slavery; losing the messiah– all of these exiles are critical to any study of the Bible, as well as later literature based on the Bible. As the poet John Milton well understood, exile, by its nature, includes longing for a return either to Paradise, to one’s homeland, or to the deity’s presence on earth; it can also include desire for a new settlement, and a new historical era. Themes of exile and return connect the Bible to the genre of epic, another ancient literary form, where homecoming and settlement sometimes hail the beginning of a new people, nation, or age. In this class we explore themes of exile and return in Genesis and Exodus, I and II Kings, Ezekiel, the Gospels of Matthew and John, and the books of Acts and Revelation. Exile and return feature not just as recurrent themes in separate books, but as narrative forms themselves (such as epic, or even the law, which exiles narrative), as metaphors, spiritual states, and central tropes of Biblical literature. In addition to focused literary study, we engage with Biblical forms through the history of the book and in local religious contexts. We study rare Bibles available in special collections and facsimile, becoming familiar with how the bible was experienced in earlier historical periods. Finally, students engage in fieldwork involving attendance and observance of how local religious communities (outside of one’s own faith tradition) read scripture today.
ENGL 239 - Magical Education
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: WRIT 100. In fantasy fiction, power and potential are sometimes represented by magic, but authors imagine magic’s sources differently, with implications for how it should be developed. Students in this course will read fiction about schools of magic, analyzing their curricula and missions. In addition to writing analytically, students will co-create a web site for a fictional liberal arts college of magic.
ENGL 240 - Arthurian Legend
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Why does King Arthur continue to fascinate and haunt our cultural imagination? This course surveys the origins and histories of Arthurian literature, beginning with Celtic myths, Welsh tales, and Latin chronicles. We then examine medieval French and English traditions that include Chretien de Troyes’ Perceval, the lais of Marie de France, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Malory’s Le Morte Darthur. In addition to historical and literary contexts, we explore theoretical issues surrounding the texts, especially the relationship between history and fantasy, courtly love and adultery, erotic love and madness, romance and chivalry, gender and agency, and Europe and its Others. Finally, we investigate Arthurian medievalisms in Victorian England and in American (post)modernity through Tennyson, Twain, Barthelme, and Ishiguro. Along the way, we view various film adaptations of Arthurian legends. All texts are read in modern English translation.
ENGL 241 - Cinema Arthuriana
FILM 241 FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. This course is a survey of Arthurian films and an introduction to film studies. We will read select premodern and modern texts and examine a variety of films across the twentieth• and the twenty-first centuries. The course begins with Arthur the messianic hero, then proceeds to the romance of the Holy Grail, the tribulations of Gawain, and finally the American repurposing of matters of Arthur. H film is an escapist medium, it is first and foremost a mirror to society that reflects its cultural fantasies and structural imaginaries. We will consider forms of medievalism and forces of ideology and periodization that these films embody and project, as well as reception theories and on our own historical contingencies.
ENGL 242 - Individual Shakespeare Play
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. A detailed study of a single Shakespearean play, including its sources, textual variants, performance history, film adaptations and literary and cultural legacy. The course includes both performance-based and analytical assignments.
ENGL 244 - Health, Care, and Compassion on Stage and Screen
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. This course will analyze the dramatic portrayal of health and illness in drama, film, and television. We will think about the depiction of the body-mind on stage and screen, across various time periods. Can the core emotions of pity and fear, which Aristotle argues are vital to the work of drama, help us develop greater empathy for those who are suffering from illness? Can dramatic depictions of both wellness and illness catalyze us to think about how to better care for ourselves and others? Using the WHO’s definition of health as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity,” we will think not only about how works of art dramatize these concepts, but also what they mean in our own lives and in the lives of those in our community. Students will have their choice of an experiential learning component, either through a community-based learning volunteer placement or through researching and designing a wellness or self-care initiative for peers.
ENGL 250 - Medieval and Early Modern British Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. This course is a survey of English literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. We read works in various genres–verse, drama, and prose–and understand their specific cultural and historical contexts. We also examine select modern film adaptations of canonical works as part of the evolving history of critical reception.
ENGL 252 - Shakespeare
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Same as MRST 252. A study of the major genres of Shakespeare’s plays, employing analysis shaped by formal, historical, and performance-based questions. Emphasis is given to tracing how Shakespeare’s work engages early modern cultural concerns, such as the nature of political rule, gender, religion, and sexuality. A variety of skills are developed in order to assist students with interpretation, which may include verse analysis, study of early modern dramatic forms, performance workshops, two medium-length papers, reviews of live play productions, and a final, student-directed performance of a selected play.
ENGL 253 - Literature of the American South
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. A study of selected fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction by Southern writers in their historical and literary contexts. We practice multiple approaches to critical reading, and students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers.
ENGL 254 - I Heart Jane: Austen’s Fan Cultures and Afterlives
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. In the 20th and 21st centuries, Jane Austen has attained a celebrity that far exceeds the recognition she enjoyed during her lifetime. The fan culture that now surrounds Austen, her spunky heroines, and her swoon-worthy heroes rivals that of Star Wars or Harry Potter. Austen enthusiasts meet for book club, wear Regency costumes, convene for tea, and throw balls with period-appropriate music and dance. All of this mooning over Mr. Darcy, however, could easily be the object of Austen’s own satire. Mercilessly lampooning silliness and frivolity, “dear Jane” was more inveterate cynic than hopeless romantic. How, then, did Austen transform from biting social satirist to patron saint of chick lit? Beginning with three of Austen’s novels, and then turning to the fan cultures surrounding Pride and Prejudice, this course examines the nature of fandom, especially its propensity to change and adapt the very thing it celebrates. What does it mean to be a fan? Is there such a thing as an “original” or authorial meaning of a text? What do Austen’s fan cultures say about both the novels themselves and the society that appropriates them?
ENGL 257 - Business in American Literature and Film
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. In his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith tells a powerful story of the free market as a way to organize our political and economic lives, a story that has governed much of the world ever since. This course studies that story, considers alternate stories of human economic organization, such as those of American Indian tribes, and sees how these stories have been acted out in American business and society, including for some African-American writers. We study novels, films, short stories, non-fiction essays, poems, advertisements, websites, some big corporations, and some local businesses. Our goal is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of American business so we can make the best choices about how to live and work in a free market society.
ENGL 258 - Literature and Film of the American West
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. The American West is a land of striking landscapes, beautiful places to visit such as Yellowstone and Yosemite, and stories that have had a huge impact on the USA and the world, such as Lewis and Clark, the Oregon Trail, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. This course studies some of these Western places, stories, art works, and movies. What has made them so appealing? How have they been used? We study works by authors such as John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Cormac McCarthy, plus movies such as Shane; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; The Searchers; and Dances With Wolves to see how Western stories have played out and what is happening now in these contested spaces.
ENGL 259 - Enslavement and Abolition in British Literature 1688-1831
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: WRIT 100. This course considers representations of and responses to enslavement and the slave trade in British literature from 1688 to 1831. We read a wide variety of texts, including Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, The Woman of Color (anonymous), Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, and Mary Prince’s The History of Mary Prince, alongside Parliamentary debates, abolitionist tracts, and other contemporary accounts. Other topics may include emerging racial theories in the eighteenth century, British colonialism in the Caribbean, twenty-first-century approaches to the archive, and the legacy of these conversations in more recent literature, such as Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.
ENGL 260 - Literary Approaches to Poverty
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Examines literary responses to the experience of poverty, imaginative representations of human life in straitened circumstances, and arguments about the causes and consequences of poverty that appear in literature. Critical consideration of dominant paradigms (the country and the city,” “the deserving poor,” “the two nations,” “from rags to riches,” “the fallen woman,” “the abyss”) augments reading based in cultural contexts. Historical focus will vary according to professor’s areas of interest and expertise.
ENGL 262 - Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. A course that uses ethnicity, race, and culture to develop readings of literature. Politics and history play a large role in this critical approach; students should be prepared to explore their own ethnic awareness as it intersects with other, often conflicting, perspectives. Focus will vary with the professor’s interests and expertise, but may include one or more literatures of the English-speaking world: Chicano and Latino, Native American, African-American, Asian-American, Caribbean, African, sub-continental (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka), and others.
ENGL 263 - Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
ENV 263 FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
This course will study American fascinations with ideas of “Nature” and “Self” as they manifest in contemporary literature and thought. We will discuss the implications of these categories for humans as members of ecosystems as well as of “advanced societies.” We will read essays, novels, and poetry at the cutting edge of American environmental writing, as well as those who contribute to its historical path. We will test our own understandings of human roles in relation to the greater-than-human world and will consider implications that these understandings may carry for the individual life as well as for a globalized world in which ecological issues are of great concern.
ENGL 264 - The Body Electric: Queer Theory, Film, and Text
WGSS 264 FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Queerness is inextricable from visual and textual representation as production and as reception. This
course is an introduction to the nexus of queer theory, film, and text. We will analyze and interpret select films, as well as literary works that serve as inspirations behind cinematic adaptations, through methodologies grounded in LGBTQI2+ studies. We will also situate films, texts, and theories in history and queer the visual and textual archives. Our itinerary is organized around a set of critical keywords: closet, innocence, friendship, villain, tragedian, nature, body, horror, identity, history, camp, filth, nurture, Orient, fetish, desire, wound, death, love, sex, family, meet cute, and futurity.
ENGL 265 - Constructing Black Lives in Film and Literature
AFCA 265 FDR: HL
Credits: 3
In this cultural studies course, we will pay close attention to the ways in which 19th, 20th and 21st century African American life narratives are constructed on film and in literature. In fact, our work together will consider a wide variety of texts: TED Talks, classic, contemporary, and documentary films, fiction, music lyrics, autobiography and memoir, theater, advertisements, and even visual art at the museum. Our goal will be to investigate the impact of historical events and processes upon Black people, the ways Black identities are performed, and the relationship between race, class, gender, religion, and sexuality. Overall, the class topic will allow us to engage in vibrant interdisciplinary scholarship and to practice building strong arguments.
ENGL 270 - Individual Novel
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
An intensive study of a single novel of significant length and global repute. Students will undertake an in-depth study of the text and its relevant social, political, cultural, and theoretical contexts. The primary goal of this class is to appreciate the many aspects of novel reading in the contemporary era, particularly with regard to relevant social issues, issues of representation, artistic license, and the publishing industry.
ENGL 285 - Reading Lolita in Lexington
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. This course uses Azar Nafisi’s memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, as a lens for studying three novels, The Great Gatsby, Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. We learn how students in the Islamic Republic of Iran have responded to these novels, and how the works’ major themes have played out in Nafisi’s life, and the lives of young Iranian women. Excerpts from Geraldine Brooks’ Nine Parts of Desire help to illuminate the lives of Muslim women, and complement our study of Islam and the history of Iran. Students conduct a journalistic survey of attitudes toward Islam and Iran in the Washington and Lee community, in addition to writing a final paper on the course texts.
ENGL 289 - Literary Book Publishing
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 207, ENGL 210, ENGL 214, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. This course is an introduction to the publishing industry, its culture and commerce. We examine the history of the industry and how it operates today, with an emphasis on active learning and practice. This class consists, in part, of active discussions with industry professionals, studying the life of a single book: its author, its agent, its editor, its book designer, its publisher. It gives you an overview of how the publishing industry works through the eyes of the people who work in it. It also gives you a chance to put what you learn into practice. Using a book you’re working on (or a theoretical book you may someday write), you compose a query letter, design a book jacket, and create marketing material in support of your project. The term culminates with a book auction where students form publishing teams and bid on the books they would most like to publish.
ENGL 290 - Having it All: Life, Literature and Career
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Are you considering an English (or Arts and Humanities) major but unsure of how it will help you find a job? Are you intrigued by how contemporary authors write about becoming adults, finding happiness, or growing up in a certain time, place or body? Are you hoping to pursue what you love as opposed (or in addition) to what will lead to a high salary? Through memoirs, personal essays and coming of age novels, along with studies of the value of the liberal arts, this class explores ways in which college students can have it all. We look at literature to understand how authors make sense of personal experience and fulfillment, and we apply the findings of happiness studies to career design and exploration. Self-reflective exercises and brainstorming build students’ sense of what they enjoy spending time on, and this guides their investigation of potential career paths. Along with introducing students to alumni working in a variety of industries, this class teaches practical skills for job searches: resume design, online profiles, networking, interviewing, searching and applying for positions, or pursuing post-graduate opportunities.
ENGL 291 - Seminar
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. This course studies a group of works related by theme, by culture, by topic, by genre, or by the critical approach taken to the works. Some recent topics have been the Southern Short Story; Gender and Passion in the 19th-Century Novel; Chivalry, Honor, and the Romance; and Appalachian Literature.
ENGL 292 - Topics in British Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. British literature, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills through both short papers and a final multisource research paper.
ENGL 293 - Topics in American Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Studies in American literature, supported by attention to historical contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time. Students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers.
ENGL 294 - Topics in World Literature in English
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different. Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. World literature, taught in English, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills through both short papers and a final multisource research paper.
ENGL 295 - Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Students in this course study a group of works related by theme, by culture, by topic, by genre, or by the critical approach taken to the texts. Involves field trips, film screenings, service learning, and/or other special projects, as appropriate, in addition to 8-10 hours per week of class meetings. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
ENGL 296 - Topics in Law and Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: WRIT 100. A topical seminar in law and literature for students at the introductory or intermediate level. Topic is announced prior to registration. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Satisfies requirements for creative writing or law, justice, and society minors and English major. May satisfy requirements in Africana studies or classics, when the topic is appropriate.
ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement and an English course numbered between 201 and 295. A study of a topic in literature issuing in a research process and sustained critical writing. Some recent topics have been Detective Fiction; American Indian Literatures; Revenge; and David Thoreau and American Transcendentalism.
ENGL 304 - Literary Book Publishing
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 210, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 308, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. This course is an introduction to the publishing industry, its culture and commerce. We examine the history of the industry and how it operates today, with an emphasis on active learning and practice. This class consists, in part, of active discussions with industry professionals, studying the life of a single book: its author, its agent, its editor, its book designer, its publisher. It gives you an overview of how the publishing industry works through the eyes of the people who work in it. It also gives you a chance to put what you learn into practice. Using a book you’re working on (or a theoretical book you may someday write), you compose a query letter, design a book jacket, and create marketing material in support of your project. The term culminates with a book auction where students form publishing teams and bid on the books they would most like to publish.
ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 207, ENGL 210, ENGL 214, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. A workshop in writing poems, requiring regular writing and outside reading.
ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3-4
ENGL 203 recommended. Students who do not meet the requisite may submit a fiction writing sample for possible instructor consent. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 210, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 308, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. A workshop in writing fiction, requiring regular writing and outside reading.
ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3-4
Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 207, ENGL 210, ENGL 214, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. Flannery O’Connor once said that any writer who could survive childhood had enough material to write about for a lifetime. Memoir is a mosaic form, utilizing bits and pieces from autobiography, fiction, essay and poetry in ways that allow the author to muse (speculate, imagine, remember, and question) on their own life experiences. Modern literary memoir requires tremendous work from the author, as she moves both backward and forward in time, re-creates believable dialogue, switches back and forth between scene and summary, and controls the pace and tension of the story with lyricism or brute imagery. In short, the memoirist keeps her reader engaged by being an adept and agile storyteller. This is not straight autobiography. Memoir is more about what can be gleaned from a section of one’s life than about chronicling an entire life. Like a mosaic, memoir is about the individual pieces as much as the eventual whole. Work focuses on reading established memoirists, free writing, and workshopping in and out of class.
ENGL 312 - Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
No prior knowledge of medieval languages necessary. Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A study of the complex nexus of gender, love, and marriage in medieval legal, theological, political, and cultural discourses. Reading an eclectic range of texts–such as romance, hagiography, fabliau, (auto)biography, conduct literature, and drama–we consider questions of desire, masculinity, femininity, and agency, as well as the production and maintenance of gender roles and of emotional bonds within medieval conjugality. Authors include Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes, Heldris of Cornwall, Andreas Capellanus, Margery Kempe, and Christine de Pisan. Readings in Middle English or in translation.
ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course considers the primary work on which Chaucer’s reputation rests: The Canterbury Tales. We pay sustained attention to Chaucer’s Middle English at the beginning of the semester to ease the reading process. Then we travel alongside the Canterbury pilgrims as they tell their tales under the guise of a friendly competition. The Canterbury Tales is frequently read as a commentary on the social divisions in late medieval England, such as the traditional estates, religious professionals and laity, and gender hierarchies. But despite the Tales’ professed inclusiveness of the whole of English society, Chaucer nonetheless focuses inordinately on those individuals from the emerging middle classes. Our aim is to approach the Tales from the practices of historicization and theorization; that is, we both examine Chaucer’s cultural and historical contexts and consider issues of religion, gender, sexuality, marriage, conduct, class, chivalry, courtly love, community, geography, history, power, spirituality, secularism, traditional authority, and individual experience. Of particular importance are questions of voicing and writing, authorship and readership. Lastly, we think through Chaucer’s famous Retraction at the end” of The Canterbury Tales, as well as Donald R. Howard’s trenchant observation that the Tale is “unfinished but complete.” What does it mean for the father of literary “Englishness” to end his life’s work on the poetic principle of unfulfilled closure and on the image of a society on the move?”
ENGL 315 - Arthurian Bodies, Desires, and Affects
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. During the medieval and early modern periods, King Arthur and his court served as the foundational models of courtly love, chivalry, and political discourse in the West. Yet artists have rendered Arthurian personae as bodies that feel deeply and follow the pull of desires, and in so doing, produce counter subjectivities. This course surveys the premodern Arthurian literary traditions through theoretical lenses grounded in women’s, queer, and trans studies. We examine the myths of Arthur’s heroic masculinity and Camelot, the adulterous love triangle at the heart of courtly love, the uncanny trans embodiment and queer sensibility of knighthood, the marriage plot, the uneven gendering of negative affects, the trans-species borders of the animal and the human, and alternate forms of sociality.
ENGL 316 - The Tudors
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Famous for his mistresses and marriages, his fickle treatment of courtiers, and his vaunting ambition, Henry VIII did more to change English society and religion than any other king. No one understood Henry’s power more carefully than his daughter Elizabeth, who oversaw England’s first spy network and jealously guarded her throne from rebel contenders. This course studies the writers who worked for the legendary Tudors, focusing on the love poetry of courtiers, trials, and persecution of religious dissidents, plays, and accounts of exploration to the new world. We trace how the ambitions of the monarch, along with religious revolution and colonial expansion, figure in the work of writers like Wyatt, Surrey, and Anne Askew; Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Southwell; and Thomas More and Walter Ralegh.
ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Focusing on the repertory and working conditions of the two play companies with which he was centrally involved, this course examines plays by Shakespeare and several of his contemporary collaborators and colleagues (Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher). Attentive to stage history and the evolution of dramatic texts within print culture, students consider the degree to which Shakespeare was both a representative and an exceptional player in Renaissance London’s show business.
ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. In a given term, this course focuses on one or two of the major genres explored by Shakespeare (e.g., histories, tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies/romances, lyric and narrative poetry), in light of Renaissance literary conventions and recent theoretical approaches. Students consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s generic experiments are variably inflected by gender, by political considerations, by habitat, and by history.
ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Readings of lyric and epic poetry spanning the long 16th century, and tracing the development of republican and cavalier literary modes. Genres include the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Katherine Philips, and Henry Vaughan; erotic verse by Mary Wroth, Herrick, Thomas Carew, Marvell, Aphra Behn, and the Earl of Rochester; elegy by Jonson and Bradstreet; and epic by Milton.
ENGL 330 - Milton
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course surveys one of the most talented and probing authors of the English language – a man whose reading knowledge and poetic output has never been matched, and whose work has influenced a host of writers after him, including Alexander Pope, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. In this course, we read selections from Milton’s literary corpus, drawing from such diverse genres as lyric, drama, epic and prose polemic. As part of their study of epic form, students create a digital humanities project rendering Paradise Los t in gaming context. Quests, heroes, ethical choices and exploration of new worlds in Paradise Lost are rendered as a game. Students read Milton in the context of literary criticism and place him within his historical milieu, not the least of which includes England’s dizzying series of political metamorphoses from Monarchy to Commonwealth, Commonwealth to Protectorate, and Protectorate back to Monarchy.
ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A study of prose fiction up to about 1800, focusing on the 18th-century literary and social developments that have been called the rise of the novel. Authors likely include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and/or Austen.
ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Novels and topics vary from year to year depending upon the interests of the instructor and of the students (who are encouraged to express their views early in the preceding semester). Authors range from Austen and Scott through such high Victorians as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, and Trollope to late figures such as Hardy, Bennett, and James. Possible topics include the multiplot novel, women novelists, industrial and country house novels, mysteries and gothics, and the bildungsroman.
ENGL 349 - Middlemarch and Devoted Readers
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This seminar begins with and centers upon George Eliot’s Middlemarch, a novel often regarded as one of the greatest and most ambitious produced in the era of the novel’s securest cultural dominance and famously described by Virginia Woolf as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. It then problematizes this encounter by setting it in light of Rebecca’s Mead’s critically-acclaimed My Life in Middlemarch, a memoir of her devoted lifelong reading and reading of it, not just for pleasure but for its profound wisdom and insight. The question of such intense admiration verging on fandom is one that has received increasing scholarly attention, particularly in relation to the so-called Janeite phenomenon, that is, the love of Jane Austen fans for her novels, but extends to numerous other novelists, poets, playwrights, fun-makers, and their fans. Students supplement this focus of the course by researching and presenting their own exemplary case studies of such readerly devotion, obsession, or fandom.
ENGL 353 - Poetry, Skepticism and the Sacred
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Selected readings in British poetry from the turn of the century to the present, including the English tradition, international modernism, Irish, and other Commonwealth poetry. We will examine how many poets handle inherited forms, negotiate the world wars, and express identity amid changing definitions of gender and nation.
ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course examines both the masterpieces and undiscovered gems of English language theater from Samuel Beckett to the present. The course investigates contemporary movements away from naturalism and realism towards the fantastical, surreal, and spectacular. Student presentations, film screenings, and brief performance exercises supplement literary analysis of the plays, though no prior drama experience is presumed.
ENGL 356 - Whitman vs Dickinson
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. In this seminar, students read two wild and wildly different U.S. poets alongside queer theory about temporality. Since we are discussing queerness in the past, present, and future, we will also consider 2lst-century reception of 19th-century literature and history, and students will participate in a Nineteenth-Century Poetry Slam.
ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course focuses on the intersection of race and gender as they meet in the lives and identities of contemporary women of color via literature: African-Americans, Native Americans, Chicanas, Asian-Americans, and mixed bloods, or ‘mestizas.’ Our readings, discussions and writings focus on the work that coming to voice does for women of color, and for our larger society and world. Students read a variety of poetry, fiction, and autobiography in order to explore some of the issues most important to and about women of color: identity, histories, diversity, resistance and celebration. Literary analyses-i.e., close readings, explications and interpretations-are key strategies for understanding these readings.
ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A study of American Indian literature, primarily from the 20th century but including some historical and prehistorical foundations (oral storytelling, early orations and essays). Texts and topics may vary, but this course poses questions about nation, identity, indigenous sovereignty, mythology and history, and the powers of story as both resistance and regeneration. Readings in poetry, fiction, memoir, and nonfiction prose. Authors may include Alexie, Harjo, Hogan, Erdrich, Silko, Chrystos, Ortiz, LeAnne Howe and Paula Gunn Allen.
ENGL 363 - Modern Poetry’s Media
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A consideration of American poetry from the first half of the 20th century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and popular poetry. Students will investigate the interplay of tradition and experiment in a period defined by expatriatism, female suffrage, and the growing power of urban culture.
ENGL 364 - Poetry and Authenticity
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. Readings from the middle generation of 20th century U.S. poets with attention to the Beats, the New York School, Black Arts, and many other movements. Writers may include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Robert Hayden, and others.
ENGL 366 - African-American Literature
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A focused engagement with the African-American literary tradition, from its beginnings in the late 18th century through its powerful assertions in the 21st. The focus of each term’s offering may vary; different versions of the course might emphasize a genre, author, or period such as poetry, Ralph Ellison, or the Harlem Renaissance.
ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A reading of major American novelists, focusing especially on Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. We also consider the relationship between the novel and punishment, especially in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and William Wells Brown. Additionally, we read fictions during the second half of the century by Twain, Chopin, and Chesnutt.
ENGL 369 - Late 20th-Century North American Fiction
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. An exploration of fiction since World War II. Authors may include Wright, O’Connor, Highsmith, Nabokov, Capote, Pynchon, Silko, Atwood, and Morrison.
ENGL 370 - Contemporary North American Fiction
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A study of 21st-century novels and short stories by North American authors. The course examines the recent movement of literary fiction into traditional pulp genres. Authors may include: Chabon, Atwood, Allende, Alexie, Butler, McCarthy, Diaz, Whitehead, Link, Fowler, and Grossman.
ENGL 374 - King and Kubrick
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. This course explores and juxtaposes the novels, films, epic ambitions, dark visions, and cultural rivalry of two of the most popular, influential, and original narrative artists of 20th- and 21st-century America. We survey all of Kubrick’s 13 feature films, more closely engage with several of the most important, and highlight a small but representative selection of King’s vast oeuvre, emphasizing King’s literary and cultural ambitions more than his practice as a master of horror. At the center stand King’s and Kubrick’s versions of The Shining and the angry reaction of King to Kubrick’s cold, dark, even post-human adaptation of the far more ethical and humane novel. This rivalry and argument becomes the lens through which this course takes up the larger debate over the modernist and postmodernist cultural ranking of works and authors into categories such ”masscult” and “midcult” or “highbrow,” “middlebrow,” and “lowbrow.”
ENGL 375 - Literary Theory
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A survey of major schools of literary theory including New Criticism, Formalism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, Postcolonial and Native Studies, Feminisms, Queer Studies, Ecocriticism, and New Media. In addition to close reading, we examine alternative methods such as surface reading, flat reading, paranoid reading, and reparative reading. The final paper is tailored to individual student’s interests. According to student interests, we also discuss preparations for graduate programs and explore the genres of thesis and grant proposals.
ENGL 376 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course is an introduction to some of the key concepts and debates in postcolonial theory, with an emphasis on Caribbean literature and anti-colonial thought. We will grapple with three main questions that have shaped the field as we know it: 1. When and where is the “postcolonial”? 2. How does the legacy of colonialism shape modern day understandings of race, ethnicity and culture? And 3. What does the legacy of colonialism mean for the environmental crises we face today? These broad concepts (temporality, racial formations and ecological challenges) are grounded in the study of key theoretical texts, including the works of Frantz Fanon, and in novels and poems, including those by W.E.B. Du Bois, Michelle Cliff and Suzanne Césaire.
ENGL 382 - Hotel Orient
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This seminar charts the historical encounters between East and West through the very spaces that facilitate cross-cultural transactions from the medieval to the postmodern. If modern hotel consciousness is marked by transience, ennui, eroticism, and isolation, we ask whether or not the same characteristics held true in premodern hotel practices, and if the space of the Orient makes a difference in hotel writing. Semantically, Orient means not only the geographic east. As a verb, to orient means to position and ascertain one’s bearings. In this sense, to write about lodging in the East is to sort out one’s cultural and geopolitical orientation.
ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: instructor consent. An advanced seminar in British literature carried on in Great Britain, with emphasis on independent research and intensive exposure to British culture. Changing topics, rotated yearly from instructor to instructor, and limited in scope to permit study in depth.
ENGL 391 - Topics in Creative Writing
FDR: HA Fine Arts Distribution
Credits: 3
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. An advanced workshop in creative writing. Genres and topics will vary, but all versions involve intensive reading and writing.
ENGL 392 - Topics in Literature in English before 1700
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A seminar course on literature written in English before 1700 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.
ENGL 393 - Topics in Literature in English from 1700-1900
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A seminar course on literature written in English from 1700 to 1900 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.
ENGL 394 - Topics in Literature in English since 1900
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A seminar course on literature written in English since 1900 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.
ENGL 395 - Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions
FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3-4
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. A seminar course on literature written in English in an area of counter traditions– with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.
ENGL 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
ENGL 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: instructor consent. A collaborative group research and writing project for senior majors, conducted in supervising faculty members’ areas of expertise, with directed independent study culminating in a substantial final project. Possible topics include ecocriticism, literature and psychology, material conditions of authorship, and documentary poetics.
ENGL 431 - Master Class in Creative Writing
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 1
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Glasgow Writer in Residence. A 5-7 page writing sample in the relevant genre to Professor Lesley Wheeler for consideration is also required. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 207, ENGL 210, ENGL 214, ENGL 215, ENGL 306, ENGL 309, or ENGL 391. An advanced workshop taught by the Glasgow Writer in Residence. The genre varies, but the course includes readings, workshops, and individual conferencing.
ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah
Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes
Credits: 3
May be applied once to the English major or Creative Writing minor and repeated for a maximum of six additional elective credits, as long as the specific projects undertaken are different. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, ENGL 202, ENGL 203, ENGL 204, ENGL 206, ENGL 207, ENGL 210, ENGL 214, or ENGL 215. An apprenticeship in editing with the editor of Shenandoah, Washington and Lee’s literary magazine. Students are instructed in and assist in these facets of the editor’s work: evaluation of manuscripts of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, and translations; substantive editing of manuscripts, copyediting; communicating with writers; social media; website maintenance; the design of promotional material.
ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: instructor consent. A summary of prerequisites and requirements may be obtained at the English Department website (https://my.wlu.edu/english-department).
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