English (ENGL)

Professors Keen, Conner, Dobin, Warren, Wheeler
Associate Professors Adams, Braunschneider, Gertz, Miranda, Pickett, Smout
Assistant Professors Darznik, Jirsa
Visiting Assistant Professors Brodie, Crowley, Gavaler, Green, Oliver

HONORS: An Honors Program in English is offered for qualified students; see the English Department website (www.wlu.edu/x22899.xml) for details.

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Major

• •  English major leading to BA degree

Minor

• •  Creative Writing minor

Courses

• •  ENGL 180 - FS: First-year Seminar
• •  ENGL 201 - Advanced Expository Writing
• •  ENGL 203 - Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 204 - Topics in Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 205 - Poetic Forms
• •  ENGL 206 - Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction
• •  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 243 - Performing Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 250 - British Literature: Medieval and Early Modern
• •  ENGL 251 - British Literature in an Age of Global Expansion, 1660s-1790s
• •  ENGL 252 - Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 253 - Southern American Literature
• •  ENGL 254 - Jane Austen: The Works and the Phenomenon
• •  ENGL 255 - Superheroes
• •  ENGL 256 - Southern Women Writers
• •  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 Environmental Literature
• •  ENGL 295 - Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies
• •  ENGL 299 - Seminar for Prospective Majors
• •  ENGL 307 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• •  ENGL 308 - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
• •  ENGL 309 - Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir
• •  ENGL 311 - History of the English Language
• •  ENGL 312 - Chaucer, Dante, Langland: Vision and Life
• •  ENGL 313 - Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
• •  ENGL 314 - From Manuscript to Print: The History of the Book in Europe
• •  ENGL 317 - Fantasies of Untamed Nature
• •  ENGL 318 - Medieval and Renaissance Drama
• •  ENGL 319 - Shakespeare and Company
• •  ENGL 320 - Shakespearean Genres
• •  ENGL 326 - 17th-Century Poetry
• •  ENGL 330 - Milton
• •  ENGL 333 - Studies in Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature
• •  ENGL 334 - Studies in Later 18th-Century Literature
• •  ENGL 335 - 18th-Century Novels
• •  ENGL 341 - Romantic Poetry and Prose
• •  ENGL 342 - Modern Epic
• •  ENGL 345 - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel
• •  ENGL 348 - Victorian Poetry
• •  ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature
• •  ENGL 351 - World Fiction in English
• •  ENGL 352 - Modern Irish Literature
• •  ENGL 353 - 20th-Century British Poetry
• •  ENGL 354 - Contemporary British and American Drama
• •  ENGL 355 - Studies in British Fiction Since 1900
• •  ENGL 358 - Literature by Women Before 1800
• •  ENGL 359 - Literature by Women of Color
• •  ENGL 361 - Native American Literatures
• •  ENGL 362 - American Romanticism
• •  ENGL 363 - American Poetry from 1900 to 1950
• •  ENGL 364 - American Poetry from 1950 to the Present
• •  ENGL 365 - African-American Literature
• •  ENGL 367 - 19th-Century American Novel
• •  ENGL 368 - The Modern American Novel
• •  ENGL 369 - Contemporary American Fiction
• •  ENGL 370 - Literary Theory
• •  ENGL 373 - Hitchcock
• •  ENGL 380 - Advanced Seminar
• •  ENGL 384 - Ireland in Literature, History, and Film
• •  ENGL 385 - Preparatory Reading for Study Abroad
• •  ENGL 386 - Supervised Study in Great Britain
• •  ENGL 388 - Exploring the West of Ireland
• •  ENGL 403 - Directed Individual Study
• •  ENGL 413 - Senior Research and Writing
• •  ENGL 453 - Internship in Literary Editing with <i>Shenandoah</i>
• •  ENGL 493 - Honors Thesis