Literature

Emily Dickinson: a World at Every Plunge — LIT4158.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Stefania Heim

Credits: 2

Despite having published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson has become one of the most iconic American poets. Few writers are as radical and mysterious as Dickinson. Few have been as caricatured (the recluse-spinster in a white dress) or as misunderstood: the earliest collections of her work, published shortly after her death, famously “fixed” her

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Credits: 2

Individually designed tutorials provide the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure with an emphasis on paragraph and essay construction. Additional work is offered in oral expression, aural comprehension, and analytical reading. Tutorials may also introduce the interpretation of literature and the writing of critical essays.

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This class will guide international students through the stages of the writing process with weekly papers which explore several rhetorical modes, including description, nonfiction narration, and with particular emphasis on constructing academic essays. We will also have the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure. Additional work is

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Credits: 2

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Credits: 2

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English As A Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Credits: 2

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: wayne hoffmann-ogier

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course will provide the opportunity to review grammar, punctuation, diction, and sentence structure with an emphasis on paragraph and essay construction. Additional work is offered in oral expression, aural comprehension, and analytical reading. The instructor may also introduce the interpretation of literature and the writing of critical essays.

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier

Credits: 2

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English Restoration and 18th Century Drama — LIT4240.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Maya Cantu

Credits: 4

This class will explore English drama of the Restoration and 18th century, with a focus on the structure and conventions of the comedy of manners. During the Restoration, the cavaliers of Charles II’s court promoted an ethos of sophisticated debauchery, fueled by the Hobbesian social currency of wit and power. Within this world of masks, mirrors, and modes, playwrights

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Enlightenment Prose — LIT2321.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Brooke Allen

Credits: 4

This course will introduce students to the major prose writers of the Enlightenment and to the ideas that inspired them. Authors covered will include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot, Hume, Smith, Locke, Gibbon, Jefferson, Paine, and others.

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Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Spring 2023

Instructor: Anne Thompson

Credits: 2

The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of

Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

Ethical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness — LIT4392.01

Fall 2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

Designed to help students build their own ethical translation practices—with attention to issues of race, gender, and queerness—this course offers an introduction to translation via a hands-on approach. What pronouns do you use when translating from a language that doesn’t have gendered pronouns? Do you translate slurs? We will tackle these questions, plus the basics, thinking

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European Literature Between the Wars — LIT4170.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Stuart Nadler

Credits: 4

In the immediate aftermath of WWI, Europe found itself dramatically reshaped. In the place of the now-dead Dual Monarchy were six new nation states set between borders haphazardly drawn by victors of the war in order to smite the losers. An economic crisis swept the continent, leaving millions starving and rendering the German Mark nearly worthless. In the east, the Soviet

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Experimental Black Women Poetry — LIT4129.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Phillip Williams

Credits: 4

Defining experimental poetry can be mystifying inasmuch as all writing can be considered experimenting with language. The notion of experimentation, however, has often been denied writers of African descent across the globe. Often relegated to the margins in discussions of innovative and avant garde poetics, Black women have throughout time lead the charge of excavating

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Experimental Fiction by Women — LIT4394.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

Women writers are notoriously overlooked by the canon, often falling into obscurity in favor of male writers’ contributions, or only recognized under the “woman writer” category. In this 2-credit class, we will trace the lineage of women’s literary invention, including their contributions to stream of consciousness writing, the Nouveau Roman, Oulipo, and contemporary

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Faith in Literature — LIT2562.01) (cancelled 8/22/2024

Fall 2024

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas

Credits: 4

In his book The Secular Age, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor writes about what he describes as a “widespread sense of loss … if not always of God, then at least of meaning.” This contemporary crisis of meaning has been well-considered by social scientists, journalists, and artists. In the wake of this, some wonder whether we are entering a “post-secular” age, with a

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Fantasy Literature: 4000 Years of Written Wonders — LIT2560.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Maria Dahvana Headley

Credits: 4

The earliest known pictorial record of storytelling is a cave painting found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It’s a scene of eight hunters taking on a wild pig and some water buffalo – but the hunters themselves are therianthropes, combination human-animal creatures. This ancestor of contemporary fantastical graphic novels and comic books is about 45,000 years old. History has always

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Feminist Fabulist Fiction — LIT2298.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Anna Maria Hong

Credits: 4

Reading works by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, A. S. Byatt, Natsuo Kirino, James Tiptree, Jr., John Keene, Lindsey Drager, Han Kang, and others, we will investigate the realm of fabulist fiction or literary works invoking the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We will read short stories, novels, and novellas that emphasize

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Feminist Writing by Women of Color, 1970s-80s — LIT2543.01

Fall 2024

Instructor: Franny Choi

Credits: 4

1970 was a watershed year for Black feminism, with the publication of several monumental books including The Black Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara. How did women writers of color contend with race, class, gender, and sexuality in the decades leading up to the coining of the term “intersectionality?” What works from this period were foundational for

Black Studies Literature

Fiction from Fact — LIT2389.02

Fall 2015

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

In this writing intensive class, students will develop fictions from documented historical, scientific, urban, and pastoral events, including mysteries, texts, and rumors. Our readings will include stories by Andrea Barrett, Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Modiano, Natalia Ginzburg, among others. Some research will be involved. This course is offered in the second seven weeks of the

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Fiction in a Flash: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4285.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Michael Dumanis

Credits: 4

Take a quick scan on any table in a bookstore and you'll see that the short story collection is having a renaissance. These bite-sized literary gems have the ability to push boundaries, explore themes, and take abrupt twists that the long-form novel just can't navigate. The short story is the hummingbird, turning on a dime, and always surprising the reader in the direction it

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Fitzgerald and Hemingway — LIT2275.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: doug bauer

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were arguably the preeminent literary figures in America in the first quarter of the Twentieth century. Their work and their lives were both closely intertwined and dramatically contrasting. Each came from the conservative Midwest. Each enjoyed stunning early success. Each made his permanent mark in a very different fashion as a

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From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Fall 2016

Instructor: Elisa Albert

Credits: 4

As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends. From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.

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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Jenny Boully

Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

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