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Early Christian and Sufi Mystics — LIT2579.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: An Duplan
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Mystics––historically portrayed as passionate, dangerous, romantic, heretical, satanic––are a thorn in the side of organized religion. From the very beginnings of recorded human time, the presence and practice of mystics has been controversial. Sufi mystic al-Hallaj’s pronouncement that he was “the Truth” was received as blasphemy by the

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Eastern European Literature and Cinema — LIT2171.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Alexandar Mihailovic
Credits: 4
In this course we will examine contemporary literature and cinema from Eastern Europe from the Cold War to the present, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former East Bloc nations and their successor states in post-Communist Europe, including iconoclastic writers and film
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Eastern European Literature and Cinema: From the Cold War to the Present — LIT2171.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In this course, we will examine contemporary literature and cinema in the “other” Europe, exposing the intricacies of daily life in a region where the past is always present. The cinematic and literary texts will be drawn from the former Yugoslavia and the successor states of East Bloc nations in post-Communist Europe. We will consider the work of iconoclastic writers and film
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Ecopoetics: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire — LIT4381.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The course will be divided into four sections corresponding to four elements of nature that have been transformed in the anthropocene. In order to strengthen our environmental literacy, we will read scientific articles as well as news articles about wildfires in California, Europe, and Australia. We will educate ourselves about disappearing islands through the rise of sea
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Ekphrastic Poetry — LIT4122.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
In the earliest known example of ekphrasis, at a crucial moment in the Iliad, Homer interrupts the epic battle with a long description of the Shield of Achilles so powerfully cinematic that the listener or reader often forgets that the shield is a static and imagined object. This shield has become a paradigm in the history of ekphrasis—the genre of writing in
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Eliot and Oppen — LIT4123.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Phillip B. Williams
Credits: 2
This 7-week course will explore two vastly different but strangely similar writers who explore different aspect of Modernist poetry: Eliot as Modernism's forefather and Oppen as part of the Objectivist group. Where Eliot was stunned into his most well-regarded work "The Waste Land" by the aftermath of the first World War, Oppen abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama — DRA4361.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kathleen dimmick
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course investigates the great flourishing of drama in late 16th and early 17th century England, a period of little more than fifty years that produced the most robust theater in the English-speaking world. We read plays by several of the major writers of the period, with the exception of Shakespeare: Kyd, Marlowe, Green, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, Webster, Middleton, and
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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
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

Spring 2017
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
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 offered
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English As A Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
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 offered
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English as a Second Language — LIT2101.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
Days & Time: TBA
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 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

Spring 2016
Instructor: Wayne Hoffmann-Ogier
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 offered
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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
Drama Literature

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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