ENGL 554-01 Seminar in Prose Fiction: Creative Writing and Reading
Professor Jodi Monster
Monday 5:00-7:30pm
Mothers, Maids, Meddlers and Monsters: a look at depictions of women in contemporary literature.
This graduate seminar will explore the complex intersections of gender and class, with a particular focus on entrenched power structures that impede individual thriving. Emphasis will be on direct engagement with the course texts in preparation for the completion of a twenty-page mini-thesis that explores the themes of one or more course texts in the context of its narrative structure.
As many students may be preparing for teaching careers, students will also be required to prepare and present a micro lesson to the class. Students will support each other¿s work in progress during peer review sessions.
The required course texts are: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai and The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz.
ENGL 597-01 Advanced Topics in English: Recovering the Black Past
Dr. Piper Williams
Wednesday 5-7:30pm
ENGL 612: Shakespeare: Women Talk Back to Shakespeare
Dr. Jo Carney
Tuesday 5-7:30pm
For centuries, women have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his works. This class will be grounded in adaptation theory, and we will explore several plays by Shakespeare as well as contemporary works by Toni Morrison, Emily St. John Mandel, Maggie O’Farrell, and others.
ENGL 624-01 Seminar in 17th Century Literature
Dr. David Venturo
Thursday 5-7:30pm
This course explores issues in British literature and culture in the aftermath of two civil wars and the beheading of King Charles I in the 1640s. The rich and diverse literature of the period from 1650 to 1700 reflects powerful divisions and tensions that exploded into warfare and social ferment in the 1640s and `50s and led to violent conflict again in 1688. The course offers you the opportunity to study the tensions and debates of that perilous and engrossing world as reflected in the remarkable literature of the period, including works by John Milton, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, and Jonathan Swift.