ENG 203-010 – Dr. Keith O’Neill LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES: COLONIAL ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR This course will explore issues of race, gender and class in the writings of authors both well-known and some whose marginalized writings have been left out of textbooks.

ENG 204-010 – Dr. Tina Iraca LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES: CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II

ENG 205-010 – Dr. Navina Hooker THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY NOVEL Sex, crime, love, money, power. All in corsets. #NOTBORING ENG 209–510 & ENG 209-61A CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Prof. Shinelle Espaillat How to write any kind of story, whether it’s about true life, wizard school, or outer space. ENG 210-61A – Prof. Melanie Klein ENG 210–010 - Dr. Lucia Cherciu CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY What tools can we use to most powerfully express ourselves in poetry? Explore and experiment with the ways we can shape language to engage the ear, the eye, and the mind. Share your writing with other students as you develop your voice as a poet.

ENG 211–010 – Prof. Kevin Lang INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM In this age of "Fake News," good journalists are more in demand than ever. Are you curious, inquisitive, love to learn new things and tell stories? Then this course is for you. Keep those in power honest and preserve the First Amendment.

ENG 212-010 – Dr. Kevin Cavanaugh GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE IN

A look at Western civilization’s classical heroes and villains, both mythical and historical, to provide a better understanding of who we are, where we came from, and how we got here. We study the poets, playwrights, thinkers, and leaders

that shaped two major cultures that have helped shape our own.

ENG 214–610 – Prof. Patricia Phillips WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION Are you more forthcoming in your writing than in spoken conversation? Consider the possibilities in writing creative nonfiction: constructing a character – from yourself; reflecting on your inner wisdom; revealing and accepting your innermost thoughts with all flaws and imperfections. This course will focus on the craft of reading and writing literary nonfiction.

ENG 216–010 – Dr. Tina Iraca THE SHORT STORY

We will read some of the best short fiction ever written from Edgar Allan Poe to Miranda July, stories immersed in secrets, confession, fantasy, love, fear, joy, death, hope, and more.

ENG 223–010 – Dr. Lucia Cherciu WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE How many women authors can you name? How many are men? It’s likely the second list is longer than the first. Taking this course will help you understand the historical and cultural context for that fact and will change it for you.

ENG 225–010 - Prof. Jacqueline Goffe-Mcnish ISSUES/IDEAS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE This course introduces students to issues and ideas in Caribbean literature through poetry, prose, short stories, plays and criticism from English, Dutch, French and Spanish speaking islands. Concepts of magical realism, creolization, pastoralism and assimilation will be considered as they appear in the stories of the people. By using structural, feminist, reader response and new historicism analysis, students will discuss the presentation of the African diaspora.

ENG 226–01H & ENG 226-020 POPULAR CULTURE Dr. Joseph Allen Are you an active or passive consumer of popular culture? To answer this seemingly straightforward question, we’ll study the industrial food system, the fashion industry, social identity as represented on television, and the ways the internet and big technology

companies have altered popular culture.

This course features African American, Native American, and women’s voices in addition to

fiction of the Realistic and Moderns periods.

What’s Your Story?

Toni Morrison Walt Whitman

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regardless of major and for students who go work in an industry immediately after graduation.

ENG 227–610 – Dr. Brenda Squires FILMS AND LITERATURE

This class focuses on the art of film adaptation, the recreation on the screen of everything from classic works of literature to genre fiction to contemporary

memoirs to comic books to freewheeling versions of an author’s entire body of work. This semester’s theme will be “Ghosts in Time and Place.” We will read works and watch films from a variety of periods and places-- from Medieval Japan to Victorian England to a baseball field in Iowa—paying close attention to the transformation of the texts in order to think about the differences between the media. In some cases we will dip into multiple versions of the same text to think about the significance of creative choices by screenwriters and directors. We will also think about the cultural and historical implications of ghosts and hauntings. While the spirits may generally refuse to answer the universal question, they do tell us a great deal about the culture that produced them.

ENG 234-010 – Dr. Navina Hooker INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES How are we defined, shaped, empowered or limited by the world in which we live? How do aspects of our identities like gender, sexual orientation, race, and class determine our experiences? In this class we explore the issues that impact us in our daily lives and find ways to create more positive and equitable possibilities for everyone in our society.

200-level Literature Courses The English and Humanities Department boasts a wide offering of 200-level literature courses that reflects the changing tide of scholarly inquiry, challenges the ever-widening conventional literary canon, and boldly reimagines classical texts. Literature professors encourage students to examine imaginative writing through a lens informed by our contemporary moment when empathy for others’ racialized, sexualized, politicized, and gendered life experiences is urgent and warranted.

Creative Writing Courses For students wishing to explore their own creative work, the Department offers creative writing workshops in fiction and poetry. In these Directed Writing courses, students read and critique each other's work in smaller settings with an emphasis on revision.

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NGA.gov. Feingold, Deborah. Toni Morrison. Photograph. Corbis/Getty. Glasner, Leszek. “Poetry.” Istockphoto. New.psu.edu. Machiko Kyô. Still frame from Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, closeupfilmcentre.com Newton Graffiti. “Free Speech*/*Conditions Apply.” Flickr.com. Photograph of Pauline E. Hopkins. 1901. Pauline E. Hopkins Society.

Paulinehopkinssociety.org. Tomine, Adrian. “Missed Connection.” 2004 Print. Adrian-tomine.com.

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