ENG 202-010 – Dr. Tina Iraca ENGLISH LITERATURE: ROMANTIC TO MODERN Malevolent mermaids, mysterious lovers, deified nature, invasive industry, massive shifts, love! Writers contemplating everything that the human mind can imagine from the Romantic poets to the Modern period. ENG 208-01A – Dr. Kevin Cavanaugh MODERN DRAMATIC LITERATURE Literature comes to life! Words leap from the page and on to the stage! This is a hybrid course blending classroom time with online work, focusing on some of the most influential plays and playwrights from the late 19th century through today. ENG 209–010 & ENG 209-610 Dr. Keith O'Neill CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION Writers will practice various forms of fiction

writing, examine the elements of fiction, probe the creative process, and develop their work.

ENG 210–510 – Prof. Leigh Williams 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 214-010 – Prof. Patricia Phillips

Are you more forthcoming in your writing than in spoken

conversation? Then consider some possibilities in the writing of literary nonfiction: constructing a character – from

yourself; questioning and 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 216–51A Prof. Shinelle Espaillat THE SHORT STORY Study the development of the course and how noted authors changed the focus and purpose of the genre during its brief history.

ENG 216–010 Dr. Tina Iraca THE SHORT STORY Storytelling is gossip, secrets, narrative, confession, and fantasy about love, fear, joy, hope, death, knowing. Read the best short fiction ever written.

ENG 218-010 – Dr. Brenda Squires ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND PEER TUTORING WRITING Join a community of writers who help other students find their voices. Future teachers work one-on-one with students in the Writing Center while immersing themselves assignments that explore challenging essay forms. Permission to register required (x8436). ENG 223–01H – Dr. Navina Hooker WOMEN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE How many female authors can you name? How many male ones? 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 224-010 PROF. JACQUELINE GOFFE-MCNISH AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND BLACK LITERATURE A study of selected works by significant African-American writers. The forms studied include the novel, the short story, drama, the autobiography and poetry. ENG 226-010 – Dr. Joseph Allen POPULAR CULTURE 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.

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What’s Your Story?

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Short Story Writer Dr. Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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

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ENG 227–710 Dr. Liz Faber FILMS AND LITERATURE: Heroes and Villains

We will examine a broad range of movies and their source materials, across multiple genres and time periods, including all-American superheroes like Captain America, powerful princesses like Mulan, and classic bad guys like Dracula. Through close reading and creative multimodal projects, we’ll consider how and why these characters have been adapted so many times, how notions of good and evil shift over time, and how character archetypes are informed by cultural beliefs about class, race, gender, and sexuality.

ENG 232-61A Prof. Melanie Klein GRAPHIC NARRATIVE This course examines how the comics medium (a.k.a. graphic narrative) works its magic. Through reading and analyzing a variety of notable works, we will study the formal conventions and theory of graphic narrative, the unique possibilities it provides for innovative and powerful storytelling, the development of the medium (from the comics tradition to book-length graphic novels, graphic memoirs, graphic reportage, and other forms), connections to the novel and to film, and emerging directions and technologies.

ENG 233-010 – Dr. Joseph Allen INTRO TO CULTURAL STUDIES A new and revamped Introduction to Cultural Studies! By studying climate change, mass incarceration, and Beyoncé’s Homecoming, we’ll investigate power inequities and Popular Culture. Podcasts, documentaries, music and more will reveal resistance to prevailing power structures. A Service Learning project included at no extra cost. MAGESPACE/SILVERHUB/REX/SHUTTERSTOC

Works Cited (Images) Adams, Allison. Zora Neale Hurston. Painting. 2017. Groundbreakinggirls.com. Beyoncé, IMAGESPACE/SILVERHUB/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Captain America, Marvel Comics Carnevale, Mia. “Is There More To Memory Than Meets the Eye,”The Varsity, 2018. thevarsity.ca. Glasner, Leszek. “Poetry.” Istockphoto. New.psu.edu. Lemire, Jeff. The Nobody, Vertigo, 2009. p. 32. Newton Graffiti. “Free Speech*/*Conditions Apply.” Flickr.com. Tomine, Adrian. “Missed Connection.” 2004 Print. Adrian-tomine.com.

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.

NEW: Introduction to Creative Writing ENG 110-010 (Main Campus) ENG 110-710 (DCC Fishkill)

Contact: Dr. Brenda Squires

This course introduces students to three genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and

creative nonfiction. Students will read and write in representative selections in all genres and participate in discussions and workshops.

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