ENG 203-710 – Dr. Brenda Squires

LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES: COLONIAL ERA TO THE CIVIL WAR This course will explore issues of nation formation, race, gender, class, exploration, and identity in the historical context of early American poetry and prose.

ENG 202-010 – Dr. Tina Iraca ENGLISH LITERATURE: ROMANTIC TO MODERN NOT YOUR MOTHER’S ENGLISH LIT! Malevolent mermaids, mysterious lovers, deified nature, invasive industry, massive shifts, love! Writers contemplating everything that the human mind can imagine from the Romantic period through modernity. 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 216–010 – Dr. Tina Iraca THE SHORT STORY Storytelling is gossip, dialogue, secrets, narrative, confession, and fantasy about love, fear, joy, hope, death, knowing. We read and discuss the best short fiction ever written that reveals the heights and depths of human behavior. Join the conversation.

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 and in groups with students seeking help in the Writing Center while immersing themselves in a series of writing assignments that give them a chance to experiment with multiple and challenging essay forms. Permission of Dr. Brenda Squires is required to register (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.

WRITING CREATIVE

Walt Whitman

What’s Your Story?

“Apieceoffictioncanallowusimaginativelytoidentifywithacharacter’spain;wemightthen

alsomoreeasilyconceiveofothersidentifyingwithourown.Thisisnourishing,redemptive;webecomelessaloneinside.”

–DavidFosterWallace

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

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ENG 227–510 Dr. Gail Upchurch-Mills FILMS AND LITERATURE Do you love to watch movies? Horror, romance, drama, sci fi? This class examines the relationship between movies

and the books on which they are based. What changes do movie directors make? Why? The class examines the role of filmmakers and authors and considers what both art mediums offer audiences.

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! We’ll investigate power inequities and Popular Culture. Podcasts, documentaries, music, graffiti, and more will reveal resistance to prevailing power structures. A Service Learning project included at no extra cost.

Works Cited (Images) Adams, Allison. Zora Neale Hurston. Painting. 2017. Groundbreakinggirls.com. Carnevale, Mia. “Is There More To Memory Than Meets the Eye,”The Varsity, 2018. thevarsity.ca. Film Collage Imagery of The Stuart Hall Project, Caribbean Commons, Stuart Hall Conference, 2017. Gentry, Nick. “Profile Number Two.” 2018. Nickgentry.com. Glasner, Leszek. “Poetry.” Istockphoto. New.psu.edu. Illustration of David Foster Wallace by Philip Burke, The New Yorker, 2009. 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’s 200-level literature courses reflect the changing tide of scholarly inquiry, challenge the ever-widening conventional literary canon, and boldly reimagine 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.