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ENG 4880: Literature of the Victorian Period: Education and the Victorian Novel

ENG 4880: Literature of the Victorian Period: Education and the Victorian Novel
Oct 24, 2025

What makes a novel a novel? How have our everyday reading practices and habits of media consumption today changed since the Victorian period? And why ...

ENG 4509: Junior/Senior Honors Seminar: Major Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky

ENG 4509: Junior/Senior Honors Seminar: Major Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oct 24, 2025

Praised for his piercing psychological insight and complex, deeply human characters, Russian Realist author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is one of th...

ENG 4280: Literary and Cultural Study Abroad: Landscapes of Post-Conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland Study Abroad

ENG 4280: Literary and Cultural Study Abroad: Landscapes of Post-Conflict in Ireland and Northern Ireland Study Abroad
Oct 24, 2025

How do societies once divided by intense conflict come together once that violence is over? How is that violence and subsequent peacebuilding etched o...

ENG 4090: Rhetorics of Resistance

ENG 4090: Rhetorics of Resistance
Oct 24, 2025

Our contemporary global landscape is defined in many ways by the rhetoric of atrocity and the spectacle of human suffering. This course will explore, ...

ENG 3689: Advanced Screenwriting

ENG 3689: Advanced Screenwriting
Oct 24, 2025

The focus of this course is the completion of a narrative screenplay. The semester will be divided into lecture and workshop/table read sessions, focu...

ENG 3679: Screenwriting

ENG 3679: Screenwriting
Oct 24, 2025

This course explores the art and craft of screenwriting for film and television. Through interactive workshops, and screenings, students will learn to...

ENG 5810: Medieval Literature: Manuscript to Screen

ENG 5810: Medieval Literature: Manuscript to Screen
Oct 24, 2025

This course has two goals. First, we will acquaint ourselves with some of the major works of literature from the English Middle Ages, with texts datin...

ENG 4660: History of the English Language

ENG 4660: History of the English Language
Oct 24, 2025

We use language to communicate, build relationships, and create a sense of community. In turn language shapes and reflects a given culture, making it ...

ENG 3662: Advanced Fiction (Prof. Caleb Johnson)

ENG 3662: Advanced Fiction (Dr. Caleb Johnson)
Oct 24, 2025

This course is an intensive creative writing workshop designed to build upon the requisite craft elements of writing short fiction—observation, plot...

ENG 4795: Contemporary American Literature: 1960 - Present (Dr. Michael Docherty)

ENG 4795: Contemporary American Literature: 1960 - Present (Dr. Michael Docherty)
Oct 24, 2025

CATASTROPHE! CRISIS! COLLAPSE! THE NOVEL AND THE ENDS OF HISTORYThe political paranoia and nuclear anxieties of the Cold War met a “crisis of repres...