Dianne Mitchell's work explores the intersections of lyric form and the material world of early modern English texts. She is writing a book about the surprising forms of intimacy afforded at the intersections of materiality and lyric form. Her articles and essays have appeared in Modern Philology, English Literary Renaissance, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Studies in Philology, Renaissance Studies, and elsewhere.
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British literature, history of the material text, lyric, gender and sexuality studies
ENGL 1700 - Introduction to Shakespeare
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Fall 2022
This course introduces several of William Shakespeare�s plays, including comedies, tragedies, and histories. Students will become familiar with Shakespeare�s dramatic language, often by reading aloud, acting short scenes, or offering creative responses. We will also explore how filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare�s dramas for the screen. No previous experience with Shakespeare is expected: all students at CU are welcome! Degree credit not granted for this course and ENGL 3000.
ENGL 2102 - Literary Analysis
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Students will build skills in careful, detailed reading and critical writing. Focusing on poetry, prose, and plays, the course cultivates an understanding of literary forms and genres and introduces techniques and vocabulary essential for the study of literature.
ENGL 3000 - Shakespeare for Nonmajors
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Fall 2019
Introduction to Shakespeare. Introduces students to 6-10 of Shakespeare's major plays. Comedies, histories, and tragedies will be studied. Some non-dramatic poetry may be included. Viewing of Shakespeare in performance is often required.
ENGL 3217 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality
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Spring 2023
This course will focus on a particular issue related to questions of gender, sexuality, identity and culture. Students will explore how literature represents and constructs ideas about gender identity and sexual orientation. Topics vary each semester. Check department description for details. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics.
ENGL 3227 - Sex in Shakespeare's Time
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Fall 2024
It�s easy to think about the 1500s and 1600s as a time of starched ruffs, strict morals, and silenced women. This class seeks to complicate this story by asking how Renaissance Englishmen and -women wrote about and imagined sex. Studying drama, poetry, recipes, letters, ballads, and more, we�ll explore an erotic landscape full of surprises. How did women describe their desire for other women? Was heterosexual intercourse between consenting partners the norm? In what ways could writers express a desire for intimacy with the dead, or nature, or man-made objects? Could they experience asexuality? Did Renaissance authors recognize or celebrate trans identities? We�ll pursue these questions and more, inviting each other to test out new ways of reading, writing, and sharing our ideas as a community.
ENGL 3523 - Renaissance Literature
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Study the vibrant English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the new genres of the public stage play and the love sonnet. Together, we�ll trace how English writers used poetry, prose, and drama to re-tell Classical stories of transgressive desire, confront religious and social change, and represent cultural negotiations with Islam and the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. Students will have the opportunity to explore four-hundred year old books in CU�s Special Collections. Formerly ENGL 4523.
ENGL 3533 - The Later English Renaissance
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Spring 2021
Surveys prose, poetry and drama of the seventeenth century, from Donne, Jonson and Bacon through Milton and his contemporaries. Formerly ENGL 4533.
ENGL 3563 - Shakespeare in Dialogue
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Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
Shakespeare has often seemed to stand apart. This course proposes instead that the full power of Shakespeare�s drama and poetry emerges in dialogue. Students will read his plays alongside those of talented contemporaries; explore the dynamic social and political contexts of his writing; ask how Shakespeare�s works can participate in modern conversations about race, sexuality, nation, and ability; or consider how �Shakespeare� is transformed by the bodies that perform, edit, or simply read his writing.
ENGL 3583 - Milton�s Worlds
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Spring 2020
This course studies the writings of John Milton within his turbulent political and literary landscape. We will focus on Milton�s epic, Paradise Lost, which tells a story of worlds created and squandered. We will also explore art and literature that talks back to Milton�s vision of paradise and evil.
ENGL 3930 - Internship
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Fall 2021
Provides academically supervised opportunity for upper-division students to work in public or private organizations on projects related to students' career goals and to relate classroom theory to practice. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: 3.0 GPA and faculty supervision.
ENGL 4830 - Honors Thesis
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Students accepted to English Departmental Honors are enrolled in this course.
ENGL 5029 - British Literature and Culture Before 1800
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2024
Introduces graduate level study of medieval and early modern writing through the long eighteenth century. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background, and secondary criticism. Cultivates research skills necessary for advanced graduate study. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
