Hybrid Forms, Trans and Queer Poetry/Fiction/CNF, Serial Poetics
Teaching
courses taught
ENGL 1191 - Introduction to Creative Writing
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Spring 2023 / Summer 2024 / Summer 2025
Introduces techniques of fiction and poetry. Student work is scrutinized by the instructor and may be discussed in a workshop atmosphere with other students. May not be taken concurrently with ENGL 2021 or ENGL 2051. May not be repeated.
ENGL 1250 - Introduction to World Literature by Women
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Fall 2022
This course considers how literature represents gendered experiences across multiple countries and continents. Students will read fiction and poetry by women from South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, that address questions of sexuality, marriage, and family, politics, labor, and justice at the intersections of gender, race, and nation. Same as WGST 1250.
ENGL 1270 - Introduction to American Literature by Women
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Spring 2026
This course investigates how literature by women has shaped the United States over time, from Indigenous authors, to abolitionists, to suffragists, to feminists of various waves. With attention to intersections between class, race, and sexual orientation, students will consider what it has meant and still means to be a woman writer in the United States and will explore how women have engaged, subverted, and resisted ideas about gender. Same as WGST 1270.
ENGL 1420 - Poetry
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Fall 2024
Introduces students to how to read a poem by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently.
ENGL 1800 - American Ethnic Literatures
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Fall 2023
Students will learn how writings by African American, Native American and Indigenous, Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x, Asian American, and/or Arab American authors are central to the US literary tradition. The class explores the significance of ethnic US literatures and cultures through short stories, novels, plays, films, and more.
ENGL 2102 - Literary Analysis
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Spring 2025
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 3021 - Intermediate Poetry Workshop
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2026
Intermediate course in poetry writing. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ENGL 3041 - Studies in Fiction and Poetry
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Examines literary forms and themes with special emphasis on issues related to the craft of poetry and fiction. This course is taught in conjunction with visiting lectures by practicing writers. Does not count as Creative Writing workshop credit.
ENGL 3081 - Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
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Spring 2023
Discussion and practical criticism of student work and discussion of relevant works of literary nonfiction. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
ENGL 4061 - Undergraduate Publishing Workshop
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Fall 2025
Students in this workshop will work together to read, rank and select a group of ten finalists from a pool of unsolicited manuscripts collected during an open call for submissions. The open call will be for "horror" novellas, but other genres may be considered in future years. After the judge has selected the contest winner, the class will work together to typeset the collection and to solicit a cover. At the conclusion of the course, the novella will be sent to the printer and will be published by Subito before the conclusion of the 25/26 academic year. Recommended prerequisite: other 3000 or 4000 level literature courses.
ENGL 4830 - Honors Thesis
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Students accepted to English Departmental Honors are enrolled in this course.
WGST 1250 - Introduction to World Literature by Women
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Fall 2022
This course considers how literature represents gendered experiences across multiple countries and continents. Students will read fiction and poetry by women from South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, that address questions of sexuality, marriage, and family, politics, labor, and justice at the intersections of gender, race, and nation. Same as ENGL 1250.
WGST 1270 - Introduction to American Literature by Women
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Spring 2026
This course investigates how literature by women has shaped the United States over time, from Indigenous authors, to abolitionists, to suffragists, to feminists of various waves. With attention to intersections between class, race, and sexual orientation, students will consider what it has meant and still means to be a woman writer in the United States and will explore how women have engaged, subverted, and resisted ideas about gender. Same as ENGL 1270.
