• Taught by Maureen Konkle
• U.S. autobiography and memoir from the later nineteenth century to the present, from U.S. Grant to Patti Smith.

• Taught by Frances Dickey
• Early 20th-century fiction and poetry from Britain, Europe, and the United States in the context of technological revolutions, world war, changing gender roles, and an explosion of artistic creativity

• Taught by Elizabeth Chang 
• Novels by Charlotte, Emily, and Ann Brontë in the context of Victorian literature and the history of women's writing

• Taught by Julija Sukys

• In telling stories about the world around them and in drawing lessons from their lives, skilled memoirists and personal essayists offer their readers insight, artistry, self-critique, and honesty. Essays that really work are always about something bigger than their author. Not only do the most successful of such texts reveal something about the subject at hand and about the person writing them, but also about the one reading them.

  In this workshop we will read the works of authors who elevate the personal voice to an art form, and taking inspiration from them, we will craft and workshop our own.

• Second 8-week session

• Taught by Lynn Itagaki
• This course will examine the way literary and filmic texts are used to attempt to heal deep political, economic, and social rifts in U. S. Society, especially over issues of racial justice and historical racism.

• Taught by Sheri-Marie Harrison
• Multinational fiction of the postwar and contemporary eras

• Taught by Michael Marlo
• Introduction to English linguistics. Study of the grammar and pronunciation of contemporary English, with the major focus on syntax.

• Taught by Phong Nguyen
• An intensive writing workshop in which student stories and related literary texts receive close reading and analysis

• Taught by Professor Elizabeth Chang

• Who doesn’t love a great mystery? In this course we will investigate the hidden stories of the Victorian novel from the both the perspective of a 19C reader and a 21C critic. Along the way, we will ask questions about Victorian attitudes towards race, gender, and sexuality, towards the inhabitants and territories of the expanding British empire, and towards the approaching turn of the century. We will also think and write a lot about how novels work. Books to be read include Dickens, Great Expectations, Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret, Haggard, She, Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and short stories by Conan Doyle and others.

   

• Taught by William Kerwin
• Shakespeare’s plays with some attention to other Renaissance texts

• Semester-based: Fall (odd years)
• Instructor: Professor Carsten Strathausen

This course studies the relation between literature and film via a detailed analysis of popular movies and the literary texts—and narratives in particular—that inspired them. Although we shall discuss some historical and theoretical texts, particularly at the beginning the course, the emphasis overall lies on close readings of the chosen texts (e.g. Solaris, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?) and the corresponding films. A central goal of this course is to question the “fidelity” model on which most comparative analyses of film and literature are (still) based. A second goal is to explore the central theme commonly shared by all texts and movies we will discuss, namely post-humanism. What does the term mean? How has the non-human “other” of humanity been depicted differently in literature and film over the last 200 years?  

Texts: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1831), Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897), Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Franz Kafka, The Trial, Stanislav Lem, Solaris (1961), Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? (1968), Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006)

Films: Murnau, Nosferatu (1922), Whale, Frankenstein (1931), Browning, Dracula (1931), Fisher, Horrors of Dracula (1958), Crain, Blacula (1972), Tarkovsky, Solaris (1972), Scott, Blade Runner (1982), Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Coppola, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Soderbergh, Solaris (2002), Hillcoat, The Road (2009)

• Taught by Maureen Konkle
• A comparison of colonial literature from varied countries and eras

• Taught by Elizabeth Chang 
• Novels by Charlotte, Emily, and Ann Brontë in the context of Victorian literature and the history of women's writing

• Taught by John Evelev
• The American novel as an attempt to capture the distinctiveness of American identities and experiences from its rise in the post-revolutionary era to the brink of the 20th century

• Taught by Johanna Kramer 
• History of the English language, explored through literature, with an emphasis on its development from the early Middle Ages through the Early Modern period (ca. 500-ca. 1700)
• Offered in first 8 weeks of semester

• Taught by Gabriel Fried
• An intensive writing workshop with the theme of "childhood," in which student poems and related literary texts receive close reading and analysis
• Second 8-week session