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

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

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

• 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)

• Taught by Noah Heringman
• Examination of five Romantic poets from both sides of the Atlantic (Charlotte Smith, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Willian Cullen Bryant, and Walt Whitman), focusing on the genres and topics that they shared in common, including abolition, revolutionary politics, science, and industrialization.

• 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 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

• 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