Catalog Description: An introduction to the intellectual foundations of textual studies; historical background in disciplines of philology and textual criticism, theories of textuality from formalism and New Criticism to poststructuralism and medium-specific analysis; current and emerging concerns in the history of the book, media studies, globally comparative philologies, and the digital humanities.
Catalog Description: Engages ongoing critical conversations that inform English studies, including: language, textual production, disciplinarity, the university, capital, nation formation, postcolonialism, the environment, race, gender, class, and sexuality. The historical focus is contemporary, with attention to foundational modern theorists.
Catalog Description: Literary criticism and theory from Kant's Critique of Judgment to the mid-twentieth century and the work of Northrop Frye.
Catalog Description: Readings in composition theory and discussion of practical classroom applications.
Catalog Description: Readings in composition theory and discussion of practical classroom applications.
Catalog Description: Discussion and practice of second-language teaching techniques. Three hours per week teaching required in addition to regular class meetings. Credit/no credit only.
Catalog Description: Topics include second language reading, aural/oral skills, critical pedagogy, program administration, and language policy.
Catalog Description: Research and writing project under the close supervision of a faculty member expert and with the consultation of a second faculty reader. The field of study is chosen by the student. Work is independent and varies. The model is an article in a scholarly journal.
Catalog Description: Intensive reading in literature or criticism, directed by members of doctoral supervisory committee.
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