ENGL 552: Young Adult Literature Professor: Dr. Tom Thompson Location: Citadel Time: Thursdays, 5:00 – 7:45 This course will introduce you to the amazing variety of young adult literature currently available. Activities will include whole-class and small-group readings, but the emphasis will be on reading and discussing self-selected novels and nonfiction books across a range […]
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Spring ’21–Advanced Composition
ENGL 562: Advanced Composition Professor: Dr. Tom Thompson Location: Citadel Time: Thursdays, 6:00 – 8:45 This course aims to help you become a better writer by challenging you to think critically about the processes of composition; teaching you to adapt your style to your audience, purpose, and context; and providing you with rhetorical strategies to convey […]
Spring ’21–Victorian Novel
ENGL 526: The Victorian Novel Professor: Dr. Tim Carens Location: CofC Time: Mondays, 6:00 – 8:45 This course aims to introduce you to a diverse range of Victorian novelists and their works. We will read some fine examples of genres such as domestic realism, social satire, industrial problem, sensation, pastoral tragedy, and imperial quest. The […]
Spring ’21–Native America
ENGL 576: Native America Professor: Dr. Jesslyn Collins-Frohlich Location: CofC Time: Wednesday 6:00 – 8:45 Using Charleston as a geographical and cultural touchstone, this course draws upon a vast body of novels, poetry, political speeches, and other public documents as well as critical theory written by both native and non-native writers and public figures to move […]
Spring ’21–Literary Criticism
ENGL 555: Literary Criticism Professor: Dr. Scott Lucas Location: Citadel Time: Thursday 7:00 – 9:45 (Hybrid Offering, Room TBA) In this course, we will study the history and influence of literary criticism in the Western tradition, from its earliest expressions to contemporary theoretical approaches. We will explore various views on the proper focus and scope […]
Spring ’21–American Fiction Since 1945
ENGL 529: American Fiction since 1945 Professor: Dr. Lauren Maxwell Location: Citadel Tuesday: 6:00 – 8:45 (Room TBA) In this course, we will examine a wide range of contemporary American fiction and consider how the works explore questions about American identity. Our class discussion will orient the novels and short stories in the context of […]
Fall ’20–African American Literature
Professor Licia Hendriks *Fulfills the American Literature requirement Meets at The Citadel, Tuesday, 4-6:45 This survey course situates the African American literary tradition in a developing domestic and international cultural context, and addresses the ways in which it is (and isn’t) a legitimate offshoot of the overarching category of American Literature. Encompassed in the discussions […]
Fall ’20–Medieval Feminism
Professor Myra Seaman *Fulfills the British Literature before 1800 requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Wednesday, 6-8:45 The Middle Ages lacked a women’s movement—there were no protests in the streets, no proposals of an Equal Rights Amendment, no calls for women to find self-fulfillment through working outside the home. And yet, women appear everywhere […]
Fall ’20–American Poetry since 1945: Schooling American Poetry
Professor Anton Vander Zee *Fulfills the America Literature requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Monday, 7-9:45 The power of what the poet Robert Creeley would call a “company”—a group of fellow travelers in art and life who share certain core ideas about what poetry might accomplish—has long sustained American poets. At times, these groups take on […]
Fall ’20–Introduction to Graduate English Studies
Professor James Hutchisson *Required Meets at The Citadel, Online and Face-to-Face with periodic scheduled classroom meetings on Thursdays, 5-7:45 (TBD) ENGL 511 offers a practical introduction to research and writing for graduate study in English. The course will cover theoretical approaches to literary and cultural interpretation; the discovery, analysis, evaluation, and integration of primary and secondary sources; […]