A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, I Henry IV, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth,The Tempest, and Shakespeare's sonnets. Not open to first-year students.

Introduction to Anglophone fiction, poetry, drama andmemoir from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia in the aftermath of the British empire.

What terrain—physically, culturally, and emotionally—do American writers inhabit when they write about
borders? How might thinking about borders, whether literal or metaphorical ones, complicate the way
race, class, and gender inform matters of belonging and citizenship? Using literary and cultural analysis,
this course explores what it means to be, become, or refuse to be “American.” Major course themes
include ethnic subjects and the American Dream, internment and detainment, and the disputed

A study of novels written in England from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen and Walter Scott (1688-1814). Emphasis on the novelists’ narrative models and choices; we conclude by reading several novels by Austen-including one she wrote when 13 years old.

Offered as JUD 230 and ENG 230. Explores the significant contributions and challenges of Jewish writers and critics to American literature, broadly defined. Topics include the American dream and its discontents; immigrant fiction; literary multilingualism; ethnic satire and humor; crises of the left involving 60s radicalism and Black-Jewish relations; after-effects of the Holocaust. Must Jewish writing remain on the margins, too ethnic for the mainstream yet insufficient for contemporary gatekeepers of diversity? No prerequisites.

It’s a helluva town, as the 1944 song has it, both urban jungle and capital of the world. This class
examines not the real city but rather the way that city was depicted and imagined throughout the 20th
century, from Edith Wharton and the first Gilded Age to the work of Spike Lee. We’ll study fiction, photographs, films, and even a Broadway musical or two; the Harlem Renaissance and the New Yorker
magazine; Sontag, Baldwin, and Scorsese; A Chorus Line and Do the Right Thing. (E)

This course focuses on the legacy of confessional poetry written by women and queer, trans and
nonbinary writers in the US. Frequently misread as self-indulgent, the poets under our purview use
radical self-disclosure to trouble the social and legal treatment of gender and sexuality as “private”
concerns unworthy of political engagement. In so doing, they resist the universalized heteronormativity
of the mainstream confessional tradition and contemporary poetry writ large. Poets studied include

In this course we read as writers and write as readers, analyzing the poetic devices and strategies employed in a diverse range of contemporary poetry; gaining practical use of these elements to create a portfolio of original work; and developing the skills of critique and revision. In addition, students read and write on craft issues, and attend Poetry Center readings/Q&A’s. Writing sample and instructor permission required. Enrollment limited to 12.

A reading of Anglo-Saxon England’s most powerful and significant poem, invoking the world of barbarian Europe after the fall of Rome.

This workshop will develop skills for developing a research-base for creative writing and balancing a writer's emotional and imaginative material with texts, expressions and artifacts from the outer world. We will examine how bringing fact and imagination together enriches the culture and sustains the writer, and how to develop a writing practice that will "go the distance" over a lifetime. Writing sample and permission of the instructor are required. Enrollment limited to 12.