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Graduate Courses


Spring 2026 Graduate Courses


EH 501 - Intro to Literary Theory | Raczkowski
R 6:00 - 8:30

Come find out what the kerfuffle about "woke" theory in the academy is about. In this course we will survey the evolutions of theory in the humanities and literary study over the last one hundred years: from early 20th century formalisms to later century post-structuralisms, to the more contemporary arrivals of ecocriticism, affect theory, weak theory, and lord knows what all. Our readings into the sometimes abstract insights of theory will be tested through critical readings of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, a richly complex novel that both invites and sustains a multitude of theoretical approaches.


EH 570 - Medieval Lit: Gender & Disability | Halbrooks
T 6:00 - 8:30

In this course, we will examine how medieval writers represented gender and disability, from Anglo-Saxon England (Beowulf) through the Icelandic sagas to late medieval mysticism (Julian of Norwich), then forward to Tolkien's twentieth-century medieval reworkings. We will ask how these texts imagine bodily difference and gendered experience. What counts as impairment or wholeness? How do wounds, illness, and physical limitation shape the medieval subject? Students will draw on disability studies and gender theory to analyze these questions.


EH 573 - Contemporary Fiction | St. Clair
W 6:00 - 8:30

By popular demand, the syllabus has been shortened! Less reading! More fun! Maybe even a few YA novels! [Okay, I'm kidding about that last part. No YA novels. I haven't taken leave of my senses.] Readings will include John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984), Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10陆 Chapters (1989), Ali Smith's How to Be Both (2014), and Salman Rushdie's Quichotte (2019).


EH 581 - Screenwriting Workshop | Cullity
M 6:00 - 8:30

In this screenwriting workshop, we will concentrate on craft elements such as character and story, and learn how to properly identify the structure of a three-act film. Through our readings (including film scripts), film screenings, and craft-oriented assignments (including a film pitch), we will work towards the completion and polished revision of the first act of a three-act screenplay or, for those who want the challenge, a rough full draft.


EH 589 - Creative Nonfiction Writing | Cullity
TR 2:00 - 3:15

Our readings, springboards for initial writing exercises, will enhance our comprehension of how creative nonfiction can be constructed. In writing workshops, we'll focus on defining and producing all that is creative nonfiction, including memoir, personal essays, lyric essays, and literary journalism. We'll also talk about revision as part of the writing process, and where you can send your work when it's ready to submit for possible publication.


EH 592 - Victorian Popular Literature | Harrington
TR 12:30 - 1:45

When the arch-villain Fosco of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White exclaims, "What a situation! I suggest it to the rising romance writers of England," he draws attention to the sensation novel's place in the expanding literary marketplace of Victorian Britain. Popular, "low" novels attract a readership across classes, targeting women readers鈥攁s well as men鈥攁nd influencing literature of all kinds. This class will examine popular novels and stories from the mid- and late-nineteenth century, looking at the way these melodramatic and often formulaic texts comment on significant political and social issues of the day.