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Selected Course Offerings

  • Eng 258/458 The American Novel and the Death of Jim Crow (Warren)
  • Eng 267 American Literary Realism (Warren)
  • Eng 268 The Age of Realism & Naturalism (Goldsby)
  • Eng 281/381 / CMS 265/365. The Cinema of Max Ophuls (Hansen)
  • Eng 288/488 / CMS 262 The Films of Josef von Sternberg (Gunning)
  • Eng 291 / CMS 261 The Films of Fritz Lang (Gunning)
  • Eng 292/692 / CMS 274. Modernity and the Sense of Things (Brown, Hansen)
  • Eng 319 The Literature of Trauma (Berlant)
  • Eng 320 The Intimate Public Sphere (Berlant)
  • Eng 322 Psychoanalytic Interpretation (Ruddick)
  • Eng 326 Visual Culture (Mitchell)
  • Eng 341 Foundations of Interpretive Theory (Mueller, Vogler)
  • Eng 355 Tough Broads (Nelson)
  • Eng 366 The Mourner's Bench: Writing, Grief, & African-American Literature (Goldsby)
  • Eng 402 Form and Experience in Asian American Poetry (Nelson)
  • Eng 428 Chicago (Knight)
  • Eng 437 Recent American Poetry (von Hallberg, Strand)
  • Eng 439 Women, Writing, and Spirituality in Colonial America (Knight)
  • Eng 444 Redeemer Nation: America 1585-1750 (Knight)
  • Eng 453 Post-Modern Autobiography (Nelson)
  • Eng 455 After Great Pain: From Sentimentality to Trauma (Berlant)
  • Eng 456 Typologies of Gender in Early America (Knight)
  • Eng 459 Urban Fictions / American Scenes, 1880-1910 (Brown)
  • Eng 461 The American Enlightenment (Slauter)
  • Eng 466 Twentieth Century African-American Cultural Movements (Warren)
  • Eng 467 Culture and African-American Thought (Warren)
  • ENGL 47010 Thing Theory (Brown)
  • Eng 473 Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Goldsby)
  • Eng 479 African-American Poetry (von Hallberg)
  • Eng 480 / CMS 400 Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies (Gunning; Hansen; Lastra)
  • Eng 551 Colonial Encounters (Knight)
  • Eng 554 Objects and Artifacts (Brown)
  • Eng 555 Kitsch, Camp, and the Politics of Culture (Brown)
  • Eng 559 Spirit Worlds (Knight)
  • Eng 566 Birth of the Cool (Goldsby)
  • Eng 572 Elements of Poetry and Poetics (von Hallberg)
  • Eng 585 Technology and Representation (Lastra)
  • Eng 586 Film and the Avant-Garde: Experimental Film (Lastra)
  • Eng 587 / CMS 673. Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism (Hansen)
  • Eng 594 Realism, Modernism, Socialism: The Politics of Literary Form (Kruger)
  • Eng 597 Nationality, Sexuality, and Gender: Practicum in Feminist Theory and Pedagogy (Berlant)
  • Eng 603 Space, Place, and Landscape (Mitchell)
  • Eng 632 The Language of Rights in Eighteenth-Century America (Slauter)
  • Eng 636 Cinema and the Living and the Undead: Automatons, Animation, and the Uncanny (Gunning)
  • ENGL 65001 Late James (Brown)
  • Eng 652 The US Historical Novel (Berlant)
  • Eng 654 Race, Theory, and the African Americanist Project (Warren)
  • Eng 655 Romantic Fetishism in America (Brown)
  • Eng 656 Whitman and the Logics of "America" (Brown)
  • Eng 664 The Culture of the Cold War (Nelson)
  • Eng 666 Representation & Violence (Mitchell)
  • Eng 668 New Deal Culture: Stage, Screen, and the Public Sphere in 1930s America (Kruger)
  • Eng 671 Shock Treatment and Nervous Systems (Nelson)
  • Eng 674 W.E.B. Du Bois and the Politics of 20th Century Literature (Warren)
  • Eng 677 Topics in Sex and Theory: Bodies in Space (Berlant)
  • Eng 678 The Case Study (Berlant)
  • Eng 685 Historiography of the Cinema (Lastra)
  • Eng 686 Classical Film Theory (Lastra)
  • Eng 687 The Persistence of Surrealism: Buñuel & Beyond (Lastra)
  • Eng 688 / CMS 675 The Frankfurt School on Cinema, Mass Culture, and Modernity (Hansen)
  • Eng 689 Film Exhibition (Gunning)
  • Eng 696 Poetry and Socio-Linguistics (von Hallberg)
  • Eng 697 Totemism, Fetishism, and Idolatry (Mitchell)



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