Graduate Seminars
Current and Recent Offerings
Fall 2025
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Writing: Methodology of Composition (Sanchez)
- ENGL 512: Introduction to Graduate Study (Wilde)
- ENGL 515: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric (Nicolas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 573: Popular Science in the American Imagination, 1880-1940 (Campbell)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 591: Community Engaged Pedagogies: Theory and Practice (Phelps)
- ENGL 595: Topics in English (Hegglund)
Spring 2026
- ENGL 502: Teaching of Writing: Contemporary Theories (Olson)
- ENGL 544: Morphology and Syntax (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 548: Critical and Cultural Theory: AI, Biopolitics, and Engineered Oppression (Poudyal)
- WGSS 541: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Research (Sherman)
- ENGL /DTC 560: Critical Theories, Methods, and Practices in Digital Humanities (Whitson)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 595: Topics in English: Critical Narratology (Hegglund)
- ENGL 597: Topics in Rhetoric and Composition: On Memory: What We Remember, Misremember, and Forget (Wilde)
Fall 2024
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Writing: Methodology of Composition (Watts)
- ENGL 509: History of Global Rhetorics: Rhetoric and Empire (Edwards)
- ENGL 512: Introduction to Graduate Study (Hegglund)
- ENGL 515: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric (Nicolas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 547: Introduction to Critical Theory: Thinking the Subject (Hegglund)
- ENGL 548: Critical and Cultural Theory: Archives, Rhetoricity of Technologies, and Anti-Oppressive Interventions (Poudyal)
- ENGL 573: American Literature: Critical Regionalism, Race, and Nationalism in U. S. Literature (Campbell)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 591: Topics in Pedagogy (Phelps)
- ENGL 595: Topics in English: Time Machines: Temporal Politics and Infrastructures in Science Fiction and Time-Critical Media (Whitson)
Spring 2025
- ENGL 503: Writing Studies: Research Ethics, Methods, and Methodologies (Phelps)
- ENGL/DTC 561: Studies in Technology and Culture: Media Archaeology (Buffington)
- WGSS 541: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Research (Sherman)
- ENGL 543: Phonetics and Phonology
- ENGL 545: Graduate Writing Workshop (Siler)
- WGSS 561: Topics in Feminist and Queer Studies: Critical Frameworks of Carcerality and Practices of Abolition (Miller)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
Fall 2023
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Composition (Watts)
- ENGL 512: Introduction to Graduate Studies (Hegglund)
- ENGL 514: 20th-Century American Literature: African American Literary Movements (Oforlea)
- ENGL 515: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric: Cultural Rhetorics (Olson)
- ENGL 543: Phonology (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 546: Topics in Teaching English as a Second Language (Bell)
- ENGL 573: American Literature: Editing in a Digital Age (Campbell)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 597: Special Topics: Public(s) Rhetoric(s) in a Digital Age (Staggers)
Spring 2024
- ENGL 502: Teaching of Writing: Points of Access and Exclusion in Composition (Wilde)
- ENGL 527: English Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century: Gothic Fiction: The Politics of Horror (McAuley)
- ENGL 544: Syntax (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 548: Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory: Theorizing Pandemics in Culture (Shahani)
- ENGL 550: Poetry or Non-fiction Prose: Life Writing (Lee)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 591: Topics in Pedagogy: Anti-Racist Pedagogy (Poudyal)
Fall 2022
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Composition (Nicolas)
- ENGL 509: Classical Rhetoric (Wilde)
- ENGL 521: Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction (Whitson)
- ENGL 534: Theories and Methods of the Teaching of Technical and Professional Writing (Staggers)
- ENGL 543: Phonology (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 573: Postwork Imaginaries and Contemporary American Culture (Thoma)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
Spring 2023
- ENGL 515: The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (Nicolas)
- ENGL 531: Administering a Writing Program (Olson)
- ENGL 544: Syntax (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 584: Sixteenth-Century English Literature (Hamlin)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 591: Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies (Boyd)
- ENGL 595: Anthropocene Narratives (Hegglund)
Fall 2020
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Composition (Nicolas)
- ENGL 509: Classical Rhetoric (Edwards)
- ENGL 534: Teaching Technical & Professional Writing (Staggers)
- ENGL 543: Phonology (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 549: Irish Literature & Environmental Protest (Potts)
- ENGL 573: Creating Online Editions (Campbell)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 595: Futurity: Feminist & Queer Theory (Thoma)
- ENGL 597: Rhetorics of the Archive (Wilde)
Spring 2021
- ENGL 515: Rhetorics of Racism (Eddy)
- ENGL 527: English Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century (McAuley)
- ENGL 544: Syntax (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 548.01: Politics of Affect (Whitson)
- ENGL 548.02: Narrative Theory (Oforlea)
- ENGL/DTC 561: Studies in Technology and Culture
- ENGL 562: Writing & Rhetoric in Science & Tech (Staggers)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
Fall 2018
- ENGL 501: Teaching of Writing (Buyserie)
- ENGL 514: Seminar in 20th Century American Literature: The Rhetoric of African American Fiction (Oforlea)
- ENGL 543: Phonology (Thomas)
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 584: 16th Century Literature (Hamlin)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 597.01: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Feminist Rhetorics (Wilde)
- ENGL 597.02: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: The Rhetorics of Political Economy (Villanueva)
- ENGL 597.03: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Literatures and Rhetorics of War (Ross, Edwards)
Spring 2019
- ENGL 509: Classical Rhetoric and its Influences (Villanueva)
- ENGL 534: Theories and Methods in the Teaching of Technical and Professional Writing (Hillen)
- ENGL 544: Syntax
- ENGL 545: Graduate Student Writing Workshop (Siler)
- ENGL 527: English Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century (McAuley)
- ENGL 549: 20th Century British Literature: 20th and 21st Century Irish Literature and Trauma (Potts)
- ENGL/DTC 561: Studies in Technology and Culture: Electronic Literature (Grigar)
- ENGL 590: Research in English Studies (by arrangement)
- ENGL 595: Anthropocene Literature and Culture (Hegglund)
Fall Graduate Bulletins
Spring Graduate Bulletins
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2013
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2014
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2015
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2016
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2018
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2019
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2020
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2022
Graduate Bulletin, Spring 2023