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)