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Department of English Graduate Seminars

Graduate Seminars

Click the semester and year to download a .pdf of the Graduate Bulletin for that semester. The Bulletin includes a full description of the courses offered.

Graduate Bulletin F2023-S2024

  • Spring 2023
    • 515 The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (Nicolas)
    • 531 Administering a Writing Program (Olson)
    • 544 Syntax (Thomas)
    • 584 Sixteenth-Century English Literature (Hamlin)
    • 591 Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies (Boyd)
    • 595 Anthropocene Narratives (Hegglund)
  • Fall 2022
    • 501 Teaching of Composition (Nicolas)
    • 509 Classical Rhetoric (Wilde)
    • 521 Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction (Whitson)
    • 534 Theories and Methods of the Teaching of Technical and Professional Writing (Staggers)
    • 543 Phonology (Thomas)
    • 573 Postwork Imaginaries and Contemporary American Culture (Thoma)
  • (records not available for F2021/S2022)
  • Spring 2021
    • 515 Rhetorics of Racism (Eddy)
    • 527 (17th & 18th c.) (McAuley)
    • 544 Syntax (Thomas)
    • 548.01 Politics of Affect (Whitson)
    • 548.02 Narrative Theory (Oforlea)
    • 561 Studies in Technology and Culture (DH Cert.)
    • 562 Writing & Rhetoric in Science & Tech (Staggers)
  • Fall 2020
    • 501 Teaching of Composition (Nicolas)
    • 509 Classical Rhetoric (Edwards)
    • 534 Teaching Technical & Professional Writing (Staggers)
    • 543 Phonology (Thomas)
    • 549 Irish Literature & Environmental Protest (Potts)
    • 573 Creating Online Editions (Campbell)
    • 595 Futurity: Feminist & Queer Theory (Thoma)
    • 597 (AMS) Rhetorics of the Archive (Wilde)
  • Spring 2019
    • 509 Classical Rhetoric and its Influences (V. Villanueva)
    • 534 Theories and Methods in the Teaching of Technical and Professional Writing (J. Hillen)
    • 544 Syntax
    • 527 Seminar in English Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century (L.McAuley)
    • 549 Seminar in 20th Century British Literature: 20th and 21st Century Irish Literature and Trauma (D. Potts)
    • 561 Studies in Technology and Culture: Electronic Literature (D. Grigar)
    • 590 Research in English Studies
    • 595 Anthropocene Literature and Culture (J. Hegglund)
  • Fall 2018
    • 501 Seminar in Teaching of Writing (B. Buyserie)
    • 514 Seminar in 20th Century American Literature: The Rhetoric of African American Fiction (A. Oforlea)
    • 543 Phonology (M. Thomas)
    • 545 ESL Graduate Student Writing Workshop (L. Siler)
    • 584 Seminar in 16th Century Literature (W. Hamlin)
    • 590 Research in English Studies
    • 597.01 Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Feminist Rhetorics (P. Wilde)
    • 597.02 Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: The Rhetorics of Political Economy (V. Villanueva)
    • 597.03 Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Literatures and Rhetorics of War (S. Ross, M. Edwards)
  • Spring 2018
    • 502: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing (W. Olson)
    • 514:Seminar in 20th-Century American Literature – Toxic Bodies: Disease, Denial, and Resistance in Contemporary American Ecological Literature and Popular Cultury (D. Hellegers)
    • 515: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric (V. Villanueva)
    • 521: Seminar in British Romantic Literature – Nineteenth Century Science Fiction (R.Whitson)
    • 544: Syntax (L. Gordon)
    • 546: Topics in Teaching English as a Second Language (N. Bell)
    • 560: Critical Theories, Methods, and Practice in Digital Humanities (K. Christen)
    • 589:Seminar in Medieval Literature (M. Hanly)
  • Fall 2017
    • 501: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing: Methodology of Composition (M. Edwards)
    • 525: Law and the Literature in 17th Century England (T. Butler)
    • 543: Phonology (L. Gordon)
    • 548: Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory- Critical Theory, Literacy, and Pedagogy (A. Boyd)
    • 549: Seminar in 20th Century British Literature (P. Narayanan)
    • 573: Seminar in American Literature – American Writers and Online Editions (D. Campbell)
    • 595: Writing for Publication (V. Villanueva)
    • 597: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric (Julie Staggers)

  • Fall 2016

    • 501: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing: Methodology of Composition (P. Ericsson)
    • 507: Shakespeare, Knowing and Believing in Shakespeare’s England (W. Hamlin)
    • 508: Seminar in the Assessment of Writing (W. Condon)
    • 514: Seminar in 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature and the Rhetoric of Hip Hop (T. Lewis)
    • 543: Phonology (L. Gordon)
    • 554: History of the English Language (L. Gordon)
    • 595: Topics in English, Nonhumanisms (J. Hegglund)
  • Spring 2016
    • 502: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing: Contemporary Theories of Composition (W. Olson)
    • 515: Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric (V. Villanueva)
    • 544: Syntax (L. Gordon)
    • 546: Topics in Teaching English as a Second Language (N. Bell)
    • 549: Seminar in 20th Century British Literature (D. Potts)
    • 560: Critical Theories, Methods, and Practice in Digital Humanities (R. Whitson)
    • 580: Seminar in Middle English Literature: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (M. Hanly)
  • Fall 2015
    • 501: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing: Methodology of Composition (P. Ericsson)
    • 509: Seminar in Classical Rhetoric and Its Influences (V. Villanueva)
    • 525: Seminar in English Literature, 17th Century: Memories of the Reformation in Early Modern Europe (T. Butler)
    • 543: Phonology (L. Gordon)
    • 548: Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory: Critical Theory, Literacy, and Pedagogy (A. Boyd)
    • 567: Seminar in Prose Fiction, Transatlantic Naturalisms (D. Campbell)
    • 591: Topics in Pedagogy, Teaching with Technology (K. Arola)
    • 595: Topics in English, Literature, the Global South, and Environmental and Social Justice (P. Narayanan)
  • Spring 2015
    • 502: Seminar in the Teaching of Writing, Contemporary Theories of Composition (W. Olson)
    • 514: Seminar in 20th Century American Literature (T. Lewis)
    • 522: Seminar in Victorian Literature, Steampunk and the 19th Century (R. Whitson)
    • 531: Administering a Writing Program (V. Villanueva)
    • 544: Syntax (L. Gordon)
    • 548: Seminar in Critical and Cultural Theory, Postclassical Narrative Theory (J. Hegglund)
    • 554: History of the English Language (L. Gordon)
    • 591: Topics in Pedagogy, Teaching Literature (D. Potts)
    • 595: Topics in English, The Composed Life (D. Lee)
    • 595: Topic in English, Critical Theories, Methods and Practice in Digital Humanities (K. Christen)
    • 597: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: Rhetorics of the Western Hemisphere (V. Villanueva)