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.
- (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)