Literary theory has a reputation for being difficult, unfairly or not. Whatever the case, everyone approaches literature (or any sort of cultural production — film, painting, sculpture, website, ...

Below is the full list of courses regularly offered by the department. For current course offerings by time, see the Undergraduate Catalog. For detailed descriptions of current courses, see the Whole ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

Curtis Gruenler has taught in the English department since 1997. His major area of teaching and research is medieval literature and thought. His interest in the relationship between Christian theology ...

In the spring of 1942 a series of articles appeared in the Yenan press [see two of the texts here and here] which took as their theme the need to expose the ‘dark side’ of life in the Communist base ...

This course provides a survey of contemporary literary and critical theory. It is organized around a series of "keywords" in literary studies that are of established or new resonance in the reading, ...