Graduate Courses
Summer 2025 Graduate Courses
EH 590 - Religious Fanatics, Heretics, & Rebels | McLaughlin
FULL SUMMER TERM: JUNE 3 - JULY 31
MW 10:20-12:50
The story we tell ourselves about our Puritan forbears is one in which a courageous band of faithful Christians create a "city upon a hill" as a beacon of religious tolerance and good will. But from the 17th century’s three "crime waves"—the Antinomian Controversy, the Quaker Persecutions, and the Salem Witch Trials—to the three Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th centuries, religious controversy has been the order of the day. This course will examine through the lens of psychoanalysis the highs and the lows of our spotted religious history and their impact on American literature.
Fall 2025 Graduate Courses
EH 502 - Graduate Writing for English | McLaughlin
W 6:00 - 8:30
EH 502 is required of all M.A. students in their first year of course work. The central purpose of this course is to prepare students for research and academic writing at the graduate level, but it also aims to prepare students for direct engagement with the academic conversations, discourses, and practices that circulate around and through the study of literary texts—in this case, the filmic texts of auteurs who handle sound and vision in unique ways.
EH 505 - Teaching College Writing | Beason
MW 2:30 - 3:45
This course examines issues in composition history, theory, and pedagogy in the context of teaching first-year composition. Students will use this knowledge to develop course material appropriate to teaching first-year composition. Topics include syllabus and assignment design, lesson planning, course management, teaching in the linguistically and culturally diverse classroom, and assessment. Pre-requisite / Co-requisite: EH 502.
EH 571- Modern British Fiction | Raczkowski
M 6:00 - 8:30
This course on the modernist British novel is curiously bookended by E.M. Forster's Howard's End (1908) on one side and Zadie Smith's On Beauty (2006) on the other. While we will focus on modernist novels that investigate the relationships between art, ethics, and politics, my cunning plan is to use Smith's postmodern rewriting of Howard's End as a means of evaluating the current status of modernist claims (like Forster's) that art and aesthetic experience can make the world new. Let's hope Forster was right...
EH 577 - The Renaissance Epic | Hillyer
R 6:00 - 8:30
We will be studying in modern English translation Torquato Tasso's Renaissance epic Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), a crusader narrative. Aside from its pleasing variety of episodes involving love and war, Tasso's narrative has a chief point of interest in that one of the most eminent warriors is a woman (Clorinda). The assigned writing will consist of a research paper developed in stages.
EH 585/6- Grad Poetry Writing Workshop I/II | Staff
T 6:00 - 8:30
Special individual instruction in poetry writing.
