Listed below are courses that are upper level undergraduate/graduate level courses in CAS that can be counted towards the MA or PhD in English.
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Reading and Writing Literary Nonfiction
This seminar is for students who want to immerse themselves in the long tradition of literary nonfiction and make their own contributions to it. Ancient and modern masterworks as well as contemporary pieces will give us models to follow and break away from in our own work. Building on the prose skills that we bring to the course and drawing on these models and the feedback of classmates, we will cultivate our own voices as writers. We will also cultivate our skills as creators and innovators, learning how to generate an idea, imagine an audience, develop working strategies, offer and receive criticism, and risk productive failure. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
EN 502 A1 Walsh
W 2:30 – 5:15p
Modern English Grammar & Style
Modern English Grammar & Style is a course in the grammar of Standard American English (SAE) and in contemporary English prose style. While the course focuses especially on the written form of SAE, it explores other varieties of English and strives to cultivate an appreciation for all forms of language. Systematic analysis of sentences and longer units of discourse will deepen your understanding of the social and cultural implications of grammatical and stylistic choices and help you become a more informed and capable reader, speaker, and writer.
EN 513 A1 Bizup
TR 9:30-10:45p
Medieval Trans Studies
This class will consider the deep histories of transgender embodiment by exploring literary, historical, medical, and religious texts from the Middle Ages. Expect to read about alchemical hermaphrodites, genderfluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs, trans saints, sex workers, and genderqueer monks. We will consider together how these medieval texts speak to the historical, theoretical, and political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies. Works will be read in translation or in student-friendly editions; no previous experience with medieval literature or trans studies required.
EN 522 A1 Goodrich
W 2:30 – 5:15p
Disability Voices
This course introduces students to the field of disability studies. It examines disability studies approaches to literature and culture, interrogating how disability is represented in fiction, poetry, art, and cinema. We will invoke the concept of narrative prosthesis (Mitchell and Snyder, 2000) to study not only disability representation but also disability’s role in storytelling. This course centers embodied experience and will thus appeal to students interested in the intersections of art and gender, sexuality, medicine, disease, disability, and race. Disability is omnipresent, and we will thus examine representation across history, region, and disciplinary boundaries. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
EN 560 A1 Hernandez
MWF 10:10 – 11:00a
Studies in Auteur Filmmaking
Description forthcoming.
This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
EN 564 A1 Denison
TR 2:00 – 3:15p
Film and Media Theory
Description forthcoming.
This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
EN 569 A1 Desilets
TR 5:00 – 6:15p
Studies in Literary Topics: Native Literatures Now
The twenty first century has experienced what scholars and writers often term “the New Native Literary Renaissance.” The period of the original Native American Literary Renaissance typically refers to the outpouring of both literary and scholarly writings in the 1960s and 1970s, coinciding with the Red Power Movement, the American Indian Movement, and the rise of Native American studies as a discipline. Yet the twenty-first century has seen a renewed excitement for Native literatures. Anthologies such as New Poets from Native Nations focus on the emerging voices of this canon. Our class will read recent fiction, poetry, and drama by Native American authors like Tommy Orange, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, Stephen Graham Jones, Beth Piatote, and LeAnne Howe, among others. We will ask: What are the central questions, themes, and genres emerging in Native literatures now? What historical, cultural, and institutional changes might account for the increased visibility of Native literatures? Is this truly a new renaissance in Native literary production?
This course will be of interest to students who enjoy contemporary literature and who are interested in Native American and Indigenous studies, race, and multi-ethnic fiction.
EN596 A1 Hunziker
MWF, time TBA