Reading of masterpieces of world literature and intensive training in writing and in critical analysis of literature.

Reading of masterpieces of world literature and intensive training in writing and in critical analysis of literature.

Explore the critical application of exploratory techniques in digital scholarship in the humanities, including principles of exploratory data analysis programming language to perform both analysis and visualization. Critique how text, images, and audio are analyzed and represented from a humanistic perspective that considers intersectional power dynamics surrounding ability, class, gender, and race in culture.

Survey of preeminent films of the twentieth century alongside a consideration of the literary works that most influenced them. Explores different modes of close reading and skills to critically analyze texts in a variety of literary and media formats. Focus on connections between different modes of modern expression and critical analysis.

Survey the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Examine the question of film as a visual medium and Hitchcock as a visual artist, with close attention to his techniques of storytelling through moving pictures and the performances of the actors.

Readings selected to highlight the connections between literary study and other fields of inquiry.

Emphasis on skills and methods used in upper-division English courses; intensive practice in writing; and an introduction to field-specific research.

An introduction to literary analysis, focusing on building a literary community.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on works that have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, drama, and/or poetry.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on works that have become cult classics.

Used to record coursework credit based upon an appropriate Advanced Placement Literature and Composition examination score.

Readings focus on minority and ethnic American literatures in their cultural contexts with an emphasis on skills and methods. Intensive practice in writing and an introduction to field-specific research.

Explores texts, drawn from a variety of genres and periods, that indicate the range of African American experiences and how those experiences are influenced by issues such as class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and race.

Explores how authors and artists over the course of the past century have imagined what it means to be Asian American. Covers a diverse range of Asian immigrant histories and the formation of Asian American identities according to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship.

Representative Chicano writers and genres, such as poetry, prose fiction, and theatre.

American writing by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer authors and/or with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer themes.

Studies Native American literature from different regions and cultures and considers this literary tradition in tribal national and United States national contexts.

An introduction to literary analysis focusing on women's and gender studies.

Examine Jewish American literature in its cultural contexts with an emphasis on skills and methods. Explore texts, drawn from a variety of genres and periods, that indicate the range of Jewish American experiences and how those experiences are influenced by issues such as citizenship, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Introduction to masterpieces of the British literary tradition, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

Introduction to masterpieces of the American literary tradition, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

Introduction to masterpieces of world literature, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

Introduction to masterpieces of literature, emphasizing historical, generic, and thematic connections.

Basic linguistic concepts; phonology, syntax, and vocabulary of English; historical, regional, and social variation; applications of linguistics in educational and social action.

Student-initiated research conducted with instructor supervision.

Examine the relationship between race and the sequential aesthetics of comic books and comic strips. Explore comics strips, underground comics, and superhero comics from the colonial period to the present day.

Explore how Latinx communities (traditionally figured as on the wrong side of the "digital divide") have embraced, mobilized, and sometimes usurped emerging digital tools and spaces to forge community and create new forms of culture, memory, and activism.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

A study of the principal writers: Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Boswell, Burns, and others.

A selection from the works of William Shakespeare.

Introduction to major terms, issues, and approaches in literary criticism, and their application to the reasoned discussion of poetry, fiction, and drama.

An overview of the historical development of English in the Americas. Attention to regional, social, and ethnic differences, and their implications for public education.

An intensive study of the plays of William Shakespeare, with emphasis on performance as a means of interpretation and an aid to comprehension.

Study literature and other forms within cultural and historical contexts, focusing on any one or more of the following: gender, race, ethnicity, culture, language, and/or globalization.

Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Addresses challenges that archival limitations and revisionist writings about slavery pose for academic disciplines, literary instruction, and/or pedagogy.

Explores constructions of masculinity in American literature from a generally, but not exclusively, feminist perspective. Subjects include what masculinity has meant at different times in United States history, and how it has varied in meaning and significance according to broad categories of identity such as social class, race, region, and queerness.

Examine stereotypes that have come to define Jewishness in American culture by focusing both on the antisemitic tropes perpetuated by non-Jewish representations of 'the Jew' in literary classics and on the archetypes employed as coping mechanisms in cultural representations created by Jews themselves. Analyze how stereotypes become enmeshed in cultural consciousness and investigate ways in which representations of ethnic, religious, and racial minorities are governed by these kinds of one-dimensional archetypes.

An account of the spread of English around the world; national, social, and regional varieties.

Examine representations of Muslims in the dominant cultural media of the European Middle Ages, and in cultural media of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Explore how Europeans envisioned Muslims, and how Muslims envisioned themselves.

Explore the intersection of race, class, and gender relations, gender expression, and gender norms as constitutive of real and imagined political economies in literature and films by black, indigenous, and Latine authors and producers in the United States.

Examine a selection of popular genres through the lens of contemporary multiethnic and world literature and culture.

Examines the autobiographical impulse in women's writing by exploring the concept of the individualistic self versus the sense of self as a part of community and duty, and the way in which that communal self can both partake of humankind and participate in self-actualization.

An analysis of the graphic novel. Representative authors include Lynd Ward, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Chris Ware, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel.

Examine literature about illness, healing, health, and health care. Explore the overlapping fields of literature and medicine and the health or medical humanities, with some attention also paid to disability studies. Consider the role that literature and the humanities can play in the education of health professionals.

Examine how the personal lives of authors may be expressed in their works. Use biographies, memoirs, letters, and the words of the authors, both in their creative and private lives, to explicate some of the major texts of the twentieth century.

Through selected works of fiction, literary criticism, poetry, visual arts, and film, explore how the category of 'the medieval' has been constructed, and its imagery activated, in post-medieval settings from the eighteenth century onwards.

Introduction to folklore methods as they relate to the study of literature.

Romances, chronicles, legends, tales, and plays by English, Celtic, and Continental writers.

Language and literature from 1100 to 1500.

Representative novels and novelists from 1700 to 1832, including typical works of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, and Scott.

Representative works by such writers as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Meredith, and Hardy.

The prose and poetry of writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, and others.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of English. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Study the book publishing landscape including traditional and non-traditional career paths available to writers and those interested in the publishing industry. Analyze the publishing process, from concept to finished book: the acquisition, editorial, publicity, marketing, and sales stages of a book's life.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

A survey of major writers, poetry, and prose.

Representative novels by such writers as Brown, Melville, Fern, Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, James, Wharton, and Dreiser.

Explore the history of black policing in America and representations of black police officers in popular literature and film of late Twentieth Century America.

Explore Latinx literature from the past two decades including both literary form and political engagement, with an emphasis on Latina, queer, and nonbinary writers.

Examine literature reflecting the social inheritance of the Southwest through verse, fiction, travels, and memoirs.

Explore narrative folklore from diverse traditions across the United States based Latinx diaspora. Focus on supernatural legends and the creation of the female "monster".

Examine the literature of the US-Mexico borderlands experience, with an emphasis on the historical and social conditions that characterize this unique region. Explore this in the context of prose fiction, as well as drama, film, and poetry.

Explore the intersection of race, horror aesthetics, and psychoanalytic theory.

Introduction to and survey of the literature of the United States South. Explores methods of literary and cultural interpretation with focus on critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

Examines how Texas authors describe and explore the diversity and complexity of a state often seen in terms of myth and caricature. Works include literature from across the state by writers such as Katherine Anne Porter, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, among others.

Strands of thought and literature that form the network of modernist writing.

Analyzes written works, films, and videos by and about lesbians, bisexual, transgender, and gay black people, with an emphasis on understanding the historical and theoretical construction of sexual and gender identities and sexual/cultural practices in black communities.

Survey of postmodern writing. As a period, the postmodern extends roughly from the era after World War II, and follows the modern, a term often applied to literature produced since the start of World War I.

Examine the emerging cultural representations of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through journalistic, social science, and historical accounts. Explore the difficulty of representing the various aspects of a public-health crisis.

See the works as embedded in specific historical, artistic, and cultural contexts that must be engaged in order to understand their expressed values and concerns about youth culture, specifically and comparatively. Discussions and analyses focus on aesthetics, form, and genre, framed by critical approaches and reading strategies rooted in film, genre, feminist, cultural, ethnic, and gender studies.

Explore Hollywood's symbolic role in American culture, and the genre of the Hollywood story, as seen in an array of representations of Hollywood (primarily in films and novels, but also in essays, poems, paintings, photographs, songs, fan magazines, and notorious counter-historical accounts such as Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon).

Examine the intersection of crime and capitalism in black literature, motion pictures and music of late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries.

Examine historical to contemporary representations of childhood and adolescence in literature, film, culture, and society.

Examine a select body of films, ranging from the early sound era to the present, that changed the vernacular of filmmaking, opened up new generic or stylistic directions, or epitomized the work of a widely influential director. Explore film history and theory, an introduction to the study of film genres and movements, the major tactics and techniques of film analysis, and the rigorous study of filmic texts.

Examine the legal, political, and philosophical intersection of blackness, whiteness, and drugs in the late twentieth century through film, music, and literature.

Trace the origins of food writing and explore the ways the genre engages with contemporary issues of cultural definition, political action, and global sustainability while activating various definitions of taste and judgment ascribed to aesthetic and philosophical pursuits.

Examine how writers have used speculative fiction--including science fiction, utopia, and dystopia--as a tool to explore gender, race, sexuality, humanity, ethics, disability, and the environment.

Survey poetry written in English from 1945 to the present. Examine how it has responded to and helped to shape the cultural and aesthetic questions of its times. Consider poetic movements and developments such as the so-called "middle generation," the Black Mountain School, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, Confessional poetry, Deep Image poetry, the Black Arts Movement, the Movement, Language writing, post-confessional lyric, hybrid poetics, and conceptual poetry, among others.

Extensive readings and analyses of stories by major modern writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Chekhov, and Kafka, as well as contemporary writers.

Explore the work of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) and its representation of the United States South, Southwest, and Mexico.

Explore the works of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

Intensive study of the works of a single major author or two major authors.

Examine the works of a single major author or two major authors.

An examination of select novels by the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist focuses on the positional uniqueness that womanism shares with a predominant feminism, which surfaces in historicized familial relationships.

Examines critical and fictional works of Virginia Woolf and the author's continuing legacy and influence. Explores the value and limitations of high modernism; English literary heritage and tradition; feminism; creative and critical definitions of gender and sexuality; intellectual activism, including Woolf's critiques of patriarchy, war, and fascism; and Woolf and imperialism and colonialism.

Examines the relationship between words and images across a broad historical sweep.

Examines the American Civil War not in terms of its military or political history but in relation to the ways literary and cultural texts have remembered and rewritten it.

Introduction to basic bibliography terminology and book history by tracking the evolution of the modern paperback, from 1850 to now, by means of author case studies.

Consider and discuss Oxford University and the city of Oxford through the lens of nineteenth-century texts set in and around the region.

Analyze how late twentieth- and twenty-first century adaptations change nineteenth-century novels to appeal to modern audiences.

Examine the influence of the Italian poet Dante on American culture from the nineteenth century to the present.

A survey of the major Arthurian narratives from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present in various textual (prose, poetry, drama) and visual (illustration, film, graphic) forms.

A survey of early Norse and Anglo-Scandinavian prose and verse--saga; chronicle, heroic epic, and mythological (eddic and skaldic) verse--with attention to the image of the viking in contemporary popular culture.

Survey poetry written in English from 1900 to 1945, including consideration of significant nineteenth-century precursors. Examine modern poetry's characteristic formal techniques, its preoccupations, and its key poets. Consider poetic movements and developments such as the "new" poetry, Georgian poetry, Regionalism, the poetry of World War I, Imagism, High Modernisms, so-called "Sentimental" Modernism, the New Criticism, the Harlem Renaissance, Documentary Poetry, and Objectivism, among others.

Selected masterpieces of continental fiction in English translation; representative novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Explore the works of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.

Explore the works of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

Explore the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

In-depth literary study of the Bible, with emphasis on the formal features of narrative, hymn, prophecy, apocalypse, gospel, and epistle.

The reading of biblical masterpieces as literature; consideration of different versions of the Bible and their influence on British and American literature.

Student-initiated research conducted with instructor supervision.

Supervised research on a faculty-initiated project.

Representative drama texts from the Restoration to the beginnings of modern theatre, including Behn, Sheridan, Wilde, and Shaw.

Examine the struggles of the migrant and exile with questions of identity, belonging, home, citizenship, and culture.

The study of traditional and transformational grammar. Attention to social differences in language relevant to the teaching of English.

Intended for students seeking a secondary school teaching certificate. The principles and practices of teaching literature in secondary schools.

A survey of early British drama, usually including works by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton.

Explore selected works of members of The Scriblerus Club, formed as a counter-culture response to the elite British literary scene from which they were excluded in the early- to mid-1700s, which include works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay.

Representative novels, including those of Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf.

All the poetry of Milton, with particular attention to Comus, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Lost.

The theory and practice of Classicism in literature and other arts; the rise of the Romanticists in the eighteenth century.

Introduction to the history and contemporary form of African American Language (AAL). Through readings, examine the linguistic description of essential features, the use of AAL in the creation of culturally and historically influential texts, and AAL as a subject of public discussion.

Development of sounds, forms, and vocabulary of the English language from its origins to the present.

An introduction to Old English with sufficient grammar for a reading knowledge of Old English texts. A course in language, not in linguistics.

English language history, theory, and research for students of literature and rhetoric. May include such topics as language diversity and variation, linguistic attitudes, language variety and education, and language and public policy.

Explore and analyze six selected Shakespeare tragedies to differentiate these plays from those in other genres (comedy, history, romance); examine the elements of Shakespeare's language and stagecraft that contribute to the lasting cultural prominence of his work.

For students who wish to work under supervision on specific projects in literature or language.

Research and staff experience working in an appropriate agency or private business.

Explore the works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley.

Research into and development of a thesis topic and proposal.

Explore the works of Walter Scott and William Wordsworth.

Ibsen and other major dramatists; tradition and innovation in the substance and form of selected modern plays.

Writing and defense of an Honors thesis. Individual instruction.

The prose writer as artist and sage in the cultural, political, religious, and scientific controversies that influence the modern tradition. Representative writers: Carlyle, Mill, Newman, Arnold, Darwin.

Research into and development of a thesis topic and proposal followed by the writing and defense of a thesis.

Selected writers of the pre-Civil War Romantic movement, including Emerson, Douglass, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Whitman, and others.

Selected writers of the post-Civil War realistic movement: Howells, Twain, James, Jewett, Freeman, Crane, and others.

Examine, through global literature, the interconnected worlds, humans, activities, and cultures in the approximate time frame of a thousand years to discover what they reveal of early globalisms.

An extended reading of the work in its cultural and literary context.

Renaissance thought and culture as revealed in the lyric and narrative poetry and in the prose masterpieces.

Poetry and prose, 1600 to 1660: the metaphysical and other leading traditions in poetry; the early poems of Milton; the essay, the character, and other prose forms.

Poetry and prose, 1832 to 1901; parallel reading in the novel and drama, and attention to the social and intellectual background of the period.

Introduction to Chaucer's narrative and poetic art, as shown in a selection from the dream poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales.

A survey of African American writing, including autobiography, poetry, fiction, and drama. Authors may include Douglass, Jacobs, Frances E. W. Harper, Chestnutt, Du Bois, Hurston, and Hughes.

The development of African American poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction since the Harlem Renaissance. Authors may include Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Malcolm X, Baraka, Morrison, Shange, and Charles Johnson.

Representative works by such writers as Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Larsen, Hurston, Morrison, Bellow, Erdrich, and Tan.

Examines American novels and short stories from the 1960s to the present. Considers the aesthetic and narrative innovations of the period in light of social, historical, technological, and political developments. Representative authors include Pynchon, Roth, Morrison, DeLillo, Silko, Robinson, Egan, and Diaz.

Study and readings of selected works and criticism, culminating in public performance of the plays. For English 678SB, students are required to be in residence at Winedale near Round Top, Texas.

Early American literature as an embodiment of American thought and experience. Such topics as European ideas in the New World; the political ideas of Hamilton, Jefferson, and Jackson; nationalism; industrialism.

Participate in original faculty research in the Digital Humanities in a project-based, hands-on setting.

Such topics as transcendentalism, manifest destiny, Utopian thought, and the impact of the theory of organic evolution.

Major playwrights since 1950, such as Williams, Shepard, Beckett, Stoppard, Churchill, Fugard, and Pinter.

Intensive study of drama through active performance as a means of interpretation and an aid to comprehension.

Practice editing a literary journal.

Analyze readings in fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism, biography, and autobiography from the point of view of a creative writer rather than that of a scholar.

Lectures, textual analysis, outside readings.

Intensive study of specialized subjects.

A study of the major components of the English program in secondary school or college.

Issues addressed include methods of literary and cultural interpretation, archival research, academic publishing, and professional development.

Intended for graduate students who are not in a master of fine arts program.

Advanced study of topics in rhetorical theory and in ancillary disciplines.

A study of the theory, practice, and history of research in rhetoric and composition.

Applications of rhetoric to professional writing.

Topics include classical rhetoric, medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rhetoric, and twentieth-century rhetoric.

Explore language and digital technology.

Selected British and American writers and issues.

A study of the impact of European writers on British or American literature.

Prepare for required Field and Prospectus examinations under the supervision of a faculty member.

Explore topics in literary and cultural criticism and theory.

Discuss and interpret visual, audio, or digital media.

Research and writing of a thesis under the supervision of the chair of the supervising committee and subject to the approval of the committee and the graduate dean.

Practical work on a faculty-led digital studies research project, planned and carried out in consultation with the supervising instructor.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.