Course Offerings

ENGL 634 - Teaching Composition (#6656)
Kim Jaxon
R 3:30-6:20 p.m.
TALR 208

ENGL 656 - Themes/Genres/Problems in Literature (#6619)
Rob Davidson
T 3:30-6:20 p.m.
TALR 106

With the advent of the 20th century, the end of Victorianism, and the entrance into a World War, a profound shift occurred in American fiction. Taking Anderson’s classic Winesburg, Ohio (1919) as a starting point, this class will examine the form of the short story as it evolved through Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, Social Realism, the mid-century Southern Gothic, and its forays into postmodernism, minimalism, and finally to its current state in the hands of living practitioners such as Junot Diaz, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders. Readings will focus primarily on complete, stand-alone collections of short stories, though we will also read selected stories from a course pack. Relevant criticism and secondary materials will also be required course readings.

In addition to regular attendance and participation in class, students will be required to make a class presentation, write one shorter paper (5 pages), and write one longer research-based paper at term end.

Though the reading list won’t be finalized until later this fall, writers likely to be studied include Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, Flannery O’Connor, John Barth, Raymond Carver, Jamaica Kincaid, Lorrie Moore, Junot Diaz, and George Saunders.

ENGL 657 - Comparative Literature (#6619)
Geoff Baker
W 3:00-5:50 p.m.
TALR 208