Fall 2016 

ENGL 504-01: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry 
TTh 11:00 – 12:15PM
TBA
ENGL 506-75: Teaching of Writing
TTh 4:00 – 5:15 PM
Professor K. Kopelson
ENGL 510-01: MA Level Internship
ENGL 518-01: Foundations of Language
TTh 9:30 – 10:45 AM
 Professor K. Swinehart
ENGL 522-01: Structure of Modern English
MWF 1:00 – 1:50 PM
Professor T. Stewart
ENGL 543-75: Studies in Commonwealth Literature
TTh 7:00 – 8:15 PM
Professor D. Billingsley
ENGL 550-01: Studies in African American Literature
TTh 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Professor K. Chandler
ENGL 551-01: Animal Studies
TTh 2:30 – 3:45 PM
Professor G. Ridley
ENGL 551-02: Jewish Graphic Novels
1:00 – 2:15 PM
Professor R. Sherman
ENGL 574-01: 1960’s American Lit.
MWF 10:00 – 10:50 AM
TBA
ENGL 577-01: Harlem Renaissance
MW 2:30 – 3:45 PM
Professor K. Logan
ENGL 599-01: Documentary Film
MW 2:00 – 3:15 PM
Professor T. Johnson
ENGL 601-01: Introduction to English Studies: Autobiography
T 4:00 – 6:45 PM 
Professor K. Chandler
According to the University’s catalogue, this course is designed to “introduce students to research methods, print and electronic resources, strategies for reading and writing scholarly texts, and the seminar format.” We will undertake these goals through close attention to an inclusive American genre: the autobiography. We will examine how autobiographers have used different media and literary forms to interpret and present their lives: the prose narrative, film, the children’s book, and poetry. A tentative list of texts that we will explore includes autobiographical writing by Elizabeth Ashbridge, Venture Smith, Samson Occom, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Zitkala-Sa, Richard Wright, Allison Bechdel and Maya Angelou; films by Michael Mills, Marco Williams, and Jerome Hill; and poetry by Walt Whitman, Robin Coste Lewis, Marilyn Hacker and Marilyn Nelson. 
ENGL 602-01: Teaching College Composition
M 4:00 – 6:45 PM
Professor B. Brueggemann
*Requires Permission. English 602 focuses on the theory and practice of teaching writing at the college level.  We will engage reading, activities, and discussion that encourage reflective, critical, and flexible teaching practices in college-level writing classrooms.  This course is designed for (graduate) students who are teaching in the Composition Program at the University of Louisville. 

ENGL 604-01: Writing Center Theory and Practice
TTh 2:30 – 3:45 PM
Professor B. Williams
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 606-01: Creative Writing I
M 7:00 – 9:45 PM
Professor P. Griner
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 610- 01: PhD Level Internship
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 615-01: Thesis Guidance
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 621-01: Sociolinguistics
T 4:00 – 6:45 PM
Professor T. Soldat-Jaffe
ENGL 632-75: Shakespeare
Th 7:00 – 9:45 PM
Professor S. Matthew Biberman

Since the rise of queer theory, literary critics have extensively explored Shakespeare's understanding and representation of human sexuality.  At the same, little thought has been given to the question of how Shakespeare understands and represents the experience of human love in his work. In this graduate seminar, we will attempt to rectify this problem by connecting the two topics.  We will focus on a range of plays, as well as the sonnets and the narrative poems.  Our reading will include work from Freud, Lacan, and others as warranted.

Requirements: Students are expected to participate actively in the seminar and to submit a range of writing, from in class "free writes" to polished academic papers.  Verbal requirements include the following: lead class discussion of one text during the semester, provide brief verbal "walk throughs" of both midterm essays and final projects, and generally engage in class discussion.  Written requirements center around a midterm set of two brief essays and a final seminar project (where the "default" assignment is to write a paper on this seminar's subject matter but suitable for presentation at any academic conference of your choice).  Final projects can deviate from the default assignment (past examples include designing high school lesson plans, creative writing, digital media projects, etc.) but all such experimental projects are subject to the professor's approval.

ENGL 654-01: American World Literature: Fiction, Post-1945
W 4:00 – 6:45 PM
Professor A. Jaffe
Th 
ENGL 681-75: Mobility Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation
M 7:00 – 9:45 PM
Professor B. Horner
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ENGL 681: Victorian Jewels
W 7:00 -9:45 PM
Professor S. M. Griffin
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Readings may include:
  • Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
  • Emily Dickinson, selected poems
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, “The Speckled Band,” “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Ring of Thoth”
  • H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
  • Henry James, “Paste”; Guy de Maupassant, “The Necklace”
  • Edgar Allan Poe, “The Gold-Bug”
  • Harriett Prescott Spofford, “The Amber Gods,” “A Lost Jewel”
  • Bram Stoker, The Jewel of the Seven Stars
  • Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
  • Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
ENGL 687-01: From the Primary to the Presidency: Campaign Rhetoric in Post-Truth Age
T 4:00 – 6:45 PM
Professor S. Schneider
巴勒斯坦权力机构 
ENGL 689-01: Directed Reading for Exam
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 690-01: Dissertation Research
*Requires Permission 
ENGL 692-75: Engaging Some of the Greatest Hits
Th 4:00 – 6:45 PM
Professor M. Sheridan
*Requires Permission. Within Writing Studies, what we study and whom we draw upon seem to be ever expanding.  In this class, we’ll track some of that expansion by focusing on 6 key terms, reading oft cited interdisciplinary theorists and works that represent how they’ve been taken up within our field.  The terms and theorists may change, but at the moment include: Heterglossia (Mikhail Bakhtin), Institutional Ethnography (Dorothy Smith), Assemblage (Bruno Latour), Networks (Manuel Castells), New Materialism (Laurie Gries), Circulation Studies (DeVoss & Ridolpho; Catherine Chaput). The goal of the course will be to read important, primary texts, and to investigate how and why these theories and methodologies have become important to Writing Studies scholars today. Like many graduate courses, this will be a reading heavy course.