Program Spring 2013 Courses

To register, please contact Max Kupresanin (maxk@bgsu.edu, 419-372-6864) in 211 East Hall.

In-person courses:

ENG 6070       Theory and Methods of Literary Criticism
ENG 6800       Racial Landscapes in American Literature and Culture
ENG 7070       Post Humanism

Online only:

ENG 6090       Teaching of Literature
ENG 6800       Ugly Beauty: Magical Realism

Course descriptions are below.

ENG 6070      Theory and Methods of Literary Criticism

Dr. Maisha Wester
Wednesdays 6:00PM - 9:00PM

This course serves as an introduction to some of the major modern theories of literary criticism: historicism, formalism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralist, etc. Students will engage in the application of theory to selected works.

ENG 6800      Racial Landscapes in American Literature and Culture

Dr. Jolie Sheffer
Mondays 2:30PM - 5:20PM
(cross-listed with ACS 6750)

This course focuses on contemporary American literature that interrogates the relationship between race and space, identity and landscape.  In American literature, race and ethnicity are not merely descriptive terms, they are lived conditions.  To be a raced or ethnic subject is to live in a different America, sometimes a physically segregated one, sometimes a metaphoric one.  The texts we study in this course portray the geography of race and ethnicity in a variety of innovative, illuminating ways.  America can be a promised land, a prison, a home, a hotel, an elevator shaft, or a wilderness, among other things.

Primary readings include: Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park; Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker; Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel; Toni Morrison, Beloved; Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues; Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land; Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters; Junot Diaz, Drown; Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union; Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist; and the films Candyman and Code 46.

ENG 7070      Post Humanism

Dr. Erin Labbie
Wednesdays 2:30PM - 5:20PM

Online only:

ENG 6090      Teaching of Literature

Prof. Robert Wallace
Web-Based

ENG 6800      Ugly Beauty: Magical Realism

Prof. Robert Wallace
Web-based