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2026-2027 Academic Year

Fall 2026

ENGL 101 Literature and Food
This course looks at how literary texts take on some key questions of food and culture, including the status of the body, the preservation and evolution of tradition, the effects and redress of hunger, the morality of pleasure, and the relationship of humans to the non-human world. We will consider a range of genres-fiction, poetry, memoir, essay, reportage-to understand how elements of artistic form alter potential answers to the questions that food presents.

ENGL 331 US Poetry of Modernist Era
This course examines U.S. poetry of the first four decades of the twentieth century, focusing on how authors experimented with new forms and techniques of verse writing to engage with changing social and political conditions. Authors studied will include T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, and Muriel Rukeyser.

ENGL 403 Meth/Models of Lit Schol
Permission of instructor required. This class will prepare students for writing a senior thesis by exploring some central questions of literary scholarship. Our class will begin with various analyses of a single novel, using this focus to exemplify possibilities in framing and investigating a scholarly question. Meanwhile, students will pursue a series of independent projects that test different parts of the research process for other primary texts of their own choosing.

Spring 2027

ENGL 351 Psychoanalysis and Literature
Psychoanalysis and literary scholarship have long been indebted to each other; this class will examine selections from psychological texts alongside a range of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in order to understand better the complexities of both. We will use different conceptions of desire, repression, repetition, and the unconscious to clarify the operation of genres such as the lyric poem, ghost story, memoir, or Bildungsroman. Theoretical texts may include work from Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, and Frantz Fanon; literary texts may include work from Louise Glück, Henry James, Maxine Hong Kingston, Nella Larsen, Edgar Allan Poe, and Virginia Woolf.

ENGL 404 Senior Thesis Workshop
A workshop requiring students to share discoveries and problems as they produce a lengthy manuscript based on a topic of their own choosing, subject to the approval of the instructor.Prerequisites: 403.