Author and Topics Classes
Click HERE for a description of some of the FALL 2009 Special Topics and Author Courses
The following list displays a selection of course topics that have been authorized as academically viable by the department over the years.
Offerings depend on financial and faculty resources. There is no guarantee that these courses will be offered, though students interested in taking a course on one of these authors or topics should contact the department.
ENGL 390: Studies in Contemporary Literature
ENGL 469: Critical Studies in Major English Writers
ENGL 479: Critical Studies in Major American Writers
ENGL 488: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
ENGL 489: Critical Studies in Major Topics in Literatures Written in English
ENGL 498: Topics in English
ENGL 583: Special Topics in Literature
ENGL 681: Seminar in Major Authors
ENGL 683: Seminar in Special Topics in English Studies
- Fabulation and Fiction
- Mavericks since Mailer
- Austen, Jane
- Beckett, Samuel
- Behn, Aphra
- Brontės
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Dickens, Charles
- Donne, John
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Eliot, George
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Forster, Edward Morgan
- Fowles, John
- Hardy, Thomas
- Joyce, James
- Keats, John
- Lawrence, David Herbert
- Milton, John
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Spenser, Edmund
- Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Wilde, Oscar
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wordsworth, William
- Yeats, William Butler
Multiple Authors
- Boswell & Johnson
- Dryden & Pope
- Malory, Kempe, & Hoccleve
- Marlowe, Marvell, & Milton
- Wells & Huxley
- Wroth, Cavendish, & Philips
ENGL 479: Critical Studies in Major American Writers
- Carver, Raymond
- Dickinson, Emily
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdrich, Louise
- Fante, John
- Faulkner, William
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hughes, Langston
- James, Henry
- Jeffers, Robinson
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Melville, Herman
- Morrison, Toni
- Munro, Alice
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Sandburg, Carl
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Twain, Mark
- West, Rebecca
- Wharton, Edith
- Whitman, Walt
- Williams, Tennessee
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wright, Richard
Multiple Authors
- Barth & Nabokov
- Brockden Brown & Jefferson
- Fitzgerald & Hemingway
ENGL 488: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
- Advanced Argumentation
- Multimedia Composition
- (Post) Modern Persuasion
- Real World Writing
ENGL 489: Critical Studies in Major Topics in Literatures Written in English
- The Anti-Hero
- The Beats
- Early Modern Women
- Literary Bloomsbury
- Literature of Los Angeles
- Reason, Revolution, Romanticism
- Ut Pictura Poesis: Art and Literature of the Romantic Period
ENGL 498: Topics in English
- American 1920s/1930s
- American Novel and Film
- The Bible in American Literature
- Children's Literature and Film
- Detective Fiction
- Finnegans Wake
- Gays and Lesbians in Literature
- Hemingway on Film
- Images of Blacks in American Literature
- Joyce's Dublin: Fiction and Reality
- Literature and Psychoanalysis
- Medieval Society
- Modernism and the City
- Poetry and the Self
- Romanesque Spirit
- Salman Rushdie
- Science as Literature
- Short Fiction and Film
- Teaching ESL Academic Writing
- Women in Early Modern Europe and America, 1500-1800
ENGL 583: Special Topics in Literature
- African-American Fiction
- Modes of Fantasy
- Satire
- Theory of Fiction
- Tragedy
- Women Writers
ENGL 681: Seminar in Major Authors
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dryden, John
- Faulkner, William
- Fowles, John
- Frost, Robert
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Johnson, Samuel
- Joyce, James
- Keats, John
- Malory, Sir Thomas
- Melville, Herman
- Munro, Alice
- Pope, Alexander
- Shakespeare, William
- Swift, Jonathan
- Yeats, William Butler
Multiple Authors
- Defoe, Swift, & Pope
- Stevens and Williams
ENGL 683: Seminar in Special Topics in English Studies
- American Autobiography
- American Indian Literature
- American Jewish Literature
- American Women Writers 1850-1900
- Autobiography
- Beowulf
- Current Issues in Rhetoric and Composition
- Ethnic American Fiction
- Feminism / Modernism
- History of Composition Instruction
- Irish Short Story
- Medieval Drama
- Nineteenth-century American Women Writers, 1850-1900
- The Novel and Postmodernism
- The Places and Spaces of Early English Drama
- Revision and Editing Processes
- Styles & Genres
- Teaching Basic Writing
- Teaching Literacy
- West Coast Writing after World War II
