Recent Upper Division ETS Courses

Most upper division ETS courses have both a generic title, which shows their place in the conceptual organization of our curriculum, and a subtitle, which indicates a more specific topic or theoretical focus. Here are some examples of specific courses offered recently (with the instructor's name in parenthesis).

Historical modes of inquiry

310: Literary Periods
Renaissance Poetry (Callaghan)
The Later Romantics (Mortenson)
The American Renaissance (Roylance)
U.S. Modernism (Edmunds)
Post-1945 American Fiction (Yaffe)

315: Ethnic Literatures and Cultures
The Immigrants' Saga: Jewish American Texts (Sternlicht)
Contemporary Asian-American Literature (Wadman)
U.S. Literature of the Caribbean Diaspora (Torres-Saillant)
Contemporary American Indian Fiction (Wadman)

320: Authors
Chaucer (Moody)
Jane Austen in Context (Goode)
Whitman and Dickinson (Watson)
Chinua Achebe, African Novelist (Echeruo)

325: History and Varieties of English (Moody)

410: Forms and Genres
Utopia and Dystopia (Bartolovitch)
Shakespeare's Tragedy (Callaghan)
Domestic Narrative (Davis)
Forms of the American Lyric (Smith)

420: Cultural Production and Reception
Arthurian Literature (Moody)
The Material History of Reading (Brouillette)
American Icons (Yaffe)
Representing AIDS (Hallas)

Theoretical modes of inquiry

330: Theorizing Meaning and Interpretation
No Such Thing (Gates)
The Unconscious in the Text (Gates)
The Culture of Addiction (Morton)

340: Theorizing Forms and Genres
Genre Borders in Shakespeare (Davis)
Allegory and Parody (Frieden)
Short Story Past and Present (Gaitskill)
Cinema and the Documentary Idea (Hallas)

430: Theorizing Representation
Cybersexualities (Morton)

440: Theorizing History and Culture
History and the Sublime (Goode)
Political modes of inquiry

350: Reading Nation and Empire
The Literature of Revolution (Roylance)
Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Sternlicht)
Southern African Literature (Abrahams)
Hip-Hop Eshu: Queen B@#$H Lyricism (Thomas)

355: The Politics of the English Language (Moody)

360: Reading Gender and Sexualities
Theories of Gender and Sexuality (Klaver)
Queer Fictions (Lang)
Cinema and Sexual Difference (Cohan)

450: Reading Race and Ethnicity
Black Revolutionary Texts (Thomas)
Contemporary Indigenous Film (Wadman)

460: Reading Class and Economic Materiality
Early Modern London (Bartolovitch)
American Consumer Culture (Lang)

462: Reading Institutions and Ideologies
The Prison Industrial Complex (Morton)