Spring 2012
ENGL 505 Contemporary Literary Theory & Methods - Glenn Steinberg - Monday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
ENGL 550 Seminar in Poetry - Jean Graham - Tuesday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Intensive study in the close reading of poetry. The course emphasizes the tools necessary for the explication of poems. Topics include prosody and form, metaphor and figurative language, and the history of major movements, styles, and genres.
ENGL 670 Special Topics: "Early African American Literature" - Piper Kendrix-Williams - Thursday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
A thematically organized study of African American Literature from the colonial period through Reconstruction, this course will build students' knowledge and confidence as readers and critics of African American culture and society in the United States. We will look at these texts through a lens focused on the effects produced by struggles with American fictions of race, class and sex and their intersections with categories of gender, ethnicity and nation. We will balance a reading of theoretical texts with a close study of primary literature in the African American Tradition 1776-1920. Authors will include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, and W.E.B Dubois.
ENGL 670 Special Topics: "American Short Story" - Catie Rosemurgy - Wednesday - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
This course will focus on the American short story post-WW II and the aesthetic aspects of genre. We will pay particular attention to reading at the level of the word, attending to the variety of aesthetic strategies, and to appreciating aesthetics as both an embodiment of and challenge to humanist and postmodern ideologies. Some of the writers we will be studying include James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Donald Barthelme, Stephen Dixon, Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis, Edward P. Jones, George Saunders, and David Foster Wallace.
ENGL 697 Teaching Practicum at Bucks County Community College (BCCC)
Interested students can also apply to teach a writing class at BCCC. If accepted by the Chair at BCCC, you would then enroll in this TCNJ Practicum for graduate credit. Please read the webpage about this Practicum (here on MA website) and contact Dr. Tarter if you have any further questions.