Approved Course Proposals (Variable Topic Courses)

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Updated 9/2018 by M. Franks

ENGL 4/5106 Genre

• Arthurian Literature (Haught)
• Autobiography (Hipchen)
• Black Speculative Fiction (Boyd)
• Epic (Pearson)
• Film Noir (Mock, Umminger)
• Ghost Stories (Haught)
• Gothic (Crafton)
• Humor (Casper)
• Non-Fiction Prose (Erben)
• Romance (Haught)
• Satire (Miller)
• Time Travel (Haught)
• Western (Mock)

ENGL 4/5109 Film As Literature

• 1970s (Mock)
• A Knight at the Movies (Haught)
• Adapting the Victorians (Mitchell)
• African-American Cinema (Boyd, Masters)
• Becoming Cyborg (Crafton)
• Brains, Athletes, Basket Cases, Princesses, and Criminals: Kids on Film (Insenga)
• Early America at the Movies (Erben)
• Film Adaptations of African American Literary Texts
• Film and the Novel: A Study in Adaptation
• Horror Film (Mock)
• Images of Addiction (Mock)
• It’s Alive: Frankenstein on Film (Crafton)
• Just Whistlin' Dixie?: The Celluloid South (Insenga)
• Language (Un)Bound: Representations of Language on Film (Harrison)
• Lost and Found Footage (Insenga)

ENGL 4/5170 African-American Literature

• Early African American Literature (Boyd)
• Neo-Slave Narratives (Umminger)
• The Harlem Renaissance (Boyd)
• Twentieth-Century African American Novel (Boyd)

ENGL 4/5180 Studies in Regional Literature

• Antebellum Southern Literature (Newton)
• Literature of the West (MacComb)
• Southern Literature (Hendricks)
• Southern Women Writers (Harrison)

ENGL 4/5185 Studies in Literature by Women

• American Intersections (Harrison)
• British Women Novelists (Mitchell)
• Feminist Experiments (Harrison)
• Reading Black, Reading Feminist: Black Women Writers (Boyd)
• Sentiment and Subversion in American Fiction (MacComb)
• The Sign of Angellica: The Body (Politic) in British Literature by Women (Crafton)
• Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Life Writing by Women (Hipchen)

ENGL 4/5188 Individual Authors

• Aphra Behn (Miller)
• Benjamin Franklin (Erben)
• Brontes (Mitchell)
• Christopher Marlowe (Pearson)
• Daniel Defoe (Miller)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Newton)
• Edith Wharton
• Eudora Welty (Harrison)
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Hunter S. Thompson (Hipchen)
• J. M. Coetzee (Miller)
• Jane Austen (Crafton)
• John Milton
• Langston Hughes (Boyd)
• Margaret Atwood (Harrison)
• Mark Twain (MacComb)
• Ralph Ellison (Boyd)
• Sarah Waters (Miller)
• Shakespeare For Teachers (Pearson)
• Sylvia Plath (Davidson)
• Tennessee Williams
• Thomas Hardy
• Toni Morrison (Masters)
• Virginia Woolf (Mitchell, Franks)
• William Blake
• William Faulkner (Hendricks)
• William Shakespeare

ENGL 4/5300 Studies in the English Language

• English Grammar
• History of the English Language

ENGL 4/5310 Studies in Literary Theory

• Literary Theory
• Southern Feminism (Harrison)
• Translation and Its Discontents (Davidson)

ENGL 4/5385 Special Topics

• 21st Century Literature (Umminger)
• A World Made of Words: Studies in Native American Literature (Newton)
• Adoption in Literature and Culture (Hipchen)
• Black Speculative Fiction (Boyd)
• Bodies of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film (Crafton)
• Dirty Words: The Literature of Toxicity, Disease, and Global Filth (Davidson)
• English Witch Plays (Pearson)
• Gothic America (MacComb)
• Hazardous Materials: Toxicity, Pollution, Contamination, and Waste (Davidson)
• History of Ephemera (Miller)
• Literature and Culture of the Restoration (Miller)
• Masculinity and Materialism (Miller)
• Post 9/11 Literature (Umminger)
• Professing Teacherhood: Reading the Culture of Reading Teachers (Insenga)
• Queer Theory and the Fictions of Empire (Franks)
• Science and Literature/Translating Science (Miller)
• Sensation and the Supernatural in British Fiction (Miller)
• Shakespeare on Film (Pearson)
• The American Captivity Narrative: Victims, Victors, & Vanquishers (Harrison)
• The Un-virtuous Republic: Tropes of Transgression in the Early American Novel (Erben)
• Tolkein (Haught)
• Vamps and Revamps:  British Women's Literature (Insenga)