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Explores representations of otherness in medieval and/ or Renaissance literature including issues such as gender, race, religion, and sexuality in texts written between 1000 and 1700. Looks at texts written by and about women, Jews, Muslims, etc.. Discussions will involve both close readings of these texts and their relationship to theories of alterity.

The impact of language on human life, especially its importance in creating and sustaining peace or violence. Works of contemporary writers.

Study of literary classics paired with contemporary revisions or adaptations, with discussion of issues and concepts such as canonicity, reception history, intertextuality, and adaptations as critical interpretations.

Diverse voices of contemporary American poetry, lyric and narrative; essays on poetics; a sampling of poems from the 1950s-1980s by Lowell, Bishop, Wilbur, Ginsburg, O'Hara, Snyder, and others; and books by recent poets such as Gluck, Doty, Oliver, Dove, C.K. Williams, Levine, Twichell, Jarman, and Stallings.

Selections from the prose and poetry of past and present Northwest writers. Includes works of Berry, Doig, Kesey, LeGuin, Lopez, Roethke, and Stafford.

Can humans “speak for” nonhuman things? Should we eat animals? In what sense do inert materials and nonliving things participate in the world? The literary texts and literary theory engaged in this course attempt to think non-anthropocentrically and imagine the world beyond or outside the “human”.

Most of the human population now lives in cities. Americans, in particular, saw their lives restructured around cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through the varying formats of prose, poetry, and drama, this course explores questions of politics, power, identity, growth, individualism, and cooperation, which evolving configurations of urban space force us to ask.

An intensive investigation of figures associated with the flowering of a distinct American romanticism occurring in the mid-19th century. Possible inclusions are Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe, Stowe, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

Study of important works by African American writers, from the slave narratives of the nineteenth century to the prose, poetry, and drama of the twentieth century.

Historically framed survey of representative authors from former British colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Introduction to key theorists of postcolonialism from Said to Spivak and discussion of key concepts such as imperialism, racism, hybridity, mimicry, decolonization, neo-colonialism, nationalism(s), and immigration.

Involves students in professional-level research by assisting faculty in research or creative projects. An opportunity for mentoring beyond the classroom and involvement in processes and procedures of research and publication. Work will vary, but could include researching primary and secondary materials, summarizing articles and books, compiling bibliographies, indexing, copy editing, manuscript preparation, and dissemination of manuscripts.

Academic internships are available for qualified students (3.0 G.P.A.; 3.25 G.P.A. in English). Internships provide English majors with job experience pertinent to the study of English. The internship may be taken for one to three credit hours, and the credit can apply to the English major.

Research, study, or original work directed by a faculty mentor leading to a scholarly thesis and public presentation of results. Senior Capstone is usually taken in conjunction with an upper division English class. Required: approval of thesis director, department chair, dean, and the director of the honors program, when appropriate.