Recent Courses
Intersecting Shakespeare:
Rage, Gender, & Invisible Labor
Placing our texts within their cultural, economic, historical, and social contexts, this course thinks transhistorically about how Shakespeare challenged, perpetuated, satirized, and subverted early modern gender norms.
Family Drama
This introduction to literature course investigates the fictional family as a reflection of social order and power dynamics of citizenship. Although the nuclear family is frequently idealized by popular culture, fictional representations of families are often far less than ideal.
Image: Kenneth A. Kerslake. The Immigrants. 2003.
Civic Identities
& the Politics of Belonging
This upper-level course examines the city comedy genre through the work of non-canonical but popular playwrights such as Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston, to investigate how this genre constructs, defines, and dismantles ideologies of familiar and strange through representations of London and its denizens.
Intro to British Literature: Adventure & Empire
This course inquires how national and literary identities emerge through popular media by surveying British adventure and travel narratives alongside excerpts from contemporary superhero narratives.