Ecocriticism I: The History of Nature: A historical survey of conceptions about humanity and the natural world in western literature.
Seminar: Ecocriticism: Research seminar focusing on literature and the environment.
First-Year Seminar: Vietnam: The Telling and the Trauma: An examination of the war and its human costs as represented in literary art and popular culture.
Approaches to Literature: Foundation course for English Majors which focuses on reading, writing, and critical approaches.
British Literature 1700 to the Present: A peripatetic journey through three-hundred years of literary history.
19th-Century English Novel: Works by Austen, Brontë, Carroll, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Haggard, and Scott.
Victorian Poetry and Prose: Special attention paid to faith, gender, vampirism, work, and world conquest.
Victorian and Post-Colonial Literature: This course pairs selected Victorian texts about the British Empire with recent writings from former colonies.
Contemporary Literary Theory and Methods: A graduate course in critical theory and practice.
Seminar: Victorian Crime and Criminality: A research seminar focusing on whodunit, what they did, and why the Victorians were so interested in it.
Graduate Seminar in Victorian Literature: A topics-based approach with emphasis on empire, class, and sexuality.
Rhetoric I: A course in written and oral argumentation.
Rhetoric II: Advanced argumentation leading to the inevitable term paper.
Senior Seminar in Literary Theory: Writer, reader, work, and world. The who, the what, the how, and why of it all.
Literary Legacies of Vietnam: An exploration of ongoing literary efforts to come to terms with the war in Vietnam and its consequences.