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ENG 202: Introduction to Poetry 
T/TH 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Ian Lockaby 

 

 

 

ENG 221: Fiction Writing I 
T/TH 1:00 鈥� 2:15  
TBA 
In this class, you will write your own original fiction. Class sessions will be organized around craft topics, which will include assigned outside readings and writing exercises. You will also write one short story or novel chapter. Craft topics will include: character, dialogue, setting, structure, style, revision, and more. 
 
 
 
ENG 321/421: Fiction Writing II and III 
T/TH 1:00 鈥� 2:15  
Dr. Olivia Clare Friedman 
In this class, you will write your own original fiction and workshop one another鈥檚 fiction. In addition to honing your craft, you will be working on your workshop skills. Craft topics will include: character, dialogue, setting, structure, style, revision, and more. You may turn in either short stories or novel chapters. 
  
Recommended Text: 
Writing Fiction, 10th Edition, Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French 
  
Short stories and novel excerpts to be distributed in class

 
 

ENG 222/322/422: Poetry Writing 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Dr. Angela Ball 
 
 
 
ENG 223: Creative Writing (Mixed Genre) 
M/W 11:00 鈥� 12:15 
Dr. Angela Ball 
 
 
 
ENG 314: Popular Fiction [H001] / HUM 202
Cross listed with PHI 317 and HUM 202 
T/TH 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Dr. Luis Iglesias, Dr. Paula Smithka 

 

Readings in a Science Fictional Universe: Text, Context, and Metatext 
Cross-listed with ENG 314: Readings in a Science Fictional Universe and PHI 317: Philosophy through Science Fiction  
  
Explore new worlds through the thought experiments of Science Fiction! In this class, we will investigate both literary and philosophical themes in this popular culture genre asking what does it mean to live in a science fictional universe that compels us to reflect on ourselves, our interactions with others, and our place in the world today and in the future.  
 
Science Fiction, which as famed science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin notes, is never 鈥減redictive but descriptive,鈥� ultimately presents through extraordinary travels and experiences concerns that consider who we are and can be. This team-taught class will encounter a variety of readings, both fictional and philosophical, that engage with Science Fiction, its conceptual imaginings, and its expressive potential that invite reflection not only on the overall human condition but also ourselves. 
 
 
 
ENG 314: Popular Fiction [H002] 
T/TH 11:00 鈥� 12:15 
Dr. Alexandra Valint 

Calling all amateur sleuths! Detective fiction is a genre seemingly obsessed with rules; in fact, the members of the 1920s Detective Club (yes, a real club!) actually took an oath to uphold them. And yet, much of the fun in reading detective fiction is watching authors play with and even upend such rules (maybe the butler DID do it!). To learn the conventions and history of the genre, we will start with canonical nineteenth-century short stories featuring Auguste Dupin (by Edgar Allan Poe) and Sherlock Holmes (by Arthur Conan Doyle) as well as nineteenth-century short stories featuring female detectives; then we will move on to the 鈥済olden age鈥� work of the so-called 鈥淨ueen of Crime,鈥� Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None) and then to the hardboiled noir of Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep). For the second half of the semester, we will explore more contemporary examples of the genre to see how they adapt the genre for different times, places, and audiences. These recent novels will likely include the following: Anthony Horowitz鈥檚 Magpie Murders (2016), Tana French鈥檚 The Searcher (2020), and Angeline Boulley鈥檚 Firekeeper鈥檚 Daughter (2021). 
 
 
 
ENG 335: Tutoring Writing 
T/TH 1:00 鈥� 2:15 
Jason McCormick 

 

Have you ever thought of being a writing tutor? Are you fascinated by the idea of what writers do when they write? Do your friends come to you for writing advice? Then English 335 is for you! This class introduces students to key theories and practices of peer tutoring, setting them up to apply to be a tutor at 91短视频在线播放鈥檚 Writing Center while also fostering positive teaching practices that can be used in any professional teaching environment. Open to all majors, the course looks at peer tutoring and one-on-one guidance as a collaborative, responsive process that improves student experience and helps foster a sense of community and growth. This course begins with two major premises: Writing is a thinking process and writing is a social activity. We will explore how topics such as linguistic diversity, process-based pedagogies, writing across the curriculum, new media tutoring, and writing in the age of AI relate to the work of peer tutors. Each topic is grounded in real Writing Center experience and draws from the latest scholarship and practice. Again, this course is a prerequisite for any undergraduate student who might be interested in working at the Writing Center in the future. 
 
 
 
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature [H001]
M/W 9:30 鈥� 10:45 
Dr. Nicolle Jordan 
 
 
 
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature [H002]
T/TH 4:00 鈥� 5:15 
Dr. Ery Shin 

 

This course is an introduction to the discipline of literary criticism.  The art of reading can be both a leisurely pastime and a venerated practice that hones the individual鈥檚 ability to appreciate a text鈥檚 nuances in many different situations.  Much of reality can, indeed, be likened to a text to begin with: the subtexts underlying our everyday conversations, the value judgments inculcated by particular words and turns of phrase, the language informing our legal and penal codes, and the miscommunications accrued through verbal ambiguities.  To read well is to understand such subtleties and master the ability to potentially rewrite them. 
  
SAMPLE READING LIST: 
James Wood, How Fiction Works 
Samuel Beckett, Molloy 
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory (excerpts) 
Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, eds., The Anthology of Rap (excerpts) 
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (excerpts) 
Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day (excerpts) 
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays (excerpts) 
 
 
 
ENG 351: British Literature II 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Dr. Nicolle Jordan 

 

This course surveys major genres and authors of British literature from Romanticism to the late twentieth century. Students will come to understand this range of materials through a series of assignments including thesis-driven essays, short in-class writing assignments, presentations, and exams. Although not comprehensive, the course aims to identify relationships among the texts and to explore the unstable yet time-honored significance of the terms Romantic, Victorian, and Modern. Authors include William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, George Eliot, T.S Eliot, James Joyce, and John Banville.
 
 
 
ENG 371: American Literature II: 1865 to the Present 
T/TH 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Dr. Christopher Spaide 
 
This course surveys American literature from the Civil War to today through a close consideration of some indispensable authors, texts, movements, and controversies. Our survey is, by necessity, selective: we have one semester together and 160-odd years to cover. Yet our reading contains multitudes: fiction, poetry, drama, several genres of nonfiction, and glimpses at media at the outer edges of literature, including popular song, comics, film, television, and digital media. Over four overlapping periods (the late nineteenth century, modernism, postmodernism, and the early twenty-first century), we will tell not one but many histories: of who reads, who writes, and who publishes American literature; of how forms and genres rise and fall, partly in response to changing values, markets, and demographics; of the public and private institutions that shape literary production and reception (including English departments and creative-writing programs); of political literature and literary politics; and of American literature鈥檚 always shifting place in transnational currents and global networks. Students will participate in class discussions and pre-class exercises, complete short critical and creative-writing assignments, and take an in-class midterm and a final exam. 
 
Required books: 
Robert S. Levine, general editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Tenth Edition, Volume 2: 1865 to the Present (2022), ISBN: 9780393886184 
Hua Hsu, Stay True (2022), ISBN: 9780593315200 
 
 
 
ENG 400 [H001] / ENG 414: LGBTQ+ Literature (Senior Capstone) 
M/W 1:00 鈥� 2:15 
Dr. Eric Tribunella 

This course will survey a selection of classic texts by and about LGBT people.  Beginning in the early twentieth century with some of the first explicitly gay and lesbian novels, the course will consider how these texts work to articulate different sexualities, identities, and communities in the context of changing historical conditions and discourses.  The reading list includes a range of texts that address the intersection of sexuality with race, class, gender, age, migration, community, and nation.  We will consider how literature has functioned as a key site for the conceptualization of individual and collective identities premised on same-sex desires, and the course will investigate the question of what constitutes lesbian and gay literature.  Readings will include the following:  
  
-Imre (1906), Edward Prime-Stevenson   
-Maurice (1914/1971), E.M. Forster    
-The Well of Loneliness (1928), Radclyffe Hall  
-Passing (1929), Nella Larsen 
-The Price of Salt (1952), Patricia Highsmith   
-A Single Man (1964), Christopher Isherwood   
-Angels in America (1992-1993), Tony Kushner 
 
 
 
ENG 400 [H002] / 469: Victorian Literature (Senior Capstone) 
T/TH 4:00 鈥� 5:15 
Dr. Alexandra Valint 

The English author H. G. Wells memorably fictionalized all these topics in his famous works of science fiction published at the end of the nineteenth century. We will read Wells鈥檚 most popular novellas including The Time Machine (about an inventor who travels into a future London), The Island of Dr. Moreau (about an island scientist who experiments on animals), The Invisible Man (about a researcher who commits crimes while invisible), and The War of the Worlds (about an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth). While we now classify these works as 鈥渟cience fiction,鈥� they were labelled 鈥渟cientific romances鈥� in Wells鈥檚 day, and they often dip into the gothic and horror genres as well. We will also read an assortment of Wells鈥檚 short stories such as 鈥淭he Star,鈥� 鈥淭he Country of the Blind,鈥� and 鈥淭he Door in the Wall,鈥� the latter of which veers into fantasy. But, especially later in his career, Wells also wrote realistic works informed by his deeply held social and political beliefs. We will read Ann Veronica, a so-called 鈥淣ew Woman鈥� novel focused on an educated, independent-minded woman who struggles against the expectations of her family and of women at the time. Throughout his works, Wells wrestles with ideas and engages with the question 鈥渨hat if?鈥� In this course, we will explore how he represents the human condition and human struggle across his oeuvre. 
 
 
 
ENG 403: Language Study for Teachers 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15 ONLINE CHAT 
Mrs. Melanee Barton 
 
 
 
ENG 406: History of the English Language 
Online 
Dr. Leah Parker 

In ENG 406, we will trace the history of the English language from its prehistoric Indo-European roots, through sound changes of the Middle Ages, standardization in the era of print, and diversification as a global language in the modern world. Students will learn the basics of linguistics; the pronunciation and basic grammar of Old English (spoken ca. 450鈥�1100 CE) and Middle English (spoken ca. 1100鈥�1500); how to fully utilize dictionaries and editions of English texts; and how dialects develop through isolation, imperialism, and human interactions.  
  
ENG 406 will be fully online and asynchronous in Spring 2026. There will be no required full-class synchronous meetings, though office hours and individual or small-group meetings will be available to help students succeed in the course. The class is organized into weekly modules. Short assignments due each week will both prepare students to demonstrate their learning through quizzes and build up to a cumulative project telling the story of English linguistic and literary history through the lens of a specific subject area (such as 鈥榳eather,鈥� 鈥榤edicine,鈥� or 鈥榝ood鈥�). 
  
 
 
ENG 411: Postcolonial Literature 
T/TH 4:00 鈥� 5:15 PM 
Dr. Luis Iglesias 

The Literary Worlds of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico 
  
The Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico鈥檚 basin are a rich and varied crossroad whose aesthetics, cultures, and diversity chart the complex history of the Americas and the peoples who call it home. The site of historical change and encounters, the West Indies and its environs have and continue to nurture and inspire writers across racial, national, and linguistic lines making visible the culturally dynamic tapestry of the Americas since its colonization through its protracted and, at times, contested move toward and the emergence of national self-definition and independence. Along the way, its writers and artists have found expressive means to not only chronicle that history but also reveal both its fractures and liberation. This course will read works across the expansive timeline and geography of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico seeking moments of shared insights and autonomous identities. To this end, the class will read works by writers from the Anglo-American, Franco-American, and Iberian-American Caribbean and surrounding nations, who call the region home while simultaneously navigating the hemispheric movements and frequently determined draw North to the United States and beyond. 
 
 
 
ENG 430: Advanced Professional and Technical Writing 
T/TH 1:00 鈥� 2:15 ONLINE CHAT 
Dr. Rebecca Powell 
 
 
 
ENG 428/627: Introduction to Publishing 
M/W 11:00 鈥� 12:15  
Dr. Rachael Fowler 
 
Considering a job as an editor? Want to see your name listed in an esteemed literary journal? ENG 428/627 welcomes all creative writers who鈥檇 like to learn more about the world of literary publishing. In this class, we鈥檒l work to produce an issue of Mississippi Review and Product Magazine, giving you the chance to have a reading/editorial position in both and see the full production process of a journal from receiving submissions, to designing an issue, to launching/publicizing. We鈥檒l also read a variety of texts that introduce you to the historical and current role of the literary editor along with other career paths in the editing world. You鈥檒l complete an in-depth research project on a specific aspect of publishing that is interesting to you along with the professional materials you need to apply to editing internships, fellowships, and jobs. By the end of this class, you鈥檒l gain editorial experience, skills needed to collaborate with a community of literary citizens, a growing knowledge of the literary market, and practical documents you need to step into the professional editing world. 
 
 
 
ENG 450: Gender and Disability in Medieval Literature 
M/W 9:30 鈥� 10:45  
Dr. Leah Parker 

This class will explore medieval concepts of gender and disability as they are reflected in literature of the period and other primary sources. We will analyze texts such as the earliest surviving autobiography written in English (The Book of Margery Kempe), lives of saints who transgress gender norms and enact miracles of healing, and Arthurian romances including Chaucer鈥檚 Wife of Bath鈥檚 Tale and Le Roman de Silence. We will read alongside real medieval people who wrote and read medieval literature, and whose documented engagement with matters of gender and disability complement the literary tradition, including King Alfred the Great, Geoffrey Chaucer, Eleanor Rykener, Thomas Hoccleve, and Margery Kempe.  
Students in this class can expect to (1) read widely in medieval literature and primary historical sources, both in translation and in Middle English, with training in the latter provided; (2) practice locating, assessing, and building upon scholarly sources as research for analytical papers; and (3) craft both short and extended analyses of gender and/or disability in medieval literature. 

(Meets with IDS 452 Seminar in Disability Studies and IDS 471 Seminar in Health and Medical Humanities.) 
 
 
 
ENG 465/IDS 452: Romanticism, Medicine, & Modern 鈥淒isability鈥�  
T/TH 9:30 鈥� 10:45  
Dr. Emily Stanback 

Many of Romanticism鈥檚 most enduring characters, from Coleridge鈥檚 Ancient Mariner to Frankenstein鈥檚 Creature, are characterized by the kinds of bodies and minds that we would call 鈥渄isabled.鈥� Many Romantic-era authors also lived with conditions that, then and now, were pathologized by medicine鈥攁nd most explicitly claimed the importance of these embodied states to their lives and writing. For example, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote letters and poetry about a wide range of chronic bodily and mental symptoms, Mary Prince spoke movingly about her rheumatism, Thomas De Quincey minutely tracked his 鈥渃razy body,鈥� and Charles Lamb wrote about his stuttering, limping, and experience of madness. 
This course seeks to explore the ways in which disability influenced Romantic-era literature and culture, as well as the extent to which conceptions of 鈥渄isability鈥濃�攊n the modern sense of the word鈥攄eveloped during the era. Medicine was key to the development we鈥檒l trace; we will therefore also pay special attention to medical approaches to the conditions under discussion, and how they shaped broader cultural attitudes about those conditions. 
 
 
 
ENG 478: American Women Writers  
M/W 11:00 鈥� 12:15  
Dr. Kate Cochran 

 

Our course will examine 20th- and 21st-century literary works by several major American women writers. It is divided into three chronological parts: Part I, 1930s-50s, includes poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Eudora Welty鈥檚 short story cycle The Golden Apples, and Lorraine Hansberry鈥檚 play A Raisin in the Sun. In Part II, 1960s-80s, we will read Maxine Hong Kingston鈥檚 mixed-genre The Woman Warrior, Anne Sexton鈥檚 poetry, Sandra Cisneros鈥檚 short story collection Woman Hollering Creek, and Wendy Wasserstein鈥檚 play The Heidi Chronicles. Finally, Part III, 1990s-10s, focuses on Toni Morrison鈥檚 novel Paradise, Suzan-Lori Parks鈥檚 play In the Blood, and poetry by Joy Harjo. Examining texts in varied genres by women authors from diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, and literary traditions will allow us to discern how their writing reflects unique experiences and shared understanding of issues like gender roles, intersectional identity, and the life of the woman artist. To that end, students will maintain a reading journal, write one short and one longer researched essay, and engage in active reading and participation in class discussion. 

 

 
HUM 402/502: Digital Humanities Practicum 
T/TH 2:30 鈥� 3:45 
Dr. Jennifer Andrella 

 

In this course, students will work collaboratively on a Digital Humanities project while learning digital methods, community-engaged best practices, and archival research. We will engage in the entire process of constructing a digital project, from idea to public launch. Through this course, students will gain valuable skills in web authoring, team-based learning, and project management. By working closely with local archives, special collections, and/or community partners, students will explore how the digital humanities can connect scholarship with public audiences in meaningful ways. 

ENG 351/409: British Literature II (Studies in Literature & the Environment) 
M 6:00 鈥� 9:00  
Dr. Damon Franke 
 
 
 
ENG 371: American Literature II 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45  
Dr. Whitney Martin 
 
 
 
ENG 400/477/577: Survey of the American Novel (Senior Capstone) 
W 6:00 鈥� 9:00 
Dr. Damon Franke  

 

Literature of New Orleans  
Course Objectives: This course will primarily delve into literary portrayals of New Orleans over the course of the 20th Century.  We will read Kate Chopin鈥檚 The Awakening, William Faulkner鈥檚 Pylon, Natasha Trethewey鈥檚 Bellocq鈥檚 Ophelia, Nelson Algren鈥檚 Walk on the Wild Side, Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors, and John Kennedy Toole鈥檚 A Confederacy of Dunces.  Over the course of the semester, students will 鈥渢our鈥� the New Orleans neighborhoods of the Garden District, Bywater, Uptown, and Storyville.  Major issues of concern will be the history and culture of these areas as we discuss the communities鈥� relationship to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, the origins and development of jazz, the unique history and legacy of race relations, and the Big Easy鈥檚 associations with corruption, depravity, and the occult in the face of, and perhaps as a result of, the ethos of laissez le bon temps roule.  This course involves discussion, the creation of a research paper, and participation in activities, including a field trip to New Orleans culminating the semester.  This is a course about the literature of your metropolis; embrace how others have thought about it and portrayed it.  The elective version of the course (ENG 477) requires less research and writing. 
 
 

ENG 423: Creative Nonfiction Writing 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15  
Dr. Damon Franke  

Creative Nonfiction is a new name for an old genre.  Essays, reviews, autobiography, and even history long have held the torch of factual storytelling and analysis. This form of writing often went under the generic moniker 鈥減rose.鈥�  Now specific subgenres of creative nonfiction exist such as 鈥渘ature writing,鈥� 鈥渟ports writing,鈥� the 鈥減ersonal essay,鈥� and the 鈥渕emoir.鈥�  Other forms have simply continued: the book review, the music or performance review, and general cultural commentary. The most common advice given to aspiring creative writers is 鈥渞ead to write.鈥�  This course will expose students to esteemed examples of essay, review, and personal expression in order to learn from past practice and develop their own voice.  Short exercises in imitation will unveil narrative perspective and literary technique as students cast the borrowed ideas in new contexts.  By the end of the semester each student will have written three short essays or reviews and one 鈥渇eature鈥� article. The successful student will strike a compelling balance between refining their style and voice and integrating details, investigating topics, and absorbing their material.  Students will create various forms of creative nonfiction written with particular audiences in mind while incorporating the development of a narrative voice often about a particular place.  Students will practice experimenting with form, structure, and style.  Above all, students will cultivate their general writing style and practice incorporating facts within a creative framework.  Students will be encouraged to draw on literary techniques drawn from fiction and poetry as they cast images into a story or review. The ultimate goal for this course is for each student to secure publication of at least piece of writing.  To that end some of our short essays are geared toward niche audiences.  Through this last vein of the class, students will learn standard editorial practices.