Fall 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

01  CAC  TTH5    12185   GOODLAD   ABE-4450    

01  TTH5   CAC   12186  JAFFE   MU-211  Narrative medicine, a discipline largely built upon literary studies in confluence with healthcare, bridges cultural divides between sufferers and healers and offers a framework for reading and writing illness, person to person and person to text.  Rita Charon, in Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness, writes that “A scientifically competent medicine alone cannot help a patient grapple with the loss of health and find meaning in illness and dying.” In this...

01  MW4   CAC   12187   SCANLON  MU-301 Sport is one of the most visible and influential aspects of modern popular culture. This course will explore the cultural aspects of sport both in the US and internationally. It will focus on basketball, cricket, track and field, and soccer and American football, using literature, film, journalism, and a selection of accessible scholarly material.

01  TTH5   CAC   18760     MURPHY   MU-212 Why ask if someone (something?) is performing? How might performance show us different ways to understand the world or relate to each other? This class introduces the critical study of performance as an artistic, cultural, and political practice. We will take up theories of performance, as well as individual artists, performances, and performance genres. Students are expected to participate actively in class, respond to journal prompts, and develop two creative...

01    MW5   CAC   12189    SCANLON  MU-212 This course will combine in-depth analysis of three key texts by Marx, The Communist Manifesto, The German Ideology, and Capital, with a survey of Marxism’s major contributions to literary theory from the 1950’s to the present. This survey will take up most of the course and will itself be split in two. The first part will introduce three of the most important figures in Western Marxism in the twentieth century: Georg Lükacs, Antonio Gramsci, and Louis...