Our student advisory council will be making visits to classes in the coming weeks to talk about the English major and minor at Villanova. Here are some of the flyers they'll be showing:
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SPRING 2024 UPPER-LEVEL ENGLISH COURSES
2003 Intro to Creative Writing TR 11:30-12:45, Tsering Wangmo
Designed for students who wish to experiment with composing several kinds of creative writing: short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
2004 Writing Creative Non-Fiction MW 3:20-4:35, Adrienne Perry
Creative nonfiction has been described as "true stories well told." Students will write, close read, and workshop "true stories," including travel writing, food writing, and the lyric essay.
2005 Writing the Short Story TR 2:30-3:45, Alan Drew
In this writing workshop course, we will explore setting, point of view, characterization, plot and other craft elements that make short stories run. We will read influential authors and give feedback to one another to foster our growth as writers.
2006 Writing of Poetry MW 1:00-2:15, Lisa Sewell
Instruction in poetry writing, including how to craft imagery, figurative language, sound, line, and rhythm, as well as traditional and contemporary forms. Students read widely and write lyric, narrative and experimental poems that are shared in a supportive workshop setting.
2019 Writing for Social Change TR 10:00-11:15, Tsering Wangmo
Can stories change society? In this workshop you will braid your social justice, environmental, healthcare, and migration interests into creative pieces. We will read works by contemporary writers that address existing problems and call for justice, resistance, equality, activism.
2020 Digital Journalism MWF 10:40-11:30, Lara Rutherford-Morrison
Introduces students to the fundamentals of journalism, with an emphasis on digital media. Class will focus on the ins and outs of digital journalism as a practice, with students gaining hands-on experience within a variety of media platforms.
2070 Legal Writing and Analysis MWF 9:35-10:25, Karen Graziano
Fundamentals of legal writing and analysis.
2250, Ways of Reading TR 1:00-2:15, Brooke Hunter
An exploration of how we engage, understand, explicate, and enjoy texts of all sorts.
2302 Apocalyptic Literature TR 1:00-2:15, Heather Hicks
One of the oldest forms of narrative, apocalyptic literature is more popular - and powerful - than ever. Starting with Revelation, this course traces this tradition through fascinating poems, stories, novellas, novels and films to the present day.
2360 Adaptation: Film as Lit MW 4:45-6:00 Adrienne Perry
The relationship between movies and literature dates back to film's earliest days. Comparing films and texts allows for an explanation of storytelling and the fascinating choices auteurs make. Plot, tone, and symbolism are considered alongside questions of power and representation.
2991 English Majors as Leaders 1st Session: Friday, January 19 - 1:55-4:55; 2nd Session: Sunday, February 9 - 1:55- 4:55, 3rd Session: Friday, March 15 - 1:55 – 4:55: 4th Session: Friday, April 5 - 1:55 – 4:55, Karen Graziano
Communicating and applying skills of English Majors in the workplace.
2994 Reading and Community M 6:15-7:30 for first 10 weeks of the semester, Mary Mullen
Studying the kind of reading that takes place outside of the classroom in book groups and community reads, this course practices reading in community while studying hot new books selected by students in the course.
3350 Milton MW 3:20-4:35, Lauren Shohet
Why has the writing of John Milton (especially Paradise Lost fascinated and infuriated English-speaking people for 350 years? We will explore how and why Milton's sometimes radical ideas about conscience, liberty, gender, and marriage remain influential, and how other writers (especially women) have responded to Milton.
3426 Science, Lit & Enlightenment TR 4:00-5:15, Joseph Drury
In this course, students will read and analyze some of the key philosophical texts that established the founding principles of modern science alongside literary texts from different genres that explore science's social meaning and its moral and political implications.
3540 Institutional Fictions MW 4:45-6:00, Mary Mullen
This course examines the intriguing relationship between literature and institutions, including governments, schools and prisons. Reading nineteenth-century literature in relation to our contemporary moment, we focus especially on universities, interrogating students' experiences of universities and institutional narratives about universities.
3660 Contemporary Literature & Film of India TR 4:00-5:15, Tsering Wangmo
India produces some of the most innovative and engrossing literature in the world, while also releasing more films than any other nation. Through both forms, we'll explore debates in contemporary India concerning border tensions, caste, gender, fantasy, and imperial histories.
3661 Black British Literature & Film MW 1:55-3:10, Chiji Akoma
Focusing on notions of "blackness" and emigration, this course examines major British literature and film by persons of African descent and immigrants from former colonies in Asia and Africa. Writers include Zadie Smith, Sam Selvon, Hanif Kureishi, Bernardine Evaristo, Buchi Emecheta.
4010 Early American Textual Bodies TR 2:30-3:45, Kimberly Takahata
This course asks: how can we read about early American bodies, and how are bodies legible? We will chart how Indigenous, Black, and settler persons used developing forms and genres to navigate identity in texts from sixteenth- through nineteenth- century America..
4654 Twenty-Five Poems TR 11:30-12:45, Kamran Javadizadeh
To be alive today is to feel distracted. This course offers us the chance to slow down. We read just one short poem per class meeting and learn how to give it our full attention, in writing and in conversation.
4649 Intro to Asian American Literature MW 3:20-4:35, Yumi Lee
Examines literature, film art, and other cultural productions by Asian Americans and explores Asian American histories from the early 20th century to the present.
4702 Authors On & Off the Page TR 4:00-5:15, Alan Drew, Lisa Sewell
Do you love to write? Dream of visiting with authors to discuss their work and the publishing world? This course combines creative writing workshops with literary analysis and the chance to hob-nob with prestigious authors during the Villanova Literary Festival.
5000 U.S. Literature & Empire MW 1:55-3:10, Yumi Lee
This course explores how American writers have responded to the expanding place of the United States in the world. We will read literary works that reimagine contested spaces of US empire: the Indian reservation, the border, the overseas military base, and more.
5000 Woolf & Daughters TR 10:00-11:15, Megan Quigley
Virginia Woolf was prohibited from having children by her doctors and husband because they feared for her physical and mental health. Her novels examine maternal love, loss, and illness in the experimental style that came with Woolf's rage at patriarchy’s power. This class will examine both Woolf's works and that of her "spiritual” daughters: Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, and Rachel Cusk.
9730 Staging The Spanish Tragedy Meeting by Arrangement, Alice Dailey
Work with and as theatre-makers to contribute to a main stage production of the highly influential 16th century play, The Spanish Tragedy.
HON 5440-100 At Stoneleigh Garden: Reading & Writing Children’s Stories, April 12-14, 2024, Cathy Staples From Goodnight Moon and The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies to Wind in the Willows, Sukey and the Mermaid, and Alice in Wonderland—we will read and write our way through Stoneleigh’s gardens, meadows, and woods.
HON 5440-101 At the Barnes: One Credit Poetry Workshop February 16-18, 2024, Cathy Staples
Dr. Barnes’ collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings will be the centerpiece for this one-weekend poetry writing workshop.
You can find our English Alumni Careers Booklet here.
View the complete fall '23 course booklet here
