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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UPPER-LEVEL ENGLISH COURSES
FOR SPRING 2023
2003 Intro to Creative Writing TR 11:30-12:45, Cathy Staples
Designed for students who wish to experiment with composing several kinds of creative writing: short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
2005 Writing the Short Story TR 1:00-2:15, 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 4:45-6:00, 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.
2012 Advanced Creative Writing TR 8:30-9:45, Mary O’Donoghue
This creative writing class will take for its influence the rich, varied and changing field of Irish short fiction as it prompts us—perhaps even urges us—to our own writing practices.
2017 Writing Detective Fiction TR 2:30-3:45, Alan Drew
Do you love detective fiction? Have you always wanted to write your own "whodunit?" In this course, you'll read and analyze classic and contemporary detective fiction while working to produce, workshop, and polish your own creative work.
2020 Digital Journalism MWF 12:50-1:40, 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 11:30-12:45, Megan Quigley
An exploration of how we engage, understand, explicate, and enjoy texts of all sorts.
2360 Adaptation: Film as Lit TR 2:30-3:45, 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 20 - 1:45-4:45; 2nd Session: Sunday, January 29 - 10:00-4:30, 3rd Session: Friday, March 24 - 1:45 – 4:45:, 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.
3001 Foundational Lit I MW 3:20-4:35, Lauren Shohet
Influential British literature from beginnings to 1750, tracing key ideas, power relations, and genres that still impact literature in English, and Anglophone culture, today. Relationships between writing and political change, media history, gender, spirituality, the environment, oppression and liberation.
3250 Shakespeare TR 10:00-11:15, Alice Dailey
This course studies the plays and/or poems of Shakespeare. It may be focused on a particular genre of Shakespeare's work, a period in his career, or a topic. The course seeks to develop students' appreciation of Shakespeare's artistry and relevance.
3428 British Novel in the Romantic Period TR 2:30-3:45, Joseph Drury
Tracing the expansion in the scope and popularity of the novel as a literary form, we will consider how the major political developments of the Romantic period including the French Revolution and the abolition of the slave trade, shaped its central themes of transgression, violence, and the precariousness of social order.
3500 Foundational Lit II MWF 10:40-11:30, Evan Radcliffe
Influential British and Irish literature since about 1800 (covering the period after ENG 3001), exploring key ideas, power relations, and genres that still shape literature in English today. Topics include political change, gender, artist and audience, and the environment.
3622 Virginia Woolf TR 4:00-5:15, Megan Quigley
Virginia Woolf, novelist, essayist, and diarist, is one of the most influential 20th-Century Writers. Woolf explores the self, modernity, depression, and the joy of an ardent feminist life. We will read Woolf's novels and contemporary debates about form, gender, and sexuality.
3660 Contemporary Film and Lit: India TR 1:00-2:15, 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.
3680 20th-21st Century Irish Lit & Culture TR 11:30-12:45, Mary O’Donoghue
This course will examine 20th c. Irish-language literature, in the original language and in English translation. We will consider the long historical relationship between those two languages in light of the politics of translation.
4000 American Literary Tradition I MW 1:55-3:10, Kimberly Takahata
By studying Black, Latinx, Native, and white writers from the 1600s through 1945, this course introduces the literary history of what we now call the United States, inviting students to learn from stories and voices typically left out of more official "American" history.
4646 Race & Ethnicity: American Novel TR 4:00-5:15, Yumi Lee
Canonical texts that treat questions of race and ethnicity. Focus on the critical role of language and literature in constructing and deconstructing racial categories.
4690 Motherhood and Reproductive Fictions TR 8:30-9:45, Jean Lutes
What power do mothers have? Who has the power to define motherhood? This course examines
U.S. narratives of motherhood from the nineteenth century to the present, with special attention
to issues of reproductive justice. Race, ethnicity, class, and religion will be central to our
discussions.
4702 Authors On & Off the Page TR 4:00-5:15, Adrienne Perry, Tsering Wangmo
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.
4703 American Apocalypse TR 1:00-2:15, Heather Hicks
This course surveys major contemporary novels depicting American disasters and their aftermath. We'll consider the varieties of apocalypse that are imagined -- including economic collapse, pandemic, "zombie apocalypse," and climate disruption -- in relation to gender, race, and literary form.
5000 Religion in LatinX Lit MW 1:55-3:10, Michael Dowdy
This course reads Latinx fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans-genre writing, from the nineteenth century to the present, that bring questions of religion and spirituality to bear, often subversively, on the social, economic, and political conditions structuring Latinx lives and cultures.
5000 What is Poetry? TR 10:00-11:15, Kamran Javadizadeh
In this course we will confront our resistance to poetry head-on, reading a wide variety of influential poems and exploring both formalist and historicist approaches to them.
