Students and faculty in the English Department study traditional British and American literatures as well as the great variety of literatures from around the globe. Writing is integral to every course in the English major, and students engage in critical and creative writing projects of varying lengths. While developing skills in careful reading and research, many students take poetry or fiction workshops and take courses in argumentation, screenwriting, or business writing.

Many courses use new media and film, and focus on visual rhetoric and cultural studies. In theoretical courses students explore perspectives ranging from critical race theory, to feminist criticism, postcolonialism, semiotics, and queer theory.

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Submissions from 2012

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Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, and Other Addresses to Readers, Phyllis Brown

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The Challenges of Oral History in the 21st Century: Diversity, Inequality and Identity Construction Using Online Video Oral Histories in University Courses across the Curriculum, Gail Gradowski and Jill Goodman Gould

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Christianity, John C. Hawley

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Colonialism and Mandates, John C. Hawley

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"I Enter Into Its Burning": Yvonne Vera's Beautiful Cauldron of Violence, John C. Hawley

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Disciplinary Resistance: Promoting Possibility for the Writing Program, Amy J. Lueck

Submissions from 2011

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Female Bodies and Capitalist Drive: Leonora Sansay's Secret History in Transoceanic Context, Michelle Burnham

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Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer as Indigenous Gothic, Michelle Burnham

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Trade, Time, and the Calculus of Risk in Early Pacific Travel Writing, Michelle Burnham

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Gender, Genre and Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson's Others, Eileen Elrod

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Writing Without Sound: Language Politics in Closed Captioning, Amy J. Lueck

Writing the Self in ‘Heterotopic’ Spaces: Reading Nawal Sadaawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Aparajita Nanda

Abundance, William Rewak

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La Señora, William Rewak

The Day, William Rewak

Submissions from 2010

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Authentic Education: The Example of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Phyllis Brown

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Rhetoric and Reception: Guillaume de Machaut’s ‘Je Maudi, Phyllis Brown

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Ignatian Values in the Core Curriculum, Phyllis Brown and Diane Jonte-Pace

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Samuel Gorton’s Leveller Aesthetics and the Economics of Colonial Dissent, Michelle Burnham

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Phillis Wheatley’s Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition, Eileen Razzari Elrod

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Holocaust Remembrance: Making Meaning through Oral History across the Generations, Gail Gradowski, Jill Goodman Gould, and Anne Saldinger

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Jihad as Rite of Passage: Tahar Djaout’s The Last Summer of Reason and Slimane Benaïssa’s The Last Night of a Damned Soul, John C. Hawley

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The Colonizing Impulse of Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley

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Re-writing the Bhabhian “Mimic Man”: Akin, the Posthuman Other in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites, Aparajita Nanda

Remembering Fess Parker, William Rewak

Submissions from 2009

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Life Stories from the Holocaust: Bringing Oral History into the Digital Classroom, Jill Goodman Gould and Gail Gradowski

Submissions from 2008

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Teaching Lolita in a Course on Ethics and Literature, Marilyn Edelstein

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Biafra as Heritage and Symbol: Adichie, Mbachu, Iweala, John C. Hawley

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Introduction to LGBTQ America Today, John C. Hawley

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Introduction: Unrecorded Lives, John C. Hawley

No Simple Highway: Finding a New Meaning of Home in El Salvador, Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2007

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Heading South, John C. Hawley

Modern Warfare, William Rewak

Submissions from 2006

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Land, Labor, and Colonial Economics in Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan", Michelle Burnham

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"Archaic Ambivalence": The Case of South Africa, John C. Hawley

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Edward Said, John Berger, Jean Mohr: In Search of an Other Optic, John C. Hawley

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Theorizing the Diaspora, John C. Hawley

Identity Politics and the Voice of Autobiography in Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café, Aparajita Nanda

A Prayer to the U.S., Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2005

Rosemary Cramp: The Hilde of Durham, Phyllis Brown

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Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Writing, Michelle Burnham

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Multiculturalisms Past, Present, and Future, Marilyn Edelstein

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Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African and Native American Literatures, Eileen Elrod

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Lavender Ain’t Pink: Emerging Queer Self-Expression in a Non-White World, John C. Hawley

Boundless Practice, Juan Velasco

Poem to a Soldier, Juan Velasco

The Future of the U.S, Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2004

Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a Foreign Woman, Phyllis Brown

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Epistolarity, Anticipation, and Revolution in Clara Howard, Michelle Burnham

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Review: Time and Space in American Literary History, Michelle Burnham

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Mapping Utopia: Spatial and Temporal Sites of Meaning, John C. Hawley

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Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley

The Emerging Fictionalization of AIDS in Africa, John C. Hawley

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The War of the Worlds, Wells, and the Fallacy of Empire, John C. Hawley

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Automitografías: The Border Paradigm and Chicana/o Autobiography, Juan Velasco

Faith, Juan Velasco

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Loss, History and Melancholia in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2003

The Periphery Within: Internal Colonialism and the Rhetoric of U.S. Nation-Building, Michelle Burnham

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Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley

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Can the Cosmopolitan Speak: The Question of Indian Novelists’ Authenticity, John C. Hawley

Counter-Imperial Masculinity: The Case of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), John C. Hawley

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Firdaus Kanga, John C. Hawley

Submissions from 2002

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Pomo Basketweaving, Poison, and the Politics of Restoration in Greg Sarris's Grand Avenue, Michelle Burnham

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Review: Perpetual Emotion Machine, Michelle Burnham

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R. K. Narayanswami B.A.B.L. Engine Driver": Story-Telling and Memory in The Grandmother’s Tale, and Selected Stories, John C. Hawley

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Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and His Dangerous Border Crossings, Juan Velasco

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The Cultural Legacy of Self-Consciousness: An Interview With Lourdes Portillo, Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2001

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"However Extravagant the Pretension": Bivocalism and U.S. Nation-Building In A Narrative ofthe Life of Mrs Mary Jemison, Michelle Burnham

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Sexual discrimination and women’s retention rates in science and engineering programs, Theresa Conefrey

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Moses and the Egyptian: Religious Authority in Olaudah Equiano's Iteresting Narrative, Eileen Razzari Elrod

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The Bombay Boys of Mira Nair, Firdaus Kanga and Ardashir Vakil, John C. Hawley

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La forja de la identidad nacional: La familia Chicana en la literatura de José Antonio Villarreal y Luis Valdez., Juan Velasco

Submissions from 2000

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Cycles and Change in Beowulf, Phyllis Brown

Heloise, Dialectic, and the Heroides, Phyllis Brown and John C. Peiffer II

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Merchants, Money, and the Economics of “Plain Style” in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, Michelle Burnham

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Laboratory talk and women’s retention rates in science, Theresa Conefrey

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My Mother's Legacy: Trying to Make a Difference through Teaching and Research, Marilyn Edelstein

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Gus Lee, John C. Hawley

The Role of Sexuality in Nation-Building: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and Timothy Mo’s The Redundancy of Courage, John C. Hawley

Submissions from 1999

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A Voice Restored: Louise Labé's Impersonation of Sappho, Phyllis Brown

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Harriet Wilson and the White Reader: Authority and Audience in Our Nig, Eileen Razzari Elrod

The ‘Gag Rule’ and the Church, William Rewak

Submissions from 1998

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"I Lied All the Time": Trickster Discourse and Ethnographic Authority in "CrashingThunder", Michelle Burnham

I Did Not Make Myself So. . .’: Samson Occom and American Religious Autobiography, Eileen Razzari Elrod

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Freya Stark, John C. Hawley

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Making Disciples of All Nations, John C. Hawley

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o., John C. Hawley

Submissions from 1997

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Louise Labé and Semiramis: A Feminist Reading, Phyllis Brown

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The Interplay of Language and Music in Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter', Phyllis Brown and William Peter Mahrt

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Anne Hutchinson and the Economics of Antinomian Selfhood in Colonial New England, Michelle Burnham

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Gender, culture and authority in a university Life Sciences laboratory, Theresa Conefrey

Rebellion, Restraint, and New England Religion: The Ambivalent Feminism of Mary Wilkins Freeman, Eileen Razzari Elrod

A College President’s ABC’s, William Rewak

Roadrunner, William Rewak

Submissions from 1996

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Constructing voices in writing research: Developing participatory approaches to situated inquiry, Ann M. Blakeslee, Caroline M. Cole, and Theresa Conefrey

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Evaluating qualitative inquiry in technical and scientific communication: Toward a practical and dialogic validity, Ann M. Blakeslee, Caroline M. Cole, and Theresa Conefrey

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Beccel and the theme of death in Guðlac B, Phyllis Brown

Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel, Michelle Burnham

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Again another solution by "Daddykins”: Socializing family roles in narrative, Theresa Conefrey

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Ethics and Contemporary American Literature: Revisiting the Controversy over John Gardner's On Moral Fiction, Marilyn Edelstein