Section V - Senior Seminars

Senior Seminars, limited to 12 seniors and juniors, will vary in content. They will focus students on concentrated discussions and on a final research project of 20-25 pages. Recommended: four completed major courses or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT.

• ENGL 71 Senior Seminar in Course Group I
• ENGL 71.01 Celtic Fringes: Medieval English Literature in Dialogue with Irish, Welsh, and Breton Traditions
• ENGL 71.02 Ovid in England
• ENGL 71.03 The Faerie Queene
• ENGL 71.05 Romance in Medieval England
• ENGL 71.06 Milton
• ENGL 71.13 Gender and Power in Shakespeare
• ENGL 71.14 Knights, Camelot, Action!
• ENGL 71.15 Poetics of the Supernatural
• ENGL 71.16 Shakespeare and the Problem of Forgiveness: Late Plays & Problem Plays
• ENGL 72 Senior Seminars in Course Group II
• ENGL 72.02 Decadence, Degeneration and the Fin de Siecle
• ENGL 72.03 Bohemia: Glamorous Outcasts & the Nineteenth-Century Novel
• ENGL 72.05 1850s America
• ENGL 72.06 Dickens in Context
• ENGL 72.09 Ecocriticism
• ENGL 72.13 The Brontës
• ENGL 72.14 From Riches to Rags: Poverty in American Literature, 1861-1925
• ENGL 73.01 In the Image: Photography, Writing, and the Documentary Turn
• ENGL 73.02 Toni Morrison Senior Seminar
• ENGL 73.03 Black Elegies
• ENGL 73.05 Nobel Prize Authors Writing in English
• ENGL 73.07 Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
• ENGL 73.13 James Joyce
• ENGL 73.19 Faulkner
• ENGL 73.28 How We Live Now: Contemporary Hemispheric Fictions
• ENGL 73.30 20th Century Protest Poetry
• ENGL 74.01 Reading Freud
• ENGL 74.02 Understanding Biopolitics
• ENGL 74.03 On Cruelty
• ENGL 74.04 Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Youth and Happiness in the Global Novel
• ENGL 74.05 Word-Image Theory
• ENGL 74.06 Frantz Fanon: Colonial War and Mental Disorders
• ENGL 74.11 High Theory
• ENGL 74.12 Garden Politics
• ENGL 75.02 Climate Fiction
• ENGL 75.03 Beyond the Prison: Premodern Carceral Studies