Summer 2026 Course Offerings

LNG 201-301 Intro to English
Professor: Felicia Steele
Summer Session III- Blended Learning Format: Online Synchronous Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 5-7:30pm with two In-Person Meetings: August 3 and 20

LIT 240-901 Ancient Greek Tragedy
Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program
Professor: Glenn Steinberg

Please see the CGE (cge.tcnj.edu) Website for details and deadlines for deposits to register.
https://studyabroad.tcnj.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=46430

LIT 316-201/WGS 376-201 Global Women Writers
Staff
Summer Session II- Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-7:30pm Online Synchronous Meetings

This course offers a global study of literary narratives of contemporary womanhood. Our objective is to explore various literatures from around the world, and to examine the larger contexts, such as culture, nation, historical struggle, and global stage, in which such narratives are embedded and through which they emerge. We will read recent novels, essays, and a few poems and short stories from around the globe, focusing on non-Western literatures in particular. Our course texts include a wide range of genres including fantasy, historical realism, magical realism, poetry, essay, and satire. As a study in literature, we will also engage with interdisciplinary scholarship to help us situate these texts in a larger conversation. Class discussions and essays will ask us to examine these narratives and their contexts, as well as the representational and stylistic choices these authors make on the page.

LIT 317-901 The Witch in Literature
Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program
Professor: Michele Tarter

Please see the CGE (cge.tcnj.edu) Website for details and deadlines for deposits to register.
https://studyabroad.tcnj.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=44301

Graduate Courses:

ENGL 670-201 Studies in LIT: Literature of Science
Professor: Dr. Mindi McMann
Summer Session II- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays synchronously online from 5.00-7.30 pm

This graduate seminar explores the intersections of science and literature, focusing specifically on how we tell stories about science, human (and other) bodies, our environment, and biotechnology. Some questions we will consider are: What can fiction tell us about how we understand science and technology? How does science affect our understandings of subjectivity and what constitutes a person? What role does the body play in our understandings of science, and how do these new understandings impact how we tell stories about those bodies and their role in our society? What may separate distinctly human experiences from the experiences of others deemed less than human often by both literary and scientific discourses? What are the ethics of science, as viewed through a literary lens?

ENGL 670-301 Studies in LIT: Migration & Movement in Literature of the African Diaspora

Professor: Dr. Samira Abdur-Rahman
Summer Session III-

This course engages with themes of migration and movement in African Diasporic literature of North America, the Caribbean, Africa & Europe. The course will think through the political and geographic implications of black migration globally. We will also use movement as a broad term to analyze the importance of wandering, daydreaming, dance and collective action within the literary, musical and visual cultures we study.