LIT 310-101 Literature for Younger Readers
Professor: Meixner
Meetings: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9am-12:15pm
Summer Mini Session May 27-June 13
An introduction to Young Adult literature. In this class you will become familiar with works by a diverse set of widely-read YA authors, read across genres (fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and graphic novels), and discuss and analyze young adult texts using various theoretical perspectives. Additionally, the course will introduce you to the growing body of critical research being written about literature for young adults.
LIT 316/WGS 376-201 Global Women Writers
Professor: Laura Neuman
Meetings: First 5-week Summer Session. This is a blended learning course with Synchronous On-Line meetings. We’ll have synchronous meetings online on the following Tuesdays and Thursdays: June 17, 19, 24, 26 and July 1, 3, 8, 15. With two optional meetings on July 10 and 17.
This course will explore various literatures from around the world, encouraging students to examine the politics of gender, culture, and nation as well as the intersections of those systems of power. In exploring everything from arranged marriages to women in war, Global Women Writers will provide students – especially those students who have spent much of their lives within the borders of the U.S. – with one of the most challenging and rewarding courses of their college career. Common themes include feminist politics, post- and neo-colonialisms, reproductive rights, translation, globalization, and activism.
Our class will meet online for synchronous meetings on Tuesdays (5:30-7:30 PM) and for shorter meetings (6-7:30 PM) on 2 Thursdays. The rest of the work will be asynchronous time (writing, reading, and responding to peer work), or project work that you can schedule at your convenience (for instance, meeting with a small group of students to plan a presentation or discuss the week’s reading).
LIT 499-401 Seminar in Research and Theory: Narrative Theory
Professor: Steele
Meetings: Special Offering 8-Week Summer Session Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 11am-12:20pm fully remote June 16-August 7.
Professor: Abdur-Rahman
Meetings: Summer Session II June 16-July 17
Mondays -Online Independent & Collaborative Activities & Virtual Student Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays – Zoom Meeting 5-7:45pm
Fridays -Online Independent & Collaborative Activities
Note: There are no in-person meetings on campus.
This course centers the Afro-Gothic as “a cogent frame through which to consider how black creators reckon with—and at times lean into—the ever-presence of death, unalleviated grief, and fear of the dark” (Cooksey and Thomas, 2022). The course problematizes the uses of Blackness/Africanness in gothic literature and explores how black creators invert and revise concepts of darkness, evil and monsters. We will discuss works by W.E.B Du Bois, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, Clarence Majors, Mohale Mashigo and Tananarive Due. We will also study the presence of Afro-Gothic aesthetics in contemporary film and music.
ENGL 670-301 Studies in LIT: Literature of Witness
Professor: Neuman
Meetings: Summer Session III July 21-August 21
Online Synchronous 6-8pm the following days:
Tuesday July 22
Thursday July 24
Tuesday July 29
Thursday July 31
Tuesday August 5
Thursday August 7
Tuesday August 12
Tuesday August 19
The other days are asynchronous.