English
Courses
Prepares students for diverse types of college writing. Covers the writing process, general criteria used to evaluate writing, collaborative writing, and rhetoric, especially audience analysis. Some sections require an ACT Reading score of 19 or higher or an SAT Critical Reading score of 26 of higher. Grading is "A", "B", "C", and "U". Core Course.
EH 102 prepares students for college writing by focusing on argumentation, research, and the critical thinking required to argue effectively. Students must earn a C or higher in EH 102 to fulfill the University writing requirement for composition. Core course.
This course emphasizes the types of writing that students will do in college and reflects goals of the Honors Program with advanced work in critical thinking and research. Prerequisite: students must have been accepted in the Honors Program.
This course will introduce students to writing creatively in four major genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Fundamentals of craft to be studied will include plot and character in fiction; sound and image in poetry; dialogue in drama; and form and research in creative nonfiction. Analysis of literary models, critiques of students' work, and craft discussions will aid students in creating a final portfolio.
A variable-topics course to study gender issues in literary texts. Can only be taken for a maximum of 3 credits.
This course introduces students to the cultural heritage of the British Isles by studying representatives literary works from the Middle Ages through the 18th Century.
This course introduces the student to the cultural heritage of the British Isles by studying representatives literary works from the 19th Century to the present.
This course traces the development of American literature from its beginning through 1865 by studying the works of representative writers. Core course.
This course traces the development of American literature from 1865 to the present by studying the works of representative writers. Core Course.
A survey of literature from the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, featuring selections in translation. Core Course.
A survey of literature from Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Nineteenth-century Realism and Naturalism, and the Modern World, featuring selections in translation. Core course.
A survey of literature by major African-American authors from the days of slavery to the present. Readings will include fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and polemical prose.
Practice in the writing necessary in various academic disciplines.
A variable-content course treating selected topics in literature and language. May be repeated once for a total of 6 credits when topic varies.
This course offers an introduction to the study of literature with special emphasis on critical writing. Required for 400-level literature classes.
Introduction to close reading and interpretation of poetry, including written explications and analysis.
Introduction to close reading and interpretation of fiction, including written analysis.
Through the disciplines of English and Philosophy, this course will provide an introduction to myths and to the literature that recounts the myths, legends, and folktales of ancient Greece and Rome. Not only will this course offer a survey of Greek and Roman myth, but it will also look at how different writers treat the material and why their treatments vary. Cross-listed with PHL 310 and REL 310. Credit cannot be received for both EH 310 and either PHL 310 or REL 310.
This course will introduce students to major texts of medieval literature, including narrative poetry, drama, prose, and lyric poetry.
This course will introduce students to Chaucer's major works in the original language; no prior knowledge of Middle English is required.
Study of Shakespeare's plays from across all the kinds he wrote: tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances.
Non-dramatic literature of the English Renaissance through 1600.
Non-dramatic literature 1600-1660.
American novel from its beginning to 1900.
Major American nonfiction prose.
American poetry from its beginning to 1900.
Survey of Native American Literature from the 18th century to the present.
Literature of the period, including such authors as Behn, Dryden, Finch, Defoe, Pope, Montagu, Swift, and Fielding.
Literature of the period, including such authors as Gray, Boswell, Johnson, Sheridan, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft, Blake, and Austen.
Eighteenth-Century British novel.
The poetry and prose of Romantic-era writers, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley.
A study of poetry of the Victorian period.
A study of prose, emphasizing nonfiction, of the Victorian period.
Novels of the Romantic and Victorian periods.
A survey of literature by African-American authors from the early colonial period to the present. Readings will include fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and polemical prose.
A study of Anglo-American poets such as D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Galway Kinnel, Adrienne Rich, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Margaret Walker, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gary Synder, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.
A study of the American novel from 1900 to 1945.
A study of the American novel since 1945.
A study of the British novel from 1900 to 1945.
A study of the British novel since 1945.
An introduction to literary fiction of the contemporary era.
Representative modern short story writers.
A study of the development from Old English through Middle English to Modern English.
A course designed primarily to help education majors translate between the languages of conventional grammar and the syntactical grammar relevant to the teaching of English at pre-college levels. Consideration will also be given to the rationales basic to the formation of different grammars and to methods of presenting grammatical material in a classroom situation. Non-education majors interested in a sophisticated approach to the study of grammar might also benefit from this course.
The purpose of this course is to train students in the kinds of written reports required of practicing professionals, aiming to improve mastery of the whole process of report writing from conceptual stage through editing stage.
Practice in the kinds of writing done in such professions as speech pathology and audiology, nursing, teaching, criminal justice, and business. Assignments, which emphasize persuasive writing, may include position papers, correspondence, and reports.
A study of the history and themes of horror from the early 19th century to the present, including representative texts, films, and scholarship.
Study of the history and themes of science fiction literature and film from the end of the nineteenth century to the present.
A variable-content course addressing selected topics in literature and writing. May be repeated for a total of 6 credits when course content varies.
Intensive practice in the short story with contemporary readings. Constructive, critical discussions are conducted on each composition. Emphasis is on the creation of compelling short fiction.
Intensive study of and practice in writing creative nonfiction - nonfiction that stresses personal voice and the use of literary elements. Concentrates on genres of creative nonfiction (personal or narrative essay, travel and nature writing, cultural criticism, memoir) with an emphasis on producing high-quality writing.
Intensive study in different modes and forms in contemporary poetry such as fixed, open, and spoken word. Readings in contemporary poetry will serve as models for students' creation of new poems. Workshops a primary component of the class.
Study of theories of composition and their applications for teaching writing at the secondary school level.
Readings in rhetorical theory, ancient and modern, are applied in specific writing assignments which encourage students to adopt a point of view and address a specific audience.
Extensive preparation in the discourse and generic conventions of grant proposals written b practicing professionals, aiming to promote mastery of the whole process of grant writing from conceptual stage through editing stage.
Covers general editing principles, levels and types of editing, and technical editing terms, along with theories and aesthetic principles of document design and production. The course offers extensive, hand-on experience in both areas.
Classical, Neo-Classical, Romantic, and Victorian literary theory. Identical to PHL 421. Credit cannot be received for both PHL 421 and EH 421.
Modern and contemporary literary theory. Identical to PHL 422. Credit cannot be received for both EH 422 and PHL 422.
A historical and generic study of plays by authors including Kyd, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Webster.
A historical and generic study of plays by authors such as Wycherley, Etheridge, Behn, Dryden, Otway, Congreve, Steele, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.
Twentieth-century British, American, and Continental drama, with major emphasis on the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Beckett.
Major romances and dream-visions of the late Middle Ages such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Troilus and Criseyde, Sire Orfeo, Pearl, and Parliament of Birds.
Milton's major poems, with emphasis on Paradise Lost.
A close reading of selected fiction published since World War II by such authors as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ernest J. Gaines, Gloria Naylor, and Julius Lester.
A variable content course in specific topics from medieval literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from Renaissance literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics on Shakespeare. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics in Restoration and 18th Century literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from 19th Century literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from 20th-Century literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours.
A variable content course in specific topics from various genres. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from film studies. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from modern/postmodern poetry. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics dealing with gender and literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics concerned with writing, rhetoric, or language studies. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
A variable content course in specific topics from American literature. May be repeated once for credit when course content varies for up to six credit hours. Junior standing.
Innovative study in various forms of friction for students with experience in the techniques of friction writing. Discussion include cultural and critical context as well as foundational models.
Advanced poetry writing course that explores different styles of contemporary American poetry such as political poetry, eco-poetry, ekphrastic poetry and more. Students will create at least ten new poems and submit them for workshop.
Craft talks and guided workshops on how to create a feature-length screenplay.
Craft talks and guided workshops on how to create a television series and write the pilot episode.
This course focuses on the collection of folklore and expressive culture, providing a contemporary glimpse at collective memory. Students learn ethnographic fieldwork methods, oral history interviewing techniques, transcription, and the evaluation of oral evidence.
Selected topics in writing in literary studies. May be repeated for a total of 9 credits when course content varies.
Specific topics in literature. Can be taken twice for a total of 6 credits when topics vary.
Directed individual study. Requires permission of the directing professor and department chair. Course can be repeated for a total of 8 credits.
On-the-job experience related to the student's classroom work in the field of English. A maximum of two hours of credit may be earned in internships. Students consult with the English department chair regarding internship opportunities and eligibility. English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors may enroll. Pre-requisites: Permission of English department chair and the supervising professor, completion of EH 101 and EH 102 (or EH 105), 3.0 GPA, and junior or senior standing.
Advanced study and practice of writing creative nonfiction.
With the guidance of a faculty mentor, Honors Students will identify and carry out an independent scholarly project in English. The outcome of the project will include a formal presentation and defense before the faculty and a written senior thesis. The Honors Senior Project will be evaluated and graded by three members of the faculty and chaired by the project faculty mentor. The student must complete a total of six hours of Honors Senior work, be accepted to the University Honors Program or the Department Honors Program, and have an approved project prospectus. University Honors Program participants must have completed HON 301.
Required of all M.A. students in the Literature Concentration in their first year of work. Surveys current literary theory from structuralism to the present. The purpose is to introduce the conceptual lexicons and reading strategies of advanced literary analysis. Topics treated include structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, Marxism, feminism, and reception theory.
A course preparing students for research and academic writing at the graduate level in English studies. Required of all MA students in their first year of work. Prerequisite: Admitted to Graduate Program
A study of contemporary theories in writing and rhetoric, with an emphasis on their application in a college level curriculum.
Traces development of theoretical movements in composition, addressing research methodologies as well. Covers pedagogy but also theoretical and empirical issues such as relationship of composition to cultural criticism, ways of knowing and assessment.
A variable-content course treating selected topics in Rhetoric/Composition Studies. Possible topics include histories of rhetoric, digital literacy in composition and rhetorical analyses of texts.
Study of theories, practices, and histories of professional writing.
Old English poetry and prose studied in its original linguistic form.
A study of the Old English poem Beowulf in its original linguistic form.
A study of selections of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and dream visions.
Examination of non-dramatic Renaissance poetic development, including the sonnet.
Study of Shakespeare's plays from across all the kinds that he wrote: tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances.
A historical and formal study of the poetry of the early seventeenth century, including the works of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughn, Herrick, Marvell, Wroth, Lanyer, and Philips. The course will emphasize the close reading of poems.
A study of literature in the period, including such authors as Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Pope, Swift, and Gay.
A study of early Romantic poetry and prose, with emphasis on the poetry of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge.
A study of late romantic poetry and prose, with emphasis on the poetry of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats.
A study of poetry of the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
A study of novels and short fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
A study of writers of the American Romantic Movement, such as Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson, focusing primarily on nonfiction prose and poetry.
Examines the emergence and development of American fiction before the Civil War, focusing on the tale and the novel, and including such figures as Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Stowe.
A study of writers of the American Realist Movement, such as Twain, James, Crane, Dreiser, Chopin, Cheitnutt, and Jewett.
Study of fiction written by Native Americans since 1900.
Study of literature written by African Americans to 1900.
Study of literature written by African Americans since 1900.
A study of the key figures in the shaping of modern poetry - Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Frost.
Theme-based study of Medieval texts; possible topics include late medieval chivalry, medieval sexualities, Arthurian tradition.
Examination of selected works of such authors as Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Woolf, Forster, Joyce, Greene, and Lessing.
Examination of selected works of such authors as Anderson, Dickey, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.
Examines significant trends in contemporary literary fiction.
This course focuses on the collection of folklore and expressive culture, providing a contemporary glimpse at collective memory. Students learn ethnographic fieldwork methods, oral history interviewing techniques, transcription, and the evaluation of oral evidence.
Seminar in specific topics from various genres. May be repeated once for credit when content varies.
Special individual instruction in fiction writing. This course requires special permission.
Special individual instruction in fiction writing. This course requires special permission.
Special individual instruction in poetry writing. This course requires special permission.
Special individual instruction in poetry writing. This course requires special permission.
Intensive study of and practice in writing creative nonfiction that stresses personal voice and the use of literary elements. Focus on the personal or narrative essay, travel and nature writing, and cultural criticism.
A graduate seminar designed to allow close study of selected literary topics or figures. May be repeated twice for credit when the subject offerings are from different literary areas.
Selected topics in creative writing. May be repeated for a total of 6 credits when the course content varies.
A specific subject in American or British literature to be assigned prior to each semester. May be taken once for credit when the subject offerings are from different literary areas.
Directed individual study on a topic not covered by an existing course. Prerequisite: Prior permission of the directing professor and the department chair. May be taken for a total of 8 credits.
On-the-job experience related to the student's classroom work in the field of English. A maximum of two hours of credit may be earned in internships. Students consult with the English Department Graduate Coordinator regarding internship opportunities and eligibility. Prerequisites: Permission from the Graduate Coordinator and the English Department Chair.
The literature Capstone is a directed study class required for students completing the Literature Concentration in their last semester of coursework. Working with a mentor, students create a research portfolio and give a departmental presentation.
One to six credits per semester with a maximum of six hours of credit. Pre-requisite: Admitted to the Graduate Program.
Faculty
| Faculty Name | Faculty Department | Faculty Position | Degrees Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amare, Nicole Ervin | English | Professor | BA, University of Wisconsin-Madis MA, Kansas State University MA, University of Alabama PHD, University of Alabama |
| Arras, Jennifer O'Farrill | English | Instructor | BA, Spring Hill College MA, University of NC- Chapel Hill |
| Beason, Larry | English | Professor | BS, Stephen F Austin State U MA, Stephen F Austin State U PHD, Texas A & M University |
| Cesarini, J Patrick | English | Associate Professor | BA, Amherst College PHD, Rutgers State Univ New Bruns |
| Coleman, Robert L. | English | Associate Professor | BS, Virginia Commonwealth U MA, Virginia Commonwealth U PHD, Rutgers State Univ New Bruns |
| Cowley, Christopher Michael | English | Senior Instructor | BA, University of South Alabama MA, University of Florida |
| Dail, Heather Noelle Wilkins | English | Instructor | BA, University of South Alabama MA, University of South Alabama |
| Davis, Zachary A | English | Instructor | BA, Spring Hill College MA, University of South Alabama |
| Frye, Doris Ann | English | Senior Instructor | BA, Saint Leo College MA, Louisiana State University PHD, Louisiana State University |
| Guzy, Ann M. | English | Associate Professor | BS, Southern Illinois U-Edwardsvi MA, Southern Illinois U-Edwardsvi PHD, New Mexico State U-Main Campus |
| Halbrooks, John Vernon | English | Associate Professor | BA, University of NC- Chapel Hill MA, College of William and Mary PHD, Tulane University |
| Harrington, Ellen Burton | English | Professor | BA, Fordham University MA, Tulane University PHD, Tulane University |
| Hillyer, Richard | English | Professor | BA, University of Exeter, UK MA, University of Michigan-Ann Arb PHD, University of Michigan-Ann Arb |
| Humphreys, Caleb N. | English | Instructor | BS, Troy University-Main MA, Texas Tech University |
| Jackson, Kern Michael | English | Assistant Professor | BA, University of Virginia MA, University of Wisconsin-Madis PHD, Indiana University-Bloomington |
| Johnson, Caleb | English | Assistant Professor | BA, University of Alabama MFA, University of Wyoming |
| Lang, Maura McKenna | English | Instructor | BA, University of South Alabama MA, University of South Alabama |
| McLaughlin, Becky Renee | English | Professor | BA, Goshen College MA, University of Arkansas- Fayett PHD, SUNY at Buffalo |
| O'Berry, Robert Edward | English | Part-Time Instructor | BA, University of South Alabama MA, University of South Alabama |
| Owsley, Jessica Sims | English | Instructor | BA, Auburn University MA, Auburn University PHD, Auburn University |
| Pence, Charlotte Jeane | English | Associate Professor | BA, University of Tennessee-Knox MFA, Emerson College PHD, University of Tennessee-Knox |
| Peterson, Karen Whiddon | English | Senior Instructor | BA, University of South Alabama MA, University of New Orleans PHD, University of South Alabama |
| Raczkowski, Christopher Thaddeus | English | Associate Professor | BA, Middlebury College MA, Indiana University PHD, Indiana University |
| Roddy, Lisa Marie | English | Instructor | BA, University of CA-Santa Cruz MA, University of Texas- Austin |
| Shaw, Patrick J. | English | Associate Professor | BA, University of Pittsburgh-Johns MA, University of Missouri-Columb PHD, University of Missouri-Columb |
| St. Clair, Justin Michael | English | Associate Professor | BA, Washington and Lee University MA, University of Iowa PHD, University of Iowa |
| Tallent, Hunter Dwight | English | Part-Time Instructor | BS, University of South Alabama MA, University of South Alabama |
| Volf, Stephanie L. | English | Instructor | AB, University of Michigan-Ann Arb MA, Arizona State University-Main PHD, Arizona State University-Main |
| Vrana, Laura Elizabeth | English | Assistant Professor | BA, Yale University MA, Pennsylvania State University PHD, Pennsylvania State University |