Past Courses
Graduate Seminar: The Age of Wonder
This course provides an in-depth knowledge of literary and historical Romanticism, with a focus on the history of science and exploration.
Graduate Seminar: The Composed Life
A graduate writing seminar and workshop, with a focus on writing for publication and fellowships.
Topics in Fiction: Jane Austen
In this course, we read Austen’s six novels in their social and historical context as well as examine Austen’s importance in our own popular culture.
Graduate Seminar: Romantic Ecology
This course provides an in-depth knowledge of literary and historical Romanticism, with a focus on concepts of nature and place.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop, with an emphasis on revision stages.
Graduate Seminar: Literature of Scientific Travel
This interdisciplinary, team-taught course focuses on scientific travel literature from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
Literature and Natural History of England
A Study Abroad Course in which we travel to the landscapes of great English literature and explore sources of creative inspiration as well as local
natural history.
Senior Seminar: Romantic Ecology
This course focuses on literary and historical Romanticism, with an emphasis on concepts of nature and place in nineteenth-century writings, as well as on Romantic Ecology’s relationship to the American Environmental Movement.
Major Figures: William Blake, Text and Image
In this course, we explore the ways in which Blake’s books challenge us as readers and political thinkers. We read Blake's works, look at his engraving and etching processes, and make our own prints in a simulation of his technique in the Fine Arts Studio.
Past Courses
Graduate Seminar: The Age of Wonder
This course provides an in-depth knowledge of literary and historical Romanticism, with a focus on the history of science and exploration.
Graduate Seminar: The Composed Life
A graduate writing seminar and workshop, with a focus on writing for publication and fellowships.
Topics in Fiction: Jane Austen
In this course, we read Austen’s six novels in their social and historical context as well as examine Austen’s importance in our own popular culture.
Graduate Seminar: Romantic Ecology
This course provides an in-depth knowledge of literary and historical Romanticism, with a focus on concepts of nature and place.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop, with an emphasis on revision stages.
Graduate Seminar: Literature of Scientific Travel
This interdisciplinary, team-taught course focuses on scientific travel literature from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
Literature and Natural History of England
A Study Abroad Course in which we travel to the landscapes of great English literature and explore sources of creative inspiration as well as local
natural history.
Senior Seminar: Romantic Ecology
This course focuses on literary and historical Romanticism, with an emphasis on concepts of nature and place in nineteenth-century writings, as well as on Romantic Ecology’s relationship to the American Environmental Movement.
Major Figures: William Blake, Text and Image
In this course, we explore the ways in which Blake’s books challenge us as readers and political thinkers. We read Blake's works, look at his engraving and etching processes, and make our own prints in a simulation of his technique in the Fine Arts Studio.