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ENG 221: Fiction Writing I 
T/Th 1:00 鈥� 2:15 PM 
Instructor TBA  
In this class, you will write your own original fiction. Class sessions will be organized around craft topics, which will include assigned outside readings and writing exercises. You will also write one short story or novel chapter. Craft topics will include: character, dialogue, setting, structure, style, revision, and more.   
 
 
ENG 222/322/422: Poetry Writing I/II/III 
T/Th 2:30 鈥� 3:45 PM 
Dr. Nicholas Pierce 
Ekphrastic Poetry 
In ancient Greece, ekphrasis was a rhetorical exercise in which a speaker tried to describe a subject in such vivid detail that the audience could picture it clearly, without a visual aid. In our own time, the term is used to categorize writing that describes an artwork in another medium鈥攁 poem about a painting, for example. This class will consider the history of ekphrastic poetry from its first appearance in Homer鈥檚 Iliad to more contemporary examples such as W.H. Auden鈥檚 鈥淭he Shield of Achilles,鈥� John Ashbery鈥檚 鈥淪elf-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,鈥� Robin Coste Lewis鈥檚 Voyage of the Sable Venus, and Brian Teare鈥檚 The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. We鈥檒l also look at the artworks that inspired these texts, as well as a range of other artworks鈥攑aintings, photographs, comics, advertisements, films. You鈥檒l be asked to respond to these artworks in your own poems, with the hope of arriving at a deeper understanding not just of your subject but of yourself. 鈥淒escription is revelation,鈥� says Wallace Stevens. It鈥檚 an apt phrase for this course, since our aim is to render in language what already has been accomplished using other tools, and to make something new in the process. 
 
 
ENG 311: Survey of Contemporary Literature 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 PM 
Dr. Monika Gehlawat 
The Contemporary Novel in the Global Age 
In this class, we will read fiction written after World War Two with a special focus on novels that take place all over the world. In some cases written by international writers like Elena Ferrante, W.G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, and in others by American writers like James Baldwin and Ben Lerner who send their characters abroad, the novels we will read in this class explore cultural translation, political history, and the subjective desire for adventure as well as assimilation. The writers we will study examine how it feels to be a social interloper or outcast as well as how the experience of being 鈥渙ther鈥� changes over the course of contemporary history from the immediate postwar period to the present day. At a time when global relations are fraught with conflict, this class offers a literary lens from which to consider how historical experience, geography, class and ethnicity influence the promise of intersubjective community. 
 
 
ENG 314: Popular Fiction 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 PM 
Dr. Luis Iglesias 

According to the writer Ursula K. Le Guin, 鈥淪cience Fiction is not predictive, but descriptive鈥� and while it tells fantastical tales of worlds and events of the imagination, at its core Science Fiction provides challenging warnings for our world today. Whether projecting the future costs of Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Change, Social Undoing, or Dystopian Nightmares, Science Fiction explores the consequences of our present鈥檚 drive for relentless change and unchecked innovations. And yet, while dire on the surface, SyFy stories not only reveal ways to address what may seem inevitable, but also, they provide hopeful visions and opportunities for humanity, our world, and its future. And, by exploring our potential futures, Science Fiction asks us to confront our present and imagine, to quote Star Trek, 鈥渂rave new worlds, new life, and new civilizations.鈥�  
  
Among the readings: 
Raymond Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 
Octavia Butler, Dawn 
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun 
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation 

 
ENG 321/421: Fiction Writing II & III 
T/Th 1:00 鈥� 2:15 PM 
Dr. Angela Ball 
 
 
ENG 335: Tutoring Pedagogy, Practice, & Research 
T/Th 1:00 鈥� 2:15 PM 
Dr. Jason McCormick 
There鈥檚 more to tutoring than working at USM鈥檚 Writing Center (though it certainly is a perk). Many of the most dynamic, effective forms of writing instruction happen in one-on-one situations. English 335 introduces students to key theories and practices of peer tutoring and helps to develop a praxis of collaborative learning. Not sure what praxis is? That鈥檚 okay! Open to all majors, this writing intensive course begins with two major premises: 鈥淲riting is a thinking process鈥� and 鈥渨riting is a social activity.鈥� Students will learn how issues like writing across disciplines, linguistic diversity, and writing in the age of AI influence writing center studies. They will then pursue final projects of their choosing using current research and live observation in the USM Writing Center. English 335 counts toward the Professional and Public Writing track in English. Successful completion of the course enables students to apply for a position working in the Writing Center.  
Pre-requisite: Completion of English 101 and 102. 

 
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 PM 
Dr. Eliza Holmes 
In this section of English 340 we are going to explore key concepts and methods for analyzing literature by reading texts that expand our understanding of place, identity and the environment. At the center of this class, we will read Herman Melville鈥檚 Moby Dick. We will read this global, experimental, surprising, novel slowly, pairing Melville鈥檚 work with 19th-century texts by authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson and Frederick Douglass and 21st-century versions of eco-epics like Tommy Pico鈥檚 Nature Poem and Brenda Shaughnessy鈥檚 The Octopus Museum. We will grow comfortable reading and applying literary theory, as well as practicing our skills as researchers and close readers. We will build throughout the semester towards individual research papers that will make connections between texts from our course and works of literary theory and analysis. 
 
 
ENG 340: Analysis of Literature 
T/Th 4:00 鈥� 5:15 PM 
Dr. Ery Shin 
This course is an introduction to the discipline of literary criticism.  The art of reading can be both a leisurely pastime and a venerated practice that hones the individual鈥檚 ability to appreciate a text鈥檚 nuances in many different situations.  Much of reality can be likened to a text to begin with: the subtexts underlying our everyday conversations, the value judgments inculcated by particular words and turns of phrase, the language informing our legal and penal codes, and the miscommunications accrued through verbal ambiguities.  To read well is to understand such subtleties and master the ability to rewrite them. 
  
SAMPLE READING LIST 
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One鈥檚 Own 
James Wood, How Fiction Works 
Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House (excerpts) 
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (excerpts) 
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath, Reading Poetry (excerpts) 
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (excerpts) 
 
 
ENG 351: British Literature II 
T/Th 8:00 鈥� 9:15 AM 
Dr. Nicolle Jordan 
 
 
ENG 371: American Literature II 
M/W 2:30 鈥� 3:45 PM 
Dr. Kate Cochran 
 
  
ENG 400/450: Old Books: Medieval Manuscripts and the Materiality of Reading 
(Senior Capstone / Survey of Medieval Literature) 
T/Th 9:30 鈥� 10:45 AM 
Dr. Leah Parker 
What is a book? And what can you do with one?  
This class will examine the physical object of a book鈥攐r more properly, a codex鈥攖hrough the lens of medieval manuscript studies. We will learn about how the earliest books in English were made, what they were made of, who made them, and why. As a class, we will investigate how manuscripts were used, and not just for reading! We will practice analyzing texts in their material context, both the physical object of a codex and the context of other texts combined together. As a medieval literature class, we will read canonical medieval works of literature alongside the less famous texts that survive just a few pages away. We will examine the visual rhetorics of medieval manuscripts from humble drypoint doodles in the margins to magnificent gold-leaf illuminations. And we will trace the histories of destruction that explain why so few medieval manuscripts survive to the present. Through these avenues of inquiry, students will practice thinking about the act of reading and the technologies it requires within the larger cultural significance of literature. By spending the semester thinking about very, very old books, moreover, students will build a foundation for thinking about modern technologies of reading: ebooks, screens, and the ephemera of the internet. 
Students may enroll in either ENG 400 Capstone/Senior Seminar or ENG 450 Medieval Literature. The class may count either as your Capstone or fulfill the Medieval/Early Modern Literature breadth requirement in the English major鈥攏ot both! Either ENG 400 or 450 may serve as an elective; ENG 400 may be repeated up to 6 credit hours. 
All students will complete research presentations on medieval manuscript culture. Students who take this class as ENG 450 will complete final research projects on a single medieval manuscript and the texts it contains. ENG 400 students will have that option for their final research project, as well as two others: analyzing a modern book as a material object or analyzing the representation of medieval manuscript culture in a modern book. 
 
 
ENG 400/476: American Literature After 1945 (Senior Capstone) 
M/W 1:00 鈥� 2:15 PM 
Dr. Monika Gehlawat  
In this class, we will read contemporary American literature written in a variety of genres including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Together works by writers like Toni Morrison, John Ashbery, Joan Didion, and Tony Kushner (among others) will help us to map a cultural history of the American experience by delving into postwar race relations, antiwar and counterculture movements, the AIDS crisis, and the tragedy of 9/11. We will read canonical postwar American writers like Ralph Ellison and Truman Capote as well as still-living contemporary figures like Donna Tartt, Ben Lerner, and Siri Hustvedt. Alongside the political and thematic concerns of postwar literature, we will also investigate how the form of American literature evolved over the past 75 years as well as how medium-specificity alters the nature of what we read and why. 

 
ENG 403: Language Study for Teachers 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15 PM 
Mrs. Melanee Barton 
As a required course for English Education students at the undergraduate level, this course seeks to build students鈥� content knowledge of language study, acquisition, and adolescent learners鈥� developmental needs and the unique needs of individuals鈥� diversity (social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic, cultural, etc.); additionally, the course introduces students to concepts for the teaching of language through reading and writing.  Students will be immersed in reading and discussing critical theories, research, and pedagogies central to language study in order to apply their new knowledge to instructional planning. 
 
 
ENG 410: Studies in Ethnic Literature 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15 PM 
Dr. Luis Iglesias 

鈥淟atinx Literature: Crossing Borders鈥� will explore the multiethnic, multiracial, and socially diverse dimensions of Latina/o/x literature. A problematic category of internal differences, Latinx writing and culture are most frequently understood in relation to 鈥渢he border,鈥� itself manifested in a variety of spatial, linguistic, and metaphoric ways. This class will read a range of works by a variety of Latino writers across different genres and national origins as we explore the term 鈥淟atinx,鈥� which has come to represent a diverse set of communities from across the full spectrum of American life, experiences, and geography. At the same time, we will seek to locate those moments 鈥� literary, aesthetic, and/or experiential 鈥� that problematize (and often reject) the boundaries of 鈥渂orders鈥� that define 鈥淟atino鈥� identity in the U. S. across novels, film, music, and other cultural media. 
  
Among readings: 
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban 
Alire S谩enz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club 
Ernesto Qui帽onez, Bodega Dreams 
Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied 
Julian Lopera Delgado, Fiebre Tropical 

 
ENG 418: Adolescent Literature 
M/W 9:30 鈥� 10:45 AM 
Dr. Eric Tribunella 
Young Adult Literature 
This course will focus on the emergence and development of young adult (YA) literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. We will examine the kinds of thematic issues addressed in YA fiction and how these issues take up the interests and concerns of young adults. We will also consider how this literature illuminates the history, construction, and perception of adolescence and the teenager in American culture. The course will survey different genres of YA fiction, including the New Realist novel, the problem novel, the fantasy novel, historical fiction, the graphic novel, dystopian fiction, and the novel in verse.  Although we will approach these texts as literary and cultural critics, we also will be mindful of how our analysis of them bears upon pedagogical and curricular questions with regards to the instruction of adolescents. 

 
ENG 428/627: Publishing for Writers 
W 6:00 鈥� 9:00 PM 
Dr. Rachael Fowler 

Considering a job as an editor? Want to see your name listed in an esteemed literary journal? ENG 428/627 welcomes all creative writers who鈥檇 like to learn more about the world of literary publishing. In this class, we鈥檒l work to produce an issue of Mississippi Review and Product Magazine, giving you the chance to have a reading/editorial position in both and see the full production process of a journal from receiving submissions, to designing an issue, to launching/publicizing. We鈥檒l also read a variety of texts that introduce you to the historical and current role of the literary editor along with other career paths in the editing world. You鈥檒l complete an in-depth research project on a specific aspect of publishing that is interesting to you along with the professional materials you need to apply to editing internships, fellowships, and jobs. By the end of this class, you鈥檒l gain editorial experience, skills needed to collaborate with a community of literary citizens, a growing knowledge of the literary market, and practical documents you need to step into the professional editing world. 
 
 
ENG 432: Writing & AI (Topics in Writing) 
T/Th 11:00 AM 鈥� 12:15 PM 
Dr. Erika Luckert 
In this class, we鈥檒l work together to become more informed participants in public conversations about AI and Writing. As we鈥檒l learn, these are conversations that are interdisciplinary in scope, and that require us to reflect on our values as writers, scholars, and global citizens. While we鈥檒l draw on research from the field of Writing Studies, this class will also be actively shaped by your own disciplinary expertise and interests (in other words, it鈥檚 not just for English majors!).  
Some things we鈥檒l do together:  
Create a collaborative AI policy that defines permissible uses in our class 
Experiment with (and without) AI writing tools 
Learn from scholarly and public conversations about AI and writing 
Curate a recommended reading list for the university community 
Contribute to original research about AI use at USM 
Participate in public conversations about AI and writing through blog posts and a class showcase 
This is an upper-level, writing intensive course, and you can expect to write at least 5000 words across a series of projects in this class. To encourage experimentation, reflection, and risk-taking, these projects will be evaluated using a grading contract that we define together. 
 
 
ENG 463: Victorian Fiction 
T/Th 9:30 鈥� 10:45 AM 
Dr. Alexandra Valint 
VICTORIAN MONSTERS 
In this course, we will explore a certain aspect of the Victorian gothic鈥擵ictorian monsters! Strange entities that scare, threaten, haunt, lure. That can simultaneously terrify and thrill.  
We will proceed through our museum of monsters, passing through units on vampires, werewolves, witches, and ghosts. Perhaps we may encounter a mummy or a killer plant along the way.  
We will analyze how each monster works: its origins, its powers, its weaknesses, its lore. Likely texts will include Sheridan Le Fanu鈥檚 Carmilla (1872), Clemence Houseman鈥檚 The Were-Wolf (1890), Elizabeth Gaskell鈥檚 鈥淟ois the Witch鈥� (1859), H. G. Wells鈥檚 鈥淭he Flowering of the Strange Orchid鈥� (1894), and others. We will work up to the 1897 novel The Beetle by Richard Marsh, which features a shapeshifting human-insect monster. According to one victim, the Beetle is like 鈥渁 spider of the nightmares; a monstrous conception of some dreadful vision.鈥�  
In his essay 鈥淢onster Culture (Seven Theses),鈥� Jeffrey Jerome Cohen writes that the monster is 鈥渁n embodiment of a certain cultural moment鈥攐f a time, a feeling, and a place.鈥� He encourages us to read monsters 鈥渁gainst contemporary social movements or a specific, determining event.鈥� Monsters, then, are historically and culturally situated creatures as much as they鈥檙e fantastical. We will learn about the Victorian period through the monsters it created and consider how the period鈥檚 monsters expressed its fears, desires, debates, and conundrums, particularly with regards to the Victorian period鈥檚 approaches to gender, sexuality, race, empire/colonialism, disability, science, and technology. 
 

 
ENG 498CA/598CA: British Studies I 
Starting March 18 (8 week 2), M 4:00鈥�5:15 PM + Study Abroad in London, May 16鈥揓une 1  
Dr. Leah Parker  
Legends of Camelot  
Students in this course will examine British national mythmaking: stories about the past that shape what it means to be British in the present. Our primary focus will be legends of King Arthur and stories about Camelot both medieval and modern, but we will also explore stories associated with lauded historical rulers like Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Elizabeth I, and Victoria that narrate Britishness across the centuries.   
This course will meet weekly during the second half of Spring semester, then spend 16 days based in London in late May. Because it is a Spring course, both the credit hours and tuition count under your regular Spring courseload.   
During the latter half of Spring semester, we will prepare by reading a canonical example of Arthurian legend as well as poetry reflecting the formation of British national identities. In late May, we will move our classroom to London and beyond, visiting sites such as Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey, the Globe Theatre, the National Gallery, and Winchester Cathedral. This year only, students will have the rare opportunity to catch the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, where it is on loan from France; this embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest is back in England for the first time since its creation there almost a thousand years ago. While in the UK, we will read short literary excerpts associated with our excursions, from authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Tolkien. Each student will also research a longer literary work that engages in national mythmaking, introducing that work to the class while we are abroad, and writing a travel journal that synthesizes analysis of British literature with the experience of visiting British cultural landmarks. 
Application for this course is required through the USM Office of Study Abroad. The deadline is November 1, 2026. For undergraduate students, this course serves as a 400-level elective in the English major, but students of all majors and minors are welcome to apply.  
 

HUM 402/502: Digital Humanities Practicum 
T/Th 11:00 AM 鈥� 12:15 PM 
Dr. Jennifer Andrella  
In this course, students will work collaboratively on a Digital Humanities project while learning digital methods, community-engaged best practices, and archival research. We will engage in the entire process of constructing a digital project, from idea to public launch. Through this course, students will gain valuable skills in web authoring, team-based learning, and project management. By working closely with local archives, special collections, and/or community partners, students will explore how the digital humanities can connect scholarship with public audiences in meaningful ways.  

ENG 351: British Literature II 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15 PM 
Dr. Damon Franke 
 
 
ENG 365: Digital Literacies 
T/Th 1:00 鈥� 2:15 PM 
Dr. Rebecca Powell 
Literacy has left the confines of paper and is now conveyed as binary strings of one and zeros. The digital surrounds us, tracks us, and shapes us. In this course, we'll explore our digital selves, how we think, create, and compose with technology and the theories and practices surrounding the digital. We will balance theory with practice, reading Hayles' How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Naomi Klein, Nicholas Carr, and the novel Culpability. Major projects include digital storytelling, mapping our digital footprint, and a multimodal research project. We'll theorize. We'll play. We'll make. 
 
 
ENG 371: American Literature II 
M/W 11:00 AM 鈥� 12:15 PM 
Dr. Whitney Martin 
 
 
ENG 400/476/589: American Literature After 1945 (Senior Capstone) 
W 6:00 鈥� 9:00 PM 
Dr. Damon Franke 
 
 
ENG 409: Literature and the Environment 
M/W 4:00 鈥� 5:15PM 
Dr. Damon Franke