Current Course
The Composed Life
A graduate writing seminar and workshop.
Past Courses
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 particular focus on concepts of nature and place. See our Course Blog.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop.
Graduate Seminar: Literature of Scientific Travel
This interdisciplinary, team-taught course focuses on scientific travel literature from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Visit our Course Blog.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop.
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, focusing 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 particulars 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.
Current Course
The Composed Life
A graduate writing seminar and workshop.
Past Courses
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 particular focus on concepts of nature and place. See our Course Blog.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop.
Graduate Seminar: Literature of Scientific Travel
This interdisciplinary, team-taught course focuses on scientific travel literature from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Visit our Course Blog.
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
Undergraduate creative nonfiction workshop.
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, focusing 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 particulars 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.