Literary theory has a reputation for being difficult, unfairly or not. Whatever the case, everyone approaches literature (or any sort of cultural production — film, painting, sculpture, website, ...

”Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies” is a two-part course running over two semesters. Part I (winter term) is a weekly lecture course all first-year students of English should attend. The ...

Nazia Manzoor: When I was in my first year of college, I was pursuing science because that is what is expected if you take your academics seriously. However, I had soon reached a stage where I was ...

Chengkai Gu ’24 is collaborating with professor Paul Franco on a paper titled “Deconstructing Deconstruction.” Deconstruction is a mid-twentieth century literary and philosophical movement that ...

Curtis Gruenler has taught in the English department since 1997. His major area of teaching and research is medieval literature and thought. His interest in the relationship between Christian theology ...

In the spring of my sophomore year, I enrolled in David Eng’s “Introduction to Literary Theory” class. I knew nothing about Eng, and next to nothing about literary theory, but had begun pivoting ...

This course provides a survey of contemporary literary and critical theory. It is organized around a series of "keywords" in literary studies that are of established or new resonance in the reading, ...