Professor Licia Hendriks *Fulfills the American Literature requirement Meets at The Citadel, Tuesday, 4-6:45 This survey course situates the African American literary tradition in a developing domestic and international cultural context, and addresses the ways in which it is (and isn’t) a legitimate offshoot of the overarching category of American Literature. Encompassed in the discussions […]
Professor Myra Seaman *Fulfills the British Literature before 1800 requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Wednesday, 6-8:45 The Middle Ages lacked a women’s movement—there were no protests in the streets, no proposals of an Equal Rights Amendment, no calls for women to find self-fulfillment through working outside the home. And yet, women appear everywhere […]
Professor Anton Vander Zee *Fulfills the America Literature requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Monday, 7-9:45 The power of what the poet Robert Creeley would call a “company”—a group of fellow travelers in art and life who share certain core ideas about what poetry might accomplish—has long sustained American poets. At times, these groups take on […]
Professor James Hutchisson *Required Meets at The Citadel, Online and Face-to-Face with periodic scheduled classroom meetings on Thursdays, 5-7:45 (TBD) ENGL 511 offers a practical introduction to research and writing for graduate study in English. The course will cover theoretical approaches to literary and cultural interpretation; the discovery, analysis, evaluation, and integration of primary and secondary sources; […]
The Master of Arts program in English at The Citadel and the College of Charleston offers a competitive English Education Enrichment award for qualified local in-service high school Language Arts teachers. During the fall semester of 2020, we welcomed our inaugural EEE cohort of 10 in-service teachers into the program out of 50 applications. We […]
Meets at The Citadel, Summer I Session: May 12—June 23 Online (Fulfills an elective requirement) Prof. Alyson Eggleston This course examines modern English morphology and syntax using formal Minimalist analytical approaches. Additionally, through a typological understanding of common crosslinguistic structures as documented in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), varieties of Standard American English are […]
Professor Thomas Horan *Fulfills the British Literature since 1800 requirement Meets at The Citadel, Tuesday, 7-9:45 This course will acquaint you with seminal plays by some of the most influential British and Commonwealth playwrights of the last hundred years. Through short lectures, class conversations, and a bit of impromptu acting, we will contextualize this drama […]
Professor Mike Duvall **Fulfills the American Literature requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Wednesday 6-8:45 This course examines the literary history, conventions, and cultural concerns of regional writing (also sometimes called “local color”) in the US at the end of the 19th century via extensive reading of the primary texts (mostly short fiction) and […]
Professor Sean Heuston *Elective Meets at The Citadel, Thursdays, 7-9:45 This course will examine films from a variety of nations, filmmakers, and genres (everything from classic older films to recent mainstream films to music videos to short online videos) and will consider the ways aspects of filmmaking such as acting, editing, mise en scène, montage, sound, and lighting communicate a film’s construction of meaning. We […]
Professor Terry Bowers *Fulfills the British Literature before 1800 requirement Meets at the College of Charleston, Mondays, 6-8:45 A study of the origins of the British novel, including such figures as Fielding, Richardson, and Defoe.