U of Memphis Department of English

This is the first time this NEW course is being offered! We think this is the perfect class for English AND Education majors, and anyone else interested in multicultural children’s literature! For the first iteration, the focus will be on intergenerational stories and ways that they might build bridges and windows across ages, nations, ethnicities, and perspectives.

Have you ever felt exploited by your employer? Have you ever noticed shared concerns among women, people of color, and wage earners? Or would you like to just write some badass literary criticism? This class is for you! ENGL 3701 will move through the development of Marxism and Marxist theory, no prior knowledge required!!

Join us in welcoming Dr. Andrew Donnelly to our literature faculty this fall! He’ll be offering a section of Studies in Popular Texts with an emphasis on the Civil War to consider how texts make meaning of the past and what the Civil War has meant and continues to mean today.

This interactive and project-based course will introduce undergraduates AND graduates to public humanities initiatives, how they differ from traditional scholarship, what they share and where they depart in their own methods, and how they open up new careers for humanities students.

This BRAND NEW course will immerse graduate and undergraduate students in the complexities and nuances of digital writing and rhetoric as understood within the post-literate medium. Students will analyze, create, remix, and remediate various forms and methods of writing and rhetoric in this fully online class! 📺

Have you never read a Shakespeare play but want to? Have you read a lot of Shakespeare but want to know more? This class is for you! This course will focus on some of Shakespeare’s most influential works, but we’ll also think about his place in modern culture.

This service-learning section of Persuasive Writing will analyze the rhetoric surrounding violence in Memphis, and asks students to rhetorically invent potential solutions in partnership with a local community organization.

In Women of the Harlem Renaissance, Dr. Shelby Crosby guides us on an exploration of how Black women controlled the narrative and developed a renaissance through readings by Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Redmon Fauset!

Why don’t we sound like the English? Dr. Adams will explore this and many more questions this fall in The American Language (ENGL 3521) by adopting a multicultural perspective on the role of language in daily life.

In British Literature to 1750, Dr. Domingo will examine the development of genres and themes over time and analyze their relationship to British culture. Come one, come all! 📚

Dr. Harris's course "What Are the Public Humanities?" will introduce undergraduates AND graduates to public humanities initiatives, how they differ from traditional scholarship, what they share and where they depart in their own methods, and how they open up new careers for humanities students. This course will be interactive and project-based!

Dr. Schlich’s graduate-level section of Fiction Workshop places students’ original fiction as the primary focus of this course! Reading in this class should be focused not on the lit-crit question “what does this mean?” but rather on the more writerly “how does this work?”

Are you interested in how English grammar varies within and across communities? Dr. Helms will focus this course on how grammar *is* used, not how it *should* be used, in this section of ENGL 3601: Modern English Grammar!

Dr. Schlich's section of Forms of Fiction is focused on studies in genre and will explore a new genre in fiction each week. Some of these include science-fiction, fantasy, magical realism, horror, fairytale, historical fiction, romance, humor, metafiction, fraudulent artifact stories, and more!

More of a modernist? No worries, we’re offering multiple sections of British Literature since 1750 this fall! Prof. Powers will focus on British literature and the quest for empire and how Britain shaped globalization and the world.

You can also catch Dr. Casal on Wednesday afternoons this fall with Empirical Methods for Applied Linguistics Research! The course will include topics such as research ethics/integrity, experimental design, data collection, tools and resources for data collection, and research/grant writing.

This fall, we’re offering a section of Children’s Literature (ENGL 3401) dedicated to the natural and supernatural in children’s literature, focusing on trees and elves 🧝‍♀️ flowers and fairies 🧚‍♀️ with some mushrooms 🍄 ghosts and spirits mixed in 👻

Forms of Poetry is a class designed to engage with different forms in the poetry world, with special emphasis on sonnets and how they continue to evolve in the poetic genre. Students will leave the class with a thorough understanding of the many different forms of poetry!

We’re offering multiple sections of British Literature to 1750 this fall! Dr. Cervone is teaching an honors embedded section focused on how writers position themselves and their writing by imitating or rejecting literacy models, while Dr. Domingo will examine the development of genres and themes over time and analyze their relationship to British culture. Come one, come all!

Prof. Gillo’s online section of Intro to Tech & Professional Writing will allow students to explore and experiment with a variety of professional writing genres/situations, including online content creation and social media activism and Web 4.0’s new rhetorical situation 👩‍💻
*other online sections also available, differences in course content may apply*

This ONLINE course introduces graduate students to the interdisciplinary field of English as a Second Language (ESL), focused on the history of and theoretical approaches to ESL. Join Dr. Casal this fall in ENGL 7/8531!

This fall, Dr. Fuentes is teaching a special section of Applied Theory of Linguistics called Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Theories & Politics! This course focuses on the basic theories and concepts of bilingualism, the role of schooling, and the practical implications these have for social and educational policy.

Prof. Nina Myers is back this fall with a section of Literary Heritage (ENGL 2201) focused on LGBTQ literature! The course asks students to use various literary criticism models (LGBTQ critical theory, Feminist, African American, and New Historicism analysis) and lenses.
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This fall, Dr. Adam Sneed is teaching a section of ENGL 3603, Engineering Communications, focused on the fundamentals of technical communication that are specific to the engineering domain. This is a service-learning course in partnership with iFixit!

This section of Creative Nonfiction Workshop (ENGL 4600) will revolve around the “q***ring of the essay”. Writers who identify from q***r spaces use craft to create disruptions in their writing. You do not have to be a q***r identifying student to take this class, as the emphasis will be on identifying the choices writers make in craft in conversation with identity!
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This course will analyze why the early novel was so controversial and what caused it to be at odds with the actual practice of writing and reading. How is “truth” constituted and what does the problem of “fake news” suggest about fictionality? How does journalism influence the form and content of novels? Why were so many influential novelists also professional journalists? Dr. Domingo will explore these questions and many more this fall!

Calling all educators! Dr. Ronald Fuentes is teaching an ONLINE section of ENGL 4531 - Methods & Techniques in Teaching ESL: K-12 this fall. This class introduces methods and techniques of teaching English as a Second Language in various settings.

New course alert! Dr. Crosby will be teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Afrofuturism for the first time this fall! This course will examine the Afrofuturism literary movement as an artistic space that encourages and/or demands that readers engage with ideas and concepts they are uncomfortable with and push them to open up to new possibilities and to the inevitability of change.

Dr. Kathy Lou Schultz is going to cover everything you ever wanted to know about poetry but were too afraid to ask this fall in Modern & Contemporary Poetry! This course will move from Emily Dickenson to Claudia Rankine, Walt Whitman to Joy Harjo, and all the modernists in between!

Professional Writing students! Dr. Duffy is teaching an online section of Advanced Composition this fall with an emphasis on the principles and applications of writing across genres (voice, video, social media, etc.) with a focus on public writing and advocacy 📣