Graduate Studies in Literature
Graduate study in English Literature offers a wide range and variety of seminars taught by nationally renowned scholars.
In 2006-7, for example, topics will include:
- “Studies in U.S. Fiction: The Radical Novel in the Great Depression” “Word and Image” in Renaissance/Reformation Literature
- “The Global South”
- “Philosophy of Science for Humanists”
- “The Long Eighteenth Century”
- “Utopian and Dystopian Fiction”
- “Samuel Beckett”
- “The Enlightenment and U.S. Literature”
- “Chester Himes”
The program, subtitled Critical and Cultural Theory, takes a cultural studies approach to literary study and invites cross-fertilization between programs, disciplines, and traditional periods in both classroom work and dissertation projects. Students particularly appreciate the flexibility they have to design their own programs and major scholarly projects. The doctoral dissertations they produce enable them to take diversity as well as comprehensive training to the academic market. In addition, Pitt English places a high value on teacher development; doctoral students are encouraged to design and teach a variety of courses in literature, both general and inflected with their own fields of interest.
Below you will find a number of sample course syllabi from recent semesters.
In addition, at the bottom of the page you'll find the (tentative) titles for next year's (Fall 2006 and Spring 2007) grad courses and the professors offering them.
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2011 - Issues in Cultural Studies: Valerie Krips - 2121 - Medieval to Early Modern: Kellie Robertson
- 2050 - Theories of Empire: Paul A. Bové
- 2230 - Anglo-American Cultural Exchange: Marah Gubar
- 2328 - Theories of Modern Drama: Susan Harris Smith
- 2538 - Literacy and Instruction: Jean Ferguson Carr
- 2650 - Literature, Landscape, and Architecture: John Twyning
- 3141 - Intellectuals: Ronald Judy
- 3169 - Topics in 19th-Century Culture: Troy Boone
- 3320 - Theories and Arts of Discourse: Professor Don Bialostosky
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