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The Conversation: Race and Ethnicity

Gender and
Sexuality

Nature and the
Environment

Justice and
Politics

Race and
Ethnicity

Writing
the World

Religion, Spirituality,
and Secularity

Science, Medicine,
and Disability

Race and Ethnicity Related Careers

Education, Law, Nonprofits, Publishing, Medicine, and Public Health

Courses in Our Catalog

ENGL 233 | Major Black Writers
ENGL 254 | Fantastic Escapes: Historic Slave Narratives and their Contemporary Retellings (Fall
2021)
ENGL 254 | Beauty, Truth, Justice: African American Autobiographical Writing (Fall 2019)
ENGL 331 | Race and Ethnicity in American Literature
ENGL 333 | Black American Literature and Aesthetics
ENGL 335 | African Literature
ENGL 336 | Caribbean Literature
ENGL 381 | Introduction to Folklore
ENGL 423 | Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 439 | Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema | From the Margins to the Mainstream
ENGL 441 | Southern Literature: Race and Region
ENGL 443 | Topics in Black Literature
ENGL 482 | Frederick Douglass
ENGL 483 | Colonization in Reverse: African Migrant and Diasporic Narratives
ENGL 483 | Race in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
ENGL 486 | Black Feminist Theory
ENGL 494 | Cultural Rhetorics
ENGL 471 | Sociolinguistics
ENGL 472 | American Englishes

Courses on Offer this Semester

ENGL 200 | Language, Linguistics, and Society

TR 9:45-11:00 & 2:30-3:45 | Anne Snellen

ENGL 226 | Introduction to Caribbean Literature

TR 2:30-3:45 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 233 | Major Black Writers

Black Fire: Literature and Liberation

MWF 1:50-2:40 | Katy Chiles

ENGL 251 | Introduction to Poetry

TR 12:55-2:10 | Mary Christensen

ENGL 253 | Introduction to Fiction

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Sarah Cantrell

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Harry Newburn

Online Asynchronous | Kelvin Massey

TR 2:30-3:45 | Joe Seale

ENGL 303 | American Cultures

Witch Trials, Warfare, and Utopias

TR 9:45-11:00 | Marie Taylor

ENGL 332 | Women in American Literature

Men, Marriage, and Motherhood

TR 11:20-12:35 | La Vinia Jennings

ENGL 335 | African Literature

Transplants in African Literature

TR 11:20-12:35 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 364 | Writing Fiction

MWF 9:10-10:00 | Elizabeth Gentry

ENGL 436 | Modern American Novel

Reading History, Race, and the Mind of the Writer

TR 2:30-3:45 | La Vinia Jennings

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