2013–2014 The Bulletin - USS at Tufts - Tufts University

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English >
Engineering Management 52, one approved
Engineering Elective, one approved Mathematics
Elective, two approved Natural Science Electives,
two approved Humanities/Arts & Social Science
(HASS) electives, one approved Computer Science
elective, and four approved concentration electives.
Independent study and student thesis opportunities
are available.
Sample course plans can be obtained from either
of the sponsoring departments.
English
Professor Joseph Litvak, Chair; Nineteenth-century British
literature, literary theory, Jewish cultural studies
Professor Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet H. Fay Professor of
Literature; American literature, literature and environmental
justice
Professor Jay Cantor, History of consciousness, modernism,
creative writing
Professor Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English
Literature; Literary theory, film studies, modern poetry
Professor John M. Fyler, Chaucer, medieval literature
Professor Judith Haber, Renaissance literature
Professor Jonathan Wilson, Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric
and Debate; American literature, creative writing
Professor Lisa Lowe, Comparative literature and critical
theory, British empire, American studies
Associate Professor Linda Bamber, Women and literature,
Shakespeare
Associate Professor Kevin Dunn, Renaissance literature
Associate Professor Sonia Hofkosh, British Romantic
literature
Associate Professor Modhumita Roy, World literature in
English
Associate Professor Christina Sharpe, Multiethnic U.S.
literature
Associate Professor Gregory Thomas, African American
literature
Assistant Professor Andrea Haslanger, Eighteenth-century
British literature
Assistant Professor John Lurz, Twentieth-century British
literature
Assistant Professor Ichiro Takayoshi, Twentieth-century
American literature, Asian American literature
Assistant Professor Nathan Wolff, Nineteenth-century
American literature
Lecturer Michael Ullman, Expository writing
Professor of the Practice Kathleen Peterson, Poetry and
creative writing
The Department of English offers a wide range of
courses in British, American, and world literatures
in English; film; literary theory; and creative
writing. Though diverse, these offerings are unified
by the study of textual production and the styles
and practices of writing in English. Courses in the
department examine literary works in their most
illuminating contexts: historical, social, philosophical,
and political. The department’s courses in
expository and creative writing enable students to
refine their skills through reading, frequent writing
assignments, and discussion.
The department serves the interests of students
who plan to become teachers or writers of literature,
as well as those preparing for other professions that
put a high premium on cultural analysis, effective
writing, symbolic interpretation, or media studies.
Among the fields our students commonly enter are
law, diplomacy, journalism, public relations,
publishing, teaching, and filmmaking. Students
who have majored (or double-majored) in English
are also seen as especially attractive candidates by
medical, law, and business schools. Our courses are
central to a liberal arts education, regardless of
anticipated career, because they instill a mastery of
critical thinking, linguistic analysis, and persuasive
communication in a world that increasingly
demands that we not only read but also read
through the representations that we encounter.
UNDERGRADUATE concentrATION
REQUIREMENTS
English majors work out a sequence of courses in
consultation with their advisors. A list of approved
courses for each category is available online through
the English department website: http://ase.tufts.
edu/english. Students must take ten courses listed
or cross-listed in the department above English 1,
2, 3, and 4 as follows
1) One survey course from the following:
English 20 Black World Literature (formerly English 36)
English 21 General View of English Literature I (formerly
English 51)
English 22 General View of English Literature II (formerly
English 52)
English 23 American Literature: First Contact to 1855
(formerly English 59)
2) Two non-survey classes in American, British, or
other Anglophone literature written before 1860,
including at least one course in British literature.
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