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Recent Events

Annual Potluck
Fri., November 9, 2012
7:30 PM

Journal Club
Fri., October 19, 2012
2 PM, Parlin 312

Cinemas Series
Screening of Coal Miner's Daughter
Tues., April 3, 2012
6 PM, Parlin 301

Happy Hour
Fri., November 11, 2011
5 PM at The Dog & Duck

Cinemas Series
Screening of Carmen Jones
Tues., November 8, 2011
6 PM, Mezes 1.216

Academics in Action: A Process-Oriented Symposium
October 21-22, 2010
The University of Texas at Austin

Courses

Upcoming Courses:

Spring 2013

Backgrounds of Modernism

Contemporary Native American Fiction and Theory

Melville and Earlier American Literature

The Postmodern Novel & Beyond

Recent Courses:

Fall 2012

History of the Book

Borderlands Narrative: The First Century

Modernism and Its Discontents

Black Subjectivity

Spring 2012

Hemispheric American Literature

Mexican American Fiction

Producing American Literature

Creole and Pidgin Languages

Haiti, History, and the American Imagination

Fall 2011

Am Poetry: Race, Gender, Form

Amer Literary Masculinities

Religion & Amer Lit History

Spring 2011

Contemporary Latina/Latino Narratives

Contemp Native American Fiction and Theory

Black Diasporic Poetry & Theory

Fall 2010

The Modern American Novel

Problems In Colonial American Literature and Culture

Recovering Black and White Women Writers

Spring 2010

Reauthorizing the American Renaissance

U.S. Regional Literature: Problems and Prospects

Women in Literature & Popular Culture

Fall 2009

American Literary Realism, 1881-1921

Early Mexican American Literature

Roethke, Merrill, Gluck

Spring 2009

American Lives of the Word

Henry James and Edith Wharton

Major Mexican-American Writers

Mexican Americans in Literature and Popular Culture

Comparative Approaches to African-American and Asian-American Literature

Fall 2008

American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico

Contemporary Latina/o Narrative

Crane, Bishop, Rich

Foundations of Contemporary American Literary Scholarship

Pragmaticism, Modernism, Criticism, and Computers

Spring 2008

Writing Across Genre and Generation: Theorizing the Body of African-American Writers

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and the Poetics of the Page

Black Atlantic Modernisms

Fall 2007

Early Mexican-American Narrative

Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in American Literature and Film

Melville and Earlier American Literature

Race, Americanization, and Empire in U.S. Literature