English and American Literatures

Those students matriculating prior to September of 2006 have the option of fulfilling either the requirements of the Department of English (see description that begins on the following page) or of the Department of English and American Literatures (see description immediately below).  Those matriculating in or after September 2006 must fulfill the requirements of the Department of English and American Literatures.

Professors: Alison Byerly (on leave academic year), Cates Baldridge (on leave academic year), John Bertolini, Robert Cohen, John Elder, Brett Millier (Chair), Elizabeth Napier, Michael Newbury, Jay Parini, David Price; Associate Professors: Timothy Billings, Gary Margolis (part time); Antonia Losano, William Nash, Yumna Siddiqi, Kathleen Skubikowski (part time; Director of College Writing Program and First-Year Seminar Program), Marion Wells (on leave academic year); Assistant Professors: Dan Brayton, Deborah Evans, Kathryn Kramer; Visiting Assistant Professor: Jim Berg, Leif Sorensen; Visiting Lecturers: David Bain, Don Mitchell; Writer in Residence: Julia Alvarez; Department Coordinator: Susie Coburn

Courses for Non-Majors:  The Department of English and American Literatures offers a wide variety of courses in literature that are open without prerequisite to all students in the college.  These include most 0100 and 0200-level courses and some 0300-level courses.  The ENAM 0103, 0204 sequence is intended for declared or potential majors.
     Creative writing courses of 0300 and higher are workshop courses for which admission is by prerequisite or approval only.  Please be sure to pre-register in the English department office at least one week prior to registration.
     Major Program:  The Department of English and American Literatures offers a program of intensive study in literature by major writers from the medieval period to the present.  It also provides experience in a variety of interpretive methods and cultural contexts and fosters the knowledge and appreciation of literature.  The English and American Literatures major is intended to cultivate students' powers of rigorous analysis, whatever their eventual career goals.  The major also provides a rich variety of opportunities for critical and creative writing.  Course work begins with a core sequence designed to introduce students to close reading, literary theory and criticism, and the historical foundations of literature in English.  This core sequence is followed by courses that expose students to the major genres and periods of British, American, and post-colonial literature.  Students may elect to pursue independent honors work by writing a one-semester essay or two-semester thesis during their senior year.
     Requirements for the Major:  A minimum of twelve courses, including:  1) ENAM 0103; 2) ENAM 0201 or 0204; 3)ENAM 0205; 4)ENAM 0206; 5) a ENAM course in narrative fiction (FI); 6) a  ENAM course in poetry (PO); 7) a ENAM course in drama other than Shakespeare (DR); 8) a course on Shakespeare (SH); 9) a 0400-level ENAM or LITS seminar; 10) ENAM 0720, the Senior Comprehensive Exam, taken in Winter Term of Senior Year; and 11) and 12) ENAM literature electives.  Two courses must involve literature prior to the year 1800, at least one of which must be in British literature, and neither of which can be 0201 or 0204 (unless both have been taken, whereupon one can be counted) or a class fulfilling the Shakespeare requirement; one course in addition to 0206 must concern American Literature (AL); and one must carry the literature, culture, and history (LCH) designation.  Students wishing to be candidates for honors in ENAM must elect either a one-term senior critical or creative essay (ENAM 0700 or 0701), or a two term senior critical thesis (ENAM 0710 or ENAM 0711).  All students undertaking creative-writing honors projects must have already completed two 0300-level creative writing workshops.  LITS 0705, Senior Colloquium in Literary Studies, can also be used to fulfill the seminar requirement in ENAM.
     A student entering the major should discuss a plan for the entire major program with an advisor in the department or with the chair.
     Joint Major:  A joint major in English and American Literatures requires a minimum of eight courses, including the following: 1) ENAM 0103; 2) ENAM 0204 or 0201; 3) ENAM 0206; 4) a ENAM course in poetry (PO); 5) a ENAM course in narrative fiction (FI); 6) a ENAM course in drama (DR); 7) a 0200 or 0300-level course on Shakespeare (SH); and 8) a senior project that brings together aspects of the two majors (typically an essay, thesis, or seminar appropriate to both fields, should such a seminar be available).  Joint majors must be approved by the chairs of both departments or programs involved.
     Minor:  A minor in English and American Literatures requires six courses: 1) ENAM 0103; 2) ENAM 0204 or 0201; 3) ENAM 206; 4) one ENAM course in poetry (PO); 5) one ENAM course in narrative fiction (FI); and 6) one ENAM course in drama (DR).
     Senior Program:  The senior program includes the required comprehensive seminar and examination (see description below) and an optional one-term essay or a two-term thesis (ENAM 0700, 0701, ENAM 0710, 0711)  (See critical and creative Essays and Theses, below.)  Students undertaking two-term theses normally begin them in the fall term, take the Comprehensive Seminar and Examination that winter term, and complete their thesis in the spring term.  Students completing one-term essays may register for them in either the fall or spring terms of their senior year.
     Fall term and spring term senior essays must be submitted no later than the last day of classes.  Late essays will receive a grade no higher than C.  Senior theses (two-term projects) must be submitted no later than two weeks before the last day of classes in either term.  Late theses will receive a grade no higher than a C and will have no oral examination or outside reader.  No one is permitted to register for the second term in a thesis program unless he or she has accomplished and submitted a substantial amount of work during the first term.
     Comprehensive Seminar and Examination Program:  Each year the department faculty devises a reading list of 12-15 works covering all periods and genres of English, American and post-colonial literature, and each winter term several faculty jointly teach a series of seminars covering these works. (Students will receive the next year's reading list at the end of their junior year).  The course will exercise and test skills of close reading, textual analysis, and the application of theoretical ideas.  In addition to regular seminars, the senior program includes weekly guest lectures, panel discussions, and related social events.  At the conclusion of the winter term, students take an oral examination.  The Senior Comprehensive Seminar and Examination is required for completion of the major.
     Honors:  Departmental honors will be determined on the basis of course grades, essay or thesis grade, and the Comprehensive Seminar and Examination grade.  For honors in any of the three categories (honors, high honors, highest honors), college rules specify a minimum average of B in the course grades and a minimum grade of B on the essay or thesis.  To qualify for highest honors the department requires a minimum of B+ in each of the three areas (course grades average, thesis or essay, and the Comprehensive program).  In determining the numerical average of course grades all courses designated ENAM will be counted, as will all other Middlebury courses that fulfill requirements for the major.

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Those students matriculating prior to September of 2006 have the option of fulfilling either the requirements of the Department of English (see description below) or of the Department of English and American Literatures (see description above).  Those matriculating in or after September 2006 must fulfill the requirements of the Department of English and American Literatures.
     Requirements for the major: The major in English will consist of a minimum of eleven courses, including: (1) ENAM 0103; (2) ENAM 0201 or 0204; (3) ENAM 0205, Contemporary Literary Theory (CR), or a course in literary criticism offered by another department with approval of adviser; (4) a ENAM course in poetry (PO); (5) a ENAM course in narrative fiction (FI); (6) a ENAM course in drama other than Shakespeare (DR); (7) a course on Shakespeare (SH);  (8) a 0400-level ENAM or LITS seminar; (9) ENAM 0720, the Senior Comprehensive Examination, taken in winter term of the senior year; and (10) and (11) ENAM literature courses, two of which must be pre-1800. Of (4), (5), (6), (8), (10) and (11), two must be pre-1800.  The pre-1800 requirement can be fulfilled by any two ENAM courses bearing the pre-1800 tag, but cannot be fulfilled by either 0204 or any course fulfilling the Shakespeare requirement. Students wishing to be candidates for honors in English must elect either a one-term senior critical or creative essay (ENAM 0700 or ENAM 0701) or a two-term senior critical or creative thesis (ENAM 0710 or ENAM 0711). All students undertaking creative-writing honors projects must have already completed two 0300-level writing workshops.  Courses below that fulfill the genre requirements are designated with the abbreviations FI (Fiction), PO (Poetry), DR (Drama), CR (Criticism), and SH (Shakespeare).  LITS 0705, Senior Colloquium in Literary Studies, which focuses on major European works from antiquity through the twentieth century, is also an appropriate selection and can be used to fill the seminar requirement for the English major.
     Joint Major:  A joint major in English requires a minimum of seven courses, including the following: (1) ENAM 0103; (2) ENAM 0201 or 0204; (3) a ENAM course in poetry (PO); (4) a ENAM course in narrative fiction (FI); (5) a ENAM course in drama (DR); and (6) a course on Shakespeare (SH); a senior project that brings together aspects of the two majors (typically an essay, thesis, or seminar appropriate to both fields, should such a seminar be available). Joint majors must be approved by the chairs of both departments or programs involved.
     Minor:  ENAM 0103; ENAM 0201 or 0204; one ENAM poetry course; one ENAM drama course; one ENAM narrative fiction course; one additional ENAM elective excluding creative writing workshops. Note: At least one of the courses selected to complete the minor must be at the 0300 level.
     Senior Program:  See description under English and American Literatures.
     Honors:  See description under English and American Literatures.

COLLEGE WRITING PROGRAM
ENAM 0103 satisfies the college writing requirement. Some sections of other courses may also fulfill this requirement; consult the Web catalog for changes and additions.

0100-LEVEL COURSES: INTRODUCTORY COURSES
These courses are recommended for students, primarily in their first or second years, with interests in comparative, thematic, and theoretical approaches to literature. They are especially suitable for meeting the college distribution requirement.

Core Courses:
The ENAM 0103, ENAM 0201, or ENAM 0204 sequence introduces students to skills of close reading and analytical writing and, in some depth, to writers whose works are regarded as central to the English and American literary traditions. Those intending to major in English are advised to complete the ENAM 0103, ENAM 0201, ENAM 0204, or ENAM 0206 sequence before they elect other courses above the 0200-level. ENAM 0103 is a writing intensive course that meets the college writing (CW) requirement. ENAM 0103 is a prerequisite to ENAM 0204.

ENAM 0103 Reading Literature (CW 15) (Fall, Spring)
This course seeks to develop skills for the close reading of literature through discussion of and writing about selected poems, plays, and short stories.  A basic vocabulary of literary terms and an introductory palette of critical methods will also be covered, and the course's ultimate goal will be to enable students to attain the literary-critical sensibility vital to further course work in the major.  At the instructor's discretion, the texts employed in this class may share a particular thematic concern or historical kinship.  3 hrs. lect.  LIT (Fall: D. Brayton, E. Napier, New Hire; Spring: D. Price, K. Skubikowski, L. Sorensen, J. McWilliams)

ENAM/WAGS 0105 Victoria's Secrets (FI) (Not offered 2008-09)
Known as the great age of the realist novel and the epitome of staid decorum, the nineteenth century also had its guilty pleasures: mysteries, ghost stories, science fiction, imperialist adventure tales, and radical fantasies of gender confusion. In this course we will read both canonical realist novels and their non-traditional counterparts in an attempt to understand the productive interplay between these two seemingly disparate literary traditions. In our comparisons we will focus on numerous issues, including domesticity, gender politics, class and racial identity, and international politics. Authors may include: Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, the Brontës, Wilkie Collins, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others. 3 hrs.lect./disc. LIT EUR

ENAM/LITP 0110 Continental Fiction (FI) (Not offered 2008-09)
An introduction to some major novels and shorter works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European authors, including Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Zola's L'Assommoir, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Mann's The Magic Mountain, Kafka's The Trial, Sartre's Nausea, Camus's The Stranger, and others. These works of fiction are triumphs of achievement and innovation aesthetically and conceptually; and they give us a powerful sense of significant and significantly different levels of society, culture, and periods of history.  3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. disc. LIT EUR

ENAM/WAGS 0114 Reading Women's Writing (Not offered 2008-09)
Why and how do women write? Does literary history reveal distinctive styles, patterns, and continuities in the works of female authors? We will begin to address these questions through our close reading of a wide variety of women's literature in English, including poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Secondary readings will reflect on the concept of gender as a central organizing principle. Employing various methods of literary analysis, the course will address issues of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, and history, as well as literature.  3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. disc. LIT 

ENAM 0117 The Short Story (FI) (Spring)
This course approaches the short story as a distinct prose genre, beginning with work by Edgar Allen Poe and Guy de Maupassant and concluding with stories by contemporary authors. We will examine the particularly notable growth of the genre in America and survey various trends in the form, from "local color" sketches and realistic tales to experiments in modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, we will consider issues of structure, characterization, style, and voice. Other authors may include Anderson, Barthelme, Cheever, Chekhov, Hemingway, Joyce, Moore, O'Connor, Twain, and Welty. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT NOR (R. Cohen)

0200-LEVEL COURSES: LITERARY HISTORY AND GENRES

ENAM 0201 British Literature and Culture I (Origins-1700): The Court and the Wilderness (PO) (LCH) (Pre-1800) (Fall)
This course will offer a broad overview of the rich and varied British literature written between roughly 1400 and 1700.  We will read a diverse body of material (romance, epic, lyric, prose), focusing on the development of certain key topics in the literature of this period: the rapidly changing conception of subjectivity, the role of the court, the representation of desire and sexuality, and the construction of gender.  We will also consider why certain works are considered "canonical" while others remain marginal, looking in particular at the position of such early modern women writers as Aemilia Lanyer.  Other authors to be studied will include the "Gawain" poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Elizabeth I, John Donne, Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.  The course will satisfy the English major's pre-1800 requirement, but is open to all majors.  3 hrs.lect. LIT EUR (D. Brayton)

ENAM 0202 British Literature and Culture II (1700-Present): Home and Away (PO) (FI) (LCH) (Spring)
This course introduces the extraordinary diversity and complexity of British literature from 1700 to the present. We will read seminal works of poetry, fiction, and drama from this period, focusing our attention on key issues such as national identity, stylistic revolution, canon formation, sexual politics, and the representation of cultural otherness. We will trace changes and continuity in this rich literary tradition and discuss literature's relation to key social and historical developments. Writers to be studied include Swift, Austen, the Romantic poets, the Brontës, Tennyson, Browning, Wilde, Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, Roy and Stoppard. For majors and non-majors. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR (Y. Siddiqi)

ENAM 0204 Foundations of English Literature (Fall, Spring)
A course designed as a continuation of  ENAM 0103. Students will study Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Milton's Paradise Lost, as well as other foundational works of English literature that may include Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Elizabethan drama, the poetry of Donne, and other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry. (ENAM 0103; advanced literary studies majors by waiver.)  3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR  (Staff)

ENAM/LITS 0205 Introduction to Contemporary Literary Theory (CR) (Fall, Spring)
This course will introduce several major schools of contemporary literary theory. By reading theoretical texts in close conjunction with works of literature, we will illuminate the ways in which these theoretical stances can produce various interpretations of a given poem, novel, or play. The approaches covered will include New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism and Cultural Criticism, Feminism, and Post-Structuralism. These theories will be applied to works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, The Brontës, Conrad, Joyce, and others. The goal will be to make students critically aware of the fundamental literary, cultural, political, and moral assumptions underlying every act of interpretation they perform.  3 hrs. lect/3 hrs. disc. LIT EUR (fall: L. Sorensen, spring: Y. Siddiqi)

ENAM/AMST 0206 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (AL) (Fall, Spring)
This course will examine major developments in the literary world of nineteenth-century America.  Specific topics to be addressed might include the transition from Romanticism to Regionalism and Realism, the origins and evolution of the novel in the United States, and the tensions arising from the emergence of a commercial marketplace for literature.  Attention will also be paid to the rise of women as literary professionals in America and the persistent problematizing of race and slavery.  Among others, authors may include J. F. Cooper, Emerson, Melville, Douglass, Chopin, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, Wharton, and James. LIT NOR (fall: L. Sorensen, spring: D. Evans)

ENAM/AMST 0207 Twentieth-Century American Literature (AL) (Spring)
This course is a study of the American literary tradition in the Modern and Postmodern periods. We will pay specific attention to international and transnational elements of literature written in the U.S. One of our central questions will be what it means to an “American” writer in a century characterized by large scale immigration, globalization, and neo-imperialism. Authors may include Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Alan Ginsburg, James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gil Cuadros, David Henry Hwang, Don Delillo, and Toni Morrison. Readings will include both primary and secondary texts. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT NOR (B.  Millier)

ENAM/AMST 0209 American Literature and Culture: Origins-1830  (Pre-1800) (AL) (LCH) (Fall)
See Program in American Studies for course description.  LIT NOR (M. Newbury)

ENAM 0210 Medieval Literature (PO) (Pre-1800) (Not offered 2008-09)
Major literary texts of the European and English Middle Ages, with emphasis on Dante and Chaucer. Though we will focus on medieval authors' sophisticated use of literary genres to explore fundamental social, political, ethical, and intellectual questions of the day, we will also look at the "entertainment literature" of the Middle Ages (romance, fabliau) and at the ambivalence of medieval authors about the nature and value of fiction.   LIT

ENAM/TEDU 0211 Global Perspectives on Literature for Youth (Fall)
Literature in translation, post-colonial English literature, and the literature of immigrants are a growing part of literature available to American children. We will examine literature from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia originally written in English or in translation. What makes international literature distinct from multicultural literature? Do these literary traditions bridge cultural gaps? What issues arise in translating for children? What is the phenomenon of "Americanization?" What are the implicit and explicit cultural and/or ethnic expectations regarding authorship and criticism in international literature? In this class we will examine these questions through the lens of literature for children.  LIT (C. Cooper)
 
ENAM/ENVS 0215 Nature's Meanings (Spring)
See Program of Environmental Studies for course description.  LIT HIS NOR (D. Mitchell)

ENAM 0216 Renaissance Drama (DR) (Pre-1800) (Fall)
A survey of English Renaissance drama (excluding Shakespeare) that will help students place Shakespeare in the context of other works for the stage before and during his career, including such writers as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Ford, and Webster. We will also devote time to studying the organization and evolution of the public theatres as well as the publication of plays in Shakespeare's day.  3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. disc. LIT (J. Berg)

ENAM 0220 The Early English Novel (FI) (Pre-1800) (Not offered 2008-09)
In this course we will examine the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century, with attention to its main practitioners (Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding) and to the genre's repeated experiments with narrative form. 3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR

ENAM 0221 Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Prose (PO) (Pre-1800) (Not offered 2008-09)
Major literary works of the eighteenth century, with special emphasis on the shift from classic to romantic modes around the middle of the period. Attention will also be paid to the popular and visual arts of the time (in particular, painting, architecture, gardening). LIT

ENAM 0222 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (DR) Pre-1800 (Not offered 2008-09)
An appreciation and critical analysis of the language, style, wit, humor, and ethos of British comic drama from 1660-1790 by such authors as Congreve, Wycherley, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. Some attention will be paid to literary context through a sampling of the fiction of Fielding and the poetry of Pope. LIT

ENAM 0225 Eighteenth-Century Literature (pre-1800) (Spring)
The 'long' eighteenth century opens with poems of affairs of state and ends with intensely private and often anguished meditations on the self.  We will examine the rich range and complexity of eighteenth-century literary concerns through a loosely chronological look at major works of poetry, drama, and fiction of the period: poems of Dryden, Gay, Pope, Swift, Cowper, and Gray; Congreve's The Way of the World and Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Fielding's Tom Jones.  3 hrs. lect. LIT (E. Napier)

ENAM 0235 Contemporary British Literature (FI) (Not offered 2008-09)
In this course, we will examine fiction written in Britain after 1945, placing this writing in cultural, political and historical context.  We will begin by discussing the so-called crisis of the novel after the exigencies of WW II, the rise of mass cultural forms such as radio and television, and the after-shocks of modernism.  Focusing on the work of writers such as Martin Amis, Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, Graham Swift, Evelyn Waugh, and Jeanette Winterson, we will consider a range of thematic and formal issues, including history, social class, sexuality and gender, immigration, post-imperial nostalgia, Thatcherism, realism, the legacy of modernism and post-modernism. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT EUR

ENAM/FMMC 0239 The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock (DR) (Not offered 2008-09)
The cinematic artistry of Alfred Hitchcock in a dozen of his major films (mainly from the 1950s, including North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo) with attention to Hitchcock's style and technique, his obsessive images (such as dangling over the abyss), and his characteristic themes (the transfer of guilt, the double, etc.) and with a focus on the figure of the artist in Hitchcock's work. Issues such as the relationship of film to narrative fiction and to dramatic literature will also be explored.  3 hrs. lect./disc./screening ART NOR

ENAM 0241 Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Major Authors (FI) (LCH) (Fall)
This course will explore the reasons why the nineteenth century is the great age of the novel in England. Far from merely reflecting the society that created it, the nineteenth-century novel played an active part in constructing its readers' ideas of gender and sexuality, imperialism and colonialism, class, religion, commerce, and more. We will investigate how the nineteenth century novel grew into a rich and influential genre that tackled every aspect of Victorian life, from romantic love to international politics. We will pay close attention to the range of narrative techniques novelists employed to help them represent and reshape a complex society. Authors may include Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT EUR  (A. Losano) 

ENAM 0243 Maritime Literature and Culture (FI) (PO) (Not offered 2008-09)
Writers have long found the sea to be a cause of wonder and reflection.  A mirror for some and a desert for others, the sea has influenced the imaginations of writers throughout history in vastly different ways.  In this course we will read a variety of literary works, both fiction and non-fiction, in which the sea acts as the setting, a body of symbolism, an epistemological challenge, and a reason to reflect on the human relationship to nature.  Readings will be drawn from the Bible, Homer's Odyssey, Old English Poetry, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Kipling, Conrad, Melville, Hemingway, Walcott, O'Brian, and others.  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT 

ENAM 0244 Twentieth-Century English Novel (FI) (Spring)
This course will explore the development of the novel in this century, with a primary focus on writers of the modernist period and later attention to more contemporary works. We will examine questions of formal experimentation, the development of character, uses of the narrator, and the problem of history, both personal and political, in a novelistic context. Readings will include novels by Conrad, Joyce, Forster, Woolf, and others.  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT EUR  (D. Price)

ENAM/LITS 0245 Historic Novel (Fall)
See Program in Literary Studies for course description.
LIT EUR (J. McWilliams)

ENAM 0246 Poetry and Social Protest (PO) (LCH) (Spring)
Can poetry change the world? In this course we will examine poetry from a variety of historical periods and places that was written in response to war, economic crises (such as the Great Depression), health crises (the AIDS pandemic), social and political oppression (racial, gender or sexual discrimination), and other historical events. The focus of our exploration lies in the dynamic interactions between literature and history. Readings include social theories and historiographies as well as poetry. lect./disc. LIT (A. Losano)

ENAM 0250 English Romanticism (PO) (Not offered 2008-09)
Beginning with the poetry and visual art of William Blake and continuing through William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Scott, John Keats, and Percy Shelley, this course will consider the major poetic figures in the Romantic period (1789-1832). We will also read selected prose from the period, including works by De Quincey, Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley. In conjunction with the close reading that such extraordinary literature demands, we will explore themes like gender, nationalism, and revolution (both poetic and political).   3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT EUR

ENAM 0251 Victorian Poetry, Art, and Culture (PO) (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
This course provides an intensive introduction to the formal qualities of Victorian poetry as well as an examination of Victorian poetry as a response to larger issues in the 19th Century: imperialism, science, gender and painting. Through readings in aesthetic theory and cultural history, examinations of paintings (by the Pre-Raphaelites, Turner, Whistler and others), and rigorous close-readings of poetry, we will explore the diversity and depth of Victorian poets' engagement with the artistic, social, and political landscape of Britain in the nineteenth century. Poets will include Tennyson, the Brownings, Emily Brontë, Arnold, Morris, Christina and Dante Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy and others. Other readings may include works by Carlyle, Darwin, Wilde, Mill and Marx.  3 hr lect./disc. LIT EUR

ENAM/AMST 0252  African American Literature (AL) (Spring)
This course surveys developments in African American fiction, drama, poetry, and essays during the twentieth century.  Reading texts in their social, historical, and cultural contexts—and often in conjunction with other African American art forms like music and visual art—we will explore the evolution and deployment of various visions of black being and black artistry, from the Harlem Renaissance through social realism and the Black Arts Movement, to the contemporary post-soul aesthetic.  Authors may include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Octavia Butler. 3 hrs lect./disc. LIT NOR  (W. Nash)

ENAM/AMST 0253 Science Fiction (AL) (LCH) (FI) (Fall)
See Program in American Studies for course description.(Students who have taken FYSE 1162 are not eligible to register for this course) LIT (M. Newbury)

ENAM/WAGS 0254 American Women Poets (AL) (PO) (Not offered 2008-09) 
We will examine the rich tradition of lyric poetry by women in the U.S. Beginning with the Puritan Anne Bradstreet, one of the New World's earliest published poets, we continue to the 19th century and Emily Dickinson, along with the formidable line of "poetesses" who dominated the popular poetry press in that era. We examine the female contribution to the Modernist aesthetic in figures like Millay, Moore, H.D. and Gertrude Stein; the transformation of modernist ideals by Bishop, Plath, Sexton, and Rich; and, among the postmodernists, Lyn Hejinian and Susan Howe.  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT NOR  

ENAM/AMST 0255 Imagining the American West (AL) (LCH) (FI) (Not offered 2008-09)
See Program in American Studies for course description. (Students who have taken AMLT 0340 Regionalism: The American West are not eligible to register for this course) LIT NOR

ENAM/AMST 0256 Contemporary Multicultural Literature of the U.S. (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
Multicultural literature has flourished in the U.S. since 1900. African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino/a writers have created some of the most important and exciting texts in this time period. Multicultural literature grows both forward as writers write new texts, and backward as writers and scholars discover or recover texts that were not noticed when they were written. Figuring out how to unravel this complex literary history will be one of our overarching concerns. We will read essays, short stories, novels, plays, and poetry that have helped to shape literary multiculturalism. We will focus on crucial moments at the beginning (1910s-1930s), middle (late 1950s-1970s), and end (1990s-2007) of the century to explore our topic. Writers covered will include: Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Luis Valdez, D'Arcy McNickle, Alice Walker, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Linh Dihn, Jessica Hagedorn, Sherman Alexie, and Amiri Baraka. LIT NOR

ENAM 0260 Modern British Drama: 1890-1950 (DR) (Not offered 2008-09)
Analysis of the language, style, dramaturgy, and meaning of plays by Wilde, O'Casey, Synge, Barrie, T.S. Eliot, Coward, Rattigan, and G.B. Shaw, with emphasis on the development of form and ideas in the drama. Connections with British cinema will be made.  3 hrs lect./disc. LIT EUR

ENAM 0261 Contemporary British Drama: 1950 to the Present (DR) (Spring)
Analysis of the language, style, dramaturgy, and meaning of plays by Rattigan, Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, Shaffer, Gray, Bolt, and Stoppard, with some attention paid to contemporary British cinema.  3 hrs. lect./1 hr. disc./3hrs. screen LIT EUR (J. Bertolini)

ENAM 0262 American Drama 1930-1960 (AL) (DR) (Not offered 2008-09)
The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s saw an unparalleled achievement in dramatic literature as the works of Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and William Inge were produced. This course will seek to analyze their plays both as dramatic art and in some cases as responses to social and political context. We will study film versions of the plays, as well as additional films that respond to themes in the plays, films such as High Noon and On the Waterfront. 3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT ART NOR

ENAM/WAGS 0270 Reading Postcolonial Literature (FI) (LCH) (Fall)
The purpose of the course is to examine a cross-section of the literature that has been marked by the experience of European colonialism and its aftermath. In addition to discussing a range of writing from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, we will explore the criticism and the theoretical debates that this postcolonial literature has spawned. Topics will include orientalism, colonial discourse analysis, critiques of colonialism, resistance theories, subaltern studies, nationalism, postcolonial gender studies, diaspora, and globalization. We will discuss novels by Monica Ali, Indra Sinha, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Assia Djebar and others.   3 hrs. lect/disc. LIT CMP (Y. Siddiqi) 

ENAM/WAGS 0272 Empire Writing: Nineteenth Century Literature and British Colonialism (Not offered 2008-09)
While the writer John Seeley might famously claim that Britain "conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind," in fact Britain's imperial career made an indelible mark on domestic novels, adventure fiction, travel writing, and mystery stories, and shaped ideologies of class, race, gender, and sexuality. In this course, we will examine 19th century literature about Britain's role and experience as a colonial power. Writers we will study may include Joseph Conrad, Richard Burton, Mary Kingsley, Olive Schreiner, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Bronte. LIT EUR

ENAM/AMST 0280 Routes: Migrations and American Literatures (Not offered 2008-09)
See Program in American Studies for course description.  LIT NOR

ENAM/RELI 0279 The The Bible and American Literature (Spring)
See Department of Religion for course description.  PHL LIT NOR (J. McWilliams)

0300-Level Courses:

ENAM/LITP 0305 Love Stories: Desire and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (PO) (LCH) (Pre 1800) (Not offered 2008-09)
Our modern conceptions of desire, self, body and gender are informed in complex and often invisible ways by earlier narratives of love. We will investigate the conflicting accounts of love written during the medieval and early modern periods, considering in particular the relationship between the idealized notion of "courtly love" and the darker, medical picture of love as a form of madness or melancholia. Reading a variety of works including lyric, drama, romance and medical texts, we will look at the construction of gender and sexuality, the relationship between desire and subjectivity, and the gendering of certain "diseases" of love (such as hysteria) during this period. Authors to be studied will include: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Shakespeare, and a selection of male and female lyric poets.  3 hrs. lect./disc.  LIT EUR

ENAM 0309 Contemporary Literature (FI) (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
In this course we will explore seminal works of the post-World War II literature written in English. In the course of our readings we will move through the cultural and social transformations beginning with the paranoia and alienation of the Cold War, and continuing with the Civil Rights era, the national crisis of Vietnam, the rise of multiculturalism and the culture wars in the 1980s, the wide ranging effects of the information revolution, the profits and perils of globalization, and the profound anxiety of the war on terror. Writers studied will include Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, Don DeLillo, Donald Barthelme, William S. Burroughs, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Ana Castillo, and Art Spiegelman.  3 hrs. lect. LIT

ENAM 0310 Postcolonial Studies and Politics (FI) (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
The field of postcolonial studies addresses the relations of power in regions marked by the experience of colonialism and its aftermath. Although the field has been dominated by literary scholars, it has become increasingly interdisciplinary, engaging political and social theorists, historians, anthropologists, geographers and the like. We will read postcolonial theory and novels, as well as view films. The class will explore the following topics: colonial discourse, critiques of colonialism, nationalism, social movements, postcolonial gender studies, development, neocolonialism, globalization, transnationalism and diaspora.  3 hrs. lect./2-3 hr. screen HIS LIT CMP

ENAM 0311 Nature's Renaissance (Pre-1800) (Not offered 2008-09)
In this course we will read a wide selection of the most important and popular works of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry, prose, and drama in England which highlight both traditional and changing conceptions of "Nature" that pre-date the genre of nature-writing as it has evolved in the last two hundred years. Our survey will range from Edmund Spenser's The Shepherd's Calendar to Isaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, including lyric, romance, proto-scientific and philosophical essays, comedy, satire, travel journals, and popular drama. Among other topics, we will give particular attention to such ideas as the "Book of Nature," curiosities, the microscopic and the macrocosmic, harvest festivals, country houses, land use and enclosure, hunting, hawking, angling, herding, inspiration, humoral psychology, sexuality and gender, art and artifice.  3 hrs. lect. LIT EUR

ENAM 0312 Modern Poetry (PO) (Fall)
This course will examine the nature and achievement of the major modern poets of Britain and America during the modern period, beginning with the origins of poetic modernism in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman. The central figures to be studied are William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and W.H. Auden. The course will conclude with a look at some after-echoes of modernism in the work of Elizabeth Bishop and others. Two papers, one exam, with occasional oral presentations in class  3 hrs. lect. LIT (J. Parini)

ENAM 0315 Visions of Nature: The Sea (Spring)
Why is nature writing so terrestrial in focus? Scholars of literature and the environment have almost entirely neglected the sea, yet poets, novelists, and science-writers have found the world’s oceans to be profoundly meaningful. In this course we will explore a wide variety of literature in English from both sides of the Atlantic in which the sea and its meanings are the central focus. Beginning with the Old English poem “The Seafarer” and ending with the poetry of Mary Oliver, we will examine a range of works that depict the sea as a space that is at once natural and supernatural, inviting and threatening, fascinating and unfathomable. Readings will be divided evenly between poetry (Coleridge, Byron, Tennyson, Dickinson, Bishop, Rich, Walcott) and prose(Beston, Carson, Warner, Kurlansky, Greenlaw, and Matthiessen). LIT (D. Brayton)

ENAM/LITP 0325 Chinese Poetry in the Far West (PO) (Fall)
This course combines a study of Tang poetry with a survey of its influence on non-Chinese poetry in the modern era. We will emphasize the American context and Ezra Pound as the "inventor of Chinese poetry for our time," as T.S. Eliot memorably put it. In order to give students with no knowledge of Chinese the necessary tools for making the most of a facing-page translation, we will spend a significant portion of the course learning the characters most common to Tang poetry as well as the fundamentals of classical grammar. We will thus read the original poems alongside multiple translations and also discuss loose adaptations in "Chinese" modes. Theoretical questions concerning the nature of intercultural adaptation and globalization will be a constant concern. Readings will include numerous Chinese and American poets, and also extensive critical theory. For students with no knowledge of Chinese. 3 hrs. lect/disc. LIT CMP (T. Billings)

ENAM 0330 Shakespeare and Contexts (SH) (LCH) (Spring)
This course is designed to sample the breadth of Shakespeare's dramatic art, from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest, with an eye to understanding both how the plays may have resonated for his first audiences on stage and how subsequent readers have drawn their own meanings from the published texts. We will therefore pay particular attention to such dramaturgical issues as the construction of character and of plot, the reworking of sources, spectacle, meta-theatricality, and versification, as well as consider what political and commercial implications these plays might have had during Shakespeare's life and what meaning they hold for us today. 3 hrs. lect./3 hr. disc./3 hrs. screen. LIT EUR (T. Billings)

ENAM 0331 Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances (SH) (Not offered 2008-09)
Close analysis of the language and structure of Shakespeare's comedies and romances, with consideration of the theatrical, literary, and social contexts in which the plays were written and staged, recent and current critical debate and discussion about the plays, and the problems of reading them restrospectively.  Primary texts will include such plays as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.   3 hrs. lect./3 hrs. disc./screen LIT EUR

ENAM 0332 Shakespeare's Tragedies and Histories (SH) (Fall)
An intensive consideration of language, style, character, and structure, first in Shakespeare's epic history-play cycle, Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, and then in the major tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, and Coriolanus.  3 hrs. lect.; disc; screening LIT EUR (J. Bertolini)

ENAM/AMST 0342 Southern American Literature (AL) (Fall)
In William Faulkner's Absolom, Absolom! Canadian Shreve McCannon commands his roommate, Mississippian Quentin Compson, "Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all?" Our course will take on writers who want to "tell about the South" in the post-Civil War era and beyond, as they seek to help re-define and revitalize their region. We will focus our regional exploration on the "Southern Renascence," when writers and theorists like the Agrarians re-examined Southern history and reconsidered their role in relation to their regional community. Authors including William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams developed a new awareness of the restrictions of racial and gender roles, an interest in literary experimentation, and an increasingly realistic presentation of social conditions in the south. We will consider the legacy of these writers in later 20th century texts by authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Alice Walker, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Gaines, Randall Kenan and even relative newcomers such as Jackson Tippett McCrea. (Students who have taken AMLT 0340 Regionalism: Southern Literature are not eligible to register for this course)  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT NOR (D. Evans)

ENAM/AMST 0356 The 19th-Century African American Literary Tradition (AL) (Not offered in 2008-09)
Currently, the literary form most commonly associated with nineteenth century African Americans is the slave narrative. While that is an essential nineteenth century African American genre, it appears in a literary context that includes poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiographies. This course examines examples ranging across these genres, keeping in mind both the social questions facing African Americans in the nineteenth century and authors' aesthetic responses to them. Texts include slave narratives (Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs), novels (William Wells Brown, Frances E. W. Harper), autobiographies (Booker T. Washington), poetry (George Moses Horton), and essays (David Walker, W. E. B. Du Bois).  3 hrs. lect./disc. LIT NOR CMP

ENAM/RUSS 0359 The Art of Vladimir Nabokov (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Russian for course description.

ENAM/WAGS 0371 Postcolonial Writing by Women (FI) (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
In her important essay "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses," Chandra Talpade Mohanty argues that the experiences of women from the so-called Third World have to be understood in their own terms, rather than through the lens of Western feminism. Focusing on novels and essays by writers from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, we will examine how women from the non-Western world use narrative to address a variety of concerns: familial relationships, caste, class, race, religious identity, education, work, national liberation, modernization, development, diaspora, and globalization.  3 hr lect./disc. LIT AAL CMP

ENAM/WAGS 0372 Gender and the South Asian Diaspora (FI) (LCH) (Not offered 2008-09)
In this interdisciplinary course we will trace social, political, and economic experiences as well as the aesthetic expressions of South Asians dispersed around the world.  Beginning with a theoretical exploration of the concept of diaspora we delineate the historical specificity of the subcontinental experience. The key topics we will consider are labor, the politics of gender and sexuality, cultural production of desi identity, and religion.  The course will include literary texts, films, art, and multimedia production.  Some of the authors we will consider are: Anita Rau Badami, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shyam Selvadurai, and M. G. Vassanji.  The films will include Bhaji on the Beach, My Beautiful Laundrette, My Son the Fanatic, When Mother Comes Home for Christmas, and Bollywood Productions. LIT AAL CMP

0400-level Courses: Seminars
The process or activity of the seminar is as important as the subject. In each seminar there will be close analytical discussions of the reading, and those discussions will form the basis for extensive writing requirements.  Senior seminars, which may be elected by juniors or seniors, meet the departmental requirement for critical or creative senior thesis work.

Beginning in Spring 2007, 0400-level seminars are not approval courses anymore. Students not majoring in English are welcome and encouraged to apply. Students abroad, or studying elsewhere during their junior year, should indicate their seminar preferences well in advance of each registration period and should have someone register for them.

ENAM/GRMN 0400 Senior Seminar: Kafka and His Influence (Fall)
In this course we will grapple with the life and work of Franz Kafka, and with the staggering range of responses that work has evoked in readers, in other writers, and in world culture at large. We will seek not so much to decode his mysteries and paradoxes as to inhabit them, to chart our own contemporary path through their dark entanglements. Ontological confusion guaranteed. 3 hrs. lect. (R. Cohen)

ENAM 0402 The Modernist Moment (Spring)
This course will focus on those decades in the early part of this century--roughly from 1914-1930--when poets on both sides of the Atlantic were deeply affected by the international modernist movement, which also swept the worlds of painting and music.  In addition to reading some critical work on modernism, students will be expected to look closely at the work of poets such as T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and W.H. Auden.  Students will be expected to write a lengthy final paper and to offer regular classroom presentations.  3 hrs. lect. (Mr. Parini)

ENAM 0403 North American Fiction (Fall)
It is increasingly clear that Americans and Canadians view the political and social world from different perspectives. In this course, we will conduct a comparative study of US American and Canadian fiction in the twentieth century by reading pairs of novels -one American, one Canadian-concerned with similar events or circumstances of the last century. Authors will include, on the American side: Willa Cather, Saul Bellow, Louise Erdrich, Cormac McCarthy, Bernard Malamud, and Toni Morrison; on the Canadian side: Colin MacDougall, Mordecai Richler, Thomas King, Guy Vanderhaeghe, W.P. Kinsella, and Dionne Brand. 3 hrs. lect/disc. LIT CMP NOR (B. Millier)

ENAM/WAGS 0404 Happy Endings?: Novels As Social Critique (Spring)
In 1881, Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope wrote that marriage was the only "proper ending for a novel." But other writers and theorists have argued that novels are (or should be) revolutionary, offering more radical visions of the self and the social order. In this course we will read novels in which courtship, love and marriage are represented as social events rather than (or in addition to) emotional conditions. We will explore how novelists use human relationships as complex metaphors for social, political and ideological critique. We will study both novels that rely heavily upon the heterosexual "marriage plot" and novels that revise and resist that plot in various ways (queer narratives, solitary protagonists, dystopian romances, etc). Novelists studied may include Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Charlotte Bronte. 3 hrs. lect. LIT (A. Losano)

ENAM 0405 Senior Seminar: Caribbean Currents in 20th Century African American Literature (Spring)
The study of African American literature often remains within the boundaries of the USA. This tendency can prevent making connections across national boundaries or following the entire transnational arc of a writer's career or literary movement. Students will explore networks of textual circulation and human migration that shape African American literary history. Our readings include: US writers drawn to Caribbean subject matter, anglophone Afro-Caribbean writers, and migrant authors. In the course of the semester we will also read works in translation by hispanophone and francophone Afro-Caribbean authors as a reminder that this transnational literary history is also multilingual. 3 hrs. lect. LIT AAL CMP (L. Sorensen)

ENAM 0409 James Joyce (Fall)
We will study Joyce's major works of fiction, with the exception of Finnegan's Wake.  These include: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.  There will be some emphasis on background material to illustrate and clarify the rich array of specific details, settings, persons, and events which make up the turn-of-the-century world of Irish Catholoic Dublin, the exclusive scene of all of Joyce's fiction.  We will also consider various critical approaches to Joyce's monuments of modernism.  3 hrs. lect. (D. Price)

ENAM 0427 Henry James (Spring)
Henry James is a central figure in the history of the novel, whose style is one of the most recognizable (and immitable) in English (which does not mean that he has not had imitators). His sometimes maddening circumlocutions and intricate sensibility have given us a series of psychological joyrides like nothing else in the language. And his work, given his conscious treatment of the point of view and his personal circumlocutions, poses unique difficulties of interpretation. We will read some short works, including Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw, and several longer ones, among them ones that explore the "international theme," such as The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors. Among other things, we may visit the odd coincidence of James's showing up as a character in no fewer than seven novels within the past decade. 3 hrs. lect. (K. Kramer)

ENAM/LITS 0705 Senior Colloquium in Literary Studies (Fall)
See Program of Literary Studies for course description. This course may be used to fulfill the seminar requirement in English and American Literatures. (Open to nonmajors with permission of the instructor.) (S. Donadio)

CREATIVE WRITING
All writing courses are workshops; therefore, places are limited, and, except for ENAM 0170, ENAM 0175, and ENAM/TEDU 0185, admission is by approval. English and American literature majors are generally given priority, then concentrators. Please come to the English department office at least one week prior to registration.

Level One
The first level of Middlebury's creative writing curriculum is designed to give students practical knowledge of the basics of craft. Because the faculty is convinced that it is best for students at the entry level to work in more than one genre, we recommend ENAM 0170 as the entry course to the writing sequence, although ENAM/THEA 0218 or ENAM/THEA 0240 may be substituted. See course descriptions for details.

ENAM/FMMC 0106 Screenwriting Workshop I (CW 15) (Fall)
See Program of Film and Media Culture for course description. (Formerly ENAM/FMMC 0240) ART (D. Mitchell)

ENAM 0170 Writing: Poetry, Fiction, NonFiction (Fall, Spring)
An introduction to the writing of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction through analysis of writings by modern and contemporary poets and prose writers and regular discussion of student writing. Different instructors may choose to emphasize one literary form or another in a given semester. Workshops will focus on composition and revision, with particular attention to the basics of form and craft. This course is a prerequisite to ENAM 0380, ENAM 0385, ENAM 0370, and ENAM 0375. 3 hrs. lect. ART (fall: D. Bain, K. Kramer, D. Mitchell; spring: K. Kramer, Staff)

ENAM 0175 The Structure of Poetry (Fall)
An introduction to the reading and writing of poetry emphasizing its structural and musical aspects. Exemplary American and English poems will be examined carefully to appreciate, as Frost says, "the easy way the obstacle of verse is turned to advantage." Among the poets we shall read are Seamus Heaney and Charles Simic. Students will write their own poems and give oral reports on contemporary poets.  3 hrs. lect. ART  (J. Parini)

ENAM/TEDU 0185 Writing for Children and Young Adults (Spring)
This course is an introduction to writing for children and young adults through analysis of model short fiction and novels, and regular discussion of student writing. We will focus on craft and form with particular attention to the demands of writing for a young audience. Emphasis will be on composition and revision.  3 hrs. lect. ART  (C. Cooper) 

ENAM/THEA 0218 Playwriting I (CW 16) (Spring)
See Department of Theatre and Dance for course description.  ART (D. Yeaton)

Level Two
The second level of courses in the writing sequence consists of single-genre workshops designed to give students further experience working in particular genres in depth. Admission is by waiver. Students must have taken the appropriate Level One prerequisite course. A student wishing to take a Level Two workshop without the appropriate prerequisite may do so by waiver of the instructor; the student must submit a portfolio of appropriate work to the department at least a week in advance of registration. Level Two courses (except ENAM 0385) may be elected more than once, provided the student has a grade of B+ or better in the first Level Two course.

ENAM/THEA 0228 Advanced Playwriting II (Not offered 2008-09)
See Department of Theatre and Dance for course description.  ART LIT EUR

ENAM/THEA 0318 Playwriting II: Advanced (CW) (Fall)
See Department of Theatre and Dance for course description.  ART (D. Yeaton)

ENAM/FMMC 0341 Screenwriting Workshop II (Spring)
See Program of Film and Media Culture for course description.  (D. Mitchell)

ENAM 0370 Workshop: Fiction (Fall, Winter, Spring)
Study and practice in techniques of fiction writing through workshops and readings in short fiction and novels. Class discussions will be based on student manuscripts and published model works. Emphasis will be placed on composition and revision. (ENAM 0170, 0175, 0185) (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)  3 hrs. lect. ART (fall: R. Cohen,K. Kramer; winter: D. Bain; spring: R. Cohen)

ENAM 0375 Workshop: Poetry (Spring)
This course will involve the reading and writing of contemporary poetry. It is designed for students who already possess some familiarity with poetry and its traditions and who want to concentrate especially on contemporary work as an adjunct to their own development as poets. Students will read a good deal of poetry, including such writers as Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and Charles Simic. Assignments will include the keeping of a daily notebook, writing poems on a regular basis, and giving oral reports. Close attention will be paid to poetic form and the conventions of poetry. A final portfolio will include revisions of poems and critical writing. (ENAM 0170, 0175, or 0185) (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)  3 hrs. lect. ART (Staff)

ENAM 0380 Workshop: Nonfiction (Spring)
Study and practice in techniques of nonfiction writing through contemporary essay and narrative non-fiction workshops and readings in the contemporary essay. Class discussions will be based on student manuscripts and published model works. Emphasis will be placed on composition and revision. (ENAM 0170, 0175, or 0185) (Approval required. Please apply at department office.) 3 hrs. lect. (D. Bain)

ENAM 0385 Workshop for Nature Writers (Not offered 2008-09)
Our focus in this workshop will be on producing essays that combine close observation of the natural world with personal narrative and reflection. Journal-keeping, the study of natural history, exercises in writing and drawing out of doors, and reading of such contemporary nature writers as Annie Dillard and Barry Lopez will help to inform both our discussions and the portfolios of finished work which members of the class produce. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.) 3 hrs. lect. ART

ENAM 0390 Feature Writing: A Workshop in Magazine Journalism (Not offered 2008-09)
We will focus on learning to write magazine-length articles, with the goal of publishing them in local and regional periodicals. We will read and discuss some writing in class, but much of the instruction will take place in editing sessions. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.) ART

Level Three
The third level of courses in the writing sequence consists of writing tutorials for students who have completed one Level One and two Level Two workshops. Students planning to do a senior essay or thesis in creative writing in the English or American Literature major must have taken two Level Two workshops with a minimum average of B+ for the two workshops. No more than one 0300-level workshop may be taken in winter term.

Special Projects
The department will consider applications from qualified students who wish to undertake advanced tutorials in literature, dramatic literature, and writing. A student proposing a tutorial should, after discussion with a possible project director and with his/her adviser, submit a brief written proposal to the department office two weeks prior to registration. Creative writing projects (ENAM 0560) may be undertaken after completion of the introductory and two Level Two workshops in writing.

ENAM 0500, ENAM 0520, ENAM 0560 Special Projects (Fall, Winter, Spring)

Critical and Creative Essays and Theses
Students who are interested in writing a critical or creative thesis (two terms) or essay (one term), and who have completed the prerequisite courses (a seminar, or, in the case of a creative project, two 0300-level writing workshops) should elect either ENAM 0700, ENAM 0701, ENAM 0710, or ENAM 0711. Proposals should be discussed with a department faculty member who will serve as an adviser or reader for the project, and brief descriptions should be submitted to the department office a week before registration. Sections may include seminars, workshops, and tutorials; the staff member identified with such sections will serve as general adviser and as coordinator for students and individual project advisers. Students should register each term for the appropriate section described below. Students who are undecided as to whether to undertake a thesis or essay should register for an essay (ENAM 0700 or ENAM 0701), which can be converted to a thesis if work proceeds well during the first term.

ENAM 0700 Senior Essay: Critical Writing (Fall, Winter, Spring) Individual guidance and seminar (discussions, workshops, tutorials) for those undertaking one-term projects in literary criticism or analysis. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)   (Staff)

ENAM 0701 Senior Essay: Creative Writing (Fall, Winter, Spring)
Discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking one-term projects in the writing of fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)  (Staff)

ENAM 0710 Senior Thesis: Critical Writing (Fall, Winter, Spring)
Individual guidance and seminar (discussions, workshops, tutorials) for those undertaking two-term projects in literary criticism or analysis. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)  (Staff)

ENAM 0711 Senior Thesis: Creative Writing (Fall, Winter, Spring)
Discussions, workshops, tutorials for those undertaking two-term projects in the writing of fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. (Approval required. Please apply at department office.)  (Staff)

ENAM 0720 Senior Comprehensive Program (Winter)
Reading and discussion of selected texts in seminars, panels, symposia, and tutorials with evaluation through papers, oral presentations, and an oral examination. Required of all English majors. (Staff)