MA & PhD Tracks
20th-Century Studies
Course distribution requirements for the graduate track in 20th-Century Studies are as shown below.
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MA,
Thesis |
MA,
Non-thesis |
PhD |
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| required |
related |
elective |
required |
related |
elective |
required |
related |
elective |
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1 course in 20th-century British lit/culture;
1 course in 20th-century American lit/culture;
1 course in studies in 20th-century visual culture
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1 course in theory or cultural studies;
1 course in 19th-century lit/culture
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3 courses |
1 course in 20th-century British lit/culture;
1 course in 20th-century American lit/culture;
1 additional course in either of the above;
1 course in studies in 20th-century visual culture
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1 course in theory or cultural studies;
1 course in 19th-century lit/culture
|
4 courses |
1 course in 20th-century British or American lit/culture;
1 course in 20th-century that does not focus on US
or British national literatures;
1 course in area of concentration
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1 course in either theory, media studies, or cultural
studies;
1 course in 19th-century lit/culture
|
2 courses |
Notes
- Visual culture is understood to include courses in film and media studies, electronic media, photography, etc.
- Examples of courses that do not focus on US or British national literatures are Postcolonial literature, Latino/a literature/culture, African-American, Commonwealth, Caribbean, or another European or world national literature.
- For electives in the PhD, students are strongly encouraged to take at least one course in 20th-century studies from outside the department (Anthropology, Architecture, Art, History, Latin-American Studies, Philosophy, or Women’s Studies).
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Faculty
Department of English faculty who regularly teach courses in this track include:
- Donald Ault – Romantic Poetry (William Blake), Literature & Mathematics, Literary Theory, Comics & Animation
- Roger Beebe – Experimental Film & Video Production, Popular American Cinema(s), Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
- Marsha Bryant – 20th-Century Literature & Culture (American & British), Poetry, Women’s Literature, Visual Culture
- Richard Burt – Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama; Film, Mass Media & Digital Media; Literary & Media Theory
- John Cech – Children’s Literature, 20th-Century American Literature, Adolescent Literature
- Kim Emery – U.S. Literatures & Culture, Queer Studies, Semiotics
- Terry Harpold – Media Theory, Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis, Science & Literature
- Susan Hegeman – American Studies, Modernism, Literature & Anthropology
- R. Brandon Kershner – 20th-Century British Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, James Joyce, Creative Writing (Poetry)
- Scott Nygren – Film & Media Studies, Video Production, Media & Cultural Studies, Film & Literature
- Robert Ray – Film, Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
- Malini Johar Schueller – 19th- & 20th-Century American Literature, Asian-American Studies, Postcolonial & Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theories
- Stephanie Smith – 19th-Century American Literature, Feminist Theory, Fiction, Fiction Writing
- Maureen Turim – Film History & Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Feminist & Gender Theory, Deconstruction, Comparative Art Theory
- Anastasia Ulanowicz – Children’s Literature & Media, 20th-Century American Literature, Religion & Literature, Trauma Studies
- Phillip Wegner – 20th-Century American, British, & World Literatures; Marxism; Science Fiction; Utopias; Cultural Studies; Theory
