Classes Offered


General Literature and Literary Theory

Introduction to Literary Study
Introduction to Literature: Fiction  |  Drama  |  Poetry
Apocalypse Then: Literature and Culture of the 1990s
Twentieth-Century Asian-American Literature
The Literature of Terrorism
Topics in Theory: Postcolonialism  |  Postmodernism
Material Culture Studies and Cultural Materialism


English and Irish Literature and Culture

British Literature: Origins to 1600  |  1600-1832  |  1832-Present
Modernism to Postmodernism
British Postmodern Fiction
Writing the Celtic Tiger: New Irish Literature & Culture
Irish Modernism
Contemporary Irish Literature
Major Authors: James Joyce and W.B. Yeats
The Irish Nobels: Shaw, Yeats, Beckett, Heaney


Film Studies

Form and Meaning in Film
Film History and Technique
Italian Neorealism and Beyond
Continuity & Discontinuity from Weine to Tarantino