Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses

Last updated: July 9, 2006

Literature in English

The following are syllabi for women- and gender-related courses dealing with Literature in English. Courses that make substantial use of the Internet carry the designation ++; those making at least some use carry the designation +.

+ African American Women Playwrights (English 3218): R. L. Widmann (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
+ African Women Writers (English 17): Touria Khannous (Brown Univ.)
++American Authors: American Women Authors (Literature 21L.512): Wyn Kelley (MIT)
+ American Women Poets and their Readers: Modernists (English 599/799/WGS 599): Richard Flynn (Georgia Southern Univ.)
Arab Women Authors (ENG 394): Heather Hoyt (Arizona State Univ.)
The Art and Politics of Black Women Writers: Heather Hathaway (Marquette Univ. & CEPACS)
Asian American Women Writers (English 368A): Caroline Chung Simpson (Univ. of Washington)
++ Canon Revision (ENG 236): Alan Liu (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England (English 415): Jane Chance (Rice Univ.)
+ Contemporary Critical Theory and Edith Wharton's Fiction (English 501.04): Stephan Flores (Univ. of Idaho)
++ The Early Romantic Period: 1789 to 1816 (ENG 441B): Laura Mandell (Miami Univ.)
Faulkner and Morrison (English 465): Catherine Gunther Kodat (Hamilton College)
+ Female Dramatists of the English Seventeenth Century (English 1710b): Kathy Acheson (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
++ Feminist Literary Criticism (ENGL 436/636): Elisa Kay Sparks (Clemson Univ.)
+ Feminist Literary Theory: Seminar (English 6613): Deborah K. Chappel (Arkansas State Univ.)
Feminist Perspectives on Pedagogy and Academe: Feminist Academic Memoir (WS 5984): Bernice L. Hausman (Virginia Tech)
Feminist Transformations: Retellings of Myth, Folktale, and Narrative (English/WS 377): Phyllis Gorfain (Oberlin College)
Fictions of Female Development (English 133): Kathie Linehan (Oberlin College)
Figures on the Margin: The Language of Gender in British Romanticism: Susan Wolfson (Princeton Univ. - course is at W. Va Univ.)
++ Freedom in Women's Eyes (WMS/ENL 347): L. Kamm (U. Mass - Dartmouth)
+ Gender, Art, and Society (Humanities 102): Alyssa J. O'Brien (Univ. of Rochester)
Gender Criticism (EN 398/698): Glynis Carr (Bucknell Univ.)
++ Gender, Ethnicity, and the Fictional Female Body (English 680): Michele Janette (Kansas State Univ.)
++ Gender, Law, and the Gothic (English 250): Michael Gamer (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Gender Roles/Gender Identities (English 154): Sarah Kelen (Oberlin College)
Gender, Space, Place, and Travel (English 570): Susan Bernstein (Univ. of Wisconsin)
History, Nation, and Gender in Post-Colonial Narratives (English 361): Anuradha Dingwaney Needham (Oberlin College)
Images of Joan of Arc (ENGL 346/WMST 390): Gail Orgelfinger (UMBC)
Introduction to Gender, Sexuality, and Literature (English 117): Keith Dorwick (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
++ Inventing the Subject: Gender, Sex, and Texts, 350-1400 (English 159/559): Martin Irvine (Georgetown Univ.)
++ Jane Austen and the Political Novel (English 553.601): Daniel Traister (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
++ Jane Austen and Popular Culture (English 101): Michael Gamer (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Jane Austen in Context (ENG 327): C. L. Johnson (Princeton Univ.)
+ Jane Austen Study Tour (ENG 350): Julie Shaffer (Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh)
++ Landscape, Gender, and Power in Early Modern England (ENGL 496A): Kari Boyd McBride (Univ. of Arizona)
Literary Criticism: "Subject to Desire" (English 495.01): Stephan Flores (Univ. of Idaho)
+ Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare (Literature 21L.701): Diana Henderson (MIT)
++ Literature by Black Women Writers (English 4984): V. Fowler et al. (Virginia Tech)
A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing - Venice, London, Paris - 1550-1700: NEH Seminar, 2001
++ Major Authors: Melville and Morrison (Literature 21L.705): Wyn Kelley (MIT)
++ Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers (LIT 21L.460/WMN.514): James Cain (MIT)
+ Medieval Women: Tradition and Counter-Tradition (MVST 221): Deborah Everhart (Georgetown Univ.)
Medieval Women Writers (English 302): Jennifer Bryan (Oberlin College)
Modern Fiction and Sexual Difference (English 338): David Walker (Oberlin College)
++ 19th Century U. S. Women Writers (EN 214): Glynis Carr (Bucknell Univ.)
Poetics: Sexuality and Space in 17th - 19th Century American Literature (English 39): Susan Howe (SUNY, Buffalo)
+ Poetry by Women (ENG 287): Lee Sharkey (Univ. of Maine at Farmington)
++ Post Modern Speculative Fiction: Fe(M)ale (English 4784): Len Hatfield (Virginia Tech)
Post-Stonewall Gay and Lesbian Literature (ENGL/LGBS M101B): Arthur L. Little, Jr. (UCLA)
+ Prose by Women 1994-2006 (English 3217): R. L. Widmann (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
Representing Women and Legal Identity (English 550): Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Restoration and Early 18th-Century British Literature: Love, Marriage, Sex, Infidelity, and Distress (English 540): Stephan Flores (Univ. of Idaho)
Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature: Nation, Gender, Class (English 456): Stephan Flores (Univ. of Idaho)
++ Rethinking Literary History: the 18th- and Early 19th-Century British Novel (ENG 630): Laura Mandell (Miami Univ.)
Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages (ENGL 301): Maud McInerney (Haverford College)
+ Special Topics in 18th-C. Literature: Transatlantic Depictions of Race and Gender (ENG 422): Roxanne Kent-Drury (Northern Kentucky Univ.)
++ Studies in Women Writers (English 2264): Jennifer Mooney (Virginia Tech)
+ The 'Tenth Muse' Phenomenon (CompLit 181): Stephanie Merrim (Brown Univ.)
Toni Morrison (English 444): Noelle Morrissette (Oberlin College)
+ 20th Century U. S. Women Writers (EN215): Glynis Carr (Bucknell Univ.)
Venus Rising: Fiction, Criticism and Theory by Black Women: Farah Griffin (Univ. of Pennsylvania & CEPACS)
+ Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare (LIT 21L.701/WMN.430): Diana Henderson (MIT)
++ Women and 18th Century Literature (ENG 422/655/WMS 390): Roxanne Kent-Drury (Northern Kentuck Univ.)
++ Women and Poetry in the 18th Century: Carol Elaine Percy (Univ. of Toronto)
+ Women and Writing: Revisiting Virginia Woolf (ENG 105-4): Alyssa J. O'Brien (Cornell Univ.)
Women and Writing: Women's Multi-Media Autobiographies (ENG 105-5): Alyssa J. O'Brien (Cornell Univ.)
Women, Gender and Race in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (ENGL 3217): R. L. Widmann (Univ. of Colorado)
+ Women in American Literature (English 332): Kristi Larkin Havens (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
++ Women in Literature (English 307): (Athabasca Univ. [Canada])
+ Women in Literature (GEN 2002): Kimberly M. Radek (Illinois Valley Community College)
+ Women in Literature (ENG 360): Emily Allen (Purdue Univ.)
+ Women in Literature I (ENG 273): Thomas L. Long (Thomas Nelson Community College)
Women in Literature: Lesbian Fictions (ENGL/WS 315): Suzanne Raitt (Univ. of Michigan)
++ Women in Victorian Literature (ENGL 2305): M. Perkins (Univ. of Houston)
++ Women, Law, and the Gothic (English 550/WS 640): Michael Gamer (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
++Women Mystery and Detective Fiction Writers & the Rise of Feminism (ID255): Randy Abbott (Univ. of Evansville)
Women, Nature, and Consciousness: Seminar in Ecofeminism (English 498): Glynis Carr (Bucknell Univ.)
Women's Biography and Autobiography (ENG 387): Jane Olmsted (Western Kentucky Univ.)
Women's Poetry (ENG 496/G): Elizabeth Oakes (Western Kentucky Univ.)
+ Women's Popular Genres: Romance and Sentimentality (E314L): Jan Fernheimer (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Women's Writing and Film in Latin America and the Caribean (WS 1202): Brad Epps (Harvard Univ.)
Women With Disabilities: Representations in Art, Literature, and Film (ECSE 6903/WS 5663): Beth A. Ferri (Texas Woman's Univ.)
++ Women Writers (ENG/WST 384 ): Ann M. Woodlief (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
++ Women Writers (ENG 211): Kristi Siegel
Women Writers from 1400 to 1900 (English 283): Jane Chance (Rice Univ.)
+ Women Writers of the Near and Far East (ANELL 200): N. Berg et al. (Washington Univ.)
+ Women Writers Re-Presenting Marriage (English 4784): Bernice L. Hausman (Virginia Tech)

See also Writing about Film: Constructions of Gender on Page & Screen, in FILM; Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film, Women, Culture, and Ideas in U.S. History, and Women's History and Feminist Theory, in HISTORY; Feminist Linguistic Theory and 19th-Century British Women Writers, in LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS; Feminist Theory, Law, and Literature, in LAW; Prima Donna, (Pre) Madonna: Cultural Constructions of Women in Music and Literature, in MUSIC; Critical Theories: Gay & Lesbian Literature, Forms of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Literature, and Gay and Lesbian Literature: The Tradition in English, in SEXUALITY; Black Women's Narrative from Slavery to the Harlem Renaissance, Introduction to Chicana/o Literature, and Meditations on History: Black Women, Writing and Slavery, in WOMEN OF COLOR; and Issues for Women in the Humanities: Technologies of Representation and A Sample 16th and 17th Century Women's Studies Syllabus in WOMEN'S STUDIES.

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