Overview
The Department of English first offered women's literature courses in the early 1970's and continues to encourage vibrant scholarship and teaching in women's and gender studies. Undergraduate and graduate students in our department can study with outstanding faculty members in a number of courses, including 20th Century Women Writers, Lesbian Literature, Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Literature, Chicana literature, Black Women Writers, Native American Women Writers, Medieval Women Writers, Women and Popular Culture, The Rhetoric of Women Writers, Women Filmmakers, Writing of Poetry: Women's Poetry, and Feminist Theory and Criticism. Our courses support the major and graduate specialization in Women's and Gender Studies, the Ethnic Studies major, and the undergraduate minor in LBGTQ Studies.
(Selected) Faculty: A Diversity of Teaching & Research Interests
- Stephen C. Behrendt–British Romantic women writers
- Susan Belasco–19th-century women writers
- Barbara DiBernard–20th-Century U.S. women's literature, Lesbian literature, Literature and Disability, Feminist Pedagogy
- Gwendolyn A. Foster–Women filmmakers; gender theory; postcolonial film; whiteness studies/ethnicity theory
- Melissa J. Homestead–19th- and 20th-century women writers
- Maureen Honey–Multi-cultural 20th-century women writers: Harlem Renaissance; Women's & Ethnic Studies
- Amelia María de la Luz Montes–Chicana/Chicano and U.S. Latina/Latino literature and theory
- Hilda Raz–Women's and collaborative literatures; women and poetry; transgender studies
- Joy Ritchie–Feminist theory and pedagogy
(Selected) Course Offerings
- ENGL 212: Lesbian & Gay Literature
- ENGL 215E: Introduction to Women's Literature
- ENGL 215J: 20th Century Women Writers
- ENGL 231A: English Authors After 1800: The Brontës and Their World
- ENGL 239B: Women Filmmakers
- ENGL 244B: Black Women Authors
- ENGL 245N: Native American Women Writers
- ENGL 253A: Writing of Poetry: Women's Poetry
- ENGL 315A: Survey of Women's Literature
- ENGL 315B: Women in Pop Culture
- ENGL 333A: American Authors Since 1900: Willa Cather and Her World
- ENGL 401K/801K: Gay and Lesbian Drama
- ENGL 414/814: Women's Literature
- ENGL 414B/814B: 20th Century Women Writers
- ENGL 414D/814D: Feminist Theory & Criticism
- ENGL 475A/875A: Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric of Women Writers
- ENGL 914: Seminar in Women Writers
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