Recent Courses Taught at Texas State University

• Theory of the Novel (English 5384: Critical Theory, Fall 2016). A study of key works in the theory of the novel, from Lukács and Bakhtin to the present.
  
• French Theory (English 5384: Critical Theory, Fall 2015). A study of French theory and its influence on literary and cultural studies, focusing on the case of Michel Foucault.
  
• Modern Critical Theory (English 5384: Critical Theory, Fall 2014). A study of modernity and its critics, including Kant, Adorno, Foucault, Habermas, Jameson, and Said.
  
• Hawthorne and Melville (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Fall 2017). A comparative study of major works by the authors, focusing on developments in literary form.
  
• Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Summer 2015). A study of the novel, its historical contexts, and its influence on U.S. and world literature.
  
• 19th-Century American Narrative Forms (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Spring 2013). A study of emergent and dominant narrative forms in American literature.
  
• The U.S. Novel: Interrogating Hypercanonicity (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Spring 2018). A study of major American novels as well as of their cultural significance.
  
• Edgar Allan Poe (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Spring 2011). A study of the author’s criticism, poems, and tales.
  
• Herman Melville (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Spring 2009). A study of major works by the author and their contribution to the field of American literature.
  
• The Novel in the Long 19th-Century (English 5324: Studies in Literary Genre, Fall 2012). A comparative literary study of the novel from Goethe to Joyce.
  
• Powers of Blackness: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville (English 5332: Studies in American Prose, Spring 2007). A study of selected works and the development of American Romanticism.
  
• The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (English 5321: Contemporary American Literature, Spring 2012). Vonnegut’s fourteen novels and their significance to American literature and culture.
  
• Literary Scholarship (English 5301: Fall 2018, Spring 2010, Fall 2006). An introduction to literary scholarship, including textual analysis, literary history, and professional topics.
  
• American Romanticism (English 4334: Spr. 2017, Spr. 2011, Spr. 2009). An analysis of trans-atlantic Romanticism with emphasis on the development of U.S. romance and literary theory.
  
• Fictions of Estrangement (Honors 3396W: Fall 2013). An examination of modern world literature and the otherworldly, including works of utopia, fantasy, and science fiction.
  
• Humanities I (Honors 3394N: Fall 2010, team-taught with Dr. Raphael [Philosophy]). An introduction to the literary humanities from antiquity to the early modern period.
  
• Humanities II (Honors 3394P: Spring 2015, team-taught with Dr. Raphael [Philosophy]). An introduction to the literary humanities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (English 3343: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Spring 2015, Fall 2011). Study of Hawthorne’s tales and romances in their historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Edgar Allan Poe (English 3343: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Spr. 2018, Spr. 2013, Spr. 2011, Fall 2008). A study of the author’s work in its historical, cultural contexts.
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien (English 3343: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Spring 2016, Fall 2012). A study of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, along with his theory of otherworldly literature.
  
• Kurt Vonnegut (English 3343: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, Spring 2012). A study of several novels and essays by the American writer.
  
• Studies in World Literature (English 3341: Fall 2017; Spr 2017, Spr 2016; Fall 2015, Spr 2010, Fall 2007 [online]). An examination of key texts of world literature organized around a theme (e.g., “Otherworldly Literature,” “Modernity and Its Critics,” “Existentialism”).
  
• The American Novel (English 3338: Spring 2008). An examination of major Americans novels from James Fenimore Cooper to Toni Morrison.
  
• American Literature, 1865–1930 (English 3335: Fall 2012). An examination of American literature, with attention to generic discontinuities of romanticism, realism, and modernism.
  
• Early American Literature (English 3333: Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2008). A survey of early American writings with an emphasis on the uses of narrative.
  
• Critical Theory and Practice for English Majors (English 3301: Fall 2017, Fall 2013, F09). An introduction to theories and practices of research in the literary humanities.
  
• American Literature before 1865 (English 2359: Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006). Large survey course covering important works from Columbus to Whitman; fulfills general education requirement.
  
• World Literature after 1600 (English 2340: Fall 2009). Large survey course covering important works of modern literature; fulfills general education requirement.
  
• World Literature to 1600 (English 2330: Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007 [two sections], Spring 2007). Large survey course covering important works from classical antiquity to the early modern period; fulfills general education requirement.