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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21155
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St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Introduction to Creative Writing and Publishing provides a primer to the expectations and conventions of graduate study in the field of creative writing, including creative writing pedagogy and practice, the running of a literary reading series, innovative forms of creative writing such as podcasting and interactive writing, as well as the study of the publishing world from the point of view of a writer, reader, and editor. Additionally, it will introduce students to the academic field of creative writing: its area of specialization, key issues, and forms of writing. How do writers orient themselves and their work in 21st century workshops? What are the tools that govern print design, interactive prose, or literary podcasts? What is the history of the publishing industry and how does that inform our present moment? This course is required for the Master of Arts in Creative Writing & Publishing and is an elective for the Master of Arts in English.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21156
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St Paul: John Roach Center 301
In English Studies, we traffic in language – reading, writing, and speaking in order to construct meanings in the textual world. Yet, we tend to take language for granted and rarely step back to reflect on how language functions in our reading and writing experiences and in English Studies as a discipline in general. Linguistic studies in the past decades have provided concepts and tools that have not only helped us understand the nature of language and our manipulation of it, but also become the foundations of some key literary theories that allow us to study literary texts as sites of linguistic choice, social interaction, and cultural meaning. This course invites you to examine a range of theoretical approaches to understanding language and how these theoretical traditions of language have generated ways of studying literary texts from linguistic perspectives. In this process, we will study the fascinating relations between language, thought, identity, power, ideology, emotion, and aesthetic experience as located in specific literary, historical, and cultural contexts. We will do so by applying theories of language to studying various texts. At the center of our conversations throughout the course is how choices about language in literature bear on literary, social, or cultural understandings. No background in linguistics is required. This course is required for the Master of Arts in English.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21157
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St Paul: John Roach Center 301
This course will focus on producing St. Thomas’s new graduate-run magazine, Shadow Falls Review. Students will gain experience in the software, organizing, editorial work, budgeting, printing, and marketing considerations that go into publishing. The course will also include discussions of the wider publishing industry and its issues. The aim of the course is to equip students with knowledge and experience that would be valuable in pursuing a publishing career.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21158
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St Paul: John Roach Center 227
In this course we’ll read contemporary speculative fiction, learn about special issues in the craft of speculative writing, explore markets and submission practices, and—of course!—write: fantasy, science fiction, and/or other fiction with speculative elements. Approximately half of our reading and discussion will focus on short speculative fiction, and half will focus on novellas and novels; for your final project, you can write short fiction or part of a novel/novella.
3 Credits
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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21159
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St Paul: John Roach Center 301
Requirements Met:
Identity & Power
DuBois and Morrison: Race, Memory, and Nation. This graduate seminar explores the intellectual and artistic dialogue between W.E.B. DuBois and Toni Morrison, examining how their works interrogate race, history, and identity in both national and global contexts. Through close readings of Du Bois’s sociological and literary texts, such as The Souls of Black Folk (1903,) Dusk of Dawn (1920), and Dark Princess (1928), alongside Morrison’s novels and essays, including Song of Solomon (1977) Beloved (1987), Paradise (1997), and Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), the course investigates shared themes such as double consciousness, historical memory, and the construction of Black subjectivity. Students will consider how Morrison extends, revises, and reimagines DuBois’s thought, and how both authors contribute to a radical tradition of Black critique and cultural production. We will also read the works of scholars such as Hazel Carby, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Saidiya Hartman, among others. This course satisfies the Identity & Power requirement. Prerequisite: GENG 513 or permission of the instructor.
3 Credits