GRADUATE PROGRAM
Graduate students interested in the pursuit of psychoanalytic, philosophical, neurodiverse, and neuroscientific approaches to literary study may take the First Qualifying Exam in “Literature and Mind” in addition to courses on related topics. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to reach out to faculty and graduate students who share their research interests.
SELECTED GRADUATE COURSES
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WEBSITE
ENGL 231 (Shakespeare’s Feelings) - Jim Kearney
ENGL 231 (Affective and Embodied Experience on the Early Modern Stage) - Jim Kearney
ENGL 233 (Romantic Minds: Imaginative Rethinking) - Julie Carlson
ENGL 233 (The 19th Century English Novel: Forms and Feeling) - Kay Young
ENGL 236 (Cognitive Approaches to World Literature) - Sowon Park
ENGL 236 (Virginia Woolf) - Sowon Park
ENGL 236 (Literature and Attachment Theory) - Kay Young
ENGL 238 (Critical Engagement with AI/Machine Learning) - Rita Raley
QUALIFYING EXAM READING LIST
Starting with William James, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, our qualifying exam reading list considers the history of psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. We incorporate major readings in affect theory, behavioral neurology, memory, new directions in mental health, phenomenology, the medical humanities, and neurodiversity.