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Green, Jeremy F

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  • Jeremy Green's research focuses on modern and contemporary literature and its cultural and material contexts. Current work concerns the contemporary fiction and the politics of neoliberalism, and also, in a second project, British poetry, modernist and postmodernist, and the labor of the senses.

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  • Modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, American literature, British literature, poetry and poetics

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  • ENGL 2058 - Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literature
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2021
    This course explores how literature, art, and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries responded to the social, political, and economic upheavals that have occurred since 1900. Students will read a selection of modern and contemporary writers from Anglo-American and/or global traditions to help us understand our present moment and to see what made us who we are.
  • ENGL 2102 - Literary Analysis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
    Students will build skills in careful, detailed reading and critical writing. Focusing on poetry, prose, and plays, the course cultivates an understanding of literary forms and genres and introduces techniques and vocabulary essential for the study of literature.
  • ENGL 2112 - Introduction to Literary Theory
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021
    This course introduces students to a wide range of critical theories essential to the study of literature. Critical theories have broad applications because they provide ways to interpret all cultural products, including visual arts, music, and writing. We will investigate some of the major movements relevant to literary studies, which may include, for example, cultural studies, structuralism, feminisms, ecocriticism, critical race theories, postmodern theory, media theories, etc.
  • ENGL 3060 - Modern and Contemporary Literature for Nonmajors
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2020
    Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present.
  • ENGL 3078 - Contemporary Literature: 1945 to the Present
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
    This course explores contemporary literature written in English from 1945 to the twenty-first century. Students may read authors writing in British, American, or global Anglophone traditions, and will learn about the different historical trends that shaped experiments in literary and cultural production. We will consider how these texts engage with a range of issues contemporary to us, for instance, politics, racial and sexual identities, economics and globalization, families and intimacies.
  • ENGL 3088 - Major Authors After 1900
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022
    This course focuses on a single author writing in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. We will study literary and historical influences and other contemporaneous writers as necessary for gaining a full understanding of an author�s body of work. The author studied will vary each semester. Check department description for details.
  • ENGL 3675 - Majors Authors in American Literature
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024
    This course focuses on a single author in American Literature. We will study literary and historical influences and other contemporaneous writers as necessary for gaining a full understanding of an author�s body of work. The author studied will vary each semester. Check department description for details.
  • ENGL 4039 - Capstone in Literary Studies
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2022 / Fall 2022
    Topic varies by section, but all sections include small seminar discussions and focus on an individualized research project related to the topic. This course will draw on skills from previous courses in critical reading, thinking, and writing and will culminate in high-level discussions and in the final project. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
  • ENGL 4098 - Special Topics in the Novel After 1900
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
    This is a special topics class where students will study particular historical trends, styles, or themes that shape the 20th- and/or the 21st-century novel. Topics will vary each semester. Check department description for details.
  • ENGL 4468 - Modern Poetry
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2024
    This course studies the diverse themes and forms of poetry written across the 20th and 21st centuries. From structured forms to free verse, from songs to sonnets, from private lyrics to public commemorations, from the intimacy of feelings to political anthems, from grief to joy, modern poetry bears witness to how we felt and how the world transformed across the turmoil and turbulence of these centuries we call modern.
  • ENGL 4830 - Honors Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2023
    Students accepted to English Departmental Honors are enrolled in this course.
  • ENGL 5109 - Literature and Culture of the United States
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021
    Introduces graduate level study of writing of the United States from its inception to the present. Emphasizes a wide range of genres, forms, historical background, and secondary criticism. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • ENGL 5529 - Studies in Special Topics 1
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
    Studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.

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