ENGL9918 · English

PhD Seminar: Issues and Methods in English Studies

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

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This course offers an introduction to doctoral research in the field of English studies, with focus on problems of method revolving around the fields burning question, What is literature? We read a range of recent scholarship, exploring approaches, methods, and issues of interest, including formalism vs. historicism, periodization, digital humanities, literary and cultural theory, and poetics. Primary works assigned are drawn from different centuries and all major genres, mainly from Britain. Students write either a research paper on a primary text or a position paper on an issue or a method. As the PhD seminar, this course also functions as a workshop in genres of scholarly writing, such as book reviews, conference abstracts, and articles.

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