One way to introduce this course, which is a new course being taught for the first time this semester, is to critique its name: LGBTQ+ Theories and Literatures. What does that even mean? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (and more) theories and literatures — frankly, that seems an overwhelming bit Read more…
The idea that students learn best when they write in all of their courses is probably not an idea that is hard to see to you if you’re a typically English Studies graduate student. In fact, by the time you reach graduate school, you have most likely found that you Read more…
Welcome to the website for English 7665: Ethos & Critical Agency. As a “Special Topics Seminar” in the graduate curriculum of the English department at East Carolina University, this course functions to augment core work in Rhetoric and Composition. Students should expect an advanced course, one which moves quickly beyond Read more…
English 7666 (Teaching English in the Two-Year College) provides graduate students in English studies a critical, theoretical, and practical space for thinking through the complex work of teaching English in a “community college” or similar setting. The two-year college (or “community” college) in the United States has an interesting history, Read more…
English 7601 (Research Design in Rhetoric and Composition) and 8601 (Advanced Research Design) combine master’s and doctoral level students in order to facilitate a richer, more engaged discussion of best practices in methods and methodologies for the researcher in Composition and Rhetoric. Scholars in Rhet-Comp continually point to the multi-disciplinarity/transdisciplinarity Read more…
English 7975 (Developmental English in the Two-Year College) provides graduate students in English studies a critical, theoretical, and practical space for examining the concepts that surround “developmental” courses in English. The two-year college (or “community” college) in the United States has an interesting history, growing out of early 20th century Read more…
If any discourse has dominated public consciousness in the last thirty years, it would have to be discourse(s) of multiculturalism. Elementary schools moved from metaphors of the “melting pot” to metaphors of the “salad bar”; our cultural backgrounds stopped disappearing in some cultural stew and began to be individually valued Read more…