ENGL 234 - Literature by Women

Credit(s): 3
3 hours lecture, 3 hours contact
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 or ENGL 191 / HONR 191.
This course explores works by women writers across genres, periods, and cultural contexts, with a focus on considering how gender, power, and identity shape literary production and the questions such works raise. Students will define, redefine, deconstruct, and reconstruct critical terms throughout the term. Through study of literature that may include fiction, poetry, and other genres, students will engage with feminist and intersectional theoretical frameworks to deepen their analysis of authorship, identity, and social change. We will consider as well how studying literature by women, and enacting critical inquiry into such literature, illuminates aspects of society, culture, and identity that affect and matter to people of all genders.