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Senior Seminars
Each semester, the Department of English at Eastern Connecticut State University offers at least two different senior seminars.
Each seminar continues into the following semester for a total of six credit hours.
Prerequisites for Eng 461: English 203 with a grade of C or above; senior status
Prerequisites for Eng 462: English 461 with a grade of C or above
We leave a few previous seminar descriptions here so that you may see the variety of possible seminar topics.
Senior Seminars
ENG 461-01 Rhetorics of Conversion: Stories of Becoming
Dr. Barbara Liu

 

ENG 461-02 Social and Political Issues in African Literature
Dr. Raouf Mama
 
ENG 461-03 The Figure of the Pirate
Dr. Benjamin Pauley
 
ENG 461-01 Literature of the Wild West
Dr. Meredith James

ENG 461-01 Memoir: Exploring the Private/Public “I”

Dr. Susan DeRosa

ENG 461-02 The Rhetoric of Crime
Dr. Rita Malenczyk

ENG 461-02 Conceptual Metaphor & Literature

Dr. Elena Tapia

ENG 461-03 Crash Course in the Novel
Dr. Christopher Torockio
 
ENG 461-04 Medieval Queens and Nobel Women
Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
 
ENG 461-01 The Rhetoric of Place
Dr. Stephen Ferruci
ENG 461-01 The Culture of War
Dr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-02 Community Literacy Studies
Dr. Lauren Rosenberg
ENG 461-02 The Comic Tradition
Dr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-03 Shakespeare in Print & Film
Dr. Meg Lota Brown
ENG 461-01 Social and Political Issues in African Literature
Dr. Raouf Mama

ENG 461-01 Literature and Culture of Vietnam War

Dr. Daniel Donaghy

ENG 461-03 The African American Sonnet: Reading and Writing Metrical Verse
Dr. Reginal Flood
ENG 461-02 Adaptation and Ideology
Dr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino
ENG 461-05 Monstrous Women
Dr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461-03 Social and Political Issues in African Literature
Dr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-01 Rhetoric and Popular Fictions
Dr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-04 Medieval Heretics & Outlaws
Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
ENG 461-02 Crash Course in the Novel
Dr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-05 The Figure of the Pirate
Dr. Benjamin Pauley
ENG 461-06 The Sociolinguistics of Dialect in Literature
Dr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-07 Secular Scriptures
Dr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-01 The Rhetoric of Place
Dr. Stephen Ferruci
ENG 461-01 Gender and Literary Representation in the Great War
Dr. Marcia McGowan
ENG 461-02 Studies in Dramatic Comedy Dr. Miriam Chirico ENG 461-02 Walt Whitman
Dr. Jian-Zhong Lin
ENG 461-03 Secular Scriptures: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Fiction
Dr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-04 The Culture of War
Dr. Kenneth McNeil
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