Department of English
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.
ENG 461-01 Writing Poems/Reading Culture: Beyond the Workshop Dr. Reginald Flood
ENG 461-02 Adaptation and Ideology Dr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino
ENG 461-03 Monstrous Women Dr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461-01 Rhetorics of Conversion: Stories of BecomingDr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-02 Social and Political Issues in African LiteratureDr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-03 The Figure of the PirateDr. Benjamin Pauley
ENG 461-04 Becoming American: Literature of the ImmigrantsDr. Jian-Zhong Lin
ENG 461-01 The Harlem Renaissance Dr. Daniel Donaghy
ENG 461-02 The Rhetoric of the Hollywood Film Dr. Stephen Ferruci
ENG 461-01 Literature of the Wild West Dr. Meredith James
ENG 461-02 The Rhetoric of CrimeDr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-03 Crash Course in the NovelDr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-04 Medieval Queens and Nobel WomenDr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
ENG 461-01 Memoir: Exploring the Private/Public “I”Dr. Susan DeRosa
ENG 461-02 Conceptual Metaphor & LiteratureDr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-01 The Rhetoric of PlaceDr. Stephen Ferruci
ENG 461-02 Community Literacy StudiesDr. Lauren Rosenberg
ENG 461-03 Shakespeare in Print & Film Dr. Meg Lota Brown
ENG 461-01 The Culture of WarDr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-02 The Comic TraditionDr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-01 Social and Political Issues in African LiteratureDr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-03 The African American Sonnet: Reading and Writing Metrical VerseDr. Reginal Flood
ENG 461-05 Monstrous WomenDr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461-01 Literature and Culture of Vietnam WarDr. Daniel Donaghy
ENG 461-02 Adaptation and IdeologyDr. Lisa Rowe Fraustino
ENG 461-03 Social and Political Issues in African LiteratureDr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-04 Medieval Heretics & OutlawsDr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
ENG 461-05 The Figure of the PirateDr. Benjamin Pauley
ENG 461-06 The Sociolinguistics of Dialect in LiteratureDr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-07 Secular ScripturesDr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-01 Rhetoric and Popular FictionsDr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-02 Crash Course in the NovelDr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-02 Studies in Dramatic ComedyDr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-03 Secular Scriptures: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary FictionDr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-04 The Culture of WarDr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-01 Gender and Literary Representation in the Great WarDr. Marcia McGowan
ENG 461-02 Walt WhitmanDr. Jian-Zhong Lin