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Each fall semester, the Department of English offers at least two different capstone seminars, and each spring at least one seminar is offered.
Each seminar continues into the following semester for a total of six credit hours.
Prerequisites for ENG 461:
21 Credits of ENG classes beyond 100/100P with a grade of C or higher, including ENG 202; two of ENG 203, 204, 205; and two 300-level ENG classes.
Prerequisites for ENG 462: ENG 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 The Craft of the Novel
Dr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-02 Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature
Dr. Meredith Clerment-Ferrand
ENG 461-01 Disability Demands Stories: Extraordinary Bodies in Literature
Dr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461 Contemporary British Postcolonial Literature
Dr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-01 Social Justice Literature
Dr. Daniel Donaghy
ENG 461-02 Cognition and Reading Fiction
Dr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-01 Monstrous Women
Dr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461-02 Playwriting and Social Justice
Dr. Reginald Flood
ENG 461-01 Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature
Dr. Meredith Clermont-Ferrand
Spring 2021 Abstracts
ENG 461-02 Imagining Monsters
Dr. Benjamin Pauley
Spring 2021 Abstracts
ENG 461-01 The Works & Films of Studio Ghibli
Dr. Jordan Youngblood
ENG 461-02 Civil Rights Rhetoric
Dr. Christine Garcia
ENG 461-03 Rhetorics and Narratives of Crime
Dr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-01 The Craft of the Novel
Dr. Christopher Torockio
ENG 461-01 Studies in Comedy
Dr. Miriam Chirico
ENG 461-02 Literature of the Wild West
Dr. Meredith James
ENG 461-01 Love and Sex in the Victorian Age
Dr. Kenneth McNeil
ENG 461-01 A Conversation with Poetry
Dr. Daniel Donoghy
ENG 461-02 "Memoir: Exploring the Private/Public 'I"
Dr. Susan DeRosa
ENG 461-02 Rhetorics of Crime
Dr. Rita Malenczyk
ENG 461-02 Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Fictions
Dr. Barbara Liu
ENG 461-03 Writing Poems/Reading Culture: Beyond the Workshop
Dr. Reginald Flood
ENG 461-02 Liberation Literature
Dr. Maureen McDonnell
ENG 461-01 Social and Political Issues in African Literature
Dr. Raouf Mama
ENG 461-02 Transhuman Literature and Media
Dr. Jordan Youngblood
ENG 461-03 Conceptual Metaphor in Literature
Dr. Elena Tapia
ENG 461-01 Fictions of Reform
Dr. Allison Speicher
ENG 461-02 Imagining Monsters
Dr. Benjamin Pauley