3220 Department of English

23rd Floor, 25 Park Place Building
404-413-5800
english.gsu.edu

Audrey Goodman, Chair
Elizabeth Sanders Lopez, Associate Chair
Mark Noble, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Josh Russell, Director of Creative Writing

The Department of English aligns the study of language and literature with the craft of writing, developing skills considered integral to education in the humanities and prized by professional organizations around the world.  Although the department concentrates on texts written in English by authors from Great Britain, Ireland, and North America, we also examine translations of texts from other languages as well as literatures in English from other cultural perspectives. Students may also encounter practices that are not, strictly speaking, “writing” at all, such as oral compositions, hypertexts, podcasts, and folk art.

In the first year, all students in the university take courses in the fundamentals of college-level writing and in the reasoned analysis of texts. Other English courses that form part of the core curriculum provide students with opportunities to study topics in world literature or surveys of British, American, and World literature.

Programs

• English, B.A.

• B.A./M.A. in English

• English Minor

Courses

• ENGL 0999 - Support for English Composition
• ENGL 1101 - English Composition I
• ENGL 1102 - English Composition II
• ENGL 1103 - Advanced English Composition
• ENGL 2105 - Workplace-Based Research and Writing
• ENGL 2110 - World Literature
• ENGL 2120 - British Literature
• ENGL 2130 - American Literature
• ENGL 2140 - Africana Literature in the Americas
• ENGL 2160 - Studies in Popular Culture
• ENGL 2600 - Creative Writing
• ENGL 3040 - Introduction to Literary Studies
• ENGL 3050 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
• ENGL 3080 - Persuasion: History, Theory, Practice
• ENGL 3090 - Exposition: History, Theory, Practice
• ENGL 3100 - Composition Studies: History, Theory, Practice
• ENGL 3105 - Practical Grammar
• ENGL 3110 - Technical Writing
• ENGL 3115 - Multimodal Composition
• ENGL 3120 - Digital Writing and Publishing
• ENGL 3125 - Digital Media Studies
• ENGL 3130 - Business Writing
• ENGL 3135 - Visual Rhetoric
• ENGL 3140 - Editing for Publication
• ENGL 3150A - Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry
• ENGL 3150B - Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction
• ENGL 3150C - Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry & Fiction
• ENGL 3160 - Narrative Techniques
• ENGL 3170 - Poetic Techniques
• ENGL 3180A - Contemporary Poetry
• ENGL 3180B - Contemporary Fiction Craft
• ENGL 3190A - Introduction to Narrative Podcasting
• ENGL 3190B - Advanced Narrative Podcasting
• ENGL 3195 - Teaching in English Studies
• ENGL 3205 - Topics in Creative Writing
• ENGL 3210 - Advanced Grammar
• ENGL 3220 - History of the English Language
• ENGL 3225 - The History and Future of the Book
• ENGL 3230 - History of Literary and Cultural Theory
• ENGL 3250 - Topics in Contemporary Theory
• ENGL 3255 - Introduction to Digital Humanities
• ENGL 3256 - Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities: Electronic Literature and Interactive Fiction
• ENGL 3260 - Theories of Popular Culture
• ENGL 3266 - British-American Culture Seminar II
• ENGL 3275 - Literature and Culture of the American South
• ENGL 3280 - English Drama before 1800
• ENGL 3290 - English Fiction before 1800
• ENGL 3300 - Medieval English Literature
• ENGL 3310 - Old English
• ENGL 3350 - Literature and War
• ENGL 3400 - Courtiers, Clergy, and Poets
• ENGL 3410 - Seduction, Revolution, and the Rise of Science
• ENGL 3420 - Mythology
• ENGL 3500 - Restoration and Earlier Eighteenth-Century English Literature
• ENGL 3510 - Later Eighteenth-Century English Literature
• ENGL 3520 - Life Writing
• ENGL 3550 - Early Indigenous Literatures
• ENGL 3600 - Early Romanticism
• ENGL 3605 - Late Romanticism
• ENGL 3610 - Love and Death in Victorian Poetry
• ENGL 3620 - Victorian Novels
• ENGL 3630 - Haunted Texts
• ENGL 3690 - Honors Readings
• ENGL 3695 - LGBTQ Literature
• ENGL 3700 - Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3710 - Late Twentieth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 3720 - Twentieth-Century English Poetry
• ENGL 3800 - Early American Literature
• ENGL 3810 - American Romantics
• ENGL 3820 - Realism and Naturalism
• ENGL 3830 - American Modernisms
• ENGL 3840 - Postmodern American Literature
• ENGL 3850 - American Poetry
• ENGL 3860 - American Drama
• ENGL 3865 - The Short Story
• ENGL 3870 - American Fiction
• ENGL 3875 - Science Fiction
• ENGL 3880 - American Non-fiction Prose
• ENGL 3885 - Contemporary Literature
• ENGL 3895 - Comics and the Graphic Novel
• ENGL 3900 - Irish Literature
• ENGL 3905 - Jewish Literature
• ENGL 3910 - The Tradition of Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature
• ENGL 3915 - Literature of the Early South
• ENGL 3920 - Southern Literature
• ENGL 3930 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 3940 - Postcolonial Literature
• ENGL 3945 - Literature and Global Conflict
• ENGL 3950 - African-American Literature
• ENGL 3960 - African-American Literature by Women
• ENGL 3965 - African Literature
• ENGL 3970 - Caribbean Literature
• ENGL 3975 - Later Indigenous Literatures
• ENGL 3980 - Women’s Literature before 1800
• ENGL 3990 - Women’s Literature after 1800
• ENGL 3995 - Feminist Literary Criticism
• ENGL 4010 - Topics in African American Culture
• ENGL 4020 - Advanced Study in Indigenous Literature
• ENGL 4030 - Literature and the City
• ENGL 4040 - Religion and Literature
• ENGL 4050 - Transnational Literature