Misssissippi State University Department of English

Upper & Graduate Level Course Descriptions - Spring 2009

Graduate Program Undergraduate Program      
These course descriptions are provided by the professors offering the classes. Descriptions will be posted as they are received from the various professors. For additional information, consult your advisor or the professor offering the class. Descriptions are also posted on the department bulletin board in Lee Hall. Lee Hall Bulletin Board

Spring 2009

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Advanced Undergraduate    
EN 2434 Literature and Film: Word, Image, and Ethical Judgment Kelly Marsh kmarsh@english.msstate.edu
EN 3303 Creative Writing Richard Lyons
Catherine Pierce
Michael Kardos
 rjl@ra.msstate.edu
cp341@msstate.edu
mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 3313-01 Writing for the Workplace Kristen Dechert kmc261@msstate.edu
EN 3313-02 Writing for the Workplace Peter Olson pbo12@msstate.edu
EN 3414 Advanced Composition Michael Kardos mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 3513 Women in Literature Catherine Pierce cp341@msstate.edu
EN 3533 Jane Austen Shalyn Claggett src173@msstate.edu
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6223/4223 Principles of Legal Writing Matthew Little littmatt@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6233/4233 Composition Pedagogy Tennyson O'Donnell todonnell@english.msstate.edu
EN 6313/4313 Craft of Fiction Becky Hagenston bh133@ra.msstate.edu
EN6333/4333 Literature of the South Donald Shaffer ds649@msstate.edu
EN 6403/4403 Introduction to Linguistics Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6413/4413 History of the English Language Ginger Pizer gbp31@msstate.edu
EN 6433/4433 Approaches to TESOL Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6443/4442 Syntax Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6513/4513 Shakespeare (later half of career) Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 6523/4523 Chaucer Holly Johnson hj71@msstate.edu
EN 6633/4633 Sociolinguistics Ginger Pizer gbp31@msstate.edu
EN 6703/4703 Sixteenth Century British Literature Thomas Anderson tpa14@msstate.edu
EN 6723/4723 Restoration and Swift Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6803/4803 Types of 20th. Century Drama Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 6913/4913 Mark Twain and Henry James Matthew Little littmatt@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6953/4953 Form and Theory of Poetry Robert West westrm@gmail.com
Graduate Seminars    
EN 8533 Dr. Johnson: the Poetry, the Tales, the Letters, and the Man Rich Raymond rraymond@english.msstate.edu
EN 8583 Satire Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu

EN 8593 Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures: Irish Literature

Kelly Marsh kmarsh@english.msstate.edu

Fall 2008

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Advanced Undergraduate    
EN 3303 Creative Writing Richard Lyons
Catherine Pierce
Michael Kardos
 rjl@ra.msstate.edu
cp341@msstate.edu
mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 3313 Writing for the Workplace Rich Raymond rraymond@english.msstate.edu
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6303/4303 Craft of Poetry Catherine Pierce cp341@msstate.edu

EN 6323/4323 History of Literary Criticism From Plato to the Present

Shalyn Claggett src173@msstate.edu

EN 6883/4883Victorian Prose and Poetry

Shalyn Claggett src173@msstate.edu
EN 6403/4403 Intro to Linguistics Staff  
EN 6453/4453 Methods in TESOL Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6463/4463 Second Language Acquisition Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6503/4503 Shakespeare to 1599 Thomas Anderson tpa14@msstate.edu
EN 6663/4663 The Twentieth-Century British and Irish Novel Kelly Marsh kmarsh@english.msstate.edu
EN 6863/4863 Romantic Poets and Prose Patrick Creevy patrick@english.msstate.edu
EN 6903/4903 American Literature 1800-1860 Staff  

EN 6933/4933 Survey of Contemporary Literature

Kelly Marsh kmarsh@english.msstate.edu
EN 6943/4943 Form and Theory of Fiction Richard Patteson rfp1@ra.msstate.edu
Graduate Seminars    
EN 8103 Seminar in Graduate Research Methods Lara Dodds ld214@msstate.edu
EN 8333 Studies in Southern Literature Robert West westrm@gmail.com
EN 8523 Literary Relationships in Early Modern England Lara Dodds ld214@msstate.edu
EN 8563 Literature Civil War to 1914: Extremes of Realism Matthew Little littmatt@ra.msstate.edu

Summer 2008

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Advanced Undergraduate    
EN 3303 Creative Writing (June term) Catherine Pierce cp341@msstate.edu
EN 3303 Creative Writing (July term) Becky Hagenston bh133@ra.msstate.edu
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6403/4403 Intro to Linguistics Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6513/4513 Shakespeare Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 6933/4933 Survey of Contemporary Lit Richard Patteson rfp1@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6990/4990 The American Short Story Michael Kardos mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 6990/4990: Mexico Exploration Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
Graduate Seminars    
EN 8523 Shakespeare's Romances Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 8583 Types of Comedy Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu

Maymester 2008

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact

EN 6883/4883: The Pre-Raphaelites

Shalyn Claggett src173@msstate.edu
EN 8523 Studies in English Literature 1485-1660: The Countess of Penbroke's Arcadia Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu

 

Spring Term 2008

    
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Advanced Undergraduate    
EN 3303 Creative Writing Richard Lyons
Catherine Pierce
Michael Kardos
 rjl@ra.msstate.edu
cp341@msstate.edu
mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 3414 Advanced Composition Tennyson O'Donnell todonnell@english.msstate.edu
EN 3513 Women in Literature Catherine Pierce cp341@msstate.edu
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6223/4223 Legal Writing Matthew Little littmatt@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6233/4233 Composition Pedogogy Tennyson O'Donnell todonnell@english.msstate.edu
EN 6313/4313 Craft of Fiction Michael Kardos mpk36@msstate.edu
EN 6343/4343 African American Literature Shirley Hanshaw shirl_ayanna@hotmail.com
EN 6403/4403 Introduction to Linguistics Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6413/4413 History of the English Language Dan Siddiqi das275@msstate.edu
EN 6433/4433 Approaches to TESOL Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6443/4443 English Syntax Dan Siddiqi das275@msstate.edu
EN 6513/4513. Shakespeare Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 6623/4623 Linguistics in Literature Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6653/4653 19th. Century British Novel Shalyn Claggett src173@msstate.edu
EN 6713/4713 17th. Century British Literature Lara Dodds ld214@msstate.edu
EN 6733/4733 18th. Century British Literature Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6923/4923 Studies in William Faulkner Noel Polk nep27@msstate.edu
EN6953/4953 North and South: Form and Theory of Poetry:
Three Meditative Poets
 Richard Lyons rjl@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6990/4990 Special Topics: Crime Fiction Becky Hagenston bh133@ra.msstate.edu
Graduate Seminars    

EN 8513 Chaucer and the Language of Love

Holly Johnson hj71@msstate.edu
EN 8553 American Literature to the Civil War Matthew Little littmatt@ra.msstate.edu
EN 8593 Studies in Postcolonial Literature [The Caribbean] Richard Patteson rfp1@ra.msstate.edu

Fall Term 2007

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Advanced Undergraduate    
EN 3303 Creative Writing Becky Hagenston
Richard Lyons

bh133@ra.msstate.edu

rjl@ra.msstate.edu
EN 3414 Advanced Composition Shalyn Claggett
 src173@msstate.edu
EN 3423 Descriptive English Grammar Dan Siddiqi  
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6303/4303 Craft of Poetry Richard Lyons rjl@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6353/4353: Contemporary Literary Theory Tommy Anderson tpa14@msstate.edu
EN 6403/4403 Introduction to Linguistics Dan Siddiqi  
EN 6453/4453 Methods in TESOL Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6463/4463 Studies in Second Language Acquisition Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6503/4503: Shakespeare to 1600 Tommy Anderson tpa14@msstate.edu
EN 6533/4533 Milton Lara Dodds ld214@msstate.edu
EN 6643/4643: The Eighteenth-Century British Novel Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu

EN6813/4813: Twentieth Century World Novel

 Richard Patteson rfp1@ra.msstate.edu
EN 6823/4823: Twentieth Century Poetry Robert West westrm@gmail.com
EN 6933/4933: Survey of Contemporary Literature Kelly Marsh kmarsh@english.msstate.edu
Graduate Seminars    
EN 8103 Graduate Research in English Lara Dodds ld214@msstate.edu
EN 8543 Studies in English Literature 1832-1900 Shalyn Claggett
 src173@msstate.edu
EN 8573 Twentieth Century Literature: T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath Nancy Hargrove ndh1@ra.msstate.edu

Summer Term 2007

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Split level (graduate or undergraduate credit)    
EN 6403/4403 Introduction to Linguistics (Summer I) Scott Crossley sc544@msstate.edu
EN 6503/4503: Shakespeare to 1600 (Summer II) Tommy Anderson tpa14@msstate.edu
EN 6413/4413 History of English Language (Summer I) Benjamin Torbert bct57@msstate.edu
EN6933/4933: Contemporary Literature (Summer II) Richard Patteson rfp1@ra.msstate.edu
Graduate Seminars    
EN 8523: English Mythological Erotica (Summer II) Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu
EN 8533: Seminar in English Literature: Dr. Johnson: the Poetry, the Tales, the Letters, and the Man (Summer I) Rich Raymond rraymond@english.msstate.edu
EN 8583: Types of Comedy (Summer I) Richard Wolf rbw2@ra.msstate.edu

Maymester 2007

   
Course Number (click for description) Professor contact
Graduate Seminar    
EN8523 Seminar on John Webster Greg Bentley greg@english.msstate.edu

 

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