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N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
British Lit & Culture: Hardy & Forster, Victorian to Modern
M. GouldENL 4931-001 | CRN 19832Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
Writing on either side of the centurial divide, Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster grappled with the problems of the modern age. Their fiction represents a transitional period in British culture, as “traditional” modes of life and literary forms surrendered to modernity. Their works are peopled by individuals lost in worlds they do not understand, buffeted by forces beyond their control. Their novels echo with anxieties, resound with uncertainties, and ring with the clash of cultures and social classes.
In this course, we will read significant portions of the work of Hardy and Forster, as we consider how these two turn-of-the-century authors represented the cultural upheavals that accompanied the shift from the Victorian Period to the Modern Age. We will also consider some of the later film adaptations of these novels, as we explore the lasting cultural legacy of Hardy and Forster.
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
F. Sajjad CRW 2100-005 | CRN 19981Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 248
Intro to Creative Writing
Film & Culture: Viruses: Real & Imagined
J. LennonFIL 2000-001 | CRN 20469Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 256
This course introduces film as an art form and a social/cultural artifact by providing students with an understanding of the technical, theoretical, and ascetic aspects of film production and analysis. This course affords students the ability to think critically and includes selections from the western canon.
V. Lipscomb AML 4933-521 | CRN 19830Tuesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A217
Studies in American Literature & Culture
This course examines a particular topic or theme, varying with individual selection, in the American literary tradition.
Shakespeare: Love & Revenge
L. Starks ENL 3333-691 | CRN 20387Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
In Shakespeare: Love & Revenge, we’ll explore specific, representative early plays that involve the themes of love & revenge in-depth while learning about Shakespeare’s art in general (his transformation of source material, development of genre, and treatment of dramatic conventions), including the material conditions, conventions, and modes of representation of the early modern stage. We’ll analyze the plays in these contexts while experiencing the multiplicity of interpretation by learning through engaging with the text through various activities. Through these activities, we’ll engage in “performative learning” to experience the plays from the “inside and outside,” exploring both the creation and reception of them. (Not to worry if you’re shy or introverted; there are non-acting roles to play in our performance exercises!) We’ll learn through readings, in-class collaborative activities, online discussion board assignments, quizzes, essay tests, and an Adaptation Project.
J. Armstrong AML 4265- 691 | CRN 20384Cross Listed with LIT 6934 Thursdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
Florida Writers
This course will examine writers who have lived in and written about Florida, such as Hemingway, Rawlings, Hurston, and Stevens.
Q. LeENG 4936-001 | CRN 14109Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 350
Honors Seminar II
Variable topics. Students will be expected to participate in class discussion, make formal presentations, and complete a major research project.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
P. Sipiora ENG 3674-701 | CRN 19836Distance Learning
Film & Culture
This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of the ways they reflect popular culture. Careful reading of the textbook is essential to success in the course. Objectives of the course include: (1) a better understanding of popular culture through the art of film, (2) an improved ability to think and write analytically and evaluatively, and (3) an acquired knowledge of film history and cinematic techniques. At the conclusion of the course, outcomes and goals include the ability to write articulately and persuasively about your understanding of film as an important popular art, especially as film relates to the representation of diverse cultural practices and experiences.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Mooney ENG 4934-001 | CRN 15618 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 345
Senior Literature Seminar: Irish Drama
From the small, downtrodden island of Ireland, a richly multifaceted and resourceful tradition of theater developed that in turn has inspired and captivated communities worldwide. In this Senior Literature Seminar, we’ll read modern and contemporary Irish plays written and performed between 1900 and the 2010s. We’ll discuss how the Irish have been inventing and reinventing themselves over the decades, and how their experiences, as dramatically explored, are curiously both particular to Ireland and relatable to other communities of the world. We’ll encounter a metamorphosed Irish goddess, an imploding working-class Irish family in the 1920s tenements of Dublin, ghosts and ghost stories, Irish Travellers beyond the stereotypical “tinkers,” and the Irish living in the post-Celtic Tiger era.
J. Armstrong AML 4265- 691 | CRN 20384Cross Listed with LIT 6934 Thursdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
Florida Writers
This course will examine writers who have lived in and written about Florida, such as Hemingway, Rawlings, Hurston, and Stevens.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become?
This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
American Literature & its Adaptations: Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey
M. Taylor LIT 2000-701, 702 | CRN 13972, 17994 Distance Learning
In this section of Introduction to Literature, we will place the music of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey in the context of the American literature that has inspired their art. In addition to this broader goal, we will consider select songs and albums as adaptations of major literary works—namely, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William’s A Streetcar Named Desire—and compare them to adaptations in other forms, especially film.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
J. Armstrong AML 3604-791 | CRN 20383 Distance Learning
Technical Comm for Majors
A study of black American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including the works of such writers as W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, and Nikki Giovanni.
British Lit & Culture: Hardy & Forster, Victorian to Modern
M. GouldENL 4931-001 | CRN 19832Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
Writing on either side of the centurial divide, Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster grappled with the problems of the modern age. Their fiction represents a transitional period in British culture, as “traditional” modes of life and literary forms surrendered to modernity. Their works are peopled by individuals lost in worlds they do not understand, buffeted by forces beyond their control. Their novels echo with anxieties, resound with uncertainties, and ring with the clash of cultures and social classes.
In this course, we will read significant portions of the work of Hardy and Forster, as we consider how these two turn-of-the-century authors represented the cultural upheavals that accompanied the shift from the Victorian Period to the Modern Age. We will also consider some of the later film adaptations of these novels, as we explore the lasting cultural legacy of Hardy and Forster.
Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 252 Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 463 Tuesdays & Thursdays2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, EDU 254
M. Leib CRW 2100-003, 004, 006CRNs 19979, 19980, 19982
Intro to Creative Writing
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body?
To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Milner CRW 2100-002 | CRN 19978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 160
Intro to Creative Writing
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body?
To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become?
This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
American Literature & its Adaptations: Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey
M. Taylor LIT 2000-701, 702 | CRN 13972, 17994 Distance Learning
In this section of Introduction to Literature, we will place the music of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey in the context of the American literature that has inspired their art. In addition to this broader goal, we will consider select songs and albums as adaptations of major literary works—namely, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William’s A Streetcar Named Desire—and compare them to adaptations in other forms, especially film.
T. Hallock AML 4111-601 | CRN 20382Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, LPH 127
19th-Century American Novel
Arrrrgggghhh! For this semester of Nineteenth-Century American Novel, we are going out to sea. Yes, we're going after the White Whale (Herman Melville, Moby Dick). We'll read about cross-dressing sailors (The Female Marine), onboard rebellion (Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave), queer swamps (Sarah Orne Jewett, A Marsh Island), and what not to do when caught in a riptide (Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"). The course will involve experiential learning and loopy assignments. Pirate costumes optional.
Intro to Literary Methodology: Marvelous Monsters
E. Ricketts-Jones ENG 3014-700 | CRN 17988Distance Learning
This course prepares English majors and minors with the basic critical and technical skills and understanding for subsequent literary study in 3000- and 4000-level courses towards the major. Substantial writing. Recommended during first 2 semesters of LIT major. Our course texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so we'll have a monster of a time!
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
P. Sipiora ENG 3674-701 | CRN 19836Distance Learning
Film & Culture
This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of the ways they reflect popular culture. Careful reading of the textbook is essential to success in the course. Objectives of the course include: (1) a better understanding of popular culture through the art of film, (2) an improved ability to think and write analytically and evaluatively, and (3) an acquired knowledge of film history and cinematic techniques. At the conclusion of the course, outcomes and goals include the ability to write articulately and persuasively about your understanding of film as an important popular art, especially as film relates to the representation of diverse cultural practices and experiences.
P. Sipiora AML 3243-001 | CRN 19833Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Amer Lit 1945-Present
This course trace some important critical developments in Contemporary American literature, investigating forms of experimentation in contemporary works and relating various thematic modes to aesthetics, literary genres, and important cultural events. We will examine significant literary works in poetry, drama, and short and long fiction.
P. Sipiora AML 3243-001 | CRN 19833Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Amer Lit 1945-Present
This course trace some important critical developments in Contemporary American literature, investigating forms of experimentation in contemporary works and relating various thematic modes to aesthetics, literary genres, and important cultural events. We will examine significant literary works in poetry, drama, and short and long fiction.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
L. Kurz AML 3032-001 | CRN 17985 Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Am Lit From 1860 to 1912
This course examines the grit and glamor of America’s Gilded Age, along with the transformative years surrounding it. From mansions and railroads to ambition and reinvention, the period of 1860 to 1912 was a time of great opportunity and complexity. We will read a variety of written genres to examine how literature captured a society shaped by rapid change, rising fortunes, and differing visions of success. As we read, we’ll consider how many of the questions raised during the original Gilded Age still resonate in what some now call a “Second Gilded Age.”
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become?
This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become?
This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Mooney ENG 4934-001 | CRN 15618 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 345
Senior Literature Seminar: Irish Drama
From the small, downtrodden island of Ireland, a richly multifaceted and resourceful tradition of theater developed that in turn has inspired and captivated communities worldwide. In this Senior Literature Seminar, we’ll read modern and contemporary Irish plays written and performed between 1900 and the 2010s. We’ll discuss how the Irish have been inventing and reinventing themselves over the decades, and how their experiences, as dramatically explored, are curiously both particular to Ireland and relatable to other communities of the world. We’ll encounter a metamorphosed Irish goddess, an imploding working-class Irish family in the 1920s tenements of Dublin, ghosts and ghost stories, Irish Travellers beyond the stereotypical “tinkers,” and the Irish living in the post-Celtic Tiger era.
V. Lipscomb AML 4933-521 | CRN 19830Tuesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A217
Studies in American Literature & Culture
This course examines a particular topic or theme, varying with individual selection, in the American literary tradition.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
Studies in 17th & 18th Centry Brit Lit: The Golden Age of Piracy
J. Cook ENL 3016-002 | CRN 15616Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
The “Golden Age of Piracy,” a period of time from roughly the 1650’s through 1730’s, has left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture: from the 17th and 18th centuries through today, pirates have been both romanticized and vilified in tales that alternately celebrate and condemn their sense of adventure, opportunism, and lawlessness. Piracy in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans increased at the same time as British and European colonial expansion in the Americas and Caribbean, connecting piracy with larger conversations around maritime exploration and imperial expansion in this era. In this course, we’ll examine cultural representations of this Golden Age of Piracy from their contemporary context in Charles Johnson’s highly influential A General History of the Pyrates (1724) alongside later works of historical fiction, including Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) and the HBO TV series Our Flag Means Death (2022-24), both set during the Golden Age. Along the way, we’ll meet iconic pirates like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Anne Bonny, and we’ll explore how pirates have become rich cultural figures for discussing historical representations of gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism.
Shakespeare: Love & Revenge
L. Starks ENL 3333-691 | CRN 20387Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
In Shakespeare: Love & Revenge, we’ll explore specific, representative early plays that involve the themes of love & revenge in-depth while learning about Shakespeare’s art in general (his transformation of source material, development of genre, and treatment of dramatic conventions), including the material conditions, conventions, and modes of representation of the early modern stage. We’ll analyze the plays in these contexts while experiencing the multiplicity of interpretation by learning through engaging with the text through various activities. Through these activities, we’ll engage in “performative learning” to experience the plays from the “inside and outside,” exploring both the creation and reception of them. (Not to worry if you’re shy or introverted; there are non-acting roles to play in our performance exercises!) We’ll learn through readings, in-class collaborative activities, online discussion board assignments, quizzes, essay tests, and an Adaptation Project.
T. Hallock AML 4111-601 | CRN 20382Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, LPH 127
19th-Century American Novel
Arrrrgggghhh! For this semester of Nineteenth-Century American Novel, we are going out to sea. Yes, we're going after the White Whale (Herman Melville, Moby Dick). We'll read about cross-dressing sailors (The Female Marine), onboard rebellion (Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave), queer swamps (Sarah Orne Jewett, A Marsh Island), and what not to do when caught in a riptide (Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"). The course will involve experiential learning and loopy assignments. Pirate costumes optional.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
Studies in 17th & 18th Centry Brit Lit: The Golden Age of Piracy
J. Cook ENL 3016-002 | CRN 15616Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
The “Golden Age of Piracy,” a period of time from roughly the 1650’s through 1730’s, has left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture: from the 17th and 18th centuries through today, pirates have been both romanticized and vilified in tales that alternately celebrate and condemn their sense of adventure, opportunism, and lawlessness. Piracy in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans increased at the same time as British and European colonial expansion in the Americas and Caribbean, connecting piracy with larger conversations around maritime exploration and imperial expansion in this era. In this course, we’ll examine cultural representations of this Golden Age of Piracy from their contemporary context in Charles Johnson’s highly influential A General History of the Pyrates (1724) alongside later works of historical fiction, including Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) and the HBO TV series Our Flag Means Death (2022-24), both set during the Golden Age. Along the way, we’ll meet iconic pirates like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Anne Bonny, and we’ll explore how pirates have become rich cultural figures for discussing historical representations of gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism.
L. Kurz AML 3032-001 | CRN 17985 Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Am Lit From 1860 to 1912
This course examines the grit and glamor of America’s Gilded Age, along with the transformative years surrounding it. From mansions and railroads to ambition and reinvention, the period of 1860 to 1912 was a time of great opportunity and complexity. We will read a variety of written genres to examine how literature captured a society shaped by rapid change, rising fortunes, and differing visions of success. As we read, we’ll consider how many of the questions raised during the original Gilded Age still resonate in what some now call a “Second Gilded Age.”
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
British Literature to 1616: Worlds of Wonder
N. Discenza ENL 3015-001 | CRN 20783Tusedays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, TBA
Literature has always encouraged audiences to pause and wonder at what we might otherwise disregard, from a dazzling night sky to a hazelnut in the palm of a hand. Writers also craft their own wonders in poetry, prose, and drama. We’ll explore continuities and changes as Britain transforms from a set of small, distinct kingdoms to an empire. We will read with attention both to medieval and early modern historical and cultural contexts and to how these texts continue to be meaningful and entertaining in our own times. In our readings, we’ll meet sea monsters and a dragon, a talking cross, a werewolf with marital difficulties, a mystic who shares her visions, a man who sells his soul to the devil, and much more. Settings will range from intimate, everyday spaces to wild, open seas, from Scotland to Jerusalem. This course will deepen your understanding of literature and its social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions while helping you improve your skills in close reading, writing, discussion, and analysis.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
British Literature to 1616: Worlds of Wonder
N. Discenza ENL 3015-001 | CRN 20783Tusedays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, TBA
Literature has always encouraged audiences to pause and wonder at what we might otherwise disregard, from a dazzling night sky to a hazelnut in the palm of a hand. Writers also craft their own wonders in poetry, prose, and drama. We’ll explore continuities and changes as Britain transforms from a set of small, distinct kingdoms to an empire. We will read with attention both to medieval and early modern historical and cultural contexts and to how these texts continue to be meaningful and entertaining in our own times. In our readings, we’ll meet sea monsters and a dragon, a talking cross, a werewolf with marital difficulties, a mystic who shares her visions, a man who sells his soul to the devil, and much more. Settings will range from intimate, everyday spaces to wild, open seas, from Scotland to Jerusalem. This course will deepen your understanding of literature and its social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions while helping you improve your skills in close reading, writing, discussion, and analysis.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body?
To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body?
To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
Film & Culture: Viruses: Real & Imagined
J. LennonFIL 2000-001 | CRN 20469Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 256
This course introduces film as an art form and a social/cultural artifact by providing students with an understanding of the technical, theoretical, and ascetic aspects of film production and analysis. This course affords students the ability to think critically and includes selections from the western canon.
Q. LeENG 4936-001 | CRN 14109Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 350
Honors Seminar II
Variable topics. Students will be expected to participate in class discussion, make formal presentations, and complete a major research project.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
J. Armstrong AML 3604-791 | CRN 20383 Distance Learning
Technical Comm for Majors
A study of black American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including the works of such writers as W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, and Nikki Giovanni.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
Intro to Literary Methodology: Marvelous Monsters
E. Ricketts-Jones ENG 3014-700 | CRN 17988Distance Learning
This course prepares English majors and minors with the basic critical and technical skills and understanding for subsequent literary study in 3000- and 4000-level courses towards the major. Substantial writing. Recommended during first 2 semesters of LIT major. Our course texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so we'll have a monster of a time!
Unruly Women: Gender, Power, and Resistance in Literature
Z. KhanLIT 2000-702 | CRN 17994Distance Learning
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
K. FowlerLIT 2000-701 | 13972Distance Learning
Haunting Tales & Thrilling Tunes
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
K. FowlerLIT 2000-701 | CRN 13972Distance Learning
Haunting Tales & Thrilling Tunes
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
Unruly Women: Gender, Power, and Resistance in Literature
Z. KhanLIT 2000-702 | CRN 17994Distance Learning
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
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N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
British Lit & Culture: Hardy & Forster, Victorian to Modern
M. GouldENL 4931-001 | CRN 19832Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
Writing on either side of the centurial divide, Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster grappled with the problems of the modern age. Their fiction represents a transitional period in British culture, as “traditional” modes of life and literary forms surrendered to modernity. Their works are peopled by individuals lost in worlds they do not understand, buffeted by forces beyond their control. Their novels echo with anxieties, resound with uncertainties, and ring with the clash of cultures and social classes. In this course, we will read significant portions of the work of Hardy and Forster, as we consider how these two turn-of-the-century authors represented the cultural upheavals that accompanied the shift from the Victorian Period to the Modern Age. We will also consider some of the later film adaptations of these novels, as we explore the lasting cultural legacy of Hardy and Forster.
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
F. Sajjad CRW 2100-005 | CRN 19981Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 248
Intro to Creative Writing
Film & Culture: Viruses: Real & Imagined
J. LennonFIL 2000-001 | CRN 20469Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 256
This course introduces film as an art form and a social/cultural artifact by providing students with an understanding of the technical, theoretical, and ascetic aspects of film production and analysis. This course affords students the ability to think critically and includes selections from the western canon.
V. Lipscomb AML 4933-521 | CRN 19830Tuesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A217
Studies in American Literature & Culture
This course examines a particular topic or theme, varying with individual selection, in the American literary tradition.
Shakespeare: Love & Revenge
L. Starks ENL 3333-691 | CRN 20387Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
In Shakespeare: Love & Revenge, we’ll explore specific, representative early plays that involve the themes of love & revenge in-depth while learning about Shakespeare’s art in general (his transformation of source material, development of genre, and treatment of dramatic conventions), including the material conditions, conventions, and modes of representation of the early modern stage. We’ll analyze the plays in these contexts while experiencing the multiplicity of interpretation by learning through engaging with the text through various activities. Through these activities, we’ll engage in “performative learning” to experience the plays from the “inside and outside,” exploring both the creation and reception of them. (Not to worry if you’re shy or introverted; there are non-acting roles to play in our performance exercises!) We’ll learn through readings, in-class collaborative activities, online discussion board assignments, quizzes, essay tests, and an Adaptation Project.
J. Armstrong AML 4265- 691 | CRN 20384Cross Listed with LIT 6934 Thursdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
Florida Writers
This course will examine writers who have lived in and written about Florida, such as Hemingway, Rawlings, Hurston, and Stevens.
Q. LeENG 4936-001 | CRN 14109Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 350
Honors Seminar II
Variable topics. Students will be expected to participate in class discussion, make formal presentations, and complete a major research project.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
P. Sipiora ENG 3674-701 | CRN 19836Distance Learning
Film & Culture
This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of the ways they reflect popular culture. Careful reading of the textbook is essential to success in the course. Objectives of the course include: (1) a better understanding of popular culture through the art of film, (2) an improved ability to think and write analytically and evaluatively, and (3) an acquired knowledge of film history and cinematic techniques. At the conclusion of the course, outcomes and goals include the ability to write articulately and persuasively about your understanding of film as an important popular art, especially as film relates to the representation of diverse cultural practices and experiences.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Mooney ENG 4934-001 | CRN 15618 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 345
Senior Literature Seminar: Irish Drama
From the small, downtrodden island of Ireland, a richly multifaceted and resourceful tradition of theater developed that in turn has inspired and captivated communities worldwide. In this Senior Literature Seminar, we’ll read modern and contemporary Irish plays written and performed between 1900 and the 2010s. We’ll discuss how the Irish have been inventing and reinventing themselves over the decades, and how their experiences, as dramatically explored, are curiously both particular to Ireland and relatable to other communities of the world. We’ll encounter a metamorphosed Irish goddess, an imploding working-class Irish family in the 1920s tenements of Dublin, ghosts and ghost stories, Irish Travellers beyond the stereotypical “tinkers,” and the Irish living in the post-Celtic Tiger era.
J. Armstrong AML 4265- 691 | CRN 20384Cross Listed with LIT 6934 Thursdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
Florida Writers
This course will examine writers who have lived in and written about Florida, such as Hemingway, Rawlings, Hurston, and Stevens.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become? This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
American Literature & its Adaptations: Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey
M. Taylor LIT 2000-701, 702 | CRN 13972, 17994 Distance Learning
In this section of Introduction to Literature, we will place the music of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey in the context of the American literature that has inspired their art. In addition to this broader goal, we will consider select songs and albums as adaptations of major literary works—namely, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William’s A Streetcar Named Desire—and compare them to adaptations in other forms, especially film.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
J. Armstrong AML 3604-791 | CRN 20383 Distance Learning
Technical Comm for Majors
A study of black American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including the works of such writers as W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, and Nikki Giovanni.
British Lit & Culture: Hardy & Forster, Victorian to Modern
M. GouldENL 4931-001 | CRN 19832Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
Writing on either side of the centurial divide, Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster grappled with the problems of the modern age. Their fiction represents a transitional period in British culture, as “traditional” modes of life and literary forms surrendered to modernity. Their works are peopled by individuals lost in worlds they do not understand, buffeted by forces beyond their control. Their novels echo with anxieties, resound with uncertainties, and ring with the clash of cultures and social classes. In this course, we will read significant portions of the work of Hardy and Forster, as we consider how these two turn-of-the-century authors represented the cultural upheavals that accompanied the shift from the Victorian Period to the Modern Age. We will also consider some of the later film adaptations of these novels, as we explore the lasting cultural legacy of Hardy and Forster.
Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 252 Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 463 Tuesdays & Thursdays2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, EDU 254
M. Leib CRW 2100-003, 004, 006CRNs 19979, 19980, 19982
Intro to Creative Writing
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body? To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Milner CRW 2100-002 | CRN 19978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 160
Intro to Creative Writing
In this course, students will learn about various genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics with an emphasis on craft elements common to more than one genre. students will also learn about the process of writing, including idea generation, drafting, and revision. This course affords students the ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write clearly and engage in public speaking.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body? To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become? This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
American Literature & its Adaptations: Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey
M. Taylor LIT 2000-701, 702 | CRN 13972, 17994 Distance Learning
In this section of Introduction to Literature, we will place the music of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey in the context of the American literature that has inspired their art. In addition to this broader goal, we will consider select songs and albums as adaptations of major literary works—namely, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William’s A Streetcar Named Desire—and compare them to adaptations in other forms, especially film.
T. Hallock AML 4111-601 | CRN 20382Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, LPH 127
19th-Century American Novel
Arrrrgggghhh! For this semester of Nineteenth-Century American Novel, we are going out to sea. Yes, we're going after the White Whale (Herman Melville, Moby Dick). We'll read about cross-dressing sailors (The Female Marine), onboard rebellion (Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave), queer swamps (Sarah Orne Jewett, A Marsh Island), and what not to do when caught in a riptide (Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"). The course will involve experiential learning and loopy assignments. Pirate costumes optional.
Intro to Literary Methodology: Marvelous Monsters
E. Ricketts-Jones ENG 3014-700 | CRN 17988Distance Learning
This course prepares English majors and minors with the basic critical and technical skills and understanding for subsequent literary study in 3000- and 4000-level courses towards the major. Substantial writing. Recommended during first 2 semesters of LIT major. Our course texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so we'll have a monster of a time!
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
P. Sipiora ENG 3674-701 | CRN 19836Distance Learning
Film & Culture
This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of the ways they reflect popular culture. Careful reading of the textbook is essential to success in the course. Objectives of the course include: (1) a better understanding of popular culture through the art of film, (2) an improved ability to think and write analytically and evaluatively, and (3) an acquired knowledge of film history and cinematic techniques. At the conclusion of the course, outcomes and goals include the ability to write articulately and persuasively about your understanding of film as an important popular art, especially as film relates to the representation of diverse cultural practices and experiences.
P. Sipiora AML 3243-001 | CRN 19833Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Amer Lit 1945-Present
This course trace some important critical developments in Contemporary American literature, investigating forms of experimentation in contemporary works and relating various thematic modes to aesthetics, literary genres, and important cultural events. We will examine significant literary works in poetry, drama, and short and long fiction.
P. Sipiora AML 3243-001 | CRN 19833Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Amer Lit 1945-Present
This course trace some important critical developments in Contemporary American literature, investigating forms of experimentation in contemporary works and relating various thematic modes to aesthetics, literary genres, and important cultural events. We will examine significant literary works in poetry, drama, and short and long fiction.
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
L. Kurz AML 3032-001 | CRN 17985 Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Am Lit From 1860 to 1912
This course examines the grit and glamor of America’s Gilded Age, along with the transformative years surrounding it. From mansions and railroads to ambition and reinvention, the period of 1860 to 1912 was a time of great opportunity and complexity. We will read a variety of written genres to examine how literature captured a society shaped by rapid change, rising fortunes, and differing visions of success. As we read, we’ll consider how many of the questions raised during the original Gilded Age still resonate in what some now call a “Second Gilded Age.”
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become? This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
Literature, Gender, & Sexuality
J. McCracken LIT 3513-601 | CRN 20388 Thursdays 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
How do stories help us imagine who we are—and who we might become? This course examines speculative and literary works that question and reimagine cultural assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and power. Through fiction, graphic novels, and critical readings, you will develop skills in literary and rhetorical analysis while exploring how stories shape our understandings of identity, embodiment, and desire. Class discussions, writing, and collaboration will encourage you to connect the texts to broader cultural contexts and consider how storytelling both challenges dominant norms and imagines new possibilities for the self and society.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
J. KreugerLIT 2000-004 | CRN 13980Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 466
Dystopia & The Hunger Games
This course offers an engaging introduction to the study of literature through the lens of The Hunger Games series. By exploring fiction, poetry, drama, and multimedia texts, students will develop critical tools for literary analysis while considering the social, political, and cultural dimensions of storytelling. We will examine topics such as power, resistance, identity, disability, media, and gender, as well as the broader relevance of dystopian fiction in today’s world. Assignments include creative and analytical writing, multimodal projects, and class discussions that emphasize interpretation, empathy, and argumentation. Students will leave the course with a foundation in literary studies and a deeper understanding of how narrative shapes and reflects human experience.
S. Mooney ENG 4934-001 | CRN 15618 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 345
Senior Literature Seminar: Irish Drama
From the small, downtrodden island of Ireland, a richly multifaceted and resourceful tradition of theater developed that in turn has inspired and captivated communities worldwide. In this Senior Literature Seminar, we’ll read modern and contemporary Irish plays written and performed between 1900 and the 2010s. We’ll discuss how the Irish have been inventing and reinventing themselves over the decades, and how their experiences, as dramatically explored, are curiously both particular to Ireland and relatable to other communities of the world. We’ll encounter a metamorphosed Irish goddess, an imploding working-class Irish family in the 1920s tenements of Dublin, ghosts and ghost stories, Irish Travellers beyond the stereotypical “tinkers,” and the Irish living in the post-Celtic Tiger era.
V. Lipscomb AML 4933-521 | CRN 19830Tuesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PMClass Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A217
Studies in American Literature & Culture
This course examines a particular topic or theme, varying with individual selection, in the American literary tradition.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
Studies in 17th & 18th Centry Brit Lit: The Golden Age of Piracy
J. Cook ENL 3016-002 | CRN 15616Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
The “Golden Age of Piracy,” a period of time from roughly the 1650’s through 1730’s, has left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture: from the 17th and 18th centuries through today, pirates have been both romanticized and vilified in tales that alternately celebrate and condemn their sense of adventure, opportunism, and lawlessness. Piracy in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans increased at the same time as British and European colonial expansion in the Americas and Caribbean, connecting piracy with larger conversations around maritime exploration and imperial expansion in this era. In this course, we’ll examine cultural representations of this Golden Age of Piracy from their contemporary context in Charles Johnson’s highly influential A General History of the Pyrates (1724) alongside later works of historical fiction, including Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) and the HBO TV series Our Flag Means Death (2022-24), both set during the Golden Age. Along the way, we’ll meet iconic pirates like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Anne Bonny, and we’ll explore how pirates have become rich cultural figures for discussing historical representations of gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism.
Shakespeare: Love & Revenge
L. Starks ENL 3333-691 | CRN 20387Tuesdays, 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, DAV 265
In Shakespeare: Love & Revenge, we’ll explore specific, representative early plays that involve the themes of love & revenge in-depth while learning about Shakespeare’s art in general (his transformation of source material, development of genre, and treatment of dramatic conventions), including the material conditions, conventions, and modes of representation of the early modern stage. We’ll analyze the plays in these contexts while experiencing the multiplicity of interpretation by learning through engaging with the text through various activities. Through these activities, we’ll engage in “performative learning” to experience the plays from the “inside and outside,” exploring both the creation and reception of them. (Not to worry if you’re shy or introverted; there are non-acting roles to play in our performance exercises!) We’ll learn through readings, in-class collaborative activities, online discussion board assignments, quizzes, essay tests, and an Adaptation Project.
T. Hallock AML 4111-601 | CRN 20382Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | St. Pete Campus, LPH 127
19th-Century American Novel
Arrrrgggghhh! For this semester of Nineteenth-Century American Novel, we are going out to sea. Yes, we're going after the White Whale (Herman Melville, Moby Dick). We'll read about cross-dressing sailors (The Female Marine), onboard rebellion (Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave), queer swamps (Sarah Orne Jewett, A Marsh Island), and what not to do when caught in a riptide (Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat"). The course will involve experiential learning and loopy assignments. Pirate costumes optional.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
Studies in 17th & 18th Centry Brit Lit: The Golden Age of Piracy
J. Cook ENL 3016-002 | CRN 15616Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
The “Golden Age of Piracy,” a period of time from roughly the 1650’s through 1730’s, has left an indelible mark on literature and popular culture: from the 17th and 18th centuries through today, pirates have been both romanticized and vilified in tales that alternately celebrate and condemn their sense of adventure, opportunism, and lawlessness. Piracy in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans increased at the same time as British and European colonial expansion in the Americas and Caribbean, connecting piracy with larger conversations around maritime exploration and imperial expansion in this era. In this course, we’ll examine cultural representations of this Golden Age of Piracy from their contemporary context in Charles Johnson’s highly influential A General History of the Pyrates (1724) alongside later works of historical fiction, including Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) and the HBO TV series Our Flag Means Death (2022-24), both set during the Golden Age. Along the way, we’ll meet iconic pirates like Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Anne Bonny, and we’ll explore how pirates have become rich cultural figures for discussing historical representations of gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism.
L. Kurz AML 3032-001 | CRN 17985 Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
Am Lit From 1860 to 1912
This course examines the grit and glamor of America’s Gilded Age, along with the transformative years surrounding it. From mansions and railroads to ambition and reinvention, the period of 1860 to 1912 was a time of great opportunity and complexity. We will read a variety of written genres to examine how literature captured a society shaped by rapid change, rising fortunes, and differing visions of success. As we read, we’ll consider how many of the questions raised during the original Gilded Age still resonate in what some now call a “Second Gilded Age.”
B. Brothers LIT 2000-007 | CRN 13984 Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 337
Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature
Are you interested in ghost stories and haunted houses? Are you fascinated by the psychology of horror? Then please consider signing up for “LIT 2000: Aesthetics of American Gothic Literature.” This survey course will introduce you to classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, along with authors whose Gothic literary works have been adapted into popular films. Throughout the semester, you will learn about the development of American Gothic literature and how its regional iterations exhibit unique qualities that reflect the cultural hallmarks of the author’s time and place. In total, these works and adaptations are examined in order to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the American Gothic literary tradition in a manner that goes deeper than shuddering at ghosts and haunted houses (though there are plenty of those).
British Literature to 1616: Worlds of Wonder
N. Discenza ENL 3015-001 | CRN 20783Tusedays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, TBA
Literature has always encouraged audiences to pause and wonder at what we might otherwise disregard, from a dazzling night sky to a hazelnut in the palm of a hand. Writers also craft their own wonders in poetry, prose, and drama. We’ll explore continuities and changes as Britain transforms from a set of small, distinct kingdoms to an empire. We will read with attention both to medieval and early modern historical and cultural contexts and to how these texts continue to be meaningful and entertaining in our own times. In our readings, we’ll meet sea monsters and a dragon, a talking cross, a werewolf with marital difficulties, a mystic who shares her visions, a man who sells his soul to the devil, and much more. Settings will range from intimate, everyday spaces to wild, open seas, from Scotland to Jerusalem. This course will deepen your understanding of literature and its social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions while helping you improve your skills in close reading, writing, discussion, and analysis.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
M. Abreu ToribioLIT 2000-705 | CRN 16076Distance Learning
Intro to Lit: A Journey Through the Anthropocene
Artists have long provided a means through which to experience the beautiful, disastrous, and complex relationships that humans share with the environment. In this class, we will explore how literature is influenced by a time period’s perception of the environment, tracking and examining how we arrived at our current ecological epoch, known as the Anthropocene. For each work, we will ask ourselves: How does world-building influence or shape our perceptions of nature, and how have humans impacted climate and their relationships with nature? Can literature help us discover our responsibilities to the environment? We will read “classics” such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry and Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel Jane Eyre to examine how nature was perceived during the long 18th century. We will also read Postcolonial works by Jean Rhys, Aimé Césaire, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ursula Le Guin (among others) as we investigate the concept of “world-making” in the context of climate disaster. We will consider alternative futures in which environmental collapse prefaces not merely ruin, but new ways of being in the world.
British Literature to 1616: Worlds of Wonder
N. Discenza ENL 3015-001 | CRN 20783Tusedays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, TBA
Literature has always encouraged audiences to pause and wonder at what we might otherwise disregard, from a dazzling night sky to a hazelnut in the palm of a hand. Writers also craft their own wonders in poetry, prose, and drama. We’ll explore continuities and changes as Britain transforms from a set of small, distinct kingdoms to an empire. We will read with attention both to medieval and early modern historical and cultural contexts and to how these texts continue to be meaningful and entertaining in our own times. In our readings, we’ll meet sea monsters and a dragon, a talking cross, a werewolf with marital difficulties, a mystic who shares her visions, a man who sells his soul to the devil, and much more. Settings will range from intimate, everyday spaces to wild, open seas, from Scotland to Jerusalem. This course will deepen your understanding of literature and its social, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions while helping you improve your skills in close reading, writing, discussion, and analysis.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body? To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
British and American Literature by Women
V. Lipscomb LIT 4386-521 | CRN 20314 Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Sarasota-Manatee Campus, SMC A203B
How have female authors represented the female body? How has gender shaped understanding of the body? How have women violated taboos and challenged norms by portraying the female body? To consider these questions, we will read significant works by women in a variety of genres.
Climate Fiction
S. Senapati LIT 3621-001 | CRN 19834 Fridays 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1403
A study of literature about climate change in the new genre of Climate Fiction, including works by Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle, Kim Stanley Robinson and the like.
Literature, Race, & Ethnicity
Q. Le LIT 3353-001 | CRN 18163 Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 251
This course explores the intersections of race, ethnicity, and diverse literary and other cultural texts. Students interpret how identities are formed in marginalized groups and engage in assignments involving ethics, empathy, and the Tampa Bay community.
N. Colecio LIT 2000-002 | CRN 13978Mondays & Wednesdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 285
Failed Literature & Literature of Failure
What makes a piece of art stand the test of time? In this course, we will strive to answer questions such as: Why do we value certain works of art over others? And why do some succeed while others fail? Inspired by the Museum of Bad Art and Jack Halberstam’s discussions on Queer Failure, this class will explore both art that fails to be considered “art” and art that captures failure. Examining depictions of failure in literature, poetry, art, film, music, and other various forms of media will help us create an archive of eccentricity, one that broadens our conception of both art and success across cultures. In these failures, where can we find success? Ultimately, what does it mean to succeed?
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
Film & Culture: Viruses: Real & Imagined
J. LennonFIL 2000-001 | CRN 20469Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 256
This course introduces film as an art form and a social/cultural artifact by providing students with an understanding of the technical, theoretical, and ascetic aspects of film production and analysis. This course affords students the ability to think critically and includes selections from the western canon.
Q. LeENG 4936-001 | CRN 14109Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 350
Honors Seminar II
Variable topics. Students will be expected to participate in class discussion, make formal presentations, and complete a major research project.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
J. Armstrong AML 3604-791 | CRN 20383 Distance Learning
Technical Comm for Majors
A study of black American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including the works of such writers as W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, and Nikki Giovanni.
M. FinleyLIT 2000-003 | CRN 17982 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
The Forest of Dreams
“This spring we venture into the forest of dreams, slowly and intentionally reading through William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in graphic novel form), J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy manifesto “On Fairy-stories” and Christopher Nolan’s film Inception. Join us as we explore the land of fairy and the dreamscape!”
J. Melko LIT 2000-001 | CRN 13977 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, BSN 1304
Monsters, Maidens, & Maps
Explore the darker side of the voyage in this section of LIT 2000, Monsters, Maidens and Maps, Using Homer’s classic epic, The Odyssey as a foundation, we will explore how the poem, its adaptations, and works influenced by it have come to represent both the psychological and societal anxieties that create the human psyche. This course will also introduce students to the formal, cultural, historical, and theoretical dimensions of additional literary texts including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. By examining journey narratives and the liminal spaces constructed within these works, students will gain an understanding of the ways Gothic conventions of space, haunting terrors, and monstrous figures shape physical, psychological, and metaphoric constructs within literary texts.
Intro to Literary Methodology: Marvelous Monsters
E. Ricketts-Jones ENG 3014-700 | CRN 17988Distance Learning
This course prepares English majors and minors with the basic critical and technical skills and understanding for subsequent literary study in 3000- and 4000-level courses towards the major. Substantial writing. Recommended during first 2 semesters of LIT major. Our course texts include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so we'll have a monster of a time!
Unruly Women: Gender, Power, and Resistance in Literature
Z. KhanLIT 2000-702 | CRN 17994Distance Learning
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
K. FowlerLIT 2000-701 | 13972Distance Learning
Haunting Tales & Thrilling Tunes
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
K. FowlerLIT 2000-701 | CRN 13972Distance Learning
Haunting Tales & Thrilling Tunes
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
Unruly Women: Gender, Power, and Resistance in Literature
Z. KhanLIT 2000-702 | CRN 17994Distance Learning
In this course, students will be assigned readings representative of a broad range of literary genres and cultures. These readings will cover a variety of literary movements and historical eras. The readings will include selections from the western canon. Written analysis of literary works may be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
World Literary Movements & Genres: Migrant Tales
B. Fried LIT 4933-001 | CRN 19831 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Class Lecture | Tampa Campus, CPR 124
This is a course about leaving and recreating home in literature. We will trace the growth of the English-writing African, Jewish, and South Asian diasporas, following migrant tales through the stages of departure, arrival, adaptation, and return. We will encounter novelists and poets from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Samuel Selvon, Grace Paley to W. G. Sebald, Salman Rushdie to Zadie Smith—plus a few filmmakers to boot. What does it mean to lose and look for home? Which forms of literature arise from these experiences of dispersion, marginalization, and longing? By examining transnational narratives of migration across the twentieth century and into our own time, you will investigate issues of exile and belonging, place and displacement, identity and community. By reading and writing across genres and borders, you will transform this class into your own intellectual home base for exploring literature in the age of globalization.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Journeys Through Religion and Spirituality
N. Volz LIT 2000-006 | CRN 13983Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PMClass Lecture | Tampa Campus, SOC 258
What is religion? What does it mean to be spiritual or non-religious? In this course, we will explore these questions and more as they manifest in works of fiction, music, cinema, and television. Our class will place us at the intersection of human cultural and spiritual encounters, challenging us to interrogate the dynamic between art and religion as well as our complex, often-painful relationship with literary and spiritual experiences. As we examine how religion influences the media that we consume, we will investigate how alternative spiritual frameworks can transform the human experience. Can we be religious without religion? How can media help us navigate the conflicts that we face in our everyday lives? In our course, we will work together to discover how our journeys through literature and religion shape our identities as human beings.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.
Cultural Studies & the Popular Arts: American Horror Stories: Gothic Fiction on Film
T. Turner LIT 3301-521 | CRN 20711Distance Learning
Why are horror movies so popular right now—and what do they really mean? This course dives into the eerie world of contemporary American horror movies, tracing their roots all the way back to the haunted castles and cursed families that have been the hallmark of Gothic fiction since its emergence as a new literary genre in the 18th century. Students will explore how some of the most enduring examples of Gothic literature laid the groundwork for the psychological, supernatural, and social themes that haunt American horror films to this day. Along the way, consider why both Gothic fiction and horror films are so adept at reflecting cultural anxieties—about science, gender, race, morality, and more—and why they keep evolving to scare us in new ways.