Graduate Proseminar

ENGL 6000, "Proseminar"

All first-year Ph.D. students are required to take ENGL 6000, Proseminar, in their first semester of study. This seminar introduces students to the institutional dynamics, methods, and concepts that have shaped literary and cultural studies, reflecting upon the origins of the discipline of English itself and considering some of the ways that the discipline has been undone and redone by a range of theoretical and institutional transformation. Students will read and discuss foundational work as well as recent and emergent material to gain breadth of understanding and develop their own critical investments.