Courses Taught at University of Arkansas
- Liberal Arts at Work: A Professionalization Workshop (ENGL 4643/5243/3903)
- Job Market Workshop: Academic, Alt-Ac, and Post-Ac (ENGL 5243, grad only)
- Frankenstein: A Multimedia Cultural History (ENGL 4743/4933/3743)
- Romanticism: Revolution, Nature Gothic (ENGL 3743/5403)
- The Gothic Novel and Its Adaptations (ENGL 5403/6443-graduate seminar; or ENGL 4743-undergraduate course)
- Survey of British Literature, 1700-1900 (ENGL 2313)
- Mary Shelley's Hideous Progenies (ENGL 4603/5403)
Course Blogs and Wikis
<www.theadaptivehumanist.wordpress.com>
Multi-author course blog for student entries on professional issues.
<www.britlitsurvey2.wordpress.com>
Multi-author course blog with student entries on textual, authorial, social, and historical issues.
<www.adaptations.wikia.com>
Public wiki organized around the topic of adaptations for cultural studies courses.
<www.mary-shelley.wikia.com>
Public wiki focused on Mary Shelley, but also used in general nineteenth-century period courses.
Recent & Upcoming Courses @ University of Arkansas
Spring 2019
ENGL 5243: Job Market(s): Academic, Alt-Ac, Post-Ac (graduate seminar for PhD and MFA)
ENGL 3743: 19c Women Adapted (undergraduate)
ENGL 3743: 19c Women Adapted (undergraduate)
Fall 2018
ENGL 2313: Survey of British Literature, 1700-1900
ENGL 3743/4933: Frankenstein: A Multimedia Cultural History
ENGL 3743/4933: Frankenstein: A Multimedia Cultural History
Summer 2018
NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers (K-12)
Dr. Sean Connors (English Education, U of Arkansas) and I are co-directing a summer institute for K-12 educators titled:
"Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences"
For more information about this Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and how to apply, please visit our Institute website: https://monstersandheroines.uark.edu
Dr. Sean Connors (English Education, U of Arkansas) and I are co-directing a summer institute for K-12 educators titled:
"Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences"
For more information about this Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and how to apply, please visit our Institute website: https://monstersandheroines.uark.edu