ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ICtypical days: ThBostonTraditional
Surveys the diversity of American women’s writing to ask what it means to describe writers as disparate as Phillis Wheatley, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, and Alison Bechdel as part of the same 'tradition.' With attention to all genres of American women’s writing, introduces issues of race, genre and gender; literary identification; canons; the politics of recuperation; silence and masquerade; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; sexual and literary politics, compulsory heterosexuality, and more.
Prerequisites
- one of:
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 93% | 1.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 24 | 25 | 96% | 1.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 37% · T 0% · W 37% · Th 63% · F 0%
Common patterns: R (63% of sections), MW (37% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Carla Kaplan (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Carla Kaplan (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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