Materials . . .

American Literature 1, Spring 2010

Here is the syllabus.

American Literature 1, Summer 2009

Here is the syllabus.

American Literature 1, Spring 2009

Here is the syllabus.

Whitman and Dickinson, Spring 2009

Here is the syllabus.

American Literature 1, Fall 2008

Here is the syllabus.

Poe and Hawthorne, Summer 2008

Here is the syllabus.

Whitman and Dickinson, Fall 2007

Here is the syllabus for the graduate-level Whitman and Dickinson seminar.

American Women Poets, Fall 2007

Here is the syllabus for American Women Poets.

American Literature 1, Fall 2007

Here is the syllabus for my Fall 2007 section of American Literature 1.

American Romantic Fiction, Spring 2007

Here is the syllabus for American Romantic Fiction.

American Literature 1, Spring 2007

Here is the syllabus for the evening section of American Literature 1. (Note that the words are here.)

American Literature 1, Spring 2007

I am teaching two sections of American Literature 1 this spring. Here is the syllabus for the late morning section meeting. (Note that the words are here.)

Fiction Appreciation, Fall 2006

Here's the syllabus for my Fall 2006 section of Fiction Appreciation.

Politics in American Literature, Fall 2006

Here's the syllabus for Politics in American Literature. A week before classes began, I learned that Lillie Devereux Blake's Fettered for Life has gone out of print, which is most regretful. As a consequence, there is hole in the center of the reading list that we will fill with various short readings.

American Literature 1, Fall 2006

Here is the syllabus for this fall's section of American Literature 1. (The word list is over here.)

Early American Literature, Spring 2006

This spring, I teach a graduate-level seminar in American Litearture to 1800.

Thoreau, Emerson, and Their Circle, Spring 2006

This seminar is listed with a graduate as well as an undergraduate number. I've defined "their circle" in different ways over the years. This time, we study mentors and friends such as  Sampson Reed, W.E. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott.

American Literature 1, Spring 2006

Here's the syllabus for my Spring 2006 section of American Literature 1.

American Women Poets, Fall 2005

In this twice-listed graduate/undergraduate seminar, most classes featured one or two students leading discussion by reading or otherwise presenting one of their many "perspicuity papers." We placed two desks, at the front of the room, with myself at one and the student or two at the other. The desks faced tablet chairs arranged in a circle. This seating arrangement, with students informally presenting short papers daily, helped generate a lot of good, easy class discussion.

American Literature 1, Fall 2005

Less Franklin, more Hawthorne in this one. Blithedale, which I admired in the Poe and Hawthorne seminar, works well in the survey.

Classic and Contemporary Literature, Fall 2005

This is a 200-level general education course.

American Literature 1, Summer 2005

Here is a one-month version of the American Literature survey.

Poe and Hawthorne, Spring 2005

This graduate seminar ran in the Spring of 2005.

American Poetry to 1900, Spring 2005

This is a graduate/undergraduate seminar & the Spring 2005 version from me.

American Literature 1, Spring 2005

This syllabus I used in the Spring of 2005. It also features a lot of Benjamin Franklin.

Whitman and Dickinson, Fall 2004

Here is a graduate seminar that ran in the Fall of 2004.

American Literature 1, Fall 2004

More syllabi for sections of this survey can be found through my old site. This section includes much Franklin; earlier sections featured Whitman.

Politics in American Literature, Fall 2004

I've taught this in the fall every even-numbered year since 2000. Here is the Fall 2004 edition. It will run again in the Fall of 2006; I am still working on the reading list and book order for the forthcoming section.