Iconic American sites such as Monticello, Walden Pond, and our network of national parks have inspired generations of Americans. But displacement is just as much a part of our national identity. In this class we will analyze fiction, journalism, film, paintings, photographs and other elements of visual culture that document the stories of Indigenous dispossession, housing discrimination, Japanese internment, redlining, gentrification, and homelessness. 

An introduction to critical frameworks and methods for exploring how rhetorics construct, preserve, and augment social understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class and more. Areas of focus may include: cultural practices of writing, digital rhetorics, performance, popular culture, material rhetorics, visual rhetorics, race and ethnicity. Specific themes and topics may vary.

This class examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S., tracing the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. We'll dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we'll analyze it for this class.

This course covers contemporary literary editing techniques and teaches students how to publish book-length works using modern print and electronic processes. The course may require students to purchase/lease computer software in addition to textbooks.

Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.

Reading and discussion of major satirical works from classical times to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples are `Renaissance Word and Image' and `Masks of Desire.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.