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Qualifying List Having experienced multiple incarnations, my final exam list can be found here. Here are some sample questions and supplementary questions that I drafted. Major: Philip Gura, Rosa Perelmuter, and Tim Marr (director) Minor: Jessica Wolfe (exam chair) and Mary Floyd-Wilson MA Thesis "Literary Transculturations: The Erotic Energy of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Edward Taylor's Religious Verse" Director: Philip Gura Reader: Eliza Richards Coursework Proseminar in American Literature, beginning through 1900; Philip Gura, Fall 2005 19th Century American Poetry; Eliza Richards, Fall 2005 Christian and Classical Influences on Pope and Swift; Tom Stumpf, Fall 2005 Proseminar in Renaissance Literature; Jessica Wolfe, Spring 2006 Aesthetics of the Baroque; Rosa Perelmuter, Fall 2006 Proseminar in 18th Century and Feminist Theory; Ruth Salvaggio, Spring 2007 William Shakespeare, Political Theorist; Laurie Shannon (Duke), Spring 2007 Introduction to Yucatec Maya; David Mora Marín, Spring 2007 Portuguese I and II; Regina Santos and Marcelo Amorim; Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 Love and Death in the American Novel: Revisited; Philip Gura, Fall 2007 Polytropic Romances; Jessica Wolfe and Marsha Collins (audit); Fall 2007 Colonial and Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature (audit); Rosa Perelmuter; Fall 2007 Survey of Indigenous Mesoamerican Languages (audit); David Mora Marín; Fall 2007 Seventeenth-Century Religious Thought (directed reading); Philip Gura; Spring 2008 Teaching Position For a statement on my beliefs about teaching, click here. |