Faculty
Areas of Specialization
- 18th-Century British Literature
- 19th-Century British Literature
- American Literature
- Bibliography and Textual Studies
- Computers and English
- Creative Writing
- Cultural Studies
- Drama
- Ethnic and Third-World Literature
- Folklore
- Language and Linguistics
- Literary Theory
- Medieval Studies
- Modern British Literature
- Poetry and Poetics
- Popular Culture
- Renaissance Literature
- Rhetoric
- Women, Gender, and Literature
Computers and English
The computer has inaugurated the most far reaching changes in the way knowledge is disseminated, stored, and constructed since the invention of the printing press 500 years ago. These changes affect virtually every aspect of intellectual, social, and cultural life.
Literary and rhetorical studies, like many other disciplines, will see profound changes in the way we understand such fundamental concepts as "text," "reading," "literature," "interpretation," "writing," "literacy," "culture," "theory," "teaching," "learning." The concentration in Computers and English Studies (Bremen, Bump, Faigley, Slatin, Syverson) seeks to develop a dialogue between print-based culture and the emergent culture(s) of electronic information. Students will develop both theoretical and practical understanding of print and electronic textuality (as represented, for example, in hypertext and multimedia); they will also develop expertise in applying contemporary technology to more traditional problems in rhetoric or literary scholarship and teaching.
Students will have the opportunity to explore new modes of research and instruction, continually assessing the impact of the technologies they use upon the construction of their objects of study and, finally, of the field of inquiry itself. Please see the CES website for more information.