This course prepares students for literary studies at the graduate level. It will cover fundamental bibliographic, research, and MLA methods; it will introduce students to major movements in contemporary literary theory; it will consider the cultural poetics and politics of the history of literary studies; and it will prepare students to produce graduate scholarship and writing. It will also introduce students to the English Department’s graduate requirements and policies; the department’s faculty; and the resources of the UNM’s libraries.

Required Texts:
Beowolf (Trans. Seamus Heaney);
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6 th ed);
Geok-Lim, Shirley and Maria Herrera-Sobek, eds. Power, Race, and Gender in Academe;
Williams, Proctor Williams and Craig S. Abbott. An Introduction to Bibliographic and Textual Studies (3 rd ed);
Slevins, James, Introducing English;
Forester, E.M. A Passage to India;
Viramontes, Maria Helena, Under the Feet of Jesus;
Lentriccha, Frank, Critical Terms for Literary Study;
Melville, Herman, Billy Budd and Other Stories;
The English Department Graduate Studies Handbook