ENGL 396

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

English Honors Seminar

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Credit: 3 hours.

An open-topic, discussion-oriented seminar aimed at majors who have shown high skill and intensive interest in the area of English studies.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in the same term to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English majors.

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ENGL 396 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32226	Lecture-Discussion	C	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	135 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Info: FA25 ENGL 396 - English Honors Seminar - Lori Newcomb - When Performance Becomes Print: Making English Print Culture, 1550-1660 - Many of the early modern genres we now read as literature – lyric poetry, early fiction, song, and the drama – emerge from oral and manuscript cultures in the street, onstage, and in manuscript circulation. The growing market for print delivered these forms to new, larger audiences, but as with any change in media, the message changed too. At the center of our seminar is the double life of early modern drama (by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Margaret Cavendish, among others) on the open stage and as printed playbooks; around that we’ll sample varied printed forms that early modern people read for entertainment and information. We’ll have hands-on sessions at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where you’ll practice the skills of “book history” to identify traces of authors, publishers, and readers; and at Skeuomorph Press, where you’ll learn how a page is printed and hand-make your own creative examples. We’ll also look hard at our anthologies and digital texts as they further transform the meanings of familiar texts and make lost texts newly available. Questions to consider: How did plays get from authors’ pens to stage productions, and then into printed books? Why is every copy of an early modern printed book a unique object, and why does that matter? What kinds of printed objects were preserved, and how do we value them differently now? Hands-on projects, several short critical papers, and one longer paper.
	40420	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	329 Gregory Hall	Gallagher, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Info: FA25 ENGL 396 - English Honors Seminar - John Gallagher - Why we write: Exploring the mightiest technology - Writing is one of the most important technologies. At every paradigm shift in human history, writing has been a catalyst for fostering reasoning and abstraction as well as technological innovation. Why we write: Exploring the mightiest technology will tell the story of writing in three parts: (1) the history of writing, (2) the biomechanical, cognitive, and military effects of writing, and (3) the practical and creative reasons for why writing facilitates human flourishing. We will have weekly writing experiments as well as a semester-long study of student-led historical writing technology.