Faculty in British and Irish Studies This area of interest builds on the University of Georgia's historical strength in British and Irish Studies. The interdisciplinary British and Irish Studies Certificate Program as well as the Oxford Study Abroad Program originated in this department. Graduate students in this field will find opportunities to study and teach in our Oxford program while pursuing coursework leading to a certificate in the field. Students will have access to classes in Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, Twentieth-Century, and contemporary British and Irish Literature. Graduate students interested in this area also benefit from the Willson Center’s Interdisciplinary Modernism/s Workshop and from the Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century British Literature which has recently featured such speakers as Paula Backscheider, Srivinas Avamarudan, John Mee, and Adela Pinch. The online journal, Borrowers and Lenders: Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (edited by Drs. Desmet and Iyengar) is produced in our department. Our faculty in this area participate regularly in the major conferences in their fields and encourage (and provide opportunity) for graduate students to do so as well. The faculty in this field are active in sponsoring on-campus conferences and colloquia such as the British Women's Writers Conference which will meet here in June 2016, Appropriation in an Age of Global Shakespeare (November 2015), and the Willson Center sponsored Symposium on the Book, an ongoing semiannual one-day symposium on material and immaterial textuality held at the Special Collections Libraries Building in the spring and fall. Recent graduate seminars in this field include “Modernism and the Aristocracy,” “Literature, Media, and Information in the Nineteenth Century,” “Novels of the Romantic Period,” “Traveling East in Early Modern English Literature,” “Shakespeare and the Book: Literary Appropriations and Literary Readings,” “York to Tudor: English Literature 1460-1530." Course work in this area may include, but is not limited to, the following courses: ENGL(LING) 6070 Middle English ENGL 6250 Medieval Drama ENGL 6240 Chaucer ENGL 6260 Middle English Literature ENGL 6290 Topics in Medieval Literature ENGL 6310 Spenser ENGL 6330 Shakespeare II: Special Topics ENGL 6370 Milton ENGL 6430 The Eighteenth-Century English Novel ENGL 6450 William Blake ENGL 6451 The Global Eighteenth Century ENGL 6500 Romantic Literature ENGL 6510 Later Romantic Literature ENGL 6520 The Nineteenth-Century British Novel ENGL 6530 Victorian Literature I ENGL 6540 Victorian Literature II ENGL 6660 Twentieth-Century British Poetry ENGL 6670 The Twentieth-Century British Novel ENGL 6680 Modern Irish Literature ENGL 6685 Post-Colonial Literature ENGL 6695 Topics in Post-Colonial Literature ENGL 8200 Seminar in Medieval Topics ENGL 8300 Seminar in Literature of the English Renaissance ENGL 8400 Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature ENGL 8500 Seminar in English Romantic Literature ENGL 8550 Seminar in Victorian Literature ENGL 8590 Seminar in 19th-Century British Literature ENGL 8600 Seminar in Modern Literature Exam areas could include, but are not limited to: English Language, Old English, Middle English, Renaissance Drama, Renaissance excluding Drama, Restoration and 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian, Contemporary, and Literary Criticism and Theory. Related Research Approaches Medieval and Early Modern Literary Studies Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies Modern British Literature Studies (19th-21st Century)
