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Sample Comprehensive Examination Lists

The lists are arranged alphabeticaly by student within subject area. The organizational categories provided below are not exaustive and may change with the interests of our students and professors.

To add your list(s) to this page, please send them either in the body of an email or as an attachment to EGSA.

Program Areas

Creative Writing
English Language & Linguistics
Folklore Studies
Literary & Cultural Studies
Rhetoric & Composition


Historical Areas

Medieval
Renaissance
Restoration & Eighteenth Century
Romantic Period
Victorian Period
American Literature to 1914
The Twentieth Century

Topical Areas

Africana Literature & Theory
Film Studies
Women's Studies & English
Literature, Science, & Medicine
Native American Literature
Theory

Special Topics

Chicana Literature
Gender & Sexuality Studies
The Novel
Transatlantic Literature

Program Areas

Creative Writing

English Language & Linguistics

Folklore Studies

David Allred--Folklore and Oral Tradition (primary)

Lisa Rathje--Folklore in the Public Sector (primary)

Literary & Cultural Studies

Rhetoric & Composition


Historical Areas

Medieval

Sharon Emmerichs--Medieval Literature (secondary)

Renaissance

Sharon Emmerichs--Renaissance Drama, Poetry, and Prose (primary)

Restoration & Eighteenth Century

Romantic Period

Joe Green--Nineteenth-Century British Literature & Culture (secondary -- Romanticism section)

Andrew Mulvania--Nineteenth-Century British Romanticism (secondary)

Victorian Period

Joe Green--Nineteenth-Century British Literature & Culture (secondary -- Victorian section)

American Literature to 1914

David Allred--Nineteenth-Century American Literature (secondary)

The Twentieth Century

Jason Arthur--American Literature Post Reconstruction to Contemporary (primary)

Lania Knight--Twentieth-Century American Novel (primary)

Andrew Mulvania--The Twentieth Century (primary)

Michael Piafsky--Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction (primary)

Ramsay Wise--Twentieth-Century American Novel (primary)


Topical Areas

Africana Literature & Theory

Film Studies

Ramsay Wise--Film (secondary)

Women's Studies & English

Literature, Science, & Medicine

Native American Literature

Theory

Jason Arthur--Place in Post-WWII Literature (secondary)


Special Topics

Chicana Literature

Lisa Rathje--Chicana Literature and Folklore (secondary)

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Erin Clair--Gender and Sexuality Studies (secondary)

Lania Knight--Gender and Sexuality (secondary)

The Novel

Joe Green--The British Novel to 1945 (primary)

Transatlantic Literature

Erin Clair--Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Literature (primary)
 


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