Fall 2026 Graduate Course List

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ENGL 501		ONLINE PUBLISHING
73436 Section M03		W: 1330 – 1445	Richard Greenfield
This three-credit course provides a theoretical background for online publishing and design as well as hands-on experience publishing an online arts magazine. Taught with ENGL 430.

ENGL 504		USER EXPERIENCE AND ASSISTANCE
72965 Section M70		Online	Clinton Lanier
Includes theories and discussions of users, usability, accessibility, disability, design, embodiment, and ethics to prepare students to understand, write for, and collaborate with users and audiences in technical and professional communication contexts. Learning Outcomes Understand histories and politics that inform contemporary best practices and ethics conversations associated with the development of user-oriented documentation Develop a robust vocabulary that permits engagement in both academic and industry-based conversations about users, access, and documentation Discuss pros, cons, and nuances of multiple user-centered research methods Produce professional user-assistance documents and discuss the ethics of design decisions


ENGL 508		GRADUATE STUDY IN SHAKESPEARE
70840 Section M01		MW: 1030 – 1145	Tracey Miller-Tomlinson
From the star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet to Hamlet’s questioning whether “to be or not to be,” Shakespeare’s plays are staples of modern culture.  Even so, his work can surprise us and challenge our understandings of the past.  This class focuses on the dynamic and experimental plays Shakespeare wrote in the first half of his dramatic career.  We will consider how they reflect the emergence of new ways of thinking about the self and the world and explore tensions at the origins of modernity, such as anxieties about the rise of radical individualism, religious heterodoxy, and shifting views about race, gender, and social class.  We will also discuss clips from major film versions of a few of these plays to see how directors and actors interpret Shakespeare’s work and bring it to life.  At the end of the course, we will attempt this ourselves by acting out a scene in small groups.  Throughout, students will be encouraged to bring their own areas of interest and expertise to bear on our study of Shakespeare and early modern culture.

ENGL 510		PROSEM RHET PROFCOM
72954 Section M02		W: 1330 – 1445	Kathleen Weisse
Introduction to research in rhetoric and professional communication. Taught with ENGL 610.

ENGL 513		CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP FICTION
70841 Section M01		T: 1630 – 1900	Jessica Alexander
Advanced creative writing prose workshop. Imaginative writing, chiefly the narrative. Graduate level workshop for students who are not in the English Department MFA program. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. Taught with ENGL 413 with additional work required at the graduate level.

ENGL 514		CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
73411 Section M01		M: 1630 – 1900	Joni Wallace
Creative writing poetry workshop for advanced writers of poetry. Graduate level works for students who are not in the English Department MFA program. Repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits. Taught with ENGL 414 with additional work required at the graduate level.

ENGL 517		GRADUATE STUDY CRITIAL THEORY
67092 Section M01		MW: 1500 – 1615	Brian Rourke
Advanced study of one or more major trends in theoretical inquiry within English studies. Some prior study of theory, such as English 301, 302, or 303, strongly recommended. Repeatable under different subtitles.

ENGL 518		HISTORY OF RHETORIC
72955 Section M01		TR: 1330 – 1445	Justine Wells
An investigation of the crucial writings that have shaped Western attitudes towards and practice of rhetoric. Course will examine key texts from the Greeks through the Enlightenment, especially as they have influenced contemporary rhetorical theory.

ENGL 522		GRADUATE STUDY IN A LITERARY FORM OR GENRE
73332 Section M01		COMIC EPIC: ULYSSES AND INFINITE JEST	Fabrizio Ciccone
		TR: 1800 – 1915
This course is intended for anyone who struggles with attention. We will spend the semester with two of the most complex, rewarding, and funniest works of English-language literature: James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996). The primary aim of this course will be to develop a careful and joyful reading of Joyce’s and Wallace’s exuberant human comedies. A secondary goal will be to instruct students in how to read (and enjoy) long books. Joyce wrote Ulysses over a seven-year period that spanned a world war and a global pandemic. While many of his contemporaries responded to the apocalyptic violence of the early twentieth century by investing in the isolationist tendencies of extreme nationalism and fascism’s false promises of universal order, Joyce set out to rewrite Homer’s Odyssey as a polyglot, multicultural, comic epic. What Joyce found in comedy was not an escape from the nightmare of history but rather, in the words of his compatriot Samuel Beckett, “a form to accommodate the mess.” At the other end of the twentieth century, and across the Atlantic, Wallace wrote his own multinational, multicultural, comic epic over another seven-year period. Wallace set his book in a near future that looks increasingly like our own, in which the United States has absorbed Canada and Mexico, the calendar has been sold to corporations, and the end of the world might be right around the corner. And yet, despite its despairing overtones, Infinite Jest remains committed to a comic mode of thinking. Throughout our time together, we will try to understand what is to be gained by refusing a “tragic” perspective in times of great disaster. We will, in other words, try to take the comedy of Ulysses and Infinite Jest seriously.

ENGL 542		MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY
72967 Section M01		TR: 1500 – 1615	Ryan Cull
Studies the development of American poetry from World War I to the present. Repeatable under different subtitles. May be repeated up to 6 credits.

ENGL 549		GRADUATE STUDY IN WRITING
72968 Section M01		T: 1630 – 1900	Kerry Banazek
Close study of a topic in composition, rhetoric, and/or technical and professional communication. Topics vary. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 credits.

ENGL 571		COMPOSITION PEDAGOGY
50266 Section M01		TR: 1200 – 1315	Kerry Banazek
Examines the pedagogical implications of contemporary composition theory and research. Focuses on teaching composition at the college level. Consent of instructor required.

ENGL 589		CULTURAL STUDIES: LITERATURE AND THEORY
72977 Section M01		TR: 1200 – 1330	Laura Anh Williams
Examines the theory and practice of cultural studies in relation to the variety of discourse describable as literary, including autobiography, avant-garde writing, nonfiction prose, the essay, online writing, folklore, and popular genre fiction (such as mystery, romance, thriller, or horror). Repeatable under different subtitles. May be repeated up to 6 credits.

ENGL 597		INTERNSHIP IN TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
71310 Section M01		R: 1330 – 1600	Justine Wells
71306 Section M70		WEB	Justine Wells
Open to undergraduate and graduate students in any field (e.g., Literature, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Creative Writing, etc.), in this course you will complete an internship with a business, nonprofit, or university entity that helps you professionalize in your chosen career path or field of study. All variety of internships involving communication are supported, and internships may be paid or unpaid. To make for a full learning and professionalization experience, enrolled students participate in an online course with brief weekly assignments tailored to their internship, and a final project. Internship opportunities are regularly advertised on the student listservs. Students interested in completing an internship should contact the internship coordinator, Dr. Justine Wells (jbwells@nmsu.edu) as soon as possible, to discuss how to search for an internship or design your own. Although students can begin seeking an internship at the beginning of the term, ideally, you will arrange for your spring internship before the end of the fall term; contact Dr. Wells for details.

ENGL 610	PROSEMINAR RHETORIC/PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
41593 Section M01	W: 1330 – 1600		Eric House
Introduction to research in rhetoric and professional communication. Required of and limited to students enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication.

GNDR 502	ADVANCED TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISISMS
72973 Section M01	MW: 1330 – 1445		Dylan Blackston
Advanced analysis of dimensions of gender, race, class, and sexuality in conjunction with nationalisms, anti-capitalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, militarism, globalization, eco-critique, and the politics of resistance and social movements.

GNDR 508	ADVANCED FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES
72978 Section M01	TR: 1200 – 1315		Laura Anh Williams
Advanced examination of contemporary food writing as a way to study identity, social structures, and notions of acceptability. Intensive exploration of how constructions of food shape bodies, desires, and notions of belonging. Learning Outcomes Apply critical thinking and critical writing competencies about race ethnicity, gender sexuality, and class, as well as food and culture. Analyze representations of food and culinary practices in literature, film, and other cultural production as a reflection of larger social forces. Develop a scholarly vocabulary for discussing themes of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, class, citizenship and belonging, dislocation and exile, labor and consumption.

GNDR 550	SPECIAL TOPICS
73363 Section M01	W: 1330 – 1600		Laura Hooton
The topic of course will vary and will be indicated by subtitle. May be cross-listed with relevant courses at the 500-level from any specific department. May be repeated up to 99 credits. Learning Outcomes Varies

GNDR 555	ADVANCED FEMINIST RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
72979 Section M01	MW: 1030 – 1145		Dylan Blackston
Study of feminist modes of research inquiry, feminist ethics in research, and critiques of traditional disciplinary approaches to research. Learning Outcomes Students will recognize how theories and research methods influence the subjects and outcomes of studies. Students will understand feminist practices associated with evolving epistemologies, research strategies, and calls for social change. Students will develop and practice skills in designing, conducting, and analyzing narratives in ways that utilize feminist theory and research methods.

GNDR 571	ADVANCED SEMINAR IN FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORIES
73336 Section M01	WEB		M. Catherine Jonet
Seminar in contemporary feminist and queer theorizing that explores knowledge production, key debates, and transformation. Course examines interconnectedness of feminist and queer theories as well as critical concepts for social change and worldmaking. Learning Outcomes Students will be able to demonstrate through discussion, research, and writing knowledge of shifts, differences, and debates in feminist and queer theoretical discourses. Students will be able to analyze a range of contemporary feminist and queer critical theory in discussions, essay assignments, and exams. Students will be able to formulate theories and forge connections between feminist and queer discourses through written and other assignments.

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