This course will equip students with graduate-level research skills. We will learn how to locate and review research materials and how to present our research professionally in academic settings.​

(1) To learn the research process in the humanities, including how to locate research materials, how to compile an annotated bibliography, and how to write a paper in MLA format. (2) To learn how to present research in graduate seminars and conferences.

Required Text:
MLA Handbook. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.

Tentative Texts:
Shelley, Frankenstein
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Joyce, The Dead
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Melville, Benito Cereno/Billy Budd, Sailor
Wharton, Ethan Frome
James, The Turn of the Screw