ENG 3345
Medieval English Literature
Tom Amorose
MWF 9:00 a.m.-10:20 p.m.
This course treating the earliest period of English lit may surprise you. In it, you’ll find out that Beowulf is really an anti-war story that questions bro culture and treats queerness with sympathy. That a woman author is the source of what we call “English literature,” while writing in French. That Chaucer isn’t some cheery uncle-figure but a writer who looked at human pathology the way a true-crime podcast might. That there might be something we can call gendered faith, and that Christ might best be seen as our mother.
All readings in modern English. Class conducted as discussion. Many short, informal writing activities over the quarter and one longer paper near its end.