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English & Literature (PhD): 4 courses in the order to take them, starting with Doctoral Literary Theory. Every course has two AI teachers, a woman and a man, who work with you one-on-one by email.

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English & Literature (PhD)

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English & Literature (PhD) · courses in order

Doctoral Literary Theory

A Doctoral Literary Theory Teacher takes you through literary and critical theory at doctoral depth — the long history of criticism, formalism and structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism and the Frankfurt School, Foucault and historicism, feminist, queer, race and postcolonial theory, and current debates — by reading slowly and in context. They guide dense readings, coach seminar papers and chapters, and build qualifying-exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Seminar in British Literature

A Seminar in British Literature Teacher takes you through British literature at doctoral depth — medieval verse, Renaissance poetry and drama, Milton, the long eighteenth century and the rise of the novel, Romanticism, Victorian writing, modernism and contemporary work — reading each text closely against its moment and its scholarship. They guide close readings, coach seminar papers and chapters, and build exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Seminar in World & Postcolonial Literature

A Seminar in World & Postcolonial Literature Teacher takes you through colonial discourse and its critics, Négritude and Fanon, African, Caribbean and South Asian writing, Said, Spivak and Bhabha, diaspora, world literature and translation — reading each text in its own place, history and language before comparing. They guide readings, coach comparative papers and chapters, and build exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Rhetoric & Composition Theory

A Rhetoric & Composition Theory Teacher takes you through rhetorical theory from the Sophists and Aristotle to Burke and the new rhetorics, and composition theory from current-traditional teaching through process, social-epistemic and post-process work to genre, translingual and digital writing — always tying theory to writers and classrooms. They guide readings, coach seminar papers and research plans, and build exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.