Matthew Lessig, chair
Laura Davies, graduate coordinator, M.A.T., M.S.Ed.
Denise D. Knight, graduate coordinator, M.A.
Old Main, Room 112
607-753-4307
Fax: 607-753-5978
Email: department secretary
cortland.edu/english

School of Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Karla Alwes, Andrew Anderson, Ross Borden, Victoria Boynton, Tyler Bradway,  Debra Brown, Laura Davies, Bernie Earley, Tim Emerson, David Franke, Alexander Gonzalez, Andrea Harbin, Mario Hernandez, Sarah Hobson, Denise D. Knight, John Leffel, Christine Lemchak, Matthew Lessig, Gailanne Mackenzie, Noralyn Masselink, Emmanuel Nelson, Lisa Neville, Robert Patterson, Jaclyn Pittsley, Deborah Rogers, Linda Rosekrans, Kevin Rutherford, Karen Stearns, E. Kim Stone, Laureen Wells, Anne Wiegard

Adjunct Faculty

For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration section of this catalog.

Degrees and Admission Requirements

Master of Arts in English
Master of Arts in Teaching in Adolescence Education: English (7-12)
Master of Science in Education in Adolescence Education: English (7-12)

Programs

Graduate

• •  Adolescence Education: English (7-12) [AEN] M.A.T.
• •  Adolescence Education: English (7-12) [AEN] M.S.Ed.
• •  English [ENG] M.A.

Courses

• •  AED 541 - Teaching Literature and Critical Literacy
• •  AED 576 - Practicum I: Student Teaching in the Middle School
• •  AED 577 - Practicum II: Student Teaching in the High School
• •  AED 578 - Master's Project and Teaching Colloquia
• •  AED 663 - Seminar in Research in the Teaching of English
• •  AED 668 - Language Development in Adolescence
• •  AED 669 - Participant-Observer Experience: Language Development
• •  AED 678 - MSED_AEN Final Project
• •  ENG 500 - Old English
• •  ENG 504 - Seminar in the Composing Process: Rhetoric and Analysis
• •  ENG 505 - Participant-Observer Experience: Composing Process
• •  ENG 506 - Computers and the Study of English
• •  ENG 529 - Special Topics in English
• •  ENG 530 - Chaucer
• •  ENG 538 - Studies in 17th-Century English Literature
• •  ENG 539 - Milton
• •  ENG 547 - 19th Century British Women Writers
• •  ENG 548 - Studies in British Literature 1950-Present
• •  ENG 549 - Studies in Irish Literature
• •  ENG 600 - Advanced Grammar and Usage
• •  ENG 601 - History of the English Language
• •  ENG 602 - Rhetorical Tradition
• •  ENG 615 - Studies in American Literature to 1900
• •  ENG 616 - Studies in American Literature From 1900 to 1950
• •  ENG 617 - Studies in American Literature Since 1950
• •  ENG 618 - Global Multicultural Literature
• •  ENG 619 - Seminar in Literature for Adolescence
• •  ENG 622 - Seminar in American Women Writers
• •  ENG 629 - Special Topics in English
• •  ENG 632 - Middle English Literature
• •  ENG 636 - Seminar in Shakespeare
• •  ENG 640 - Studies in English Literature 1660-1800
• •  ENG 645 - Studies in the Romantic Era
• •  ENG 646 - Studies in the Victorian Era
• •  ENG 660 - Seminar in Professional Writing
• •  ENG 672 - Seminar in Literary Criticism
• •  ENG 677 - Seminar in Contemporary British Literature
• •  ENG 678 - World Drama
• •  ENG 687 - Culminating Activity: Thesis
• •  ENG 697 - Extension of Graduate Culminating Activity
• •  ENG 699 - Independent Study