Information related to Pursuing Graduate School in English Literature

• Do you need a letter of recommendation? 

• Do you need help with your writing?

• Do you want to know what to expect if you take a class with me?

• Are you thinking of majoring or minoring in English?

My book, The Opposite of Desire: Sex and Pleasure in the Modernist Novel, becomes available in October 2008.

You can also hear an interview with me on WVXU discussing the life and work of novelist Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

• How the University Works.

• The MLA's advice to graduate students.

• Should I go to Grad School? (by Timothy Burke at Swarthmore)

• So you want to go to Grad School?  (Chronicle article).

• This compendium of commentary on going to graduate school, by professors and students currently pursuing graduate study.

• This fun (and yet accurate) article from the Village Voice.

• This thread from the Chronicle of Higher Education Forum on Graduate School.

Courses Taught by Dr. Krouse

English 101: College Writing

English 200: Introduction to Literature

English 203: Survey of British Literature II

English 291: Advanced College Writing: Celebrity and Contemporary Culture

English 322: Literature and Sexuality

English 350: Literary Criticism

English 470: The Twentieth-Century British Novel

English 472: Studies in British Modernism - Topic: Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence

English 472: Studies in British Modernism - Topic: Poetry, Fiction, Drama

English 472: Studies in British Modernism - Topic: Joyce and Woolf

English 473: Studies in Contemporary British Literature - Topic: The British Novel Since 1960

English 485: Feminist Theory

Integrative Studies 494: Capstone (web-based course emphasizing interdisciplinary research)