Kathleen Brogan
Associate Professor of English
Teaches modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography.
I teach courses in modernism, contemporary American fiction and poetry, ethnic literature, and urban literature and photography. My book, Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Fiction, examines how ghost stories in ethnic literature reflect the way shared group histories are recalled and reshaped. I am now working on a study of how cities are depicted in American literature and art.
Education
- B.A., Queens College
- Ph.D., Yale University
Current and upcoming courses
Critical Interpretation
ENG120
English 120 introduces students to a level of interpretative sophistication and techniques of analysis essential not just in literary study but in all courses that demand advanced engagement with language. In active discussions, sections perform detailed readings of poetry drawn from a range of historical periods, with the aim of developing an understanding of the richness and complexity of poetic language and of connections between form and content, text and cultural and historical context. The reading varies from section to section, but all sections involve learning to read closely and to write persuasively and elegantly.
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Text and Image
ENG257
From medieval illuminated manuscripts to contemporary graphic novels, genres that combine words and pictures invite us to consider the relationship between what were once called the "Sister Arts" of literature and the visual arts. This course will explore the various, complex, and fascinating interactions between texts and images in "blended" genres: children's picture books, ekphrastic poetry (poetry that describes and responds to visual artwork), concrete poetry (poetry in the shape of images), graphic novels, comics, and illustrated novels. We'll also look at works of visual art that include text.