Lectures:

• Pillars of American Fiction: From Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe to Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James and Others
• Beyond America and Great Britain: Literature from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India and Elsewhere
• The Postmodern Tradition in American Fiction - from Nabokov to Pynchon and DeLillo
• Literature of Dissent in the United States - Writing against the American Dream

Seminars:

• Understanding Modern Poetry: Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Doolittle, Moore, Pound and Others

• "The Rupture of Poetry": Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell