AML 421-002- Spring 2026 - Roberts

"Southern literature is full of dead people who won’t stay dead, haunted houses, haunted minds, curses, and ghosts both real and imagined. Is slavery America’s Original Sin? Are we imprisoned in our own history? In this course, we’ll explore these questions. Students will be expected to read and comprehend at a very high level (this is an advanced course and will be taught as such) and produce sophisticated, erudite, clear, and intellectually-rigorous writing. Authors to be studied include Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Angelina Grimké, Ralph Ellison, Randall Kenan and others. Fulfills the 4000-level requirement and the genre requirement. "