Engl 2013: Intro to American Literature (online)

• the opening page of the online version of Engl 2013

• Bedford-St. Martins Online guide to citation styles.

Engl 2053: Technical Writing (online)

• the opening page of Engl 2053
• computing a Fog Index
• Arkansas Tech Writing, 11th Edition in pdf format

Engl 1053: Honors Composition II
(Spring 2009)

Robot

Click the link above to play with online versions of Dr. MIchael Karl Ritchie's poem "Robot."

Click the links below to view some of the student projects completed by Honors Comp II students in the spring of 2009.

The League on Non-Extraordinary Women and One Man
Elizabeth Boyd, Leighann Dicks, Roger Norman, and Becca Skelton)

The Dating Game
(Skylar Creel, Makel Neumeier, Haley Parsons, and Cassie Loy)

Swine Flu?
(Chris Briley, James Schmitt, Sara Youngblood, and Bethany Larue)

Engl 4383/5383: Seminar in American Literature -- Capitalism

• English 4383/5383 syllabus (summer 2006)

• The Silent Era
• The Studio Era
• High Noon
• International Film, Part One
• Japanese Film
• International Film, Part Two
• Citizen Kane
• Romantic Comedy
• Film Noir
• Hitchcock
• New Cinema Part One
• New Cinema Part Two: The Directors
• Taxi Driver
• Contemporary Cinema
• Blade Runner

Amst 2003: American Studies:
The Sixties

Fall 2009 Syllabus
(includes links to all presentations)

The Sixties Intro Video

"Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Eye of the Whole Man," Studies in American Humor

"Chinua Achebe" in Survey of World Literature

"Richard Wright," from Popular World Fiction 1900-Present

"Saul Bellow" In Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

"Kurt Vonnegut" in Popular Fiction in America

"Ralph Ellison" in Magill's Survey of American Literature

"Ishmael Reed's Long Fiction" in Survey of Long Fiction

"Virtue Rewarded: The Contemporary Student and Horatio Alger" in The Journal of General Education