Faculty & Courses

The Director

Lisa MacFarlane is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of New Hampshire and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Among her publications are A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender and the Creation of American Protestantism (Cornell, 1996); This World Is Not Conclusion: The Spiritual Landscape of Nineteenth-Century New England Fiction (University Press of New England, 1998); an edition of Henry Adams' 1884 novel Esther (Penguin, 1999); and Trading Gazes: Anglo-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans 1880-1940 (Rutgers, 2003). Her teaching includes a wide range of classes on mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century culture, including ones on photography, women writers, visual and material culture, American realism, and interdisciplinary methods.

Undergraduate Courses

At the University of New Hampshire, lower-division courses are numbered 400-599; upper-division courses may be numbered either 600-699 or 700-799. The Department of English uses the 600 level to designate courses slightly less advanced than those listed at the 700 level. The Department of History lists the upper-division courses at the 600 level. All courses offered are four-credit courses.

Graduate Courses

Students taking courses on the graduate level participate in all class sessions with the undergraduate students. In addition, they are expected to write a long paper or complete a special project along with other course requirements, and to participate in individual tutorials with instructors as needed in conjunction with the long paper or project. Graduate courses will be taken at the 800 level.

2010 Course Offerings

Students enroll in two courses.

Click on course numbers for detailed course descriptions and faculty information.

History 600: Advanced Explorations in History: Henry VIII, Oliver Cromwell, and the "Glorious Revolution": Religious Culture Wars in Britain, c. 1529-1689.
This course is also available for graduate credit as History 800.

English 703: Advanced Nonfiction Writing: Travel Writing.
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 803.

English 758: Shakespeare (performance and interpretation).
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 858.

English 773: British Literature of the 20th Century (poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Eliot).
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 873.

English 797(H): Special Studies in Literature: James Joyce's Ulysses.
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 897(H).

English 797(J): Special Studies in Literature: Detection, Empire, and Narrative.
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 897(J).

English 797(N): Special Studies in Literature: Growing Up English.
This course is also available for graduate credit as English 897(N).