Dr. Jason Potts

Degrees:

• Ph.D. English (Johns Hopkins University)

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism and the Novel

Courses taught:

• ENGL 491 Selected Topics: Know Thyself: Class Consciousness in the American Novel (2014-2015)
• ENGL 492 Selected Topics: The Forms of Tolerance: Imperialism, Secularism and American Literatures (2010-2011)
• ENGL 445 Seminar: Critical Theory
• ENGL 379 American Literature: The Good Life
• ENGL 325 American Novel 1850-1940
• ENGL 298 Selected Topics: Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? (2016-2017)
• ENGL 297 Selected Topics: Television Today (2016-2017)
• ENGL 243 The Protomodern American Novel
• ENGL 242 The American Renaissance and its Shadows
• ENGL 215 Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 112 Literature and Academic Writing II
• ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
• ENGL 100 Introduction to Literature and Critical Writing