Joseph Urgo
Professor and Chair of Department

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• Early American Literature
• American Studies: Migration and Declaration (Honors)
• Senior Seminar in Critical Theory
• Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story Major Literary Figures: William Faulkner (Honors)
• Special Topics in American Studies: The Production of the 'American' Nationality
• Major Literary Figures: Willa Cather
• Film
• The Ideology of War in American Fiction and Film
• American Studies (Honors)
• The Short Story
• Southern American Literature
• Freshman Composition I and II
• Freshman Seminar
• Introduction to American Studies
• The American Political Imagination
• William Faulkner and the Apocryphal Vision
• Images of the Enemy in American Fiction and Film
• Southern Literature
• Prose Fiction
• American Literature and Culture 1914-1945
• Contemporary American Fiction 1945-1980

• Major American Writers: Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Literature and Biography: Life Writing