RALPH BAUER
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Maryland
Susquehanna Hall
College Park, MD 20742
E-Mail:
bauerr@umd.edu
website:
"http://www.mith2.umd.edu/fellows/bauer/home.html"
Course Archive
English 748D:
"Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World"
. Graduate Seminar, Fall 2007.
English 301:
"Critical Methods in the Study of Literature"
. Fall 2007.
English V41.0230:
American Literature I
(survey lecture of American literature from the beginning to 1865; Spring 2007 at NYU)
English V 2831:
Literature, Science, and Empire across the Eighteenth-Century Americas
(graduate seminar, Spring 2007 at NYU)
Spanish V95.0273:
Chronicles and Travel literature of the colonial New World
(Fall 2006 at NYU)
Spanish V95.0985:
"Secrets New Worlds: Occult Philosophy and the literature of the discovery and conquest of America"
(Fall 2006 at NYU)
American Studies Graduate seminar:
A New World of Secrets: Magic, Science, and local knowledge in the literature of the discovery and conquest of America, 1492-1700
(Summer 2006 at the University of Mainz)
English 313:
American Literature (a survey lecture of American literature from the beginning to the present)
(spring 2005 and spring 2006)
English 370:
"Junior Honors Conference"
(Spring 2004, 2005, 2006)
English 373:
"Senior Honors Conference"
(Fall 2003, 2004, 2005)
English 699:
Cultures in Contact in the colonial Americas: Bodies, Knowledge, Empires (independent study)
(Spring 2006)
English 601:
Literary Research and Critical Contexts
(Fall 2004, fall 2005)
English 748B:
Mercurius Americanus
: Magic, Miracles, and Metaphors in the Conquest of America
(Fall 2003)
English 748B:
The 'Rebellious Muse': Literature and Ideology in the Revolutionary Americas
(Spring 2002)
English 431:
American Literature, 1810-1865
(Spring 2002, Fall 1999)
English 430:
Literature of the Americas, 1492-1810
(Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2004)
English 379a:
American Indian Literatures: Tradition, Protest, and Renewal
(Fall 2001)
English 748:
Prospero's Progeny: Natural History and the Poetics of Colonial Writing
English 301:
Critical Methods in the Study of Literature
(Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 2000)
English 399 HONORS:
Epic, Ethos, and Empire
English 626:
Graduate Survey of American Literature to 1865
(Spring 2001, Spring 1999))
English 399:
The 'Solitude' of the New World: The Marvelous, the Fantastic, and Magic Realism
English 222:
Introduction to American Literature from 1865 to the Present
English 234:
Introduction to African American Literature