Dr. Shannon Finck | Georgia State University

ENGL 2130: Dream Americas

Course Description In the introduction to his 1985 book of photographs, America, pop artist Andy Warhol writes: Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see.When I was little, I never left Pennsylvania, and I used to have fantasies…

ENGL 1102: Weird Writing for Weird Times

Course Description Climate change is in the news a lot these days, and the news looks pretty bad. But while environmental catastrophes and collapsing ecosystems often appear in our newsfeeds, you may have slowed your doomscrolling enough times to notice that these problems are often presented without solutions–at least not clear or easy ones. This…

Sample Podcasts from ENGL 1103 Students at Georgia State University (Fall 2021)

Two Poems in Willawaw Journal: Issue 9

“Origin Story” & “With the Sandhill Cranes”

Modernism and Food Studies

ENGL 1101: How (and Why) to Write in the Anthropocene

Course Description In 2016, geoscientists adopted a new designation for our current time period, “the Anthropocene.” This nomenclature reflects the impact of human activity on the planet, as human beings now transform the Earth on a global scale to the same degree that environmental events have in the past. In this course, we will contemplate…

ENGL 1103: Crisis & Community

Course Description The Honors Digital Literacy Initiative is intended to prepare students for professional and post-graduate success by teaching them how to “think digitally” across a variety of fields. Through Digital Literacy courses, students will develop work that demonstrates digital experiences and learning. Students will explore digital solutions as they develop a portfolio of work…

Winner/Finalists Announced for the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry

Avant-Gardes in Crisis

Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are in crisis, in that artmaking both responds to political, economic, and social crises and reveals a crisis of confidence regarding resistance’s very possibility. Specifically, this collection casts contemporary avant-gardes as a reaction to a crisis in the reproduction of…

Birdcoat Quarterly

Birdcoat Quarterly is an online quarterly literary journal featuring poetry, lyric essays, and galleries of visual art. We aim to connect diverse creative communities through the dual platform of publishing fresh, new voices and hosting immersive events. We publish a biannual print anthology of selected work from our online issues. Birdcoat is the collaborative vision…