gsu english | Dr. Shannon Finck

OUROBOROS: A Journal of the Publishing Industry’s Innovations and Reinventions

Students in my Fall 2024 ENGL 3140: Editing for Publication class spent the semester brushing up on their editing skills while reading Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction, a history of literary publishing and conglomeration in the US. Meanwhile, they put their skills and knowledge to work, creating an online journal that reflects their own interests in…

Student Researchers in the Archives (Honors ENGL 1103, Georgia State University Special Collections, 2023-2024)

ENGL 4500: English Internship

Course Description The GSU English Department’s Internship Program helps students make professional connections, gain valuable and diverse work experiences, and develop career skills related to the study of English. Your internship might take place at a business, a school, a foundation/non-profit, or a government agency under the mentorship of a supervisor. Duties may include assisting…

ENGL 3140: Editing for Publication

Course Description This course considers the roles of editors in a variety of contexts, with the aim of developing our understanding of what editors do and how they do it. We’ll edit our own writing as well as the writing of our classmates, study style guides and house styles, and immerse ourselves in the processes…

ENGL 3695/ WGSS 3910: LGBTQ+ Lit

Course Description This course centers literature written by LGBTQ+authors and texts addressing queer identities and experiences. As we read contemporary literary works by living LGBTQ+ writers, we will consider some of the ideas and issues that shape queer lived experience, cultural and artistic production, visibility and equity, and the politics and ethics of representation. Approaching…

HON 1103: Labor Histories & the Future of Work

Course Description As new college students, you begin your educational journeys in a climate of uncertainty about the future of labor. You set schedules, choose majors, and prepare to enter the workforce in the wake of pandemic rhetoric about “essential and inessential workers” and against a backdrop of news and magazine headlines about the rise…