Rosenbaum, Susan
F 9:10 AM
GMOA 120
English 4750 will introduce you to modernist literature in the United States. We will study literary modernism as it engages modernism in the visual arts, scientific and technological innovations, and historical and political contexts (psychoanalysis, mass production, the automobile, immigration, migration north, the two world wars, the great depression, the modern city). The Fall 2025 version of the class will also introduce you to the importance of museums, archives, and literary research methods in approaches to literary modernism. The class will meet as a once a week seminar at the Georgia Museum of Art (Fridays 9:10 – 11:40), where we will work closely with the modernist collection as well as an exhibition on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939 (https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/brilliant-exiles). In addition to studying American literature in relation to modernist visual art, the class will work with primary sources (little magazines, first editions, manuscripts) housed at the UGA Libraries, the Special Collections Library, and in digital archives. Short essays and discussion posts will be keyed to these sources, and students will complete a final paper that will expand on one of these shorter assignments.