First-Year Seminars 110UW - American Women's Fiction

In this course, we will analyze fiction by women writers located in the United States from 1900 to the present. We will focus on themes of gender, race, and sexuality, and explore experiments in form as well as content. Writers may include Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Egan, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, Monique Truong, and Edith Wharton.

First-year students only, by placement.