ENG556: AUTHOR IMMERSION: Herman Melville

The senior reading seminars immerse students in the sustained study of an author, which students will choose from a list representing a range of diverse voices, periods and genres.

The senior reading seminars immerse students in the sustained study of an author, which students will choose from a list representing a range of diverse voices, periods and genres. Some seminars will focus on a single major work; some will focus on multiple works; some will include ancillary works. Students will also undertake a sustained writing project in the winter term. For most, this will be a Senior Meditation, the English Department’s capstone assignment. Students taking two winter English courses may choose to write a Meditation in one and complete projects of similar scope in the other.