Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Courses

Literature (Lower Division)

  • The Americas: Challenging the American Literary Paradigm and “American” Identity
  • World Literature: Representations and Response to American Empire and Culture
  • Writing About Postcolonialism and Genre Fiction
  • Surveys of American Literature:
    • American Literature and Crisis: Race, Class, and Society
    • American Literature and Crisis: War and Civil Rights
    • American Literature, Race, and National Identity
  • The Dystopian Tradition and American Anxiety
  • Introduction to Literature

Literature (Upper Division)

  • Archipelagos of Wonder: Caribbean Speculative Fiction (forthcoming)
  • Science Fiction Literature (1900-2010)
  • Representations of Empire and Diaspora in American Literature
  • American Space Opera: History, Politics, and Media
  • Queer Life/Writing: Autobiography, Autofiction, and the Semi-Fictional

Digital Rhetoric Courses

  • Elements of Digital Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric of Social Media
  • Introduction to Digital Humanities
  • Digital Fan Communities: Geek Culture, Practice, and Rhetoric
  • Roleplaying Games, Board Games, and Games Design, Oh My! (formerly The Rhetoric of Gaming)

Writing and Interdisciplinary Courses

  • Professional Writing
  • Science Fiction, Resource Infrastructure, and the Culture of Knowing (Honors Program)
  • College Composition
  • Expository and Argumentative Writing:
    • The Human Subject: Media, Representation, and the Other
    • The Many Bodies of Us: the Beautiful, the Ugly, and the Alien
    • The Dreams of America: Utopia, Myth, and Their Discontents
  • Research Writing
    • Colonialism, Empire, and the United States
    • Totalitarianism, Fascism, and America
    • The Politics and Psychology of War
    • Social Media, Political Activism, and Digital Rhetoric
  • Technical Communication for General Audiences
  • Technical Communication for Engineers
  • What is the Good Life?