Benjamin Hagen
I currently teach courses in literature and literary/cultural/critical theory at the University of South Dakota. This channel once operated as a supplement to courses I taught at the University of Rhode Island, though I hope others will find the videos of some interest. Some day soon I would like to continue the "Reading Tasks" project I barely began (and to re-record those initial lectures).
2025 Feb 18 - Lecture on Vol. I of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (Intro to Criticism)
Reading Tasks (2.4): Response to WB (Part 2)
Reading Tasks (2.3): Response to WB (Part 1)
Reading Tasks (2.2): WB's "The Intentional Fallacy" (cont.)
Reading Tasks (2.1): Wimsatt and Beardsley's "The Intentional Fallacy" (1946)
Reading Tasks (1.0): Introduction
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 4.2—Criticism as Interpretation and Criticism as Critique (Part 2)
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 4.1—Criticism as Interpretation and Criticism as Critique (Part 1)
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 3.3—Modeling Deconstruction and New Historicism
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 3.2—Modeling Reader Response Criticism
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 3.1—Modeling New Criticism
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 2.3—Getting Problems, Modes, and Terms Straight
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 2.2—Problematizing and Modes of Criticism
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 2.1—Syllabus Review
ENG 201 (Fall 2014): Lecture 1—Distinguishing the "Principles" of Literary Study
ENG 201 (Lecture 9.3): Thaggert on Larsen and the Performance of Race
ENG 201 (Lecture 9.2): Larsen and Parker on Race and Racialization
ENG 201 (Lecture 9.1): Larsen, Du Bois, Double Consciousness
ENG 201 (Lecture 8.5): Queering Septimus Smith
ENG 201 (Lecture 8.3): More on Edelman and Futurity
ENG 201 (Lecture 8.4): Sedgwick on Perverse Reading and the Meaning of Queer
ENG 201 (Lecture 8.2): Warner, Berlant, and Edelman
ENG 201 (Lecture 8.1): Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Kate Haffey, and Queer Temporality in Mrs. Dalloway
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.8): Attending to the Textual Practice of Mrs Dalloway
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.7): Attempting a Few Clarifications
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.6): Moi on Woolf's "Deconstructive" Feminism
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.5): Feminism, Patriarchal Humanism, and the Phallic Self
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.4): Showalter and Moi on Woolf
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.3): The Canon and the Project of Recovery
ENG 201 (Lecture 7.2): Three Waves and Images of Women