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Gene Stelzig

Distinguished Teaching Professor

of English

Welles 222B
1 College Circle
Geneseo, NY 14454
585-245-5469
stelzig@geneseo.edu

Gene Stelzig

Gene Stelzig has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1972.

Faculty Information

Education

  • M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
  • B.A., M.A., Cambridge University
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania
My Classes

Engl 142:
Literary Forms:

    An examination of the tradition and development of the literary form identified in the subtitle (e.g., epic, novel, romance, tragedy). (May be taken for credit twice under different subtitles.)

Engl 314:
British Romanticism

    A study of selected prose and poetry of the leading Romantic writers (Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats) as well as selections from lesser known and/or recently rediscovered writers of the period (ca. 1785-1830). Prerequisites: ENGL 170. Offered fall, even years

Engl 394:
Senior Seminar:

    Selected intensive studies of a focused topic in literature with a significant component of guided research. Sample topics include: Dante, the Bloomsbury Group, Metaphysical Poetry, the Epic Novel, the Confessional Hero, Ben Jonson and Classical Tradition, Literature and the Irrational, and Contemporary American Novelists. Prerequisites: ENGL 170 and three 300 level courses or permission of instructor. Offered when demand is sufficient