English and Media Studies
To succeed in business — or any industry — you need to be able to communicate effectively. At Bentley, you’ll learn how to do just that, developing the skills you need to tell your story in a clear and compelling way. You’ll also explore literary genres and critical theory, learning how to interpret literature, film and other media within historical, political and cultural contexts. And you’ll examine how categories of “otherness” (such as race, class and gender) reflect and shape language and meaning in an increasingly globalized and diverse world. Our program encourages both creative and critical thinking, preparing you for success in any career requiring excellence in oral and written communication, such as publishing, journalism, marketing, public policy, public relations, law, education and more.
Degree Programs
In new monograph, Fitz Gerald explores environmental health
A lecturer specializing in American literature form 1850-1950, James Fitz Gerald focuses on narrative renderings of health, medicine and the body. His work has appeared in the journals Literature and Medicine, American Literary Realism and Modern Fiction Studies, among other venues.
Fitz Gerald is currently working on a monograph about changing historical and political dynamics of environmental health from the late 19th century through the present. In it, he analyzes representations of converging physical, psychological and social challenges posed by the estrangement of humans from nature in the construction of modern racial capitalism.
Siomopolous studies Hollywood’s history of heteronormativity
Associate Professor Anna Siomopoulos has published articles on American film and culture in journals such as New Review of Film and Television Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, as well as in several edited collections. She is the author of “Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams” and her screenplay, “Telling It Like It Is,” was second-place runner-up in the comedy category at the Woods Hole Film Festival and a finalist in the Boston International Film Festival Screenplay-to-Production Contest.
Her current book project, “States of Agreement: The Couple Contract in Hollywood Cinema,” analyzes the filmic representation of the white heterosexual couple as the foundation of American society and the premier example of the ever-evolving relationship between citizens and the state.
Mulder examines gender nonconformity in Shakespeare, Spenser
James Mulder, lecturer and co-coordinator of Bentley’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, teaches first-year writing and multimodal communication courses that focus on diverse linguistic communities and dominant language ideology. His research focuses on trans and gender studies as well as early modern poetry and drama and has appeared in the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and “The Kinky Renaissance,” an essay collection published by ACMRS Press.
Currently, Mulder is writing scholarly essays on trans and gender-nonconforming figures in the work of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. These essays will appear in “The Queerness of Early Modern English Death: Figuration, Representation, Matter,” forthcoming from Bloomsbury, and an upcoming special issue of Spenser Studies.
Courses
Contact
Tzarina Prater
Department Chair
Associate Professor of English
Adamian Academic Center 075
781.891.3103
tprater@bentley.edu