Tita Chico

My scholarship profoundly shapes my approach to teaching. I design my courses thematically and historically so that my students and I explore several topics central to eighteenth-century studies, including the aesthetics and ideologies of literary forms and culture, the historicity of racial and national categories, and the shifting hierarchies of class and gender. No matter the topic, I use my course design, written assignments, discussions, and lectures as opportunities to model for students how to ask, develop, and answer literary questions.

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Recent courses include undergraduate offerings such as "Detective Fiction," “Critical Methods,” “Jane Austen: Novels, Films, Adaptations,” “British Literature, 1600-1800,” “Literature of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1750,” and “The Eighteenth-Century English Novel.”

 

Graduate courses include the gateway “Literary Research and Critical Contexts,” as well as “Seduction and Sentiment,” “Experimentalism,” “Novels as Novelties,” “Technologies of Wonder,” and "The Postmodern Enlightenment." Theory colloquia have been dedicated to “Mixing Media,” “What Is Enlightenment?” and “Post-Enlightenment Theory and Praxis.”