WMNS2455 — American Women Writers: Reviews & Ratings

WMNS2455 (American Women Writers) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.

Surveys the diversity of American women’s writing to ask what it means to describe writers as disparate as Phillis Wheatley, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, and Alison Bechdel as part of the same “tradition.” With attention to all genres of American women’s writing, introduces issues of genre and gender; literary identification; canons; the politics of recuperation; silence and masquerade; gender and sexuality; intersectionality; sexual and literary politics, compulsory heterosexuality, and more.

Last taught

Fall 2025

Credits

4 Hours

Prerequisites

ENGL 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGL 1111 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or WRIT 201M with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C

NUpath

Difference/Diversity, Interpreting Culture

Data updated October 2026.

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