Welcome to Prof. Todd Comer's classes
"No sooner do we come into this world than bits of us start to drop off." -- Gustave Flaubert
Welcome
Hello to all my Defiance College students, prospective or current. This web site is intended as a supplement to course offerings. You will find syllabi for classes as well as handouts and any supplemental materials.
What I teach
- English 220 (various topics): Alan Moore and Watchmen
- English 290: Introduction to Language and Literature
- English 325: Postcolonial Literature
- English 355: British Literature
- English 425: Modern and Cont. Literature (postmodern fiction emphasis)
- English 490: Literary and Cultural Theory (capstone, Disability Studies emphasis)
- Arts and Humanities 109: Writing Workshop
- Arts and Humanities 110: Writing the Self in Culture
- Arts and Humanities 120: Writing the World
- Arts and Humanities 395: Topics in Film (This yearly, team-taught course features rotating topics: Disability, Race, Postmodernism.)
English major events
- Road Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 2. Email me to be added to the list now.
- Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Sept.11. Email me to be added to the list now.
- Study Break for the Literati (finals week of Fall semester).
- The Ins and Outs of Graduate
School (fall semester)
- Animarathon IV at BGSU, Spring 2011.
- SwampFire Retreat, Summer 2011
- Student/Faculty trip to the SSML annual conference (East Lansing)
- Tuesday, 5:00 p.m., gatherings for Progeny, the college literary magazine. This is a writers' support group and for the editing of the magazine.
- See English website for more.
About Prof. Todd
Prof. Todd Comer completed his MA and PhD in American literature and
film at Michigan State University, and now works as an Assistant
Professor of English at Defiance College. Prior to his time at Michigan State University, Prof. Todd worked as a reporter, copy writer, and librarian. He earned his BA (English and History) at Taylor University and was born and raised West Virginia.
Todd is currently looking for more submissions for an edited volume on the graphic novelist Alan Moore:
- Lost Loves: Why Men and Women Make It (or Don't) in the Work of Alan Moore (link to more information on the edited collection)