MLA Faculty Lecture: Foundations of Humanistic Inquiry
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This Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) faculty lecture offers a sneak peek at the upcoming Autumn Quarter course, Foundations of Humanistic Inquiry. Foundations provides a graduate-level introduction to advanced study in the humanities across a range of fields, including poetry, philosophy, fiction, and film. The course guides MLA students in developing analytical, critical, and writing skills that are common in the humanities. These skills serve MLA students well throughout their careers and enrich their personal and professional lives.
Speaker Bio
Mark Miller
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department
Mark Miller is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago. He is in the early stages of a book project called The Drive of Psychoanalytic Theory: A Reintroduction to Freud and Lacan. He also teaches and writes about medieval literature and culture, especially Chaucer and other 14th century English writers. In 2004 he received the Mark B. Ashin Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Click here to read about Mark Miller's sample class on Some Versions of the Apocalypse.
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