Instructor: Irene Cooper

Biography: Irene Cooper is the author of Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy about family (V.A. Press) & spare change (FLP), finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for poetry. She co-edited Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon. Writings appear in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Manifest-Station, Phoebe, The Rumpus, Streetcake, Witness, and elsewhere. Irene co-founded Blank Pages Workshops and The Forge, an online writing intensive, and supports AIC-directed creative writing opportunities at a regional prison.

Classes by this instructor

ENG 205: Survey of British Literature II

This course examines representative texts from the Romantic period through Contemporary literature. The romance of nature, industrial growth, urban experience, the rise of new class identities and alienation of the individual are themes in this period. Literary forms such as lyric and narrative poetry, short stories, the novel and the drama of social realism and literature of the absurd are studied. Explores relations between texts and their cultural and historical contexts. Need not be taken in sequence. This is a non-credit Community Education class taken with credit students. You will not receive college credit.
March 31, 2026 to June 11, 2026 | 6:00pm-7:50pm PDT | Prineville