Dr. Fagan's African American Literature course that focused specifically on Frederick Douglass was interesting to me because I had very little experience reading African American Literature. In wanting to focus more on American Literature at Auburn, I took this course to be exposed to 19th century American Literature through the stories and experiences of African Americans, both freed and enslaved. Because of my own Christian faith, I was particularly interested in the New Testament poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. She was an African American Christian poet who I was introduced to through the newspapers of Frederick Douglass, where she published some of her poetry. During my research of her work and her incorporation of Christian theology into her work, I discovered that her Christian poems were rarely discussed and even more rarely incorporated into American Literature classrooms. Therefore, through my close analysis of her work for my seminar paper, I was also able to learn more about how to teach her works with the material and print culture of the 19th century, which was not an area of study that I was familiar with before this course. I have also learned about the diversity of forms that African American Literature takes and the importance of teaching it in context at all levels of education. I chose this seminar paper to include because the type of engagement that I performed interdisciplinary between Literature and History was influential in how I intended to perform future literary analysis works.