Undergraduate Fall 2008 Courses
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Freshman Seminar
English 015.401Premodern Women: From Runaway Bride to Mad Madge D. Wallace 
MW 2-3:30
English 016.302Trauma, Time, Fiction Saint-Amour 
TR 9-10:30
English 016.303The Insides of Novels Lubey 
TR 4:30-6
English 016.401Contemporary British Literature & Film: Nation, Youth, Community Heffernan 
TR 12-1:30, screenings Mondays 7-9 F-B 244
English 016.402Literature and Empire Loomba 
TR 10:30-12, screenings Mondays 7-9 F-B 16

Intermediate Level Courses
English 020.001Literature Before 1660 Bushnell 
M 3:30-6:30
English 031.001Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare's Rivals, Collaborators, and Contemporaries Lesser 
TR 12-1:30
English 032.001Renaissance Poetry de Grazia 
TR 10:30-12
English 040.001British Poetry: Romantics to Moderns (1660-1914) Barnard 
TR 3-4:30
English 050.001Romantic Poetry and Performance Gamer 
TR 9-10:30
English 055.401The Nineteenth-Century British Novel Auerbach 
TR 12-1:30
English 057.001Literatures of the Americas to 1900 Cavitch 
TR 12-1:30
English 063.401Introduction to the African American Short Story Beavers 
TR 1:30-3
English 066.401Literature and Law Eng 
TR 12-1:30
English 070.401Mexican American Literature and Culture Padilla 
TR 3-4:30
English 072.401Introduction to Asian-American Literature: Asian American Narratives Park 
MW 2-3:30
English 073.00119th Century Literature in Dialogue O'Connor 
MWF 1-2 Cancelled
English 076.001Contemporary British Fiction Harzewski 
MWF 12-1
English 078.401Television Studies Staff 
TR 10:30-12 Cancelled
English 081.401African-American Literature Beavers 
TR 10:30-12
English 085.401Medicine and Literature, 1650-1850 Wahlert 
TR 4:30-6
English 088.001American Poetry: Modern and Contemporary Filreis 
TR 1:30-3
English 089.001American Fiction: The American Novel A. Kaplan 
TR 9-10:30
English 091.401World Film History and Analysis to 1945 Decherney 
TR 10:30-12, screenings Mondays 4:30-6:30
English 096.401Feminist Theory Sanchez 
MW 3:30-5

General Requirements
English 102.001War and Literature A. Kaplan 
TR 12-1:30
English 105.401Gender and Sexuality Studies: Queer Politics, Queer Communities Love 
MW 2-3:30
English 105.402Copyright and Culture Decherney 
TR 1:30-3

Seminars
English 221.401Women and Writing in Medieval and Renaissance England D. Wallace 
MW 3:30-5
English 229.401Classical Epic and Medieval Romance Copeland 
TR 10:30-12
English 232.301Shakespeare and Marlowe de Grazia 
TR 1:30-3
English 234.401The Making and Meaning of Books in Renaissance England Stallybrass 
MW 3:30-5
English 236.401Acting Shakespeare Mazer 
TR 1:30-3
English 241.401Oriental Tales and China-mania C. Yang 
TR 1:30-3
English 243.301Topics in Early American Literature Staff 
TR 9-10:30 Cancelled
English 250.301The Romantic Book Gamer 
TR 10:30-12
English 252.301Topics in 19th-Century Poetry Staff 
MW 3:30-5 Cancelled
English 255.401Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Lack of It Auerbach 
TR 3-4:30
English 256.301Confronting Deity: Religious Dramas Traister 
MW 2-3:30
English 256.401Dramaturgy Mazer 
TR 10:30-12
English 256.402African American Theatre: Pre-Emancipation to the Hip-Hop Generation Euell 
M 2-5
English 258.301Reading Joyce Rabaté, Heffernan 
TR 9-10:30
English 259.301Fictions of Empire Esty 
MW 3:30-5
English 264.301Nuclear Epic Saint-Amour 
TR 12-1:30
English 265.401Modernisms: Bloomsbury, Harlem, Paris Love 
MW 3:30-5
English 271.402Topics in Literature: Caribbean Literature Staff 
MWF 12-1 Cancelled
English 272.401Cinema of the Asian Diaspora Eng 
TR 3-4:30, screenings Mondays 5-8 F-B 201
English 274.301Contemporary American Fiction W. Steiner 
T 3-6
English 274.302Post-9/11 Fiction Harzewski 
MWF 10-11
English 275.301Literary Representations of Nature and Society Riebling 
MW 5-6:30
English 281.401Race Films: Spike Lee and his Interlocutors Tillet 
TR 1:30-3, screenings Wednesdays 5-7 Annenberg 110
English 286.401From Silent Shakespeare to Postmodern Austen Corrigan 
TR 1:30-3, screenings Tuesdays 5-7:30 F-B 231
English 286.402Americans in Paris Cavitch 
MW 2-3:30
English 292.401Topics in Film Practice (Contemporary International Film) Mazaj 
TR 10:30-12, screenings Tuesdays 4:30-7 COHN 402
English 292.402Topics in Cinema Studies (Cinema and Popular Memory) Mazaj 
TR 1:30-3, screenings Thursdays 4:30-7 F-B 138
English 294.401Slought Foundation Seminar in Contemporary Culture: Post-History A. Levy 
W 5-8
English 295.401Television and Media Staff 
TR 1:30-3 Cancelled

English Honors Program
English 311.301Honors Thesis Seminar Lesser 
R 1:30-4:30

Benjamin Franklin English Seminars
English 016.302Trauma, Time, Fiction Saint-Amour 
TR 9-10:30
English 326.301Shakespeare and the Argument of Comedy A. Hall 
TR 9-10:30
English 341.301Beast Culture: Animals, Identity, and Western Culture C. Yang 
TR 10:30-12
English 352.301Nineteenth-Century New York City and American Modernity Bentley 
TR 1:30-3
English 355.301Dickens O'Connor 
MW 2-3:30 Cancelled
English 360.301Theory and Practice of the Novel Bowers 
TR 3-4:30

Creative Writing Seminars
English 010.301Creative Writing Burnham 
TR 1:30-3
English 010.302Creative Writing Levin 
W 2-5
English 010.303Creative Writing Reents 
T 1:30-4:30
English 111.301Interventionist Writing: Writing Off the Page Goldsmith 
R 1:30-4:30
English 112.301Fiction Writing Workshop M. Apple 
T 1:30-4:30
English 112.302Fiction Writing Workshop Reents 
W 2-5
English 113.301Poetry Writing Workshop Djanikian 
T 1:30-4:30
English 115.301Advanced Fiction Writing Rile 
M 2-5
English 116.401Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
T 1:30-4:30
English 117.301The Arts and Popular Culture DeCurtis 
R 1:30-4:30
English 122.401Grotesque Forms: Writing/Printing/Bookmaking Gautsche, Neff 
MW 2-5
English 130.401Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
M 2-5
English 130.402Advanced Screenwriting Wolk 
F 2-5
English 135.301Creative Nonfiction Writing M. Apple 
R 1:30-4:30
English 135.302Creative Nonfiction Writing Kant 
M 2-5
English 135.305Creative Nonfiction Writing: Peer Tutoring Ross 
TR 10:30-12
English 145.301Advanced Nonfiction Writing Hendrickson 
T 1:30-4:30
English 145.302Advanced Nonfiction Writing Funderburg 
R 1:30-4:30
English 156.301Writing from Photographs Hendrickson 
W 2-5
English 157.301Introduction to Journalistic Writing Strauss 
M 2-5
English 161.301The Art of the Profile Polman 
M 2-5
English 162.301The 2008 Presidential Election Polman 
W 2-5

Cross-Listed Courses
English 100.401Introduction to Literary Study Todorov 
MW 12-1
English 100.402Recitation Staff 
F 12-1
English 100.403Recitation Staff 
F 2-3 Cancelled
English 100.404Recitation Staff 
F 1-2
English 291.401Baaaad Cinema: American Film Censorship, 1896-Present Scott 
T 3-6, screenings Mondays 5-8 F-B 15
English 584.401Environmental Imaginaries Hufford 
W 2-5 Cancelled

College Of General Studies
English 022.601English Romance and Its Afterlife Pangilinan 
TR 6-7:30
English 090.601American Women Writers J. Edwards 
W 5-8
English 092.601World Film History 1945 to Present Mazaj 
T 5-8:00, Evening Screenings R 5-8:00
English 101.601Shakespeare Riebling 
R 5:30-8:30
English 115.601Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson 
T 5:30-8:30
English 116.601Screenwriting Lapadula 
M 5-8
English 135.601Creative Nonfiction Writing Strauss 
M 5-8
English 248.601To Whom It May Concern: Letters and Literature J. Richman 
W 6-9
English 255.601Jane Austen Benatov 
T 5:30-8:30
English 263.601Southern Writers Woods 
W 6-9
English 292.601Alfred Hitchchock Ross 
T 5:30-8:30
English 412.640Writing in the Moment: A Writing Workshop Watterson 
R 5:30-8:10
English 415.640Convention and Innovation: Writing Short Fiction Zoffness 
T 5:30-8:10

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates
by Permission of Instructor
English 524.401Medieval Education Copeland 
W 9-12
English 569.401Film & Literature: Histories, Practices, Theories Corrigan 
R 9-12, screenings Wednesdays 5-7:30 F-B 244
English 570.401Postmodernism and African-American Literature Tillet 
W 3-6
English 571.301Contemporary Issues in Critical Theory, Literary & Cultural Studies de la Campa 
R 3-6
English 583.301The 'Social Self' in US Literature 1880-1920 Bentley 
T 9-12
English 592.401Chicana/o Studies Padilla 
M 3-6
English 595.301Post-Colonial Literature: J.M. Coetzee Barnard 
W 9-12
 
 
 
 


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