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Undergraduate Spring 2008 Courses
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Freshman Seminar
016.301Modern American Poetry Park 
TR 3-4:30
016.302Modern Primitivism Brown 
MW 3:30-5

General Education Courses
101.001Shakespeare Lesser 
MW 11-12:00
101.201Recitation Zuzga 
F 11-12:00
101.202Recitation Dowling 
F 11-12
101.203Recitation Rydel 
F 11-12
101.204Recitation Jahner 
F 11-12
101.205Recitation Gardner 
F 12-1:00
101.206Recitation Hubbell 
F 1-2:00
102.401Literature and Film in the Age of Globalization (plus recitations) Loomba 
TR 1:30-2:30 Recitations F 10-11:00 or F 11-12:00, R 3-4:00 Evening screenings M 7-8:30 pm
102.402Recitation Geathers 
F 10-11:00
102.403Recitation Stapely 
F 10-11:00
102.404Recitation Mantilla 
F 11-12:00
102.405Recitation Mucher 
F 11-12:00
102.406Recitation Sullivan 
F 10-11:00
102.407Recitation Saha 
R 3-4:00
103.401Narratives Across Cultures Allen 
TR 10:30-12
103.601Introduction to Poetry Lotto 
W 5:30-8:30
103.602Bad Boys and Dangerous Dames: The Thriller, the Detective Novel, and Film Noir Srebro 
W 5-8
104.401Monsters in Film and Literature Yang 
TR 12-1:30 (Screenings M 7-9)

Intermediate Level Courses
020.001Major British Authors I: Literature from Chaucer to Milton de Grazia 
TR 1:30-3
025.001Age of Chaucer Wallace 
MW 2-3:30
034.401Cultures of the Book Stallybrass, Comberg 
T 1:30-4:30
040.001British Poetry, 1660-1914 Riebling 
MW 3:30-5
046.001Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Inchbald Kaul 
MW 2-3:30
050.001The Romantic Period J. Richman 
TR 4:30-6
053.601Our Dark Materials: Nineteenth Century American Gothic Fiction Burnham 
W 6-9
057.001Colonial and Pre-Colonial America: The Origins of American Literature Powell 
TR 9-10:30
059.401Modernisms and Modernities Heffernan 
TR 9-10:30
066.001Literature and Law Eng 
TR 12-1:30
069.001Poetry and Poetics Burnham 
MW 2-3:30
074.001Contemporary British Fiction Harzewski 
TR 9-10:30
075.401Science and Literature Adams 
MW 11-12:00
075.402Recitation Staff 
F 11-12:00
075.403Recitation Staff 
F 1-2:00
075.404Recitation Staff 
F12-1:00
078.401Television Studies Boddy 
TR 10:30-12
081.401Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature Tillet 
MW 3:30-5
085.401Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-Present Wahlert 
TR 4:30-6
087.401THEATRE, HISTORY, CULTURE I: Classical Athens to Elizabethan London Schlatter 
TR 1:30-3
088.001American Poetry in the 20th-Century Perelman 
MW 3:30-5
089.001American Fiction: Americans Abroad J. Edwards 
MWF 11-12
090.401Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Bowers 
TR 3-4:30
091.401Film History Decherney 
TR 3-4:30 Screenings M 4:30-6:30
092.601Film Analysis and Methods Mazaj 
T 5-8 Evening Screenings R 5-8
093.001Postcolonial Literature and Theory Saint-Amour 
TR 10:30-12
094.402Introduction to Literary Theory Eng 
TR 3-4:30
099.401American Folk Literature Hufford 
TR 1:30-3

Research and Upper Level Seminars
218.301Beowulf E. Steiner 
MW 2-3:30
225.301Chaucer Research Seminar Wallace 
MW 3:30-5
229.301Love and Loss Wilson 
TR 1:30-3
231.301Shakespeare's Poems & Plays de Grazia 
TR 9-10:30
231.601The Demon Other and Other Demons Riebling 
R 5:30-8:30
238.301Milton: English Poetry and Selected Prose Curran 
TR 10:30-12
241.301The Pamela Craze: A Research Seminar Bowers 
TR 12-1:30
255.301Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Srebro 
M 3:30-6:30
256.601Three American Playwrights: Williams, Albee, Shepard Fox 
W 4:30-7:30
257.301Reading Joyce Rabaté 
TR 12-1:30
259.401Aestheticism and Decadence Saint-Amour 
TR 1:30-3
260.401Jane Austen & Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition Harzewski 
TR 10:30-12
263.301Literature of the Great Depression C. Turner 
TR 9-10:30
269.301Love Sonnets A. Jones 
MW 3:30-5
270.401Topics in Latina/o Literature: The Latina/o Body in American Literary and Cultural Memory Lima 
T 1:30-4:30
272.401Asian-American Literature of War Park 
TR 10:30-12
274.301Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Art Spiegelman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jerome Rothenberg Filreis 
M 2-5
281.401African-American Modernism T. Davis 
TR 12-1:30
282.401Rebelling Against Stereotypes: Native American Film Powell 
TR 12-1:30
284.401Intimacy and Distance: Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, and Wright Beavers 
TR 10:30-12
286.301Enlightenment and its Discontents Howell 
TR 9-10:30
290.401Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts Auerbach 
TR 12-1:30
291.401Cinema, Realism, and Social Justice: the Social Problem Film Genre and Cinematic Politics Scott 
W 2-5
291.601Germ-USA Hollywood Era C. McGrath 
TR 6:30-8 Evening Screenings W 6-9 Cancelled
292.401Cinema of the Balkans Mazaj 
TR 9-10:30
292.402American Film Criticism Donovan 
TR 3-4:30
292.601Woody Allen Ross 
W 5:30-8:30
294.301The Public Intellectual in an Era of New Media A. Levy 
TR 10:30-12
294.401RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar -- This is a year long course A. Levy 
W 2-5
294.402Beckett and Theory Rabaté 
TR 9-10:30
295.301Cultural Studies Heffernan 
TR 1:30-3
295.401Television in the 1950s Boddy 
TR 1:30-3
505.640Internet Policy and Culture Decherney 
T 6-9
573.640Realism in Fiction Films Charney 
M 5:30-8:10

Benjamin Franklin English Seminars
323.401Dante's Divine Comedy Brownlee 
TR 10:30-12
326.301Introduction to Shakespeare Rackin 
MW 2-3:30
341.301Slavery and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century Yang 
TR 9-10:30
346.401Comparative Cross-Dressing Mazer 
TR 1:30-3
359.401Culture Without the Cult A. Hall 
TR 1:30-3
366.301Law, Religion, and Literature in Renaissance England Sanchez 
TR 3-4:30
390.401The Burden of Representation Love 
TR 12-1:30
392.401Cinema and Photography Beckman 
R 1:30-4:30
394.401Critical Issues in Global and Transnational Studies de la Campa 
TR 1:30-3

Creative Writing Seminars
010.301Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction Kirk 
T 1:30-4:30
010.302Creating Possibilities in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry Devaney 
MW 5-6:30
010.601Creative Writing Mossin 
W 5:30-8:30
111.301Experimental Writing Bernstein 
W 2-5
111.302Poetry and Poetics Morris 
T 1:30-4:30
112.301Fiction Writing Workshop Rile 
M 2-5
112.302Fiction Writing Workshop McKinney-Whetstone 
R 1:30-4:30
114.401Playwriting Graham 
M 2-5
115.301Advanced Fiction Writing M. Apple 
T 1:30-4:30
115.601Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson 
R 5:30-8:30
116.401Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
T 1:30-4:30
116.601Screenwriting Workshop Lapadula 
M 5-8
118.301Advanced Poetry Workshop Djanikian 
T 1:30-4:30
121.301Writing for Children Van Doren 
R 1:30-4:30
125.304The Art of Eating and Life Devaney 
MW 2-3:30
130.401Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
W 2-5
130.402Advanced Screenwriting Rosenthal 
R 3-6
135.301Creative Non-Fiction Writing Cary 
R 1:30-4:30
135.302Creative Non-Fiction Writing: Writing Your Travels Kant 
W 2-5
135.303Creative Non-Fiction Writing Rile 
TR 12-1:30
135.305Peer Tutoring Ross 
MWF 10
145.301Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Hendrickson 
T 1:30-4:30
145.302Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Eisenberg 
F 2-5
145.401Writing in Concert Cary 
T 1:30-4:30
155.301Documentary Writing Hendrickson 
M 2-5
161.301The Art of the Profile Polman 
M 2-5
162.301The 2008 Presidential Primaries Polman 
W 2-5
165.301Writing through Culture and Art Goldsmith 
R 1:30-4:30
415.640Writing Linked Short Stories Zoffness 
T 5:30-8:10
435.640Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop Watterson 
T 5:30-8:10

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates
by Permission of Instructor
538.401Feminist Theory and Early Modern Literature Sanchez 
T 9-12
551.301British Literature, 1770-1800 Curran 
W 9-12
556.301Victorian Schisms Auerbach 
R 3-6
558.301Mourning America: Emerson and Douglass Cadava 
W 12-3
589.401Difficult Women: Stein, Loy, Riding, Moore, H.D. Perelman 
M 12-3
592.401Queer Theories and Histories Love 
W 3-6
 
 
 
 


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