Undergraduate Fall 2009 Courses
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Freshman Seminar
English 016.301Tragedy Bushnell 
M 3:30-6
English 016.302Emily Dickinson at Large Cavitch 
TR 1:30-3
English 016.303American Cosmopolitans Cillerai 
TR 9-10:30
English 016.304The Life and Times of Geoffrey Chaucer Pangilinan 
TR 12-1:30 Cancelled
English 016.401Scenes of Teaching Love 
T/R 3-4:30

Intermediate Level Courses
English 020.001Literature Before 1660 D. Wallace 
MW 2-3:30
English 031.001Renaissance Literature & Culture Riebling 
TBA Cancelled
English 034.401Introduction to the History of the Book: Cultures of the Book Stallybrass, Comberg 
W 2-5
English 038.001Milton Lesser 
TR 12-1:30
English 040.001Major British Poets 1660-1914: Literary Form, Social Function, and the Making of a National Tradition Kaul 
TR 12-1:30
English 050.001Transatlantic Romanticism(s) J. Edwards 
MWF 12-1
English 054.401Music and Literature: African-American Soundings Jaji 
MWF 11-12
English 064.001Modern America Barnard 
TR 3-4:30
English 069.001Poetry and Poetics Malcolm 
MWF 1-2
English 072.401Introduction to Asian-American Literature Park 
TR 10:30-12
English 081.401 'Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature Tillet 
TR 9-10:30
English 085.401Medicine and Literature 1650-1850 Wahlert 
TR 4:30-6
English 088.001Modern American Poetry Perelman 
MW 3:30-5
English 089.001American Fiction: The American Novel A. Kaplan 
TR 10:30-12
English 090.401Writing Women, 1660-1800 Bowers 
TR 10:30-12
English 092.401World Film History and Analysis, 1945-Present Corrigan 
TR 9-10:30, screenings T 5-7:30
English 094.401Introduction to Literary Theory Rabaté 
TR 12-1:30

General Requirements
English 101.401Jane Austen and Adaption Gamer 
MW 11-12
English 101.402Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 11-12
English 101.403Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 1-2
English 101.404Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 1-2
English 101.405Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 11-12
English 101.406Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 11-12
English 101.407Jane Austen and Adaption Recitation Staff 
F 11-12
English 102.001War and Literature A. Kaplan 
TR 3-4:30
English 102.401Madness in Literature: Bedlam to the Present Wahlert 
W 5-8

Seminars
English 221.301London in Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Pangilinan 
TR 9-10:30
English 226.301Ovid and Shakespeare de Grazia 
TR 3-4:30
English 229.401Classical Epic and Pagan Romance Copeland 
TR 10:30-12
English 236.401Acting Shakespeare Mazer 
TR 1:30-3
English 241.301Satire: The Enlightenment to Postmodernism Gaedtke 
TR 3-4:30
English 251.301Writing the Unspeakable in the 19th-Century British Novel J. Edwards 
TR 4:30-6
English 255.301Victorians and Moderns Malcolm 
MW 3:30-5
English 258.301Reading James Joyce Rabaté 
TR 9-10:30
English 259.301Pound and Eliot Perelman 
MW 2-3:30
English 261.401The Holocaust: Problems of Representation in Literature & Film Filreis 
TR 1:30-3
English 264.401Black South Writers T. Davis 
MW 3:30-5
English 286.301American Bestsellers Conn 
R 3-6
English 286.302American Literature of Dissent C. Turner 
TR 9-10:30
English 288.401Postwar American Poetry Bernstein 
TR 1:30-3
English 290.401Gender, Sexuality, and the Modern Novel: Virginia Woolf & Co. Gaedtke 
MW 3:30-5
English 294.401Slought Foundation Seminar in Comtemporary Culture: Word and Art, Action and Concept: language experimentation and the conceptual avant-garde (1971-1981) A. Levy 
W 2-5 Cancelled
English 295.401British Cinema: Realism and its Discontents English 
TR 10:30-12

English Honors Program
English 311.301Honors Thesis Seminar Tillet 
T 1:30-4:30

Benjamin Franklin English Seminars
English 332.301Renaissance Poetry de Grazia 
TR 10:30-12
English 352.301Nineteenth-Century New York City and American Modernity Bentley 
TR 9-10:30 Cancelled
English 356.401Seeds of Modern Drama Mazer 
TR 10:30-12
English 359.301Transatlantic Modernism Conn 
TR 12-1:30
English 359.302Old Bonds, New Contracts and the Problem of Marriage A. Hall 
TR 12-1:30
English 392.401New Wave Cinemas Corrigan 
TR 1:30-3, screenings T 5-7:30
English 395.401Globalization and the Fate of Literature English 
W 2-5

Creative Writing Seminars
English 010.301Creative Writing Levin 
W 2-5
English 010.302Creative Writing Kirk 
T 1:30-4:30
English 112.301Fiction Writing Workshop M. Apple 
T 1:30-4:30
English 113.301Poetry Writing Workshop Burnham 
TR 10:30-12
English 115.301Advanced Fiction Writing Rile 
M 2-5
English 116.401Screenwriting Workshop DeMarco Van Cleve 
T 1:30-4:30
English 117.301The Arts and Popular Culture DeCurtis 
R 1:30-4:30
English 123.301Advanced Writing for Children Van Doren 
R 1:30-4:30
English 130.401Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
M 2-5
English 130.402Advanced Screenwriting Wolk 
F 2-5
English 135.301Creative Non-Fiction Writing M. Apple 
R 1:30-4:30
English 135.302Creative Non-Fiction Writing Kant 
T 1:30-4:30
English 135.401Creative Non-Fiction Writing Ross 
T/R 10:30-12
English 145.301Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Kephart 
M 2-5
English 145.302Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Funderburg 
R 1:30-4:30
English 157.301Introduction to Journalistic Writing R. Nichols 
R 1:30-4:30
English 158.301Advanced Journalistic Writing Polman 
W 2-5
English 158.302Advanced Journalistic Writing Tarr 
W 2-5
English 161.301The Art of the Profile Polman 
M 2-5
English 165.301Writing through Culture and Art Goldsmith 
W 2-5

Cross-Listed Courses
English 078.401Television Studies Hendershot 
MW 2-3:30
English 100.401Introduction to Literature Todorov 
MW 12-1
English 100.402Recitation for Introduction to Literature Staff 
F 12-1
English 100.403Recitation for Introduction to Literature Staff 
F 2-3
English 250.401Gender Relations in the Romantic Ballet of the 19th Century: Sex, Drugs and Crime Kant 
TR 12-1:30
English 292.401Cinema of Outsiders: American Independents Mazaj 
TR 10:30-12
English 292.402American Film Criticism Donovan 
MW 2-3:30
English 292.403Dark Comedy Ferguson 
TR 12-1:30
English 295.402Television and Media: Children's Television Hendershot 
MW 3:30-5
English 295.403Cinema of the Balkans Mazaj 
TR 3-4:30

Closely Related Courses
Comparative Literature 238.401Autobiographical Writing Weissberg 
TR 10:30-12

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses
English 029.601Classical Antiquity and English Literature: The Odyssey and Its Afterlife Foy 
T 5:30-8:30
English 055.601The 19th-Century Novel: Duty and Decadence Burnham 
R 6-9:00
English 102.601The Call of the Wild R. Nichols 
T 5:30-8:30
English 104.601Romanticism Lotto 
M 6-9:00
English 115.601Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson 
T 5:30-8:30
English 121.601Writing for T(w)een Readers Jensen 
M 5:30-8:30
English 259.601Modernism: The Horseless Carriage: American Literature and Car Culture Malcolm 
TR 5-6:30 Cancelled
English 260.601The Rise of the Novel in Britain Harzewski 
M 6-9:10
English 263.601Who's Watching You? American Literature Between the World Wars Tanyol 
W 5:30-8:30

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses
English 087.601Classical Athens to Elizabethan London Schlatter 
M 5:30-8:30
English 091.601World Film History and Analysis to 1945 Sheehan 
T 5:30-8:30
English 116.601Screenwriting Workshop Rush 
W 6:30-9:30
English 256.601Transgressive Performance Fox 
R 5:30-8:30
English 292.601Charlie Chaplin Ross 
T 5:30-8:30

Master of Liberal Arts
English 415.640Ut Pictura Poesis (As is painting, so is poetry) Zhuraw 
W 5:30-8:10
English 415.641Research for Writers Broussard 
T 5:30-8:10
English 430.640 Italy on the English Stage Riebling 
R 5:30-8:10
English 461.640Orwell and Hemingway Espey 
T 5:30-8:10

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates
by Permission of Instructor
English 553.401Premodern Women D. Wallace 
M 9-12
English 591.401The Model W. Steiner 
W 12-3
English 593.301American Bestsellers Conn 
R 3-6
English 597.401Shakespeare and Popular Print Culture Lesser 
M 12-3
 
 
 
 


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