Undergraduate Spring 2009 Courses
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Freshman Seminar
English 016.302Contexts of Poetic Innovation: William Carlos Williams and Robert Creeley Perelman 
TR 9-10:30
English 016.401The Burden of Representation Love 
TR 1:30-3:00

Intermediate Level Courses
English 020.001Literature Before 1660 Sanchez 
TR 12-1:30
English 021.001Intro to Medieval Literature E. Steiner 
MW 2-3:30
English 034.401Intro to Print Culture Stallybrass 
M 2-5:00
English 040.001British Poetry 1660-1914 C. Yang 
TR 10:30-12
English 051.401British Novel of Development Burnham 
MWF 12-1
English 057.401Literature of Americas before 1900 Padilla 
TR 9-10:30
English 058.001Modern Irish Literature Esty 
TR 12-1:30
English 059.401Modernisms and Modernities Heffernan 
MW 3:30-5
English 060.001The Rise of the Novel Harzewski 
MWF 10-11
English 062.40120th - Century Poetry from Outside of the US Bernstein 
W 6-9:00
English 066.001Law and Literature Bentley 
TR 1:30-3
English 069.001Poetry and Poetics Jaji 
MWF 11-12
English 070.401Intro to Latina/o Lit and Culture Padilla 
TR 1:30-3
English 081.401Intro African-American Literature Tillet 
MW 2-3:30
English 082.401Native American Literature Powell 
TR 9-10:30
English 085.401Medicine and Literature 1850 – Present Wahlert 
TR 4:30-6
English 090.40118th - Century Women Writers Bowers 
TR 3-4:30
English 092.401World Film History and Analysis, 1945-present Corrigan 
MW 2-3:30, screenings M 5-7:00
English 094.401Intro to Literary Theory Eng 
TR 3-4:30
English 098.401Theatre, History, Cultural III Mazer 
TR 12-1:30

General Requirements
English 101.001Shakespeare Loomba 
MW 11
English 101.201Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.202Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.203Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.204Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.205Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.206Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 101.207Shakespeare Recitation Staff 
F 11
English 104.001The 20th Century Park 
MW 10
English 104.20120th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20220th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20320th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20420th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20520th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20620th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00
English 104.20720th Century Recitation Staff 
F 10-11:00

Seminars
English 221.301London in Literature from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries Pangilinan 
TR 4:30-6
English 225.301Chaucer Renaissance Man D. Wallace 
MW 3:30-5
English 226.401Ovid and Shakespeare de Grazia 
TR 1:30-3
English 238.301Milton Sanchez 
TR 3-4:30
English 241.401Literary Erotics in the 18th Century Lubey 
TR 3-4:30
English 245.401Epistolary Fiction Bowers 
TR 10:30-12
English 248.301Pirates, Sinners, and Castaways: Literature from the Other Atlantic Kazanjian 
TR 6:30-8
English 251.401Ironic Romance Auerbach 
TR 12-1:30
English 255.301Rewriting American Classics Bentley 
TR 10:30-12
English 259.401Modernism and the Theory of Fashion Rabaté 
TR 12-1:30
English 260.401Jane Austen and Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition Harzewski 
MW 2-3:30
English 261.301Close Readings and Discontents Heffernan 
MWF 1
English 262.301Yeats and Eliot Esty 
TR 3-4:30
English 263.301Literature and the American Prison A. Kaplan 
TR 1:30-3
English 269.301Poetry, Music, Sound Perelman 
TR 12-1:30
English 274.301Kelley Writers House Seminar: Joan Didion, Robert Coover, Mary Gordon Filreis 
M 2-5
English 281.401The Making of the Black Atlantic: Representations of Slavery in the African Diaspora Tillet 
MW 3:30-5
English 282.401Masterpieces of American Indian Expression: From the Ghost Dance to Contemporary Novels to Digitized Traditions Powell 
TR 12-1:30
English 290.401Ecofeminist Fairy Tales Hufford 
TR 12-1:30
English 291.402Internet Policy and Culture Decherney 
TR 12-1:30
English 292.401Contemporary Documentary Cinema Corrigan 
MW 3:30-5, screenings W 5-7:00
English 294.402Slought Foundation Seminar in Contemporary Culture A. Levy 
T 4:30-7:30
English 295.402The Tip of the Iceberg: What Goes Into the Making of a Work of Art? W. Steiner 
W 2-5

Benjamin Franklin English Seminars
English 329.401Poetry and Political Philosophy in Ancient Greece A. Hall 
TR 10:30-12
English 358.301James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Saint-Amour 
T 1:30-4:30
English 359.301Lies in Literature and Politics Rabaté 
TR 9-10:30
English 361.301War and Literature Barnard 
TR 3-4:30
English 376.401Blackface, Yellowface, Redface, Jewface: Theatrical Representations of “Others Mazer 
TR 10:30-12
English 393.401The Literature and Historiography of National Trauma: Partition and South Asia Kaul 
W 2-5
English 394.401History of Literary Theory Copeland 
TR 12-1:30

Creative Writing Seminars
English 010.301Creative Writing Romero 
R 1:30-4:30
English 010.302Creating Possibilities in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Devaney 
MW 2-3:30
English 010.303Creative Writing: Fiction and Non-fiction Reents 
W 2-5
English 110.301Writing at Writers House Lowenthal 
T 1:30-4:30
English 111.301Poetry and Poetic: Writing Practice of the Avant-Garde Levitsky 
R 1:30-4:30
English 111.401Experimental Writing Bernstein 
W 2-5
English 112.301Fiction Writing Workshop Rile 
M 2-5
English 112.302Fiction Writing Workshop McKinney-Whetstone 
R 1:30-4:30
English 113.401Poetry Writing Workshop Beavers 
W 2-5
English 114.401Playwriting Workshop Fodor 
M 2-5
English 115.301Advanced Fiction Writing M. Apple 
T 1:30-4:30
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 118.301Advanced Poetry Workshop Djanikian 
T 1:30-4:30
English 121.301Writing for Children Van Doren 
M 2-5
English 130.401Advanced Screenwriting DeMarco Van Cleve 
M 2-5
English 130.402Advanced Screenwriting Rosenthal 
R 3-6
English 135.301Creative Non-Fiction Writing Cary 
R 1:30-4:30
English 135.302Creative Non-Fiction: Writing Your Travels Kant 
W 2-5 Cancelled
English 135.303Creative Non-Fiction Strauss 
M 2-5
English 135.401Peer Tutoring Ross 
TR 10:30-12
English 145.301Advanced Non-Fiction Writing Hendrickson 
T 1:30-4:30
English 145.401Writing in Concert Cary 
T 1:30-4:30
English 155.301Documentary Writing Hendrickson 
W 2-5
English 158.301Advanced Journalistic Writing Polman 
W 2-5
English 158.302Journalism and Science Tarr 
W 2-5
English 159.301Political Commentary: Blogging about the New Presidency Polman 
M 2-5
English 170.301Advanced Projects in Popular Culture DeCurtis 
F 2-5

Cross-Listed Courses
English 075.401Science and Literature Adams 
MW 11-12:00
English 075.402Science and Literature Recitation Staff 
F 11-12
English 075.403Science and Literature Recitation Staff 
F 1-2
English 075.404Science and Literature Recitation Staff 
F 12-1
English 078.401Television Studies Johnson 
TR 9-10:30
English 079.401Jewish American Literature Hellerstein 
TR 10:30-12
English 095.401Intro to Film Theory Beckman 
MW 12-1 + Recitation
English 095.402Recitation for Film Theory Staff 
R 12-1
English 095.403Recitation for Film Theory Staff 
R 1:30-2:30
English 095.404Recitation for Film Theory Staff 
F 1-2
English 103.401Narratives Across the Cultures Ben-Amos 
TR 10:30-12
English 256.402Contemporary American Theatre Schlatter 
TR 1:30-3
English 270.401Contemporary Caribbean Literature: Theory and Culture de la Campa 
TR 3-4:30
English 291.401Social Problem in Film: Race, Sexuality, Violence, Justice American Cinema Scott 
Tuesday 3-6:00
English 292.402Cinema of the Balkans Mazaj 
TR 10:30-12, screenings R 4:30-7
English 292.403Masters of European Cinema: Film Poetics Mazaj 
TR 1:30-3, screenings T 4:30-7
English 295.401TV Nation –Television and the Imagination of Community Johnson 
TR 12-1:30

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses
English 010.601Creative Writing Levin 
W 5:30-8:30
English 050.601The Romantic Period J. Richman 
MW 4:30-6
English 053.601Our Dark Materials: 19th Century American Gothic Writing Burnham 
R 6:30-9:30
English 115.601Advanced Fiction Writing Watterson 
T 5:30-8:30
English 116.601Screenwriting Lapadula 
M 5-8:00
English 231.601Unruly Women and Women Who Rule Riebling 
T 5:30-8:30
English 266.601Topics in Law and Literature: Religious Freedom in U.S. Law and Literature Anthony 
M 6-9 PM
English 281.601Forced Radicals? Black Women Writers and the Protest Tradition Woods 
W 5-8:00

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses
English 091.601Film History Desser 
R 5:30-8:30, screenings T 5:30-8:30
English 099.601Great Story Collections Azzolina 
T 6:30-9:30
English 256.601Transgressive Performance: Theatre and Film That Question Gender, Sexual Identity and Sexuality Fox 
T/R 5-6:30
English 292.601Study of an Author: “Never Bore”: Billy Wilder as Auteur Ross 
T 5:30-8:40
English 490.640Women in Literature: The Diary Ben-Amos 
T 6-9

Master of Liberal Arts
English 415.640Writing Short Linked Stories Zoffness 
T 5:30-8:10
English 461.640MLA Proseminar: Representing War in the Twentieth Century Barnard 
W 5:30-8:10
English 461.641Considering Race, Class and Punishment in the American Justice System Watterson 
R 5:30-8:10

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates
by Permission of Instructor
English 540.40118th Century Orientalism: East Indies, West Indies C. Yang 
W 6-9
English 556.401Victorian Faiths, Victorian Fantasies Auerbach 
R 3-6
English 566.401Copyright and Culture Decherney 
R 3-6
English 570.40120th Century African-American Literary Criticism Beavers 
T 12-3
English 590.401Narrative Theory: Fictional Minds and Narrative Unreliability Bernaerts 
English 591.401Reading Gilles Deleuze Beckman 
M 3:00-5:00
English 598.301Futures of American Poetry Cavitch 
W 3-6
 
 
 
 


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