Department of English
2025
fall
ENGL0372.301 - Juvenilia (First Year Seminar) - Melissa Jensen MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0775.601 - Radiant, Humble, Monstrous: Modern Children's Literature - Melissa Jensen MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2604.401 - American Books/Books in America - John Pollack, James N Green Thursday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2730.301 - Victorian Nightmares - Barri Joyce Gold TR 3:30pm-4:59pm
ENGL4507.301 - A Whole New World: Transformations and Translations of the Arabian Nights (The One Series) - Mursal Sidiqi MW 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL4509.301 - American Infinity: Walt Whitman’s Revolutionary Leaves of Grass (The One Series) - Michael Watkins TR 3:30pm-4:59pm
spring
ENGL0010.001 - Introduction to Shakespeare - Zachary Lesser MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0305.301 - The Gothic (First Year Seminar) - Michael Gamer MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0509.401 - Dante's Divine Comedy - Department Staff MW 12pm-1:29pm
ENGL0510.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0540.401 - Literary Theory Ancient to Modern - Rita Copeland MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0701.401 - Medieval Roadtrip: Reading and Writing with Chaucer - Emily Steiner TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0775.301 - The Living Dead - Melissa Jensen TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2060.301 - Sex, Scandal, and Sensation in Victorian Literature - Barri Joyce Gold TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2061.301 - Victorian Action Heroes - Jed Esty MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2300.401 - Queer Poetry from Homer to Hughes - Melissa E. Sanchez TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2603.401 - "Do Books Make Revolutions? Writing, Publishing, and Reading in Early Modern Europe and the Americas" - Roger Chartier, John Pollack Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2879.401 - Acting Shakespeare - Sarah Doherty MW 12-1:29pm
ENGL4508.301 - Moby-Dick (The One Series) - Peter Emanuel Diamond TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL4510.301 - Pride and Prejudice Across The Globe (The One Series) - Jacob Myers MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL4511.301 - Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and its Adaptations (The One Series) - Natalia Reyes TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL5560.301 - The Nineteenth Century Now - Emily Steinlight Thursdays 1:45-4:44pm
2024
fall
ENGL0376.301 - The Short Story Cycle (First Year Seminar) - Jed Esty TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL0775.301 - Radiant, Humble, Monstrous: Modern Children's Literature - Melissa Jensen MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1015.401 - Sagas and Skalds: Old Norse in Translation - Caroline Batten MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2000.401 - Epic Tradition: Dido through the Ages - Rita Copeland TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2041.301 - Romantic Book, Romantic Media - Michael Gamer MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2050.301 - What is Realism? - Emily Steinlight TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2131.301 - Early Philly: Literature and Culture of Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries - David Kazanjian TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2315.401 - Saints and Sex Demons - Caroline Batten TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2355.401 - Happily Ever After? - Melissa Jensen MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2522.301 - The Death of the Sun: Energy, Evolution & Ecology in Victorian Fiction - Barri Joyce Gold TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2604.401 - American Books/Books in America - John Pollack, James N Green Thursday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2860.401 - Sex with Shakespeare - Abdulhamit Arvas TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL4500.301 - The Bible (The One Series) - Peter Emanuel Diamond TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL4510.301 - David Copperfield and the "Social-Problem" Novel (The One Series) - Jacob Nielsen MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL4511.301 - Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and its Adaptations (The One Series) - Natalia Reyes TR 3:30-4:59
ENGL5320.401 - After Dante's Divine Comedy: Transmission, Creative Adaptation, and Material Form - David Wallace Tuesday 8:30-11:29am
spring
ENGL0510.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0540.401 - History of Literary Criticism (Literary Theory Ancient to Modern) - Rita Copeland TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0701.401 - Medieval Road Trip: Reading and Writing with Chaucer - Emily Steiner TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0777.301 - Frightful: Adolescence and the Gothic - Melissa Jensen TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2010.301 - Old English Language and Literature - Caroline Batten TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2052.301 - 19th Century American Literary Radicals - Catherine Turner MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2060.301 - Sex, Scandal, and Sensation in the Victorian Novel - Barri Joyce Gold TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2385.401 - Terrifying: Adolescence, Real and Imagined - Melissa Jensen MW 12-1:29pm
ENGL2605.401 - The Mediterranean World in the Age of Don Quixote - Roger Chartier, Antonio Feros Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2879.401 - Acting Shakespeare - Jennifer Thompson TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL4508.301 - Jane Eyre and its Afterlives (The One Series) - Jacob Nielsen MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL5840.401 - Narrating Environment - Paul Saint-Amour Monday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL5945.401 - Nationalism, Globalism, and Literary Form - David Wallace Tuesday 8:30-11:29am
2023
fall
ENGL0372.301 - Juvenilia - Melissa Jensen MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0509.401 - Dante's Divine Comedy - Department Staff MW 12pm-1:29pm
ENGL2000.401 - Epic Tradition - Rita Copeland TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2030.301 - Traveling Tales: Exploration and Encounter in late-17th and 18th-Century Writing - Suvir Kaul MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2135.401 - Trash: The Dime Novel - David Kazanjian Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2140.301 - Literature of New York City - Nancy Bentley MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2315.401 - Saints and Sex Demons - Caroline Batten TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2403.401 - Marx’s Century - Emily Steinlight TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2604.401 - American Books/Books in America - John Pollack, James N Green R 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL4500.301 - King Lear from Shakespeare to Succession (The One Series) - George Perez MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL4508.301 - Reading Middlemarch (The One Series) - Jonathan Dick TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL5240.401 - Premodern Monstrosities - Caroline Batten Monday 10:15-1:14 pm
spring
ENGL0303.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 8:30-10:14am
ENGL0531.401 - Reproductive Fictions - Emily Steinlight TR 10:15-11:44
ENGL0540.401 - History of Literary Criticism - Rita Copeland TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0776.301 - Heartbreak, Death, and Sometimes a Rainbow: Young Adults and Literature - Melissa Jensen TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2010.301 - Old English Language and Literature - Caroline Batten MW 10:15-11:44
ENGL2014.401 - Premodern Animals - Emily Steiner TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2321.401 - Criminal Sexuality - Alicia Meyer MW 12-1:29pm
ENGL2603.401 - Writing, Publishing, and Reading in Early Modern Europe and the Americas - Roger Chartier, John Pollack Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2621.401 - Prints and Politics - Shira Brisman Tuesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2841.401 - Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy - Max Cavitch MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2879.401 - Acting Shakespeare - Jennifer Thompson Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL4986.301 - Witches, Wenches, and Wardrobes: Unsettling the Home in Early Modern England - Jonah Max Greebel MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL5980.401 - Histories of Race & Sexuality - Abdulhamit Arvas, Ania Loomba Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm