Department of English
2025
fall
ENGL0023.401 - Gender and Sexuality in US Popular Culture - Melissa E. Sanchez MWF 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0040.001 - Love and Work: Race, Sex, and Class in America - Heather K. Love, Josephine Park MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Javier Samper Vendrell TR 12:00-12:59pm, F recitations
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory - Angelina Edith Eimannsberger MW 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL0202.301 - Teaching Through Creative Writing - Taije Silverman TBA
ENGL0320.401 - Black Queer Traditions (First Year Seminar) - Dagmawi Woubshet MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0519.402 - Borders in South Asia: Literature, Culture, Resistance - Sara Kazmi Tuesday 10:15am-1:14pm
ENGL0527.401 - The Aftermath of Slavery: Language, Storytelling, Experimentation - Zita Cristina Nunes Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL0578.401 - The Contemporary Graphic Novel - Jean-Christophe Cloutier TR 10:15am-11:44am
ENGL0775.601 - Radiant, Humble, Monstrous: Modern Children's Literature - Melissa Jensen MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1010.001 - Introduction to Old English Language and Literature - Emily Steiner MW 3:30-4:44pm
ENGL1025.401 - Shakespeare Now - Abdulhamit Arvas TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL1179.401 - World Literature - Department Staff Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1190.401 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures - Sara Kazmi MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1270.401 - Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture - Bakirathi Mani TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1409.401 - Introduction to Literary Study: Close Reading Global Fiction and Film - Department Staff MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2080.401 - Representations of the Holocaust - Al Filreis TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2222.401 - August Wilson and Beyond - Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger MW 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL2310.401 - Women's Work - Emily Steinlight TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2840.401 - Groundbreaking Poets and Traditional Forms - Taije Silverman MW 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL2933.401 - Japanese Cinema - Julia Alekseyeva MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2953.401 - Digital Infrastructures & Platforms - Rahul Mukherjee MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL4507.301 - A Whole New World: Transformations and Translations of the Arabian Nights (The One Series) - Mursal Sidiqi MW 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL4515.301 - Reading Through Tears: On Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (The One Series) - Austin Svedjan TR 3:30-4:44pm
ENGL5901.401 - The Lessons of Horror - Jean-Michel Rabaté Tuesday 5:15-8:14 pm
ENGL5925.401 - The Language of Comics - Jean-Christophe Cloutier Wednesday 1:45-4:44 pm
ENGL5934.401 - The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary - Julia Alekseyeva Monday 12-2:59 pm
summer
ENGL0039.910 - Narrative Across Cultures - Department Staff TR 5:15pm-7:14pm (5/27 to 7/2)
ENGL0159.910 - Gender and Society - Angelina Edith Eimannsberger TR 5:15pm-9:14pm (5/27 to 7/2)
ENGL1179.920 - World Literature - Department Staff M 7pm-9pm (7/3 to 8/8)
spring
ENGL0012.401 - Toni Morrison and the Adventure of the 21st Century - Herman Beavers TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0022.601 - Study of a Theme: Life Writing - Batsheva Ben-Amos Wednesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Melissa E. Sanchez TR 3:30pm-4:59pm
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Sexuality and Queer Theory - Eva Pensis MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0300.301 - Medieval Worlds (First Year Seminar) - Emily Steiner TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0341.301 - Imperials v. Rebels (First Year Seminar) - Sara Kazmi MW 1:45pm-3:15pm
ENGL0510.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0525.301 - Black Style: Fashions, Fictions, and Films of the 1920s - Zita Cristina Nunes Monday 3:30pm-6:29pm
ENGL0767.301 - Poetry, Music, and the Sounds of the Twentieth Century (SNF Paideia Program Course) - Chris Mustazza Wednesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0775.301 - The Living Dead - Melissa Jensen TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL1200.401 - Introduction to African American Literature - Dagmawi Woubshet TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1300.401 - Queer Politics, Queer Communities - S. Pearl Brilmyer, Heather K. Love MWF 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL1460.401 - World Socialist Literature and Film - Kevin M.F. Platt TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL1875.401 - Theatre, History, Culture II: Romantics, Realists and Revolutionaries - Department Staff TR 3:30pm-4:59pm
ENGL1970.001 - Dark Academia - Caroline Batten MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2071.401 - When was Modernism? - Jean-Michel Rabaté TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2161.401 - Imagining New Futures: Science Fiction and the Fantastic in South Asian Literature - Nudrat Kamal MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2190.401 - The Indian English Novel: From Colony to Nation - Sara Kazmi TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2272.401 - In/Visible: Asian American Cultural Critique - Bakirathi Mani Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2300.401 - Queer Poetry from Homer to Hughes - Melissa E. Sanchez TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2380.401 - Growing Up Queer: Coming of Age in Contemporary Literature - Javier Samper Vendrell TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2415.401 - Fascism and Anti-Fascism - Jennifer Ponce de León Tuesday 5:15-8:14pm
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
ENGL5045.401 - Film, Revolution, and the 1960s - Julia Alekseyeva Thursdays 10:15-1:14pm
ENGL5725.401 - Songs of Dissent: African American Poetry in the 21st Century - Herman Beavers Mondays 1:45-4:44pm
SPAN5965.401 - Anticolonialism & Marxism - Jennifer Ponce de León Mondays 5:15-8:14pm
2024
fall
ENGL0022.601 - Representing the Global Village - Department Staff TBA
ENGL0038.401 - Study of a Genre: World Autobiography - Max Cavitch TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0039.401 - Narrative Across Cultures - Ania Loomba MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Beans Velocci TRF 12:00-12:59pm
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory - Lauren Bakst MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0340.301 - Scenes of Teaching (First Year Seminar) - Heather K. Love MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0519.401 - Partition and the Making of South Asia - Suvir Kaul Thursday 12-2:59pm
ENGL0525.301 - Black Style: Fashions, Fictions, and Films of the 1920s - Zita Cristina Nunes Thursday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL0775.301 - Radiant, Humble, Monstrous: Modern Children's Literature - Melissa Jensen MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0785.401 - Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance - Brooke O'Harra Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1015.401 - Sagas and Skalds: Old Norse in Translation - Caroline Batten MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1179.401 - World Literature - Department Staff TBA
ENGL1190.401 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures - Sara Kazmi TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1201.001 - The African American Short Story in the 21st Century - Herman Beavers TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1260.401 - Intro to Latinx Cultural Studies - Jennifer Ponce de León MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1261.401 - Radical Arts in the Americas - Jennifer Ponce de León MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1270.401 - Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture - Bakirathi Mani MWF 10:15-11:14am
ENGL1861.401 - Othello - Abdulhamit Arvas TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1890.401 - On the Stage and in the Streets: An Introduction to Performance Studies - Jennifer Thompson 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
ENGL2222.401 - August Wilson & Beyond (BFS and ABCS) - Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2250.401 - W.E.B. Du Bois - Simone White Thursday 10:15am-1:14pm
ENGL2270.401 - Race and Asian American Literature - Josephine Park MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2315.401 - Saints and Sex Demons - Caroline Batten TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2933.401 - Japanese Cinema - Julia Alekseyeva Monday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2943.401 - The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary - Julia Alekseyeva Tuesday 12-2:59pm
ENGL2952.401 - Mobile Phone Cultures - Rahul Mukherjee MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL3652.401 - Is This Really Happening? Performance and Contemporary Political Horizons - Brooke O'Harra, Sharon A. Hayes W 5:15-8:15pm
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
summer
ENGL0040.910 - Study of a Theme: Philadelphia in Literature and Film - Thomas Collins TR 5:15-7:15pm
ENGL0159.920 - Gender and Society - Department Staff TR 5:15-9:05pm
ENGL1179.910 - World Literature - Department Staff Monday 7:00-9:00pm
spring
ENGL0022.601 - The Global Novel - Avni Sejpal Monday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0024.401 - Monsters in Film and Literature - Chi-ming Yang TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0038.401 - Study of a Genre: World Autobiography - Max Cavitch TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Rosed Serrano MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory - Eva Pensis MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0490.401 - Latin American and Latinx Theatre and Performance - Jennifer Thompson TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0510.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0767.301 - Poetry, Music, and the Sounds of the Twentieth Century - Chris Mustazza Tuesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0777.301 - Frightful: Adolescence and the Gothic - Melissa Jensen TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0783.401 - Writing about Music - Simone White Wedesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1111.001 - Modern Irish Literature - Jed Esty MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1180.401 - The Art of Revolution - Jennifer Ponce de León, Ricardo Bracho MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1190.401 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literature - Sara Kazmi MW 12-1:29pm
ENGL1200.401 - Introduction to African American Literature - Dagmawi Woubshet MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1272.401 - Politics of Solidarity: South Asians in America - Bakirathi Mani TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1875.401 - Theatre, History, Culture II: Romantics, Realists and Revolutionaries - Margit Edwards TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2270.401 - Race and Psychoanalysis: Asian Americans and Mental Health - David L. Eng Tuesday 12-2:59pm
ENGL2402.401 - What is Capitalism? Theories of Marx and Marxism - David Kazanjian Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2501.401 - Science Fictions of Octavia E. Butler - Chi-ming Yang Wedesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2840.401 - Groundbreaking Poets and Traditional Forms - Taije Silverman TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2930.401 - Transnational Cinema - Meta Mazaj TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2953.401 - Digital Infrastructures & Platforms - Rahul Mukherjee Thursday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL4514.301 - Audre Lorde’s Zami and the Mythography of Memoir (The One Series) - Rosed Serrano MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL5945.401 - Nationalism, Globalism, and Literary Form - David Wallace Tuesday 8:30-11:29am
2023
fall
ENGL0039.401 - Narrative Across Cultures - Ania Loomba MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0040.601 - The Twentieth Century: Whose American Dream? - Thomas Collins Tuesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Department Staff TR 12pm-12:59pm
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory - Department Staff MW 10:15am-11:44am
ENGL0320.401 - Black Queer Traditions - Dagmawi Woubshet MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0578.401 - The Contemporary Graphic Novel - Jean-Christophe Cloutier TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1120.401 - Literature of the Americas to 1900 - David Kazanjian TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1190.401 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literature - Department Staff TBA
ENGL1260.401 - Latinx Literature and Culture - Jennifer Ponce de León MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1261.401 - Radical Arts in the Americas - Jennifer Ponce de León MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1270.401 - Introduction to Asian American Literature - Josephine Park MWF 10:15-11:14am
ENGL1295.401 - Italian History on the Table - Eva Del Soldato MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1745.401 - Writing the Self: Life-Writing, Fiction, Representation - Department Staff R 10:15-1:14pm
ENGL2030.301 - Traveling Tales: Exploration and Encounter in late-17th and 18th-Century Writing - Suvir Kaul MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2080.401 - Representations of the Holocaust - Al Filreis TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2135.401 - Trash: The Dime Novel - David Kazanjian Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2180.401 - Contemporary Black Literature and Art - Dagmawi Woubshet MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2190.401 - Postcolonial Literature Seminar - Department Staff TBA
ENGL2222.401 - August Wilson and Beyond - Suzana Berger MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2272.401 - In/Visible: Asian American Cultural Critique - Bakirathi Mani Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2275.401 - The Chinese Body and Spatial Consumption in Chinatown - Ken Lum Tuesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2315.401 - Saints and Sex Demons - Caroline Batten TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2390.401 - Clarice Lispector - Zita Cristina Nunes T 12-2:59pm
ENGL2933.401 - Japanese Cinema - Julia Alekseyeva M 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL2934.401 - Cinema and Socialism - Julia Alekseyeva T 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL4514.301 - Riot City: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (The One Series) - Avni Sejpal TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL4514.302 - The Broken Earth Trilogy (The One Series) - Joseph Earl Thomas MW 8:30-10:14am
ENGL4517.401 - Love and Rockets: The Great American Comic Book (The One Series) - Natalia Reyes TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL5240.401 - Premodern Monstrosities - Caroline Batten Monday 10:15-1:14 pm
ENGL5700.401 - World/Order: Black World(s) - Simone White Thursday 10:15-1:14pm
summer
ENGL0159.920 - Gender and Society - Elizabeth Rose TR 12-3:59
ENGL1179.910 - World Literature - Akhil Puthiyadath Veetil Monday 7-8:59pm
spring
ENGL0012.401 - Toni Morrison and the Adventure of the 21st-Century - Herman Beavers TR 10:15-11:44
ENGL0024.401 - Monsters in Film & Literature - Chi-ming Yang Mondays 12-2:59pm
ENGL0038.401 - World Autobiography - Max Cavitch MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Angelina Edith Eimannsberger MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0160.401 - Introduction to Queer Theory - S. Pearl Brilmyer TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL0303.401 - National Epics - David Wallace MW 8:30-10:14am
ENGL0304.301 - Dangerous Literature - Abdulhamit Arvas TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL0333.401 - Queer History and Theory - S. Pearl Brilmyer TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0518.401 - Cinema and Globalization - Rita Barnard MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0519.401 - Partition and the Making of South Asia - Suvir Kaul Tuesday 12-2:59pm
ENGL0531.401 - Reproductive Fictions - Emily Steinlight TR 10:15-11:44
ENGL0767.301 - Poetry, Music, and the Sounds of the Twentieth Century - Chris Mustazza Tuesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0776.301 - Heartbreak, Death, and Sometimes a Rainbow: Young Adults and Literature - Melissa Jensen TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0785.401 - Queer Archives: Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance - Heather K. Love, Brooke O'Harra Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1131.401 - Crime and Criminality in Early America - David Kazanjian Wednesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL1179.401 - World Literature - Qing Liao MW 10:15-11:44pm
ENGL1200.401 - Introduction to African American Literature - Dagmawi Woubshet TR 10:15-11:44
ENGL1875.401 - Theatre, History and Culture II - Jennifer Thompson TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1890.401 - On the Stage and in the Streets: An Introduction to Performance Studies - Jennifer Thompson TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2073.401 - Modernist Animals: How to rethink the human-animal divide - Jean-Michel Rabaté TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2192.401 - Narrating Survival - Sarah Ropp MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2200.401 - Twenty-First Century African American Literature - Margo Natalie Crawford Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL2250.401 - Waywardness and Despair: Saidiya Hartman and Gayl Jones - Simone White Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2261.401 - Capitalism, Racism & Revolt - Jennifer Ponce de León Monday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL2270.401 - Race and Asian American Literature - Josephine Park MW 10:15-11:44
ENGL2321.401 - Criminal Sexuality - Alicia Meyer MW 12-1:29pm
ENGL2402.401 - What Is Capitalism? Theories of Marx and Marxism - David Kazanjian Tuesday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL2850.401 - The Black Arts Movement - Margit Edwards MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2900.401 - Global Film Theory - Meta Mazaj, Karen Redrobe MW 1015-11:14
ENGL2953.401 - Digital Infrastructures and Platforms - Rahul Mukherjee Thursday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL4958.301 - Bad Romances: Gawain to Gaga - Nat Rivkin MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL4980.301 - Lyric Wreckage and the Climate Crisis - Bethany Swann TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL4980.302 - Crash: Economic Collapse and Aesthetic Innovation in 1930s U.S. Literature and Culture - Thomas Collins Wednesday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL4980.303 - Poetry and Capitalism - Andrew Smyth Thursday 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
ENGL5900.401 - Imperialism, Internationalism, Ideology - Jennifer Ponce de León Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL5980.401 - Histories of Race & Sexuality - Abdulhamit Arvas, Ania Loomba Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm