Department of English
2024
fall
ENGL0022.601 - Representing the Global Village - Department Staff TBA
ENGL0039.401 - Narrative Across Cultures - Ania Loomba MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Beans Velocci TRF 12:00-12:59pm
ENGL0402.301 - First Year Seminar: Kelly Writers House - Julia Bloch Thursday 10:15am-1:15pm
ENGL0506.301 - Virginia Woolf - Paul Saint-Amour MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL0519.401 - Partition and the Making of South Asia - Suvir Kaul Thursday 12-2:59pm
ENGL0785.401 - Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance - Heather K. Love, Brooke O'Harra Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1140.001 - Modern America - Nancy Bentley 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
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
ENGL1449.401 - War and Representation - Department Staff TBA
ENGL1650.401 - Introduction to Digital Humanities - Whitney Trettien, Cassandra Hradil Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1740.401 - Woolf and Eliot in Dialogue - Jean-Michel Rabaté TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL1830.001 - Modern and Contemporary U.S. Poetry - Al Filreis TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1860.001 - Witchcraft and the Occult - Becky S. Friedman MW 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2000.401 - Epic Tradition: Dido through the Ages - Rita Copeland TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2041.301 - The Romantic Book - Michael Gamer MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2050.301 - What is Realism? - Emily Steinlight 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 TBA
ENGL2270.401 - Race and Asian American Literature - Josephine Park MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2530.301 - The Literature of Care - Aaron Levy Monday 12-2:59pm
ENGL2860.401 - Sex with Shakespeare - Abdulhamit Arvas TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2933.401 - Japanese Cinema - Julia Alekseyeva Monday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL3010.301 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction - Ahmad Almallah MW 12:00-1:30pm
ENGL3015.301 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Journalism - Anna Badkhen Tuesday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3019.301 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Sports Narratives - Jamie-Lee Josselyn Monday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3025.401 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Writing Asian American Lives - Piyali Bhattacharya TR 1:45-3:15pm
ENGL3120.401 - The Translation of Poetry/ The Poetry of Translation - Taije Silverman TR 3:30-5:00pm
ENGL3202.301 - Speculative Fiction - Abbey Mei Otis Wednesday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3208.301 - Advanced Fiction Writing: Short Fiction - Max Apple Tuesday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3211.301 - Fiction Workshop: Friends and Frenemies - Piyali Bhattacharya TR 3:30-5:00pm
ENGL3253.401 - What If It All Ends Tonight: Nontraditional Writing for Young Adults - candice iloh Thursday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3303.301 - Narrative Nonfiction: The Art of Experience - Jay Kirk Wednesday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3306.401 - Writing and Politics - Lorene Cary Monday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3307.301 - Creative Nonfiction Writing - Max Apple Thursday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3308.301 - Cooking with Words - Gabrielle Hamilton Tuesday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3350.301 - Long-Form Reported Nonfiction - Buzz Bissinger R 5:15-8:15pm & F 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3411.301 - The Arts and Popular Culture - Anthony DeCurtis Thursday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3421.301 - Political Journalism: The Presidential Election - Dick Polman Wednesday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3501.401 - Writing and Witnessing - Syd Zolf Wednesday 3:30-6:30pm
ENGL3600.401 - Screenwriting Workshop - Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve Monday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3600.402 - Screenwriting Workshop - Scott F Burkhardt Wednesday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3600.403 - Screenwriting Workshop - Scott F Burkhardt Wednesday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3601.401 - Advanced Screenwriting - Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve Wednesday 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3603.401 - Writing for Television - Scott F Burkhardt Thursday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3604.401 - Playwriting Workshop - Anne Marie Cammarato Friday 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL3652.401 - Is This Really Happening? Performance and Contemporary Political Horizons - Brooke O'Harra, Sharon A. Hayes Wednesday 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL4097.301 - Honors Thesis Seminar - Chi-ming Yang Wednesday 1:45-4:44pm
summer
ENGL0010.910 - Introduction to William Shakespeare - Becky S. Friedman 5:15pm-8:35pm
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
ENGL1900.910 - World Film History to 1945 - Hugo Salas MW 12:00-3:50pm
ENGL1901.920 - World Film History 1945-Present - Department Staff TR 10:15am-1:50pm
spring
ENGL0022.601 - The Global Novel - Avni Sejpal Monday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL0060.001 - Law and Literature - Nancy Bentley MWF 10:15-11:14am
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Rosed Serrano MW 3:30-4:59pm
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
ENGL0540.401 - History of Literary Criticism (Literary Theory Ancient to Modern) - Rita Copeland TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL0593.401 - The Animation of Disney - Linda Simensky Monday 3:30-6:29pm
ENGL0900.001 - Writer in Residence: Jennifer Egan and the Art of Fiction - Jennifer Egan TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1040.401 - Jane Austen Remix - Barri Joyce Gold TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL1070.401 - Modernisms and Modernities: Kafka, Joyce, Beckett - Jean-Michel Rabaté TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL1111.001 - Modern Irish Literature - Jed Esty MW 3:30-4:59pm
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
ENGL1271.401 - American Musical Theatre - David Fox MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1272.401 - Politics of Solidarity: South Asians in America - Bakirathi Mani TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1509.401 - Science and Literature - Kathryn Dorsch MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1600.001 - Cultures of the Book - Whitney Trettien MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1670.301 - Data Science for the Humanities - J. D. Porter MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1859.401 - The Play: Structure, Style, Meaning - Rosemary Malague TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL1875.401 - Theatre, History, Culture II: Romantics, Realists and Revolutionaries - Margit Edwards TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1900.401 - World Film History to 1945 - Ian Fleishman MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1900.402 - World Film History to 1945 - Hugo Salas TR 3:30-4:59
ENGL1901.401 - World Film History 1945-Present - Julia Alekseyeva MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1901.402 - World Film History 1945-Present - Sasha Dilan Krugman Thursday 12-2:59pm
ENGL1950.401 - Television and New Media - Knar Gavin MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1950.601 - Television and New Media - Department Staff Wedesday 5:15-8:14pm
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
ENGL2092.401 - Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar - Simone White Monday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2270.401 - Race and Psychoanalysis: Asian Americans and Mental Health - David L. Eng Tuesday 12-2:59pm
ENGL2401.401 - Literature and Theory: Theories of World Literature - Max Cavitch TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2420.401 - British Cinema: Film, Television, and Transatlantic Screen Culture - James English TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL2840.401 - Groundbreaking Poets and Traditional Forms - Taije Silverman TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2879.401 - Acting Shakespeare - Jennifer Thompson TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2930.401 - Transnational Cinema - Meta Mazaj TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL2942.401 - Romantic Comedy - Meta Mazaj TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL2951.401 - Virtual Reality Lab (SNF Paideia Program Course) - Peter Decherney Thursday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL3016.301 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Memoir - Abbey Mei Otis M 3:30-6:30pm
ENGL3017.301 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Memoir and Literary Journalism - Taije Silverman TR 12:00-1:30pm
ENGL3100.301 - Poetry Workshop - Ron Silliman W 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3201.301 - Fiction Workshop: Flash Fiction - Weike Wang M 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3208.301 - Advanced Fiction Workshop: Short Fiction - Max Apple T 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3303.301 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of Experience - Jay Kirk W 5:15-8:15pm
ENGL3306.401 - Writing and Politics - Lorene Cary W 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3355.301 - Memoir Workshop - Lise Funderburg M 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3410.301 - Writing from Photographs - Paul Hendrickson M 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3420.301 - Political Journalism: The Presidential Primaries - Dick Polman W 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3422.301 - Advanced Long-Form Nonfiction - Paul Hendrickson TBD
ENGL3423.301 - Planet on the Brink: Climate and Environment Journalism - Peter Tarr T 1:45-4:45pm
ENGL3650.401 - Self-Scripting: Writing through Body and Space - Brooke O'Harra MW 1:45-3:15
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
ENGL0051.401 - Community Writing: Post-COVID University - Zita Cristina Nunes Monday 10:15-1:14pm
ENGL0159.401 - Gender and Society - Department Staff TR 12pm-12:59pm
ENGL0509.401 - Dante's Divine Comedy - Department Staff MW 12pm-1:29pm
ENGL0590.401 - Cinema and Politics - Rita Barnard MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0590.402 - Cinema and Politics - Rita Barnard TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL0594.401 - History of Children's TV - Linda Simensky Monday 3:30-6:29
ENGL1009.401 - Classical Traditions - Department Staff TR 1:45pm-3:14pm
ENGL1021.401 - Shakespeare in Love - Becky S. Friedman MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1120.401 - Literature of the Americas to 1900 - David Kazanjian TR 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL1140.001 - Modern America - Rita Barnard TR 10:15-11:44am
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
ENGL1400.401 - Introduction to Literary Theory: Ideology - David L. Eng Tuesday 12-2:59pm
ENGL1425.401 - Freud's Objects - Liliane Weissberg MW 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL1449.401 - War and Representation - Mariana irby MW 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1650.401 - Introduction to Digital Humanities - Whitney Trettien, Cassandra Hradil MW 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1710.001 - The Novel and Other Institutions - Emily Steinlight TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1745.401 - Writing the Self: Life-Writing, Fiction, Representation - Department Staff R 10:15-1:14pm
ENGL1820.301 - 18th-Century British Poetry - Chi-ming Yang TR 10:15-11:44am
ENGL1900.401 - World Film History to 1945 - Chenshu Zhou MW 1:45-3:14
ENGL1900.402 - World Film History to 1945 - Hugo Salas TR 3:30-4:59pm
ENGL1901.401 - World Film History 1945-present - Meta Mazaj TR 12-1:29pm
ENGL1901.601 - World Film History 1945-Present - Sasha Dilan Krugman Monday 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL1950.401 - Television and New Media - Rahul Mukherjee W 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL1950.402 - Television and New Media - Joseph Coppola TBA
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
ENGL2080.401 - Representations of the Holocaust - Al Filreis TR 1:45-3:14pm
ENGL2082.401 - Nuclear Fictions - Paul Saint-Amour TR 12:00-1:29pm
ENGL2140.301 - Literature of New York City - Nancy Bentley MW 3:30-4:59pm
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
ENGL2275.401 - The Chinese Body and Spatial Consumption in Chinatown - Ken Lum Tuesday 1:45-4:44pm
ENGL2530.301 - Literature of Care - Aaron Levy M 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL2663.401 - Spiegel-Wilks Seminar: Curating Contemporary Art - Department Staff M 5:15pm-8:14pm
ENGL2665.401 - Fake, Forgeries and Forensics in Digital Media - Elizabeth C Scheyder MW 5:15-6:44pm
ENGL2800.401 - Greek Mythology in Contemporary Poetry - Taije Silverman W 5:15-8:14pm
ENGL2933.401 - Japanese Cinema - Julia Alekseyeva M 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL2934.401 - Cinema and Socialism - Julia Alekseyeva T 12:00-2:59pm
ENGL4097.301 - Honors Thesis Seminar - Dagmawi Woubshet T 12-2:59pm
summer
ENGL0021.910 - Study of a Theme in Ciema: Bad Movies and Why We Love Them - Sasha Dilan Krugman TR 5:15-7:35pm
ENGL0050.910 - Sex and Power in the US - Matty Hemming MW 5:15-7:45pm
ENGL0159.920 - Gender and Society - Elizabeth Rose TR 12-3:59
ENGL1179.910 - World Literature - Akhil Puthiyadath Veetil Monday 7-8:59pm
ENGL1900.910 - World Film History to 1945 - Joseph Coppola MW 12-3:50pm
ENGL1901.920 - World Film History 1945-Present - Anat Dan TR 10:15-1:49