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Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Theory and Practice of the Novel

ENGL 360.301

Toni Bowers

TR 3-4:30

Benn 323

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Trauma, Time, Fiction

ENGL 016.302

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 9-10:30

Shakespeare and the Argument of Comedy

ENGL 326.301

Anne Hall

TR 9-10:30

Benn 20

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Beast Culture: Animals, Identity, and Western Culture

ENGL 341.301

Chi-ming Yang

TR 10:30-12

Benn 16

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Nineteenth-Century New York City and American Modernity

ENGL 352.301

Nancy Bentley

TR 1:30-3

Benn 323

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Dickens canceled

ENGL 355.301

Erin O’Connor

MW 2-3:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Intermediate Level Courses

Introduction to the African American Short Story

ENGL 063.401

also offered as: AFRC 063

Herman Beavers

TR 1:30-3

Benn 244

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

World Film History and Analysis to 1945

ENGL 091.401

also offered as: CINE 101

Peter Decherney

TR 10:30-12

COHN 402

screenings: Mondays 4:30-6:30

Elective of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Film Analysis of the Cinema Studies Track

Literature and Law

ENGL 066.401

also offered as: ASAM 066

David L. Eng

TR 12-1:30

Benn 244

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Feminist Theory

ENGL 096.401

also offered as: GSOC 096

Melissa E. Sanchez

MW 3:30-5

Benn 231

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Mexican American Literature and Culture

ENGL 070.401

also offered as: LALS 060

Yolanda Padilla

TR 3-4:30

Benn 140

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Asian-American Literature: Asian American Narratives

ENGL 072.401

also offered as: ASAM 002

Josephine Park

MW 2-3:30

Benn 231

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660

ENGL 020.001

Rebecca Bushnell

M 3:30-6:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

19th Century Literature in Dialogue canceled

ENGL 073.001

Erin O’Connor

MWF 1-2

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare's Rivals, Collaborators, and Contemporaries

ENGL 031.001

Zachary Lesser

TR 12-1:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Contemporary British Fiction

ENGL 076.001

Stephanie Harzewski

MWF 12-1

Benn 244

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Renaissance Poetry

ENGL 032.001

Margreta de Grazia

TR 10:30-12

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Television Studies canceled

ENGL 078.401

also offered as: CINE 150

Department Staff

TR 10:30-12

British Poetry: Romantics to Moderns (1660-1914)

ENGL 040.001

Rita Barnard

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

African-American Literature

ENGL 081.401

also offered as: AFRC 081

Herman Beavers

TR 10:30-12

Benn 244

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Romantic Poetry and Performance

ENGL 050.001

Michael Gamer

TR 9-10:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Medicine and Literature, 1650-1850

ENGL 085.401

also offered as: BCHE 085, HSOC 148

Lance Wahlert

TR 4:30-6

Benn 244

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ENGL 055.401

also offered as: GSOC 055

Nina Auerbach

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

American Poetry: Modern and Contemporary

ENGL 088.001

Al Filreis

TR 1:30-3

KWH-ARTS

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literatures of the Americas to 1900

ENGL 057.001

Max Cavitch

TR 12-1:30

Benn 231

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

American Fiction: The American Novel

ENGL 089.001

Amy Kaplan

TR 9-10:30

Benn 244

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

English Honors Program

Honors Thesis Seminar

ENGL 311.301

Zachary Lesser

R 1:30-4:30

Elective of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

Creative Nonfiction Writing: Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.305

also offered as: WRIT 135.305

Valerie Ross

TR 10:30-12

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.302

Stephanie Reents

Benn 139

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Paul Hendrickson

T 1:30-4:30

FURN 65

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Greg Djanikian

T 1:30-4:30

Benn 20

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.302

Lise Funderburg

R 1:30-4:30

Benn 20

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Karen Rile

KWH 209

M 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

W 2-5

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CINE 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

T 1:30-4:30

CPCW Room 111

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Introduction to Journalistic Writing

ENGL 157.301

Robert Strauss

M 2-5

Benn 224

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

R 1:30-4:30

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The Art of the Profile

ENGL 161.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Grotesque Forms: Writing/Printing/Bookmaking

ENGL 122.401

also offered as: FNAR 256, FNAR 556,

Erin Gautsche, Matthew Neff

MW 2-5

MORG-STD-1

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The 2008 Presidential Election

ENGL 162.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5

CPCW Room 111

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Writing

ENGL 010.301

Deborah Burnham

TR 1:30-3

Benn 139

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CINE 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

M 2-5

CPCW Room 111

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Writing

ENGL 010.302

Lynn Levin

W 2-5:00

Creative Writing

ENGL 101.302

Lynn Levin

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.402

also offered as: CINE 130

Andy Wolk

F 2-5

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Writing: Fiction and Non-fiction

ENGL 010.303

Stephanie Reents

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Max Apple

R 1:30-4:30

KWH 209

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Interventionist Writing: Writing Off the Page

ENGL 111.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30

CPCW Room 111

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.302

Marion Kant

M 2-5

Benn 138

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30

KWH 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Postmodernism and African-American Literature

ENGL 570.401

also offered as: AFRC570, COML573

Salamishah Tillet

W 3-6

Benn 20

Contemporary Issues in Critical Theory, Literary & Cultural Studies

ENGL 571.301

also offered as: COML682, SPAN682

Román de la Campa

R 3-6

Benn 201

Film & Literature: Histories, Practices, Theories

ENGL 569.401

also offered as: CINE 501

Timothy Corrigan

R 9-12

Benn 25

screenings: Wednesdays 5-7:30 F-B 244

The 'Social Self' in US Literature 1880-1920

ENGL 583.301

Nancy Bentley

T 9-12

Chicana/o Studies

ENGL 592.401

also offered as: LALS592, COML585

Yolanda Padilla

M 3-6

Post-Colonial Literature: J.M. Coetzee

ENGL 595.301

Rita Barnard

W 9-12

Medieval Education

ENGL 524.401

also offered as: COML601, CLST

Rita Copeland

W 9-12

Smith Room, Van Pelt Library

Cross-Listed Courses

Topics in Film Practice (Contemporary International Film)

ENGL 292.401

also offered as: CINE 202.401

Meta Mazaj

TR 10:30-12

Benn 201

screenings: Tuesdays 4:30-7 COHN 402

Environmental Imaginaries canceled

ENGL 584.401

also offered as: FOLK575

Mary Hufford

W 2-5

Introduction to Literary Study

ENGL 100.401

also offered as: COML 100

Vladislav Todorov

MW 12-1

Benn 401

Baaaad Cinema: American Film Censorship, 1896-Present

ENGL 291.401

also offered as: CINE 201

Ellen Scott

T 3-6

Benn 201

screenings: Mondays 5-8 F-B 15

Elective of the Standard Major

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

American Women Writers

ENGL 090.601

also offered as: COML 090, GSOC 090

Jeffrey Edwards

W 5-8

Benn 141

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Southern Writers

ENGL 263.601

Brandon T. Woods

W 6-9:00

College Of General Studies

Convention and Innovation: Writing Short Fiction

ENGL 415.640

Courtney Zoffness

T 5:30-8:10

Benn 24

English Romance and Its Afterlife

ENGL 022.601

Cristina Pangilinan

TR 6-7:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

World Film History 1945 to Present

ENGL 092.601

Meta Mazaj

T 5-8:00, Evening Screenings R 5-8:00

CINE 102, ARTH 109

Elective of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Film Analysis of the Cinema Studies Track

Shakespeare

ENGL 101.601

Barbara Riebling

R 5:30-8:30

Benn 141

Elective of the Standard Major

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30

Benn 25

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.601

also offered as: CINE 116

Marc Lapadula

M 5-8

Benn 322

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.601

Robert Strauss

M 5-8

Benn 20

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

To Whom It May Concern: Letters and Literature

ENGL 248.601

Jared Richman

W 6-9

Benn 322

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Jane Austen

ENGL 255.601

Joseph Benatov

T 5:30-8:30

Benn 322

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Alfred Hitchchock

ENGL 292.601

Valerie Ross

T 5:30-8:30

CINE 115

Writing in the Moment: A Writing Workshop

ENGL 412.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10

MCNB 103

Freshman Seminars

Premodern Women: From Runaway Bride to Mad Madge

ENGL 015.401

David Wallace

MW 2-3:30

Elective of the Standard Major

Trauma, Time, Fiction

ENGL 016.302

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 9-10:30

The Insides of Novels

ENGL 016.303

Kathleen Lubey

TR 4:30-6

Elective of the Standard Major

Contemporary British Literature & Film: Nation, Youth, Community

ENGL 016.401

also offered as: CINE 016

Laura Heffernan

TR 12-1:30

screenings: Mondays 7-9 F-B 244

Elective of the Standard Major

Literature and Empire

ENGL 016.402

also offered as: SAST 016

Ania Loomba

TR 10:30-12

screenings: Mondays 7-9 F-B 16

Elective of the Standard Major

College Requirement Courses

War and Literature

ENGL 102.001

Amy Kaplan

TR 12-1:30

COHN 402

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Gender and Sexuality Studies: Queer Politics, Queer Communities

ENGL 105.401

also offered as: COML 106, GSOC 105

Heather K. Love

MW 2-3:30

Benn 401

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

ENGL 105.402

also offered as: CINE 110

Peter Decherney

TR 1:30-3

Benn 401

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Seminars

Contemporary American Fiction

ENGL 274.301

Wendy Steiner

T 3-6

Benn 139

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Lack of It

ENGL 255.401

also offered as: GSOC 255

Nina Auerbach

TR 3-4:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Post-9/11 Fiction

ENGL 274.302

Stephanie Harzewski

MWF 10-11

Benn 322

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Confronting Deity: Religious Dramas

ENGL 256.301

Daniel Traister

MW 2-3:30

Benn 16

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Literary Representations of Nature and Society

ENGL 275.301

Barbara Riebling

MW 5-6:30

Benn 24

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Women and Writing in Medieval and Renaissance England

ENGL 221.401

also offered as: GSOC 223

David Wallace

Benn 322

MW 3:30-5

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

also offered as: Thar 274

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12

Benn 224

Elective of the Standard Major

Race Films: Spike Lee and his Interlocutors

ENGL 281.401

also offered as: AFRC 281, ANTH 281, CINE 281, COMM 281

Salamishah Tillet

TR 1:30-3

ANNS 109

screenings: Wednesdays 5-7 Annenberg 110

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Classical Epic and Medieval Romance

ENGL 229.401

also offered as: CLST 360

Rita Copeland

TR 10:30-12

COHN 337

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

African American Theatre: Pre-Emancipation to the Hip-Hop Generation

ENGL 256.402

also offered as: THAR 275.402/AFRC 275.402

Kim Euell

M 2-5

Platt House, Room 179

From Silent Shakespeare to Postmodern Austen

ENGL 286.401

also offered as: CINE 280

Timothy Corrigan

TR 1:30-3

Benn 201

screenings: Tuesdays 5-7:30 F-B 231

Elective of the Standard Major

Shakespeare and Marlowe

ENGL 232.301

Margreta de Grazia

TR 1:30-3

Benn 322

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Reading Joyce

ENGL 258.301

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Laura Heffernan

TR 9-10:30

Benn 323

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Americans in Paris

ENGL 286.402

also offered as: CINE 280

Max Cavitch

MW 2-3:30

Benn 25

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

The Making and Meaning of Books in Renaissance England

ENGL 234.401

also offered as: HIST 411

Peter Stallybrass

MW 3:30-5

Benn 16

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Fictions of Empire

ENGL 259.301

Jed Esty

MW 3:30-5

Benn 24

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Topics in Cinema Studies (Cinema and Popular Memory)

ENGL 292.402

also offered as: CINE 392.402

Meta Mazaj

TR 1:30-3

Benn 141

screenings: Thursdays 4:30-7 F-B 138

Acting Shakespeare

ENGL 236.401

also offered as: THAR 236, WSTD 233

Cary Mazer

TR 1:30-3

Annc 511

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Nuclear Epic

ENGL 264.301

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 12-1:30

Benn 20

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Slought Foundation Seminar in Contemporary Culture: Post-History

ENGL 294.401

also offered as: VLST 294

Aaron Levy

W 5-8

Benn 140

Oriental Tales and China-mania

ENGL 241.401

also offered as: COML 239

Chi-ming Yang

TR 1:30-3

Benn 224

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Modernisms: Bloomsbury, Harlem, Paris

ENGL 265.401

also offered as: GSOC 293

Heather K. Love

MW 3:30-5

Benn 323

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Television and Media canceled

ENGL 295.401

Department Staff

TR 1:30-3

CINE 296

Topics in Early American Literature canceled

ENGL 243.301

Department Staff

TR 9-10:30

Topics in Literature: Caribbean Literature canceled

ENGL 271.402

Department Staff

MWF 12-1

AFRC 283

The Romantic Book

ENGL 250.301

Michael Gamer

TR 10:30-12

Sector 4: Literature of the long 18th-century (ca. 1660-1830) of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Cinema of the Asian Diaspora

ENGL 272.401

also offered as: CINE 272, ASAM 202

David L. Eng

TR 3-4:30

Benn 224

screenings: Mondays 5-8 F-B 201

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Topics in 19th-Century Poetry canceled

ENGL 252.301

Department Staff

MW 3:30-5