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undergraduate Courses

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Benjamin Franklin Seminars

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

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

Intermediate Level Courses

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

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

English Honors Program

Honors Thesis Seminar

ENGL 311.301

Zachary Lesser

R 1:30-4:30

Elective of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

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

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

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

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

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

Cross-Listed Courses

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

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

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

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

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

Freshman Seminars

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

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

College Requirement Courses

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

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

Seminars

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

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