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General Education Courses

Shakespeare

ENGL 101.001

Zachary Lesser

MW 11-12:00

Literature and Film in the Age of Globalization (plus recitations)

ENGL 102.401

also offered as: COML 245, CINE 112

Ania Loomba

TR 1:30-2:30 Recitations F 10-11:00 or F 11-12:00, R 3-4:00 Eve

Narratives Across Cultures

ENGL 103.401

also offered as: NELC 180 COML 125

Roger Allen

TR 10:30-12

Introduction to Poetry

ENGL 103.601

Myra Lotto

W 5:30-8:30

Bad Boys and Dangerous Dames: The Thriller, the Detective Novel, and Film Noir

ENGL 103.602

also offered as: CINE 103

Nancy Srebro

W 5-8

Monsters in Film and Literature

ENGL 104.401

Chi-ming Yang

TR 12-1:30 (Screenings M 7-9)

Intermediate Level Courses

Major British Authors I: Literature from Chaucer to Milton

ENGL 020.001

Margreta de Grazia

TR 1:30-3

Age of Chaucer

ENGL 025.001

David Wallace

MW 2-3:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Cultures of the Book

ENGL 034.401

Peter Stallybrass, David Comberg

T 1:30-4:30

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

British Poetry, 1660-1914

ENGL 040.001

Barbara Riebling

MW 3:30-5

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

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Inchbald

ENGL 046.001

Suvir Kaul

MW 2-3:30

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

The Romantic Period

ENGL 050.001

Jared Richman

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Our Dark Materials: Nineteenth Century American Gothic Fiction

ENGL 053.601

Deborah Burnham

W 6-9

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Fulfills Distributional Course in Arts & Letters (for students admitted before Fall 2006) [Formerly ENGL 083] John Milton wrote of the “dark materials” that exist before the creation of a world. Nineteenth century American writers had a plethora o

ENGL 057.001

Timothy Powell

TR 9-10:30

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

Modernisms and Modernities

ENGL 059.401

Laura Heffernan

TR 9-10:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Law

ENGL 066.001

David L. Eng

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Poetry and Poetics

ENGL 069.001

Deborah Burnham

MW 2-3:30

Contemporary British Fiction

ENGL 074.001

Stephanie Harzewski

TR 9-10:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Science and Literature

ENGL 075.401

Mark Adams

MW 11-12:00

STSC 110-401

Television Studies

ENGL 078.401

William Boddy

TR 10:30-12

Elective of the Standard Major

Samplin’ and Signfyin’: Survey of African-American Literature

ENGL 081.401

Salamishah Tillet

MW 3:30-5

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

Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-Present

ENGL 085.401

Lance Wahlert

TR 4:30-6

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

THEATRE, HISTORY, CULTURE I: Classical Athens to Elizabethan London

ENGL 087.401

Jim Schlatter

TR 1:30-3

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

American Poetry in the 20th-Century

ENGL 088.001

Bob Perelman

MW 3:30-5

American Fiction: Americans Abroad

ENGL 089.001

Jeffrey Edwards

MWF 11-12

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

ENGL 090.401

Toni Bowers

TR 3-4:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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

Film History

ENGL 091.401

Peter Decherney

TR 3-4:30 Screenings M 4:30-6:30

Elective of the Standard Major

Film Analysis and Methods

ENGL 092.601

also offered as: CINE 102, ARTH 109

Meta Mazaj

T 5-8 Evening Screenings R 5-8

Elective of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Postcolonial Literature and Theory

ENGL 093.001

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 10:30-12

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

Introduction to Literary Theory: Ideology

ENGL 094.402

David L. Eng

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Dante's Divine Comedy

ENGL 323.401

also offered as: ITAL 333, COML 333

Kevin Brownlee

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Introduction to Shakespeare

ENGL 326.301

Phyllis Rackin

MW 2-3:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Slavery and Abolition in the Eighteenth Century

ENGL 341.301

Chi-ming Yang

TR 9-10:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Comparative Cross-Dressing

ENGL 346.401

Cary Mazer

TR 1:30-3

Culture Without the Cult

ENGL 359.401

also offered as: COML 355

Anne Hall

TR 1:30-3

Law, Religion, and Literature in Renaissance England

ENGL 366.301

Melissa E. Sanchez

TR 3-4:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

The Burden of Representation

ENGL 390.401

Heather K. Love

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cinema and Photography

ENGL 392.401

Karen Redrobe

R 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Critical Issues in Global and Transnational Studies

ENGL 394.401

also offered as: COML 360, ROML 390

Román de la Campa

TR 1:30-3

Creative Writing Seminars

Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction

ENGL 010.301

Jay Kirk

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creating Possibilities in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.200

Thomas E. Devaney, Jr.

MW 5-6:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Writing

ENGL 010.601

Andrew Mossin

W 5:30-8:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Experimental Writing

ENGL 111.301

Charles Bernstein

W 2-5

CPCW Room 111

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Poetry and Poetics

ENGL 111.302

Tracie Morris

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Karen Rile

M 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.302

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

R 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

B. Graham

M 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Screenwriting Workshop

ENGL 116.601

also offered as: CINE 116

Marc Lapadula

M 5-8

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Greg Djanikian

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing for Children

ENGL 121.301

Elizabeth Van Doren

R 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The Art of Eating and Life

ENGL 125.304

Thomas E. Devaney, Jr.

MW 2-2:30

The Art of Eating and Life

ENGL 130.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.402

Mark Rosenthal

R 3-6

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Non-Fiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Lorene Cary

R 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Non-Fiction Writing: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.302

Marion Kant

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Non-Fiction Writing: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.303

Karen Rile

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.305

Valerie Ross

MWF 10

Writing in Concert

ENGL 145.401

Lorene Cary

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Non-Fiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Paul Hendrickson

T :30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Non-Fiction Writing

ENGL 145.302

Lee Eisenberg

F 2-5

Kelly Writers House, Room 202

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Documentary Writing

ENGL 155.301

Paul Hendrickson

M 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Journalistic Writing

ENGL 158.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5:00

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

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The 2008 Presidential Primaries

ENGL 162.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing through Culture and Art

ENGL 165.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing Linked Short Stories

ENGL 415.630

Courtney Zoffness

T 5:30-8:10

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:10

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Feminist Theory and Early Modern Literature

ENGL 538.401

also offered as: GSOC 538

Melissa E. Sanchez

T 9-12

British Literature, 1770-1800

ENGL 551.301

Stuart Curran

W 9-12

Victorian Schisms

ENGL 556.301

Nina Auerbach

R 3-6

Mourning America: Emerson and Douglass

ENGL 558.301

Eduardo Cadava

W 12-3

Difficult Women: Stein, Loy, Riding, Moore, H.D.

ENGL 589.401

Bob Perelman

M 12-3

Queer Theories and Histories

ENGL 592.401

also offered as: GSOC 592

Heather K. Love

W 3-6

Independent Study

Literature of the Great Depression

ENGL 263.301

Catherine Turner

TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Freshman Seminars

Modern American Poetry

ENGL 016.301

Josephine Park

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modern Primitivism

ENGL 016.302

Judith Brown

MW 3:30-5

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Upper Level Seminars

The Demon Other and Other Demons

ENGL 213.601

Barbara Riebling

R 5:30-8:30

Elective Seminar 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

Beowulf

ENGL 218.301

Emily Steiner

MW 2-3:30

Elective Seminar 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

Chaucer Research Seminar

ENGL 225.301

David Wallace

MW 3:30-5

Love and Loss

ENGL 229.301

Emily Wilson

TR 1:30-3

Shakespeare's Poems & Plays

ENGL 231.301

Margreta de Grazia

TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar 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

Milton: English Poetry and Selected Prose

ENGL 238.301

Stuart Curran

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar 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

The Pamela Craze: A Research Seminar

ENGL 241.301

Toni Bowers

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Empire and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

ENGL 255.301

Nancy Srebro

M 3:30-6:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Three American Playwrights: Williams, Albee, Shepard

ENGL 256.601

David Fox

W 4:30-7:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Reading Joyce

ENGL 257.301

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Aestheticism and Decadence

ENGL 259.401

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 1:30-3

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Jane Austen & Company: The Novel of Manners Tradition

ENGL 260.401

Stephanie Harzewski

TR 1030-12

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature of the Great Depression

ENGL 263.301

Catherine Turner

TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Love Sonnets

ENGL 269.301

Ann Rosalind Jones

MW 3:30-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Topics in Latina/o Literature: The Latina/o Body in American Literary and Cultural Memory

ENGL 270.401

Lazaro Lima

T 1:30-4:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Asian-American Literature of War

ENGL 272.401

also offered as: ASAM 202

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Art Spiegelman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jerome Rothenberg

ENGL 274.301

Al Filreis

M 2-5

Arts Cafe of Kelly Writers House

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

African-American Modernism

ENGL 281.401

Thadious Davis

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Rebelling Against Stereotypes: Native American Film

ENGL 282.401

Timothy Powell

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Intimacy and Distance: Faulkner, Hurston, Welty, and Wright

ENGL 284.401

Herman Beavers

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Enlightenment and its Discontents

ENGL 286.301

William Howell

TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Home and Hearts

ENGL 290.401

Nina Auerbach

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Cinema, Realism, and Social Justice: the Social Problem Film Genre and Cinematic Politics

ENGL 291.401

also offered as: CINE 201

Ellen Scott

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Germ-USA Hollywood Era

ENGL 291.601

Caitlin McGrath

TR 6:30-8 Screenings W 6-9

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Cinema of the Balkans

ENGL 292.401

also offered as: CINE 202, ARTH 290, SLAV 212

Meta Mazaj

TR 9-10:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

American Film Criticism

ENGL 292.402

Christopher Donovan

TR 3-4:30

Woody Allen

ENGL 292.601

Valerie Ross

W 5:30-8:30

The Public Intellectual in an Era of New Media

ENGL 294.301

Aaron Levy

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar -- This is a year long course

ENGL 294.401

Aaron Levy

W 2-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Cultural Studies

ENGL 295.301

Laura Heffernan

TR 1:30-3

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

Television in the 1950's

ENGL 295.401

also offered as: CINE 296.401

William Boddy

TR 1:30-3

Internet Policy and Culture

ENGL 505.640

Peter Decherney

T 6-9

Seminars

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama: Aphra Behn to Elizabeth Inchbald

ENGL 046.001

Suvir Kaul

MW 2-3:30

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