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Creating Possibilities in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.200

Thomas E. Devaney, Jr.

MW 5-6:30

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction

ENGL 010.301

Jay Kirk

T 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Modern American Poetry

ENGL 016.301

Josephine Park

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

The Romantic Period

ENGL 050.001

Jared Richman

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Law

ENGL 066.001

David L. Eng

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective of the Standard Major

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

ENGL 081.401

Salamishah Tillet

MW 3:30-5

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective of the Standard Major

Film Analysis and Methods

ENGL 092.601

CINE 102, ARTH 109

Meta Mazaj

T 5-8 Evening Screenings R 5-8

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Shakespeare

ENGL 101.001

Zachary Lesser

MW 11-12:00

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

ENGL 102.401

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

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

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)

Experimental Writing

ENGL 111.301

Charles Bernstein

W 2-5

CPCW Room 111

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

B. Graham

M 2-5

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Screenwriting Workshop

ENGL 116.601

CINE 116

Marc Lapadula

M 5-8

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Non-Fiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Lorene Cary

R 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.305

Valerie Ross

MWF 10

Advanced Non-Fiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Paul Hendrickson

T :30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Writing in Concert

ENGL 145.401

Lorene Cary

T 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

The Demon Other and Other Demons

ENGL 213.601

Barbara Riebling

R 5:30-8:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

ASAM 202

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

CINE 201

Ellen Scott

W 2-5

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Germ-USA Hollywood Era

ENGL 291.601

Caitlin McGrath

TR 6:30-8 Screenings W 6-9

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Cinema of the Balkans

ENGL 292.401

CINE 202, ARTH 290, SLAV 212

Meta Mazaj

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

CINE 296.401

William Boddy

TR 1:30-3

Dante's Divine Comedy

ENGL 323.401

ITAL 333, COML 333

Kevin Brownlee

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Introduction to Shakespeare

ENGL 326.301

Phyllis Rackin

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Critical Issues in Global and Transnational Studies

ENGL 394.401

COML 360, ROML 390

Román de la Campa

TR 1:30-3

Writing Linked Short Stories

ENGL 415.630

Courtney Zoffness

T 5:30-8:10

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Internet Policy and Culture

ENGL 505.640

Peter Decherney

T 6-9