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From the Uncanny to the Horror: Literature, Film, and Psychoanalysis

ENGL 102.401

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9:00-10:30am

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

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Literatures of Psychoanalysis

ENGL 102.402

Max Cavitch

MW 5:00-6:30pm

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

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Comics and Graphic Novels

ENGL 103.001

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

MWF 12:00-1:00pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Literature and Law

ENGL 106.001

Nancy Bentley

TR 3:00-4:30pm

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

Sector IV: Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences of the College's General Education Curriculum

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Intro to Shakespeare

ENGL 326.301

Phyllis Rackin

TR 10:30-12:00pm

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

Epistolary Fiction

ENGL 345.401

Toni Bowers

MW 2:00-3:30pm

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

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 392.401

Rita Barnard

TR 3:00-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Intermediate Level Courses

Asian-American Literature

ENGL 072.401

Josephine Park

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Victorian Sensationalism: Popular Fiction of Nineteenth-Century Britain

ENGL 051.001

Christine Woody

TR 10:30-12

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Television & New Media

ENGL 078.401

Rahul Mukherjee

MW 2:00-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Children's Literature: The Invention of American Childhood

ENGL 053.001

Laura Soderberg

MW 2-3:30 pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to African-American Literature: (Citified: Urban Space and Racial Identity) canceled

ENGL 081.401

Thadious Davis

TR 10:30-12:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

ENGL 088.001

Al Filreis

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660

ENGL 020.301

Rebecca Bushnell

MW 3:30-5:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Women's Life Writing, 1100-1700

ENGL 090.401

David Wallace

MW 2:00-3:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Call to Adventure: The Lure of Romance from Camelot to Star Wars

ENGL 022.001

Lydia Yaitsky Kertz

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

Timothy Corrigan

TR 9:00-10:30am

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Early Drama canceled

ENGL 026.001

Department Staff

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Introduction to Literary Theory

ENGL 094.401

Suvir Kaul

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

The Age of Milton canceled

ENGL 038.001

Department Staff

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Queer Politics Queer Communities

ENGL 096.401

Jeanne Vaccaro

MW 3:30-5:00pm

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

Sector IV: Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences of the College's General Education Curriculum

British Poetry and the Globe: 1660-1914 canceled

ENGL 040.301

Ana Schwartz

MW 3:30-5:00pm

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

Literature and Medicine canceled

ENGL 107.001

Lance Wahlert

TR 4:30-6:00pm

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Poetry and Poetics

ENGL 069.001

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Science: Norms, Forms, and Deviations

ENGL 108.001

S. Pearl Brilmyer

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Latina/o Literature and Culture: Literature, Art, and Theater Across the Latino/a U.S.

ENGL 070.401

Jennifer Ponce de León

TR 3:00-4:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Introduction to Africana Studies

ENGL 071.401

Salamishah Tillet

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

English Honors Program

ENGL 311.301

Salamishah Tillet

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Creative Writing Seminars

Across Forms: Writing and Art

ENGL 129.401

also offered as: FNAR 315, FNAR 615

Sharon A Hayes, Syd Zolf

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Max Apple

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.401

Valerie Ross

TR 10:30-12:00pm

The Art of the Personal Essay

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Tuesday 5:30-8:30pm

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Julia Bloch

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Buzz Bissinger

Friday 2:00-5:00pm

The World Around Us: Journalism and the Environment

ENGL 157.302

Avery Rome

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Karen Rile

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Introduction to Journalistic Writing: Writing About Food

ENGL 157.301

Rick Nichols

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Truth Tales: A Writing Workshop

ENGL 410.640

Rebekah Zhuraw

Wednesday 5:30-8:10pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Journalistic Storytelling

ENGL 158.301

Dick Polman

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Story-Telling in Fiction and Nonfiction

ENGL 410.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:20 pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

Scott F Burkhardt

Tuesday 4:30-7:30pm

Writing about the Presidential Election

ENGL 159.301

Dick Polman

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

Scott F Burkhardt

Thursday 4:30-7:30pm

Essay, Blog, Tweet: Nonfiction Now!

ENGL 135.402

Lorene Cary

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

Groundbreaking Poets, Traditional Forms

ENGL 262.301

Taije Silverman

TR 1:30-3:00pm

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

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

The Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

The Glorious "What if?": Writing Speculative Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Melissa Jensen

Wednesdays 5:30-8:10 pm

Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 010.301

Deborah Burnham

TR 10:30-12:00pm

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Max Apple

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Writing Toward Diaspora

ENGL 127.401

Ariel Resnikoff

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Memoir and Literary Journalism

ENGL 010.302

Jamie-Lee Josselyn

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Animal Tales

ENGL 010.304

Anna Maria Hong

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Writing about Health and Medicine

ENGL 010.303

Sam Apple

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

Narrative Nonfiction: The Art of Experience

ENGL 135.302

Jay Kirk

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 010.601

Jason Zuzga

Tuesday 4:30-7:30pm

Wasting Time on the Internet

ENGL 111.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Creative Nonfiction Writing: Writing your Travels

ENGL 135.303

Marion Kant

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Anti-Imperialist and Decolonial Thought in Latin America: From Revolution and Development to New Social Movements and the 21st Century Left

ENGL 590.401

Jennifer Ponce de León

Thursday 6:00-9:00pm

Animal Studies: Representation, Critique, Engagement

ENGL 573.401

Max Cavitch

Monday 12:00-3:00pm

South African Literature and Film

ENGL 572.401

Rita Barnard

Monday 3:00-6:00pm

Epistolary Fiction in a European Frame

ENGL 545.401

also offered as: FREN 560

Toni Bowers

Wednesday 6-9:00 pm

Environmental Media

ENGL 505.401

Rahul Mukherjee

Monday 6:00-9:00pm

Richardson canceled

ENGL 544.401

Toni Bowers

Wednesday 6:00-9:00pm

Premodern Women

ENGL 553.401

David Wallace

Monday 9:00-12:00pm

Cross-Listed Courses

Holocaust in Literature and Film: Modern Hebrew Literature & Culture in Translation

ENGL 079.401

also offered as: NELC 159, CINE 159, COML 282, JWST 154

Nili Gold

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Theater, History, Culture: Classical to the Middle Class

ENGL 087.401

Jim Schlatter

TR 1:30-3:00pm

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

Meta Mazaj

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Narratives Across Cultures

ENGL 103.401

Roger Allen

Wednesday 2:00-5:00pm

American Musical Theater

ENGL 274.401

David Fox

MW 2:00-3:30pm

Improvisation

ENGL 276.401

Marcia Ferguson

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Historical Films

ENGL 292.401

Meta Mazaj

TR 3:00-4:30pm

The Animation of Disney

ENGL 302.401

Linda Simensky

Monday 4:30-7:30pm

Women and Theatre: Provocative Performance

ENGL 356.401

Rosemary Malague

TR 3-4:30 pm

Hollywood 1939

ENGL 392.402

Dana Polan

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

August Wilson

ENGL 280.401

also offered as: AFRC 325

Suzana Berger

Monday 2-5:00 pm

Poetry Out Loud

ENGL 001.401

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

TR 3:00-4:30pm

Multicultural American Literature and Spirituality

ENGL 264.402

also offered as: RELS 191

Timothy Powell

TR 10:30-12

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Jane Austen and Adaptation

ENGL 101.601

Christine Woody

Tuesdays 5-8:00 pm

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

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Gothic Short Media: A Survey of the American Short Story to 1900

ENGL 103.601

Don James McLaughlin

Tuesday 5:00-8:00pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Utopia/Dystopia

ENGL 102.602

Joan Lubin

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

The 21st Century

ENGL 274.601

Joan Lubin

Wednesdays 6-9:00 pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 010.601

Jason Zuzga

Tuesday 4:30-7:30pm

The Art of the Personal Essay

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Tuesday 5:30-8:30pm

Gothic Beasts, Gothic Families

ENGL 102.601

Deborah Burnham

Wednesday 6:00-9:00pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Cross Listed LPS Master of Liberal Arts Courses

Women and Theatre: Provocative Performance

ENGL 456.640

also offered as: THAR 579, GSWS 579

Rosemary Malague

Thursdays 6-8:40 pm

Freshman Seminars

Writing Philadelphia

ENGL 016.301

Laynie Browne

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

The Social Life of Things: Art, Objects, and the Cultural Politics of Philadelphia

ENGL 016.401

Aaron Levy

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminars

Junior Research Seminar: Canterbury Tales

ENGL 200.301

Emily Steiner

MW 2:00-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Environment, Globalization and the Contemporary Novel

ENGL 200.302

B. Jamieson Stanley

MW 3:30-5:00 pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

American Immigrant Narratives

ENGL 200.303

Hao Jun Tam (Howie)

TR 10:30-12:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Poetry in a Digital Culture

ENGL 200.304

Orchid Tierney

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Black Humor: Comedy and Satire in African American Culture

ENGL 200.305

Keyana Parks

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Film Noir and its Afterlives

ENGL 200.306

Eleni Palis

TR 3:00-4:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Letters of the American Revolution

ENGL 200.307

Evelyn Soto

TR 4:30-6:00pm

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

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Upper Level Seminars

Melville, Stowe, Douglass

ENGL 253.301

Nancy Bentley

TR 10:30-12:00pm

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

British Cinema canceled

ENGL 295.401

James English

TR 9:00-10:30am

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

Cary Mazer

TR 12-1:30 pm

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

Contemporary European Cinema

ENGL 295.402

also offered as: CINE 295

Timothy Corrigan

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

T.S. Eliot's Waste Land

ENGL 259.301

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12:00-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Global Feminism

ENGL 296.401

Ania Loomba

Monday 2:00-5:00pm

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

Groundbreaking Poets, Traditional Forms

ENGL 262.301

Taije Silverman

TR 1:30-3:00pm

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

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Novel of the Year

ENGL 274.301

James English

TR 9-10:10 am

Elective of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Classical Epic and Medieval Romance

ENGL 229.401

Rita Copeland

MW 3:30-5:00pm

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

Topics in 20th-Century American Literature canceled

ENGL 263.301

Department Staff

Gender Relations in the Romantic Ballet of the 19th Century: Sex, Drugs and Crime

ENGL 290.301

Marion Kant

Tuesday 1:30-4:30 pm

Topics In Renaissance Literature canceled

ENGL 231.301

Department Staff

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

Topics in Modern American Literature canceled

ENGL 264.301

Department Staff

Looking Out: U. S. Literature and the Global Nineteenth-Century

ENGL 243.301

Laura Soderberg

MW 5-6:30 pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Topics In The History of the Book canceled

ENGL 233.301

Department Staff

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

Black South Writers canceled

ENGL 264.401

Thadious Davis

TR 1:30-3:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum

Acting Shakespeare

ENGL 236.401

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12:00 pm

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Topics In Law and Literature canceled

ENGL 266.301

Department Staff

Milton

ENGL 238.301

Anne Hall

TR 3:00-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Topics In the Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora canceled

ENGL 271.301

Department Staff

Topics in 18th-Century Literature canceled

ENGL 241.301

Department Staff

TR 10:30-12:00pm

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 Asian American Literature canceled

ENGL 272.401

Department Staff

Topics in 19th-Century Literature canceled

ENGL 251.301

Department Staff

MW 2:00-3:30pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Topics In African-American Literature canceled

ENGL 281.401

Department Staff

Closely Related Courses

Victorian Britain: Spaces, Places, and Pests

HIST 314.001

Department Staff

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Literature and Music canceled

ENGL 254.601

also offered as: COML 109

Gabriel Sessions

Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm

Wes Anderson

ENGL 292.601

also offered as: CINE 202

Valerie Ross

Wednesday 5-8:00 pm

War and Representation

ENGL 105.601

also offered as: COML 150, RUSS 193

Yung-Ching Chang

Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm

Sector IV: Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences of the College's General Education Curriculum

Master of Liberal Arts

The Glorious "What if?": Writing Speculative Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Melissa Jensen

Wednesdays 5:30-8:10 pm

American Bestsellers

ENGL 486.640

Peter Conn

Mondays 6:30-9:10 pm

Truth Tales: A Writing Workshop

ENGL 410.640

Rebekah Zhuraw

Wednesday 5:30-8:10pm

Story-Telling in Fiction and Nonfiction

ENGL 410.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:20 pm

The Shakespeare Variations

ENGL 430.640

Zachary Lesser

Thursday 4:30-7:30pm