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Comparison, Cosmopolitanism, and the Global Novel
ENGL 100.401
also offered as: COML 100
Rita Barnard
MW 5:00-6:30
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
The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
ENGL 102.401
also offered as: CINE 112
Amy Kaplan
MWF 12:00
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Love in an Age of Cynicism
ENGL 102.404
also offered as: COML 245
Jean-Michel Rabaté
TR 12:00-1:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum

Intermediate Level Courses

Literature Before 1660
ENGL 020.301
Alan Niles
M/W/F 11:00
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major
Sensing the City
ENGL 051.001
Emily Steinlight
TR 1:30-3:00
Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Literature Gone Viral
ENGL 059.401
also offered as: COML 059
Beth Blum
TR 3-4:30
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Modern America
ENGL 064.001
Rita Barnard
TR 3:00-4:30
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Asian-American Literature
ENGL 072.401
also offered as: ASAM 002
Josephine Park
MW 2:00-3:30
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
Radical Arts: Literature, Visual Arts, Theater and Cinema in the Americas
ENGL 073.401
also offered as: THAR 073, ARTH 299, COML 073, CINE 073, LALS 073
Jennifer Ponce de León
TR 1:30-3:00
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
Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum
Recommended by James Franco (Mostly)
ENGL 074.401
also offered as: CINE 074
Jean-Christophe Cloutier
TR 10:30-12:00
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
What is African-American Literature?
ENGL 081.401
also offered as: AFRC 081
Salamishah Tillet
TR 3:00-4:30
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
Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum
American Poetry
ENGL 088.001
Jason Zuzga
TR 4:30-6:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
American Fiction
ENGL 089.001
Ana Schwartz
TR 9:00-10:30
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Sex and the City
ENGL 090.401
also offered as: GSWS 090
Deborah Burnham
MW 2:00-3:30
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
Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum
Cyborgs
ENGL 090.402
also offered as: GSWS 090
Bronwyn V. Wallace
TR 9:00-10:30
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 1945-Present
ENGL 092.401
also offered as: CINE 102, ARTH 109
Timothy Corrigan
TR 9:00-10:30
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

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Poetry and Politics in Ancient Greece
ENGL 329.401
also offered as: CLST 329
Anne Hall
TR 1:30-3:00
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major
Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum
Environmental Media
ENGL 392.401
also offered as: CINE 392, ARTH 389
Rahul Mukherjee
MW 2:00-3:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Literary Theory Ancient to Modern
ENGL 394.401
also offered as: COML 383, CLST 396
Rita Copeland
MW 3:30-5:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

Journalism and Memoir
ENGL 010.302
Jamie-Lee Josselyn
Monday 2:00-5:00
Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry
ENGL 010.303
Lynn Levin
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Fiction Writing Workshop
ENGL 112.301
Karen Rile
Monday 2:00-5:00
Poetry Workshop
ENGL 113.301
Herman Beavers
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Playwriting
ENGL 114.401
also offered as: THAR 114
Jackie Goldfinger
Monday 2:00-5:00
Advanced Fiction Writing
ENGL 115.301
Max Apple
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Screenwriting
ENGL 116.401
also offered as: CINE 116
Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
Monday 2:00-5:00
Screenwriting
ENGL 116.402
also offered as: CINE 116
Scott F Burkhardt
Tuesday 4:30-7:30
Screenwriting
ENGL 116.403
also offered as: CINE 116
Scott F Burkhardt
Thursday 4:30-7:30
The Arts and Popular Culture
ENGL 117.301
Anthony DeCurtis
Thursday 1:30-4:30
Advanced Poetry Workshop
ENGL 118.301
Greg Djanikian
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Art Reviewing and Criticism
ENGL 119.301
Susan Bee
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation
ENGL 120.401
also offered as: COML 121
Taije Silverman
TR 3:00-4:30
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
Writing for Children: Beauty and the Book (and the Blog)
ENGL 121.401
also offered as: AFRC 121
Lorene Cary
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Making Comics
ENGL 122.301
Jean-Christophe Cloutier, Robert Berry
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Word and Picture: Creating Comics in Prose and Verse
ENGL 122.302
Lawrence Abbott
Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-12:00 pm
The Art of Editing
ENGL 126.301
Julia Bloch
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Advanced Screenwriting
ENGL 130.401
also offered as: CINE 130
Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Creative Nonfiction Writing
ENGL 135.301
Beth Kephart
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Creative Nonfiction: The Reported Essay
ENGL 135.302
Jay Kirk
Thursday 1:30-4:30
Peer Tutoring
ENGL 135.401
also offered as: WRIT 135
Valerie Ross
TR 10:30-12:00
Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class & Gender
ENGL 145.601
also offered as: GSWS 145, URBS 273
Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson
Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm
Advanced Nonfiction Writing
ENGL 145.301
Lise Funderburg
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Writing from Photographs
ENGL 156.301
Paul Hendrickson
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Introduction to Journalistic Writing
ENGL 157.301
Avery Rome
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Advanced Journalistic Writing canceled
ENGL 158.302
Peter Tarr
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Long-Form Journalistic Writing
ENGL 160.301
Paul Hendrickson
Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Art of the Profile
ENGL 161.301
Dick Polman
Monday 2:00-5:00
Writing through Culture and Art
ENGL 165.301
Kenneth Goldsmith
Thursday 1:30-4:30
James Baldwin & the Issues of Our Times: A Writing Seminar
ENGL 481.640
also offered as: AFRC 481
Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson
Thursdays 5:30-8:10 pm

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Toni Morrison
ENGL 101.601
also offered as: AFRC 101, GSWS 101
Omari Weekes
MW 4:30-6:00
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
The Uncanny in Literature and Film: Haunted Houses and Habits
ENGL 102.601
also offered as: CINE 112
Jason Zuzga
Tuesdays 6:30-9:30 pm
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
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
Alan Niles
Tuesdays 5-8:00 pm
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum
The World of Work
ENGL 105.601
Deborah Burnham
Wednesday 6:00-9:00
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Sector IV: Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences of the College's General Education Curriculum
Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class & Gender
ENGL 145.601
also offered as: GSWS 145, URBS 273
Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson
Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 pm
#blacklivesmatter: Strategies of Resistance
ENGL 281.601
also offered as: AFRC 281
Omari Weekes
MW 6:30-8:00
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Great Story Collections
ENGL 099.601
David Sean Azzolina
Tuesday 6:30-9:30
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Difficult Freedom: The Social Imaginary in Contemporary Art
ENGL 266.601
also offered as: ARTH 297, ARTH 697
Aaron Levy
Tuesday 4:30-7:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Digital Humanities
ENGL 278.601
also offered as: COML 066, SAST 066, RUSS 066
Robin Seguy
Thursday 6:00-9:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Master of Liberal Arts

Love and Marriage, and Poetry
ENGL 469.640
Taije Silverman
Thursdays 5-8:00 pm
James Baldwin & the Issues of Our Times: A Writing Seminar
ENGL 481.640
also offered as: AFRC 481
Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson
Thursdays 5:30-8:10 pm

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Publics
ENGL 505.401
also offered as: CINE 505
Rahul Mukherjee
Monday 6:00-9:00
Boethius from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period: Reception-Regeneration
ENGL 524.401
also offered as: CLST 618, COML 601
Rita Copeland
Tuesday 7-10:00 pm
Please see Professor Copeland
Bessie, Beyoncé, and 20th Century Black Women Performers
ENGL 570.401
also offered as: AFRC 570
Salamishah Tillet
Thursday 6:00-9:00
Global and Transnational Cultural Cultural Formations
ENGL 573.401
also offered as: COML 683, SLAV 683
Kevin M.F. Platt
Wednesday 2:00-5:00

Cross-Listed Courses

Poetry Out Loud
ENGL 001.401
also offered as: COML 001
Tim Chandler
TR 10:30-12:00 pm
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Classical Traditions
ENGL 029.401
also offered as: CLST 102
Sheila Murnaghan
TR 3:00-4:30
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Science and Literature
ENGL 075.401
also offered as: STSC 110, HIST 117, HSOC 110
Mark Adams
MW 11
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
The American Sitcom
ENGL 078.401
also offered as: CINE 150
Greg Steirer
Monday 2:00-5:00
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Intro to Film Theory
ENGL 095.401
also offered as: ARTH 107, CINE 103
Meta Mazaj
TR 12-1:30 pm
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Narratives Across Cultures
ENGL 103.401
also offered as: COML 125, FOLK 125, NELC 180, SAST 124
Roger Allen
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector III: Arts & Letters of the College's General Education Curriculum
Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum
Early American Studies
ENGL 253.401
also offered as: HIST 231
Robert Blair St. George
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major
Witnessing, Remembering, and Writing the Holocaust
ENGL 261.401
also offered as: GRMN 236, COML 243, JWST 243, ARTH 284, PSYS 236
Liliane Weissberg
TR 10:30-12:00
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Asian American Professionals
ENGL 272.401
also offered as: ASAM 202
Kalyan Nadiminti
TR 12-1:30 pm
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Icons in Performance: Actors and Others Who Define and Shape the Arts
ENGL 276.401
also offered as: THAR 275, CINE 225
David Fox
MW 2:00-3:30
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Film Festivals
ENGL 292.401
also offered as: CINE 202, ARTH 289
Meta Mazaj
TR 3:00-4:30
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
The Coen Brothers
ENGL 292.403
also offered as: CINE 202
Christopher Donovan
MW 3:30-5:00 pm
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
French Thought After 1968
ENGL 294.401
also offered as: FREN 311, COML 309
Yue Zhuo
MW 3:30-5:00 pm
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Dante's Divine Comedy
ENGL 323.401
also offered as: ITAL 333, COML 333
Marina Della Putta Johnston
TR 1:30-3:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Freshman Seminars

Blood, Sweat, and Pasta
ENGL 015.402
also offered as: CINE 016
Frank Pellicone
MW 3:30-5:00 pm
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
The Queer Novel and the Marriage Plot
ENGL 015.401
also offered as: GSWS 017
Heather K. Love
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Spiegel-Wilks Seminar: On the Eccentric Edges of Art
ENGL 016.401
also offered as: ARTH 100
Aaron Levy
TR 12:00-1:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Trauma, Time, and Fiction
ENGL 016.301
Paul Saint-Amour
MW 2:00-3:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Medieval Worlds
ENGL 016.302
Emily Steiner
Thursday 1:30-4:30
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminars

Tales of Travel
ENGL 200.302
Najnin Islam
TR 12:00-1:30
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major
Moby-Dick
ENGL 200.305
Jazmín Delgado Flores
MW 5:00-6:30
Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Upper Level Seminars

Shakespeare and Ovid
ENGL 229.401
also offered as: GSWS 228
Bronwyn V. Wallace
TR 12:00-1:30
Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major
Beast Culture
ENGL 241.401
also offered as: COML 239
Chi-ming Yang
TR 3:00-4:30
Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major
Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum
The Pamela Craze
ENGL 245.401
also offered as: GSWS 245
Toni Bowers
MW 2:00-3:30
Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major
Dramaturgy
ENGL 256.401
also offered as: THAR 274
Cary Mazer
TR 10:30-12:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
American Poetry post 1975
ENGL 262.401
also offered as: COML 274
Charles Bernstein
TR 3:00-4:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
The American 1930s canceled
ENGL 264.301
Peter Conn
TR 12:00-1:30
Elective Seminar of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Novels and Novelists Now canceled
ENGL 265.301
James English
TR 9:00-10:30
Elective Seminar of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Modernist American Poetry
ENGL 269.401
also offered as: COML 281
Charles Bernstein
TR 1:30-3:00
Elective Seminar of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Territories in Resistance: Race, Space, and Writing Seminar in Latino/a Literature
ENGL 270.401
also offered as: THAR 375, LALS 291
Jennifer Ponce de León
Friday 2:00-5:00
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
Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum
African American Modernism
ENGL 281.401
also offered as: AFRC 281
Thadious Davis
TR 9:00-10:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics 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
Gender and Phototextuality
ENGL 290.401
also offered as: AFRC 290, GSWS 290
Thadious Davis
TR 12:00-1:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Cultural Diversity in the US of the College's General Education Curriculum
Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Film: Culture and Psychoanalysis
ENGL 292.402
also offered as: CINE 202
Jean-Michel Rabaté
TR 9:00-10:30
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major
Thinking Sex
ENGL 296.401
also offered as: GSWS 297
Kadji Amin
TR 4:30-6:00
Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major