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General Education Courses

Asian American Literature

ENGL 072.401

crosslisted as: ASAM 002

Josephine Park

MW 11

fulfills requirements:

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

Pirates-Real and Imagined

ENGL 102.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

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

The Vietnam War in Literature and Film

ENGL 102.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 112

Amy Kaplan

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

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

Narrative Across Cultures

ENGL 103.401

crosslisted as: COML 125, FOLK 125, NELC 180, SAST 124

Ania Loomba

TR 3-4:30

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

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Literature and Law

ENGL 106.001

Nancy Bentley

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

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

Freshman Seminars

Gender and Society

GSWS 002.001

Rovel Sequeira

ENGL 015.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 015

Peter Decherney

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Arts and Nature

ENGL 016.301

Rebecca Bushnell

T 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Counterfictions

ENGL 016.302

Paul Saint-Amour

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Contact and Conflict: Literatures of Israel and Palestine

ENGL 016.303

Amy Kaplan

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

The Ecology of Art

ENGL 016.401

crosslisted as: ARTH 100, URBS 106, CIMS 016

Aaron Levy

T 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Intermediate Level Courses

Chaucer: Medieval Poetry and Modern Performance

ENGL 0025.001

David Wallace, A.V. Aylin Malcolm

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Introduction to Old English Language and Literature

ENGL 018.001

Emily Steiner

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660

ENGL 020.301

Sarah Wilma Watson

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

The Global Renaissance

ENGL 031.001

Ania Loomba

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Cultures of the Book canceled

ENGL 034.001

Department Staff

TBA

British Poetry 1660-1914 canceled

ENGL 040.301

Department Staff

TBA

The Literature of Nation and Empire

ENGL 041.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 3-4:30

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

Scottish Literature: An Introduction to major works from the 18th-Century to the Present.

ENGL 047.001

Toni Bowers

TR 10:30-12

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

Victorian Fiction

ENGL 055.001

Emily Steinlight

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 058.001

Jed Esty

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Intro to African American Literature

ENGL 081.401

crosslisted as: AFRC 081

Margo Natalie Crawford

MW 3:30-5:00

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

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

Modern and Contemporary Poetry canceled

ENGL 088.001

Jason Zuzga

MW 3:30-5

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Writing Women: 1680-1800 Women as authors and as subject (literary, political, domestic) during the long eighteenth century.

ENGL 090.401

crosslisted as: COML 090, GSWS 090

Toni Bowers

TR 1:30-3

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

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

crosslisted as: ARTH 108, CIMS 101, COML 123

Alexander Benjamin Kauffman

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

crosslisted as: ARTH 109, CIMS 102, COML 124

Timothy Corrigan

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Main Concepts of Literary and Cultural Theory for Beginners

ENGL 094.401

crosslisted as: COML 094

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Theories Gender/Sexuality

ENGL 096.401

crosslisted as: GSWS 096

Jason Zuzga

MW 3:30-5

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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

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

Literature and Medicine canceled

ENGL 107.001

Lance Wahlert

TBA

Literature and Science: Scientific Aesthetics

ENGL 108.001

S. Pearl Brilmyer

MW 5-6:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminars

The English Lyric

ENGL 200.301

Chris Chan

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Radical Black Feminisms: Writing the Carceral State

ENGL 200.302

Tajah Ebram

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

The Great African Novel

ENGL 200.303

Aaron Bartels-Swindells

MW 3:30-5

fulfills requirements:

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

Eating Modernism

ENGL 200.304

Jess Shollenberger

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Speculation: American Futures

ENGL 200.305

Clinton Williamson

MW 5-6:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Critical-Creative Seminars

Writing Philadelphia

ENGL 210.301

Julia Bloch

W 2-5:00 pm

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Growing up in Fiction

ENGL 210.302

Deborah Burnham

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Art of the Book: The Book Machine

ENGL 210.303

Whitney Trettien

MW 3:30-5

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Seminars

Troy Stories: Classical Epic and Medieval Romance

ENGL 229.401

crosslisted as: CLST 360, COML 296

Rita Copeland

MW 3:30-5:00

fulfills requirements:

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

Acting Shakespeare

ENGL 236.401

crosslisted as: THAR 235

Cary Mazer

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Wordsworth and Coleridge

ENGL 250.301

Christine Woody

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Distraction

ENGL 251.301

Emily Steinlight

TR 3–4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Rewriting American Classics

ENGL 253.301

Nancy Bentley

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

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

On Thoughts Occasioned By

ENGL 257.401

crosslisted as: FNAR 177, FNAR 677, CIMS 177

Timothy Corrigan, David Hartt

T 1:30-4:30

1922, The Year of Modernist Masterpieces

ENGL 259.401

crosslisted as: COML 140

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Topics in the Novel canceled

ENGL 260.301

Department Staff

TBA

Representations of the Holocaust

ENGL 261.401

crosslisted as: JWST 262, CIMS 261

Al Filreis

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Science: Norms, Forms, and Deviations canceled

ENGL 268.301

S. Pearl Brilmyer

MW 2-3:30

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

Topics in Latina/o Lit canceled

ENGL 270.301

Department Staff

TBA

Topics Contemporary American Literature canceled

ENGL 274.301

Department Staff

TBA

"Where My Girls At?" canceled

ENGL 281.401

crosslisted as: AFRC 335, GSWS 336

Salamishah Tillet

T 10:30-1:30

fulfills requirements:

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

Topics Literary Theory canceled

ENGL 294.401

Department Staff

TBA

British Cinema: Film, Television, and Transatlantic Screen Culture

ENGL 295.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 295

James English

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

English Honors Program

ENGL 311.301

S. Pearl Brilmyer

M 2-5:00

English Honors Program

ENGL 311.302

Michael Gamer

M 2-5:00

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Introduction to Shakespeare

ENGL 326.301

Phyllis Rackin

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Virginia Woolf

ENGL 364.301

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 3–4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

August Wilson and Beyond

ENGL 380.401

crosslisted as: AFRC 325

Herman Beavers

M 2-5:00

fulfills requirements:

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

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 392.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 392

Rita Barnard

TR 3–4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

Introduction to Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.301

Taije Silverman

TR 10:30–12

Introduction to Creative Writing: Memoir and Literary Journalism

ENGL 010.302

Jamie-Lee Josselyn

Monday 2–5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Writing about Health and Medicine

ENGL 010.303

Sam Apple

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 010.304

Karen Rile

Wednesday 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry/Fiction

ENGL 010.601

Sebastian Castillo

TR 5:30-7

Experimental Poetry

ENGL 111.401

crosslisted as: COML 115

Charles Bernstein

M 6-9:00

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Carmen Maria Machado

Monday 2–5:00

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Laynie Browne

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Monday 2–5:00

ENGL 116.402

Tuesday 4:30–7:30

ENGL 116.403

Thursday 4:30-7:30

The Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Art Reviewing and Criticism

ENGL 119.301

Susan Bee

Wednesday 2-5:00

The Translation of Poetry / The Poetry of Translation

ENGL 120.401

Taije Silverman

TR 3–4:30

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

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Where the Wild Things Play Quidditch: Writing for Children

ENGL 121.601

Melissa Jensen

Wednesday 5:30–8:30

Magazine Journalism

ENGL 128.301

Avery Rome

Monday 2-5:00

Across Forms: Art and Writing

ENGL 129.401

Sharon A Hayes, Syd Zolf

Wednesday 2–5:00

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Wednesday 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Max Apple

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Narrative Nonfiction: the Art of Experience

ENGL 135.302

Jay Kirk

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Creative Nonfiction Writing: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.303

Marion Kant

Monday 2–5:00

Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.401

crosslisted as: WRIT 135

Valerie Ross

TR 10:30–12

Essay, Blog, Tweet, Nonfiction now!

ENGL 135.402

crosslisted as: AFRC 134

Lorene Cary

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Speculative Fiction: Horror, Mystery, and Suspense

ENGL 144.301

Carmen Maria Machado

T 1:30-4:30

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Buzz Bissinger

Friday 2–5:00

Advanced Nonfiction: The Writer in the Community canceled

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

M 5:30-8:30

Introduction to Journalistic Writing: Writing About Food

ENGL 157.301

Rick Nichols

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Journalistic Story-Telling

ENGL 158.301

Dick Polman

Monday 2-5:00

Political Writing in the Digital Age

ENGL 159.301

Dick Polman

Wednesday 2-5:00

Writing Through Marcel Duchamp

ENGL 165.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

Thursday 1:30-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Storytelling in Fiction and Nonfiction canceled

ENGL 410.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

W 5:30-8:30

Screenwriting

ENGL 416.640

crosslisted as: CIMS 416

Scott F Burkhardt

Monday 6-9:00 pm

The Art of the Interview

ENGL 457.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10

Cross-Listed Courses

The End is Coming: Apocalypse in Film and Literature

ENGL 001.401

crosslisted as: COML 001

Tomas Anthony Richard Elliott, Cory Knudson

TR 10:30-12

Classical Traditions

ENGL 029.401

crosslisted as: CLST 102

Sheila Murnaghan

TR 3–4:30

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

Television and New Media canceled

ENGL 078.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 103, ARTH 107, COML 099

James J. Fiumara

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modern Hebrew Lit. & Culture in Translation: Image of Haifa & Other Cities

ENGL 079.401

crosslisted as: NELC 159, CIMS 159, COML 282, JWST 154

Nili Gold

TR 1:30-3

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Jewish American Literature

ENGL 079.402

crosslisted as: GRMN 263, COML 277, JWST 261

Kathryn Hellerstein

TR 3-4:30

Theatre, History, Cultural I: Classical to the Middle Class

ENGL 087.401

crosslisted as: THAR 101

Marcia Ferguson

TR 1:30-3

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

Humanism and Renaissance

ENGL 231.401

crosslisted as: ITAL 300, COML 300

Eva Del Soldato

TR 1:30-3

The Racial Imaginary: An Acting and Direction Laboratory

ENGL 252.401

crosslisted as: THAR 251, FNAR 513

Brooke O'Harra

R 1:30-4:30

Modern Islam and Poetry

ENGL 262.401

crosslisted as: SAST 144, RELS 147

Mahboob Afsar Mohammad

TR 3-4:30

American Musical Theatre

ENGL 274.401

crosslisted as: THAR 271, CIMS 271

David Fox

MW 2-3:30

World Literature canceled

ENGL 277.401

crosslisted as: COML 191

Martin Premoli, Augusta Atinuke Irele

MW 3:30-5

American Theatre-1960's: Revolution in Performance, Politics and Ideas

ENGL 287.401

crosslisted as: THAR 280

Jim Schlatter

TR 3-4:30

Transnational Cinema

ENGL 291.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 201, ARTH 391

Meta Mazaj

TR 12-1:30

Romantic Comedy

ENGL 292.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 202, ARTH 289, COML 292

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30

The History of Children'sTelevision

ENGL 302.401

crosslisted as: CIMS 320, ARTH 387, FNAR 320

Linda Simensky

M 4:30-7:30

Provocative Performance

ENGL 356.401

crosslisted as: THAR 279, GSWS 279

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry/Fiction

ENGL 010.601

Sebastian Castillo

TR 5:30-7

The Middle Ages and the Movies canceled

ENGL 021.601

crosslisted as: CIMS 021

Sarah Wilma Watson

T 6-9:00

fulfills requirements:

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Jane Austen and Adaptation

ENGL 101.601

Alice Tweedy McGrath

Thursday 5-8:00

fulfills requirements:

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

The Uncanny in Literature and Film: Haunted Places

ENGL 102.601

crosslisted as: CIMS 112

Jason Zuzga

R 6-9:00

fulfills requirements:

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

Disability Narratives

ENGL 105.601

Travis Chi Wing Lau

W 6-9:00

fulfills requirements:

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

Where the Wild Things Play Quidditch: Writing for Children

ENGL 121.601

Melissa Jensen

Wednesday 5:30–8:30

Advanced Nonfiction: The Writer in the Community canceled

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

M 5:30-8:30

Contagion

ENGL 267.601

Travis Chi Wing Lau

R 6-9:00

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

The Comic, Politics and American Cinema canceled

ENGL 291.601

crosslisted as: CIMS 201, ARTH 391

Alexander Benjamin Kauffman

MW 4:30-6:00

Master of Liberal Arts

Storytelling in Fiction and Nonfiction canceled

ENGL 410.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

W 5:30-8:30

Screenwriting

ENGL 416.640

crosslisted as: CIMS 416

Scott F Burkhardt

Monday 6-9:00 pm

The World of Work

ENGL 455.640

Deborah Burnham

W 6-9:00

The Art of the Interview

ENGL 457.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 595.640

crosslisted as: CIMS 595

Rita Barnard

W 4:30-7:30

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Chaucer and Boccaccio

ENGL 525.401

crosslisted as: ITAL 537, COML 522

David Wallace

T 9-12:00

Queer Theory and Early Modern Studies

ENGL 538.401

crosslisted as: GSWS 538, COML 558

Melissa E. Sanchez

T 12-3:00

James Baldwin

ENGL 569.401

crosslisted as: AFRC 569

Dagmawi Woubshet

R 9-12:00

Aestheticus Extremus: The Politics of Precarious Invention in North American Poetry and Poetics

ENGL 589.401

crosslisted as: COML 577

Charles Bernstein

M 3-6:00