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Intermediate Level Courses

Computing for Interpretation in the Humanities

ENGL 009.401

also offered as: COML 009, HIST 009

Sayan Bhattacharyya

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660

ENGL 020.301

Lydia Yaitsky Kertz

TR 1:30-3

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Shakespeare's Bible

ENGL 026.001

Anne Hall

TR 3–4:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

The Global Renaissance

ENGL 031.001

Ania Loomba

TR 10:30–12

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 040.301

Chi-ming Yang

MW 5-6:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Restoration and 18th-Century Drama

ENGL 046.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 10:30-12

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

Scottish Literature canceled

ENGL 047.001

Toni Bowers

TR 12-1:30

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

Romantic Revolutions

ENGL 050.401

also offered as: GSWS 050

Michael Gamer

Wednesday 2-5:00

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

The Nineteenth-Century British Novel

ENGL 055.001

Paul Saint-Amour

MW 3:30-5:00

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Slavery and the Literary Imagination

ENGL 057.001

Max Cavitch

MW 5-6:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Early Novel

ENGL 060.001

Alice Tweedy McGrath

TR 3-4:30

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

20th-Century Poetry not from the U.S.

ENGL 062.401

also offered as: COML 062

Charles Bernstein

Monday 6–9:00

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

Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction

ENGL 065.401

Rita Barnard

MW 2–3:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Radical Arts: Literature, Visual Arts, Theater and Cinema in the Americas

ENGL 073.401

also offered as: ARTH 299, CIMS 073, COML 073, LALS 073, THAR 073

Jennifer Ponce de León

TR 12-1:30

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

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

Television and New Media

ENGL 078.401

also offered as: ARTH 107, CIMS 103, COML 099

Rahul Mukherjee

TR 10:30-12

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

20th and 21st Century American Poetry

ENGL 088.001

Jason Zuzga

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Coming of Age in American Literature

ENGL 089.001

Laura Soderberg

TR 1:30-3

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sex in the City: Women in Urban Spaces

ENGL 090.401

also offered as: GSWS 090

Deborah Burnham

TR 12-1:30

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

Literature and Business

ENGL 109.301

Jed Esty

TR 1:30–3

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Literary Theory Ancient to Modernism

ENGL 394.401

also offered as: CLST 396, COML 383

Rita Copeland

MW 3:30–5

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

Creative Writing Seminars

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.601

Sebastian Castillo

Wednesday 5-8:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Animal Tales

ENGL 010.301

Anna Maria Hong

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Introduction to Creative Writing: Writing the Personal Essay, Writing Fiction

ENGL 010.302

Sam Apple

Thursday 1:30–4:30

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 010.303

Lynn Levin

Wednesday 2–5:00

First-Year Seminar: Writing About Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Uncreative Writing

ENGL 111.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

Thursday 1:30–4:30

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Carmen Maria Machado

Monday 2–5:00

Poetry Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Ron Silliman

Wednesday 2–5:00

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

Jackie Goldfinger

Monday 2–5:00

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Monday 2–5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

Tuesday 4:30–7:30

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

Thursday 4:30–7:30

The Arts and Popular Culture: Bob Dylan

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

Thursday 1:30–4:30

Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Greg Djanikian

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Writing and Performance

ENGL 119.301

Edwin [node:field_people_middlename] Torres

Monday 2–5:00

Translation of Poetry/Poetry of Translation

ENGL 120.401

also offered as: COML 121

Taije Silverman

TR 3–4:30

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

The Grown-Up Art of Writing for Children

ENGL 121.601

Elizabeth LaBan

Wednesday 4:30-7:30

Advanced Writing for Children

ENGL 123.401

also offered as: AFRC 123

Lorene Cary

Wednesday 2–5:00

The Art of Editing

ENGL 126.301

Julia Bloch

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Wednesday 2–5:00

Creative NonFiction: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.303

Marion Kant

Monday 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Beth Kephart

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

Experimental Nonfiction

ENGL 135.302

Jay Kirk

Thursday 1:30–4:30

Peer Tutoring

ENGL 135.401

also offered as: WRIT 135

Valerie Ross, Lan Ngo

TR 10:30–12

Speculative Fiction

ENGL 144.301

Carmen Maria Machado

TR 1:30-3:00

Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class & Gender

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Tuesday 5:30-8:30

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Lise Funderburg

Thursday 1:30–4:30

Documentary Writing

ENGL 155.301

Paul Hendrickson

Monday 2–5:00

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

Wednesday 2–5:00

Introduction to Science Writing

ENGL 157.301

Peter Tarr

Tuesday 1:30-4:30

Long-form Journalism

ENGL 160.301

Dick Polman

Wednesday 2–5:00

The Art of the Profile

ENGL 161.301

Dick Polman

Monday 2–5:00

Advanced Projects in Popular Culture

ENGL 170.301

Anthony DeCurtis

Friday 2–5:00

Creative Writing for Chemists

ENGL 415.640

Melissa Jensen

Wednesday 5:30-8:30 pm

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:10

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.601

Sebastian Castillo

Wednesday 5-8:00

Chaucer: Medieval Contexts and Modern Adaptations

ENGL 101.601

Sierra Lomuto

Monday 5-8:00

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

The English Novel and the World canceled

ENGL 103.602

Christine Woody

Tuesday 5-8:00

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Chick Lit

ENGL 103.603

Laura Soderberg

Thursday 5-8:00

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Grown-Up Art of Writing for Children

ENGL 121.601

Elizabeth LaBan

Wednesday 4:30-7:30

Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class & Gender

ENGL 145.601

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Tuesday 5:30-8:30

Narratives of Contact: Global Perspectives in Medieval Literature

ENGL 222.601

Sierra Lomuto

Wednesday 5-8:00

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

The Diary

ENGL 076.601

also offered as: COML 128, GSWS 128

Batsheva Ben-Amos

Wednesday 5:30-8:30

Master of Liberal Arts

Creative Writing for Chemists

ENGL 415.640

Melissa Jensen

Wednesday 5:30-8:30 pm

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:10

The World of Work canceled

ENGL 455.640

Deborah Burnham

Wednesday 6-9:00

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Media Fandom

ENGL 505.401

also offered as: CIMS 505

Peter Decherney

Thursday 9-12:00

Medieval Performances

ENGL 524.301

Emily Steiner

Thursday 3-6:00

The Gothic

ENGL 550.301

Michael Gamer

Tuesday 6–9:00

George Eliot and the Science of Description

ENGL 556.301

S. Pearl Brilmyer

Monday 6-9:00

Black Rage: Race, Affect, and the Politics of Feeling

ENGL 570.401

also offered as: AFRC 570, GSWS 570

Salamishah Tillet

Tuesday 9-12:00

Introduction to Bibliography from Gutenberg to Google Books

ENGL 574.401

Zachary Lesser, Arthur Fraas

Thursday 12-3:00

Psychoanalysis and Critical Race Theory

ENGL 590.401

also offered as: GSWS 589

David L. Eng

Wednesday 4-7:00

Empire on Stage and in the World

ENGL 595.301

Suvir Kaul

Tuesday 12-3:00

Cross-Listed Courses

Poetry Out Loud

ENGL 001.401

also offered as: COML 001

Ariel Resnikoff

TR 10:30-12

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Living In A Science Fiction World

ENGL 002.401

also offered as: COML 002

Anastasia Klimchynskaya

TR 12-1:30

The Play

ENGL 056.401

also offered as: THAR 125

Jim Schlatter

TR 3-4:30

Art Now

ENGL 059.401

also offered as: ARTH 294, ARTH 694, GSWS 294, VLST 236

Kaja Silverman

MW 11–12:00

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Fantasy Dreams and Madness

ENGL 079.401

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

Nili Gold

TR 1:30-3

Native American Literature

ENGL 082.401

also offered as: RELS 091

Timothy Powell

TR 9-10:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

also offered as: CINE 101, ARTH 108, COML 123

James J. Fiumara

T 4:30-7:30

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

also offered as: CINE 102, ARTH 109, COML 124

Meta Mazaj

TR 12-1:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Theatre, History and Culture II

ENGL 097.401

also offered as: THAR 102

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Freud

ENGL 105.401

also offered as: GRMN 253, GSWS 252, HIST 253, COML 253

Liliane Weissberg

TR 10:30–12

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Early American Studies

ENGL 253.401

also offered as: HIST 231

Robert Blair St. George

Wednesday 2-5:00

Musical Theater of Stephen Sondheim

ENGL 276.401

also offered as: THAR 275, CIMS 225

David Fox

MW 2-3:30

Spirituality in the Age of Global Warming

ENGL 282.401

also offered as: RELS 246, ENVS 246

Timothy Powell

TR 1:30-3:00

Realism & World Cinema

ENGL 291.401

also offered as: CINE 201, ARTH 391, COML 201

Meta Mazaj

TR 3–4:30

Screwball Comedy

ENGL 291.402

also offered as: CINE 201, ARTH 391

Noah Isenberg

Wednesday 2-5:00

Modern Science-Fiction Cinema

ENGL 292.402

also offered as: CINE 202

Christopher Donovan

MW 3:30-5:00

Cinema and Civil Rights

ENGL 301.401

also offered as: ARTH 393, CIMS 393, AFRC 393, GSWS 394

Karen Redrobe

Tuesdays 1:30-4:30

Screwball Comedy

ENGL 392.401

Noah Isenberg

Wednesday 2–5:00

Freshman Seminars

Emotions

ENGL 015.402

also offered as: CLST 019

Rita Copeland

Tuesday 1:30-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Blood, Sweat, and Pasta canceled

ENGL 015.401

Frank Pellicone

MW 3:30–5

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

First-Year Seminar: Writing About Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Travel Writing

ENGL 016.302

David Wallace

TR 10:30–12

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

JM Coetzee: From Africa to Australia

ENGL 016.303

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12–1:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

College Requirement Courses

The Global Novel

ENGL 100.401

also offered as: COML 100

Rita Barnard

MW 5–6:30

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

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

Monsters in Film & Literature

ENGL 102.401

also offered as: CIMS 112

Chi-ming Yang

MWF 11–12

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

also offered as: COML 125, FOLK 125, SAST 124

Ania Loomba

TR 3–4:30

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

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

Junior Research Seminars

The Fates and the Furious: The Trojan War from Homer to the Present

ENGL 200.302

Daniel Davies

TR 12-1:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Ugly Feelings and the Modernist Novel

ENGL 200.303

Micah Del Rosario

TR 1:30-3:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modernist Poetry: Yeats and Pound

ENGL 200.304

Natalie Amleshi

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Reading Moby-Dick

ENGL 200.305

Alex Eisenthal

TR 4:30-6

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Beyoncé, Protest, and Popular Music

ENGL 200.306

Julia Cox

MW 5-6:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Playwright's Bible

ENGL 200.301

Mariah Min

TR 10:30-12

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Upper Level Seminars

Critical-Creative Approaches to Literature -- Joyce's Ulysses: Making Readings

ENGL 210.301

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 3-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Travel Writing: Genre and Adventure, Ecology and Business

ENGL 221.301

David Wallace

Tuesday 1:30–4:30

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

Topics in History of the Book: Word, Phrase, Sentence: Reading, Writing, and Printing in Early Modern Europe and America

ENGL 234.401

Roger Chartier, Peter Stallybrass

Monday 2–5:00

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

19th-Century American Literature

ENGL 253.301

Charles Bernstein

Monday 2–5:00

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

The Bronte Sisters

ENGL 255.301

Christine Woody

TR 1:30–3

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Beckett and Kafka

ENGL 259.401

also offered as: COML 140, GRMN 249

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9-10:30 am

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Bad Kids: Misfits and Mayhem in Literature and Film

ENGL 261.401

also offered as: CIMS 261

Jason Zuzga

TR 4:30-6:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature of the Great Depression

ENGL 263.301

Catherine Turner

TR 9-10:30 am

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Politics of Friendship

ENGL 263.401

also offered as: COML 262

Aaron Levy

TR 10:30-12

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Poetry and the Environment

ENGL 269.302

Avery Slater

TR 9-10:30

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

Mourning and Sexuality in the English Elegy

ENGL 269.401

also offered as: PSYS 269, GSWS 267

Max Cavitch

MW 2-3:30

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

Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Lydia Davis, Maria Bamford, and Nathaniel Mackey

ENGL 274.301

Al Filreis

Monday 2–5:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

"Where My Girls At?": African American Women Performers in the 20th Century

ENGL 281.401

also offered as: AFRC 335

Salamishah Tillet

Thursday 1:30-4:30

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

Queer Attachments

ENGL 290.401

S. Pearl Brilmyer

MW 2-3:30

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

Documentary Cinema

ENGL 292.401

also offered as: CIMS 202

Rahul Mukherjee

Wednesday 2-5:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Tribeca and Multimedia Criticism

ENGL 292.403

also offered as: CIMS 202

Peter Decherney

Thursday 1:30-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modernity, Colonialism, and Race: Views from the Global South

ENGL 294.402

also offered as: GSWS 296, COML 291

Jennifer Ponce de León

Thursday 1:30-4:30

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