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Intermediate Level Courses

Medieval Literature and Culture — Fighting Words

ENGL 021.301

Daniel Davies

TR 9-10:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Cultures of the Book

ENGL 034.001

Whitney Trettien

MW 2-3:30

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

A Landscape of British Poetry, 1660-1900

ENGL 040.301

Michael Gamer

TR 10:30-12

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

Imagining the Nation: Writing Great Britain, 1660-1800

ENGL 041.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Sounding Poetry: Mus/Lit canceled

ENGL 054.001

Department Staff

TBA

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

The Black Mixtape: Black Literary Soundtracks

ENGL 054.401

also offered as: COML 054, MUSC 054, AFRC 054

Margo Natalie Crawford

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

All of Beckett

ENGL 059.401

also offered as: COML 059

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Echopoetics: 50 Poems from Blake and Baudelaire to Stein and Ashbery

ENGL 069.401

also offered as: COML 069

Charles Bernstein

T 1:30-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Asian American Literature canceled

ENGL 072.401

Department Staff

TBA

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

Contemporary American Literature and Film

ENGL 074.401

also offered as: CIMS 074

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

TR 1:30-3

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Contemporary African Literature and Film

ENGL 077.401

also offered as: AFRC 074, CIMS 77

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 10:30-12

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Television and New Media

ENGL 078.401

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

Rahul Mukherjee

MW 2-3:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

American Fiction

ENGL 089.001

Micah Del Rosario

TR 4:30-6

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Gender and Popular Culture

ENGL 090.402

also offered as: COML 090, GSWS 090

Melissa E. Sanchez

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

Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Writing Women, 1660-1760

ENGL 090.401

also offered as: COML 099, GSWS 090

Toni Bowers

TR 10:30-12

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 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

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

Timothy Corrigan

TR 9-10:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Postcolonial Literature: The Postcolonial Novel canceled

ENGL 093.001

B. Jamieson Stanley

TR 9-10:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Intro to Literary Theory: How to Read

ENGL 094.401

also offered as: COML 094

David Kazanjian

T 1:30-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Queer Politics/Queer Communities

ENGL 096.401

also offered as: GSWS 096

Heather K. Love

MW 3:30-5

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

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

Critical-Creative Seminars

Echopoetics

ENGL 069.401

Charles Bernstein, Dahlia Menghui Li

Joyce’s Ulysses: Making Readings

ENGL 210.302

Paul Saint-Amour, Robert Berry

TR 3-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Virtual Reality Lab (ABCS)

ENGL 210.401

also offered as: CIMS 210

Peter Decherney

W 2-5:00 pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Lyrical Ballads: Contemporary Approaches

ENGL 210.301

Michael Gamer

TR 1:30-3

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Creative Writing Seminar Requirement of the Creative Writing Track

Advanced Seminars

Ars Moriendi: Life and Death in Early Photography

ENGL 205.401

also offered as: ARTH 305

Aaron Levy

M 2-5:00

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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

The Digital Lives of Books

ENGL 208.301

Whitney Trettien

MW 3:30-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Acting Shakespeare

ENGL 236.401

also offered as: THAR 236

Cary Mazer

TR 12-1:30

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

Anti-fascist exile in the English-speaking world: German artists in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s

ENGL 248.301

Marion Kant

W 2-5:00 pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Victorian Action Heroes

ENGL 255.301

Jed Esty

MW 2-3:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Apocalyptic Fictions canceled

ENGL 260.301

Natalie Amleshi

MW 3:30-5:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Science canceled

ENGL 268.301

Travis Chi Wing Lau

MW 3:30-5

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Shakespearean Performance History

ENGL 276.401

also offered as: THAR 275

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12

Elective Seminar 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

Twenty-First Century African American Literature

ENGL 281.401

also offered as: AFRC 281

Margo Natalie Crawford

W 2-5:00 pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Emily Dickinson at Large

ENGL 286.401

also offered as: GSWS 286

Max Cavitch

MW 2-3:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

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 Modern Queer Novel

ENGL 290.401

also offered as: GSWS 290

Heather K. Love

MW 2-3:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Women Writers

ENGL 290.402

also offered as: GSWS 290, COML 290

Melissa E. Sanchez

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

Narrative Across Cultures

ENGL 293.401

also offered as: COML 378

Ania Loomba

R 1:30-4:30

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

Global Feminisms

ENGL 294.401

also offered as: COML 291, GSWS 296

Ania Loomba

W 2-5:00

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

English Honors Program

ENGL 311.301

Emily Steinlight

T 1:30-4:30

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Introduction to Shakespeare

ENGL 326.301

Phyllis Rackin

TR 12-1:30

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

August Wilson and Beyond

ENGL 380.401

also offered as: AFRC 325

Suzana Berger, Herman Beavers

M 2-5:00

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 392.401

also offered as: CIMS 392

Rita Barnard

MW 5-6:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Adaptation Studies

ENGL 392.402

also offered as: CIMS 392

Timothy Corrigan

TR 12-1:30

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

Intro to Creative Writing: Extreme Noticing

ENGL 010.303

Sam Apple

R 1:30-4:30

Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 010.304

Weike Wang

T 1:30-4:30

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 010.601

Christy Davids

R 6-9:00

Intro to Creative Writing: Shaping Ink

ENGL 010.301

Deborah Burnham

TR 10:30-12

Intro to Creative Writing: Sports Narratives

ENGL 010.302

Jamie-Lee Josselyn

M 2-5:00

Writing for Television

ENGL 110.401

also offered as: CIMS 117

Scott F Burkhardt

W 6-9:00 pm

Exactly Wrong: The Art of Writing Badly

ENGL 111.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Simone White

R 1:30-4:30

Advanced Fiction Writing: The Novel

ENGL 115.301

Weike Wang

W 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

M 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

W 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

R 4:30-7:30

The Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

R 1:30-4:30

Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Laynie Browne

T 1:30-4:30

Where the Wild Things Play Quidditch: Writing for Children

ENGL 121.601

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30

Magazine Journalism

ENGL 128.301

Avery Rome

M 2-5:00

Across Forms: Art and Writing

ENGL 129.401

Sharon A. Hayes, Syd Zolf

W 2-5:00

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

W 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.303

Marion Kant

M 2-5:00

Writing Center Theory and Practice

ENGL 135.401

Kristen Gay

TR 10:30-12

Essay, Blog, Tweet, Nonfiction now!

ENGL 135.402

Lorene Cary

W 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 135.301

Max Apple

R 1:30-4:30

Narrative Nonfiction: the Art of Experience

ENGL 135.302

Jay Kirk

T 1:30-4:30

Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 145.301

Buzz Bissinger

F 2-5:00

Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class and Gender

ENGL 145.601

also offered as: GSWS 145, AFRC 145

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30

Advanced Playwriting

ENGL 154.401

also offered as: THAR 214

Jackie Goldfinger

M 2-5:00 pm

Writing About Food

ENGL 157.301

Kristen Martin

T 1:30-4:30

Journalistic Storytelling

ENGL 158.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5:00

Political Commentary Writing: The Congressional Midterms

ENGL 162.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5:00 pm

Writing Through Music

ENGL 435.640

J † Johnson

M 6-9:00

Learning from James Baldwin

ENGL 481.640

also offered as: AFRC 481, GSWS 481

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:30

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 010.601

Christy Davids

R 6-9:00

War and Representation

ENGL 085.601

also offered as: COML 150

Clinton Williamson

W 5:30-8:30

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

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.601

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

Cesar (Iggy) Ignacio R Cortez

T 5-8:00

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Chick Literature

ENGL 103.601

Nathalie Dominique Lacarriere

M 5:30-8:30

Disability Narratives canceled

ENGL 105.601

Clare Mullaney

T 5:30-8:30

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

W 5:30-8:30

Finding Voice: Perspectives on Race, Class and Gender

ENGL 145.601

also offered as: GSWS 145, AFRC 145

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Paul Thomas Anderson

ENGL 292.601

also offered as: CIMS 202

Valerie Ross

W 5-8:00 pm

Master of Liberal Arts

Writing Through Music

ENGL 435.640

J † Johnson

M 6-9:00

Learning from James Baldwin

ENGL 481.640

also offered as: AFRC 481, GSWS 481

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:30

MLA Proseminar: Cinema and Politics

ENGL 595.640

also offered as: CIMS 595

Rita Barnard

R 4:30-7:30

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Eighteenth-Century Novels

ENGL 545.301

Toni Bowers

R 3-6:00

Colonial/Postcolonial Fiction and Film

ENGL 572.401

also offered as: AFRC 572, CIMS 572, COML 575

Rita Barnard

R 9-12:00

Topics in Criticism and Theory: Next Wave Materialisms

ENGL 573.301

Simone White

W 6-9:00 pm

Modern & Contemporary U.S. Poetry: Collaborative Poetics & Pedagogy

ENGL 589.301

Al Filreis

M 3-6:00

Global Media Theory

ENGL 590.401

also offered as: CIMS 580

Rahul Mukherjee

M 6-9:00

Cross-Listed Courses

Approaches to Genre canceled

ENGL 001.401

also offered as: COML 001

Department Staff

TR 10:30-12

Refuge: Stories on Art and Survival

ENGL 002.401

also offered as: COML 002, AFRC 003

Martine Tchitchihe, Astride Veronique Charles

MW 2-3:30

Liquid Histories and Floating Archives

ENGL 052.401

also offered as: GRMN 152, ANTH 154, HIST 152, ENVS 152

Bethany Wiggin

TR 10:30-12

American Theatre and Performance: Family Drama

ENGL 067.401

also offered as: THAR 272, CIMS 273

Rosemary Malague

R 3-6:00 pm

Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture in Translation: Autobiography

ENGL 079.401

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

Nili Gold

TR 1:30-3

Theatre, History, Cultural I: From the Classical to the Middle Classes

ENGL 087.401

also offered as: THAR 101

Jim Schlatter

TR 12-1:30

American Musical Theatre

ENGL 274.401

also offered as: THAR 271, CIMS 271

David Fox

MW 2-3:30

American Independents

ENGL 291.401

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

Meta Mazaj

TR 12-1:30

Global Genres

ENGL 292.401

also offered as: ARTH 289, CIMS 202

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30

Contemporary Issues in American Animation

ENGL 302.401

also offered as: ARTH 387, CIMS 320, FNAR 320

Linda Simensky

M 4:30-7:30

Freshman Seminars

Intro to Queer Studies

GSWS 003.601

Jess Shollenberger

Jack Kerouac & Postwar Counterculture

ENGL 016.301

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

MW 2-3:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Climate Fiction

ENGL 016.302

Paul Saint-Amour

MW 2-3:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Life After Darwin

ENGL 016.303

Emily Steinlight

TR 10:30-12

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

First-Year Seminar: Writing the Outdoors canceled

ENGL 016.304

Karen Rile

W 2-5:00

Echopoetics

ENGL 069.401

Charles Bernstein, Dahlia Menghui Li

College Requirement Courses

Pirates

ENGL 102.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 10:30-12

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

Intro to Psychoanalysis

ENGL 102.401

also offered as: COML 245

Max Cavitch, Susan C Adelman

MW 5-6:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Monsters in Film & Literature

ENGL 102.402

also offered as: CIMS 112

Chi-ming Yang

MW 11-12:00

screenings: Sundays 7-9:00 pm

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

Literature and Medicine: 1650-Present canceled

ENGL 107.001

Lance Wahlert

TR 4:30-6

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

Junior Research Seminars

JRS Poetry Audio Lab: Modern Poetry and Sound Studies

ENGL 200.301

Chris Mustazza

TR 4:30-6

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

JRS Fashion and Gender in Renaissance England

ENGL 200.302

Meghan E. Hall

MW 3:30-5

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

JRS Robots in Film and Literature

ENGL 200.303

Mark Firmani

MW 5-6:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

JRS Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in Context

ENGL 200.304

Elias Rodriques

MW 2-3:30

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

JRS Queer Urbanisms

ENGL 200.305

Davy Knittle

TR 3-4:30

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

JRS Environmental Crisis and Contemporary Fiction canceled

ENGL 200.306

William Shawn Worthington

TR 10:30-12

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Closely Related Courses

Religious Literatures of India

SAST 148.301

also offered as: SAST 148

Mahboob Afsar Mohammad

TR 1:30-3