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Tragedy

ENGL 103.402

also offered as: COML 125, THAR 105

Rebecca Bushnell

MWF 2

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Literature and Medicine: 1650-Present

ENGL 107.001

Lance Wahlert

MW 3:30-5

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

Toni Morrison and the Adventure of the 21st Century

ENGL 101.401

also offered as: AFRC 101

Herman Beavers

TR 10:30-12

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

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 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Shakespeare

ENGL 101.001

Zachary Lesser

MWF 11

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

The Literature and Historiography of National Trauma: Partition and South Asia

ENGL 393.401

also offered as: COML 392, SAST 323

Suvir Kaul

W 2-5:00

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

American Modernist Poetry

ENGL 388.301

Josephine Park

W 2-5:00 pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Milton

ENGL 338.301

Melissa E. Sanchez

TR 3-4:30

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 345.301

Toni Bowers

TR 10:30-12

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

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Intermediate Level Courses

Modern America

ENGL 064.001

Nancy Bentley

TR 10:30-12

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Leaving Home: The Female Novel of Development

ENGL 090.401

also offered as: GSWS 090

Deborah Burnham

MW 2-3:30

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

Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture: Literature, Art and Theatre Across the Latina/o/x U.S.

ENGL 070.401

also offered as: ARTH 070, COML 070, GSWS 060, LALS 060

Jennifer Ponce de León

MW 3:30-5

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

Intro to Postcolonial Lit: South African Literature and Film

ENGL 093.401

also offered as: AFRC 093, CIMS 093,

Rita Barnard

MW 2-3:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Digital Humanities

ENGL 009.401

also offered as: COML 009, HIST 009

Jonathan Scott Enderle

MW 2-3:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Introduction to Literary Theory: Ideology

ENGL 094.401

also offered as: COML 094

David L. Eng

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660 canceled

ENGL 020.301

Department Staff

Science of Sex and Sexuality

GSWS 242.301

Lance Wahlert, Rovel Sequeira

British Poetry 1660-1914

ENGL 040.301

Christine Woody

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

19th-Century British Literature

ENGL 051.001

S. Pearl Brilmyer

TR 3-4:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Theatre, History, Cultural II: Romantics, Realists, and Revolutionaries

ENGL 097.401

also offered as: THAR 102

Cary Mazer

TR 12-1:30

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

Early British Novels

ENGL 060.001

Toni Bowers

TR 1:30-3

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

MW 2-3:30

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

This is Modernism

ENGL 061.401

also offered as: COML 061

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 10:30-12

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

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

Timothy Corrigan

TR 12-1:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

The 1980s: African American Literature and Culture

ENGL 074.401

also offered as: AFRC 085

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 12-1:30

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

Introduction to Queer Theory

ENGL 003.401

also offered as: GSWS 003

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

American Poetry canceled

ENGL 088.001

Department Staff

Family Feuds: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Solange and the Meaning of American Music

ENGL 084.401

also offered as: AFRC 226, GSWS 224

Salamishah Tillet

TR 3-4:30

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Trash: The Novel

ENGL 089.001

David Kazanjian

MW 5-6:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Advanced Seminars

Groundbreaking Poets & Traditional Forms

ENGL 262.301

Taije Silverman

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

American Literary Radicals of the 19th Century

ENGL 253.301

Catherine Turner

TR 9-10:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

No Bench by the Road: Monuments, Memory, and the Afterlife of Slavery

ENGL 284.401

also offered as: AFRC 286

Salamishah Tillet

R 4:30-7:30

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

The Politics of the Gift

ENGL 263.401

also offered as: COML 262

Aaron Levy

W 2-5:00

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Kelly Writers House Fellows: Paul Auster, Bernadette Mayer, Charles M. Blow

ENGL 274.301

Al Filreis

M 2-5:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Digital Lives of Books

ENGL 208.301

Whitney Trettien

MW 2-3:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

also offered as: THAR 274

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12

Digital Text Analysis in the Humanities canceled

ENGL 209.301

Sayan Bhattacharyya

TR 1:30-3

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Modernism and the Theory of Fashion

ENGL 259.401

also offered as: ARTH 385, COML 140, FREN 259, GRMN 249

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9-10:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Travel Writing: Contemporary Approaches

ENGL 210.301

David Wallace

TR 12-1:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Parallel Histories: Psychoanalysis and Film

ENGL 295.401

also offered as: CIMS 295, COML 295

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

Topics in History of the Book

ENGL 234.401

also offered as: COML 411, HIST 411

Peter Stallybrass, Roger Chartier

M 2-5:00

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

Global Feminisms

ENGL 294.401

also offered as: GSWS 296, COML 291

Ania Loomba

MW 2-3:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Prison Literature in the U.S.

ENGL 266.301

Amy Kaplan

TR 3-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Twenty-First Century African American Literature

ENGL 281.402

also offered as: AFRC 281

Margo Natalie Crawford

MW 2-3:30

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

Reading the Contemporary: Literature and Art in Africa and the African Diaspora

ENGL 271.401

also offered as: AFRC 276

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 9-10:30

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

Revolution of the Word: Modernist American Poetry and Poetics (1900-1945)

ENGL 269.402

also offered as: COML 281

Charles Bernstein

TR 1:30-3

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Race and Asian American Literature

ENGL 272.401

also offered as: ASAM 202

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12

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

Postwar American Poetry

ENGL 288.401

also offered as: COML 288

Charles Bernstein

TR 3-4:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Marx and Marxism

ENGL 294.301

David Kazanjian

M 2-5:00 pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Creative Writing Seminars

Finding Voice: Perspecitives on Race, Class & Gender

ENGL 135.601

also offered as: AFRC 134, GSWS 135

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30 pm

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

R 1:30-4:30

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Yolanda Wisher

R 1:30-4:30

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

W 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.602

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30 pm

Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Greg Djanikian

T 1:30-4:30

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

also offered as: THAR 114

Jackie Goldfinger

M 2-5:00

Documentary Writing

ENGL 155.301

Paul Hendrickson

M 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction canceled

ENGL 010.601

Christy Davids

M 6-8:00 pm ONLINE

Writing for Young Adults

ENGL 121.301

Beth Kephart

T 1:30-4:30

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30

Experimental Nonfiction

ENGL 145.301

Jay Kirk

T 1:30-4:30

Writing through Music

ENGL 435.640

Julia Bloch

ONLINE

Advanced Writing for Children

ENGL 123.401

also offered as: AFRC 123

Lorene Cary

W 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

M 2-5:00

Writing Center Theory and Practice

ENGL 135.401

also offered as: WRIT 135

Valerie Ross, Lan Ngo

TR 10:30-12

How a Story Works: The Art of Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Sara Sligar

M 5:30-8:30 pm

First-Year Seminar: Writing about Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

W 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

W 5-8:00

Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 135.301

Lise Funderburg

W 2-5:00

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10 pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

R 4:30-7:30

Creative Nonfiction: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.302

Marion Kant

M 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Essay

ENGL 010.301

Sam Apple

R 1:30-4:30

Advanced Writing Projects in the Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 170.301

Anthony DeCurtis

F 2-5:00

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

W 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Essay

ENGL 010.302

Carmen Maria Machado

TR 10:30-12

Writing through Marcel Duchamp

ENGL 165.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30

Magazine Journalism

ENGL 128.301

Avery Rome

M 2-5:00

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 010.303

Anna Maria Hong

T 1:30-4:30

Art of the Profile

ENGL 161.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5:00

Writing Across Borders

ENGL 127.301

Ron Silliman

W 2-5:00

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Karen Rile

M 2-5:00

Long-form Journalism

ENGL 160.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5:00

The Art of Editing

ENGL 126.301

Julia Bloch

T 1:30-4:30

Flash Fiction

ENGL 112.302

Carmen Maria Machado

TR 1:30-3

Science, Technology, Society

ENGL 158.301

Peter Tarr

T 1:30-4:30

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Songs of Dissent: Reading African American Poetry in the 21st Century

ENGL 570.401

also offered as: AFRC 570, GSWS 570

Herman Beavers

M 3-6:00

Digital Humanities

ENGL 505.402

also offered as: COML 504

Whitney Trettien

F -3-6:00

Topics in Medieval Literature canceled

ENGL 524.301

Emily Steiner

M 12-3:00

Victorian Materialism

ENGL 560.301

S. Pearl Brilmyer

R 6-9:00

Kinship, Sexuality, Indigeneity

ENGL 583.401

also offered as: GSWS 583

Nancy Bentley

M 12-3:00

Narrating Environment

ENGL 584.401

also offered as: COML 615

Paul Saint-Amour

F 12-3:00

ENGL 505.401

also offered as: CIMS 505, ARTH 506, COML 504

Peter Decherney

W 2-5:00 pm

Documentary Cinema

ENGL 592.401

also offered as: CIMS 592, COML 592

Timothy Corrigan

T 9-12:00 pm

Cross-Listed Courses

Universal Language: From the Tower of Babel to Artificial Intelligence

ENGL 219.401

also offered as: RUSS 095, COML 095, HIST 056

Julia Verkholantsev

MW 3:30-5

"Family Drama": American Theatre and Performance

ENGL 067.401

also offered as: THAR 272

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30

Climate Fiction, Catastrophe, and Cultural Production

ENGL 002.401

also offered as: COML 002

Martin Premoli

TR 10:30-12

The Play

ENGL 056.401

also offered as: THAR 125

Marcia Ferguson

TR 1:30-3

Early American Studies

ENGL 253.401

also offered as: HIST 231

Robert Blair St. George

R 1:30-4:30

Icons in Performance: Actors and Others Who Define and Shape the Arts

ENGL 276.401

also offered as: THAR 275, CIMS 225

David Fox

MW 2-3:30

Spirituality in the Age of Global Warming: How Can Science & the Humanities Work Together?

ENGL 246.401

also offered as: RELS 246, ENVS 246

Timothy Powell

M 2-5:00

Native American Rel/Lit: A History of Films By and About Native Americans

ENGL 282.401

also offered as: RELS 208, CIMS 282, ANTH 282

Timothy Powell

MWF 10

World Literature

ENGL 277.401

also offered as: COML 191, CLST 191

Cory Knudson, Kaushik Ramu

MW 3:30-5

Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture in Translation: The Founders of Israeli Lit.: Yehoshua, Oz, Amichai

ENGL 079.401

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

Nili Gold

MW 2-3:30

Global Film Theory

ENGL 305.401

also offered as: ARTH 295, ARTH 695, CIMS 305, GSWS 295, COML 299

Karen Redrobe, Meta Mazaj

TR 10:30-11:30

Dante's Divine Comedy

ENGL 323.401

also offered as: ITAL 333, COML 333

Kevin Brownlee

TR 1:30-3

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

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

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30

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

Art Now

ENGL 059.401

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

Kaja Silverman

MW 11

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Finding Voice: Perspecitives on Race, Class & Gender

ENGL 135.601

also offered as: AFRC 134, GSWS 135

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30 pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.602

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30 pm

Aging, Illness, Death and Mourning: Narratives of Disability canceled

ENGL 105.601

Jason Zuzga

R 6-9:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

The Gothic

ENGL 102.601

Christine Woody

T 5-8:00

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

Sector 5: 19th 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

Television and New Media

ENGL 078.401

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

Julia Cox

M 5-8:00

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Freshman Seminars

Travel Writing: Preparing for Your Journey

ENGL 016.302

David Wallace

TR 9-10:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Life after Darwin canceled

ENGL 016.303

Emily Steinlight

MW 2-3:30

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Transformation of Urban America

URBS 104.001

Davy Knittle

Black Public Art in Philadelphia

ENGL 016.401

also offered as: AFRC 017

Margo Natalie Crawford

MW 3:30-5

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

First-Year Seminar: Writing about Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

W 2-5:00

Junior Research Seminars

Arts of Photography + Fiction

ENGL 200.301

Eve Eure

TR 4:30-6

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

Catastrophes in Black

ENGL 200.302

Dana Cypress

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

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

The Material World: Fashion and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ENGL 200.303

Mayelin Perez

TR 10:30-12

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

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

The Adventuress

ENGL 200.304

Sam Waterman

MW 3:30-5

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

Stranger Than Fiction: Making Medieval History

ENGL 200.305

Anna Johnson Lyman

MW 2-3:30

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Reading Voices: Literature as Audio Technology

ENGL 200.306

Riley McGuire

TR 4:30-6

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

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

War and Representation

ENGL 085.601

also offered as: COML 150

Devorah R. Fischler

W 5:30-8:30 pm

Online College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction canceled

ENGL 010.601

Christy Davids

M 6-8:00 pm ONLINE

Master of Liberal Arts

Writing through Music

ENGL 435.640

Julia Bloch

ONLINE

How a Story Works: The Art of Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Sara Sligar

M 5:30-8:30 pm

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10 pm