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General Education Courses

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

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

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

Intermediate Level Courses

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

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

Literature Before 1660 canceled

ENGL 020.301

Department Staff

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

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

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

Modern America

ENGL 064.001

Nancy Bentley

TR 10:30-12

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

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

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

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

American Poetry canceled

ENGL 088.001

Department Staff

Trash: The Novel

ENGL 089.001

David Kazanjian

MW 5-6:30

Sector 5: 19th 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

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

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 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

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

Science of Sex and Sexuality

GSWS 242.301

Lance Wahlert, Rovel Sequeira

Advanced Seminars

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

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

Travel Writing: Contemporary Approaches

ENGL 210.301

David Wallace

TR 12-1:30

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

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

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

also offered as: THAR 274

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12

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

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

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

Prison Literature in the U.S.

ENGL 266.301

Amy Kaplan

TR 3-4:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

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

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

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

Creative Writing Seminars

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.602

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30 pm

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction canceled

ENGL 010.601

Christy Davids

M 6-8:00 pm ONLINE

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Essay

ENGL 010.301

Sam Apple

R 1:30-4:30

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Essay

ENGL 010.302

Carmen Maria Machado

TR 10:30-12

Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 010.303

Anna Maria Hong

T 1:30-4:30

First-Year Seminar: Writing about Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

W 2-5:00

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Karen Rile

M 2-5:00

Flash Fiction

ENGL 112.302

Carmen Maria Machado

TR 1:30-3

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Yolanda Wisher

R 1:30-4:30

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

also offered as: THAR 114

Jackie Goldfinger

M 2-5:00

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30

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 5-8:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

R 4:30-7:30

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

R 1:30-4:30

Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Greg Djanikian

T 1:30-4:30

Writing for Young Adults

ENGL 121.301

Beth Kephart

T 1:30-4:30

Advanced Writing for Children

ENGL 123.401

also offered as: AFRC 123

Lorene Cary

W 2-5:00

The Art of Editing

ENGL 126.301

Julia Bloch

T 1:30-4:30

Writing Across Borders

ENGL 127.301

Ron Silliman

W 2-5:00

Magazine Journalism

ENGL 128.301

Avery Rome

M 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 135.302

Marion Kant

M 2-5:00

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

Writing Center Theory and Practice

ENGL 135.401

also offered as: WRIT 135

Valerie Ross, Lan Ngo

TR 10:30-12

Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 135.301

Lise Funderburg

W 2-5:00

Experimental Nonfiction

ENGL 145.301

Jay Kirk

T 1:30-4:30

Documentary Writing

ENGL 155.301

Paul Hendrickson

M 2-5:00

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

W 2-5:00

Science, Technology, Society

ENGL 158.301

Peter Tarr

T 1:30-4:30

Long-form Journalism

ENGL 160.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5:00

Art of the Profile

ENGL 161.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5:00

Writing through Marcel Duchamp

ENGL 165.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30

Advanced Writing Projects in the Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 170.301

Anthony DeCurtis

F 2-5:00

How a Story Works: The Art of Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Sara Sligar

M 5:30-8:30 pm

Writing through Music

ENGL 435.640

Julia Bloch

ONLINE

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10 pm

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

ENGL 010.602

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30 pm

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

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

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

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

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

Master of Liberal Arts

How a Story Works: The Art of Fiction

ENGL 412.640

Sara Sligar

M 5:30-8:30 pm

Writing through Music

ENGL 435.640

Julia Bloch

ONLINE

Writing and Remembering: A Memoir Workshop

ENGL 435.641

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10 pm

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

ENGL 505.401

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

Peter Decherney

W 2-5:00 pm

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

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

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

Documentary Cinema

ENGL 592.401

also offered as: CIMS 592, COML 592

Timothy Corrigan

T 9-12:00 pm

Cross-Listed Courses

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

Art Now

ENGL 059.401

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

Kaja Silverman

MW 11

"Family Drama": American Theatre and Performance

ENGL 067.401

also offered as: THAR 272

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30

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

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

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

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

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

World Literature

ENGL 277.401

also offered as: COML 191, CLST 191

Cory Knudson, Kaushik Ramu

MW 3:30-5

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

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

Freshman Seminars

First-Year Seminar: Writing about Art

ENGL 016.301

Susan Bee

W 2-5:00

Travel Writing: Preparing for Your Journey

ENGL 016.302

David Wallace

TR 9-10:30

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

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

Junior Research Seminars

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

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

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