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Climate Fiction, Catastrophe, and Cultural Production

ENGL 002.401

COML 002

Martin Premoli

TR 10:30-12

Introduction to Queer Theory

ENGL 003.401

GSWS 003

Melissa E. Sanchez

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

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

COML 009, HIST 009

Jonathan Scott Enderle

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

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 Poetry

ENGL 010.602

Melissa Jensen

W 5:30-8:30 pm

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Life after Darwin canceled

ENGL 016.303

Emily Steinlight

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Black Public Art in Philadelphia

ENGL 016.401

AFRC 017

Margo Natalie Crawford

MW 3:30-5

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

Literature Before 1660 canceled

ENGL 020.301

Department Staff

British Poetry 1660-1914

ENGL 040.301

Christine Woody

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

19th-Century British Literature

ENGL 051.001

S. Pearl Brilmyer

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Play

ENGL 056.401

THAR 125

Marcia Ferguson

TR 1:30-3

Art Now

ENGL 059.401

ARTH 294, ARTH 694, GSWS 294, VLST 236

Kaja Silverman

MW 11

Early British Novels

ENGL 060.001

Toni Bowers

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

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

This is Modernism

ENGL 061.401

COML 061

Paul Saint-Amour

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

"Family Drama": American Theatre and Performance

ENGL 067.401

THAR 272

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30

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

ENGL 070.401

ARTH 070, COML 070, GSWS 060, LALS 060

Jennifer Ponce de León

MW 3:30-5

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

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

ENGL 073.401

ARTH 299, CIMS 073, COML 073, LALS 073, THAR 073

Jennifer Ponce de León

MW 2-3:30

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

The 1980s: African American Literature and Culture

ENGL 074.401

AFRC 085

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 12-1:30

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

Television and New Media

ENGL 078.401

CIMS 103, ARTH 107, COML 099

Julia Cox

M 5-8:00

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

ENGL 079.401

NELC 159, CIMS 159, COML 282, JWST 154

Nili Gold

MW 2-3:30

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

ENGL 084.401

AFRC 226, GSWS 224

Salamishah Tillet

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

War and Representation

ENGL 085.601

COML 150

Devorah R. Fischler

W 5:30-8:30 pm

American Poetry canceled

ENGL 088.001

Department Staff

Trash: The Novel

ENGL 089.001

David Kazanjian

MW 5-6:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Leaving Home: The Female Novel of Development

ENGL 090.401

GSWS 090

Deborah Burnham

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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 to 1945

ENGL 091.401

CIMS 101, ARTH 108, COML 123

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30

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

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 092.401

ARTH 109, CIMS 102, COML 124

Timothy Corrigan

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

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

AFRC 093, CIMS 093,

Rita Barnard

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

COML 094

David L. Eng

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

ENGL 097.401

THAR 102

Cary Mazer

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

Global Novel

ENGL 100.401

COML 100

Rita Barnard

MW 5-6:30

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

Shakespeare

ENGL 101.001

Zachary Lesser

MWF 11

fulfills requirements:

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

AFRC 101

Herman Beavers

TR 10:30-12

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

The Gothic

ENGL 102.601

Christine Woody

T 5-8:00

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

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Tragedy

ENGL 103.402

COML 125, THAR 105

Rebecca Bushnell

MWF 2

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

The Transformation of Urban America

URBS 104.001

Davy Knittle

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

ENGL 105.601

Jason Zuzga

R 6-9:00

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Literature and Medicine: 1650-Present

ENGL 107.001

Lance Wahlert

MW 3:30-5

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

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

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

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

CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

M 2-5:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

W 5-8:00

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

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

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

CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

W 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 135.301

Lise Funderburg

W 2-5:00

Creative Nonfiction: Writing Your Travels

ENGL 135.302

Marion Kant

M 2-5:00

Writing Center Theory and Practice

ENGL 135.401

WRIT 135

Valerie Ross, Lan Ngo

TR 10:30-12

Finding Voice: Perspecitives on Race, Class & Gender

ENGL 135.601

AFRC 134, GSWS 135

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

T 5:30-8:30 pm

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

T 1:30-4:30

ENGL 160.301

W 2-5:00

ENGL 161.301

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

Arts of Photography + Fiction

ENGL 200.301

Eve Eure

TR 4:30-6

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

Catastrophes in Black

ENGL 200.302

Dana Cypress

TR 3-4:30

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

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

fulfills requirements:

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

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

Stranger Than Fiction: Making Medieval History

ENGL 200.305

Anna Johnson Lyman

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

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

Digital Lives of Books

ENGL 208.301

Whitney Trettien

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Travel Writing: Contemporary Approaches

ENGL 210.301

David Wallace

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Universal Language: From the Tower of Babel to Artificial Intelligence

ENGL 219.401

RUSS 095, COML 095, HIST 056

Julia Verkholantsev

MW 3:30-5

Topics in History of the Book

ENGL 234.401

COML 411, HIST 411

Peter Stallybrass, Roger Chartier

M 2-5:00

fulfills requirements:

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

Science of Sex and Sexuality

GSWS 242.301

Lance Wahlert, Rovel Sequeira

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

ENGL 246.401

RELS 246, ENVS 246

Timothy Powell

M 2-5:00

American Literary Radicals of the 19th Century

ENGL 253.301

Catherine Turner

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

Early American Studies

ENGL 253.401

HIST 231

Robert Blair St. George

R 1:30-4:30

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

THAR 274

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12

Modernism and the Theory of Fashion

ENGL 259.401

ARTH 385, COML 140, FREN 259, GRMN 249

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9-10:30

fulfills requirements:

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

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

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

The Politics of the Gift

ENGL 263.401

COML 262

Aaron Levy

W 2-5:00

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

ENGL 269.402

COML 281

Charles Bernstein

TR 1:30-3

fulfills requirements:

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

AFRC 276

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 9-10:30

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

Race and Asian American Literature

ENGL 272.401

ASAM 202

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12

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

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

ENGL 274.301

Al Filreis

M 2-5:00

fulfills requirements:

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

ENGL 276.401

THAR 275, CIMS 225

David Fox

MW 2-3:30

World Literature

ENGL 277.401

COML 191, CLST 191

Cory Knudson, Kaushik Ramu

MW 3:30-5

Twenty-First Century African American Literature

ENGL 281.402

AFRC 281

Margo Natalie Crawford

MW 2-3:30

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

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

ENGL 282.401

RELS 208, CIMS 282, ANTH 282

Timothy Powell

MWF 10

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

ENGL 284.401

AFRC 286

Salamishah Tillet

R 4:30-7:30

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

Postwar American Poetry

ENGL 288.401

COML 288

Charles Bernstein

TR 3-4:30

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Global Feminisms

ENGL 294.401

GSWS 296, COML 291

Ania Loomba

MW 2-3:30

fulfills requirements:

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

CIMS 295, COML 295

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12-1:30

fulfills requirements:

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Global Film Theory

ENGL 305.401

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

ITAL 333, COML 333

Kevin Brownlee

TR 1:30-3

Milton

ENGL 338.301

Melissa E. Sanchez

TR 3-4:30

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

Epistolary Fiction

ENGL 345.301

Toni Bowers

TR 10:30-12

fulfills requirements:

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

fulfills requirements:

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

COML 392, SAST 323

Suvir Kaul

W 2-5:00

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

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