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General Education Courses

World Film History 1945 to Present

ENGL 092.401

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

Julia Alekseyeva

TR 1:30-3pm

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Theories of Gender and Sexuality: Introduction to Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theory

ENGL 096.401

also offered as: GSWS 096, COML 096

Melissa E. Sanchez

TR 3-4:30pm

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

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

ENGL 097.401

also offered as: THAR 102

Cary Mazer

TR 10:30-12pm

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: GSWS 101, AFRC 101

Herman Beavers

TR 10:30-12pm

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

Comics & Graphic Novels

ENGL 103.001

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

MW 11-12:00pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Literature and Law

ENGL 106.001

Nancy Bentley

TR 1:30-3pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Intermediate Level Courses

Introduction to Digital Humanities

ENGL 009.401

also offered as: COML 009, HIST 009

Whitney Trettien

MW 2-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Age of Milton

ENGL 038.001

Zachary Lesser

TR 12-1:30

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

18th-Century British Literature and Culture: Literature of Nation and Empire

ENGL 041.001

Suvir Kaul

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

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

Romantic and Victorian Poetry

ENGL 051.001

Emily Steinlight

TR 1:30-3pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Witches, Mistresses, and Midwives: Early American Women Writers

ENGL 057.001

Elizabeth Polcha

TR 10:30-12pm

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Television and New Media

ENGL 078.401

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

Rahul Mukherjee

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to African American Literature

ENGL 081.401

Dagmawi Woubshet

TR 3-4:30pm

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

American Fiction

ENGL 089.001

Micah Del Rosario

TR 4:30-6pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Queer Autobiography

ENGL 090.401

also offered as: COML 090, GSWS 090

Max Cavitch

MW 2-3:30pm

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

Introduction to Literary Theory: How to Read

ENGL 094.401

also offered as: COML 094

David Kazanjian

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature and Science

ENGL 108.001

S. Pearl Brilmyer

MW 2-3:30pm

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

Critical-Creative Seminars

Truth or Myth? Travel and Writing between Analysis and Invention

ENGL 210.302

Marion Kant

Monday 2-5:00pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Young Adult Literature: The Eternal Awkward

ENGL 210.304

Melissa Jensen

TR 12-1:30pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Poetry and Ways of Wondering

ENGL 210.301

Deborah Burnham

MW 2-3:30pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Podcasting: Narrative and Listening in the Digital Age

ENGL 210.303

Julie Beth Napolin

Thursdays 1:30-4:30pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Advanced Seminars

Virtual Reality Lab

ENGL 201.401

also offered as: CIMS 200

Peter Decherney

Fridays 2-5:00pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

The Literature of Care

ENGL 207.301

Aaron Levy

TR 10:30-12pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Introduction to Programming for Humanities

ENGL 209.301

Jonathan Scott Enderle

TR 1:30-3pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Other Stories

ENGL 225.301

Emily Steiner

TR 1:30-3pm

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

Introduction to Print Culture Reading, Writing, and Printing in Early Modern Europe

ENGL 234.401

also offered as: HIST 411

Peter Stallybrass, Roger Chartier

Mondays 2-5:00pm

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

Dramaturgy

ENGL 256.401

also offered as: THAR 274

Cary Mazer

TR 12-1:30pm

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

Groundbreaking Poets & Traditional Forms

ENGL 262.401

also offered as: COML 274

Taije Silverman

TR 3-4:30pm

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 American South in 20th Century Literature and Film

ENGL 265.301

Clinton Williamson

TR 12-1:30pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Apocalypse and the Anthropocene

ENGL 268.301

April Anson

TR 1:30-3pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Chinese Body and Spatial Consumption in Chinatown

ENGL 273.401

also offered as: FNAR 313, FNAR 618, ASAM 313

Ken Lum

Tuesday 9-12:00pm

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

Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar: Saidiya Hartman, Erin Moure, Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris

ENGL 274.301

Julia Bloch

Monday 2-5:00pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

(T) rap Music

ENGL 282.401

also offered as: AFRC 279

Simone White

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

American Autobiography

ENGL 286.301

Max Cavitch

MW 5-6:30pm

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

Global Documentary

ENGL 291.401

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

Julia Alekseyeva

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

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

Mobile Phone Cultures

ENGL 295.401

also offered as: CIMS 295, ARTH 293

Rahul Mukherjee

Monday 2-5:00pm

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

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 392.401

also offered as: ARTH 389, CIMS 392, COML 391

Rita Barnard

MW 5-6:30pm

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

Creative Writing Seminars

Poetry and Memoir

ENGL 010.601

Laynie Browne

Monday 5:30-8:30pm

Elective of the Standard Major

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Essay

ENGL 010.302

Taije Silverman

TR 12-1:30pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Ordinary Life

ENGL 010.305

Jess Shollenberger

TR 3-4:30pm

Writing Fact and Fiction: Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 010.301

Marion Kant

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Memoir

ENGL 010.303

Laynie Browne

Wednesday, 4:30-7:30pm

Intro to Creative Writing: The Company We Keep

ENGL 010.304

Michelle Taransky

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Fiction Writing Workshop canceled

ENGL 112.301

Karen Rile

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.302

Lanre Akinsiku

Monday 6-9:00pm

Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Ron Silliman

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Playwriting

ENGL 114.401

also offered as: THAR 114

Department Staff

Friday 2-5:00pm

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Fiction Writing: The Novella

ENGL 115.302

Weike Wang

Monday 2-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Monday 2-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

also offered as: THAR 116

Scott F Burkhardt

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: THAR 116

Scott F Burkhardt

Wednesday 6-9:00pm

Let it Rock: The Rolling Stones, Writing and Creativity

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Simone White

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Writing for Children

ENGL 123.401

also offered as: AFRC 123

Lorene Cary

Wednesday 4:30-7:30pm

Writing through Chance Operations

ENGL 127.301

J † Johnson

Tuesday 6-9:00pm

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

Writing and Borders

ENGL 127.302

Ahmad Almallah

Tuesday 4:30-7:30pm

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

Magazine Writing

ENGL 128.301

Avery Rome

Mondays 2-5:00pm

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Inner Outer Space Travel Writing: A Creative Writing Workshop

ENGL 131.401

also offered as: GSWS 510, LALS 510

Ricardo Bracho

TR 4:30-7:30pm

Self-Scripting: Writing through Body and Space

ENGL 133.401

also offered as: THAR 115

Brooke O'Harra

TR 10:30-12pm

Essays, Fragments, Collage: The Art of the Moment

ENGL 135.301

Beth Kephart

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

The Ties that Bind: Food and Culture

ENGL 135.302

Lise Funderburg

Monday 2-5:00pm

Advanced Nonfiction Writing: Xfic canceled

ENGL 145.301

Jay Kirk

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

Monday 2-5:00pm

Immersion Journalism

ENGL 157.301

Sam Apple

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Science, Technology, Society

ENGL 158.401

Peter Tarr

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Long-Form Joournalism

ENGL 160.301

Dick Polman

Monday 2-5:00pm

Political Commentary Writing: The Presidential Primaries

ENGL 162.301

Dick Polman

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Writing through Culture and Art

ENGL 165.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

Thursday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Writing Projects in Long-Form Nonfiction

ENGL 169.301

Paul Hendrickson

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Writing Projects in the Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 170.301

Anthony DeCurtis

TR 10:30-12pm

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 512.640

Marc Anthony Richardson

Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm

Learning from James Baldwin (1924-1987)

ENGL 581.640

also offered as: AFRC 581, GSWS 580

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:10pm

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Poetry and Memoir

ENGL 010.601

Laynie Browne

Monday 5:30-8:30pm

Elective of the Standard Major

The Twentieth Century

ENGL 104.601

Devorah R. Fischler

Tuesday 5:30-8:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

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

Master of Liberal Arts

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 512.640

Marc Anthony Richardson

Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm

Learning from James Baldwin (1924-1987)

ENGL 581.640

also offered as: AFRC 581, GSWS 580

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

Thursday 5:30-8:10pm

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Religion, Race and Sexuality in Early Modern Literature

ENGL 538.401

also offered as: COML 558

Melissa E. Sanchez

Tuesday 12-3:00pm

Archiving Jazz: Visuality and Materiality in the Phila Jazz Community 1945-2019

ENGL 541.401

also offered as: AFRC 542, MUSC 542, URBS 542, ARTH 519

Herman Beavers

Monday 2-5:00pm

What is a Subject?

ENGL 560.401

also offered as: COML 563

S. Pearl Brilmyer

Monday 5-8:00pm

Literary Studies and Sociology: Moments of Encounter

ENGL 573.401

also offered as: COML 570

James English

Tuesday 12-3:00pm

Topics in the Study of Class, Race, and Empire in the Americas

ENGL 590.401

also offered as: LALS 590, COML 590

Jennifer Ponce de León

Tuesday 6-9:00pm

Adaptation Studies

ENGL 592.401

also offered as: CIMS 592, COML 592

Timothy Corrigan

Thursday 9-12:00pm

Land, Labor, and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

ENGL 595.301

Suvir Kaul

Wednesday 3-6:00pm

Introduction to Bibliography

ENGL 597.301

Zachary Lesser, Arthur Fraas

Monday 12-3:00pm

Cross-Listed Courses

Intro to Queer Studies

ENGL 003.401

also offered as: GSWS 003

Jonathan Katz

TR 12-1:30pm

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 Play

ENGL 056.401

also offered as: THAR 125

Marcia Ferguson

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Art Now

ENGL 063.401

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

Kaja Silverman

MW 10-11:00am

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

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

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30pm

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

World Film History 1945-Present

ENGL 091.401

also offered as: CIMS 101

Meta Mazaj, Dahlia Menghui Li

Writing Center Theory and Practice

ENGL 138.401

also offered as: WRIT 138

Valerie Ross

TR 10:30-12pm

Community-Engaged Writing Theory and Fieldwork

ENGL 138.402

also offered as: WRIT 138

Valerie Ross

Wednesday 9-12:00pm

Icons in Performance

ENGL 276.401

also offered as: THAR 275, CIMS 225

David Fox

MW 2-3:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

World Literature

ENGL 277.401

also offered as: COML 191, CLST 191

Martin Premoli

Monday 2-5:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Gender, Sex and Urban Life

GSWS 277.001

also offered as: URBS 277

Davy Knittle

Jewish Films and Literature

ENGL 279.401

also offered as: GRMN 261, COML 265, CIMS 279, JWST 263

Kathryn Hellerstein

TR 1:30-3pm

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

Romantic Comedy

ENGL 292.401

also offered as: CIMS 202, ARTH 289

Meta Mazaj

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Dante's Divine Comedy: Through Hell With Love

ENGL 323.401

also offered as: ITAL 333, COML 333

Mario Sassi

MW 2-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Visualizing the Future

ENGL 392.402

also offered as: CIMS 392, ARTH 389,COML 391

Department Staff

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Junior Research Seminars

Global Detective Narratives

ENGL 200.303

Nico Millman

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Science/Fiction

ENGL 200.301

A.V. Aylin Malcolm

MW 2-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Causing Trouble: Experiments in Black Poetry and Performance

ENGL 200.302

Amber Rose Johnson

TR 3-4:30pm

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

Fancy Things and Ordinary Objects: The Stuff of Early American Literature

ENGL 200.307

Stephanie Scherer

TR 10:30-12pm

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

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Italian Americans on Screen

ENGL 200.304

Joseph Coppola

TR 3-4:30pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Haunting/Haunted Matter canceled

ENGL 200.305

Kerry McAuliffe

MW 3:30-5pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

U. S. Border Narratives

ENGL 200.306

J. Felix Gallion

MW 3:30-5pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Closely Related Courses

Queer German Cinema

GRMN 156.401

also offered as: CIMS 156, COML 156, GSWS 156

Department Staff

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Trans Method

GSWS 350.301

Ava L.J. Kim, Davy Knittle

MW 2-3:30

Queering North African Subjectivities

FREN 392.401

also offered as: AFRC 392, COML 393, GSWS 392

Department Staff

Monday 2-5:00pm