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General Education Courses

Intro to Literary Study: The Global Novel

ENGL 100.401

also offered as: COML 100

Rita Barnard

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

King Arthur: Medieval to Modern

ENGL 102.001

Emily Steiner

TR 1:30-3pm

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

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

Narrative Across Cultures

ENGL 103.401

also offered as: COML 125, NELC 180, SAST 124, THAR 105

Ania Loomba

TR 1:30-3pm

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Queer Politics, Queer Communities

ENGL 105.001

Heather K. Love, S. Pearl Brilmyer

MW 11am

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

Literature and Law canceled

ENGL 106.001

Lark Hall

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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

Intermediate Level Courses

Dystopian Literature and Film

ENGL 005.401

also offered as: CIMS 005

Vikrant Dadawala

TR 9-10:30am

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Intro to Digital Humanities

ENGL 009.401

also offered as: COML 009, HIST 009

James English, Stewart Varner

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Literature Before 1660: Othello

ENGL 020.301

Abdulhamit Arvas

TR 3-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Chaucer: Poetry, Voice, and Interpretation

ENGL 025.401

also offered as: COML 025

David Wallace

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Shakespeare's Rivals, Collaborators, and Contemporaries

ENGL 031.401

also offered as: COML 031

Zachary Lesser

MW 2-3:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

T.S. Eliot's War: The Waste Land Before and After

ENGL 059.401

also offered as: COML 059

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The Novel and Other Institutions

ENGL 060.001

Emily Steinlight

R 1:30-3pm

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

Studies in Lyric Poetry

ENGL 069.001

Toni Bowers

TR 3-4:30pm

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

Trash: The Dime Novel

ENGL 089.001

David Kazanjian

TR 1:30-3pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sexuality and Power

ENGL 090.401

also offered as: COML 090, GSWS 090

Toni Bowers

TR 10:30-12pm

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 '45-Present

ENGL 092.401

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

Julia Alekseyeva

W 2-3:30pm

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

Wednesday 3:30-6:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Critical-Creative Seminars

Truth or Myth? Travel and Writing between Invention and Analysis

ENGL 210.302

Marion Kant

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Elective Seminar of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Joyce's Ulysses: Making Readings

ENGL 210.301

Paul Saint-Amour, Robert Berry

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

Young Adult Literature: The Eternal Awkward

ENGL 210.303

Melissa Jensen

TR 12-1:30pm

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

Friday 2-5:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

The Literature of Care

ENGL 207.301

Aaron Levy

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Data Science for History and Literature

ENGL 209.301

Jonathan Scott Enderle

TR 12-1:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Modernist Fashion, Literature and Theory

ENGL 259.401

also offered as: COML 140

Jean-Michel Rabaté

TR 9-10:30am

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Race and Psychoanalysis

ENGL 272.401

also offered as: ASAM 202

David L. Eng

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Kelly Writers House Fellows: Erica Hunt, Hilton Als, Gabrielle Hamilton

ENGL 274.301

Al Filreis

Monday 2-5:00pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Twenty-First Century African American Literature

ENGL 281.401

also offered as: AFRC 281

Margo Natalie Crawford

TR 3-4:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Capitalism, (Neo) Colonialism, Racism and Resistance

ENGL 283.401

also offered as: LALS, COML

Jennifer Ponce de León

M 3:30-5:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

The American Line

ENGL 288.301

Josephine Park

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

What is Capitalism? Theories of Marx and Marxism

ENGL 294.401

also offered as: COML 291, GSWS 296

David Kazanjian

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Imaginining Environmental Justice

ENGL 309.401

also offered as: ANTH 339, COML 308

Rebecca Macklin

TR 9-10:30am

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

National Epics

ENGL 321.401

also offered as: COML 321

David Wallace

TR 9-10:30am

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Pre-1700 or Pre-1900 Seminar Requirement of the Standard Major

The Contemporary Graphic Novel

ENGL 364.301

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

R 1:30-3pm

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Arts of Abolition and Liberation

ENGL 392.402

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

Julia Alekseyeva, Chi-ming Yang

Thursday 1:30-3:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cinema and Politics

ENGL 392.401

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

Rita Barnard

Wednesday 3:30-6:30pm

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

History of Literary Criticism

ENGL 396.401

also offered as: CLST 396

Rita Copeland

TR 10:30-12pm

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

Creative Writing Seminars

Intro to Creative Writing: Ordinary Life

ENGL 010.303

Jess Shollenberger

R 3:00-4:30pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Speculative Pasts and Futures

ENGL 010.304

Davy Knittle

T 6:00-9:00pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Fact and Fiction

ENGL 010.305

Marion Kant

M 4:30-7:30pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 010.301

Carmen Maria Machado

R 10:30-12:00pm

Intro to Creative Writing: Imitations and Writing in Form

ENGL 010.306

Ahmad Almallah

R 1:30-4:30

Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Essay

ENGL 010.302

Taije Silverman

TR 10:30-12:00pm

Intro to Creative Writing

ENGL 010.307

Joseph Earl Thomas

TR 12-1:30pm

Rip, Remix, Burn: Music as Poetry/Poetry as Music

ENGL 111.301

Kenneth Goldsmith

R 1:30-4:30pm

Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 112.301

Karen Rile

M 6-9:00pm

Poetry Workshop

ENGL 113.301

Laynie Browne

R 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Fiction Writing

ENGL 115.301

Max Apple

T 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Fiction Writing: The Novella

ENGL 115.302

Weike Wang

W 2-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.402

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

W 2-5:00pm

Screenwriting

ENGL 116.403

also offered as: CIMS 116

Scott F Burkhardt

W 6-9:00pm

ENGL 117.301

Anthony DeCurtis

R 1:30-4:30pm

Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 118.301

Ron Silliman

W 2-5:00pm

The Translation of Poetry/The Poetry of Translation

ENGL 120.401

also offered as: COML 121

Taije Silverman

TR 12-1:30pm

Is This Really Happening? Performance and Contemporary Political Horizons

ENGL 125.401

also offered as: FNAR 086, FNAR 586, GSWS 086

Brooke O'Harra, Sharon A. Hayes

Wednesday 5-8:00pm

Writing and Borders

ENGL 127.301

Ahmad Almallah

T 4:30-7:30pm

Essays, Fragments, Collage: The Art of the Moment

ENGL 135.301

Beth Kephart

Tuesday 1:30-3:30pm

Narrative Nonfiction: The Art of Experience

ENGL 135.302

Jay Kirk

T 5-8:00pm

Experimental Playwriting

ENGL 136.401

also offered as: THAR 116

Brooke O'Harra

TR 10:30-12pm

Cities and Stories

ENGL 137.401

also offered as: URBS 350

Elizabeth Greenspan

M 6:30-9:30pm

Writing Towards Transformation

ENGL 140.401

also offered as: GSWS 514, LALS 514

Ricardo Bracho

R 4:30-7:30pm

Horror, Mystery, and Suspense Writing Workshop

ENGL 144.301

Carmen Maria Machado

R 1:30-3:00pm

Creative Nonfiction: Look In; Look Out

ENGL 145.301

Lise Funderburg

M 2-5:00pm

Writing from Photographs

ENGL 156.301

Paul Hendrickson

M 2-5:00pm

Introduction to Journalistic Writing

ENGL 157.301

Kristen Martin

R 1:30-3:30pm

Science, Technology, Society

ENGL 158.401

Peter Tarr

T 1:30-3:30pm

Long-Form Journalism

ENGL 160.301

Dick Polman

M 2-5:00pm

Art of the Profile

ENGL 161.301

Dick Polman

W 2-5:00pm

Advanced Writing Projects in Long-Form Nonfiction

ENGL 169.301

Paul Hendrickson

TBA

Advanced Writing Projects in the Arts and Popular Culture

ENGL 170.301

Anthony DeCurtis

TR 12-1:30pm

College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Television and Media

ENGL 078.601

also offered as: CIMS 103, ARTH 107, COML 079

J. Felix Gallion

Monday 5-8:00pm

Modern American Poetry

ENGL 088.601

Chris Mustazza

Wednesday 5:30-8:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Cross Listed College of Liberal and Professional Studies Courses

Great Story Collections

ENGL 099.601

also offered as: FOLK 241, COML 193

David Sean Azzolina

Tuesday 6:30-9:30pm

Master of Liberal Arts

How a Story Works: The Art of Fiction

ENGL 512.640

Elysha Chang

W 5:30-8:10pm

Storytelling in Fiction and Nonfiction

ENGL 515.640

Kathryn “Kitsi” Watterson

R 5:30-8:10pm

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates by Permission of Instructor

Medieval Worlds

ENGL 524.301

Emily Steiner

Monday 3-6:00pm

Comparative Histories of Sexuality

ENGL 538.401

also offered as: COML 558

Abdulhamit Arvas

Wednesday 3-6:00pm

Theories of the Novel

ENGL 560.401

also offered as: COML 563

Emily Steinlight

Tuesday 9-12:00pm

Movements and Culture

ENGL 590.401

also offered as: COML 590, LALS 590

Jennifer Ponce de León

Monday 6-9:00pm

Cross-Listed Courses

Intro to Queer Studies

ENGL 003.401

also offered as: GSWS 003

Tyler G. Baldor

MW 2-3:30pm

Writing the Self: Life-Writing, Fiction, Representation

ENGL 011.401

also offered as: COML 015, GSWS 005

Zain Rashid Mian

Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm

Dark Comedy in Theatre and Film

ENGL 014.401

also offered as: THAR 273, CIMS 274

Marcia Ferguson

TR 10:30-12pm

The Play: Structure, Style, Meaning

ENGL 056.401

also offered as: THAR 125

Rosemary Malague

TR 12-1:30pm

Art Now

ENGL 063.401

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

Jonathan Katz

MW 10am

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.401

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

Meta Mazaj

TR 3-4:30pm

World Film History to 1945

ENGL 091.402

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

William D. Schmenner

MW 3:30-5:00pm

World Film History '45-Present

ENGL 092.402

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

Filippo Trentin

TR 10:30-12pm

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

Cross Cultural Requirement of the College's General Education Curriculum

Freud's Objects

ENGL 095.401

also offered as: GRMN 254, COML 252

Liliane Weissberg

MWF 11

Writing for Television

ENGL 110.401

also offered as: CIMS 117

Scott F Burkhardt

R 4:30-7:30pm

Screenwriting Workshop

ENGL 116.401

also offered as: CIMS 116

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

M 2-5:00pm

Advanced Screenwriting

ENGL 130.401

also offered as: CIMS 130

Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve

W 2-5:00pm

Community-Engaged Writing Theory & Fieldwork

ENGL 138.402

also offered as: WRIT 138

Valerie Ross

W 9-12:00pm

Writing Center Theory & Practice

ENGL 138.401

also offered as: WRIT 138

Stacy M Kastner

TR 10:30-12pm

Italian History on the Table

ENGL 204.401

also offered as: ITAL 206

Marina Della Putta Johnston

MW 2-3:30pm

ENGL 234.401

also offered as: HIST 411

Roger Chartier, Kathy Peiss

Monday 2-5:00pm

Icons in Performance

ENGL 276.401

also offered as: THAR 275, CIMS 225

David Fox

Wednesday 2-3:30pm

Gender, Sex and Urban Life

GSWS 277.001

also offered as: URBS 277

Davy Knittle

World Literature

ENGL 277.401

also offered as: COML 191, CLST 191

Michael Martin Shea

TR 10:30-12pm

Provocative Performance

ENGL 303.401

also offered as: THAR 279, GSWS 279

Rosemary Malague

Monday 7-9:00pm

Global Film Theory

ENGL 305.401

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

Meta Mazaj, Karen Redrobe

TR 10:30-12pm

Freshman Seminars

Topics in Literature: Emotions

ENGL 015.401

also offered as: CLST 019

Rita Copeland

TR 3-4:30pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Queer History and Theory

ENGL 016.301

S. Pearl Brilmyer

Wednesday 2-5:00pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Junior Research Seminars

Trauma & Literature (Then and Now)

ENGL 200.303

Matthew Aiello

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the Standard Major

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 3: Early Literature to 1660 of the Standard Major

Contemporary Caribbean Literature

ENGL 200.301

David Buchanan

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

Imagining Empire: Narrative and Politics

ENGL 200.302

Alex Millen

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

The Cultures of Dance, Film, and Movement

ENGL 200.304

Dahlia Menghui Li

R 3-4:30pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Haunted/Haunting Matter

ENGL 200.305

Kerry McAuliffe

MW 3:30-5:00pm

Sector 5: 19th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major

Women in Early Spy Fiction

ENGL 200.306

Liandra Elise Sy

TR 10:30-12pm

Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major

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