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General Education Courses

Jane Austen and Adaptation: From Darcymania to Bridgerton
ENGL 0011.401
also offered as: GSWS 0011
Michael Gamer
TR 5:15-6:44pm
English Major Requirements
English Concentration Attributes
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes
Study of a Genre: Poetry and Autobiography
ENGL 0038.401
also offered as: COML 0038
Max Cavitch
MW 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cross Cultural Analysis (AUCC)
Additional Attributes
Introduction to Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Practice
ENGL 0052.401
also offered as: COML 0052
Max Cavitch
MW 10:15-11:44am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
Additional Attributes
Introduction to Digital Humanities
ENGL 1650.401
also offered as: COML 1650 / HIST 0870
Department Staff
MW 10:15-11:44am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Literature, Journalism, & Print Culture Concentration (AELJ)
College Attributes
  • Sector IV: Humanities and Social Science (AUHS)
Additional Attributes

Intermediate Level Courses

Literature Before 1660
ENGL 1020.401
also offered as: GSWS 1043
Department Staff
MW 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
ENGL 1045.001
Chris Chan
TR 8:30-9:59am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 4 Long 18th Century (AE18)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
  • Poetry & Poetics Concentration (AEPP)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Victorian Literature
ENGL 1051.001
Department Staff
TR 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Poetry & Poetics Concentration (AEPP)
  • The Novel Concentration (AENV)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Fashion and Modernity: From Marie-Antoinette to Rick Owens
ENGL 1071.401
also offered as: ARTH 2889 / COML 1072 / FREN 1071 / GRMN 1065
Jean-Michel Rabaté
TR 10:15-11:44am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Modern America
ENGL 1140.001
Department Staff
MW 10:15-11:44am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • The Novel Concentration (AENV)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Radical Arts in the Americas
ENGL 1261.401
also offered as: ARTH 2990 / CIMS 1261 / COML 1261 / LALS 1261 / THAR 1261
Jennifer Ponce de León
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
College Attributes
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes
Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot in Dialogue
ENGL 1740.401
also offered as: COML 1740
Jean-Michel Rabaté
TR 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • The Novel Concentration (AENV)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Modern & Contemporary U.S. Poetry
ENGL 1830.301
Al Filreis
TR 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Poetry & Poetics Concentration (AEPP)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Witchcraft and the Occult
ENGL 1860.001
Becky S. Friedman
TR 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Introduction to African American Drama
ENGL 1880.401
also offered as: AFRC 1880 / THAR 1880
Margo Natalie Crawford
MW 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
College Attributes
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes

ABCS Courses (Academically Based Community Service)

August Wilson and Beyond
ENGL 2222.401
also offered as: AFRC 2325 / THAR 2325
Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes

First Year Seminars

First Year Seminar How and When to be Bored: Literature and Attention
ENGL 0306.301
Lilith Todd
MW 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 4 Long 18th Century (AE18)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
Additional Attributes
First-Year Seminar: Fundamentals of Storytelling
ENGL 0401.301
Lorene Cary
T 10:15am-1:14pm
English Major Requirements
English Concentration Attributes
  • Creative Writing Workshop Course Minor (AECW)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes
First-Year Seminar: Kelly Writers House
ENGL 0402.301
Abbey Mei Otis
W 10:15am-1:14pm
English Major Requirements
English Concentration Attributes
  • Creative Writing Workshop Course Minor (AECW)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes

The One Series

‘But Thy Vile Race’: The Tempest and Early Modern Race
ENGL 4502.301
Ariana Rodriguez
TR 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1700 (AEB7)
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Industry: Life beside Capital
ENGL 4512.301
Xavier Xin
TR 5:15-6:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Memory and Mourning in Camera Lucida
ENGL 4513.301
Eddy Wang
MW 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Dykes to Watch Out For: Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Comics
ENGL 4515.301
Rylee Smith
TR 3:30-4:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes

Critical-Creative Seminars

Listening in Troubled Times (SNF Paideia Program Course)
ENGL 0755.401
also offered as: ANTH 1755
Aaron Levy
M 1:45-4:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Creative Writing Workshop Course Minor (AECW)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Podcasting (SNF Paideia Program Course)
ENGL 0765.301
Chris Mustazza
W 5:15pm-8:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Creative Writing Workshop Course Minor (AECW)
  • Journalistic Writing Minor (AEJW)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Radiant, Humble, Monstrous: Modern Children's Literature
ENGL 0775.301
Melissa Jensen
TR 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 4 Long 18th Century (AE18)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
  • The Novel Concentration (AENV)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes

Advanced Seminars

Old English Language and Literature
ENGL 2010.301
Caroline Batten
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1700 (AEB7)
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
August Wilson and Beyond
ENGL 2222.401
also offered as: AFRC 2325 / THAR 2325
Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
The Black Arts Movement
ENGL 2225.401
also offered as: AFRC 2225
Margo Natalie Crawford
MW 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Saints and Sex Demons
ENGL 2315.401
also offered as: GSWS 2315
Caroline Batten
MW 5:15-6:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1700 (AEB7)
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
  • Foundational Approach: Cross Cultural Analysis (AUCC)
Additional Attributes
Fascism in History, Film, and Literature
ENGL 2415.401
also offered as: CIMS 2415 / COML 2415 / LALS 2415
Jennifer Ponce de León
MW 10:15-11:44am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
The Literature of Care
ENGL 2530.301
Aaron Levy
W 1:45-4:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
American Books / Books in America
ENGL 2604.401
also offered as: HIST 2104
John Pollack, James N Green
R 1:45-4:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 4 Long 18th Century (AE18)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Literature, Journalism, & Print Culture Concentration (AELJ)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
English Honors Thesis Seminar
ENGL 4097.301
Julia Alekseyeva
T 5:15-8:14pm
English Major Requirements
English Concentration Attributes
College Attributes
Additional Attributes

Benjamin Franklin Seminars

Dante’s Divine Comedy
ENGL 0502.401
also offered as: COML 0502 / ITAL 3335
David Wallace
T 10:15am-1:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Literature Seminar pre-1700 (AEB7)
  • Literature Seminar pre-1900 (AEB9)
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 3 Medieval/Renaissance (AEMR)
  • Sector 5 19th Century (AE19)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Medieval/Renaissance Concentration (AEMC)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
Additional Attributes
American Film Genre
ENGL 0590.401
also offered as: CIMS 0590 / COML 0590
Jean-Christophe Cloutier
W 8:30-11:29am
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cultural Diversity in US (AUCD)
Additional Attributes
August Wilson and Beyond
ENGL 2222.401
also offered as: AFRC 2325 / THAR 2325
Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes

Also Offered As

Study of a Theme Related to Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 0023.401
also offered as: GSWS 0023
Melissa E. Sanchez
MWF 12:00-12:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cross Cultural Analysis (AUCC)
Additional Attributes
Narrative Across Cultures
ENGL 0039.401
also offered as: COML 1025 / MELC 1960 / SAST 1124 / THAR 1025
Ezra Lebovitz
TR 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cross Cultural Analysis (AUCC)
Additional Attributes
World Literature
ENGL 1179.401
also offered as: CLST 1602 / COML 1191
Ezra Lebovitz
M 1:45-4:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
American Musical Theatre
ENGL 1271.401
also offered as: CIMS 1271 / THAR 1271
David Fox
MW 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Drama Concentration (AEDR)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 1409.401
also offered as: COML 1000
Jack Cao
MW 12:00-1:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
  • Foundational Approach: Cross Cultural Analysis (AUCC)
Additional Attributes
War and Representation
ENGL 1449.401
also offered as: COML 1050
Chaya Sara Oppenheim
TR 1:45-3:14pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector IV: Humanities and Social Science (AUHS)
Additional Attributes
Science and Literature
ENGL 1509.401
also offered as: STSC 1101
Department Staff
M 3:30–6:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
College Attributes
  • Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
Additional Attributes
Soulful Black Biographies
ENGL 2242.401
also offered as: AFRC 4410 / RELS 4301
Department Staff
M 3:30–6:29pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
English Concentration Attributes
  • Africana Literature & Culture Concentration (AEAC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Asian American Visual Culture
ENGL 2271.401
also offered as: ASAM 2271 / ARTH 3509
David L. Eng
T 12:00-2:59pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 2 Difference and Diaspora (AEDD)
  • Sector 6 20th & 21st Centuries (AE20)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Gender/Sexuality Concentration (AEGS)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes
Algorithmic Ethics
ENGL 2666.401
also offered as: CIMS 2666
Elizabeth C Scheyder
MW 5:15-6:44pm
English Major Requirements
  • Sector 1 Theory and Poetics (AETP)
English Concentration Attributes
  • 20th-21st Century Concentration (AE21)
  • Theory & Cultural Studies Concentration (AETC)
College Attributes
Additional Attributes