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Courses for Fall 2013

  • Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay

    An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques of critical analysis and research. Readings from a wide range of texts in literature, the media, and academic disciplines. Assignments move from personal response papers to formal academic essays. Fall 2013 sections 01, 02, 03, 08, 09, and 12; and spring 2014 section 01 are reserved for first year students. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 0110 S01
    ENGL 0110 S03
    ENGL 0110 S04
    ENGL 0110 S05
    ENGL 0110 S06
    Primary Instructor
    Ward
    ENGL 0110 S07
    ENGL 0110 S08
    Primary Instructor
    Readey
    ENGL 0110 S09
    Primary Instructor
    Stanley
    ENGL 0110 S10
    Primary Instructor
    Schapira
    ENGL 0110 S11
    Primary Instructor
    Schapira
    ENGL 0110 S12
    Primary Instructor
    Imbriglio
    ENGL 0110 S13
    Primary Instructor
    Stewart

  • Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay

    For the confident writer. Offers students who have mastered the fundamentals of the critical essay an opportunity to acquire the skills to write a research essay, including formulation of a research problem, use of primary evidence, and techniques of documentation. Topics are drawn from literature, history, the social sciences, the arts, and the sciences. Enrollment limited to 17. Writing sample may be required. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 0130 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Taylor

  • Journalistic Writing

    An introduction to journalistic writing that focuses on techniques of investigation, reporting, and feature writing. Uses readings, visiting journalists, and field experience to address ethical and cultural debates involving the profession of journalism. Writing assignments range from news coverage of current events to investigative feature articles. Writing sample required. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of class. Enrollment limited to 17. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 0160 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Breton
    ENGL 0160 S02
    Primary Instructor
    Breton

  • Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

    Designed to familiarize students with the techniques and narrative structures of creative nonfiction. Reading and writing focus on personal essays, memoir, science writing, travel writing, and other related subgenres. May serve as preparation for ENGL 1180. Writing sample may be required. Fall 2013 sections 02 and 04; and spring 2014 sections 01, 03, and 05 are reserved for first-year students. Spring 2014 section 06 is reserved for first year students and sophomores. Enrollment limited. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 0180 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Hardy
    ENGL 0180 S02
    Primary Instructor
    Resnick
    ENGL 0180 S03
    Primary Instructor
    Resnick
    ENGL 0180 S04
    Primary Instructor
    Stanley

  • Altered States

    A course about rapture, ecstasy, mysticism, transport, travel, metamorphosis, and magic in pre- and early modern poetry, plays, and prose, including: Ovid (Metamorphoses), Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream; Othello), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus), Mandeville's Travels; Bacon's The New Atlantis; The Book of Margery Kempe; and ecstatic sacred and erotic poems by Donne, Crashaw, Rochester, and Behn. Enrollment limited to 30.
    ENGL 0300J S01
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss

  • Introduction to Shakespeare

    This course will explore issues of concern to Shakespeare's audiences from his time to ours--love, war, race, sex, good and evil--through a representative selection of plays. Lectures will discuss historical contexts, theatrical conditions, and critical strategies. Designed for students beginning college-level study of Shakespeare. Two lectures and one discussion meeting weekly. Students should register for ENGL 0310A S01 and may be assigned to conference sections by the instructor during the first week of class. LILE WRIT
    ENGL 0310A S01
    Primary Instructor
    Kahn
    ENGL 0310A C01
    Schedule Code
    C: Conference

  • The Medieval King Arthur

    Where did stories of King Arthur come from and how did they develop in the Middle Ages? We will read the earliest narratives of King Arthur and his companions, in histories and romances from Celtic, Anglo- Norman, and Middle English sources, to examine Arthur's varying personas of warrior, king, lover, thief. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students.
    ENGL 0360E S01
    Primary Instructor
    Bryan

  • Shakespeare's Present Tense

    Shakespeare in Love suggests how Shakespeare was clued in to elite and popular cultures. Current adaptations like O and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU demonstrate how Shakespeare provides anachronistic clues to issues of the present. This course will trace such clues by examining the cultural origins and ongoing adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night, Henry V, and the sonnets. Enrollment limited to 20 first-year students. FYS
    ENGL 0360F S01
    Primary Instructor
    Foley

  • Mark Twain's America

    A course for all kinds of readers of Twain and his contemporaries. Close readings of fiction and essays that focus on race, slavery, capitalism, and the development of "modern" literature. Works include Puddinhead Wilson, Huck Finn, and Connecticut Yankee.
    ENGL 0510D S01
    Primary Instructor
    Gould

  • British Romanticism

    Readings in British Romantic writing, canonical and noncanonical, emphasizing how historical and political change, philosophical disposition, and subjective consciousness become articulated in verse and prose. Literary representations of and responses to the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the struggle against black slavery. Blake, Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, Keats, Clare. LILE
    ENGL 0510E S01
    Primary Instructor
    Keach

  • Inventing America

    One of the distinguishing features of American literature may be its seemingly constant struggle with the idea of America itself. For what, these authors wonder, does/should America stand? We will examine the rhetorical battles waged in some major works over the meaning and/or meanings of America’s national identity. Authors may include Franklin, Hawthorne, and Fitzgerald. Limited to 20 first-year students. Instructor permission required. FYS LILE WRIT
    ENGL 0560E S01
    Primary Instructor
    Egan

  • Make It New: American Literature 1900-1945

    Introductory survey of a major—perhaps the major—period of American literature. Genres include poems, plays, short stories, and novels, as well as film. Writers include Willa Cather, Raymond Chandler, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens; filmmakers include Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles. Enrollment limited to 30.
    ENGL 0700L S01
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows

  • African American Literature and the Legacy of Slavery

    Traces the relationship between the African American literary tradition and slavery from the antebellum slave narrative to the flowering of historical novels about slavery at the end of the twentieth century. Positions these texts within specific literary, historical, and political frameworks. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. DVPS
    ENGL 0710B S01
    Primary Instructor
    Murray

  • Ishiguro, Amongst Others

    Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most distinctive and enigmatic voices in contemporary fiction. He has few obvious precursors, and there is little consensus among literary critics about the meanings of his works. This course will try to establish principles for reading Ishiguro's works by seeking alliances for his writing in works of philosophy, literature and cinema. Such interlocutors will include Ozu, Kiarostami, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Hadžihalilovič, Dostoevsky, Pasolini.
    ENGL 0710L S01
    Primary Instructor
    Bewes

  • Realism and Modernism

    The novel as a genre has been closely identified with the act of representation. What it means to represent "reality," however, has varied widely. This seminar will explore how the representation of reality changes as modern fiction questions the assumptions about knowing, language, and society that defined the great tradition of realism. English and American novels will be the primary focus of our attention, but influential French, German, and Russian works will be studied as well. Limited to 20 first-year students. Banner registration after classes begin requires instructor approval. FYS LILE
    ENGL 0760H S01
    Primary Instructor
    Armstrong

  • Digital Nonfiction

    Digital Nonfiction is an opportunity to explore the fundamental differences between print and digital narratives. Focusing on three short assignments and one longer project, this class encourages students to learn by doing. Additionally, students develop their digital fluency by exploring a variety of platforms and readings. Digital Nonfiction is an advanced creative nonfiction class that requires ENGL 0130, 0160, or 0180. Enrollment is limited to 17. Instructor permission required. S/NC.
    ENGL 1180B S01
    Primary Instructor
    Stewart

  • Further Adventures in Creative Nonfiction

    For the advanced writer. A workshop course for students who have taken ENGL 0180 or the equivalent and are looking for further explorations of voice and form. Work can include personal essays, literary journalism and travel writing. Readings from Ian Frazier, Joan Didion, David Sedaris, John McPhee and others. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 1180P S01
    Primary Instructor
    Hardy

  • Creative Nonfiction: Practice and Criticism

    For advanced writers. What is Creative Nonfiction? Writers have flocked to it; scholars have questioned it. Does it harm the truth? Is it narrative with too much "I" and too little "Eye"? What makes it significant? To help us explore persistent questions about form, point of view, method, and ethics, readings will include historical examples, recent practitioners, editors, and critics. Intensive reading responses, research, drafting, and revision. Two critical essays; one piece of creative nonfiction. Prerequisite: ENGL0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 1190L S01
    Primary Instructor
    Taylor

  • The Teaching and Practice of Writing: Writing Fellows Program

    For students accepted as Writing Fellows, this course offers the study of literary essays and composition theory to help develop their own writing with a critical awareness of the elements of an essay. Students will write essays throughout the semester and will confer with each other for every paper, thereby gaining experience in peer tutoring and becoming better writers through the help of an informed peer. They will also respond to the writing of a cohort of students in another designated Writing Fellows class. Enrollment is restricted to undergraduates who have been accepted into the Writing Fellows Program in the preceding July. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
    ENGL 1190M S01
    Primary Instructor
    Brown
    ENGL 1190M S02
    Primary Instructor
    Brown

  • The Art of Memoir in Theory and Practice

    The course introduces students to the historical and theoretical nuances of memoir. You will critically engage with a variety of readings and develop an appreciation of your creative role as a memoirist. In the process of crafting a portfolio of work you will explore the complexities of remembering and experiment with the style of narrative voice and structure. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.
    ENGL 1190P S01
    Primary Instructor
    Ward

  • Independent Study in Nonfiction Writing

    Tutorial instruction oriented toward some work in progress by the student. Requires submission of a written proposal to a faculty supervisor. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor permission required.
    ENGL 1200 S05
    Primary Instructor
    Breton
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S06
    Primary Instructor
    Brown
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S11
    Primary Instructor
    Deboer-Langworthy
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S19
    Primary Instructor
    Foley
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S23
    Primary Instructor
    Imbriglio
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S27
    Primary Instructor
    Readey
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S41
    Primary Instructor
    Stanley
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S42
    Primary Instructor
    Taylor
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S48
    Primary Instructor
    Stewart
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1200 S53
    Primary Instructor
    Schapira
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • Chaucer

    Texts in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer including the romance Troilus and Criseyde; dream vision poems Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls; Chaucer's translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; his shorter poems; and two Canterbury Tales. Prior knowledge of Middle English not required. Not open to first-year students.
    ENGL 1310T S01
    Primary Instructor
    Bryan

  • Shakespeare, Love and Friendship

    Shakespeare portrays friends who are compared to a "double cherry"; a lover who wants to cut her beloved out in little stars; and subjects who sweat with desire to see their kings. How does Shakespeare imagine the possibilities and pitfalls of affection, whether personal or political? What happens to that affection when Shakespeare is adapted into film? LILE
    ENGL 1311G S01

  • Sagas Without Borders: Multilingual Literatures of Early England

    This course traces evolutions of the hero in Old English, Norse, Welsh, and Irish narratives within and around early medieval England. Introduction to genres of saga, romance, and the short poetic lai, as students consider how the nature of the hero changes in specific cultural and linguistic moments. Texts in modern English translation. Essays will focus on close textual readings. Not open to first-year students. LILE
    ENGL 1311H S01

  • Between Gods and Beasts: The Renaissance Ovid

    Ovid's Metamorphoses, an epic compendium of classical myths, narrates with wit and pathos the transformations of body and mind wrought by sexual passion. Central to Renaissance conceptions of the human, it inspired drama, poetry, and narrative. Readings: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Spenser, Milton. Students who have taken ENGL 1310D may not register for this course. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE WRIT
    ENGL 1360S S01
    Primary Instructor
    Kahn

  • Fantasies of Milton

    Paradise Lost has served as the basis for numerous fantasy novels. Even Comus has become a (supposedly inappropriate) children's story. How can a seventeenth-century poet's treatment of temptation, disobedience, reason and self-regard come to seem relevant in the present? What do contemporary writers feel compelled to preserve and to change? How might we reimagine Milton? Enrollment limited to 20. LILE
    ENGL 1361A S01

  • Undergraduate Independent Study in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures

    Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor permission required.
    ENGL 1380 S07
    Primary Instructor
    Bryan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S19
    Primary Instructor
    Foley
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S24
    Primary Instructor
    Kahn
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S34
    Primary Instructor
    Rabb
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S49
    Primary Instructor
    Redfield
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S52
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1380 S54
    Primary Instructor
    Newman
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • The Realist Age: American Literature at the Turn of the Century

    What do we mean when we call a novel realistic? When did the term first start being used, and why? This class attempts to answer these questions by studying the emergence of realism as the dominant American literary form at the turn of the century. Writers will include Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, and Charles Chesnutt.
    ENGL 1510Z S01
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows

  • American Poetry I: Puritans through the Nineteenth Century

    Survey of the invention and development of American poetic traditions. Readings include Bradstreet, Taylor, Wheatley, Freneau, Bryant, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, and Frost.
    ENGL 1511O S01
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing

  • Writing and the Ruins of Empire

    An exploration of literary representations of "empire" and "imperialism" from the 18th century to the present. Readings in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volney's Ruins of Empire, and a wide range of 19th- and 20th-century texts. Some consideration of theories of imperialism and of visual representations of cultures of empire. Enrollment limited to 20. Prior coursework in 18th- and 19th-century literature advised.
    ENGL 1561D S01
    Primary Instructor
    Keach

  • The American Short Story Before 1900

    Surveys the genre of the short story in American literature through 1900. We will examine its origins and growth, paying particular attention to common themes and rhetorical strategies. We will consider the importance of the short story form to literary nationalist movements in America, and we will explore the relation of the genre to a range of historical movements. Authors may include Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Chopin, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Twain. Enrollment limited to 20 sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
    ENGL 1561P S01
    Primary Instructor
    Egan

  • Undergraduate Independent Study in the Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures

    Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor's permission required.
    ENGL 1580 S04
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S08
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S15
    Primary Instructor
    Egan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S18
    Primary Instructor
    Khalip
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S21
    Primary Instructor
    Gould
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S26
    Primary Instructor
    Keach
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S31
    Primary Instructor
    Ryan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S33
    Primary Instructor
    Nabers
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S34
    Primary Instructor
    Rabb
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S36
    Primary Instructor
    Rooney
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S49
    Primary Instructor
    Redfield
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S55
    Primary Instructor
    Anderson
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1580 S56
    Primary Instructor
    Clytus
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • African Literature in Globalization Time

    Today, many African writers use European languages that came to Africa as a consequence of colonial conquest. Often, the texts are addressed primarily to European and American readers. This course begins with these facts to explore issues of history, language, and form in modern African writing. In a context where nationalist assertions of various stripes become stronger even as the world becomes more interconnected through trade, immigration, and digital media, what might African literature teach us about such things as self and other, particularity and universality? Writers include Achebe, Farah, Ngugi, and Vera. DVPS
    ENGL 1710J S01
    Primary Instructor
    George

  • Literature and the Problem of Poverty

    Explores poverty as a political and aesthetic problem for the American novelist. Examines the ways that writers have imagined the poor as dangerous others, agents of urban decay, bearers of folk culture, and engines of class revolt. Also considers these literary texts in relation to historical debates about economic inequality. Writers may include Crane, Faulkner, Wright, Steinbeck, and Hurston.
    ENGL 1710K S01
    Primary Instructor
    Murray

  • American and British Poetry Since 1945

    Study of poetry after 1945. Readings include Bishop, Plath, Ashbery, Merrill, O'Hara, Heaney, Larkin, Walcott, Rich, Dove. Enrollment limited to 20. LILE
    ENGL 1760G S01
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing

  • The Korean War in Color

    We examine US and South Korean representations of the Korean War. We look at how this event was depicted in US films of the 1950s with a focus on how it occasioned a transformation of American understandings of race, both domestically and transnationally. We then look at how this event has been memorialized by contemporary American authors as well as in South Korean literature and film. Authors we read include: Susan Choi, Ha Jin, Chang-rae Lee, Toni Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips and Hwang Sok-Yong. Enrollment limited to 20. DVPS LILE WRIT
    ENGL 1761V S01
    Primary Instructor
    Kim

  • Perverse Cinema

    A seminar on movies that pursue and spectacularize the perverse, as well as on how viewing movies is itself a perverse pleasure. We will study film genres that traffic in what's sensational, excessive, uncanny, and transgressive, such as the detective film, thriller, melodrama, sex film, horror, and sci-fi. Special emphasis on the movies of Hitchcock, Kubrick, Lynch, and Cronenberg. Enrollment limited to 20 concentrators in English, Comparative Literature, MCM, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Not open to first year students.
    ENGL 1762A S01
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss

  • Undergraduate Independent Study in Modern and Contemporary Literatures

    Tutorial instruction oriented toward a literary research topic. Section numbers vary by instructor. Instructor's permission required.
    ENGL 1780 S02
    Primary Instructor
    Armstrong
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S03
    Primary Instructor
    Bewes
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S04
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S08
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S20
    Primary Instructor
    George
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S25
    Primary Instructor
    Katz
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S28
    Primary Instructor
    Kim
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S32
    Primary Instructor
    Murray
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S33
    Primary Instructor
    Nabers
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S35
    Primary Instructor
    Reichman
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S36
    Primary Instructor
    Rooney
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 1780 S52
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • Queer Relations: Aesthetics and Sexuality

    A study of the relationship between aesthetic thought and sexuality in a variety of literary and cinematic works. We will supplement our readings with ventures into queer theory, emphasizing how art is related to identity, community, race, gender, and ethics. Authors include Wilde, Pater, James, Winterson, Cole, Guibert, Foucault, Bersani, Edelman. Films by Julien and Jarman. DVPS
    ENGL 1900R S01
    Primary Instructor
    Khalip

  • Senior Honors Seminar in English

    Weekly seminar led by the Advisor of Honors in English. Introduces students to sustained literary-critical research and writing skills necessary to successful completion of the senior thesis. Particular attention to efficient ways of developing literary-critical projects, as well as evaluating, incorporating, and documenting secondary sources. Enrollment limited to English concentrators whose applications to the Honors in English program have been accepted. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor in English. S/NC
    ENGL 1991 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Kim

  • Senior Honors Thesis in English

    Independent research and writing under the direction of a faculty member. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor in English. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in English. Instructor permission required.
    ENGL 1992 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Kim

  • Senior Honors Seminar in Nonfiction Writing

    This course is designed for students accepted into the Nonfiction Honors Program. It will be run in workshop format, and will focus on research skills and generative and developmental writing strategies for students embarking on their thesis projects. Weekly assignments will be directed toward helping students work through various stages in their writing processes. Students will be expected to respond thoughtfully and constructively in peer reviewing one another's work. Open to seniors who have been admitted to the Honors Program in Literature and Cultures in English. Instructor permission required.
    ENGL 1993 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Imbriglio

  • Senior Honors Thesis in Nonfiction Writing

    Independent research and writing under the direction of the student’s Nonfiction Writing honors supervisor. Permission should be obtained from the Honors Advisor for Nonfiction Writing. Open to senior English concentrators pursuing Honors in Nonfiction Writing. Instructor permission required.
    ENGL 1994 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Imbriglio

  • Graduate Independent Study in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures

    Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
    ENGL 2380 S07
    Primary Instructor
    Bryan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S15
    Primary Instructor
    Egan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S17
    Primary Instructor
    Feerick
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S19
    Primary Instructor
    Foley
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S24
    Primary Instructor
    Kahn
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S34
    Primary Instructor
    Rabb
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S49
    Primary Instructor
    Redfield
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2380 S52
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • Exchange Scholar Program

    ENGL 2450 S01
    Schedule Code
    E: Grad Enrollment Fee/Dist Prep

  • "This is what you were born for": Optimism and Futurity

    This course will center on close readings of texts that revolve around the concept of optimism, and while principle materials will be drawn from the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, our reach will extend to contemporary writers and theorists. We will focus on the relationship between optimism and temporality, or more specifically, how futurity and the present are differently thought in connection with philosophies of hope and change. We will begin with Voltaire, Leibniz, and Kant, and veer into Wordsworth, Wollstonecraft, Keats, Shelley, Goya, Dickens, Whitman, Crane, along with a cluster of theoretical works by Bloch, Berlant, Deleuze, Edelman, Munoz, Snediker. Enrollment limited to 15. Graduate students only.
    ENGL 2561F S01
    Primary Instructor
    Khalip

  • Graduate Independent Study in the Enlightenment and the Rise of National Literatures

    Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
    ENGL 2580 S04
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S08
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S15
    Primary Instructor
    Egan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S18
    Primary Instructor
    Khalip
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S21
    Primary Instructor
    Gould
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S26
    Primary Instructor
    Keach
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S30
    Primary Instructor
    McLaughlin
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S31
    Primary Instructor
    Ryan
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S33
    Primary Instructor
    Nabers
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S34
    Primary Instructor
    Rabb
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S36
    Primary Instructor
    Rooney
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S49
    Primary Instructor
    Redfield
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2580 S55
    Primary Instructor
    Anderson
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • Globalism and Postcoloniality

    This seminar focuses on two currents in contemporary literary and cultural criticism: postcolonial theory and theories of world literature. We will read theoretical texts alongside literary works by influential figures associated with concepts of postcoloniality and transnationalism. Our aim is to explore the varied idioms, genres, and philosophical perspectives that the authors make available. Themes include: nationalism and "national consciousness"; biopower and modernity; history and temporality; and the claims of "literature" on the arena of the present. Authors include: Arac, Coetzee, Damrosch, Fanon, Farah, Ghosh, Gordimer, Hall, Jameson, Moretti, Naipaul, Robbins, Spivak, and Walcott. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students.
    ENGL 2760M S01
    Primary Instructor
    George

  • Graduate Independent Study in Modern and Contemporary Literatures

    Section numbers vary by instructor. May be repeated for credit. Instructor's permission required.
    ENGL 2780 S02
    Primary Instructor
    Armstrong
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S03
    Primary Instructor
    Bewes
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S04
    Primary Instructor
    Blasing
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S08
    Primary Instructor
    Burrows
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S20
    Primary Instructor
    George
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S25
    Primary Instructor
    Katz
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S28
    Primary Instructor
    Kim
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S32
    Primary Instructor
    Murray
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S33
    Primary Instructor
    Nabers
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S35
    Primary Instructor
    Reichman
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S36
    Primary Instructor
    Rooney
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S41
    Primary Instructor
    Stanley
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research
    ENGL 2780 S52
    Primary Instructor
    Rambuss
    Schedule Code
    I: Independent Study/Research

  • Neuroaesthetics and Reading

    How does literature play with the brain? What can neuroscience teach literary theorists and critics about the aesthetic experience? Conversely, what can neuroscientists learn from the history and theory of criticism that should guide their research in the new, rapidly developing field of "neuroaesthetics"? Intensive analysis of the theories of art, reading, and aesthetic experience proposed by neuroscience and cognitive science in light of traditional aesthetics and contemporary literary theory. Enrollment limited to 15. Graduate students only.
    ENGL 2900R S01
    Primary Instructor
    Armstrong

  • Deleuze, Rancière, Literature, Film: The Logic of Connection

    The most contentious element in Deleuze's work on cinema is the "sensorimotor break" that separates the classical cinema of the movement-image from the modern cinema of the time-image. What is the nature of this break? And how can it be brought into dialogue with developments in twentieth-century literature? This course reads Deleuze alongside Rancière in order to address the politics of connection and periodization in literature and film. All primary readings will be in English translation; others may include Woolf, Coetzee, Sebald. Enrollment limited to 15. Graduate students only.
    ENGL 2900S S01
    Primary Instructor
    Bewes

  • Seminar in Pedagogy and Composition Theory

    An experimental and exploratory investigation into writing as a preparation for teaching college-level writing. Reviews the history of writing about writing, from Plato to current discussions on composition theory. Against this background, examines various processes of reading and writing. Emphasizes the practice of writing, including syllabus design. Priority given to students in the English Ph.D. program. Undergraduates admitted only with permission of instructor.
    ENGL 2950 S01
    Primary Instructor
    Readey

  • Preliminary Examination Preparation

    For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing for a preliminary examination.
    ENGL 2970 S01
    Schedule Code
    E: Grad Enrollment Fee/Dist Prep

  • Thesis Preparation

    For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing a thesis.
    ENGL 2990 S01
    Schedule Code
    E: Grad Enrollment Fee/Dist Prep

  • Courses of Interest to Students Concentrating in English

    These courses, offered in other departments, are cross listed with the English Department and do not require advisor approval to count toward the concentration for English concentrators. Please refer to the primary department for registration details.

    German Studies
    GRMN 2660S Inheriting (in) Modernity
    Judaic Studies
    JUDS 0050A Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists in Contemporary Fiction
    JUDS 0820 God and Poetry
    Modern Culture and Media
    MCM 0901K Statelessness and Global Media: Citizens, Foreigners, Aliens
    ENGL XLIST 0