Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

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Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

Instructor: Donelan, James

Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

Introduces students to literary studys unique perspectives on social knowledge, ...

Instructor: King, Rachael

Shakespeare’s plays are designed to entertain. They were written for ...

Instructor: Kearney, Jim

Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate ...

Instructor: Hiltner, Ken

Instructor: Park, Sowon S

Explores how games tell stories across diverse play experiences such ...

Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy

Designed to introduce students to critical approaches to the study ...

Instructor: Blake, Felice

Live life more intensely. Be more passionate, fiery, tender. Achieve ...

Instructor: Duffy, Enda

Live life more intensely. Be more passionate, fiery, tender. Achieve ...

Instructor: Duffy, Enda

This introduction to reading fiction gives an overview of the ...

Instructor: Thomas, Cathy

Examines the science fiction of Ted Chiang, winner of multiple ...

Instructor: Jue, Melody

Introduction to British literature and culture before 1500. Students will ...

Instructor: Reeve, Daniel

How have forms and formulas for composing poetry like the ...

Instructor: Coburn, Henry

This course looks at the underside of eighteenth-century literature to ...

Instructor: King, Rachael

This class will focus on the literature of the 1890s ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing ...

Instructor: Huang, Yunte

Modern and postmodern literature by British, Irish, African, Indian, and ...

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

Modern and postmodern literature by British, Irish, African, Indian, and ...

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

Instructor: Kearney, Jim

An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

Instructor: Donnelly, Brian

Reading, analysis, and interpretation of the Old English poem Beowulf ...

Instructor: Reeve, Daniel

Survey of medieval English literature, including such texts as Beowulf, ...

Instructor: Donelan, James

Survey of medieval English literature, including such texts as Beowulf, ...

Instructor: Reeve, Daniel

This course focuses on the emergence of the modern city ...

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

The focus of this course is less with superheroes and ...

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

Our purpose in this course will be the study of ...

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

Explores life stories produced by Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and ...

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

Instructor: Blake, Felice

Looks at the Pacific as the primary location for literary ...

Instructor: Huang, Yunte

This course finds its origins the work of queer Chumash/Esselen ...

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

Intro course on Asian American literature. Studies a wide range ...

Instructor: Huang, Yunte

This course introduces students to literary elements on the page ...

Instructor: Thomas, Cathy

This course emerges from queer Chumash/Esselen poet and scholar Deborah ...

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

Instructor: Casey, Jim

Artificial intelligence now affects nearly all aspects of human life ...

Instructor: Raley, Rita

We live in an era, the Anthropocene that is increasingly ...

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

Such dramatists as Dryden, Etheredge, Wycherly, Congreve, and Sheridan.

Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn

Of what relevance is cognitive neuroscience to literature? This course ...

Instructor: Park, Sowon S

Of what relevance is cognitive neuroscience to literature? This course ...

Instructor: Park, Sowon S

Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio

This course follows a genealogy of confessional and autobiographical writing ...

Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio

Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio

This course examines key themes in the genre of science ...

Instructor: Jue, Melody

Instructor: Carlson, Julie

Through the analysis of literature and film this seminar studies ...

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

This course focuses on Black print, writing, and political organizing ...

Instructor: Casey, Jim

Margaret Cavendish lived through the tumultuous period of the English ...

Instructor: Andrea, Bernadette

Instructor: Batiste, Stephanie

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn

Instructor: Samolsky, Russell

Instructor: Shewry, Teresa

Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi

Instructor: Jue, Melody

Instructor: King, Rachael

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students ...

Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy

The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students ...

Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Duffy, Enda

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Ghosh, Bishnupriya

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Huang, Yunte

How does race shape the meaning of representation and the ...

Instructor: Blake, Felice

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Andrea, Bernadette

Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

Instructor: Casey, Jim

This course asks concentric questions about the relationship between emotion ...

Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio

Topics vary.

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah

The English Department’s Doctoral Colloquium provides support and guidance for ...

Instructor: Kearney, Jim