University of California, Santa Barbara
Skip to main content

The Defense of the University

Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

  • English Department Doctoral Candidate Clinton Terrell Receives Prestigious UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for 2025-2026

    May 8, 2025

  • About
  • People
    • Faculty
    • Graduate Students
    • Staff
    • Visiting and Lecturer
    • Emeriti/ae
    • In Memoriam
    • PhD Alumni
  • Courses
  • Undergraduate
    • For Majors
    • Undergraduate Resources
    • Contact Us
    • For Minors and Non-Majors
    • Beyond the Classroom
    • FAQs
  • Graduate
    • Academics
    • Admissions
    • Funding & Support
    • Forms
    • Job Placement
    • Contact Us
  • Events
  • Research
    • Research Centers
    • Undergraduate Research
    • Graduate Research
    • Faculty Research
    • Dissertation Titles
    • Projects
    • Bookshelf
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Giving
Courses

Fall 2023
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Studies

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 15SH
    Shakespeare as Popular Culture

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

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 22
    Introduction to Literature and the Environment, Part I: The Western Tradition

    Beginning with “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, one of the West’s ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 22S
    Honors Seminar on Literature and the Environment

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 37
    Introduction to Legal Humanities

    This interdisciplinary course is designed to deepen your understanding of ...

    Moore, Kathleen
  • ENGL 102BA
    Royalists, Radicals, and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Anglophone World

    Readings in key texts representing the dramatic transformation of England ...

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 103WT
    Wilde Times: Late Victorian Literature and Aesthetics

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

    This class introduces students to techniques of creative writing, editing, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 110T
    Poets, Dragons and Kings: Old English Literature in Translation

    Study of Old English prose and verse texts in translation. ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 122RC
    Reading the Caribbean through Carnival

    The Caribbean region and its diasporic communities are saturated with ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 141ME
    Global Environmental Literatures: Ecologies of Race and Migration

    Critically examines literary and cultural works that address the relationships ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 143HE
    Humor and Ecology

    Explores the surprising humor of contemporary literature and film about ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 146AI
    Critical AI

    It is by this point an understatement to note that ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 170TL
    Trauma-Informed Literature and Classrooms

    This course recognizes the prevalence of trauma in our world ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 175GW
    Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

    This professional development seminar, or Proseminar, focuses on major scholarships, ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 183WP
    Writing for Performance: Theatrical Jazz and Form

    Seminar devoted to the reading, theories, and writing of performance ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 192FE
    Fantasy and Ecology

    Explores how fantasy literature imagines the life we share with ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 192SC
    Science Fiction: Speculations in Color

    This course is designed to introduce students to and increase ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Steal From the Rich: Robin Hood in Literature and Media

    This seminar will track the figure of Robin Hood, the ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    “Poetry Lab.”

    A series of experimental investigations into the sense and nonsense ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Poetry and Painting

    Ekphrasis — from the Greek — “ek” out, and “phrasis” ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 231
    Shakespeare & Embodiment

    In this course we will consider theories and histories of ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 235
    Studies in American Literature
    "Black Modernist Literatures"

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 236
    Formalism & the First Civil Rights Movement

    This course draws on recent  reassessments of formalism to excavate ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 238
    Critical engagement with AI/machine learning

    This seminar will work towards settling on a set of ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 265GW
    Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

    This professional development seminar, or Proseminar, focuses on major scholarships, ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 265TC
    Racial Ecologies of the Transpacific
    Asian American and Pacific Islander Literatures of the Environment

    Drawing from theories of literature and the environment and Asian ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
Courses
  • Spring 2025
  • Winter 2025
  • Fall 2025
  • Fall 2024
  • Summer B 2024
  • Summer A 2024
  • Spring 2024
  • Winter 2024
  • Fall 2023
  • Course Archive

The University of California, Santa Barbara is situated on unceded Chumash land and waters. Read our full land acknowledgement.

  • ucsb logo
  • Department of English
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
  • Contact
  • T 805-893-7488
  • F 805-893-7492
  • info@english.ucsb.edu
  • Main office hours [PST]
  • Monday through Friday
  • 9am-12pm and 1-4pm
  • South Hall, Room 3431
  • Campus Maps
  • Faculty Offices and Centers
  • South Hall, 2nd Floor

Copyright © 2025 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.

Terms Accessibility