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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.

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Courses

Fall 2024
Courses

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

    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 37
    Introduction to Legal Humanities

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

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • 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 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 109
    The Craft of Poetry

    As we face multiple social and planetary crises, how might ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

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

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 122CS
    Cosmopolitan Modernisms / Global Modernities

    This course studies cosmopolitanism, diaspora, displacement, and cultural hybridity in ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 122NE
    Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

    Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 131AW
    Studies in American Literature
    Grieving America: Loss in 19th-Century U.S. Literature

    What is the role of grief in a nation founded ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie Montgomery, Carlee Lane
  • 192CL
    Objectives of Chaos - An Introduction to Caribbean literature and text(ualities)

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

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 160
    Literature of Animals, Food, and the Environment

    Course explores big questions about animals and the environment through ...

    Athanassakis, Yanoula
  • 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 176PL
    Performance of Literature

    Explores relationships between performances of identity, literary analysis, and the ...

    Edison, Lexxus
  • ENGL 187LL
    Literature and Life

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

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 192FE
    Fantasy and the Environment

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

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar:
    Humor and Climate Fiction

    This course explores the surprising humor of contemporary literature and ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Modern Memoir: Geographies of the Self

    Located here at “the joining waters” with Miranda and there ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 197
    Feminist Interventions: Women/Writing/Film

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

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 230
    Studies in Medieval Literature
    Medieval Alterity and Medieval Race

    Until fairly recently, most scholars distinguished the concepts of race ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
    Virginia Woolf

    This course offers an opportunity to study all nine novels ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 236
    Wynter is Coming: A New Sociogeny in “Undared Forms”
    Sylvia Wynter

    This course engages transdisciplinarian scholar Sylvia Wynter who argues that ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 238
    Critical Infrastructure Studies

    Quarter: Fall 2024  | Instructor: Alan Liu | Office Hours: By appt. Class Meeting ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 265GW
    Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

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

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 297
    An Introduction to Graduate Study in English

    This course will introduce graduate students in English to the ...

    Griffin, Andrew
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