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Spring 2020
Courses

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

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 25
    Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions

    How have language, reading, and literature responded to revolutions in ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 25S
    Seminar:
    Literature and Information Media

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

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 34NA
    Animacy and the Speaking Earth:
    The Power of Native Story (Taught with Sage Gerson)
    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    When José Martí referred to “Nuestra América” in his famous ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar:
    US Minority Literature

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

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 65FM
    Fables of Modernity:
    Vampires, Monsters, Madness

    This lecture course (with individual discussion sections) focuses on four ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    http://english105a2020s.pbworks.com/w/page/134729742/FrontPage We will study five representative plays from the first ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 105AS
    Seminar:
    Shakespeare

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

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Women's Writing

    This course will focus on works of medieval women’s writing ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 122UK
    Rogues and Scoundrels

    Literature of the lumpenproletariat.

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 122UM
    Urban Modernity

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 128AF
    Animal Fiction

    Engaging our moment of climate crisis and the ongoing extinction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 145
    English Renaissance Literature

    The English Renaissance represents a late blossoming of the general ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 146GB
    Games, Books, and Gamebooks

    May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 28 ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 165EE
    Experimental Empathies:
    Forms of Fellow Feeling in U.S. Literature

    This course explores narrative feeling and modes of evocation and ...

    Pettersson Peeker, Aili Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 165EM
    Early Modern Women Writers

    This course aims to familiarize students with the myriad works ...

    McCants Forbes, Kristy
  • ENGL 165IB
    Indigenous Border Studies

    This course presents a critical perspective on borders through the ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 165NJ
    Native Justice:
    Settler Colonialism, Legality, and Decolonization

    What is justice for Native American and Indigenous communities? How ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 165RC
    Reading Communities:
    The Social Life of Literature

    This course explores the power of literature to create and ...

    Droge, Abigail
  • ENGL 170MI
    American Cultures of Mental Illness

    In this course we will explore representations of mental illness ...

    Miller, Jesse
  • ENGL 179
    British Romantic Writers

    Studies major prose and poetic works from this revolutionary age ...

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 108CC
    Chronicles of Desire:
    Creative Nonfiction

    This course emphasizes the study and practice of writing that ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 191
    Afro-American Fiction and Criticism,
    1920's to the present

    This course examines African American fiction from the 1920s to ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction:
    Dystopian Fiction

    This class examines the literary history of fictitious futures, or ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 192EF
    Science Fiction & Ecology

    This course will introduce the literary genre of science fiction ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Early Modern Intersectionality

    According to Brittney Cooper in her entry for The Oxford ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 197
    Black Aesthetics

    This seminar examines critical and creative writings about Black aesthetics. ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 197
    Model Minorities:
    Controversies in Ethnic Literature

    How do ethnic writers promote or critique the model minority ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 197
    Queer Medievalism

    Medievalism — the reviving, restaging, or reworking of medieval culture ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 197
    Virginia Woolf's Geographies

    In the photograph above, taken on the occasion of a ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 231
    Early Modern Women Writers

    This course fills English Department Field Requirement 1 and 2. ...

    Fumerton, Patricia McCants Forbes, Kristy
  • ENGL 234
    J.M. Coetzee:
    Art, Ethics, and Politics

    This seminar proposes to work through Coetzee’s texts in relation ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 265SF
    Metabolic Science Fiction

    This course will explore how contemporary science fiction presents an ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

    Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ...

    Duffy, Enda
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