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Winter 2027 Spring 2027 Spring 2026 Courses

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

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

    Instructors Vary
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Instructor: Donelan, James
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Instructor: Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 11
    Literature and Its Uses

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

    Instructor: King, Rachael
  • ENGL 15
    Shakespeare as Popular Culture

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

    Instructor: Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 23
    The Climate Crisis: What It Is and What Each of Us Can Do About It

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

    Instructor: Hiltner, Ken
  • INT 34LE
    Literature and Experience
    Instructor: Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 46GB
    Games, Books, and Gamebooks

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

    Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Instructor: Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 87LL
    Literature and Life

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

    Instructor: Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 87LL
    Literature and Life

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

    Instructor: Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 92RA
    Reading the Apocalypse

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

    Instructor: Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 92TC
    The Fiction of Ted Chiang

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

    Instructor: Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 101ML
    British Literature Before 1500

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

    Instructor: Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 102QA
    Algorithmic Poetry: Quantitative Approaches to Literary Analysis and the Sonnet

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

    Instructor: Coburn, Henry
  • ENGL 103SH
    The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature

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

    Instructor: King, Rachael
  • ENGL 103WT
    Wilde Times: Late Victorian Literature and Aesthetics

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

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

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

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 104LC
    Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century

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

    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 104LC
    Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century

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

    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 105SF
    Shakespeare and Film
    Instructor: Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Instructor: Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Instructor: Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Instructor: Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 110B
    Old English Literature: Beowulf

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

    Instructor: Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

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

    Instructor: Donelan, James
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

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

    Instructor: Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 122UE
    Cityscapes: The Urban Experience from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis

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

    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

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

    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128JG
    Jewish Graphic Novel

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

    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128NA
    Native Feminist / 2 Spirit Memoir

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

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 132JB
    Instructor: Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 133TL
    Transpacific Literature

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

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive: Indigeneity, Felt Theory, and Decolonial Ways of Knowing

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

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 134AA
    Cultural Poetics of the Asian Americas

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

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134CT
    An Introduction to Caribbean Literature and Textualities

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

    Instructor: Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive

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

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 147WD
    Weird Data
    Instructor: Casey, Jim
  • ENGL 155AI
    Critical Artificial Intelligence

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

    Instructor: Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 165AE
    The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology

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

    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 169
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

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

    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

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

    Instructor: Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

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

    Instructor: Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 172
    Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
    Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 174CA
    From Confession to Autofiction
    (Inventions of the Self I)

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

    Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 174
    Inventions of the Self II
    Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 192SS
    Science Fiction Short Stories

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

    Instructor: Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar Literary Studies is Trauma-Informed
    Instructor: Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Women/Literature/Film

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

    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Early Black Print, Writing, and Political Organizing

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

    Instructor: Casey, Jim
  • ENGL 197
    Margaret Cavendish: 17th Cent. Experiments in Life-Writing, Closet Drama, and Utopia

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

    Instructor: Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Researching Black California Migration and Life
    Instructor: Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Women/Literature/Film
    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Water - Too Much and Not Enough
    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Arts of the Night
    Instructor: Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: War and Asian American Critique
    Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Literary Scents
    Instructor: Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
    Instructor: King, Rachael
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors Seminar: Senior Thesis

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

    Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors Seminar: Senior Thesis

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

    Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 234
    Modernisms Out of Bounds

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 234
    Finnegans Wake

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 235
    Locations of Difference

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 235
    Avant-garde Poetics

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 236
    Race, Writing, and Representation

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

    Instructor: Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 236
    Transculturation and Travel in the Long 18th Century

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 236
    Black Print and Organizing in the Nineteenth-Century US

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Instructor: Casey, Jim
  • ENGL 236AC
    Affect, Creativity and the Writing Self
    (Inventions of the Self II)

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

    Instructor: Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 265
    Critical-Creative Methods

    Topics vary.

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 265DC
    Decolonization: Theory, Narrative, & Praxis
    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 298
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Instructor: Kearney, Jim
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