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Spring 2025 Fall 2025 Courses

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

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

    Instructor: Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 22
    Western Traditions

    Beginning with “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, one of the Wests ...

    Instructor: Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 25
    Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions

    Quarter: Spring 2025 MWF, 2:00-2:50pm Interactive Learning Pavilion 2302 Instructor: Alan ...

    Instructor: Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 34NA

    Animacy and the Speaking Earth: The Power of Native Story

    Designed to serve as a preparatory entry to the American ...

    Instructor: Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 37
    Introduction to Legal Humanities

    This interdisciplinary course highlights the importance of the humanities to ...

    Instructor: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 40BA
    ENGL 40BA
    Studies in Race and Ethnic Literatures- Black Literature in the early periods

    This class examines the early period of African American and ...

    Instructor: Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Instructor: Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Instructor: Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 92FE
    Fantasy and the Environment

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

    Instructor: Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 92SS
    ENGL 92SS
    Science Fiction Short Stories

    Introduces key themes in the study of science fiction short ...

    Instructor: Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

    Instructor: Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 106A
    Playwriting Workshop

    An exploration of the essential components of playwriting. Exercises focus ...

    Instructor: Olguín, Ben V.
  • 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 114EM
    Women and Literature

    The courses offered will include at different times such subjects ...

    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 122NE
    Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

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

    Instructor: Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 122NE
    Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

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

    Instructor: Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 131AW
    Studies in American Literature

    Topics vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is ...

    Instructor: DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 133SO
    ENGL 133SO
    Southern Literature: Language and Culture

    This course investigates some of the most important novels, short ...

    Instructor: Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 134AA
    Cultural Poetics of the Asian Americas

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

    Instructor: Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134RJ
    Creative Imagination of Racial Justice

    Centering literature and art, this course explores the creative imagination ...

    Instructor: Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 141ME
    Global Environmental Literatures: Ecologies of Race and Migration

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

    Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 145
    English Renaissance Literature: Global Travelers and Travel Drama

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

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

    How do we play at stories? How do we use ...

    Instructor: Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 147WT
    Media History and Theory

    Studies in historical and contemporary media systems including orality, writing, ...

    Instructor: King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 150
    Anglo-Irish Literature

    This course considers how a series of wishes, lies, and ...

    Instructor: Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 155AI
    Critical Artificial Intelligence

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

    Instructor: Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 159
    English Renaissance Printing Practice and Literature

    This course investigates how English Renaissance literature was practically, creatively, ...

    Instructor: Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 159
    English Renaissance Printing Practice and Literature

    This course investigates how English Renaissance literature was practically, creatively, ...

    Instructor: Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 165AD
    Transpacific Speculative Fiction: Imagining Asian Pacific Futures

    How do transpacific writers and poets imagine the future? In ...

    Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 165AE
    The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology

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

    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 165NJ
    ENGL 165NJ
    Native Justice: Settler Colonialism, Legality, and Decolonization

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

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 165NT
    Framing Nature

    “Framing Nature” studies three poets whose work in very different ...

    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 170TS
    ENGL 170TS
    Trauma and Somatic Reading

    The course starts with a broad discussion of trauma studies ...

    Instructor: Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 175GW
    Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

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

    Instructor: Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 176ML
    PERFORMANCE OF LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN MODERNISMS

    Literature, literary analysis, and performance in turn-of-the-century Black writing.

  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other

    Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, J.M. Coetzee writes fiction ...

    Instructor: Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    War and Asian American Critique

    20th century wars and their enduring legacies have profoundly shaped Asian ...

    Instructor: Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    James Joyce's Ulysses

    James Joyce’s Ulysses is possibly the greatest novel ever written. ...

    Instructor: Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Ecofictions: The Human/Non-Human Mesh

    To survey how a few writers and visual artists have ...

    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    AI and the Humanities

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

    Instructor: Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Climate Fiction and Humor

    In this course, we will explore the surprising humor of ...

    Instructor: Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Poetry and Painting

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

    Instructor: Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Ecofictions

    Dystopian fictions of social and ecological catastrophe often turn on ...

    Instructor: Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 232
    Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
    Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries

    This course explores the novels of Jane Austen and the ...

    Instructor: King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 265LM
    ENGL 265LM
    Critical-Creative Methodologies

    This is a graduate-level methodology course focused on the use ...

    Instructor: Salomón J., Amrah
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