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Fall 2021
Courses

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

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 10S
    Honors Seminar for Introduction to Literature

    A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled ...

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 15
    Introduction to Shakespeare

    Introduction to Shakespeare in which a number of major plays ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 15S
    Honors Seminar for Introduction to Shakespeare

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

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

    This course is a sweeping survey of Western literature and ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 65AA
    Navigating the English Major

    1st years add ENGL 65AA and Transfer students add ENGL ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

    Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 101S
    Honors Seminar on English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 107
    The Long and the Short of It

    This course will focus on reading and writing flash fiction ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 122ME
    Metamorphosis, Embodiment, Environment

    This course surveys literary representations of metamorphosis,  beginning with Classical ...

    Haber, Baron
  • ENGL 131BR
    Boundaryless Reconstruction:
    Policing, Property & Privacy

    Google “Reconstruction,” and you will see that this “turbulent era ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 134BB
    This Bridge Called My Back:
    Writings by Radical Women of Color 40 Years Later

    A classic text of the U.S. Women of Color Movement, ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 147VN
    Visual Narrative

    Visual Narrative considers the media history and theories of visual ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 165AA
    Navigating the English Major

    1st years add ENGL 65AA and Transfer students add ENGL ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 165PL
    Prison Literature

    This course examines the relationship between policing, punishment, and ‘prisons.’ ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 165EM
    Early Modern Topics

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

    McCants Forbes, Kristy
  • ENGL 170IC
    Imagination and Creativity

    What is creativity? How do creative ideas emerge? Is the ...

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

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

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction:
    Dystopian Fiction

    Introduces the literary genre of science fiction (SF) through the ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 192SS
    Science Fiction:
    Short Stories

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

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 193
    Detective Fiction

    Detective Fiction surveys the genre of detective fiction as it ...

    Haber, Baron
  • ENGL 197
    Law as Theory

    From novels to autobiographies, modern literary narrative is preoccupied with ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 197
    Bad Sex

    What makes sex bad? Censorship, deviance, and failure. Perversion, inversion, ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    Comics and Obscenity

    This course focuses on the role of obscenity and censorship ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 197
    Literary Scents

    The course will explore the literary imagination of “scents” and ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Steal From the Rich:
    Robin Hood in Literature and Film

    This seminar will explore the medieval legend of Robin Hood ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 231
    Affective & Embodied Experience on the Early Modern Stage

    In this course we will consider affective experience on the ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 236
    Edward Said:
    From Beginnings to Late Style

    As his most recent biographer, Timothy Brennan, writes, “[i]t has ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 236
    The Politics of Representation:
    Theories and Poetics of Race and Writing

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.  

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 237
    Media and Risk

    Same course as FAMST 252MR. This seminar interrogates mediations of risk and ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 238
    Digital Humanities:
    Introduction to the Field

    This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the digital humanities. ...

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

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

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
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