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Spring 2015
Courses

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

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 10S
    Seminar for Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 15
    Introduction to Shakespeare

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

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

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

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 22
    Literature and the Environment

    Beginning with “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, one of the West’s ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 22S
    Seminar on Literature and the Environment

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar on U.S. Minority Literature

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

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

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

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

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    Not open for credit to students who have completed English ...

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    Not open for credit to students who have completed English ...

  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

    This course investigates the literature and culture of the period ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

    What is 20th century modernity and what does it mean ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 104BS
    Honors Seminar, British Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 113MI
    Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism:
    Modern Literary Theory

    An introduction to modern literary theory focusing on important intellectual ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 122AP
    Cultural Representations:
    Literature and the Environment – Imagining Asia and the Pacific

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

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 122EE
    Cultural Representations:
    British Comedy, Social Transformation, and the End of Empire

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 122NE
    Cultural Representations:
    Nature and the Environment

    Same course as Environmental Studies 122NE. Perceptions of nature have ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 128RM
    Literary Genres:
    Reading and Writing the Memoir - the Subject in Space, Time and Memory

    Detailed readings in, and critical examinations of, specific literary forms. ...

    Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
  • ENGL 134IA
    Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States:
    Twentieth-Century Immigrant Autobiography

    Whether in the form of encomiums to the Statue of ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 146DR
    Literature of Technology:
    Distracted Reading

    Course site: https://engl146dr.wordpress.com/ It is a cliché universally acknowledged that ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 147VN
    Media History and Theory:
    Visual Narrative

    ENGL147: Visual Narrative considers the media history and theories of ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 151WR
    Studies in British Writers:
    British Women Writers

    Courses in individual writers such as Spenser, Jonson, Dryden, Pope, ...

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 157
    English Renaissance Drama:
    Early Modern Tragedy

    A course in the English drama of the period from ...

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 165CP
    Topics in Literature:
    Cosmopolitanism

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Gunn, Giles
  • ENGL 165DP
    Topics in Literature:
    Madness and Deviancy in Postmodern Literature

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

  • ENGL 165LP
    Topics in Literature:
    Literature of the Pacific

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 169
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama:
    Performing the Restoration Playhouse

    When the English monarchy was restored in 1660, English theaters ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 170CM
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Comic Turn of Mind

    The art form that affirms survival, that makes happiness our ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 170IM
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    History of Mind - An Introduction

    By “a history of mind,” I mean a history of ...

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 176PL
    Performance of Literature

    Interdisciplinary examination of literary texts broadly construed; course will address ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 192
    Science Fiction

    The course examines science fiction as a literary genre. Emphasis ...

  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Dystopian fictions

    The ubiquity of dystopian themes in contemporary culture is perhaps ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Good Comrades and Splendid Creatures – Queer Leftists in Literary Culture

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Hacking Literary Interpretation

    Course site – Schedule – Assignments – Student Work Hacking ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Privacy in 19th Century American Law and Literature

    What is privacy?  How is it different from secrecy? Can ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Middlemarch

    The greatest English novel of the 19th century, Middlemarch, will ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Model Minorities – Controversies in Ethnic Literature

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

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar:
    Premodern Literature and Early Media

    Course Description: We encounter most medieval and early modern literature ...

  • ENGL 198H
    Honors English Senior Thesis Preparation

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 231
    Studies in Renaissance Literature:
    Economic Thought, Early Modern Texts

    In this course we will cherry-pick from 2500 years of ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 232
    Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature:
    The Expanded Epistolary Literature

    Jürgen Habermas has argued that the epistle is the preeminently ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 234
    Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature:
    J.M. Coetzee and Contemporary Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 234
    Studies in Twentieth Century Literature:
    [Topic TBD]

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Uneasy Bedfellows? Marxism and Queer Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
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