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Annual 2023-2024 Class Schedule

**Meeting days and times may be subject to change.**

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Course #Course TitleFallWinterSpring

CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

English 202Introduction to Creative WritingSmith
MW
12:30-1:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTBA
MW
9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTBA
WF
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryWebster
TTh
11-12:20
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
11-12:20
English 206Reading and Writing PoetrySmith
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetrySmith
MW
9:30-10:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryWebster
MW
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryShanahan
TTh
11-12:20
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryShanahan
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionKokernot
MW
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlon
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlon
MW
3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionTBA
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
2-3:20
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlon
MW
3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionBouldrey
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionBouldrey
TTh
11-12:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionWebster
TTh
2-3:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBresland
MW
11-12:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionWebster
TTh
11-12:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBresland
TTh
11-12:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionTBA
WF
11-12:20
English 306Advanced Poetry WritingShanahan
MW
12:30-1:50
English 307Advanced Creative Writing: The Art of the TaleBouldrey
MW
11-12:20
English 308Advanced Nonfiction WritingWebster
TTh
2-3:20
English 309Advanced Creative Cross-Genre Writing: Spoken Word and the Radiophonic ImaginationBresland
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 392Situation of WritingBouldrey
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 393-1Theory and Practice of PoetryCurdy
MW
3:30-4:50
English 393-2Theory and Practice of PoetryShanahan
MW
3:30-4:50
English 393-3Theory and Practice of PoetryWebster
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-1Theory and Practice of FictionKokernot
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-2Theory and Practice of FictionSeliy
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-3Theory and Practice of FictionDonohue
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-1Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionBouldrey
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-2Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionBresland
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-3Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionHernández
MW
3:30-4:50

200-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

English 200Literary Histories: Songs and Sonnets (Historical Breadth Pre-1830)Phillips
MW
2-3:20
English 200Literary Histories: Far From Home: Journeys, Exile, Migration, and HopeWall
MW
12:30-1:50
English 210-1British Literary Traditions, Part 1 (Historical Breadth Pre-1830)Thompson
MW
11-12:20
English 210-2British Literary Traditions, Part 2 (Historical Breadth Post-1830)Froula
TTh
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 213Introduction to FictionLaw
MW
9:30-10:50, plus discussion section
English 215Topics in Literature, Film and Media (Post 1830)Davis, N.
TTh
9:30-10:50, plus discussion section
English 220The Bible as Literature (Pre 1830)Schwartz
TTh
11-12:20
English 234Introduction to ShakespeareMasten
MW
12:30-1:50, plus discussion section
English 266Introduction to African American Literature: African American Literature from the Beginning to the Present (Historical Breadth Pre-1830)Wilson
TTh
9:30-10:50, plus discussion section
English 270-1American Literary Traditions, Part 1 (Historical Breadth Pre-1830)Grossman
TTh
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 274Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Literatures (Historical Breadth Post-1830)Wisecup
MW
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 275Introduction to Asian American LiteratureHuang
MW
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 277Introduction to Latinx LiteratureRodriguez-Pliego
TTh
2-3:20
English 281Topics in Postcolonial Literature (Post 1830)Mwangi
MW
12:30-1:50
English 283Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Historical Breadth Pre-1830)Shannon and Wolff
MW
12:30-1:50, plus discussion section

300-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Jane Eyre and its AfterlivesLaw
MW
9:30-10:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Primal Jokes and Modern Memes—The Theory and Politics of LaughterCogswell
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: RealismThompson
MW
3:30-4:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Time-traveling Heroes of the Multiverse!: History and Cultural Difference in Modern FictionGodfrey
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Detective FictionEvans
MW
9:30-10:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: WesternsJackson
MW
11-12:20
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Magic, Monsters, and Dystopias: Young Adult Speculative FictionLarkin
MW
2-3:20
English 302History of the English Language (Pre 1830)Breen
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 310Studies in Literary Genres: Satire (Pre 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Thompson
MW
12:30-1:50
English 311Studies in Poetry: William Blake's Afterlives (Pre 1830)Wolff
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 311Studies in Poetry: The Logic of Poetry (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Gottlieb
MW
2-3:20
English 312Studies in Drama: Dancing the Postwar Avant-Garde (Post 1830)Manning
F
9:30-11:50
English 312Studies in Drama: The Drama of Homosexuality (Pre 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Masten
MW
3:30-4:50
English 312Studies in Drama: Bodies in Motion (Post 1830)Manning
F
9:30-12:20
English 313Studies in Fiction: Desire and Danger in the 19th Century British Novel (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Law
TTh
2-3:20
English 313Studies in Fiction: Stories of the World: Short Fiction and Modernity (Post 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation)Cogswell
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 313Studies in Fiction: Ghosts of the CaribbeanLaw
TTh
9:30-12:20
English 323-1Studies in Medieval Literature: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Pre 1830)Phillips
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: The Seven Deadly Sins (Pre 1830)Phillips
MW
9:30-10:50
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: The Global Middle Ages (Pre 1830)Newman
MWF
11-11:50
English 331Renaissance Poetry: Milton (Pre-1830)Schwartz
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 331Renaissance Poetry: 17th Century Poetry (Pre 1830)Schwartz
MW
11-12:20
English 332Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Pre 1830)Masten
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 338Studies in Renaissance Literature: Rethinking Revenge (Pre 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial and Comparative Literatures)Evans
MW
2-3:20
English 339Studies in Shakespeare: Green Worlds? Shakespeare’s Environmental Questions (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Shannon
MW
3:30-4:50
English 34418th-Century Fiction: Seduction, Sensation, and Passion in Early American Literature (Pre 1830)Larkin
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 34418th-Century Fiction: Jane Austen and the Culture Wars (Pre 1830)Soni
MW
2-3:20
English 34418th-Century Fiction: TBATBA
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 35719th-Century British Fiction: Degenerate, Decadent, and Dark: Aesthetic Hedonism in Victorian Literature and Modern Culture (Post 1830)Godfrey
MW
12:30-1:50
English 35719th Century British Fiction: TBAFinn
MW
2-3:20
English 35719th-Century British Fiction: Madwomen in the Attic: Insanity, Gender, and Authorship in British and American Fiction (Post 1830)Cogswell
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Sexualities (Post 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial and Comparative Literatures)Mwangi
MW
9:30-10:50
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Secrets, Silence, and Lies in Postcolonial Literature (Post 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures)Hansen
TTh
2-3:20
English 366Studies in African American Literature: Black Feminist Worldmaking (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment))Mann
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 366Studies in African American Literature: African American Writers of the 20th and 21st Century (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Jackson
TTh
11-12:20
English 366Studies in African American Literature: The Black Novel (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Mann
MW
9:30-10:50
English 366Studies in African American Literature: Black Speculative Fiction (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Mann
MW
12:30-1:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Murder on the Bestseller List (Post 1830)Cogswell
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Exiles and Wanderers: Loss and Dislocation in 20th- and 21st-Century Global Literature Hansen
MW
3:30-4:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and the Arts of Life (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Froula
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Graphic Novels: Picturing History (Post 1830)Larkin
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Great Women Writers (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Froula
TTh
2-3:20
English 371American Novel: Defining America (Post 1830)Savage
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 374Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literatures: What is an Indigenous Book? (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Wisecup
MW
3:30-4:50
English 374Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literatures: Protest Indigenous Literature: From Red Power to Standing Rock (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Wisecup
TTh
11-12:20
English 375Studies in Asian American Literature: Memory & Identity in Asian American Literature (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Huang
MW
3:30-4:50
English 377Studies in Latina and Latino Literature: Latinx and Indigenous Literatures of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures)Rodriguez-Pliego
MW
2-3:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: OK, Boomer (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Jackson
MW
11-12:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: American Girlhood (Post 1830)Larkin
TTh
11-12:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: 19th-c American Women Auteurs, Black and White (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Stern
MW
12:30-1:50
English 378Studies in American Literature: Walt Whitman: Lives and Afterlives (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Grossman
MW
11-12:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: Westerns (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Jackson
MW
2-3:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: "The Chicago Way": Urban Spaces and American Literature (Post 1830)Savage
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 381Literature and Medicine: Literature of Plague and Pandemic (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial and Comparative Literatures)Evans
MW
11-12:20
English 381Literature and Medicine: Medicine, Race, and Gender (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity)Larkin
MW
11-12:20
English 382Literature and Law: TBA (Pre 1830)Schwartz
MW
9:30-10:50
English 383Special Topics in Theory: Black Feminist Theory (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity)Bey
MW
11-12:20
English 383Special Topics in Theory: Black Vernacular as Theory (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Race & Ethnicity)Bey
MW
2-3:20
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Fiction and the Internet (Post 1830)Hodge
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Material Girls: Excess, Gender, and Commercialism in Pop Culture (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Godfrey
TTh
11-12:20
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Writing Gay Men's Lives (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Grossman
TTh
2-3:20
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: Film Review as Genre (Post 1830)Davis, N.
TTh
2-3:20
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: TBATBA
MW
9:30-10:50
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: Robots Real and Imagined (Post 1830)Larkin
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: Besties and Frenemies: Representations of Female Friendship in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature and Film (Post 1830)Godfrey
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 397Research Seminar: Divas of Classical HollywoodStern
MW
3:30-4:50
English 397Research Seminar: Cultures of PlaySoni
MW
11-12:20
English 397Research Seminar: Global ShakespeareWall
MW
9:30-10:50
English 398-1Honors SeminarNewman
Th
3-4:50
English 398-2Honors SeminarNewman
Th
3-4:50

GRADUATE COURSES

English 403Writers Studies in Literature: A Whole MoodMartinez
T
2-4:50
English 403Writers Studies in LiteratureShanahan
M
2-4:50
English 410Introduction to Graduate Study: Literary Studies NowMann
Th
2-4:50
English 422Studies in Medieval Literature: The Canterbury TalesPhillips
T
2-4:50
English 431Studies in 16th-Century Literature: Political Thought in Shakespearean ContextsShannon
W
2-4:50
English 441Studies in 18th Century Literature: AntirealismThompson
T
2-4:50
English 451Studies in Romantic Literature: Lyric EnvironmentsWolff
M
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Hannah Arendt: Poetry, Politics and ThoughtGottlieb
W
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Global ModernismsFroula
W
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Experiments in Racial FormHuang
Th
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Ecologies of the Global SouthMwangi
T
2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: Indigenous Archives and Public HumanitiesWisecup
Th
2-4:50
English 481Studies in Literary Theory & Criticism: Queer Theory and Queer CinemaDavis, N.
TBA
TBA
English 496MFA Poetry WorkshopTrethewey
W
2-4:50
English 497MFA Fiction Workshop: Refresh, RefreshMartinez
Th
10a-12:50p
English 497MFA Fiction WorkshopMartinez
T
2-4:50
English 498MFA Creative Nonfiction WorkshopSchulman
W
2-4:50
English 498MFA Creative Nonfiction WorkshopHernández
T
2-4:50
English 520Writing for PublicationMwangi
M
2-4:50
English 571Teaching Creative WritingSeliy
M
10a-12:50p
English 572Manuscript DevelopmentTrethewey
T
2-4:50
English 5XXTBAManning
W
9:30-12:20
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