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Annual 2024-2025 Class Schedule

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CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTucker
MW
9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingSears
WF
9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTucker
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingBarcelona
WF
9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTaveras
WF
9:30-10:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryOkafor
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryBarcelona
WF
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
11-12:20
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryOkafor
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdy
MW
12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryWebster
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryBarcelona
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionKokernot
MW
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSears
MW
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionBouldrey
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlon
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionDonohue
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSears
MW
9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSeliy
MW
3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlon
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionScanlon
MW
12:30-1:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBouldrey
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionWebster
MW
12:30-1:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionScanlon
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBresland
TTh
2-3:20
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBresland
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBresland
TTh
2-3:20
English 306Advanced Poetry WritingTrethewey
W
3-5:50
English 307Advanced Creative Writing: Anecdotes and Yarns: Getting Voice to the PageBouldrey
TTh
2-3:20
English 309Advanced Creative Cross-Genre Writing: Spoken Word and the Radiophonic ImaginationBresland
TTh
11-12:20
English 392Situation of WritingBouldrey
MW
12:30-1:50
English 393-1Theory and Practice of PoetryAbani
MW
3:30-4:50
English 393-2Theory and Practice of PoetryWebster
MW
3:30-4:50
English 393-3Theory and Practice of PoetryCurdy
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-1Theory and Practice of FictionMartinez
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-2Theory and Practice of FictionSeliy
MW
3:30-4:50
English 394-3Theory and Practice of FictionBouldrey
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-1Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionScanlon
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-2Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionHernández
MW
3:30-4:50
English 395-3Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionBresland
MW
3:30-4:50

200-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

English 200Literary Histories: Epic Failures and Epic Successes (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)West
TTh
2-3:20
English 200Literary Histories: All the Single Ladies: Spinsters, Wives and Madwomen from 1800 to the Present (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Winter
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 200Literary Histories: Snakey Women Through the Ages (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)Vieytez
MW
9:30-10:50
English 200Literary Histories: American Nightmare: Race Science from the 18th Century to the Present (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Bergh
MW
2-3:20
English 200Literary Histories: Songs and Sonnets (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)Phillips
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 200Literary Histories: Literature and Energy Through the Ages (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)Narayan
MW
2-3:20
English 210-1British Literary Traditions, Part 1 (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)Thompson
TTh
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 213Introduction to Fiction (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Law and Wisecup
MW
11-12:20
English 215Topics in Literature, Film and Media: The Genres of Classic Hollywood CinemaHodge and Stern
MW
12:30-1:50, plus discussion section
English 215Topics in Literature, Film and Media: Speculative Fictions of Race and EmpireGutierrez-Lowe
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 220The Bible as LiteratureSchwartz
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 234Introduction to ShakespearePhillips
MW
9:30-10:50, plus discussion section
English 266Introduction to African American Literature (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Mann
MW
12:30-1:50, plus discussion section
English 270-1American Literary Traditions, Part 1 (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)Grossman
TTh
11-12:20
English 275Topics in Asian American LiteratureHuang
MW
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 277Introduction to Latinx LiteratureRodriguez Pliego
MW
11-12:20
English 280Topics in Multiethnic American Literature: Multiracial Identities (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Comerford
MW
11-12:20
English 283Introduction to Literature and the Environment: Green Thought, Green Worlds (Historical Breadth, Pre AND Post 1830)Shannon
TTh
11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 285Topics in Literature and Culture: Introduction to Literary TheoryWolff
MW
12:30-1:50
English 288Topics in Literature and EthicsSchwartz
TTh
9:30-10:50

300-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES

English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Murder on the Bestseller ListSyvertsen
MW
11-12:20
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Time-travelling Heroes of the Multiverse!: History and Cultural Difference in Modern FictionGodfrey
MW
12:30-1:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Austen and Other GenresThompson
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: “Crazy Rich Asians”: From Type to StereotypeXu
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Fans and Fictions: Adaptation as Critique in Literature and FilmComerford
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Representing the NonhumanShannon
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 310Studies in Literary Genres: The English Country House and Far Beyond (Pre 1830/Identities, Communities & Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Thompson
TTh
2-3:20
English 311Studies in Poetry: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (Post 1830)Froula
MW
9:30-10:50
English 312Studies in Drama: Men Dancing (Historical Breadth Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Manning
W
9:30-11:50
English 312Studies in Drama: Staging America (Post 1830)Davis, N.
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 312Studies in Drama: Race in Motion (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Manning
W
9:30-11:50
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: Love Triangles, Gender, and Desire (Post 1830)Comerford
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 323-1Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Pre 1830)Phillips
TTh
11-12:20
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: Pagan and Christian in Medieval Literature (Pre 1830)Newman
MWF
10-10:50
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: The Seven Deadly Sins (Pre 1830)Phillips
MW
2-3:20
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: Queering Medieval Romance (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Newman
MWF
11-11:50
English 331Renaissance Poetry: John Milton's Work in Context (Pre 1830)Schwartz
TTh
11-12:20
English 338Studies in Renaissance Literature: Brave New Worlds (Pre 1830)West
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 338Studies in Renaissance Literature: Queering the Crown: Marlowe, Shakespeare, and their Afterlives (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Masten
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 339Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Environmental Questions (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Shannon
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 339Studies in Shakespeare: Hamlet: That is the Question (Pre 1830)Masten
MW
9:30-10:50
English 340Studies in 18th-Century Literature: Marriage Plots Before Jane Austen (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Thompson
TTh
2-3:20
English 34418th Century Fiction: Jane Austen and the Culture Wars (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Soni
MW
3:30-4:50
English 353Studies in Romantic Literature: Romanticism & Revolution (Pre 1830)Soni
MW
11-12:20
English 35719th Century British Fiction: Decadent, Degenerate and Gothic: Aesthetic Hedonism in Victorian Literature and Modern Culture (Post 1830)Godfrey
MW
12:30-1:50
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Sexualities (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Global Overlay)Mwangi
MW
11-12:20
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Noir (Post 1830/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Global Overlay)Johnson
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Inhuman Conditions (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Global Overlay)Nadiminti
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 366Studies in African American Literature: The Metropolis and Contemporary African American Culture (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)Wilson
TTh
11-12:20
English 366Studies in African American Literature: Black Mindfulness Literature (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)Spigner
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 366Studies in African American Literature: Black Joy (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)Mann
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Empire War Worldliness (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Froula
MW
2-3:20
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Reading Joyce's Ulysses (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation)Froula
TTh
9:30-10:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Women Writing Worldliness (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Froula
TTh
2-3:20
English 371American Novel: Big Books: Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" (Post 1830)Grossman
TTh
2-3:20
English 374Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literatures: Woven Being: Literature and Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Wisecup
MW
2-3:20
English 375Studies in Asian American Literature: Interracial Encounters (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)Huang
MW
12:30-1:50
English 375Studies in Asian American Literature: Techno-Orientalism (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity)Huang
MW
2-3:20
English 377Topics in Latinx Literature: Latinx and Indigenous Literatures of the U.S.-Mexico Border (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)Rodriguez Pliego
MW
3:30-4:50
English 377Topics in Latinx Literature: Chicanx and Mexican Feminisms in Art and Literature (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Rodriguez Pliego
TTh
11-12:20
English 378Studies in American Literature: The Jazz Age: Love and Art in the 1920s (Post 1830)Savage
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 381Literature and Medicine: Underlying Conditions: Race, Health, Medicine (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Huang
MW
2-3:20
English 381Literature and Medicine: Literature of Plague and Pandemic (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Race & Ethnicity/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures)Evans
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 381Literature & Medicine: Disability Studies (Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Chaskin
TTh
12:30-1:50
English 382Literature and Law: Ideas of Justice (Pre 1830)Schwartz
TTh
11-12:20
English 383Special Topics in Theory: Black Feminist Theory (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Bey
TTh
2-3:20
English 384Studies in Literature and the Environment: Climate Change Literature (Post 1830)Dimick
MW
12:30-1:50
English 384Studies in Literature and the Environment: Voices of Environmental Justice (Post 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures)Dimick
MW
12:30-1:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Romantic Obsession, Colonial Possession: Romancing 19th and 20th-Century Colonial Literature (Post 1830/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures/Transnational & Textual Circulation)Godfrey
MW
9:30-10:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Mobsters, Desperados, and Samurai: Outlaws across Genres and Cultures (Post 1830)Syvertsen
MW
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
MW
12:30-1:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Romantic Comedies Old and New (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Wolff
MW
3:30-4:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Swindlers, Charlatans and Cheats: Literature of the Scam (Post 1830)Syvertsen
MW
9:30-10:50
English 385Topics in Literature and Culture: Monsters: Real and Imagined (Post 1830)Syvertsen
MW
12:30-1:50
English 386Studies in Literature & Film: The Horror Film (Post 1830)Hodge
TTh
3:30-4:50
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: Women on the Verge: Obsession and Melodrama, 1900-1965 (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Stern
MW
11-12:20
English 386Studies in Literature & Film: Adapting Women’s Stories for Modern Screens (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)Davis, N.
MW
9:30-10:50
English 386Studies in Literature & Film: Besties and Frenemies: Representations of Female Friendship in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature and Film (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment/Identities, Communities & Social Practices)Godfrey
MW
3:30-4:50
English 397Research Seminar: Indigenous Archives, Experimental Forms (Post 1830)Wisecup
TTh
2-3:20
English 397Research Seminar: Cultures of PlaySoni
MW
12:30-1:50
English 397Research Seminar: Divas of Classical HollywoodStern
MW
3:30-4:50
English 397Research Seminar: Nineteenth-century U.S. Poetry and the History of the BookGrossman
TTh
11-12:20
English 398-1Honors SeminarGrossman
Th
3:30-4:50
English 398-2Honors SeminarGrossman
Th
3:30-4:50

GRADUATE COURSES

English 403Writers Studies in Literature: PLOT IS LIFE: Autofiction, the Campus Novel, and Narrative EnginesMartinez
T
2-4:50
English 403Writers Studies in LiteratureHernández
Th
2-4:50
English 410Introduction to Graduate StudyMwangi
F
10-12:50
English 411Studies in Poetry: The Poetics of DissolutionWilson
Th
2-4:50
English 422Studies in Medieval Literature: Global Middle AgesNewman
T
2-4:50
English 431Studies in 16th-Century Literature: Queering the Crown: Marlowe and Shakespeare, Pre-texts and AfterlivesMasten
W
2-4:50
English 431Studies in 16th-Century Literature: Early Modern HorrorEvans
M
2-4:50
English 441Studies in 18th-Century Literature: Novel Utopias: Critique and Normativity in 18th Century RealismSoni
W
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Translation Problems: Coloniality, Resistance, SolidarityJohnson
T
2-4:50
English 461Studies in Contemporary Literature: Digital AestheticsHodge
Th
2-4:50
English 465Studies in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Lit and US EmpireNadiminti
T
2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: Women on the VergeStern
W
2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: Sovereignties across the AmericasRodriguez Pliego
Th
2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: The Black NovelMann
Th
2-4:50
English 481Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism: The Environmental HumanitiesDimick
W
2-4:50
English 481Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism: Mimesis and Its DoublesWest
M
2-4:50
English 496MFA Poetry WorkshopAbani
M
10-12:50
English 496MFA Poetry WorkshopTrethewey
T
2-4:50
English 497MFA Fiction WorkshopAbani
T
2-4:50
English 498MFA Creative Nonfiction WorkshopSchulman
W
2-4:50
English 498MFA Creative Nonfiction WorkshopHernández
M
10a-12:50p
English 571Teaching Creative WritingSeliy
M
10a-12:50p