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Winter 2025 Class Schedule

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

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CourseTitleInstructorDay/Time
English 200Literary Histories: Snakey Women Through the Ages (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)VieytezMW  9:30-10:50
English 200Literary Histories: American Nightmare: Race Science from the 18th Century to the Present (Historical Breadth Post 1830)BerghMW  2-3:20
English 200Literary Histories: Songs and Sonnets (Historical Breadth Pre 1830)PhillipsTTh  3:30-4:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingTuckerTTh  9:30-10:50
English 202Introduction to Creative WritingBarcelonaWF  9:30-10:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdyTTh  11-12:20
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryOkaforTTh  12:30-1:50
English 206Reading and Writing PoetryCurdyTTh  3:30-4:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionSearsMW  12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionBouldreyTTh  9:30-10:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionScanlonTTh  12:30-1:50
English 207Reading and Writing FictionDonohueTTh  3:30-4:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionWebsterMW  12:30-1:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionScanlonTTh  9:30-10:50
English 208Reading and Writing Creative NonfictionBreslandTTh  2-3:20
English 213Introduction to Fiction (Historical Breadth Post 1830)Law and WisecupMW  11-12:20
English 280Topics in Multiethnic American Literature: Multiracial Identities (Historical Breadth Post 1830)ComerfordMW  11-12:20
English 283Introduction to Literature and the Environment: Green Thought, Green Worlds (Historical Breadth, Pre AND Post 1830)ShannonTTh  11-12:20, plus discussion section
English 285Topics in Literature and Culture: Introduction to Literary TheoryWolffMW  12:30-1:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: Austen and Other GenresThompsonTTh  9:30-10:50
English 300Seminar in Reading & Interpretation: “Crazy Rich Asians”: From Type to StereotypeXuTTh  3:30-4:50
English 309Advanced Creative Cross-Genre Writing: Spoken Word and the Radiophonic ImaginationBreslandTTh  11-12:20
English 310Studies in Literary Genres: The English Country House and Far Beyond (Pre 1830/Identities, Communities & Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)ThompsonTTh  2-3:20
English 311Studies in Poetry: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (Post 1830)FroulaMW  9:30-10:50
English 312Studies in Drama: Staging America (Post 1830)Davis, N.TTh  9:30-10:50
English 313Studies in Fiction: Desire and Danger in the 19th Century British Novel (Post 1830/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)LawTTh  2-3:20
English 323-1Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Pre 1830)PhillipsTTh  11-12:20
English 324Studies in Medieval Literature: Queering Medieval Romance (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)NewmanMWF  11-11:50
English 339Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Environmental Questions (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)ShannonTTh  3:30-4:50
English 34418th Century Fiction: Jane Austen and the Culture Wars (Pre 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)SoniMW  3:30-4:50
English 365Studies in Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Noir (Post 1830/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Global Overlay)JohnsonTTh  9:30-10:50
English 366Studies in African American Literature: Black Mindfulness Literature (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice/US Overlay)SpignerTTh  12:30-1:50
English 368Studies in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: Empire War Worldliness (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)FroulaMW  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)WisecupMW  2-3:20
English 377Topics in Latinx Literature: Chicanx and Mexican Feminisms in Art and Literature (Post 1830/Race & Ethnicity/Identities, Communities, and Social Practice)Rodriguez PliegoTTh  11-12:20
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)EvansTTh  3:30-4:50
English 384Studies in Literature and the Environment: Voices of Environmental Justice (Post 1830/Transnationalism and Textual Circulation/Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures)DimickMW  12:30-1:50
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)GodfreyMW  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)WolffMW  3:30-4:50
English 385Studies in Literature and Culture: Swindlers, Charlatans and Cheats: Literature of the Scam (Post 1830)SyvertsenMW  9:30-10:50
English 386Studies in Literature and Film: Women on the Verge: Obsession and Melodrama, 1900-1965 (Post 1830/Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment)SternMW  11-12:20
English 392Situation of WritingBouldreyMW  12:30-1:50
English 393-2Theory and Practice of PoetryWebsterMW  3:30-4:50
English 394-2Theory and Practice of FictionSeliyMW  3:30-4:50
English 395-2Theory and Practice of Creative NonfictionHernándezMW  3:30-4:50
English 397Research Seminar: Cultures of PlaySoniMW  12:30-1:50
English 398-2Honors SeminarGrossmanTh  3:30-4:50
English 403Writers Studies in LiteratureHernándezTh  2-4:50
English 422Studies in Medieval Literature: Global Middle AgesNewmanT  2-4:50
English 431Studies in 16th-Century Literature: Early Modern HorrorEvansM  2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: Women on the VergeSternW  2-4:50
English 471Studies in American Literature: Sovereignties across the AmericasRodriguez PliegoTh  2-4:50
English 481Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism: The Environmental HumanitiesDimickW  2-4:50
English 497MFA Fiction WorkshopAbaniT  2-4:50
English 571Teaching Creative WritingSeliyM  10a-12:50p