Winter 2023 Courses

140.001 | Najita | Bodies, Disease, and Social Transformation
140.002 | Portnoy | Our Heroes: What's the Story? (R&E)
150.001 | Crane | The Art of the Story 
203.001 | Porter | Language Matters
214.001 | Ensor | Trans* and Queer Contemporary Poetry
240.001 | White | Reading and Writing Poems
258.001 | Levinson | The Bible as Literature
290.002 | Lahiri | Bollywood
290.003 | Lyons | Scapegoats, Mobs, and the Sacred in Literature and Myth
292.001 | Brandolino | Creepy Kids (2 credit mini course - first half term)
292.002 | Brandolino | Creepy Kids (2 credit mini course - second half term)
292.003 | Desai | Headlines, Pitching and How to Build a Skill Set for a Career in Journalism (2 credit mini course - full term)
293.001 | Fitzgerald | The Theatre of Suzan Lori Parks (2 credit mini course - full term)
298.001 | Zemgulys | A Traveler’s Guide to Literary Study
298.002 | Nair | On Being Human
298.003 | Parrish | Hide and Seek?
303.001 | Nichols | American Civil Rights Rhetoric (AL, ID)
313.002 | Crane | Law and Lit–Law and the American Novel (AL)
313.003 | Makman | Children's Literature and the Invention of Modern Childhood
314.001 | Valella | Queer of Color Literature and Culture (AL, ID)
316.001 | Orr | Neurodiversity in Literature and Film (AL, ID)
317.002 | Coccia | Reading Badly in Nineteenth-Century America
317.003 | Najita | Pacific Literary and Cultural Studies (ID)
317.004 | Bezirdzhyan | Social/Media: From Victorian Britain to the Global Contemporary
317.006 | Robertson | Bodies in Motion in the Atlantic World from 1700 to 1860
318.001 | Mitchell | The American Ghetto Novel (AL, ID)
319.001 | Nichols | The Literature of Abolition (AL, ID, P19)
322.001 | Hinken | Community Journalism: The Art and Practice of Narrtative Nonfiction
323.001 | Habash | Creative Writing: Fiction
323.002 | Pinto | Creative Writing: Fiction
323.003 | Khleif | Creative Writing: Fiction
324.001 | Harp | Creative Writing: Poetry
328.001 | Sloan | Writing and the Environment (AL, ID)
332.001 | Nichols | Race and Visual Culture (ID, R&E)
340.002 | White | 20th Century American Poetic Cultures (AL, P)
341.001 | Makman | Fantasy (AL, ID)
346.001 | Fitzgerald | Disaster Plays
350.001 | Brandolino | Lovers and Fighters in Early English Literature (P16)
363.001 | Whittier-Ferguson | The Modern Novel
364.001 | Miller | The Literature of Now: 21st-Century American Fiction (AL, ID)
367.001 | Trevor | Shakespeare’s Plays and the 1623 Folio (P16, P)
375.001 | Sarlati | Circulating Worlds (ID)
378.001 | Mattawa | Arab American Literature (AL, ID)
382.001 | Lyons | Native American Autobiography (AL, ID)
390.001 | Larson | History of Literary Theory
398.001 | Valella | Rhetoric, Race, and American Literature (AL, ID)
405.001 | Moody | Theories of Writing
407.003 | Knuth | Autofiction (AL)
407.006 | Thomas | Detroit Vs. Everybody: Stories, Culture, and Makingthe Motor City
408.001 | Toon | Varieties of English 
410.001 | Toon | Middle English (P16)
415.001 | Nair | Women’s Literature from an International Context
423.001 | Buntin | Advanced Fiction Writing
423.002 | Kasischke | Advanced Fiction Writing
424.001 | Ward | Advanced Poetry Writing
440.001 | Whittier-Ferguson | Modern Poetry (P)
441.001 | Ensor | Resonant Understandings: Contemporary Poetry & the Present (AL, P)
451.001 | Hawes | Satires of the Age of the British Enlightenment (P18)
452.001 | Hartley | Poverty and the Literature of Crisis (P19)
469.001 | Trevor | John Milton and Paradise Lost (P16, P)

Pre-1642 (Pre16) - Pre-1830 (Pre18) - Pre-1900 (Pre19) - American Literature (AL)

Identity & Difference (I/D) - Poetry (P) - Race and Ethnicity (R&E)

*Please note: Multiply listed courses can satisfy up to two major requirements of your choosing. Courses cannot satisfy more than two major requirements. 

English 350.001: Literature in English to 1660
Lovers and Fighters in Early English Literature
Instructor: Brandolino, Gina 

English 367.001: Shakespeare's Principal Plays 
Shakespeare’s Plays and the 1623 Folio
Instructor: Trevor, Doug
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Poetry

English 410.001: Middle English
Instructor: Toon, Tom

English 469.001: Milton
John Milton and Paradise Lost 
Instructor: Trevor, Doug
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Poetry

English 451.001: Studies in Literature, 1600-1830
Satires of the Age of the British Enlightenment
Instructor: Hawes, Clement
 

English 319.001: Literature and Social Change
The Literature of Abolition
Instructor: Nichols, Dana
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature + Identity/Difference

English 452.001: Studies in Literature, 1830-Present
Poverty and the Literature of Crisis
Instructor: Hartley, Lucy

English 303.001: Language and Rhetorical Studies
American Civil Rights Rhetoric
Instructor: Nichols, Dana
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 313.002: Topics in Literary Studies
Law and Lit–Law and the American Novel 
Instructor: Crane, Gregg

English 314.001: Gender and Sexuality Studies in Literature
Queer of Color Literature and Culture
Instructor: Valella, Daniel
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 316.001: Disability Studies
Neurodiversity in Literature and Film
Instructor: Orr, Ittai
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 318.001: Genre Studies
The American Ghetto Novel
Instructor: Mitchell, Justin
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 319.001: Literature and Social Change
The Literature of Abolition
Instructor: Nichols, Dana
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Pre-1900 + Identity/Difference

English 328.001: Writing and the Environment
Writing and the Environment
Instructor: Sloan, Aisha Sabatini
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 340.002: Studies in Poetry
20th Century American Poetic Cultures
Instructor: White, Gillian
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Poetry

English 341.001: Fantasy
Instructor: Makman, Lisa
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 364.001: The Contemporary Novel
The Literature of Now: 21st-Century American Fiction 
Instructor: Miller, Josh
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 378.001: Muslim and Arab Literatures
Arab American Literature
Instructor: Mattawa, Khaled
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 382.001 Studies in Native American Literature
Native American Autobiography
Instructor: Lyons, Scott
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 398.001: Junior Seminar in English Studies
Rhetoric, Race, and American Literature
Instructor: Valella, Daniel
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Identity/Difference

English 407.003: Topics in English Language and Literature
Autofiction
Instructor: Knuth, Aric

English 441.001: Contemporary Poetry
Resonant Understandings: Contemporary Poetry & the Present
Instructor: Ensor, Hannah
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Poetry

English 303.001: Language and Rhetorical Studies
American Civil Rights Rhetoric
Instructor: Nichols, Dana
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 314.001: Gender and Sexuality Studies in Literature
Queer of Color Literature and Culture
Instructor: Valella, Daniel
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 316.001: Disability Studies
Neurodiversity in Literature and Film
Instructor: Orr, Ittai
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 317.002: Literature and Culture
Reading Badly in Nineteenth-Century America
Instructor: Coccia, Emily

English 317.003: Literature and Culture
Pacific Literary and Cultural Studies
Instructor: Najita, Susan

English 318.001: Genre Studies
The American Ghetto Novel
Instructor: Mitchell, Justin
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 319.001: Literature and Social Change
The Literature of Abolition
Instructor: Nichols, Dana
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Pre-1900 + American Literature

English 328.001: Writing and the Environment
Writing and the Environment
Instructor: Sloan, Aisha Sabatini
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 332.001: Visual Culture
Race and Visual Culture
Instructor: Nichols, Dana

English 341.001: Fantasy
Instructor: Makman, Lisa
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 364.001: The Contemporary Novel
The Literature of Now: 21st-Century American Fiction 
Instructor: Miller, Josh
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 375.001: World Literatures in English
Circulating Worlds
Instructor: Sarlati, Niloofar

English 378.001: Muslim and Arab Literatures
Arab American Literature
Instructor: Mattawa, Khaled
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 382.001: Studies in Native American Literature
Native American Autobiography
Instructor: Lyons, Scott
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 398.001: Junior Seminar in English Studies
Rhetoric, Race, and American Literature
Instructor: Valella, Daniel
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 340.002: Studies in Poetry
20th Century American Poetic Cultures
Instructor: White, Gillian
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): American Literature

English 367.001: Shakespeare's Principal Plays 
Shakespeare’s Plays and the 1623 Folio
Instructor: Trevor, Doug
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Pre-1642

English 469.001: Milton
John Milton and Paradise Lost 
Instructor: Trevor, Doug
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Pre-1642

English 440.001: Modern Poetry
Instructor: Whittier-Ferguson, John

English 441.001: Contemporary Poetry
Resonant Understandings: Contemporary Poetry & the Present
Instructor: Ensor, Hannah
This course also satisfies the following requirement(s): Poetry