2022-2023 Courses
Courses are subject to change; please check back for more information.
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Course Schedule
Course schedules for upcoming terms can be found on this page. Individual course descriptions can be found on the course group pages.
Course Group I – Literature before the Mid-17th Century
Course Group II – Literature from the Mid-17th Century to the 19th Century
Course Group III – Literature from the Start of the 20th Century to the Present
Course Group IV – Criticism and Theory
Summer 2022
**Please see the Class Schedule for class time references**
Creative Writing Courses
English Courses
- ENGL 36 (10A) Contemporary American Fiction (Stuelke)
- ENGL 48 (6B) Critical Issues in Postcolonial Studies (Khan)
- ENGL 53.32/LACS 41.20/COLT 52.08 (2A) Literature and Culture of the Americas (Stuelke)
- ENGL 53.39 (2A) Haunted Houses in American Literature (Clark)
- ENGL 63.10 (10A) Contemporary Science Fiction - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Clark)
- ENGL 64.04 (3A) Jacques Lacan and Psychoanalytic Thought - Junior Colloquium in Course Group IV (Khan)
Fall 2022
**Please see the new Class Schedule for class time references.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (Craig)
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (Crouch)
- CRWT 12 (6B) Writing and Reading Poetry (Bennett)
- CRWT 20 (3B) Intermediate Workshop in Fiction (Chee) - Application
- CRWT 40.04 (3A) Remains, Ruin, Repair, and Rapture: Trends in Urban Contemporary Poetry from Detroit to Krakow (Francis)
- CRWT 40.07/MES 15.01 (2A) The Craft of Fiction: A Masterclass with Alaa Al Aswany (Al Aswany)
- CRWT 60 (2A) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction (O'Malley) - Application Required
- CRWT 62 (6B) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Poetry (Francis) - Application Required
English Courses
- ENGL 1 (12) Literary History I: Literature Up to the Mid-Seventeenth Century (Beckman)
- ENGL 10 (11) Old English and Scandinavian Epic and Saga (Otter)
- ENGL 15 (10) Shakespeare (Ritger)
- ENGL 24 (9L) Victorian Literature and Culture, 1837-1859 (Dever)
- ENGL 29 (11) American Fiction to 1900 (Boggs)
- ENGL 38 (2) American and British Poetry: 1900 to 1960 (Huntington)
- ENGL 45 (10A) Introduction to Literary Theory (Evens)
- ENGL 47/LING 18 (2) History of the English Language (Pulju)
- ENGL 51.01 (11) Plays, Playing and Publicity (Halasz)
- ENGL 53.43/PHIL 1.17/AAAS 21.20 (3A) Race and Modernity: W.E.B. DuBois, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry (Thomas)
- ENGL 54.13 (2A) Digital Game Studies (Evens)
- ENGL 62.03/WGSS 48.09 (12) Nineteenth Century British Women Writers - Junior Colloquium in Course Group II (Dever)
- ENGL 63.02/AAAS 26 (2A) Toni Morrison - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (McKee)
- ENGL 63.06 (10A) The Undead South: Horror and Haunting in U.S. Southern Literature - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Benson Taylor)
- ENGL 64.05/QSS 30.16 (12) Cultural Analytics - Junior Colloquium in Course Group IV (Dobson)
- ENGL 72.02/COLT 49.05 (10A) Decadence, Degeneration and the Fin de Siècle - Senior Seminar in Course Group II (McCann)
Winter 2023
**Please see the new Class Schedule for class time references.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (Crouch) - Application required
- CRWT 11 (10A) Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction (Sharlet)
- CRWT 12 (6B) Writing and Reading Poetry (Francis) - Application required
- CRWT 20 (3A) Intermediate Workshop in Fiction (Orner) - Application required
- CRWT 40.01 (3B) Imaginary Countries (Chee)
- CRWT 40.03 (2A) Raising the Dead (Sharlet)
- CRWT 40.15 (3B) Tell Me A Story: Introduction to Nonfiction Radio and Podcasting (Crane)
- CRWT 40.17 (6B) Literary Translation (Tanoukhi)
English Courses
- ENGL 2 (10A) Literary History II: Literature from the Mid-Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (Dobson)
- ENGL 13 (11) Medieval English Literature (Edmondson)
- ENGL 23 (11) Romantic Literature: Aesthetics and Ideology from the French Revolution to Frankenstein (Garrison)
- ENGL 30/AAAS 34 (10) Early Black American Literature (Chaney)
- ENGL 45 (12) Introduction to Literary Theory (Garrison)
- ENGL 53.49/COLT 49.09 (11) Graphic Medicine (Chaney)
- ENGL 54.15/COLT 40.01 (2A) History of the Book (Beckman)
- ENGL 54.17/COCO 34 (2A) Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (Evens and Ackerman)
- ENGL 55.23/FILM 48.07 (3A) Analyzing Content: From Tik Toks to Tweets (McNulty)
- ENGL 61.04 (10A) Madness, Magic, Metamorphosis: Unstable Character in Early Modern Drama - Junior Colloquium in Course Group I (Beckman)
- ENGL 62.12 (2A) Jane Austen - Junior Colloquium in Course Group II (Dever)
- ENGL 64.08 (3A) Matters of Life and Death: A Theory Course - Junior Colloquium in Course Group IV (Godley)
- ENGL 72.13 (10) The Brontës - Senior Seminar in Course Group II (Harner)
- ENGL 74.04 (3B) Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Youth and Happiness in the Global Novel - Senior Seminar in Course Group IV (Tanoukhi)
Spring 2023
**Please see the new Class Schedule for class time references. Tentative and subject to change.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (O'Malley) - Application required
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (Crouch) - Application required
- CRWT 11 (3A) Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction (Chee)
- CRWT 12 (2A) Writing and Reading Poetry (Olzmann) - Application required
- CRWT 20 (2A) Intermediate Workshop in Fiction (Crouch) - Application required
- CRWT 21 (10A) Intermediate Creative Nonfiction (Sharlet) - Application required
- CRWT 22 (3B) Intermediate Poetry Workshop (Olzmann) - Application required
- CRWT 40.08 (2A) Dystopian Visions: Exploring the Fiction of Catastrophe and Apocalypse (O'Malley)
- CRWT 41.01/FILM 44.10 (10A) Writing for Television (Carabatsos)
- CRWT 60 (10A) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction (Orner) - Application Required
English Courses
- ENGL 3 (3B) Literary History III: Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Tanoukhi)
- ENGL 6 (10) Narrative Journalism: Literature and Practice (Jetter)
- ENGL 11 (12) Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Otter)
- ENGL 34 (11) From "Anna Christie" to "Hamilton" (and Donald Trump): Modern American Drama (Pease)
- ENGL 37 (2A) Contemporary American Poetry (Moodie)
- ENGL 52.16 (10) God, Darwin, and the Literary Imagination (Harner)
- ENGL 52.19 (11) Poverty in American Literature, 1861-1925 (Boggs)
- ENGL 53.16/COLT 51.01/AAAS 51 (12) African Literatures: Masterpieces of Literature from Africa (Coly)
- ENGL 55.01/WGSS 47.03 (2) Modern American Women Poets (Zeiger)
- ENGL 55.25/COLT 8.01/HUM 3.08/GERM 46.05 (3A) Friends, Enemies, Lovers: Community and Civil War (Godley)
- ENGL 61.03/WGSS 66.20 (10A) Early Modern Literature and the History of Sexuality - Junior Colloquium in Course Group I (Ritger)
- ENGL 62.05 (2) The Horrors of Survival: American Literatures of Modernity - Junior Colloquium in Course Group II (Godley)
- ENGL 63.30 (3A) Trans Gender Literatures - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Goldberg)
- ENGL 65.01 (11) Walking - Junior Colloquium with No Course Group (Edmondson)
- ENGL 71.16 (2A) Shakespeare and the Problem of Forgiveness: Late Plays & Problem Plays - Senior Seminar in Course Group I (Ritger)
- ENGL 73.05 (10A) Global Anglophone Nobel Prize Writers - Senior Seminar in Course Group III (Moodie)
- ENGL 74.02 (2) Understanding Biopolitics - Senior Seminar in Course Group IV (Edmondson)
- ENGL 74.12 (11) Garden Politics - Senior Seminar in Course Group IV (Zeiger)
2023-2024 Courses
Courses are subject to change; please check back for more information.
Summer 2023
**Please see the Class Schedule for class time references. Tentative and subject to change.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (TBD) Writing and Reading Fiction (Craig) - Application required
- CRWT 11 (TBD) Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction (Craig)
English Courses
- ENGL 48 (3B) Critical Issues in Postcolonial Studies (Khan)
- ENGL 52.17 (10) Victorian Children's Literature: Fairytale and Fantasy (Harner)
- ENGL 53.39 (2A) Haunted Houses in American Literature (Clark)
- ENGL 63.10 (10A) Contemporary Science Fiction - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Clark)
- ENGL 64.04 (6B) Jacques Lacan and Psychoanalytic Thought - Junior Colloquium in Course Group IV (Khan)
Fall 2023
**Please see the Class Schedule for class time references. Tentative and subject to change.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (TBD) Writing and Reading Fiction (Craig) - Application required
- CRWT 10 (TBD) Writing and Reading Fiction (Crouch) - Application required
- CRWT 12 (3A) Writing and Reading Poetry (Francis) - Application required
- CRWT 40.11 (6B) Nature Writing (Bennett)
- CRWT 40.17/COLT 19.05 (6B) Literary Translation (Tanoukhi)
- CRWT 60 (2A) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction (O'Malley) - Application Required
- CRWT 62 (6B) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Poetry (Francis) - Application Required
English Courses
- ENGL 1 (TBD) Literary History I: Literature Up to the Mid-Seventeenth Century (Otter)
- ENGL 15 (2A) Shakespeare (Ritger)
- ENGL 26 (9L) Social Justice and the Victorian Novel (Dever)
- ENGL 28 (11) Making Americans: Hipsters, Tricksters & Geniuses (Boggs)
- ENGL 31 (10A) Asian American Literature and Culture (Kim)
- ENGL 45 (3B) Introduction to Literary Theory (Tanoukhi)
- ENGL 53.16/AAAS 51/COLT 51.01 (TBD) African Literatures: Masterpieces of Literature from Africa (Coly)
- ENGL 53.22 (10A) Science Fiction Studies (Evens)
- ENGL 53.47/AAAS 67.06/WGSS 66.07 (3A) African Diaspora Women Writers (Brown)
- ENGL 62.03/WGSS 48.09 (12) Nineteenth Century British Women Writers - Junior Colloquium in Course Group II (Dever)
- ENGL 63.01/WGSS 66.24 (2) Modern American Jewish Women Writers - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Zeiger)
ENGL 63.30 (6B) Trans Gender Literatures - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Goldberg) - ENGL 73.03/AAAS 35.01/WGSS 66.11 (6B) Black Elegies - Senior Seminar in Course Group III (Brown)
Foreign Study Program in London (Fall 2023 Program Director: Professor Chee)
Winter 2024
**Please see the Class Schedule for class time references. Tentative and subject to change. **
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (TBD) Writing and Reading Fiction (Crouch) - Application required
- CRWT 11 (10A) Writing and Reading Creative Nonfiction (Sharlet)
- CRWT 40.04 (6B) Remains, Ruin, Repair, and Rapture: Trends in Urban Contemporary Poetry from Detroit to Krakow (Francis)
- CRWT 40.10 (10A) James Joyce's Ulysses (Orner)
English Courses
- ENGL 2 (10A) Literary History II: Literature from the Mid-Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (Dever)
- ENGL 11 (11) Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Edmondson)
- ENGL 23 (11) Romantic Literature: Aesthetics and Ideology from the French Revolution to Frankenstein (Garrison)
- ENGL 30/AAAS 34 (TBD) Early Black American Literature (Chaney)
- ENGL 36 (10A) Contemporary American Fiction (Stuelke)
- ENGL 45 (11) Introduction to Literary Theory (Boggs)
- ENGL 52.20/AAAS 82.11 (TBD) Reading Between the Color Lines in 19th-Century American Literature (Chaney)
- ENGL 54.04 (2A) Beautiful, Ugly, Cute, Dumpy: An Introduction to Aesthetics (Tanoukhi)
- ENGL 74.11 (3A) High Theory - Senior Seminar in Course Group IV (Evens)
Spring 2024
**Please see the Class Schedule for class time references. Tentative and subject to change.**
Creative Writing Courses
- CRWT 10 (10A) Writing and Reading Fiction (Orner) - Application required
- CRWT 10 (2A) Writing and Reading Fiction (O'Malley) - Application required
- CRWT 12 (2A) Writing and Reading Poetry (Olzmann) - Application required
- CRWT 20 (10A) Intermediate Workshop in Fiction (O'Malley) -Application required
- CRWT 21 (10A) Intermediate Creative Nonfiction (Sharlet) -Application required
- CRWT 22 (3B) Intermediate Workshop in Poetry (Olzmann) - Application required
- CRWT 40.03 (2A) Raising the Dead (Sharlet)
- CRWT 41.01/FILM 44.10 (10A) Writing for Television (Carabatsos)
- CRWT 60 (2A) Senior Workshop in Creative Writing: Fiction (Chee) - Application Required
English Courses
- ENGL 3 (3B) Literary History III: Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Khan)
- ENGL 6 (TBD) Narrative Journalism: Literature and Practice (Jetter)
- ENGL 32/NAIS 35 (TBD) Native American Literature (Benson Taylor)
- ENGL 34 (11) From Anna Christie to Hamilton (and Donald Trump): Modern American Drama (Pease)
- ENGL 37 (3B) Contemporary American Poetry (Bennett)
- ENGL 38 (11) American and British Poetry: 1900 to 1960 (Zeiger)
- ENGL 52.18 (TBD) Netflix and the Victorian Serial Novel (Harner)
- ENGL 53.49/COLT 49.09 (TBD) Graphic Medicine (Chaney)
- ENGL 54.03/WGSS 51.09 (10A) Young Adult Literature (Stuelke)
- ENGL 63.06 (TBD) The Undead South: Horror and Haunting in U.S. Southern Literature - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Benson Taylor)
- ENGL 63.29/AAAS 67.09/WGSS 66.08 (3B) Self, Subject, Photography - Junior Colloquium in Course Group III (Brown)
- ENGL 64.02 (2) Garden Politics: Literature, Theory, Practice - Junior Colloquium in Course Group IV (Zeiger)
- ENGL 65.01 (TBD) Walking - Junior Colloquium with No Course Group (Edmondson)
- ENGL 71.01 (TBD) Celtic Fringes: Medieval English Literature in Dialogue with Irish, Welsh, and Breton Traditions - Senior Seminar in Course Group I (Otter)
- ENGL 71.14 (TBD) Knights, Camelot, Action! - Senior Seminar in Course Group I (Edmondson)
- ENGL 74.06 (6B) Frantz Fanon: Colonial War and Mental Disorders - Senior Seminar in Course Group IV (Khan)
