English Major Course Requirements 2024-25
Literary History
Literary History 1:
Fall 2024
- The Medieval Beast (ENGL310)
- Plague and Care-Work in Shakespeare's England (CHUM348)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature (ENGL353)
Spring 2025
- Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers (ENGL232)
- 1492: States of War (ENGL301)
- Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen (ENGL305)
- Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities (ENGL349)
- From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances (ENGL373)
- Hell: An Introduction (ENGL395)
Literary History 2:
Fall 2024
- American Literature to 1865 (ENGL203)
- Sublimity, Visions, and the Self in British Literature, 1789-1830 (ENGL226)
- Gothic Bodies (ENGL317)
Spring 2025
- Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers (ENGL 262)
- Science and/as Literature in Early Modern England (ENGL253)
- Introduction to Detective Fiction (ENGL257)
- New World Poetics (ENGL258)
- Literatures of Empire (ENGL313)
Literary History 3:
Fall 2024
- Ways of Reading: Forms of Difference (ENGL201L)
- Poetics of Blackness (ENGL222)
- Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGL230)
- Asian American Posthumanisms: Biopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Literature (ENGL319)
- The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry (ENGL320)
- Samuel Beckett (ENGL322)
- The Library: Its Past, Present, and Future (CHUM392)
- Entertaining Social Change (ENGL 309)
Spring 2025
- American Literature, 1865-1945: The Americanization of Power (ENGL204)
- Recent American Fiction (ENGL217)
- Transpacific Ecologies: Race, Literature, Environment (ENGL225)
- Anticolonial/Decolonial: Literature and Film (ENGL239)
- Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction (ENGL245)
- Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas (ENGL293)
- Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (ENGL311)
- Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery (ENGL324)
- Archiving America (ENGL341)
- Faulkner and the Thirties (ENGL368)
- The Novel as History (ENGL370)
Literary Geography
World Literature:
Fall 2024
Ways of Reading: Forms of Difference (ENGL201L)
- Techniques of Poetry: Prosody and Poetic Form
- The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry (ENGL320)
- Samuel Beckett (ENGL322)
- The Library: Its Past, Present, and Future (CHUM392)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature (ENGL353)
- Special Topics: Poets in Translation (ENGL372)
Spring 2025
- Transpacific Ecologies: Race, Literature, Environment (ENGL225)
- Anticolonial/Decolonial: Literature and Film (ENGL239)
- Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction (ENGL245)
- 1492: States of War (ENGL301)
- Literatures of Empire (ENGL313)
- The Novel as History (ENGL370)
British Literature:
Fall 2024
- Sublimity, Visions, and the Self in British Literature, 1789-1830 (ENGL226)
- Data and Culture (ENGL249)
- The Medieval Beast (ENGL310)
- Gothic Bodies (ENGL317)
- Plague and Care-Work in Shakespeare's England (CHUM348)
Spring 2025
- Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers (ENGL232)
- Science and/as Literature in Early Modern England (ENGL253)
- Introduction to Detective Fiction (ENGL257)
- Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen (ENGL305)
- Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (ENGL311)
- Literatures of Empire (ENGL313)
- Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities (ENGL349)
- From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances (ENGL373)
- Hell: An Introduction (ENGL395)
American Literature:
Fall 2024
- American Literature to 1865 (ENGL203)
- Poetics of Blackness (ENGL222)
- Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGL230)
- Asian American Posthumanisms: Biopolitics, Ecopoetics, and Literature (ENGL319)
- The Library: Its Past, Present, and Future (CHUM392)
- Entertaining Social Change (ENGL 309)
Spring 2025
- American Literature, 1865-1945: The Americanization of Power (ENGL204)
- Recent American Fiction (ENGL217)
- Transpacific Ecologies: Race, Literature, Environment (ENGL225)
- New World Poetics (ENGL258)
- Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers (ENGL262)
- Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas (ENGL293)
- 1492: States of War (ENGL301)
- Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery (ENGL324)
- Archiving America (ENGL341)
- Faulkner and the Thirties (ENGL368)
Theory
Fall 2024
- Sublimity, Visions, and the Self in British Literature, 1789-1830 (ENGL226)
- Data and Culture (ENGL249)
- Gothic Bodies (ENGL317)
- The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry (ENGL320)
- Samuel Beckett (ENGL322)
- The Library: Its Past, Present, and Future (CHUM392)
- 1492: States of War (ENGL301)
Spring 2025
- Anticolonial/Decolonial: Literature and Film (ENGL239)
- Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction (ENGL245)
- Literatures of Empire (ENGL313)
- Archiving America (ENGL341)
- Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities (ENGL349)
- Criticism and Marxism (ENGL 359)
- Negativity in Black Critical Thought (ENGL376)
- Creative Writing, Post-Modernism, and Future Theories (CHUM395)
Creative Writing
Fall 2024
- Techniques of Poetry: Prosody and Poetic Form (ENGL216)
- Techniques of Poetry: Hidden Histories (ENGL216A)
- Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop (ENGL325)
- Intermediate Fiction Workshop (ENGL339)
- Special Topics: Poets in Translation (ENGL372)
- Senior Seminar in Creative Writing (ENGL450)
Spring 2025
- Techniques of Poetry: Prosody and Poetic Form (ENGL216)
- Techniques of Nonfiction: Memory and Memoir (ENGL292A)
- Techniques of Fiction (ENGL296)
- Advanced Poetry Workshop (ENGL337)
- Advanced Fiction Workshop (ENGL342)
- Creative Writing, Post-Modernism, and Future Theories (CHUM395)