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Course Listing for ENGLISH - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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2346 ENGL-104-01 This American Experiment, Pt 1 1.00 LEC Wyss, Hilary TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the survey requirement. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the requirement of an additional 100 level-course or a pre-1800 requirement/elective/additional literature or film course.
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 12 seats for first-years, 5 seats for sophomores.
  The America we know today has always been an experiment, defined by conflicts over land, debates about communal purpose and meaning, and the struggles of people born here and who dreaded or dreamed of coming here. This course emphasizes literary texts that have shaped-and contested-narratives of what America is and who it's for. From Indigenous stories and colonists' journals to the revolutionary texts of the new United States, from the writings of Transcendentalists and anti-slavery activists to the literature of the civil war and an abandoned Reconstruction, the works in this survey challenge students to reckon with the American present by reading and writing about its literary roots. (This course is first in a two-part sequence; students may take one part or both.)
1400 ENGL-110-01 Inventing English Literature 1.00 LEC Staples, James TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the survey requirement. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the requirement of an additional 100 level-course or a pre-1800 requirement/elective/additional literature or film course.
  NOTE: 6 seats reserved for first year students, 8 for sophomores.
  Fifteen hundred years ago, there was no such thing as English literature. The few examples of writing we have from that period are in a language that hardly anyone understands today. And yet, by the time of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, England had developed one of the great world literatures. How did this happen? Starting with early masterpieces like Beowulf (in translation), we will trace the emergence of "English literature," as we now know it. In addition to major figures like Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare, we'll consider authors who fill out the historical picture.
3270 ENGL-160-01 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Bilston, Sarah MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors.
  NOTE: Seat Reservation: 6 for first-year students, 6 for sophomores.
  Why study literature? A practical reason: we live in a world of words and this course helps you master that world. But more importantly, literature immerses you in vast new worlds that become more meaningful as you become a better reader. Literature grapples with the fundamental problems of humanity; good, evil, pain, pleasure, love, death. We will read across centuries of English literature, in all genres, to see how great authors have addressed these problems. Through a sustained and rigorous attention to your own writing and interpretive skills, the course will leave you better prepared to explore and contribute to the written world. This course offers skills required for the English major, but welcomes anyone who wishes to become a better writer, reader, and thinker.
3271 ENGL-160-02 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Benedict, Barbara TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors.
  NOTE: Seat Reservation: 6 for first-year students, 6 for sophomores.
  Why study literature? A practical reason: we live in a world of words and this course helps you master that world. But more importantly, literature immerses you in vast new worlds that become more meaningful as you become a better reader. Literature grapples with the fundamental problems of humanity; good, evil, pain, pleasure, love, death. We will read across centuries of English literature, in all genres, to see how great authors have addressed these problems. Through a sustained and rigorous attention to your own writing and interpretive skills, the course will leave you better prepared to explore and contribute to the written world. This course offers skills required for the English major, but welcomes anyone who wishes to become a better writer, reader, and thinker.
3272 ENGL-160-03 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors.
  NOTE: Seat Reservation: 6 for first-year students, 6 for sophomores.
  Why study literature? A practical reason: we live in a world of words and this course helps you master that world. But more importantly, literature immerses you in vast new worlds that become more meaningful as you become a better reader. Literature grapples with the fundamental problems of humanity; good, evil, pain, pleasure, love, death. We will read across centuries of English literature, in all genres, to see how great authors have addressed these problems. Through a sustained and rigorous attention to your own writing and interpretive skills, the course will leave you better prepared to explore and contribute to the written world. This course offers skills required for the English major, but welcomes anyone who wishes to become a better writer, reader, and thinker.
3273 ENGL-160-04 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Bilston, Sarah MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors.
  NOTE: Seat Reservation: 6 for first-year students, 6 for sophomores.
  Why study literature? A practical reason: we live in a world of words and this course helps you master that world. But more importantly, literature immerses you in vast new worlds that become more meaningful as you become a better reader. Literature grapples with the fundamental problems of humanity; good, evil, pain, pleasure, love, death. We will read across centuries of English literature, in all genres, to see how great authors have addressed these problems. Through a sustained and rigorous attention to your own writing and interpretive skills, the course will leave you better prepared to explore and contribute to the written world. This course offers skills required for the English major, but welcomes anyone who wishes to become a better writer, reader, and thinker.
3274 ENGL-170-01 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 7 seats for sophomores and 7 seats first year students. One seat for IART student.
  NOTE: Students enrolled in ENGL 170 may not take another creative writing course that semester without special permission.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. This is a required course for creative writing concentrators. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
3275 ENGL-170-02 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Woodard, Benjamin TR: 8:00AM-9:15AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 7 seats for sophomores and 7 seats first year students. One seat for IART student.
  NOTE: Students enrolled in ENGL 170 may not take another creative writing course that semester without special permission.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. This is a required course for creative writing concentrators. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
3276 ENGL-170-03 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Staff, Trinity MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 7 seats for sophomores and 7 seats first year students. One seat for IART student.
  NOTE: Students enrolled in ENGL 170 may not take another creative writing course that semester without special permission.
  An introduction to imaginative writing, concentrating on the mastery of language and creative expression in more than one genre. Discussion of work by students and established writers. This is a required course for creative writing concentrators. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
3345 ENGL-238-01 Race and Speculative Fiction 1.00 LEC Wyss, Hilary TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-238-01
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a 200-level elective. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, the UVSJ requirement, the elective requirement, or may be an additional literature or film course.
  Science fiction and fantasy are powerful ways of imagining the world, both as it should or could be and as a cautionary example of what it might become. From Afrofuturism to Indigenous Futurism, contemporary writers of color are using the fantastic to challenge oppressive structures and imagine different ways of being in the world. In this course we will examine the work of African American writers such as Octavia Butler, Asian American writers such as Ted Chiang, and Indigenous writers such as Cherie Dimaline, Louise Erdrich, and Stephen Graham Jones, who use this genre both to explore alternative histories and also to offer a redemptive vision of a future in which alternative ways of being in the world have the potential to save us all.
3307 ENGL-280-01 The Marvelous Middle Ages 1.00 SEM Staples, James TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a 200-level elective. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement, the elective requirement, or may be an additional literature or film course.
  Readers of medieval literature (alongside its characters) often find themselves in fabulous but disorienting settings-from fairy "otherworlds" to the Kingdom of Heaven-where they encounter supernatural beings, unexplainable events, dazzling objects, magic, and the miraculous: in short, medieval texts challenge readers to take "the marvelous" seriously. This course will explore the concept of "the marvelous" in medieval literature, not only what it is, but what it does, what we as readers are invited to do when confronted with the logically or textually unexplainable. Considering such subjects as gender, sexuality, and race alongside accounts of fairies, mystical visions, and otherworlds, we will explore how the marvelous can provide the catalyst necessary for reimagining new possibilities in the "real" world.
3090 ENGL-310-01 Postcolonial Literature&Theory 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written post 1900, or critical reflection. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, the critical reflection requirement, the UVSJ requirement, or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  This course provides an introduction to Anglophone literatures produced after decolonization. We will read foundational essays of postcolonial theory alongside several novels in order to consider how these literatures represent issues of identity, nationalism, globalization, and race. The seminar will address the effects of literary form on these fraught representations, as well as the implications of approaching literature through the lens of "postcolonialism," as opposed to globalization studies, World Literature, transnationalism, or the study of the Global South. Readings will include essays by Homi Bhabha, Franz Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak; and novels from the African diaspora and South Asia.
3091 ENGL-321-01 Curiosity and Literature 1.00 SEM Benedict, Barbara TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  This course will examine the way curiosity transformed literature and culture in the age of inquiry, when Peeping Tom was invented, modern science was institutionalized, and the detective novel was born. We will read texts that explore both approved and unapproved kinds, such as witchcraft, voyeurism, and the exhibition of monsters. Texts will include drama, journalism, poetry, satire, and novels by Behn, Defoe, Johnson, and others. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written from 1700-1900. It is a "research-intensive seminar." Not open to first-year students.
2347 ENGL-333-01 Creative Nonfiction 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270, ENGL 170 or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: For English creative writing concentrators, this course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop.
  NOTE: For English literature concentrators, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective.
  In this writing workshop, students grow in trusting their artistic instinct, cultivating their personal voice, and exercising agency. Through experimentation and practice, they explore how to push the boundaries of creative nonfiction to tell real-life stories in authentic and unexpected ways. To broaden their notion of the genre and catalog approaches, they read the work of writers who approach storytelling as a source of power and who also innovate traditional literary forms and engage with issues of sexuality, race, class, gender, colonialism, and physical ability. As a supportive writing community, students give and receive feedback on ongoing creative work and delve into the ethical considerations that come into play when writing from real-life experience.
1534 ENGL-334-01 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 SEM Rutherford, Ethan TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270, ENGL 170 or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: For English creative writing concentrators, this course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
  Students will write and rewrite fiction. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. For English creative writing concentrators, this course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers.
3092 ENGL-340-01 American Adaptations 1.00 SEM Wyss, Hilary TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: AMST-340-01
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, the UVSJ requirement, or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  This course will look at the ways American writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mythologized an early American moment, looking to the past to critique or celebrate American identity through fiction and poetry. We will focus on texts concerned with early America, from works like Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to twentieth-century texts like I, Tituba by Maryse Conde and A Mercy by Toni Morrison. By focusing on the historical and literary context for such works, including pivotal moments like the Salem witch trials, King Philip's War, and the American Revolution and writers like Mary Rowlandson and Phillis Wheatley, we will frame our discussion of the ways the past usefully informs current conversations around race, identity, and belonging.
3312 ENGL-350-01 Earthly Delights 1.00 SEM Staples, James W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGL-850-01
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260 or ENGL 160.
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  The Middle Ages is often regarded as a period that was skeptical of worldly pleasure, repressing it at all costs. This course challenges this preconception by considering how pleasure was written about and theorized by medieval people, not just projecting pleasure onto an eternal life to come but sought in everyday experiences on earth, here and now. We will read works by Chaucer and other great literary works alongside travel narratives, accounts of the Golden Age and the Earthly Paradise. Each of these narratives insist on the reality of pleasure, whether discovered far in the east or in one's most secret fantasies. We will collectively consider a historical genealogy of pleasures, and how modern theories of pleasure-including queer theory-fit into these medieval discourses.
3093 ENGL-360-01 Walden 1.00 SEM Hager, Christopher MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA Y HUMW  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WELL Cross-listing: AMST-360-01
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  Henry David Thoreau is popularly regarded as a pioneer of social distancing, but his work speaks to contemporary life in other ways, too. He followed his conscience into conflict with federal law. He studied the natural world so fastidiously that scientists use his journals to document global warming. He made flawed but uncommonly earnest efforts to understand North America's indigenous history. This course takes WALDEN as the starting point for an intellectual exploration ranging from Thoreau's medieval Japanese precursor Kamo No Chomei to debates still raging about him today. Students will get to follow-or carve out for themselves-one of many paths of inquiry Thoreau's work inspires, including Ecology & Climate, Ethics & Political Resistance, Transcendentalism & Eastern Philosophy, or Indigeneity & Deep History.
3280 ENGL-378-01 Plants in Literature and Film 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGL-878-01
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  This course engages with the plant world through novels, poetry, philosophy, comics, and film. This approach might strike us as esoteric, but it would not have seemed so in the nineteenth century. We will track major trends in the human understanding of plants, beginning in the Romantic era - when poets were eager to consider the line between the plant and animal kingdoms - and ending in the twentieth century - when popular culture was more likely to categorize plants as monstrous and 'other.' In rethinking the being and meaning of plants we will necessarily revisit the idea of 'the human' and 'the animal,' employing these categories while attending to borderline cases where their utility falters.
3094 ENGL-381-01 Early Lit in the Watkinson 1.00 SEM Wheatley, Chloe F: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260 or ENGL 160.
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  This course will invite you to locate and examine the artifacts, art objects, rare books, and digital archives found in Trinity's special collections, with a focus on early English literature that registers or inspires transhistorical or transcultural encounters. We will focus in the first half of the semester on materials (literary and theoretical) that will ground us in the study of early literature. In the second half of the semester we will focus on selected case studies that illuminate how objects found in Trinity's special collections can enhance our engagement with this literature.
3286 ENGL-382-01 Shakespeare's Other Race Plays 1.00 SEM Brown, David T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 6 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: THDN-382-01, ENGL-882-01
  NOTE: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement and the UVSJ requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course.
  What are Shakespeare's other "race plays"? Why have there only been five go-to Shakespeare plays for discussions about race for so long? Using early modern critical race studies and Black feminism as guides, this course looks beyond the five "race plays"-Titus Andronicus, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Shakespeare plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet, texts lacking central Black, African, or Jewish figures, also permit generative discussions about race-in particular, whiteness. In this course, we will examine some of Shakespeare's other race plays in search of new racial knowledge while we discuss such topics as gender, sexuality, social class, family and more.
1514 ENGL-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  A limited number of individual tutorials in topics not currently offered by the department. Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
1737 ENGL-401-01 Intro to Literary Theory 1.00 SEM Mrozowski, Daniel M: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: English 401 and English 801 are the same course. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing critical reflection.
  This seminar is designed to provide a perspective on varied critical vocabularies, and to explore the development of literary theories and methods from classical to contemporary times. Emphasis will be placed on a broad examination of the history and traditions of literary theory, the ongoing questions and conflicts among theorists, and practical applications to the study of works in literature. Students will compose a substantial critical essay based on research and the development of their own perspective on understanding and evaluating a literary text.
1476 ENGL-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND Staff, Trinity TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
3095 ENGL-491-01 CW Thesis Part 1/Colloquium 1.00 SEM Rutherford, Ethan TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to teach senior English majors concentrating in Creative Writing the techniques to successfully undertake a semester-long creative project in the genre of their choice. It is intended to help the students develop the habits-of-arts required to write such theses and to provide a forum for feedback during the early stages of composition. In this course we will address issues of drafting and revision, developing a booklist, the use of research in creative work, and, finally, establishing structural and thematic coherence in a novel excerpt, poetry collection, suite of stories, one-act play, and/or screenplay. This course is required of all senior English majors who are planning to write one-semester, creative writing theses.
3284 ENGL-496-01 Sem: What You Should Have Read 1.00 SEM Wheatley, Chloe T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open to senior English majors only.
  This is your final year as an English major. There are books and authors, that, once upon a time, you thought every English major should have read. You still haven't. One of this seminar's purposes is to let you to do so. One of its other purposes is to ask and answer the question: Why? Why did you think that every English major should have read this book? Why hadn't you? Why has or hasn't the text met your great expectations? We will also be discussing related issues such as canonicity and canon changes, the structure of the English major, and the reasons why you chose it. The students will generate (and debate) the reading list and syllabus. The instructor will generate the requirements.
2835 ENGL-497-01 One-Semester Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Individual tutorial in writing of a one-semester senior thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required.
2837 ENGL-498-01 Sr Thesis Part 1/Sr Colloquim 1.00 SEM Hager, Christopher MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to teach senior English majors the techniques of research and analysis needed for writing a year-long essay on a subject of their choice. It is intended to help the students to write such year-long theses, and to encourage them to do so. It will deal with problems such as designing longer papers, focusing topics, developing and limiting bibliographies, working with manuscripts, using both library and Internet resources, and understanding the uses of theoretical paradigms. This course is required of all senior English majors who are planning to write two-semester, year-long theses. Please refer to the department's website for more information. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and the chairperson are required. (2 course credits to be completed in two semesters.)
3313 ENGL-850-01 Earthly Delights 1.00 SEM Staples, James W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 3 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGL-350-01
  The Middle Ages is often regarded as a period that was skeptical of worldly pleasure, repressing it at all costs. This course challenges this preconception by considering how pleasure was written about and theorized by medieval people, not just projecting pleasure onto an eternal life to come but sought in everyday experiences on earth, here and now. We will read works by Chaucer and other great literary works alongside travel narratives, accounts of the Golden Age and the Earthly Paradise. Each of these narratives insist on the reality of pleasure, whether discovered far in the east or in one's most secret fantasies. We will collectively consider a historical genealogy of pleasures, and how modern theories of pleasure-including queer theory-fit into these medieval discourses.
3281 ENGL-878-01 Plants in Literature and Film 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 3 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENGL-378-01
  This course engages with the plant world through novels, poetry, philosophy, comics, and film. This approach might strike us as esoteric, but it would not have seemed so in the nineteenth century. We will track major trends in the human understanding of plants, beginning in the Romantic era - when poets were eager to consider the line between the plant and animal kingdoms - and ending in the twentieth century - when popular culture was more likely to categorize plants as monstrous and 'other.' In rethinking the being and meaning of plants we will necessarily revisit the idea of 'the human' and 'the animal,' employing these categories while attending to borderline cases where their utility falters.
3287 ENGL-882-01 Shakespeare's Other Race Plays 1.00 SEM Brown, David T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 3 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: THDN-382-01, ENGL-382-01
  What are Shakespeare's other "race plays"? Why have there only been five go-to Shakespeare plays for discussions about race for so long? Using early modern critical race studies and Black feminism as guides, this course looks beyond the five "race plays"-Titus Andronicus, Othello, Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Shakespeare plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet, texts lacking central Black, African, or Jewish figures, also permit generative discussions about race-in particular, whiteness. In this course, we will examine some of Shakespeare's other race plays in search of new racial knowledge while we discuss such topics as gender, sexuality, social class, family and more.
1432 ENGL-940-01 Independent Study 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  A limited number of tutorials are available for students wishing to pursue special topics not offered in the regular graduate program. Applications should be submitted to the department chairperson prior to registration. Written approval of the graduate adviser and department chairperson is required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form.
1434 ENGL-953-01 Research Project 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit.
1545 ENGL-954-01 Thesis Part I 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
1662 ENGL-955-01 Thesis Part II 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Continuation of English 954 (described in prior section).
1433 ENGL-956-01 Thesis 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
2691 THDN-393-01 Playwrights Workshop 1.00 SEM Simmons Jr, Godfrey TR: 10:00AM-12:00PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL
  Prerequisite: At least one theater and dance course or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 3 juniors, 3 sophomores, 3 first years, 3 seniors.
  NOTE: Incoming fall 2024 students: reach out to the instructor at godfrey.simmons@trincoll.edu to discuss enrolling in this course.
  An introduction to different styles and techniques of playwrighting through the study of selected plays from various world theater traditions. Assignments and exercises will lead to the development of short plays scripted by students.