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Course Listing for ENGLISH - Spring 2027 (ALL: 01/25/2027 - 05/14/2027)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
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2127 ENGL-105-01 This American Experiment, Pt 2 1.00 LEC Hager, Christopher TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional 100-level, post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  In the United States, literary works have played crucial roles in public controversies and fueled social change. Wielding the written word and the printing press, among other media cultural producers have protested injustice and galvanized reform movements that continue to inform American voices today. Students in this course will explore how literature has responded to-and still refracts for us-the most consequential experiences of American generations past and present: Indian removal, the Civil War, and racial segregation; urbanization, mass immigration, and labor conflict; suffrage; Civil Rights, feminism, globalization, environmental devastation, and Black Lives Matter. (This course is a continuation of ENGL 104, but students are welcome to enroll without taking ENGL 104.)
2878 ENGL-110-01 Inventing English Literature 1.00 LEC Staples, James MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 100-level, pre-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s and HUM requirement.
  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.
3009 ENGL-117-01 Black Diasporic Lit in US Pt 2 1.00 LEC Paulin, Diana TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional 100-level, post-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s IPE and HUM requirements.
  This course surveys African American literature in multiple genres from the 20th-century to the present. We will examine texts by both canonical and emergent writers, such as James Weldon Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimke, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Octavia Butler, Rita Dove, August Wilson, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others. Our discussions/strategies for reading will be informed by relevant social, historical, and political contexts. In addition to discussing issues of race, nation formation, diasporic identities, class, gender, and sexuality, we will identify/trace recurring ideas/themes, as well as develop a theoretical language to facilitate thoughtful engagement with these works.
2277 ENGL-160-01 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Brown, David TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this is a required course. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  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.
2344 ENGL-160-02 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this is a required course. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  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.
2560 ENGL-160-03 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Pokross, Benjamin MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this is a required course. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  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.
2278 ENGL-170-01 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: Reserved Seats: 7 for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, 1 IART
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 100-level and elective requirements. It is required for all majors in the Creative Writing Concentration. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
2279 ENGL-170-02 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Berry, Ciaran 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: Reserved Seats: 7 for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, 1 IART
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 100-level and elective requirements. It is required for all majors in the Creative Writing Concentration. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
2490 ENGL-170-03 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Heredia, Alejandro MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: Reserved Seats: 7 for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, 1 IART
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 100-level and elective requirements. It is required for all majors in the Creative Writing Concentration. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
2879 ENGL-170-04 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Caycedo-Kimura, Aaron MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: Reserved Seats: 7 for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, 1 IART
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 100-level and elective requirements. It is required for all majors in the Creative Writing Concentration. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
2605 ENGL-207-01 Pop Culture Shakespeare 1.00 SEM Brown, David TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s Writing Emphasis Part 1 and HUM requirements.
  Shakespeare was—and still is—an integral and interesting part of popular culture, particularly music, television, marketing and even fashion. However, people don't always catch the references. This course will introduce students to the playwright’s broad influence by tracing understudied, or less obvious, allusions to select plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet. For example, the late rapper Tupac Shakur has a song called “Something Wicked,” a Macbeth reference; Adele quotes Hamlet in a song on her album 25; Jordan Peele’s film Get Out has resonances of Othello; and the brand Yoshi has an entire leather goods collection devoted to “honoring” Shakespeare’s iconic plays. But that’s not all. Shakespeare’s seemingly boundless impact touches TV shows, news stories, ad campaigns and more. As such, this course will ask students to identify and investigate where, how and why Shakespeare shows up in our contemporary world as we think expansively about the playwright's influence and its cultural, historical transferability over the centuries. While interrogating allusions to the plays, we will consider the fandom phenomenon, reflecting on what it means to be or not to be a fan of the "great white poet."
2880 ENGL-223-01 Writing for the Middle Grade 1.00 SEM Bilston, Sarah MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with EDUC
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional creative writing, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  Writing for the Middle Grade explores the rich traditions and contemporary practices of literature written for readers aged roughly 8--12. The course introduces students to key works and authors from the nineteenth century to the present day, examining how middle-grade writing has developed in response to changing ideas about childhood, education, family, and the imagination. Through close reading and discussion, students will consider questions of voice, perspective, narrative structure, and the ethical and emotional responsibilities (and possibilities) of writing for young readers. Alongside critical study, the course places strong emphasis on creative practice. Students will experiment with writing in a range of middle-grade genres, including the school story, fantasy, adventure, mystery, and historical literatures. Workshops and guided exercises will encourage students to experiment with age-appropriate characters and plots while reflecting on how genre conventions shape storytelling for this audience. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of middle-grade literature as both a literary tradition and a living, creative form -- and will have produced original work of their own.
2904 ENGL-224-01 Poetry on the Page 1.00 LEC Wheatley, Chloe TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  How does the printed page connect readers across space and time? In this course, students will read widely in the tradition of lyric poetry in English, locating their own individual points of connection with the assigned texts, and then devote particular attention to practices of close looking. How do elements of typographic and material design shape poetic meaning? What’s the difference/connection between seeing, reading, and knowing? How have poets productively blurred the relationship of the visual and the verbal, treating the page more like a canvas than as a mere container for words? As a culmination to the course, students will conduct interviews with Trinity English alumni/ae in order to understand contemporary poetry and publication practices from a variety of professional perspectives.
1265 ENGL-265-01 Intro to Film Studies 1.00 LEC Younger, James TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: FILM-265-01
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. This course is required for all film majors. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  This course provides a general introduction to the study of film and focuses on the key terms and concepts used to describe and analyze the film experience. As we put this set of tools and methods in place, we will also explore different modes of film production (fictional narrative, documentary, experimental) and some of the critical issues and debates that have shaped the discipline of film studies (genre, auteurism, film aesthetics, ideology).
3042 ENGL-273-01 Performing Blackness 1.00 LEC Simmons Jr, Godfrey TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: THDN-273-01
  This course examines both historical and contemporary African American performance/drama. What does it mean to perform "blackness"? How do these performances overlap with other aspects of identity, such as nation, gender, and class? The course will consider early enactments of race in minstrel shows to later theatrical representations that engage with important cultural moments, such as slavery, Emancipation, Harlem Renaissance, Civil rights, feminism, and AIDS. In addition to our focus dramatic texts, by authors such as Hansberry, Wilson, Parks, Baldwin, and Deavere-Smith, we will also consider how these works intersect with other performative sites, such as the visual representations of Kara Walker, the dance performances of Bill T. Jones and the filmic depictions of Julia Dash and Spike Lee.
2882 ENGL-277-01 The Art of Horror 1.00 LEC Mrozowski, Daniel MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional creative writing, post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students, 5 seats for sophomores.
  Horror remains an immensely popular and profitable genre. From the pulp thrills of Stephen King to the literary intensity of Carmen Miranda Manchado, from the gory pleasures of The Night of the Living Dead to the anxious social critiques of Get Out, horror provides an embodied experience, provoking feelings of dread, disgust, uncertainty, and unease. This class examines how artists have sought to produce those feelings through recognizable conventions and sophisticated innovations. Exemplary topics will include the monstrous feminine (Carrie & Rosemary's Baby), the neogothic (Yoko Ogawa & Helen Oyeyemi), and modern hauntings (The Shining & The Conjuring). Students will write creatively and analytically within the history of the genre and its techniques.
2939 ENGL-277-02 The Art of Horror 1.00 LEC Rutherford, Ethan MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional creative writing, post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students, 5 seats for sophomores.
  Horror remains an immensely popular and profitable genre. From the pulp thrills of Stephen King to the literary intensity of Carmen Miranda Manchado, from the gory pleasures of The Night of the Living Dead to the anxious social critiques of Get Out, horror provides an embodied experience, provoking feelings of dread, disgust, uncertainty, and unease. This class examines how artists have sought to produce those feelings through recognizable conventions and sophisticated innovations. Exemplary topics will include the monstrous feminine (Carrie & Rosemary's Baby), the neogothic (Yoko Ogawa & Helen Oyeyemi), and modern hauntings (The Shining & The Conjuring). Students will write creatively and analytically within the history of the genre and its techniques.
2883 ENGL-286-01 Literature of CT 1.00 LEC Pokross, Benjamin MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the post-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirements.
  What does it mean to write about a place? Our course will investigate this question by considering the literature of the state where we all live: Connecticut. Perhaps now known primarily as the epitome of New England small town life—think Stars Hollow in Gilmore Girls—Connecticut has appeared in literature in many ways: as the homeland of many Indigenous peoples, as a center of manufacturing and innovation, as an example of suburban ennui. Ranging from the 18th century to the present, the course readings will place particular emphasis on the relationships that people of color have developed with this place. Authors may include Samson Occom, William Grimes, Mark Twain, Ann Petry, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, and Ocean Vuong.
2853 ENGL-300-01 Shaping the World 1.00 SEM Rutherford, Ethan W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 270 or English 170
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the additional creative writing and elective requirements. English majors may also petition to count this course as an elective. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  How do you get from that first scribbled note to the final draft of a story or poem? How do you use the work of other writers as a source of inspiration, a jumping off point? In this course we’ll analyze the craft of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We’ll read and discuss important recent works in all three genres as well as a mixture of essays, interviews, and articles on craft issues and the writing life. Each week we’ll turn over a different topic, looking at how one aspect of craft operates across these genres. Students will respond to the readings and discussions via papers, creative work, and group work. We’ll also engage established writers in our conversations through class visits and Skype sessions. For English majors, this course is open to students wishing to fulfill their 200-level elective requirements under petition.
3006 ENGL-326-01 The Pearl-Poet 1.00 SEM Staples, James MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  This course focuses on four remarkable poems—Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience—written by the anonymous, fourteenth-century English poet known as the Pearl-Poet. A contemporary of Chaucer, the Pearl-Poet participates in the Ricardian period’s “Golden Age” of English literature, but the Pearl-Poet’s poetry offers a level of intricate sophistication unlike any of his peers, bringing together astonishing attention to literary form with deep consideration of the capaciousness of language. The poems are overloaded with significances that emerge only after multiple readings. Further, the poems exist in a single, remarkable manuscript, the earliest English manuscript to contain full-page images. In this course we will study the poems and their manuscript, carefully considering their multiplying meanings within their literary and social contexts.
2884 ENGL-333-01 Creative Nonfiction 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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 majors, this course fulfills the 300-level workshop, additional creative writing, and elective requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
1019 ENGL-334-01 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 SEM Goldman, Francisco M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270, ENGL 170 or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 300-level workshop, additional creative writing, and elective requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  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.
1072 ENGL-336-01 Adv Cr Writing:Poetry 1.00 SEM Berry, Ciaran TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270 or ENGL 170 or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the 300-level workshop, additional creative writing, and elective requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s ART requirement.
  NOTE: All enrolled students must attend at least 2 AK Smith Readings.
  Students will do in-class exercises, and write and revise their own poems. The class is run as a workshop, and discussions are devoted to analysis of student work and that of professional writers. One requirement of this class is attendance at a minimum of two readings offered on campus by visiting writers. This course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop for creative writing concentrators.
2885 ENGL-358-01 Victorian Lit & Social Crisis 1.00 SEM Bilston, Sarah MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  The nineteenth century was a period of rapid social change. The industrial revolution fundamentally transformed how people lived and worked. To some it was an age of possibility, when social mobility was possible at last. To millions it was a period of suffering, when much was promised, but delivered to just a few. This course examines socially-engaged literatures. Some writers look to the past for solace; others hope for a better future. Some see the home as a site of comfort; others see it as a prison. Some celebrate the individual, while others argue that community forms the bedrock of a fairer world. As we gain a firm foothold in these conversations, we will debate the part literature can play in times of intense upheaval.
2886 ENGL-368-01 Literature of Trauma&Resilienc 1.00 SEM Goldman, Francisco T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  In this course we explore a literature that responds to the traumatic events that we experience collectively and individually, from the nightmare worlds of the great plagues, contemporary and past; to the mass cruelties of war, slavery, the violence, repression and terror of “power” (wars, genocides, femicides, "disappearances"); and to the experience of devastating personal loss that so many experience in their lives. This is both a heroic and an intimate literature, that answers at times overwhelming horror with our seemingly most humble yet enduring tool, words; sometimes of pain and grief, shared with others; also, variously, of resistance, memory, refuge, resilience and imaginative transformation. Note: This course fulfills the UVSJ requirement (Underrepresented Voices in Social Justice).
2887 ENGL-376-01 The Queer Premodern 1.00 SEM Staples, James MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WMGS
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260 or ENGL 160.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  In The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, Michel Foucault insisted that sexual identity is a modern phenomenon, coming into existence at the end of the nineteenth century. Four years later, John Boswell provocatively described a flourishing "gay" subculture in twelfth-century Europe. Rather than disprove Boswell's fantastic claim, Foucault seriously considered it, and he began his history of sexuality anew to inquire what a "premodern" sexuality might entail. In this course, we will develop our own theory of "premodern queerness" by considering the acts and identities of premodern subjects in medieval literature, read alongside historical documents, theology, and queer theory. Rather than simply contrast a premodern sexuality to (post)modern queerness, we will consider the ways the past can inspire new horizons of possibility for queer expression.
2962 ENGL-383-01 Modern British Fiction 1.00 SEM Rosen, David M: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  This is a course in British fiction between 1890 and 1945. The prose (novels and stories) of this period is characterized by tremendous ambition, radical experimentation, the questioning of old conventions and the creation of new ones. Authors will include Wilde, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an elective, post-1800 course, and additional film and lit requirements.
2906 ENGL-387-01 Race in Early America 1.00 SEM Pokross, Benjamin TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the pre-1800, elective, additional literature or film, and UVSJ requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  This course explores the development of ideas about race through literary works from the long 18th century. Race today is commonly thought of as biological and immutable. But in the 18th century, race was understood as much more changeable, influenced by the environment and one’s circumstances. We will read some of the most important literary works from colonial America to consider questions such as: How do individuals and groups become racialized? How do authors of color reflect on changing ideas of race? Authors include Aphra Behn, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, Hendrick Aupaumut, and John Marrant.
1129 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.
2514 ENGL-401-01 Intro to Literary Theory 1.00 SEM Rosen, David W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the critical reflection, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement.
  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.
1130 ENGL-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA 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)
2945 ENGL-496-01 Sem: What You Should Have Read 1.00 SEM Wheatley, Chloe F: 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.
  NOTE: For English majors, this course fulfills the senior seminar requirement.
  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.
1153 ENGL-497-01 Creative Writing Snr Thesis P2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For creative writing concentrators, this course fulfills the creative writing thesis (thesis Part 2) requirement.
  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.
2168 ENGL-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For literature concentrators, this course fulfills the literature thesis (thesis Part 2) requirement.
  Individual tutorial in the writing of a year-long thesis on a special topic in literature or criticism. Seniors writing year-long, two-credit theses are required to register for the second half of their thesis for the spring of their senior year. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for each semester of this year-long thesis. (2 course credits to be completed in two semesters.)
2448 JWST-223-01 American Jewish Literature 1.00 LEC Catlin, Samuel TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL Cross-listing: RELG-224-01
  An exploration of the relationship between US Jewish identity and literary form, through the reading of major works in a range of genres such as prose fiction, lyric poetry, drama, graphic novels, and essays, from the late 19th century to the present. We may also view some films and TV episodes. Throughout, we will insistently pose the question of what makes a literary work count as "Jewish" or "American." Readings may address such topics as immigration, assimilation, nationalism, racialization, whiteness, ethnic identity, antisemitism, class and labor politics, the Cold War and McCarthyism, the impact of the Holocaust, the memory of pre-WWII Europe, Zionism, gender and sexuality, HIV/AIDS, the politics of "Jewish languages," and religious vs. secular textual traditions.
2464 LACS-218-01 The Task of the Translator 1.00 SEM Assaiante, Julia MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL
  Completion of a 202 language course or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
  Translation is one of the most critical skills for navigating our globalized world. Whether we are reading news stories from across the globe, watching Netflix shows from other languages and cultures, or studying abroad, we confront situations in which translation matters. In this course, students will develop practical skills in the art of translation, while also studying some of the crucial theories and questions that inform the field of Translation Studies. From infamous translation controversies to contemporary debates around translation and identity, our readings and discussions will analyze the political, ethical, and cultural stakes of translating. Given the practical component of the course, in which students workshop their own translations-in-progress, an intermediate-level knowledge of any language besides English is required (completion of 202 level or equivalent).
2447 RELG-224-01 American Jewish Literature 1.00 LEC Catlin, Samuel TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL Cross-listing: JWST-223-01
  An exploration of the relationship between US Jewish identity and literary form, through the reading of major works in a range of genres such as prose fiction, lyric poetry, drama, graphic novels, and essays, from the late 19th century to the present. We may also view some films and TV episodes. Throughout, we will insistently pose the question of what makes a literary work count as "Jewish" or "American." Readings may address such topics as immigration, assimilation, nationalism, racialization, whiteness, ethnic identity, antisemitism, class and labor politics, the Cold War and McCarthyism, the impact of the Holocaust, the memory of pre-WWII Europe, Zionism, gender and sexuality, HIV/AIDS, the politics of "Jewish languages," and religious vs. secular textual traditions.