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Course Listing for ENGLISH - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
3289 ENGL-101-01 The Practice of Literature 1.00 LEC Hager, Christopher TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Critical Reflection, elective, Additional lit/ film course requirements. It also fulfills the additional 100 level requirement.
  This course looks at the most fundamental, but also the most difficult, questions about literature: what is literature, exactly? How does literature help us understand the wider world, and what life-long skills does the reading of literature help us develop? Although these questions animate every English course, we all -- professors, students -- answer those questions differently. In this course multiple members of the English Department faculty will visit class and discuss how they approach questions about literature and interpretation. Expect disagreements, and be prepared, in a highly collaborative environment, to express your own strong views. Each year, our readings will be organized around a common theme, which each faculty participant will address. For English majors, this course satisfies the critical reflection requirement.
2158 ENGL-104-01 This American Experiment, Pt 1 1.00 LEC Pokross, Benjamin TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course fulfills the 100 level and the pre-1800 requirement and also counts as an elective/additional literature or film course.
  NOTE: Seat reservations: 12 seats for first-years, 10 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.)
3290 ENGL-111-01 Lit in the Age of Revolutions 1.00 LEC Bergren, Katherine MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Post-1800, elective, 100-level & Additional Lit or Film course requirements.
  Over the last three hundred years, the modern world has undergone a series of cataclysmic transformations: the rise of empires, the French revolution, the industrial revolution, the struggles of colonized peoples, and of women, for equality and dignity, the disaster of two World Wars. English literature has been centrally involved in these earth-shattering events: literature is a chronicle of change, and can itself be revolutionary, instigating major change all on its own. In this course, which begins with the rise of modern England, and then looks at major authors of the Romantic, Victorian, Modern and contemporary periods, we will consider what makes English a central world literature.
2623 ENGL-160-01 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Pokross, Benjamin TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course is required of all English majors.
  NOTE: Seat Reservation: 7 for first-year students, 5 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.
2624 ENGL-160-02 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Rosen, David 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.
2625 ENGL-160-03 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: 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.
3291 ENGL-160-04 Intro Literary Studies 1.00 SEM Wheatley, Chloe WF: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 18 Waitlist available: Y 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.
2627 ENGL-170-01 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM 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: This course counts as a 100 level or elective requirement; it is required of all majors in the CW concentration.
  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.
2628 ENGL-170-02 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Berry, Ciaran 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: This course counts as a 100 level or elective requirement; it is required of all majors in the CW concentration.
  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.
2629 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: 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: This course counts as a 100 level or elective requirement; it is required of all majors in the CW concentration.
  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.
3292 ENGL-170-04 Intro to Creative Writing 1.00 SEM Woodard, Benjamin 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: 7 seats for sophomores and 7 seats first year students. One seat for IART student.
  NOTE: This course counts as a 100 level or elective requirement; it is required of all majors in the CW concentration.
  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.
3293 ENGL-214-01 A History of Love 1.00 LEC Staples, James TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course fulfills the pre-1800 and UVSJ course requirements. It also counts as an Elective and an Additional Lit/Film course.
  At the end of the eleventh century, the troubadours of southwest France introduced a novel—and electrifying—concept into European imaginations, one that had lain dormant for centuries: love. This course takes up this historical event, exploring how “love” in Western literature became a topic worthy of literary, philosophical, and theological consideration. We will, however, problematize the Western-centric and hetero-marital assumptions of “love” by recognizing its longer history, farther geographical reach, and nonheteronormative instantiations that contributed to our modern notion of love. We will consider writings of Muslim Sufis, Hispano-Arabic songs, pledges of erotic fidelity between knights, and love letters written by monks and nuns to one another and to God (among other materials), in addition to European heteroerotic lyrics and medieval romance.
3294 ENGL-263-01 Writing as Social Justice 1.00 SEM Bacote, Catina TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Underrepresented Voices & Social Justice & Elective/Additional Creative Writing/Hybrid course.
  This creative nonfiction course considers long-standing social justice issues. Through reading, writing, and discussions, we will ask: How can we courageously speak to the moment or reframe the past? How do we confront contemporary and historical injustices through acts of the imagination? What methods help us transform political and social matters into compelling and intimate stories? Can practicing writers embrace joy in the service of justice and healing? You will pursue your most pressing concerns and experiment with forms of writing, from the personal essay to the open letter. The final assignment is a collaborative project that highlights the power and reach of creative writing.
3328 ENGL-276-01 Intro to Native Literature 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: This fulfills the UVSJ and post-1800 course requirements. It also counts as an Elective and Additional Lit/Film course.
  This course serves as an introduction to Native American literature, emphasizing both the wide variety of Indigenous media forms and the ways that Indigenous people and communities have adapted Western forms and genres for their own ends. We will necessarily consider the history that this literature is bound up with, emphasizing both settler colonial dispossession and Indigenous survival and resurgence. Central themes include sovereignty, land relations, and kinship. We will read authors like Samson Occom, William Apess, John Rollin Ridge, John Joseph Mathews, Louise Erdrich, and Tommy Orange.
3295 ENGL-288-01 World Cinema 1.00 LEC Younger, James MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: FILM-288-01
  NOTE: Fulfills Post-1800, Additional Lit or Film, Elective, and Underrepresented Voices & Social Justice course requirements.
  This course provides an introduction to the study of world cinema, with a focus on cinematic cultures other than those of the USA or Europe. We will begin by considering some of the theoretical questions involved in intercultural spectatorship and introducing/reviewing critical categories we can use to discuss the films. We will then proceed through a series of units based around specific cinematic cultures, focusing on movement, genres and auteurs and on the historical, cultural, and geopolitical issues that the films illuminate. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a 200-level elective. This course can be counted toward fulfillment of requirements for the film studies minor.
3296 ENGL-305-01 Evolution of the Western Film 1.00 SEM Younger, James MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM		 TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: FILM-315-01
  NOTE: Fulfills Post-1800 and Additional Lit or Film/Elective course requirements. Required screenings accompany the course from 6:30-9 on Wednesdays.
  The course examines how the Western genre emerged from global popular culture at the end of the 19th century to become one of the most powerful and complex forms for expressing the experience of Modernity. After careful consideration of the political and philosophical implications of the Western, we will track the development of the genre as it responds to the ideological contradictions and cultural tensions of 20th-century American history, focusing on broad trends within the mainstream, the contributions of individual directors, and the global dissemination of generic elements. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1900. Evening meeting time is for screenings only. This course is research intensive.
3297 ENGL-322-01 What Is Romanticism? 1.00 SEM Bergren, Katherine MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Post-1800, Elective, & Additional Lit or Film course requirements.
  The Romantic era accounts for little over forty years of British literary history (roughly 1789-1832). Yet in spite of its short duration, it has had an out-sized effect on conceptions of what makes good and important literature. This course explores the distinctive genres, contentious relationships, and political obsessions of the Romantic period. From newly self-interrogating poetry to the rise of the Gothic novel, from the fight to end slavery to battles over the place of women and the poor, Romantic-era writers fanned the flames of change. We will explore what parts of their aesthetic and political legacy we want to embrace, and what parts we want to remember but rebuff. Authors include Jane Austen, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth, among others.
2951 ENGL-334-01 Adv Cr Writing:Fiction 1.00 SEM Heredia, Alejandro MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with FILM
  Prerequisite: C- or better in ENGL 270, ENGL 170 or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: For creative writing concentrators, this course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level workshop. This also satisfies the requirement of an elective.
  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.
3298 ENGL-360-01 Walden 1.00 SEM Hager, Christopher WF: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WELL Cross-listing: AMST-360-01
  NOTE: Fulfills Post-1800, Elective & Additional Lit or Film course requirements.
  Henry David Thoreau is one of the most familiar yet least understood figures in American intellectual history. He is, in fact, several figures at once: a pioneer of social protest, an intrepid (if sometimes myopic) student of North America's Indigenous history, a naturalist whose data is used in 21st-century climate science, as well as a writer and philosopher. This course takes one book--WALDEN, a capacious, unruly, often cryptic blend of memoir, nature writing, spiritual reflection, and social commentary--as the starting point for an intellectual exploration that ranges from Thoreau's medieval Japanese precursor Kamo No Chomei to ecological and philosophical debates raging today. Students will get to follow--or chart for themselves--one of the many paths of inquiry Thoreau's work inspires.
3333 ENGL-373-01 English Epic 1.00 SEM Wheatley, Chloe W: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This fulfils the pre-1800 requirement. It also fulfils the elective and additional lit/film requirements.
  This course, we will begin by reading, in English translation, the poetry of Homer; we will then consider how poets such as John Milton and William Blake (as well as later poets such as W.H. Auden, Derek Walcott, Alice Oswald, and/or A.E. Stallings) have absorbed, reworked, and subverted the conventions of an epic tradition. We will have a chance to explore how contributions to the epic genre – through translation, reimagination, illustration and erasure – have in an English language context reworked the connection of past, present and future; conveyed the costs of war; and celebrated the role of poetry in forging ever-evolving concepts of connection and community. This course is research-intensive, and fulfills the requirement of a pre-1800 course in the English major.
3334 ENGL-390-01 New Troy 1.00 SEM Staples, James TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: CLCV-390-01
  Prerequisite: C- or better in English 160
  NOTE: This course fulfills the pre 1800, UVSJ, elective, additional lit/film and critical reflection requirements
  After the ancient city of Troy fell-so the story goes-Trojans arrived on the island of Albion, a paradise far in the westernmost reaches of their known world. After slaughtering the indigenous giants, the Trojans claimed the island, renamed it Britain, and thus established a New Troy. Troy captivated the medieval imagination, representing the highest realization of "civilization." Medieval poets, however, also brought attention to the supremacist violence of this civilizing process by focusing on the women, the giants, and others who met tragic ends as a result. We will consider medieval accounts of Troy-such as Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Troy's Arthurian afterlives-alongside postcolonial theory, Critical Race and Indigenous studies, queer and feminist theory, and ecocriticism to develop this critique.
3302 ENGL-395-01 Crossing the Color-Line 1.00 SEM Brown, David TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Pre-1800, Critical Reflection, Elective, Additional Lit or Film, and Underrepresented Voices & Social Justice course requirements.
  This is a course in Early modern English drama and African-American literature. The plays and prose pieces produced during these disparate literary periods share many thematic-and some conventional-points of contact that are often overlooked and consequently not fully explored. Both early modern English and African-American authors addressed several critical issues such as miscegenation, power (political, parental, social), class, sexuality, lineage, death, identity, passing, homosexuality/homosociality and race. These common preoccupations will enable our productive crossing of various boundaries, most notably, the historical boundary between the texts. Authors will likely include W. E. B. Du Bois, Suzan-Lori Parks, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, James Baldwin, Nella Larsen and Harriet Jacobs. Format: discussion; mini-lectures; in-class presentations; and writing assignments.
1490 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.
1456 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)
3331 ENGL-468-01 Walt Whitman & Emily Dickinson 1.00 SEM Mrozowski, Daniel TR: 8:00AM-9:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: This course fulfills the Post-1800, Elective, and Additional Lit or Film course requirements.
  Nothing that precedes them in the American literary tradition quite prepares us for the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. We will steep ourselves in the verse of these two literary iconoclasts. At the same time, we will trace the critical history of both, reading essays from the 19th century to the present which have made the complex works and lives of Whitman and Dickinson more legible. The final class period will be reserved for reading selections from 20th-century poets -- not all of them American -- who have openly professed a debt to Whitman's and Dickinson's experimental and often exhilarating poems. Note: English 468-06 and English 868-16 are the same course. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900.
2566 ENGL-491-01 CW Thesis Part 1/Colloquium 1.00 SEM Rutherford, Ethan M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA Y ART  
  Enrollment limited to 10 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Creative Writing Thesis requirement.
  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.
2378 ENGL-498-01 Sr Thesis Part 1/Sr Colloquim 1.00 SEM Hager, Christopher WF: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Fulfills Literature Thesis course requirement.
  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.)
3430 THDN-293-01 Playwrights Workshop 1.00 SEM Simmons Jr, Godfrey M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA ART  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ENGL
  Prerequisite: At least one theater and dance course or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: 3 seats reserved for first year students, 3 sophomores, 3 juniors and 3 seniors.
  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.