ENGL 2026-2027 Course List*

*Divided by contribution to major requirements (i.e., FYS’s, literary histories, geographies, theory, creative writing, and electives) and sub-divided by semester

FYS (Freshman Year Seminar)

Fall ‘26

ENGL 150F: American Crazy

ENGL 162: Poetry Lab

ENGL 175F: Staging America

Spring ‘27

ENGL 114F: Shakespeare and Poetic Justice

ENGL 132F: The Library

ENGL 176F: August Wilson

Ways of Reading: Gateway to the Major

Fall ‘26

ENGL 201K: Borrowing and Stealing: Authorship and Originality in Literature

ENGL 201L: Forms of Difference

ENGL 201T: Literature About Literature

Spring ‘27

ENGL 201C: Texts and Territories

ENGL 201D: Stories and Storytelling

ENGL 201M: Literature and/as Philosophy

ENGL 201N: Adaptations: from Page to Stage

Literary History I

Fall ‘26

ENGL 205: Shakespeare

ENGL 289: Loving and Thinking in Renaissance Poetry

ENGL 305: Shakespeare’s Macbeth: From Saga to Screen

ENGL 329: Medieval Monsters

Spring ‘27

ENGL 205: Shakespeare

ENGL 246: Shakespeare and Poetic Justice

ENGL 291: The First Stories: Oral Poetry in Greece and Anglo-Saxon England

ENGL 353: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature

ENGL 395: Hell: An Introduction

Literary History II

Fall ‘26

ENGL 203.01: American Literature to 1865

ENGL 285: Victorian Modes and Moods

ENGL 307: Literature, Laughter, Philosophy: Tristram Shandy

ENGL 308: Dark Writing: Poetry and Doubt in Early Modern England

ENGL 338: Serial Sensations

Spring ‘27

ENGL 219: The Great American Novel

ENGL 251: Paradise Lost to Frankenstein

ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers

ENGL 335: Wordsworth and Blake

Literary History III

Fall ‘26

ENGL 230: Introduction to Asian American Literature

ENGL 233: All Ah We: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Drama and Performance

ENGL 236: British Modernist Fiction

ENGL 280: On the Essay

ENGL 347: Black Grammars

ENGL 368: Faulkner and the Thirties

Spring ‘27

ENGL 219: The Great American Novel

ENGL 311: Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys

ENGL 320: The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry

ENGL 344: Women’s Lib, Women’s Lit

ENGL 379: American Modernism in a Time of Crisis

Literary Geographies:

World Literature

Fall ‘26

ENGL 233: All Ah We: Contemporary Afro-Caribbean Drama and Performance

ENGL 280: On the Essay

ENGL 347: Black Grammars

Spring ‘27

ENGL 291: The First Stories: Oral Poetry in Greece and Anglo-Saxon England

ENGL 320: The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry

ENGL 353: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature

British Literature

Fall ‘26

ENGL 205: Shakespeare

ENGL 236: British Modernist Fiction

ENGL 285: Victorian Modes and Moods

ENGL 289: Loving and Thinking in Renaissance Poetry

ENGL 305: Shakespeare’s Macbeth: From Saga to Screen

ENGL 307: Literature, Laughter, Philosophy: Tristram Shandy

ENGL 308: Dark Writing: Poetry and Doubt in Early Modern England

ENGL 329: Medieval Monsters

ENGL 338: Serial Sensations

Spring ‘27

ENGL 205: Shakespeare

ENGL 246: Shakespeare and Poetic Justice

ENGL 251: Paradise Lost to Frankenstein

ENGL 291: The First Stories: Oral Poetry in Greece and Anglo-Saxon England

ENGL 311: Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys

ENGL 335: Wordsworth and Blake

ENGL 395: Hell: An Introduction

American Literature

Fall ‘26

ENGL 203.01: American Literature to 1865

ENGL 230: Introduction to Asian American Literature

ENGL 280: On the Essay

ENGL 338: Serial Sensations

ENGL 368: Faulkner and the Thirties

Spring ‘27

ENGL 219: The Great American Novel

ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers

ENGL 320: The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry

ENGL 344: Women’s Lib, Women’s Lit

ENGL 379: American Modernism in a Time of Crisis

Theory

Fall ‘26

ENGL 280: On the Essay

ENGL 338: Serial Sensations

ENGL 347 Black Grammars

Spring ‘27

ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers

ENGL 320: The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry

ENGL 335: Wordsworth and Blake

Creative Writing

Fall ‘26

ENGL 216.01 Techniques of Poetry

ENGL 216A: Techniques of Poetry: Hidden Histories

ENGL 238: ST: Nest, Wave, Spiral, Bloom: A Cross-Genre Workshop

ENGL 269: Introduction to Playwriting

ENGL 292: Techniques of Nonfiction: Disruptive Bodies

ENGL 296:.01: Techniques of Fiction

ENGL 296.02: Techniques of Fiction

ENGL 325.01: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop

ENGL 325A: Intermediate Nonfiction: The Book-Length Essay

ENGL 336: Intermediate Poetry Workshop

ENGL 393: Special Topic: Difficult Novels, Uneasy Narratives

ENGL 399: Advanced Playwriting: Long Form

ENGL 450: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing

Spring ‘27

ENGL 216.01: Techniques of Poetry

ENGL 269: Introduction to Playwriting

ENGL 292: Techniques of Nonfiction: Disruptive Bodies

ENGL 296.01: Techniques of Fiction

ENGL 296.02: Techniques of Fiction

ENGL 326: Advanced Nonfiction Workshop

ENGL 337: Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 341: Writing the War on Terror: Literature and Film after 9/11

ENGL 342: Advanced Fiction Workshop

ENGL 348: Special Topics: Conversations with Writers

ENGL 399: Advanced Playwriting: Long Form

Electives

Fall ‘26

ENGL 143L: Introduction to TESOL

ENGL 208: Feminist Theories

ENGL 228: Life Writing

ENGL 231: Foundations: Nation, South Asia, Diaspora

ENGL 235: Children’s Literature

ENGL 240: Introduction to African American Literature

ENGL 242: Longform Narrative

ENGL 268: Spiritual Autobiography

ENGL 270: Introduction to Translation

ENGL 309: Entertaining Social Change

Spring ‘27

ENGL 208: Feminist Theories

ENGL 228: Life Writing

ENGL 234: Introduction to Postcolonial Theory

ENGL 247: Imperial Education: Colonial Template

ENGL 264: Outsiders in European Literature

ENGL 318: Black Literary Theory

ENGL 328: Researching and Writing Historical Narrative Nonfiction

ENGL 397: Black Grief Geographies