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ENGL120 The Nobel Writers: Literary Institutions and the Literary Canon ENGL130 The English Essay ENGL131 Writing Seminar I ENGL141F Slavery, Latifundio, and Revolution in Latin American Literature and Cinema (FYS) ENGL145F Body and Text (FYS) ENGL146F Three Big Novels (FYS) ENGL150F American Crazy: Four Myths of Violence and National Identity (FYS) ENGL152F The Armchair Adventurer (FYS) ENGL153F Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in the Middle Ages (FYS) ENGL154F Maps, Globes, Moons: Renaissance Worldmaking (FYS) ENGL155F Utopian Planning from Plato's Republic to UFO Cults (FYS) ENGL160F Lost World/New World: Literature and the Anthropocene (FYS) ENGL165 Querying the Nation: American Literature and Ethnic Studies ENGL171F Brief Encounters: Short Fiction by African American Women (FYS) ENGL176F August Wilson (FYS) ENGL186 The Changing American Novel: From Jack Kerouac to Maggy Nelson ENGL201A Ways of Reading: Adapting Shakespeare ENGL201B Ways of Reading: Narrative Forms ENGL201C Ways of Reading: Texts and Territories ENGL201D Ways of Reading: Reading for Genre: Form, History, Theory ENGL201E Ways of Reading: Gifts, Debts, and Promises ENGL201G Ways of Reading: Contact Zones ENGL201H Ways of Reading: Influence, Imitation, Invention ENGL201L Ways of Reading: Forms of Difference ENGL201M Ways of Reading: Writing in New England ENGL201Q Ways of Reading: The Pleasures of the Text ENGL201T Ways of Reading: Literature About Literature ENGL204 American Literature, 1865--1945 ENGL206 British Literature in the Enlightenment: Individualism, Consumer Culture, and the Public Sphere ENGL207 Chaucer and His World ENGL209 From Seduction to Civil War: The Early U.S. Novel ENGL211 Ethics of Embodiment (FGSS Gateway) ENGL213 Contemporary British and American Fiction ENGL218 Shakespeare and the Tragedy of State ENGL222 Slavery and the Literary Imagination ENGL224 Medieval Drama: Read It and Be in It ENGL225 Darwinian Fictions ENGL226 Romantic-Era Extremities: Madness, Revolution, Sublimity, and the Celtic Fringe ENGL227 Reading The Victorians ENGL228 Life Writing: Writing About the Self and from Experience ENGL229 The New York School: Poetry, Art, Movies, and the Mimeo Revolution ENGL230 Introduction to Asian American Literature ENGL231 Contemporary Puerto Rican Art and Literature ENGL233 History of Musical Theater ENGL235 Childhood in America ENGL236 The British Modernist Novel, 1900--1945 ENGL239 The Empire Writes Back: Readings in Postcolonial Literature ENGL241 Special Topics: Merging Forms ENGL243 Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora ENGL244 Kill Anything That Moves: The Vietnam War in Literature and Film ENGL246 Personalizing History ENGL247 Narrative and Ideology ENGL249 Contemporary Plays: Writing and Reading ENGL250 Contemporary U.S. Poetry ENGL251 Epic Tradition ENGL252 Animal Theories/Human Fictions ENGL253 Science and/as Literature in Early Modern England ENGL254 India and the World: Fiction and Film About India and Globalization ENGL255 Writing on the Land of Freedom: The Pastoral in African American Literature ENGL256 The Emergence of World Literature(s) ENGL257 Topics in Journalism: Literary Journalism ENGL258 New World Poetics ENGL261 Pirates, Puritans, and Pequots: Literatures of the Renaissance Atlantic ENGL263 Black Performance Theory ENGL265 Future Visions: Temporality and the Politics of Change ENGL266 Special Topics: Creative Writing for New Media ENGL267 The 1850s ENGL272 Modernist City-Texts ENGL276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies ENGL284 Afrofuturism ENGL288 Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation ENGL290 Place, Character, and Design: Techniques in Writing Nonfiction and Fiction ENGL293 Love, War, and a Few Monsters: An Introduction to Medieval Literature ENGL295 Reading Theories ENGL302 Matter, Community, Environment ENGL304 Lyric Poetry and Music: The Color and Politics of Cry, Sound, and Voice ENGL305 Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen ENGL307 Britons and Other Life Forms ENGL311 Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys ENGL312 Special Topic: Girls: Character Development Across Genres ENGL313 Special Topic: The Art of Revision ENGL314 Circulating Bodies: Commodities, Prostitutes, and Slaves in 18th-Century England ENGL317 Special Topics: Plot ENGL319 Crossing the Color Line: Racial Passing in American Literature ENGL322 American Modernism ENGL324 Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery ENGL326 Advanced Nonfiction Workshop ENGL328 Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings ENGL329 Postwar American Writers: Philip Roth and Don DeLillo ENGL331 Topics in African American Literature: Charles Chesnutt and Pauline Hopkins ENGL332 Romanticism, Criticism, and Theory ENGL333 Meaning and Materiality: Recent Trends in Theory ENGL335 Twentieth-Century Gothic Fiction ENGL337 Advanced Poetry Workshop ENGL341 Archiving America ENGL342 Advanced Fiction Workshop ENGL343 Contesting American History: Fiction After 1967 ENGL347 Special Topics: Day Books, Diaries, Notebooks, Etc. ENGL351 Debate and Destruction: Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages ENGL352 Developing a Perspective: Looking at the World Afresh ENGL353 Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature ENGL354 Reading and Rereading Moby Dick ENGL355 Special Topics: The Use of Humor ENGL356 Theories of Translation ENGL358 Writing the War on Terror: Crafting Literary Responses to Fiction, Film, and Television after 9/11 ENGL360 Special Topics: Writing Lives ENGL362 Friendship and Collaboration: In Theory, In Practice ENGL364 Special Topic: Experiments in Fiction ENGL367 Nature Description: Literature and Theory ENGL368 Incarceration and American Literature ENGL371 Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora ENGL372 Literature and Visual Culture in Shakespeare's England ENGL373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances ENGL376 The New York Intellectuals ENGL378 Queer Times: Poetics, Activisms, Temporalities ENGL384 New York City in the '40s ENGL387 Literature of London ENGL399 Advanced Playwriting: Long Form Spring 2019 Courses Not Offered       Summer Session       Winter Session       Home       Archive       Search       ENGL ENGL110F Poetry and Democracy (FYS) ENGL130 The English Essay ENGL131 Writing About Places ENGL132 Writing Medicine and the Doctor-Writer ENGL136F Not Quite Passing (FYS) ENGL140F Literature, Laughter, Philosophy: Tristram Shandy (FYS) ENGL142F Beyond Marvel: Introduction to the Graphic Novel (FYS) ENGL145F Body and Text (FYS) ENGL151F American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions (FYS) ENGL161F Captive and Confined: Literatures of Imprisonment (FYS) ENGL165 Querying the Nation: American Literature and Ethnic Studies ENGL171F Brief Encounters: Short Fiction by African American Women (FYS) ENGL175F Staging America: Modern American Drama (FYS) ENGL201A Ways of Reading: Adapting Shakespeare ENGL201B Ways of Reading: Narrative Forms ENGL201C Ways of Reading: Texts and Territories ENGL201D Ways of Reading: Reading for Genre: Form, History, Theory ENGL201E Ways of Reading: Gifts, Debts, and Promises ENGL201G Ways of Reading: Contact Zones ENGL201J Ways of Reading: Literary Form and Forms ENGL201K Ways of Reading: Borrowing and Stealing: Authorship and Originality in Literature ENGL201N Ways of Reading: Adaptations: From Page to Stage ENGL201T Ways of Reading: Literature About Literature ENGL204 American Literature, 1865--1945 ENGL205 Shakespeare ENGL206 British Literature in the Enlightenment: Individualism, Consumer Culture, and the Public Sphere ENGL207 Chaucer and His World ENGL208 Feminist Theories ENGL210 The Rise of the Novel ENGL211 Ethics of Embodiment (FGSS Gateway) ENGL213 Contemporary British and American Fiction ENGL214 Writing Nonfiction ENGL215 Place, Belonging, and Sound in the 20th c. Latina/o/x, Black, & Caribbean Imaginations--NYC ENGL217 Recent American Fiction ENGL222 Slavery and the Literary Imagination ENGL224 Medieval Drama: Read It and Be in It ENGL226 Romantic-Era Extremities: Madness, Revolution, Sublimity, and the Celtic Fringe ENGL227 Reading The Victorians ENGL230 Introduction to Asian American Literature ENGL232 Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers ENGL233 History of Musical Theater ENGL234 Jane Austen and the Romantic Age ENGL235 Childhood in America ENGL236 The British Modernist Novel, 1900--1945 ENGL238 Contemporary African American Poetry and Its Pasts ENGL239 The Empire Writes Back: Readings in Postcolonial Literature ENGL240 Introduction to African American Literature ENGL241 Special Topics: Merging Forms ENGL242 Storied Places: Revival, Renewal, and African American Landscapes ENGL243 Caribbean Writers in the U.S. Diaspora ENGL244 Kill Anything That Moves: The Vietnam War in Literature and Film ENGL245 The Book as Object ENGL246 Personalizing History ENGL250 Contemporary U.S. Poetry ENGL251 Epic Tradition ENGL252 Animal Theories/Human Fictions ENGL253 Science and/as Literature in Early Modern England ENGL254 India and the World: Fiction and Film About India and Globalization ENGL255 Writing on the Land of Freedom: The Pastoral in African American Literature ENGL256 The Emergence of World Literature(s) ENGL258 New World Poetics ENGL260 International Crime Fiction ENGL263 Black Performance Theory ENGL266 Special Topics: Creative Writing for New Media ENGL268 Reading and Writing Fiction ENGL269 Introduction to Playwriting ENGL273 American Autobiography ENGL275 Race and Place in Early American Writing ENGL277 Race and Ethnicity on the Shakespearean Stage ENGL278 Writing On and As Performance ENGL279 Introduction to Latina/o/x Literature and Art: Border, Citizen, Body ENGL281 Award-Winning Playwrights ENGL283 Old Poetics for New Poets ENGL284 Afrofuturism ENGL288 Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation ENGL293 Love, War, and a Few Monsters: An Introduction to Medieval Literature ENGL295 Reading Theories ENGL297 Creating Children's Books I ENGL301 Philosophy of Memory in African American Literature ENGL303 Narrative Theory ENGL306 Special Topics: The Beats and Their Discontents ENGL309 Entertaining Social Change ENGL310 The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry ENGL311 Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys ENGL316 Rethinking World Literature ENGL317 Special Topics: Plot ENGL318 Special Topics: Living Room: Place and Structure in the Novel and Short Story ENGL319 Crossing the Color Line: Racial Passing in American Literature ENGL320 Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth ENGL321 Special Topics: A Poet's Tour of the Essay: Innovative, Aversive, and Engaged Prose ENGL322 American Modernism ENGL324 Black Power and the Modern Narrative of Slavery ENGL325 Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop ENGL327 Criticism and Psychoanalysis ENGL328 Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings ENGL330 Writing History ENGL331 Topics in African American Literature: Charles Chesnutt and Pauline Hopkins ENGL332 Romanticism, Criticism, and Theory ENGL336 Intermediate Poetry Workshop ENGL337 Advanced Poetry Workshop ENGL338 Poetry, Print, and the Sung or Spoken Word ENGL339 Intermediate Fiction Workshop ENGL340 Death and Afterlife in the Middle Ages ENGL341 Archiving America ENGL343 Contesting American History: Fiction After 1967 ENGL345 Forms of Presence in Renaissance Lyric ENGL347 Special Topics: Day Books, Diaries, Notebooks, Etc. ENGL348 Modernism's Kids: Children in Modernist Fiction ENGL349 Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities ENGL350 The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations ENGL351 Debate and Destruction: Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages ENGL354 Reading and Rereading Moby Dick ENGL357 Writing for Television II ENGL360 Special Topics: Writing Lives ENGL363 The Sounds of Black and Brown Performance ENGL366 The Sounds of Being: Radical Black and Latina/o Poetry, Music, Cinema, and Dance ENGL369 Sex, Death, and God: English Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Marvell ENGL372 Literature and Visual Culture in Shakespeare's England ENGL373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances ENGL374 Special Topic: Unreliable Narrators ENGL376 The New York Intellectuals ENGL380 In Place of Reading: Social Location and the Literary Text ENGL385 Survey of African American Theater ENGL387 Literature of London

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