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ENGL130 The English Essay ENGL131 Writing About Places ENGL145F Body and Text (FYS) ENGL146F Three Big Novels (FYS) ENGL150F American Crazy: Four Myths of Violence and National Identity (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) ENGL157F Caribbean Literature and Writing the Environment (FYS) ENGL162F The Past and Present of American Journalism (FYS) ENGL175F Staging America: Modern American Drama (FYS) ENGL176F August Wilson ENGL186 The Changing American Novel: From Jack Kerouac to Maggy Nelson ENGL201C Ways of Reading: Texts and Territories ENGL201D Ways of Reading: Reading for Genre: Form, History, Theory ENGL201G Ways of Reading: Contact Zones ENGL201H Ways of Reading: Influence, Imitation, Invention ENGL201K Ways of Reading: Borrowing and Stealing: Authorship and Originality in Literature ENGL201Q Ways of Reading: The Pleasures of the Text ENGL201T Ways of Reading: Literature About Literature ENGL203 American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War ENGL204 American Literature, 1865--1945 ENGL206 British Literature in the Enlightenment: Individualism, Consumer Culture, and the Public Sphere 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 ENGL221 The African Novel I: Nervous Conditions ENGL222 Slavery and the Literary Imagination ENGL224 Medieval Drama: Read It and Be in It ENGL225 Darwinian Fictions ENGL227 Reading The Victorians ENGL228 Life Writing: Writing About the Self and from Experience ENGL231 Contemporary Puerto Rican Art and Literature ENGL232 Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers ENGL235 Childhood in America ENGL236 The British Modernist Novel, 1900--1945 ENGL239 The Empire Writes Back: Readings in Postcolonial Literature 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 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 The Word for World is Information: Ideologies of Language in Science Fiction & Film ENGL261 Pirates, Puritans, and Pequots: Literatures of the Renaissance Atlantic ENGL262 Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers ENGL263 Black Performance Theory ENGL264 Outsiders in European Literature ENGL266 Special Topics: Creative Writing for New Media ENGL267 The 1850s ENGL272 Modernist City-Texts ENGL275 Race and Place in Early American Writing ENGL276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies ENGL279 Introduction to Latina/o/x Literature and Art: Border, Citizen, Body 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 ENGL297 Creating Children's Books I ENGL298 Richard Wright and Company ENGL302 Matter, Community, Environment ENGL303 Narrative Theory 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 ENGL309 Entertaining Social Change ENGL312 Special Topic: Girls: Character Development Across Genres 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 ENGL320 The Senses and the Subject in Cinema and Poetry ENGL322 American Modernism ENGL323 What Was the Public Sphere? ENGL326 Advanced Nonfiction Workshop ENGL328 Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings ENGL337 Advanced Poetry Workshop ENGL341 Archiving America ENGL342 Advanced Fiction Workshop ENGL343 Contesting American History: Fiction After 1967 ENGL344 Women's Lib, Women's Lit ENGL347 Special Topics: Day Books, Diaries, Notebooks, Etc. ENGL349 Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities 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 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 ENGL365 Ethics and Literature ENGL367 Nature Description: Literature and Theory ENGL368 Incarceration and American Literature ENGL371 Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora ENGL373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances ENGL376 The New York Intellectuals ENGL378 Queer Times: Poetics, Activisms, Temporalities ENGL379 Special Topic: Writing the Sonnet ENGL385 Survey of African American Theater ENGL386 Special Topics: Improvisation--Collaborating with the Unknown ENGL387 Literature of London ENGL399 Advanced Playwriting: Long Form Spring 2020 Courses Not Offered       Summer Session       Winter Session       Home       Archive       Search       ENGL ENGL113 A Nation of Immigrants? ENGL130 The English Essay ENGL131 Writing About Places ENGL132 Writing Medicine and the Doctor-Writer ENGL140F Literature, Laughter, Philosophy: Tristram Shandy (FYS) ENGL141F Slavery, Latifundio, and Revolution in Latin American Literature and Cinema (FYS) ENGL142F Beyond Marvel: Introduction to the Graphic Novel (FYS) ENGL145F Body and Text (FYS) ENGL163F Literature of London (FYS) ENGL165F Querying the Nation: American Literature and Ethnic Studies (FYS) ENGL175F Staging America: Modern American Drama (FYS) ENGL201C Ways of Reading: Texts and Territories ENGL201E Ways of Reading: Gifts, Debts, and Promises ENGL201H Ways of Reading: Influence, Imitation, Invention ENGL201J Ways of Reading: Literary Form and Forms ENGL201K Ways of Reading: Borrowing and Stealing: Authorship and Originality in Literature ENGL201P Ways of Reading: Autobiography ENGL201T Ways of Reading: Literature About Literature ENGL204 American Literature, 1865-1945: The Americanization of Power ENGL205 Shakespeare ENGL206 British Literature in the Enlightenment: Individualism, Consumer Culture, and the Public Sphere ENGL207 Chaucer and His World ENGL208 Feminist Theories ENGL209 From Seduction to Civil War: The Early U.S. Novel ENGL210 The Rise of the Novel ENGL211 Ethics of Embodiment (FGSS Gateway) ENGL213 Contemporary British and American Fiction ENGL214 Writing Nonfiction ENGL217 Recent American Fiction ENGL222 Slavery and the Literary Imagination ENGL223 The African Novel II: After Achebe ENGL224 Medieval Drama: Read It and Be in It ENGL225 Darwinian Fictions ENGL226 Romantic-Era Extremities: Madness, Revolution, Sublimity, and the Celtic Fringe ENGL230 Introduction to Asian American Literature ENGL232 Mystics and Militants: Medieval Women Writers 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 ENGL242 Storied Places: Revival, Renewal, and African American Landscapes ENGL245 The Book as Object ENGL246 Personalizing History 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 ENGL263 Black Performance Theory ENGL266 Special Topics: Creative Writing for New Media ENGL267 The 1850s ENGL268 Reading and Writing Fiction ENGL269 Introduction to Playwriting ENGL273 American Autobiography ENGL274 Caribbean Poetry and Cinema: "Fields of Islands" in an Open Sea ENGL275 Race and Place in Early American Writing ENGL276 Diasporic South Asian Writing and American Studies 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 ENGL280 Staging Race in Early Modern England ENGL281 Award-Winning Playwrights ENGL283 Old Poetics for New Poets ENGL286 When Harlem Was in Vogue ENGL287 On The Border: Chicana/o, American, and Mexican Literatures and Cinemas ENGL288 Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation ENGL289 Intertextual Aesthetics in African American Culture: From Signifyin(g) to Sampling ENGL293 Love, War, and a Few Monsters: An Introduction to Medieval Literature ENGL295 Reading Theories ENGL301 Philosophy of Memory in African American Literature ENGL303 Narrative Theory ENGL308 All the Feels: Affect Theory and Cultural Studies ENGL311 Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys ENGL316 Rethinking World Literature 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 ENGL325 Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop ENGL327 Criticism and Psychoanalysis ENGL328 Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings ENGL329 Special Topic: Writing and Reading Short Stories ENGL330 Writing History ENGL333 Special Topic: Novel Forms ENGL334 Special Topic: Something in the Air: Mining the Oral/Aural Tradition in African American Poetry ENGL336 Intermediate Poetry Workshop ENGL337 Advanced Poetry Workshop ENGL339 Intermediate Fiction Workshop 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. ENGL350 The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations ENGL351 Debate and Destruction: Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages ENGL353 Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Medieval Literature ENGL354 Reading and Rereading Moby Dick ENGL355 Scribes, Book Worms, and Bibliomaniacs: The Thrall of the Book ENGL356 Theories of Translation ENGL358 Writing the War on Terror: Crafting Literary Responses to Fiction, Film, and Television after 9/11 ENGL359 Criticism and Marxism ENGL361 After Orientalism: Asian American Literature and Theory After 2000 ENGL363 The Sounds of Black and Brown Performance ENGL369 Sex, Death, and God: English Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Marvell ENGL371 Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora ENGL373 From Courtly Love to Cannibalism: Medieval Romances ENGL374 Special Topic: Unreliable Narrators ENGL376 The New York Intellectuals ENGL378 Queer Times: Poetics, Activisms, Temporalities ENGL385 Survey of African American Theater ENGL386 Special Topics: Improvisation--Collaborating with the Unknown ENGL388 Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: The Literature of the American 1960s ENGL397 Creating Children's Books II

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