Courses in English Language and Literature

Courses

The listing below represents the range and variety of the curriculum, not the course offerings in any given year. Applicants may write to the department for information about current course offerings. Undergraduate courses are listed in the College's Courses and Programs of Study. 50000- and 60000-level courses are open only to Ph.D. students.

30100. Introduction to Religion and Literature
Yu

30200. Gender Studies
Field

31000, 31100. History and Theory of Drama I, II
Bevington

31500. Topics in Critical Theory
Schleusener

31600. History of Criticism
Murrin

31700. Literary Theory: Modern Backgrounds
Yu

31901. Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Ruddick

32000. The Intimate Public Sphere
Berlant

32300. Marxism and Modern Culture
Kruger

32400. African Diaspora and Literary Theory
Warren

32600. Visual Culture
Mitchell

32800. Theories of Media
Mitchell

32850. Caribbean Literature: Corporality, Eroticism, and Identity
Staff

33000. Academic and Professional Writing (The Little Red Schoolhouse)
McEnerney

33600. Culture and African American Thought
Warren

34100 (MAPH 30100). Foundations of Interpretive Theory
Vogler

34800. Medieval Dream Poetry
von Nolcken

34900. Old English: Beginning Course
von Nolcken

35000. Old English Poetry
von Nolcken

35200. Beowulf
von Nolcken

35400. The Middle Ages
von Nolcken

35500. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Schleusener

35501. Tough Broads
Nelson

35700. Politics of Literarcy in Pre-Modern England
von Nolcken

35800. Medieval Drama
Bevington

35900. Earlier English Women Authors
Mueller

36100. Renaissance Lyric
Strier

36180. Travellers on the Silk Road
Murrin

36300. Renaissance Epic
Murrin

36302. Renaissance Romance
Murrin

36400. Renaissance Love
Scodel

36600. The Mourners Bench: Writing, Grief & African-American Literature
Goldsby

36601. Society and Politics in Shakespeare's Plays
Strier

36700. Elizabethan Drama
Bevington

36701. Skepticism and Sexuality in Shakespeare
Bevington

36800. Culture, Society, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
Strier

37000. Seventeenth Century Poetry
Scodel

37001. Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Cormack

37100. Women Poets of the Seventeenth Century
Strier

37200. Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: The End of an Era
Bevington

37500. Milton
Mueller, Murrin, Scodel, Strier

37700. Seventeenth-Century Neoclassicism
Scodel

38000. Visual Culture in the English Enlightenment
Macpherson

38101. The Films of Max Ophuls
Hansen

38601. The Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere
Valenza

38800. Dr. Johnson and His Circle
Chandler

39500. The Lyric and History
Chandler

40000. Victorian Wives, Mothers & Daughters
Hadley

41000. The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Rothfield

41001. The Victorian Period
Rothfield

41100. Victorian Childhood
Hadley

41200. The Country and the City
Makdisi

41300. Medieval Allegory
Murrin

41400. Virginia Woolf
Ruddick

41500. Professionalism and Its Discontents
Rothfield

41900. Pauperism and Poverty in Nineteenth Century
Hadley

42000. Victorian Poetry
Helsinger

42100. Text and Image in Victorian Britain
Helsinger

42300. Victorian Women Writers
Helsinger

42400, 42500. Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting I, II
Helsinger

42800. Chicago
Knight

42902. Radical Poetics
Izenberg

43000. Ulysses
Ruddick

43700. Recent American Poetry
Strand, von Hallberg

43900. Women, Writing, Spirituality: England and America, 1546-1725
Knight

43902. Redeemer Nation: Rhetorics of Religious Nationalism in Colonial America
Knight

44200. Colonization/Canonization: Making of South African Literature
Kruger

44400. Redeemer Nation: America 1585-1750
Knight

44500. Brechtian Representations: Theatre, Theory, Cinema
Kruger

44700. Feminism, Post-Colonialism, and Southern African Writing
Driver

44800. Gender and Southern African Writing
Driver

44900. The Contemporary Historical Novel
Veeder

45000. Post Modern Autobiography
Nelson

45100. American Gothic
Veeder

45400. African-American Migration Narratives
Stewart

45500. After Great Pain: From Sentimentality to Trauma in the U.S. Liberal Tradition
Berlant

45600. Typologies of Gender in Puritan America
Knight

45800. The American Novel and the Death of Jim Crow
Warren

45900. Urban Fictions and American Space, 1880-1900
Brown

46000. Nineteenth-century American Gothic
Veeder

46100. American Enlightenment
Slauter

46500. Metaphysical Poetry
Strier

46501. American Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
Veeder

46600. African-American Poetry
von Hallberg

46700. Twentieth Century African-American Cultural Movements
Warren

46800. The Age of Washington and Du Bois
Warren

47100. African American Literature on Film
Stewart

47200. Elements of Poetry and Poetics
von Hallberg

47300. Slavery and the Literary Imagination
Goldsby

47800. American Poetry Since 1945
von Hallberg

47900. Confessional Writing in the Cold War
Nelson

48000. Methods and Issues in Cinema Studies
Lastra

48100. Genre and Authorship in Post-Classical Cinema
Hansen

48300. Close Analysis: Methods in Film Study
Tsivian

48600. Capra and Hollywood
Chandler

48700. Making Up the Past: History, Memory, Media
Chandler

48800. The Films of Josef von Sternberg
Gunning

49900. Fiction's Fiction
Veeder


This list was last revised on 9/03/2003.

Seminars

50000. Reading Course
Staff

50100. Graduate Teaching Colloquium
Staff

50300. Principles of Teaching Writing
McEnerney, Williams

50400. The Teaching of English
Hadley

51000, 51100. Ph.D. Colloquium
Staff

51200. Medieval Dream Poetry
von Nolcken

51500. Perfection and Utopia in Late Medieval England
Miller

51700. Ethics and Psychology in Late Medieval England
Schleusener

51701. Shakespeare: Anatomy, Analysis and the Archive
Mazzio

52000. The Matter of Law in Early Modern English Literature
Cormack

52200. Tudor Texts and Contexts
Mueller

52300. Renaissance Rhetoric
Mueller

52400. The Politics of Taste
Rothfield

52401. Stuart Texts and Contexts
Mueller

52600. Intellectual Backgrounds of the Renaissance in Europe
Strier

52800. The Invention of Britain in Early Modern Literature
Cormack

53000. Radcliffe, Scott & Dickens
Chandler

53400. British Literary Culture 1750-1850
Chandler

53401. Narrative Point of View: Theory/Practice, Fiction/Cinema
Chandler

53700. Thinking and Acting in the Long Eighteenth Century
Macpherson

54300. Victorian Liberalism: Institutions, Ideas, Literatures
Hadley

54500. Poetry and the Arts: Britain, 1850-1880
Helsinger

54800. Sensibility, Sensation, Sexuality
Rothfield

55000. Twentieth Century African-American Culture
Warren

55100. Colonial Encounters
Knight

55200. America after Columbus
Knight

55400. Objects & Artifacts
Brown

55401. Henry James: The Great Novellas
Veeder

55500. Kitsch, Camp, and the Politics of Culture
Brown

55800. Postmodernism: Seminar in Art and Literature
von Hallberg

56000. Ezra Pound and Paul Celan
von Hallberg

56600. Birth of the Cool
Goldsby

57200. Elements of Poetry and Poetics
von Hallberg

58500. Technology and Representation
Lastra

58600. Film and the Avant-Garde (Experimental Film)
Lastra

58700. Seminar: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism
Hansen

58900. A Separate Cinema: Race Films in Context
Stewart

59300. Drama, Theatre, Spectacle, Performance
Kruger

59400. Realism, Modernism, Socialism: The Politics of Literary Form
Kruger

59700. Nationality, Sexuality, and Gender: Practicum in Feminist Theory and Pedagogy
Berlant

59900. Intensive Reading Research
Staff

60301. Space, Place, and Landscape
Mitchell

60400. Cavell and Criticism
Strier

61500. Politics of Literacy in Pre-Modern England
von Nolcken

63200. The Language of Rights in Eighteenth-Century America
Slauter

63800. On Beauty and Being Just in the Long Eighteenth Century
Macpherson

63801. Wordsworth and Scott
Chandler

64000. Romanticism and Political Economy
Chandler

64200. The Historical Novel
Chandler

64400. British and German Modernism: A Comparative Approach
von Hallberg

64500. Nationalism and Cultural History: Representing 19th-Century Britain
Helsinger

64800. Nineteenth Century History and Fiction
Helsinger

65201. The US Historical Novel
Berlant

65500. Romantic Fetishism in America
Brown

65600. Whitman and the Logics of "America"
Brown

65800. Early American Modernism
von Hallberg

65900. Slavery and Contemporary Cultural Politics
Warren

66100. Irishness and Modernity
Ruddick

66200. Modernity and the Reinvention of the "Folk"
Ruddick

66400. Culture of Cold War
Nelson

66500. John Donne in History and Theory
Strier

66600. Representation & Violence
Mitchell

66800. New Deal Culture: Stage, Screen, and the Public Sphere in 1930s America
Kruger

66900. Nationalism and Authority
Ruddick

67200. Governing Belief
Knight

67400. W.E.B. DuBois and the Politics of 20th Century Literature
Warren

67700. Topics in Sex and Theory: Bodies in Space
Berlant

68400. The Concept of "Classical Cinema"
Hansen

68500. International Cinema and the Emergence of Film
Tsivian

68600. Victorian Virtue and Vice
Rothfield

68700. The Persistence of Surrealism
Lastra

68800. Cinema and the Artistic Tradition
Tsivian

68900. Film Exhibition
Gunning

69600. Poetry and Socio-Linguistics
von Halberg

69700. Totemism, Fetishism, and Idolatry
Mitchell

69900. Research Seminar
Staff