Spring 2025 Course Search

Complit 133x. Why Braille Matters: A Radical Revision of Literary Theory and World Literature

Instructor: Marc Shell Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD In this seminar, students will explore tactile reading and writing systems with a focus on Braille, the tactile reading and writing system used by the blind. Students will learn the Braille code...

English 103g. Advanced Old English: Scribes and Manuscripts

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue TBD | Location: TBD Building on the basic grammar and translation skills learned in English 102, this course introduces students to Old English literature in its most immediate context: the manuscripts that preserve the...

English 110ff. Medieval Fanfiction

Instructor: Anna Wilson Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Fanfiction is a surprisingly powerful tool for examining medieval literature. It sheds light on the dynamics of rereading and transformation that characterizes medieval literary...

English 141. When Novels Were New

Instructor: Deidre Lynch Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD What was it like to read and write a novel at a moment before that term named a stable category and before the genre’s conventions were established? How did it feel to be a writer...

English 172ad. American Democracy

Instructor: John Stauffer and Roberto Unger Friday, 1:30-3:30 pm | Location: TBD Democracy, inequality, and nationalism in America. The white working class and American politics. Class and race. Identities and interests. Conditions for socially inclusive...

English 182ca. Literature Under Capitalism

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Literature has been profoundly shaped by the advent of modern industrial capitalism. Since the Industrial Revolution, traditional social orders focused on local marketplaces have...

English 185e. The Essay: History and Practice

Instructor: James Wood Spring 2026: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Matthew Arnold famously said that poetry is, at bottom, “a criticism of life.” But if any literary form is truly a criticism of life, it is the essay. And yet despite the...

English 197ls. Introduction to Indigenous Literary Studies: Poetry, Prose, and Politics

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Introduction to Indigenous Literary Studies: Poetry, Prose, and Politics" introduces students to critical conversations in English, Indigenous Studies, and related disciplines...

English 20. Literary Forms

Spring 2026 Section 1 Instructor: Glenda Carpio Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Fall 2025 Instructor: Leah...

English 210q. Queer/Medieval

Instructor: Anna Wilson Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The / in this course title can suggest a slippage or interchangeability; opposition and polarization; or erotic or romantic friction. This course functions...

English 251. The Representation of Labor in the 19th-Century Novel: Seminar

Instructor: Elaine Scarry Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and...

English 276x. African-American Literary Tradition

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 15 students An exploration of the emergence and development of the African-American literary "tradition'' from the 18th to the 20th century. Close reading of...