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 131p. Milton's Paradise Lost

Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBA This course focuses on Milton’s most famous work, Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English and the only successful classical epic in the modern world. Milton went totally blind in his forties and...

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...