Graduate Program

Spring Term Schedule for Graduate Courses

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Spring 2026

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
ENGL 405A-01 Dante's Divine Comedy, PT2 Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
The second of a sequence of two, the course approaches 'The Divine Comedy' both as a poetic masterpiece and as an encyclopedia of medieval culture. Through a close textual analysis of the second half of 'Purgatorio' and the entirety of 'Paradiso,' students learn how to approach Dante's poetry as a vehicle for thought, an instrument of self-discovery, and a way to understand and affect the historical reality. They also gain a perspective on the Biblical, Christian, and Classical traditions as they intersect with the multiple levels of Dante's concern, ranging from literature to history, from politics to government, from philosophy to theology. A visual component, including illustrations of the 'Comedy' and multiple artworks pertinent to the narrative, complements the course. Class format includes lectures, discussion, and a weekly recitation session. Intensive class participation is encouraged. No prerequisites. Freshmen are welcome. Part of the Dante Humanities Cluster. Prerequisites: ITAL 220 (Dante’s Divine Comedy, Pt. I) or permission of the instructor. Location (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 408-01 Topics in English Renaissance Drama (Renaissance Drama) Rosemary Kegl MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
Varying topics relating to Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, in its historical and cultural contexts. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. This course focuses on drama written by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Classes center around careful analysis of individual plays. We discuss, among other topics, the plays' tragic and comic inflections, depictions of psychological interiority, meditations on love and desire, staging of death, use of props, fascination with sensational and often violent events, and insistent references to contemporary performance practices. We also become familiar with a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theatrical spaces—their geographical locations and physical properties, the composition of their audiences, the training and performance practices of their actors, and the aesthetic, social, and political contexts of their productions. We consider plays written by Beaumont and Fletcher, Dekker, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Middleton, and Webster and, when possible, view scenes from recent staged productions. Satisfies the pre-1800 literature, the dramatic literature, the literature, and the 200-level literature requirements for various English major and minor tracks. Satisfies a requirement in the Humanities/English cluster, Plays, Playwrights, and Theater. Appropriate for all students, from those in their first semester at the university to senior English majors. No restrictions -- all students welcome. Location (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
ENGL 426-01 American Realists John Michael MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
We will focus on American literature, especially fiction, from 1865 to 1914. We will also consider some philosophical, polemical, and popular texts from the period. We will read works by Mark Twain, W. E. B. Dubois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and others. After the cataclysm of the Civil War and the final abolition of slavery, the United States confronted new complexities and conflicts of national identity, changing gender roles, increasing stratifications of social and economic relationships and power and an increasingly interrelated global environment. Writers in this era redefined the aesthetics of realism and reconsidered the relationship of literary art to the world and artists to their audiences, They debated the potentialities of fiction to represent and influence (for good or ill) society and politics, and the nature and implications of nationalism, imperialism, and justice We will focus on American literature, especially fiction, from 1865 to 1914. We will also consider some philosophical, polemical, and popular texts from the period. We will read works by Mark Twain, W. E. B. Dubois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and others. After the cataclysm of the Civil War and the final abolition of slavery, the United States confronted new complexities and conflicts of national identity, changing gender roles, increasing stratifications of social and economic relationships and power and an increasingly interrelated global environment. Writers in this era redefined the aesthetics of realism and reconsidered the relationship of literary art to the world and artists to their audiences, They debated the potentialities of fiction to represent and influence (for good or ill) society and politics, and the nature and implications of nationalism, imperialism, and justice. Location (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 428-01 African American Literature (African American Fiction: History, Novels, Traditions) John Michael MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Varying topics relating to the literature and culture of people of African descent in the United States. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (4 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. From Abolitionist Interventions to Afro-Futurist Art, African American fiction writers have made distinctive contributions to U. S. and world culture and created a rich vein of narrative invention that has immeasurably enriched both. We will read and discuss tales by Hannah Craft, Frederick Douglass, Charles Brockton Brown, Francis Harper, Charles Cotton, W. E. B. DuBois, Nella Larson, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Samuel Delaney, Octavia Butler, Yaa Gyasi. Location (MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM)
ENGL 443-01 Major Authors (Jane Austen & Her Contemporaries) Katherine Mannheimer TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Intensive study of the writings of a single author or small group of authors from literary traditions in English. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. This course places Jane Austen's novels within the context of other female novelists writing in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings will include Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, in addition to works by Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley. Fulfills the pre-1800 Requirement for the English Major. Location (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)
ENGL 445-01 Literary Modes (Utopian and Dystopian Writing) Rosemary Kegl MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
Varying topics relating to literature and culture representing specific styles, modes, genres, or media. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. In this course we discuss the literary qualities and social impulses that characterize utopian and dystopian writing. We focus on utopian and dystopian worlds imagined in British and American prose fiction from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century. We consider, among other topics, how this writing draws on African, Afro- and Indigenous futurisms, and on journalism, naturalism, realism, romance, satire, science fiction, travel narratives, the visual arts, and treatises about ecology, science, politics, and urban planning. We read short stories and longer fiction (in entirety and in excerpt). Our authors include Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley, Samuel Butler, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, E.M. Forster, W.E.B Du Bois, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Darcie Little Badger, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ken Liu. You have the option, in your essays, to focus on utopian or dystopian works beyond those on our syllabus. Satisfies both the pre-1800 and the post-1800 literature requirement in the English major. No restrictions, all students welcom Location (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)
ENGL 449-01 Gender, Writing, and Representation (The Matter with Men in Literature and Society) David Bleich TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
Varying topics relating to writings by women and the representation of gender from a variety of periods and cultures. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir said “throughout humanity superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills.” Is it true that the matter with men is killing? Do men kill because they think they are superior? Do they think they are superior because they kill? Are men violent because they can’t speak? Why don’t men “use their words”? How is men’s woman-hating related to killing and raping? Why do women say that “men don’t listen”? Writers, who do use their words, have depicted men’s killing and their chronic melancholia over two millennia. This course considers how well-read stories and poems show men’s struggle with shame, anger, violence, and language. Writers studied include: James Baldwin, Samuel Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Greenberg, Ira Levin, Herman Melville, Anne Petry, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf. Location (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)
ENGL 449-02 Gender, Writing, and Representation (Women and the Environment in American Lit) Natina Gilbert MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
Varying topics relating to writings by women and the representation of gender from a variety of periods and cultures. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. Since its founding, the narratives of the United States have taken inspiration from, and been haunted by, myths of the frontier. The competing drives to celebrate and conquer the natural world only came into sharper relief as the country underwent large-scale political, technological, and economic upheaval in such watershed moments as the Civil War and the Great Depression. In the twentieth century, female authors utilized regional specificity and the geography of the world around them to investigate a citizenry that was beginning to think of itself as occupying a distinctly “modern” era. In this course, we will read a variety of writers who will introduce us to, and complicate, literary tropes of the natural world that shape our collective and individual identities. From the wooded coasts of Maine, the harsh winter of New England, and the summer heat of the Berkshires, to the dynamic urban centers of Chicago and Harlem, novelists such as Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Nella Larsen, and poets like Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Bishop evoke landscapes that represent the diverse and pressing questions we have inherited from the last century. Location (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)
ENGL 450-01 Film Theory and Aesthetics Jason Middleton W 4:50PM - 7:30PM
This course is designed for students who have completed introductory and intermediate level courses in film and media, and are prepared to engage with more advanced readings in film theory and analysis. Subject areas will include semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, feminist theory, queer theory, genre studies, phenomenology, cinematic realism, and theories of the avant-garde. The course will closely examine significant works of global cinema in the narrative, documentary, and experimental traditions. Location (W 4:50PM - 7:30PM)
ENGL 453-1 Florence Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial Joanna Scott 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This is a study-abroad course based in Florence, Italy, and dedicated to the intensive study of Creative Writing. Both interdisciplinary and international, this course will offer students the opportunity to work on their writing projects in one of the most culturally significant cities in the world. The course will combine group workshops, tutorial meetings, site visits, and walking tours through Florence and the surrounding countryside. Students will complete a portfolio in their preferred genre: fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, or literary translation. There is a fee of $3800 and scholarships and travel grants are available for students. The course is open to University of Rochester students and can be taken as an elective. It will fulfill a 200-level requirement in the Creative Writing major, minor, or cluster. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 454-01 Arthurian Literature Gregory Heyworth TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
The origins and later developments of the chivalric romance tradition centering on the legends of King Arthur and his knights. Location (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)
ENGL 466-01 Film Studies (The Politics and Aesthetics of Horror Cinema) Jason Middleton TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
Topics in the study of film. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different. Offering a grounding in horror studies and film theory, this course invites students to view horror cinema with close attention to both formal and social/historical elements. One particular focus of the course will be on how the horror genre reflects larger cultural anxieties surrounding race, gender, class, and sexuality over time. Subtopics will include grief and trauma in horror; found footage and techno-horror; folk horror; and eco-horror. Prerequisites: Either one English or Film and Media Studies course. Location (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)
ENGL 468-01 Digital Imaging Gregory Heyworth TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections. Location (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)
ENGL 472-01 Moving Image Archive Management Jeff Stoiber 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Restricted to Selznick Students Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 473-01 Laboratory Work Jeff Stoiber 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Restricted to Selznick Students Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 474-01 Personal Project Jeff Stoiber 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Restricted to Selznick Students Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 475-03 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction Stephen Schottenfeld M 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This workshop is for advanced fiction writers who have completed ENG 121 or have permission from the instructor. The course emphasizes the development of each student's individual style and imagination, as well as the practical and technical concerns of a fiction writer's craft. Readings will be drawn from a wide variety of modern and contemporary writers. Students will be expected to write three original short stories as well as to revise extensively in order to explore the full range of the story's potential. Applicable English Cluster: Creative Writing. Location (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 476-02 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Jennifer Grotz T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
Advanced creative writing workshop in poetry. Work by various contemporary poets will provide the framework for explorations into technique and poetic narrative. Poems, as William Carlos Williams once said, are machines made out of words, and in this advanced poetry workshop we will work on making the most gorgeous, gripping, and efficient machines possible. To that end, we will read both one another's poems and poems by established authors, in either case paying attention to the ways in which the authors harness aspects of their medium, the English language: syntax, diction, rhythm. The poems we write may take any shape, any form, but we will work towards understanding why a particular poem must take the shape it has; we will pay attention not so much to what the poems say as to how they say it. Requirements: weekly writing and reading assignments, revisions of assignments, devoted participation in class discussions, a final project. Permission of instructor is required. Students are to submit 3-5 typed poems, preferably before the first class. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 478-01 Seminar in Writing: Fiction Stephen Schottenfeld W 2:00PM - 4:40PM
Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction. Location (W 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 491-03 Master’s Readings William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for master's students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 500-1 Graduate Colloquium William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Graduate colloquium is a semester-long introduction to doctoral study in English. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 531-01 Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Supritha Rajan R 2:00PM - 4:40PM
From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam, nineteenth-century British writers are well-known for exploring the cutting-edge sciences of their day in their literary works. As much recent scholarship has shown, these interactions between literature and science did not rest at the level of metaphor or analogy, but profoundly shaped understandings of aesthetic experience, the imagination, and literary experiments in genre. In this course, we will read and discuss a number of canonical Romantic and Victorian writers (e.g. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater) in order to understand how their knowledge of sciences like geology, chemistry, astronomy, and various life sciences shaped their writings, as well as their evolving attitudes on what distinguished the literary arts from the increasingly differentiated domain of the natural sciences. The course will thus simultaneously ground students in canonical literary figures and texts of the nineteenth century and introduce them to an ongoing debate within the university on the particular status of the literary arts vis à vis the natural sciences. Location (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 544-01 Queer Ecologies Stefanie Dunning T 2:00PM - 4:40PM
This class explores the representation of sexuality, and gender in nature writing through the lens of queer theory. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including environmental justice, feminist studies, and LGBTQIA+ movements, this class will consider how queer ecologies reveal and disrupt traditional gendered and heterosexual ideologies around nature, that are often iterated in how we understand the environment and bodies. Location (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)
ENGL 572-01 Practicum In Teaching Of Writing Matt Bayne; Luke Latella M 9:00AM - 10:15AM
The yearlong practicum has two components, a practicum group, which is led by a 571 course instructor, and a mentor group, which is led by an experienced WSAP instructor. These two groups involve new instructors in a combination of small group meetings, class observations, individual meetings, and workshops designed to support and further educate new instructors. Small group meetings, classroom observations, and individual meetings offer new teachers a chance to gain different perspectives on their teaching, identify their teaching strengths, and work out solutions to teaching difficulties. The larger goal of all meetings is to encourage instructors to work with colleagues across the disciplines to create a supportive and intellectually challenging community, a community that they can call on throughout their career as educators. Location (M 9:00AM - 10:15AM)
ENGL 574-01 Moving Image Preservation in Practice Jeff Stoiber 7:00PM - 7:00PM
Under the direction of English Department Faculty and staff of George Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department, the student will plan and undertake a significant project designed to challenge her/his abilities to function at a professional level in the moving image archive field. Examples of potential projects include: archival projection, public programming and exhibitions, collection management, video and digital preservation techniques, processing and conservation of motion picture related materials, acquisitions, access and cataloging. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 575-01 Film Preservation Project Jeff Stoiber 7:00PM - 7:00PM
topic specific training/study in film preservation work. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 580-01 Pedagogical Training William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
2nd year PhD or 2nd year MA Selznick pedagogical TA training. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 591-01 PhD Readings William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is for PhD students that have made arrangements with a faculty member to complete readings and discussion in a particular subject in their field of study. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 595-01 PhD Research William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 897-01 Masters Dissertation William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides master's students who are currently completing their final required coursework, or with special circumstances like an approved reduced courseload, with the opportunity to work full-time on their degrees. Students will make significant progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 995-01 Continuation of Doctoral Enrollment – 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is designed for PhD students who have completed all required coursework but still need to finalize specific degree requirements under less than half-time enrollment. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 999-01 Doctoral Dissertation William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students who have completed or are currently completing 90 credits of coursework and have fulfilled all degree requirements (except for the dissertation) with the opportunity to work full-time on their dissertation. Students will make significant progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
ENGL 999A-01 Doctoral Dissertation In Absentia William Miller 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course is tailored for PhD students conducting their research while studying in absentia. It allows students to remain enrolled and actively engaged in their doctoral research while away from campus. The course supports students as they work independently to develop and advance their dissertations, ensuring alignment with academic standards and program milestones. Students must have completed 90 credits and will be working full-time on their research while away from the university. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
ENGL 572-01 Practicum In Teaching Of Writing Matt Bayne; Luke Latella
The yearlong practicum has two components, a practicum group, which is led by a 571 course instructor, and a mentor group, which is led by an experienced WSAP instructor. These two groups involve new instructors in a combination of small group meetings, class observations, individual meetings, and workshops designed to support and further educate new instructors. Small group meetings, classroom observations, and individual meetings offer new teachers a chance to gain different perspectives on their teaching, identify their teaching strengths, and work out solutions to teaching difficulties. The larger goal of all meetings is to encourage instructors to work with colleagues across the disciplines to create a supportive and intellectually challenging community, a community that they can call on throughout their career as educators.
ENGL 475-03 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction Stephen Schottenfeld
This workshop is for advanced fiction writers who have completed ENG 121 or have permission from the instructor. The course emphasizes the development of each student's individual style and imagination, as well as the practical and technical concerns of a fiction writer's craft. Readings will be drawn from a wide variety of modern and contemporary writers. Students will be expected to write three original short stories as well as to revise extensively in order to explore the full range of the story's potential. Applicable English Cluster: Creative Writing.
Monday and Wednesday
ENGL 408-01 Topics in English Renaissance Drama (Renaissance Drama) Rosemary Kegl
Varying topics relating to Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, in its historical and cultural contexts. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 445-01 Literary Modes (Utopian and Dystopian Writing) Rosemary Kegl
Varying topics relating to literature and culture representing specific styles, modes, genres, or media. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 428-01 African American Literature (African American Fiction: History, Novels, Traditions) John Michael
Varying topics relating to the literature and culture of people of African descent in the United States. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (4 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 449-02 Gender, Writing, and Representation (Women and the Environment in American Lit) Natina Gilbert
Varying topics relating to writings by women and the representation of gender from a variety of periods and cultures. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 405A-01 Dante's Divine Comedy, PT2 Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
The second of a sequence of two, the course approaches 'The Divine Comedy' both as a poetic masterpiece and as an encyclopedia of medieval culture. Through a close textual analysis of the second half of 'Purgatorio' and the entirety of 'Paradiso,' students learn how to approach Dante's poetry as a vehicle for thought, an instrument of self-discovery, and a way to understand and affect the historical reality. They also gain a perspective on the Biblical, Christian, and Classical traditions as they intersect with the multiple levels of Dante's concern, ranging from literature to history, from politics to government, from philosophy to theology. A visual component, including illustrations of the 'Comedy' and multiple artworks pertinent to the narrative, complements the course. Class format includes lectures, discussion, and a weekly recitation session. Intensive class participation is encouraged. No prerequisites. Freshmen are welcome. Part of the Dante Humanities Cluster.
ENGL 426-01 American Realists John Michael
We will focus on American literature, especially fiction, from 1865 to 1914. We will also consider some philosophical, polemical, and popular texts from the period. We will read works by Mark Twain, W. E. B. Dubois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin and others. After the cataclysm of the Civil War and the final abolition of slavery, the United States confronted new complexities and conflicts of national identity, changing gender roles, increasing stratifications of social and economic relationships and power and an increasingly interrelated global environment. Writers in this era redefined the aesthetics of realism and reconsidered the relationship of literary art to the world and artists to their audiences, They debated the potentialities of fiction to represent and influence (for good or ill) society and politics, and the nature and implications of nationalism, imperialism, and justice
Monday and Friday
Tuesday
ENGL 476-02 Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Jennifer Grotz
Advanced creative writing workshop in poetry. Work by various contemporary poets will provide the framework for explorations into technique and poetic narrative.
ENGL 544-01 Queer Ecologies Stefanie Dunning
This class explores the representation of sexuality, and gender in nature writing through the lens of queer theory. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including environmental justice, feminist studies, and LGBTQIA+ movements, this class will consider how queer ecologies reveal and disrupt traditional gendered and heterosexual ideologies around nature, that are often iterated in how we understand the environment and bodies.
Tuesday and Thursday
ENGL 449-01 Gender, Writing, and Representation (The Matter with Men in Literature and Society) David Bleich
Varying topics relating to writings by women and the representation of gender from a variety of periods and cultures. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (3 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 454-01 Arthurian Literature Gregory Heyworth
The origins and later developments of the chivalric romance tradition centering on the legends of King Arthur and his knights.
ENGL 468-01 Digital Imaging Gregory Heyworth
This course introduces students to the methods involved in turning real objects into virtual ones using cutting edge digital imaging technology and image rendering techniques. Focusing on manuscripts, paintings, maps, and 3D artifacts, students will learn the basics of multispectral imaging, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging, and spectral image processing using ENVI and Photoshop. These skills will be applied to data from the ongoing research of the Lazarus Project as well as to local cultural heritage collections.
ENGL 443-01 Major Authors (Jane Austen & Her Contemporaries) Katherine Mannheimer
Intensive study of the writings of a single author or small group of authors from literary traditions in English. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
ENGL 466-01 Film Studies (The Politics and Aesthetics of Horror Cinema) Jason Middleton
Topics in the study of film. Please see public notes for specific section titles and course descriptions. This topics course can be repeated (2 times) for additional credit as long as the special topic (section title) is different.
Wednesday
ENGL 478-01 Seminar in Writing: Fiction Stephen Schottenfeld
Read short stories by contemporary writers along with fiction by the students in the workshop, and discuss ways writers can sharpen the conversation between text and reader. Also consider editing and reviewing techniques. Students expected to write and revise at least three original stories or three sections of a longer work of fiction.
ENGL 450-01 Film Theory and Aesthetics Jason Middleton
This course is designed for students who have completed introductory and intermediate level courses in film and media, and are prepared to engage with more advanced readings in film theory and analysis. Subject areas will include semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, feminist theory, queer theory, genre studies, phenomenology, cinematic realism, and theories of the avant-garde. The course will closely examine significant works of global cinema in the narrative, documentary, and experimental traditions.
Wednesday and Friday
Thursday
ENGL 531-01 Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science Supritha Rajan
From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Alfred Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam, nineteenth-century British writers are well-known for exploring the cutting-edge sciences of their day in their literary works. As much recent scholarship has shown, these interactions between literature and science did not rest at the level of metaphor or analogy, but profoundly shaped understandings of aesthetic experience, the imagination, and literary experiments in genre. In this course, we will read and discuss a number of canonical Romantic and Victorian writers (e.g. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Walter Pater) in order to understand how their knowledge of sciences like geology, chemistry, astronomy, and various life sciences shaped their writings, as well as their evolving attitudes on what distinguished the literary arts from the increasingly differentiated domain of the natural sciences. The course will thus simultaneously ground students in canonical literary figures and texts of the nineteenth century and introduce them to an ongoing debate within the university on the particular status of the literary arts vis à vis the natural sciences.
Friday