A course in persuasive, analytical and researched writing that includes critical response to readings. Not to be counted toward an English major or minor, or included in the 56-credit limitation in one subject area. (WA)

An introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literature (broadly conceived), with readings organized thematically around a topic of wide social interest, such as war, identity, nature or crime. Students will practice close reading techniques on historically, culturally, and formally diverse texts, learn about the wide range of objects and questions that literary study can address, and consider how literary works respond to and participate in social worlds. This course is both an accessible English course for non-majors and an introductory course for students who wish to pursue a minor or a major in English. (H) (WA)

An introductory workshop focused primarily on prose fiction. (WA)

The purposes of this class are two-fold: on the one hand, it will provide a sketch of the most important elements of British literary development between 1390 and 1755. On the other hand, we will develop a conversation about the history of gender in that period. Contributes to Early Modern Studies, and International Studies. (H) (WA)

A historical survey of literary trends and prominent writers from the late 18th Century to the early 20th Century. Authors studied may include William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, and special attention will be given to issues of race, sexuality, and colonialism in the context of the waxing and waning British Empire. May be taken independently of English 10-154. Contributes to International Studies. (H) (WA)

From before Columbus to the present. An historically organized course. May be taken independently of English 10-154 and English 10-164. (H) (WA)

An introduction to issues and methods of literary analysis. Topics and readings will vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: English 10-124. (Spring) (H) (WA)

Provides students with a broad overview of cinema history and an introduction to the terminology of film analysis and critique. Students will learn film theory, aesthetics, and genre; and begin to explore the semiotics of film structure that embed ideas about gender, race, class, and sexuality within gothic, romantic, tragic, and comic modes of representation. Students will also develop an understanding of the importance of cinematography, editing, sound, and casting in the production and interpretation of film meaning. Contributes to Design Thinking. (Fall) (H)

A writing workshop in poetry. May be repeated for credit. Approval of instructor required. (WA)

A writing workshop in prose fiction. May be repeated for credit. Approval of instructor required. (WA)

An intensive course in writing with emphasis on the critical essay. May be repeated with change in topic. (WA)

This course undertakes serious consideration of literature written for children and Young Adults from the Golden Age (1850-1915) to the present, in the context of shifting historical and cultural beliefs about childhood. (H)

A study of British Fantasy literature written for children and adolescents from the 1800s to the present. Through novels and film adaptations like Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Pullman's The Golden Compass, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Jones's Howl's Moving Castle, we will explore questions of narrative, genre, adaptation and intended audience(s). (H)

An intensive introduction to major critical and theoretical approaches to literature. Prerequisite: English 10-244 or permission of instructor. (H)

This course offers a focused engagement with a theoretical question, problem or method. Possible offerings include Foucault and the Legacies of New Historicism, Problems in Textuality, Who Put the Post in Postcolonial? Technical Advances in Ecocriticism, Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Discontents. May be repeated with change of topic. Prerequisite: English 10-244. (H)

This course will focus on the way films define gender, and on the direction that film criticism takes when feminism goes to the movies. It includes an intensive consideration of feminist film criticism and theory from 1975 to the present, and is intended for students who are interested in film studies and who have some experience with critical reading, writing, and theoretical analysis. Contributes to Feminist Studies. Prerequisite: English 10-244, English 10-254, Feminist Studies 04-104 or permission of instructor. (H) (SJ)

This is a course on translation theory that is open to monolingual and multilingual students, from inside and outside the English major. We will study Shakespeare in translation as well as the original, and modern poetry in English and in Spanish, as we explore important issues of translation theory. Contributes to Chinese, East Asian Studies, German, International Studies, Latin, Neuroscience and Spanish. May be repeated with change of topic. Prerequisite: English 10-244 or fluency in a second language. (H)

Diverse themes and approaches (such as narrative, historicist, genre, feminist) to Hollywood and/or independent film traditions. Possible offerings include Film Noir, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Romantic Comedies, 60s Hollywood, Reel Jews, and LGBT Film. May be repeated with change of topic. (H)

A history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon European, Asian, Indian and Third World cinema. Cultural contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Lang, Eisenstein, Renoir, Truffaut, Fellini, Bergman, Fassbinder, Kurosawa, Ray, Almodovar, and Campion are among the directors studied. German cinema of the Weimar Period, Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, the Japanese Postwar Renaissance and emergent Third World Cinema are among the organizing principles of this survey. Contributes to International Studies. (H)

A history of narrative film from its origins to the present with an emphasis upon Hollywood cinema. Historical contexts and technological evolution are emphasized. Griffith, Chaplin, Welles, Hitchcock, Ford, Kubrick, Altman, Coppola, and Anderson are among the directors studied. The Studio System, silent comedies, sound film, genre study (musical, comedy, western and gangster films), New Hollywood and digital technology are among the organizing principles of this survey. (H)

Many people believe that documentary films simply reflect and represent real worlds. To a certain extent this assumption is true: documentary films do purport to represent real people, events, and historical circumstances, and promise to tell fact-based stories that are fundamentally true. This course will explore this assumption while also focusing on the ways that documentary filmmakers bring their own interpretations to the stories they are telling, and are always (subtly or overtly) trying to persuade us to adopt their particular perspective about the real worlds they depict. (H)

This course will follow the development of science fiction cinema from the silent shorts of the early 20th century to today's blockbusters. As we explore this history, paying attention to formal and aesthetic elements of the film genre, we'll also trace how science fiction has reflected the circumstances and concerns of its moment. We'll emphasize three recurrent themes that shape ideas about modernity and progress: our ambivalent relationship to technology; the uncannily permeable boundaries of the human (both body and species); and the shifting forms of empire and capital against which individual lives play out. Our film screenings will be paired with readings drawn from science fiction literature and criticism as well as social and critical theory. This is a class that invites rich interdisciplinary connection and Paideia moments: as we learn about the history of science fiction as a film genre, we will also use our growing knowledge of that genre to ask critical questions about how science and technology are inextricable from issues of power and embodiment, and how popular culture circulates, reflects, and refracts these complex realities. (H)

An advanced introduction to some of the best literature of the medieval period. Topics will vary but may include such authors as the Beowulf-poet, Chaucer, Malory and Langland. Some possible topics include quest-narratives, piety, drama, images of women, autobiography, and allegory. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to International Studies. (H)

An intensive introduction to the works of William Shakespeare. The selection of works will vary from semester to semester but will address both the traditional study of Shakespeare from a historical point of view, and also a variety of translations, adaptations and transformations across the world. Contributes to Early Modern Studies, International Studies, and Theatre. (H)

This course will focus on the genre of the Victorian Mystery novel, published primarily during the heyday of nineteenth-century sensationalism (1853-1887). Sensation novels reflected the anxieties of a declining Empire and an increasingly unstable social order through blood-curdling tales of bigamy, arson, adultery, forgery, incest, child abandonment, and murder. Authors studied may include Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle. Contributes to Feminist Studies. (H)

A study of British writing of the long 18th century (1660-1800), with particular attention to cultural continuity and change. Focus and authors will vary; offerings include Sexual Politics of the Restoration Age, Reason and Madness in 18th-Century Fiction, Enlightenment Self-Fashioning, Center and Periphery: the Problem of the British 18th Century. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to International Studies. (H)

This course will emphasize the poetry and prose of traditional Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Tighe and Barbauld, and will explore the Romantic-era work of novelists like Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Sir Walter Scott and Ann Radcliffe. Topics for this course will vary and may include Romanticism and Gender, The Byronic Hero, and Romanticism and Aesthetics. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies. (H)

This course will explore the Victorian period in British culture through the dominant literary genre of that period: the novel. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies. (H)

This course will focus on the development of British modernisms and postmodernisms, with particular attention to the diverse aesthetic strategies that challenged, reinforced, and reconstructed ideas about subjectivity, gender, sexuality, nation and novels. Contributes to Feminist Studies and International Studies. May be repeated with change in topic. (H)

This course is a concentrated exploration of three of the most celebrated, overexposed, and misunderstood female novelists in English history, Jane Austen (1775-1817), Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Novels studied may include Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Villette, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Contributes to Feminist Studies. (H

A thematic study of American writers from an interdisciplinary perspective. Focus will vary. May be repeated with change in topic. (H)

This course will explore how modern and contemporary U.S. writers have articulated the intimate connections between nature and culture in the context of environmental and social justice. Paying particular attention to the women writers, queer writers, and writers of color whom mainstream environmental conversations have often constitutively excluded, we will consider how divergent visions of nature (as pristine wilderness outside of human reach; as site of/ constituted by violence; as not dualistically separated from humanity; etc.) have inflected both American poetics and American politics-and, conversely, how the literature of environmental justice re-maps and re-envisions U.S. politics, histories, and myths. Contributes to Environmental Studies. (H)

A study of American writers before 1900, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary. May be repeated with change in topic. (H)

A study of American writers after 1900, with particular attention to social and cultural change. Focus will vary. May be repeated with change in topic. (H)

A study of literature produced at the intersection of cultures. Consideration of ways cultural differences and legacies of colonization are negotiated. Major figures vary from year to year but will usually include Achebe, Gordimer, Head, Ngugi, Rushdie and Soyinka. Contributes to Race and Ethnicity Studies/Allied Course. (H) (IP) (SJ)

Informed by feminist and queer theory, this course will explore the ways in which diverse literary traditions construct and challenge conceptions of gender, genre, canon, period and nation. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies. (H)

A study of literature written in English from the 1960s to the present. Topics and authors will vary from semester to semester to reflect the breadth and depth of contemporary literary practices. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies. (H)

A study of the literatures of American ethnic communities, analyzing the relationships between ethnicity, history, and literature, and focusing on specific traditions or comparative approaches not covered in English 10-884 and English 10-894. Discussion is attentive to the intersections of ethnic identity with gender, sexuality, citizenship, and class. May be repeated with change in topic. Contributes to Feminist Studies and Race and Ethnicity Studies/Allied Course. (H) (SJ) (WA)

A study of African-American literature, attending to literary tradition and innovation over time, historical change and sociopolitical contexts, canon formation and reformation, the treatment of identity and intersectionality, and the role of Black literary and cultural production in social and political struggles, movements, and possibility. Specific emphasis may vary by semester. Contributes to Feminist Studies and Race and Ethnicity Studies. (H) (WA)

A study of the literature produced by Latinx writers, both situated within U.S. American literary and cultural contexts and attending to the profound challenges that Latinx literature poses to U.S. American conceptions of space and place, identity, and citizenship. Specific emphasis may vary by semester. Contributes to Feminist Studies and Race and Ethnicity Studies. (H) (WA)

Fulfills the requirement for a capstone experience. Prerequisite: 10-244. (Fall, Spring) (WA)