Class Archive

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 11-12:30

This seminar introduces students to the practices of professional literary study. Our focus will be three of our discipline's most fundamental concerns: textual criticism and editing; the production, circulation, and reception of texts;&nb...(read more)

201A/1

Topics in the Structure of the English Language:
Meter

TuTh 5-6:30

            This course offers an introduction to meter from the perspective of theoretical linguistics.  Fundamental to this approach is the assumption that any meter is shaped, sometimes...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Transcendentalists and Pragmatists

Th 11-2

The course will trace genealogies of American thought from transcendentalism through pragmatism. In the first half, we will focus on the life in letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and on Emerson’s relationship to the intellectual and social histo...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

Th 2-5

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of i...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Modernism and the Public Sphere

TuTh 3:30-5

A series of works in the last twenty years has complicated the notion that modernism is characterized by a preoccupation with interiority, arguing for public culture as a crucial space for the construction of modernism. This course asks how moderni...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer

MW 5-6:30

In the late fourteenth century, Geoffrey Chaucer created a fictional pilgrimage in which travelers competed with one another to tell a tale “of best sentence and moost solaas”—meaning, a tale that be...(read more)

246C/1

Graduate Proseminars (Renaissance)

W 2-5

According to one of the most influential, and contested, theories of modernity, our life in capitalism and bureaucratic rationality began in the early modern period “when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, a...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
Freud

T 9-12

In this course, we will read (most of) the works of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and little else. This will mean studying the changing models of consciousness; theories of dream interpretation, parapraxis, and libido; accounts of a...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Tu 1-3 pm

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R & C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to the practice and theory of teaching literature and writing at UC Berkeley in sections...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Marx and Marxism Today: Re-Reading the Grundrisse

Wednesday 2-5

The 1960s’ return to Marx centered on the 1857-8 manuscripts, or The Grundrisse, which were then made widely available in the West for the first time. The Grundrisse inspired diverse interpretations of Marx’s critique ...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Sixties

Thursday 2-5

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203/3

Graduate Readings:
Novel Theory, Narrative Theory, and the Sociology of the Novel

Tuesday 9-12

In this course, we will read a lot of writing about narrative and the novel for a few related reasons.  First, we’ll consider several representative texts in narratology, novel theory, and the sociology of the novel to trace out som...(read more)

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century

F 9-12

This survey of British writing from (roughly) 1740 through 1800 takes up decades that have presented literary historians with more than the usual challenges to periodization and organization by author, movement, or genre. We will study the prolifer...(read more)

246H/1

Victorian Period:
Britain, Empire, "Victorian": Critical Framings

W 9-12

Taking as a starting point the fact that Britain’s nineteenth-century empire necessitates a capacious understanding of the term “Victorian,” this course will query the expansive contours of that term. What reading practices does s...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
Sensation and Participation from Chaucer to Spenser

M 2-5

250/2

Research Seminars:
Idols and Ideology

T 2-5

The history of Western literary theory is often told in terms of the concept of mimesis. But there is another, equally powerful, anti-mimetic strand to this history: the critique of mimesis as a form of idolatry. In this course, we will explore thi...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

T 9-12

This course introduces students entering the English Department’s Ph.D. program to the practice of scholarly writing, with an emphasis on three core aspects of the literary critical enterprise: textual criticism and editing, production and re...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Shakespeare and the Law of Genre

W 12-3

As we read five comedies, five tragedies, and The Tempest, we will consider Shakespeare’s serial offenses against the rules of art—in particular, his radical upending of conventional generic decorum—in relation to both th...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Politics and Aesthetics of Latinx Literature

W 3-6

In this course, we’ll explore the significance of two k...(read more)

218/1

Milton

W 2-5

We'll explore John Milton's entire career, a lifelong effort to unite intellectual, political, and aesthetic experimentation. We'll start by reading his great epic poem Paradise Lost. Then we’ll go back to the beginning, working t...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
"Critical Philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Marx"

M 3-6

This course traces the formation of a ‘critical’ ...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminars:
Biopolitics and Biopower

T 12-3

This course will explore the literary and cultural significan...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Th 5-7 pm

NOTE: This section will be taught remotely and synchronously....(read more)

201B/1

Topics in the History of the English Language:
A Linguistic Perspective on Variation and Change in a Modern English Metrical Tradition

TTh 12:30-2

This course is not about the history of the English language itself, but rather about meter, conceptualized as a linguistic literary form with an internal history of its own, shaped by language and the mind’s capacity for language.  The ...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Realism

MW 10:30-12

Realism achieves critical mass in England in 1856: the year George Eliot turned to writing fiction. Reviewing Ruskin’s Modern Painters, Eliot comments: "The truth of infinite value that he teaches is realism – the...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
"A dream of passion": Affects in the Renaissance Theater

MW 12-1:30

This class studies the production of feeling on and around the early modern stage. We'll consider a range of vocabularies for the experience of theatrical feeling, from Aristotle's theory of purgative pleasure, to the medical-ecological mod...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Radical Enlightenment

W 2-5

Channeling the voice of his own Enlightened despot, Kant’s famous answer to the question “What is Enlightenment?” included the chilling injunction to “argue as much as you want and about whatever you want, ...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Philosophical Contexts for Modernist Poetry

TTh 2-3:30

This course will concentrate on supplementary readings that help give context and significance to Modernist writing.  It will begin with William James and F.H. Bradley on the concept of experience as an alternative to Romantic ideals of subjec...(read more)

246D/1

The Renaissance: 17th Century Through Milton

TTh 11-12:30

A straightforward survey of seventeenth-century literature, emphasizing breadth not depth and reading rather than writing. Poetry will be our focus, but we'll also sample some prophetic and political literature of the civil ...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
Literature, Communism, Fascism

Tues. 3:30-6:30

“Humankind, which once, in Homer, was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, has now become one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached the point where it can experience its own annihilation as a supreme aesthetic pleasure. (read more)

250/2

Research Seminars:
Autotheory

Note new time: M 3-6

There is very little criticism we could point to today that purposely flies under the banner of “theory.” This course will explore one variant that does—autotheory—the name given to work that, in one form or another...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminars:
Freud and His Followers

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

This course looks at the development of psychoanalysis as a t...(read more)

298/1

Collaborative Research Seminar:
Beauty

Townsend Center Collaborative Research Seminar

Tuesdays, 3-6 PM, Geballe Room, Townsend Center (or via Zoom , TBA).  Enrollment by Application

Participating Faculty:

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200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program.

202/1

History of Literary Criticism:
History of Literary Theory

Tues. 3:30-6:30

An introduction to Western literary theory from antiquity to the present, focusing on the historical shift from the disciplines of poetics and rhetoric to that of aesthetics, with special attention to the concept of aesthetics and the discourse of ...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Literature and Analytic Philosophy

MW 1:30-3

It’s hard to overstate literary study’s indebtedness to continental philosophy. For much of the past century, figures such as Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Rancière have informed some of our most important conversations about wh...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

W 3-6

This is a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of schola...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Harlem Renaissance

Thurs 3:30-6:30

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement of black artists and writers in the 1920s and 1930s. Centered in New York, its activities extended outward through international collaboration. We will be reading works by writers including Claude McKa...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

TTh 2-3:30

In this semester's 243B we'll be actively fielding questions around environmentally conscious/location-oriented writing.

Some beginnings:

From Jonathan Skinner's introduction to the Ecopoetics section of the Cambridg...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Thurs. 9:30-12:30

This is a writing workshop for Ph.D students interested in writing nonacademic literary prose. This might mean creative nonfiction, personal essay, memoir, food writing,, sports writing, nonacademic reviewing of books, film, performance, and art, a...(read more)

246J/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
The Literature of Civil War and Reconstruction

W 3-6

We will read literature produced in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century that engages issues having to do with the Civil War and Reconstruction and its aftermath—issues that reverberate in the present. Taking up matt...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Symposia in Trans Method

F 9-12

Is there a trans method? Should there be? These two questions will guide our study of work by trans writers, artists, and activists, both within the historical institution of "trans studies" (conceived of as distinct from and even opposit...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Studies in Pastoral: The Itinerant/Iterative Commons

W 3-6

The ambition of this class will be twofold—to address some of the formal possibilities specific to calendric forms such as the natural history or travel journal (Matsuo Bashõ, Gilbert White, Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Henry David ...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Tues. 10:30-12:30

This course introduces new English Department G.S.I.s to the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing, first for discussion sections of lecture courses, and second, for self-designed reading and composition (R & C) courses. B...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Contemporary Fiction

MW 12-1:30

In reading contemporary fiction, we might do worse than to begin by asking "what is the contemporary?" This is partly a question about time: what is the scale, duration, and position in history of the contemporary? Is the contem...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Modernist Fiction and Affect

TTh 11-12:30

This course is designed to function as an introduction to two fields, one literary-historical, and one critical: Anglo-American modernist fiction, and affect theory. We’ll read a selection of both “high modernist” and lesser-known...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Comedy and Violence

TTh 12:30-2

What relation does comedy have to violence? Can humor be a gauge of political freedom? This transhistorical seminar will examine the relation between comedy and violence in Irish, English and French texts from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuri...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
The Lyric Eye: A Material History of Poetic Form

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

This course will investigate the material history of poetic form in England—the ways in which the formal features of poems are visually articulated in surviving books and manuscripts—from the pre-Conquest period to the printing of Totte...(read more)

217/1

Shakespeare:
Tragedy, etc.

TTh 9:30-11

We will focus on Shakespeare's peculiar approach to tragedy (he broke every rule in the book), but we won't focus obsessively: we will also give sustained attention to Shakespere's representation of citizenship, compassion, artificial p...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

MW 1:30-3

The purpose of this workshop is to begin to write a novel or a story collection. It is unlikely that you will finish writing either in the three months we spend together. Fiction takes time. There are some reported exceptions to this, but given tha...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Studies in contemporary poetic cases will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berkeley graduate students (and upper-division students with considerable writing experience) are eligible to apply for this cou...(read more)

246G/1

Romantic Period

TTh 2-3:30

This course on the Romantic “period” will consider periods of time as they are imagined, experienced, or enacted in some characteristic genres: song, prophecy, lyrical ballad, romance, letter, fragment, travel journal, periodical review...(read more)

246H/1

Victorian Period

F 9-12

In this course we will approach the literature and culture of the Victorian period through its poetry and poetics. We'll read a lot of both in order to do three related things. First, we'll consider the idea of the literary as it was e...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Representing in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

M 3-6

In this course we will read the early English fiction once associated with "the rise of the novel" with a view to the strategies this writing deployed to address new epistemological challenges. An expanding empire, an urbanizing nation (r...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Black Cultures of Gender and Sexuality

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This seminar, offered in collaboration with the Department of African American Studies and co-taught with Professor Darieck Scott, explores theories and cultures of gender and sexuality from the perspective of black diasporic people. We will focus ...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Critique of Capitalism, or Reading Marx Now

W 3-6

Since the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a marked revival of interest in Marx and his thought, one that compares to the late 60s and early 70s return to Marx. How is the present day return to Marx a different one from that of global 1968? To...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program.

This course satisfi...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
On Interpretation

MW 12-1:30

The last several decades have heard repeated, even rhythmic, calls to dispense with ‘interpretation’ as the model and indispensable methodological instrument of reading and critical reason, even within intellectual disciplines seemingly...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

Tues. 2-5

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of schola...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Aesthetics and Politics: Kant and Beyond

TTh 12:30-2

As an introduction to the political possibilities, problems, and questions raised by Kantian aesthetics, this class will navigate between two quotations: 1) Schiller: “If man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have ...(read more)

212/1

Readings in Middle English

M 3-6

This course will survey Middle English literature, excluding Chaucer, beginning with the earliest Middle English texts and ending with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We will focus on language, translation, and close reading to start, leading up t...(read more)

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century

W 3-6

The later eighteenth century has presented literary historians with more than the usual challenges to periodization and organization by author, movement, or genre. The years between (roughly) 1740-1800 witnessed the proliferation of new genres in v...(read more)

246K/1

Literature in English, 1900-1945

MW 1:30-3

In this seminar, we will read a wide range of British and American novels from the first half of the twentieth century focusing on the intersections between modernism and theories of modernity. While we will pay considerable attention to modernism&...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
The English Department

Tues. 3:30-6:30

The English Department is one of the most curious developments in the history of human civilization. What do we study? The answer used to be, “literary texts of the English canon.” But then we questioned what belonged to the canon, what...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Transcendentalism

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

This course considers Transcendentalism and its legacies with particular focus on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson from the publication of Nature (1836) through Letters and Social Aims (1875).  Following Emerson's career ...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Tues. 10:30-12:30

This course introduces new English Department GSIs to the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing, first for discussion sections of lecture courses, and second, for self-designed reading and co...(read more)

201A/1

Topics in the Structure of the English Language:
Introduction to Linguistics for Graduate Students in the Humanities

W 3-6

Few areas of research within the humanities are not mediated in some way by language.  Language is an object of philosophical investigation, a medium of historical record and cultural expression, the material of literature, and a metaphor for ...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
William Faulkner and the Historical Novel

TTh 9:30-11

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203/3

Graduate Readings:
The Queer and the Oriental

Tues. 12:30-3:30

The queer and the oriental are two figures on the wrong sides of Western philosophies of world history. Imagined as perverted deviations from, or inverted reflections of, a progress from despotic ancestral pasts to free reproductive futures, the qu...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Renaissance Drama

TTh 2-3:30

Shakespeare’s preeminence as a dramatist has often paradoxically excluded him from courses on English Renaissance drama.  We’ll be returning Shakespeare to the company of his fellow playwrights, reading (among other works) Twelf...(read more)

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Nineteenth-Century U. S. Historical Poetics

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This course will have three overlapping goals. It will provide a survey of major figures in nineteenth-century U. S. poetry. It will take stock of recent work in “Historical Poetics” by critics who have sought an alternative to what the...(read more)

218/1

Milton

W 12-3

For better or worse, most roads in literary history lead either to or from Milton. The goal of this course is to find a way through the massive corpus of Milton's writing, to see how Milton “produces himself” in his work. You should...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Creative Nonfiction:  A graduate level writing workshop, open to graduate students from any department. Open also to undergraduate students from any department who have taken English 143-level writing seminars or have equivalent skills or expe...(read more)

246C/1

Graduate Proseminars (Renaissance):
the End of Scholarism

MW 3-4:30

"Lately two gentlemen poets... had it in derision, for that I could not make my verses jet upon the stage in tragical buskins, every word filling the mouth like the faburden of Bow Bell, daring God out of heaven with that atheist Tamburlaine, ...(read more)

246L/1

Graduate Pro-seminar (Literature in English, 1945 to the Present):
British Fiction Since 1945

W 9-12

This pro-seminar has two interrelated aims. The first is to survey British fiction (broadly construed) from 1945 through the present. The second is to survey that field’s major critical conversations and give students the tools to enter criti...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Philosophical Idealizations of Art and Modernist Practices

Thurs. 12:30-3:30

This course stems from my fascination with how often major philosophers idealized art by attributing to it powers that could promise versions of redemption from practical life.  I want to read Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Pater, Bergson, Heidegger,...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12-1:30

Readings TBA.

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program.

...(read more)

202/1

History of Literary Criticism

W 2-5

An introduction to Western literary theory from antiquity to the present, focusing on the historical shift from the disciplines of poetics and rhetoric to that of aesthetics, with special attention to the concept of aesthetics and the discourse of ...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Allegorical Moments: Public, Private, and the Writing of Everyday Life

MW 10:30-12

This seminar will undertake a critical reading of, and participation in, some possibilities (or impossibilities) of contemporary realisms and realities, public and private. It will query, from an array of perspectives, problems of process, represen...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
American Genres

TTh 2-3:30

We’ll discuss canonical works of American genre fiction, except for the one genre we usually read: “literary fiction.” Our genres include: children’s lit, YA, spy thriller, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, noir, cr...(read more)

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

W 3-6

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of schola...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer:
Early Chaucer

M 3-6

Please note that this course description was revised on April 30.

This course focuses on the works that Chaucer wrote prior to the Canterbury Tales: the Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, House ...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Textual Communities and the Modern

Tues. 3:30-6:30

We’ll explore collectives made possible by the early modern communications revolution, focusing on print and the rise of periodical and serial forms. Case studies will include the Levellers, the Royal Society, and the Methodists, along with r...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar:
Evolution and Literary Form, 1800-1900

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

Reading the newly published On the Origin of Species together in November 1859, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes hailed Charles Darwin’s book as confirmation of the “Development Hypothesis,” founded a hundred years ear...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Tues. 10:30-12:30

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R & C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to the practice and theory of teaching literature and writing at U...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Radical Enlightenment?

Note new time: TTh 9:30-11

Channeling the voice of his own Enlightened despot, Kant’s famous answer to the question “What is Enlightenment?” included the chilling injunction to “argue as much as you want and about whatever you want, ...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Novel in Theory

TTh 11-12:30

This course traces the development of novel theory in the twentieth century.  Designed as an introduction to major arguments that are still influential in literary studies generally, the course asks why so many different theoretical schools ha...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus and Grant Workshop

TTh 11-12:30

This workshop is intended for graduate students who are currently working on proposals for major research projects, especially for large multi-year projects such as the doctoral dissertation or long-term grants or fellowships. We will deal with the...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Digital Humanities for Medieval Studies

Note new time: TTh 2-3:30

This course serves as an introduction to the practice of digital humanities in the field of Medieval Studies. The goals of the course are threefold:

• to explore the conceptual terrain of digital humanities and to become familiar wi...(read more)

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Contemporary Chicanx/Latinx Novels

TTh 2-3:30

In this course, we’ll examine narrative form in several Chicanx/Latinx novels, focusing on the role of problematic narrators. We’ll explore the specific ways that these novels tend to reify the social world through the eyes and voice of...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Representing in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

Tues. 3:30-6:30

In this course we will read the early English fiction once associated with “the rise of the novel” with a view to the strategies this writing deployed to address new epistemological challenges. An expanding empire, an urbanizing nation ...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Milton and the English Civil War

W 3-6

An introduction to the literature of the English civil war and following decades, focusing on the work of John Milton, but including the work of Henry Parker, Thomas Hobbes, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Phillips, Lucy Hutchinson, &...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar:
The Rhetoric of Technique

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

“Sex is boring,” Foucault declared in an interview published posthumously in 1986, before expressing his interest in those “intentional and voluntary actions by which men […] make their life an oeuvre that car...(read more)

250/5

Research Seminar:
Black Abstraction

F 12-3

This course bears a distinct title, Black Abstraction, the strikeout meant to indicate the degree to which the blackness in "black abstraction" remains perennially subject to question.  The course will inquire into the ways in...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12:30-2

Readings TBA

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program. 

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Caribbean Literature and Culture

M 9-12

“and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.” -Derek Walcott

Walcott’s mongrel regionalism is an apt invitation to consider a field of cultures whose richness comes, at least in part, from its provoking ...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Comparative Colonialisms: Latin America and the U.S.

Wed. 6-9 PM

A comparative study of Spanish and British colonialism, this course examines specific forms of governmentality implanted in the Americas and consequences thereof, with particular attention to racialization. British and Spanish modes of colonialism ...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Materiality

TTh 2-3:30

In recent years, new theories of materiality have emerged to account for physical processes and eventualities outside of human volition and identificatory categories. In this course, we will examine these theories in relation to the older paradigms...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer

This course was canceled (on August 1).

246D/1

Graduate Pro-seminar: Renaissance:
Seventeenth-Century Literature, before the Restoration

Tues. 3:30-6:30

A sampling of literature in English from 1600 to 1660, a turbulent period of intellectual innovation and political revolution. Key bodies of work will be studied complete – Donne’s Songs and Sonnets and Holy Sonnets, H...(read more)

246G/1

Graduate Pro-seminar: Romantic Period

TTh 12:30-2

Book List:  Austen, J., Lady Susan; Blake, W. Complete Poetry and Prose;  Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France;  Byron, Lord Byron: The Major Works; Coleridge, S...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Victorian Cultural Studies

W 9-12

This course will follow the long history of the culture concept in Britain.  We will begin by working through Raymond Williams’ account in Culture & Society in order to see how several senses of the word “culture&rdquo...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
How to Write a Book

M 2-5

Did you ever wonder how other people get their work done? Or what great ideas look like and where they come from? Are you curious about the best strategies and habits for clear, forceful, and engaging writing? This seminar about writing and publish...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Paranoid States: Empire and the Rise of the Surveillance State

W 3-6

This course examines the long, intimate relationship between technologies of surveillance and the making of British and American empires. While digital technology and state surveillance has been significant in the post-9/11 world, identifying, moni...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar:
Gender, Sexuality, Modernism

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

“Is queer modernism simply another name for modernism?” The question Heather Love poses in her special issue of PMLA will also guide this seminar on the crossovers between formal and sexual “deviance” in modernist l...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 10:30-12:30

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R & C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to the practice and theory of teaching literature and writing at UC Berkeley in sections...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
World Systems Theory and the Asian Anglophone Novel

MW 9:30-11

World literature theories that have borrowed from the work of Immanuel Wallerstein on early capitalism to conceptualize the dynamics of literary centers and peripheries have difficulty accounting for the Asian Anglophone novel, an ascendant form o...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Political Economy of Life and Death in African American Literature and Culture

W 3-6

Using psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and economic theorization of death and life, this course will examine instances of the political economy of life (and birthing) and death in African American literature.   

We will read the ...(read more)

205B/1

Old English:
Anglo-Saxons and the Law

TTh 12:30-2

In the last decade, there has been considerable interest in Anglo-Saxon law from the perspectives of history and literature, including a new, international project to re-edit the corpus. This course will consider both the social and textual dimens...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer:
The Canterbury Tales

TTh 2-3:30

This course will introduce specialists and non-specialists alike to the close reading of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.  You need have no previous experience with Middle English; ...(read more)

246C/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
Renaissance

TTh 11-12:30

In this survey, we follow how authors from Francesco Petrarca and Thomas More to John Donne participated in the grand cultural project of the Renaissance, ostensibly defined by the belief that consuming and producing culture woul...(read more)

246H/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
Victorian Period

MW 11-12:30

We will read and discuss some major works of Victorian poetry, fiction, and critical and scientific prose, in light of nineteenth-century discussions of aesthetic, social, and natural conceptions of form, as well as current debates over the status...(read more)

246J/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
American Literature, 1855 to 1900

F 12-3

In a speech delivered on the bicentenary of the ratification of the Constitution, Justice Thurgood Marshall scandalized his audience (and much of the nation) when he proposed that “while the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Wordsworth and Coleridge in Collaboration

M 3-6

This class will study the major poetry and prose that emerged from the remarkable literary collaboration and conflict between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor C...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Modernism in Poetry and in Art

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

This course is still a work in progress.  The basic idea is to develop the possibility that new developments in materialism offer tremendous possiblities for appreciating Impressionist art and Imagist writing.  But they also make it impe...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Idols and Ideology—Readings in Augustine, Milton, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Kant, Marx, Freud, Althusser

W 2-5

The history of Western literary theory is often told in terms of the concept of mimesis. But there is another, equally powerful, anti-mimetic strand to this history, and that is the critique of mime...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12:30-2

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.  

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program.  This course satisfies t...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
On Life: Life Philosophy and Culture

MW 9:30-11

This course will explore the literary and cultural significance of philosophies of life. To set the course in motion, we shall begin with two provocative works: Terry Eagleton’s ...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Early African American Literature

TTh 12:30-2

Major works in the context of slavery and its aftermath. Advance syllabus (read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

W 3-6

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of schol...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Lyric, Poetry, Poetics

W 3-6

This course will provide an introduction to poetics and theories of poetry, especially lyric poetry, since the early 19^th century.  We will watch as conceptualizations of poetry, lyric, and verse torque a...(read more)

205A/1

Old English

This course will not be offered in 2016-17 (or the following year, either), but English Department graduate students may take the undergraduate equivalent, English 104 (Introduction to Old English) in its place; see the listing for that course in ...(read more)

212/1

Readings in Middle English

MW 11-12:30

For more information on this course, please contact Professor Miller at j_miller@berkeley.edu

This course satisfies the Group 2 (Medieval trhough Sixteenth Century) requirement.

217/1

Shakespeare

TTh 2-3:30

An introduction to the study of Shakespeare at the graduate level. We'll examine a range of contemporary approaches to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and consider how they emerge from longstanding preoccupations across four hundred years o...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

F 11-2

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Graham Foust, Sarah Nicholson, Morgan Parker, Juliana Spahr, Jenny Zhang, and others)  will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berkeley students are eligible to app...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Representing Non-Human Life in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain

M 3-6

We will explore techniques developed by scientists, theologians, and poets to represent other life forms. Contexts we’ll investigate include encounters with new-world flora and fauna, the invention of the microscope, and contemporary debates...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Ethnic Modernisms

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This seminar will explore the convergence of modernist and ethnic cultures in twentieth-century America and Europe, placing race and ethnicity in dialogue with the modernist compulsion to "make it new" and the avant-gardist compulsion to...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Literature and the Brain

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

As imaging and computational technologies become more adept at measuring the neurology of reading and writing, literary study faces a number of challenges. Some of ...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 10:30-12:30

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R & C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to the practice and theory of teaching literature and writing at UC Berkeley in section...(read more)

202/1

History of Literary Criticism

note new time: F 2-5

An introduction to Western literary theory from antiquity to the present, focusing on the historical shift from the disciplines of poetics and rhetoric to that of aesthetics, with special attention to the discourse of the sublime. Readings in Plat...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
George Eliot and Victorian Science

MW1:30-3

A study of the Victorian novel in relation to nineteenth-century theories of natural and aesthetic form, focused on major writings by George Eliot and Charles Darwin. We will read two novels -- Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda &nda...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Aesthetics and Politics: Kant and Beyond

TTh 9:30-11

This introduction to aesthetics will navigate between the following quotations: 1) “If man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through Bea...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Edmund Spenser

TTh 11-12:30

Sidney wrote that a poet's task was to "grow in effect another nature." No poet in English has fulfilled that charge more luxuriantly than Spenser. The plan of the semester will be to roam around in the leisurely, delight-filled capa...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with the Postcolonial?

TTh 12:30-2

This course considers the relationship between the development of critical theory and the colonized and postcolonial worlds. It will ask how and where histories, cultures, and philosophies of the global south appear and intersect with continental ...(read more)

205B/1

Old English:
Late Old English

TTh 2-3:30

In this course, we will explore the curious phenomenon of Old English after the Norman Conquest. Although English’s status as a language of power was overturned in 1066, the vernacular lived on in many guises—most remarkably as recogni...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

W 3-6

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Anne Boyer, Graham Foust, Fred Moten, Chris Nealon, Ed Roberson, Juliana Spahr, Simone White,  and others)  will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

Only continuing UC Berk...(read more)

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century

W 9-12

In this survey of British writing from 1740 to the end of the century, we will read a wide range of genres, many of them innovated or undergoing major transformations at this time, from periodical essays, novels, and georgic poem...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Capitalist Crisis and Literature

M 3-6

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 and the onset of the “Great Recession,” a small but growing number of literary scholars have strived to theorize the relation between capitalist crisis and literary studies. Two short articl...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
The Limits of Historicism

Tues. 3:30-6:30

Fredric Jameson famously enjoined critics to “Always historicize!,” and while many responded by committing to ideology critique and the project of demystification, of late a number have sought to satisfy the imperative by “practi...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
How It Strikes a Contemporary: Reading the Novel in the 21st Century

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/4

Research Seminar:
Modernism's Metaphysics

F 9-12

Over recent decades, we have become accustomed to speaking of the ‘cultural logic’ of modernism, using a periodizing term to delineate a larger complex of historical effects, while also insinuating its availability to the integrated de...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 11-12:30

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.  

Enrollment is limited to entering doctoral students in the English program.  This course satisfies t...(read more)

202/1

History of Literary Criticism

This course has been postponed until Spring 2016.

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Poetic Meter

W 2-5

This course will provide a basic introduction to the major meters of the modern English poetic tradition from the perspective of a theory of poetic meter rooted in generative linguistics.  Taking the "strict" iambic pentameter of Sh...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Henry James and After

TTh 12:30-2

This course will have two parts: in the first, we will read across the range of Henry James’s career, from its American beginnings to the achievements of his major phase; in the second, we will discuss a series of...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Victorian Literature from Hegel to Freud

TTh 2-3:30

This course embarks from the premise that “Victorian” names neither a period of time (1837 – 1901) nor the body of a British sovereign (Alexandrina Victoria Hanover) but a spatially and temporally mobile set of stylistic practice...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

note new time: W 3-6

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of schol...(read more)

246L/1

Literature in English:
1945 to the Present

This course has been canceled.

250/1

Research Seminar:
Literature of the English Revolution

M 2-5

We will track the controversies that dominated public life in the generation before the outbreak of war (with particular emphasis on the Martin Marprelate phenomenon and the furor excited by the "Book of Sports"), explore the textual rem...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Medieval Literary Thought

Tuesdays 9:30-12:30

The medieval volume of the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism begins by saying that the years from the 1980s until their present (2005) has been "a golden age" for the study of medieval "literary theory and cr...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Black + Queer

Thursdays 3:30-6:30

Co-taught by Professors Nadia Ellis (English) and Darieck Scott (African American Studies); African American Studies 240 section 1 is the course number for the latter component of the course.

This graduate seminar surveys the intersections ...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar:
John Donne and T.S. Eliot: Lyric Poetry and Society

Thursdays 3:30-6:30

“Permit me to repeat,” Adorno writes in his celebrated essay on lyric poetry’s relationship to its context, “that we are concerned not with the poet as a private person, not with his psychology or his so-called social persp...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thursdays 10:30-12:30

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R&C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to t...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Erotic Renaissance

MW 9:30-11

A sampling of sixteenth-century discourses of sexuality, theories of Eros, artworks and writings about the erotic in art, from Italy, France and England. The aim is to test the hypothesis of my recent research – that an “erotic revolut...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Readings in Chicano/Latino Narrative

F 12-3

In this graduate reading course we will survey Chican@/Latino narrative, art and some drama/film from the 1960s through more recent cultural and aesthetic formations.

The seminar will open with a survey of a particularly fertile period duri...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Judgment in Early Medieval Literature

W 11-2

Judgment--alternately or simultaneously a mental faculty, abstract entity, virtue, void, or threat--pervades medieval literature and thought. Focusing particularly (though not exclusively) on Anglo-Saxon England, in this seminar we will attempt to...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
The Anglophone Novel

TTh 9:30-11

Anglophone fiction is a capacious term. Simply put, Anglophone fiction refers to fiction written in English; however, in the context of postwar canon formation, Anglophone refers specifically to literature written in English from former British co...(read more)

246D/1

Graduate Proseminar:
Renaissance (17th Century)

Tues. 3:30-6:30

An introduction to one of the great ages of English literature, focusing on works by Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Robert Herrick, Lucy Hutchinson, and Anne Hal...(read more)

246G/1

Graduate Proseminar:
Romantic Period

TTh 2-3:30

“Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal/ Large codes of fraud and woe…”.

Taking these lines from Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” as a point of departure, we will read widely in literature from 1789 to 1830,...(read more)

246I/1

Graduate Proseminar:
American Literature to 1855

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

In this course, we will read widely in U.S. fiction and other narrative forms in the first half of the nineteenth century, bringing together the old and the new, the canonical and the peripheral, the long-in-print and the recently rediscovered. We...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar

This section of English 250 has been canceled.

250/2

Research Seminar:
The Grammar of Poetry, the Poetry of Grammar

M 11-1

I want to try a course that explores what Wittgenstein calls philosophical grammar, on the assumption that poets are the most likely characters to develop the full conceptual implications of how we deploy grammatical elements in our structuring of...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Gender, Sexuality, and Modernism

W 3-6

“Is queer modernism simply another name for modernism?” The question Heather Love poses in her special issue of PMLA will also guide this seminar on the crossovers between formal and sexual “deviance” in modernist ...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Allegories of Late Capitalism and the Writing of Everyday Life

TTh 12:30-2

This seminar will undertake a critical reading of, and participation in, some possibilities (or impossibilities) of contemporary realisms and realities. It will query, from an array of perspectives, problems of process, location, historical awaren...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
The Novel in Theory

TTh 2-3:30

This course traces the development of novel theory in the twentieth century.  Designed as an introduction to major arguments that are still influential in literary studies generally, the course asks why so many different theoretica...(read more)

205A/1

Old English

This course will not be offered in 2014-15, but English Department graduate students may take the undergraduate equivalent, English 104 (Introduction to Old English), this fall in its place; see the listing for that course in this Announcement of ...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer

MW 1:30-3

For more information on this course, please contact Professor Miller at j_miller@berkeley.edu.

This course satisfies the Group 2 (Medieval through Sixteenth Century) requirement.

217/1

Shakespeare

M 3-6

Instead of pursuing a master problematic, we will take up a wide range of issues: when I read Shakespeare these days, I am interested in his representations of citizenship, compassion, artificial persons (political representatives, diplomats, surr...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop

This course has been canceled.

246C/1

Renaissance

W 3-6

This survey course will focus on the poetry, drama, and prose literature of sixteenth-century England.  We'll also read key works from the past fifty years of literary scholarship on the period.

Whenever possible, readings will be ...(read more)

246K/1

Literature in English 1900-1945:
The Modernist Novel

MW 12-1:30

250/1

Research Seminars:
Comintern Modernisms

W 3-6

It has long been common practice to see Western metropolises like Paris and New York as competing centers of global modernism, as capitals of a "world republic of letters."  The aim of this seminar is to posit an alternate mapping o...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminars:
Victorian Prose Style

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

In this course, we’ll look at the idea of prose style in a few different ways.  First, we’ll read some key texts on the theory of st...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminars:
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses

M 3-6

This comparative seminar in lyric poetry borrows its title from Susan Stewart's Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (University of Chicago Press, 2002), to ask about the relation between poetry and sensory deprivation (or plenitude) and...(read more)

310/1

Field Studies in Tutoring Writing

T.B.A.

Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course wi...(read more)

310/1

Field Studies in Tutoring Writing

T. B. A.

Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course wi...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and\nLiterature

Thurs. 9-11

Co-taught by a faculty member and a graduate student instructor (the department's R&C Assistant Coordinator), this course introduces new English GSIs to the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing both at UC Berkeley (in Eng...(read more)

202/1

History of Literary Criticism

W 2-5

An introduction to Western literary theory from antiquity to the present, focusing on the historical shift from the disciplines of poetics and rhetoric to that of aesthetics, with special attention to the concept of mimesis and the discourse of th...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
American Enlightenment and Revolution

M 2-5

This course broadly examines the history of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century America.  In readings of literary, political, and religious texts alongside visual arts of the period, we will look at the American Revolution's impact on...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Campus/Novel/Theory

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This course considers the relationship between the campus, the novel, and literary theory in the West. Accordingly, we will discuss theories of the novel, read some post-war British and American “campus novels,” consider the campu...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
African American Literature in the Twentieth Century

F 11-2

A survey of major African American writers in the context of social history. 

This course satisfies the Group 5 (20th century) or Group 6 (non-historical)  requirement.

Advance syllabus (read more)

205B/1

Old English:
Reading Beowulf

TTh 2-3:30

In “Reading Beowulf” we will be particularly interested in the making of Beowulf as a text and as a canonical poem. The first goal addresses issues of language, paleography, and textual editing as we translate; the se...(read more)

243B/1

Poetry Writing Workshop

M 11-2

Studies in contemporary poetic cases (Anne Boyer, Farnoosh Fathi, Brenda Hillman, Ben Lerner, Fred Moten, Lisa Robertson, Dana Ward, and others) and a few essays will focus our discussions of each other's poems.

To be considered for...(read more)

246E/1

Restoration and Early 18th Century

TTh 12:30-2

An exploration of the satire, devotional autobiography, prose fiction, letter-writing, diaries, heroic verse, drama, pornography, and feminist polemic produced in England between the Restoration of Charles II (1660) and circa 1735; these ...(read more)

246J/1

American Literature, 1855 to 1900

TTh 11-12:30

In a speech delivered on the bicentenary of the ratification of the Constitution, Justice Thurgood Marshall scandalized his audience (and much of the nation) when he proposed that “while the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did...(read more)

246L/1

Literature in English, 1945 to the Present:
In the Archive with American Fiction and Poetry

TTh 9:30-11

This course is two courses rolled into one.

First, it offers a survey of post-WWII American fiction and poetry, with an eye especially to how aesthetic forms were reshaped under the pressure of social movements (the 1930s left, the Civil Ri...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
Religion and Poetry in Early Modern England

W 11-2

What does it mean to speak to God through a sonnet? Why would someone retell the story of the Biblical Fall in verse? Why rewrite the Psalms in rhyme royal? In this course, we’ll read sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious poetry along...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminars:
Aesthetics and the Orient

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

The kinds of writing called “aesthetics” and “Orientalism” are usually studied in relative isolation from each other, but they share certain features. Both pull readers outside their comfort zones, towards an unfamiliar pla...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

Approaches to problems of literary study, designed to concentrate on questions of scholarly method, from traditional modes of textual analysis to more recent styles of critical theory and practice.

This course satisfies the Group 1 (problem...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Post-9/11 Fiction

M 1-4

Note: Those interested in taking the course, please email me (ksnyder@berkeley.edu) the first week of classes for the reading assignment required for our first seminar meeting on September 9.

For mo...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Modernism and Film

MW 4-5:30

This course surveys a range of twentieth-century texts that allow us to explore connections between film and modernist literary practice, and the cultural implications of cinema for the period as a whole. Working with a broad conception of moderni...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Course

Th 2-5

This is a practical writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transitions from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of scholar....(read more)

205A/1

Old English

TTh 11-12:30

This class introduces students to the language, literature, and modern critical study of the written vernacular culture of England before the Norman Conquest—an era whose language and aesthetics now seem radically foreign. By the end of the ...(read more)

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century

Tues. 3:30-6:30

The later eighteenth century has presented literary historians with more than the usual challenge to periodization or organization by author and movement; they have responded with an unusual number of designations: the “Age of Johnson,&rdquo...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Critical and Peripheral Realisms

Tues. 3:30-6:30

To what extent has our tendency to measure aesthetic achievement within the terms set by the historical modernisms of 1890-1920 blocked our perception of twentieth century peripheral literatures? This course will entertain historical diagnoses of ...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Sensory Aesthetics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Poetry and Drama

W 1-4

Sensation is a liminal phenomenon, a phenomenon that marks edges and borders. It is the interface between the material world and the physical body as well as between the body and the mind. Medieval writing is full of sensation, from the theoretica...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
The Romantic Novel and the History of Man

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

In his introduction to Tom Jones (1749) Henry Fielding formally announced the “rise of the novel” by grounding the new genre on “human nature,” which David Hume had recently proclaimed the foundation of all the sci...(read more)

375/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Tues. 1-3

This course (previously numbered English 302) will explore the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing. Designed as both a critical seminar and a hands-on practicum for new college teachers, the class will cover topics such as cours...(read more)

137T/1

Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture:
Chicano Art and Literature

TTh 12:30-2

We will survey Chicano/a literature, art and film from the Chicano/a Movement (1960s through the 1980s) through more recent political and aesthetic formations.

The class will open with study of  a particularly fertile period during whi...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12-1:30

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholary methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

203/1

Graduate Readings:
20th-Century Poetry

MW 1:30-3

This course will be devoted to how specific philosophical texts can help us think about models of authorship and reading typified by Pound, Yeats,  Stevens, and Ashbery, but with I hope significant implications for most recent poetry.  W...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Discursive Identities in British Romanticism

TTh 2-3:30

The Romantic Age is arguably the first age in which we see systematic attempts at deriving the self from itself, at constructing an identity through the discourse that is produced by a subject, which, however, is itself seen as the product of that...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Course

This section of English 203 has been canceled.

203/4

Graduate Readings

This section of English 203 has been canceled.

205A/1

Old English

This course will not be offered in 2012-13, but English Department graduate students may take the undergraduate equivalent, English 104 (Introduction to Old English), in its place; see the listing for that course in this Announcement of Classes.(read more)

218/1

Milton

TTh 12:30-2

This course will perform various operations on the massive corpus of Milton's writing. We will try to break down the isolation and idealization of a few major poems, to bring the prose writings into focus, to confront the politics of gender, a...(read more)

243A/1

Fiction Writing Workshop

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This workshop course will concentrate on the form, theory and practice of fiction. Workshop participants are required to write a minimum of 45 pages of original fiction, fulfill specific assignments on craft, attend all workshop sessions, and prov...(read more)

246I/1

American Literature to 1855

TTh 11-12:30

The series of great earthquakes at New Madrid, Missouri that rattled the entire Mississippi Valley in December 1811 sent shock waves of horror across the new nation. The newspaper and personal accounts of ...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminars:
Victorian Cultural Studies

M 3-6

This course will follow the long history of the culture concept in Britain.&n...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminars

This section of English 250 has been canceled.

250/3

Research Seminars:
Reconstruction

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

“Among the revolutionary processes that transformed the nineteenth-century world, none was so dramatic in its human consequences or far-reaching in its social implications as the abolition of chattel slavery,” the historian Eric Foner ...(read more)

302/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 9-11

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310/1

Field Studies in Tutoring Writing

T.B.A.

Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course wi...(read more)

137T/1

Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture:
Chicano Poetry--Text and Context

MWF 1-2

We will open with "Yo soy Joaquin"/"I am Joaquin," Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzalez's stirring political poem of 1968 that inspired a politically based literary output that dominated Chicano poetics for well over a decade a...(read more)

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Literature & the Science of the Feelings, 1740-1819

M 3-6

William Wordsworth’s 1800 declaration that poetry “is the history or science of feelings” cuts many ways, as such genitive constructions often do.  His phrase alludes both to the contemporary human and life sciences that mad...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Struggling With Consolation--Reading Boethius in Anglo-Saxon England

TTh 9:30-11

This course has a double aim: to explore the reception of Boethius’s De consolatione Philosophiae in Anglo-Saxon England and to do so by engaging one of the remarkable achievements of Anglo-Saxon translation, the Old English version...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Politics of Death, Cultural Regenerations

W 3-6

This course will be jointly taught by Abdul JanMohamed (English) and Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology), and it is cross-listed with Anthropology 250X section 6.

This seminar is a two-voice reflection on violence, death, subjugation,...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
British Novel--1800-1900

W 3-6

Reading and discussion of a selection of major nineteenth-century British novels.  We will bring large questions to bear on one another, concerning: the worlds and communities the novel aims to represent and to address (region or province; na...(read more)

211/1

Chaucer:
Early Poetry and the Troilus and Criseyde

MW 10:30-12

This course studies all Chaucer's majors works before the Canterbury Tales. About the first third of the semester will use the earlier works--the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Fowls especially--to introdu...(read more)

212/1

Readings in Middle English:
The Auchinleck Manuscript

W 3-6

This course will consider a wide range of Middle English writing through examination of a single manuscript book surviving to us from the early fourteenth-century:  Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS 19.2.1, now known ...(read more)

243N/1

Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop:
Like & Love

M 3-6

A graduate creative nonfiction writing workshop open to students from any department. Drawing on narrative strategies found in memoir, the diary, travel writing, and fiction, students will have work-shopped three 10-20 page literary nonfiction pie...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Marxist Literary Theory

Tues. 3:30-6:30

In the early 1990s, literary theorist Fredric Jameson responded to critics who were at once proclaiming the emergence of a rejuvenated capitalist "new world order" and asserting the death of Marxism.  "It does not seem to make ...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Renaissance Things

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the intellectual historian Jacob Burckhardt argued that the Renaissance marked the beginning of modern culture—an emergence which he defined as the disruption of medieval systems that had discouraged ...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Everyday Postcoloniality

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

One of the defining preoccupations of literary realism is the precise, penetrating depiction of everyday life. This course will consider how this ambition is pursued in the context of postcolonial writing. Our primary reading will be a series of f...(read more)

137B/1

Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910:
Chicana and Chicano Novels

TTh 12:30-2

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a general knowledge of post-1970 Chicano/a novels. Our study will focus on both the form and content of each novel. As we shall see, the formal features and thematic representations of Chicano...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

An approach to problems of literary study, designed to concentrate on questions of scholarly method, from traditional modes of textual analysis to more recent styles of critical theory.

200/2

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

203/1

Graduate Readings:
State of the Art Film: 1963

note new time: W 12-3

The course centers on the conception and practice of the so-called international art film around 1963. Without making a fetish of the date, it may be agreed that 1963 was a remarkable year: for quality of product, for the upsurge in points of dist...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
The Novel in Theory

TTh 12:30-2

This course traces the development of novel theory in the twentieth century. Designed as an introduction to major arguments that have been--and still are--influential to literary studies generally, the course asks why so many different theoretical...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
On Life

TTh 12:30-2

This course will explore the literary and cultural significance of philosophies of life. To set the course in motion, we shall begin with two provocative works: Terry Eagleton’s The Meaning of Life and Elizabeth Grosz’s Th...(read more)

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

TTh 3:30-5

This is a practical writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transitions from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to that of scholar....(read more)

203/6

Graduate Readings:
Anglophone Poetry

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

This class will broadly survey British, Irish, and postcolonial poetry after 1945. It is a large and multifaceted body of work, and much of it remains under-read, especially in the American academy. We will think through the development of a late ...(read more)

203/7

Graduate Readings:
What was Asian American Literature?

Tues. 3:30-6:30

Adapting the title of Kenneth Warren’s recent intervention in African American Studies, this course explores the history of Asian American literary formation, and the making of Asian American racial formation through literary agencies (speci...(read more)

205A/1

Old English

TTh 11-12:30

This class introduces students to the language, literature, and modern critical study of the written vernacular culture of England before the Norman Conquest—an era whose language and aesthetics now seem radically foreign. By the end of the ...(read more)

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: 18th Century

F 12-3

Many eighteenth-century British writers imagined their world as one of increasing complexity. Technologies of print, ever more specialized divisions of labor, an expanding empire, major shifts in credit and commerce—the growth of a speculati...(read more)

246I/1

Graduate Proseminar: American Literature to 1855

TTh 2-3:30

For more information on this course, please contact Professor Tamarkin at tamarkin@berkeley.edu.

250/1

Research Seminar:
Marxist Literary Theory

Tues. 9:30-11:30

In the early 1990s, literary theorist Fredric Jameson responded to journalists who were at once proclaiming the emergence of a rejuvenated capitalist "new world order" and asserting the death of Marxism. "It does not seem to make mu...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Victorian Poetry

W 3-6

In this course we will approach the literature and culture of the Victorian period through its poetry and poetics. We'll read a lot of both in order to do three related things. First, we'll consider in what terms the idea of the literary a...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
The Recovery Imperative

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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250/4

Research Seminar:
Eros and Expression

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

At the core, highly selective readings from the most influential explorations of Eros, desire, and sexuality: Plato’s Symposium and passages from Phaedrus, episodes from Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Ovid&rs...(read more)

302/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 9-11

This course will explore the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing. Designed as a both a critical seminar and a hands-on practicum for new college teachers, the class will cover topics such as course design; leading discussion; te...(read more)

310/1

Field Studies in Tutoring Writing

T.B.A.

Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course wi...(read more)

137T/1

Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture:
Chicana and Chicano Films

MWF 10-11

An introduction to the study of Chicana/o films produced in the second half of the twentieth century.  In this course we will analyze films directed by Moctesuma Esparza, Paul Espinosa, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Efrain Gutierrez, Edward James Olmos,...(read more)

200/1

Medieval Studies

Class description to come.

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Aesthetics

TTh 9:30-11

As an introduction to the problems and questions raised by aesthetics, this class will navigate between the following quotations, which can serve as our epigraphs: 1) "If man is ever to solve that problem of politics in practice he will have ...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Birth and Death in Neo-slave and Jim Crow Feminist Narratives

TTh 2-3:30

Building on O. Patterson's notion of "social death" and my own definition of the "death-bound-subject," this course will examine black feminist (mostly neo-slave and Jim Crow) narratives that are concerned with the "bi...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Tolstoy and Realism

M 6-9 P.M.

This is a team-taught course with Mark Danner, journalist, war correspondent and professor in the graduate school of journalism and Robert Hass from the English department. The aim of the course is to read through the major novels, novellas, and s...(read more)

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Alfred Hitchcock

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

For more information on this course, please contact Professor Miller at damiller@berkeley.edu.

This course is cross-listed with Film 240 section 3.

205B/1

Old English

F 1-4

Ever since 1840, when two scholars simultaneously announced that the runes in three Old English poems spelled out the name "Cynewulf," the subject of this seminar has been entangled in controversy. Through a close reading of the four &qu...(read more)

218/1

Milton

MW 1-2:30

We will explore John Milton's entire career, a life-long effort to unite intellectual, political, and artistic experimentation.

246G/1

Romantic Period

TTh 12:30-2

A reading-intensive survey of major and minor texts of the Romantic period, with special attention to how writers understand "things"--particularly things like air, water, bodies, ideas, words, revolution, war, and poems.

246J/1

American Literature, 1855 to 1900

TTh 11-12:30

In a speech delivered on the bicentenary of the ratification of the Constitution, Justice Thurgood Marshall scandalized his audience (and much of the nation) when he proposed that “while the Union survived the civil war, the Constitution did...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Bondage and Freedom in Early Modern English Culture

W 3-6

We will begin with three aims (and then see where our various interests take us): (1) to piece out a literary, philosophical, and political history of the early modern exceptionalist claim that the English were uniquely free and freedom-loving and...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar:
Modernism and the End of Europe: 1914-45

W 3-6

In the summer of 1914, despite a century's talk of revolution, most of the major powers of Europe were titular monarchies (and most of the titular monarchs were cousins). Despite decades of rapid industrialization, most of the continent's ...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
The Transnational and Comparative Turns in American Ethnic Literature

W 3-6

The study of race and ethnicity across national boundaries has become an academic norm. It is now widely accepted that nation-based methods and approaches risk limiting our understanding of ethnic literatures and histories. Thus, in African Americ...(read more)

250/4

Research Seminar:
Melville's Forms

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

In 1986, in the influential volume Ideology and Classic American Literature, Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen used "the example of Melville" to make their case for a historically and politically informed literary criticism. In ...(read more)

250/5

Research Seminar:
Writing and Reading Cultural History: Ireland in the 1930s

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

The primary aim of this course is to consider how we read and study literary and cultural history. The focus of the course is on the culture of Ireland in the 1930s and by the end of this course students will have a broad understanding of this cul...(read more)

310/1

Field Studies in Tutoring Writing

TBA

Through seminars, discussions, and reading assignments, students are introduced to the language/writing/literacy needs of diverse college-age writers such as the developing, bi-dialectal, and non-native English-speaking (NNS) writer. The course wi...(read more)

137T/1

Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture:
The Literature of the Chicano Movement

MWF 2-3

We will survey the literary and cultural production of the Chicano/a Movement during the 1960s through the 1980s. This was a particularly fertile period during which the civil rights movement fomented a cultural florescence within the Chicano comm...(read more)

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12-1:30

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

200/2

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 12-1:30

Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.

201B/1

Topics in the History of the English Language

This course has been canceled.

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Pastoral/Animal Studies

MW 10:30-12

A wide-ranging exploration of pastoral modes from Virgil’s rewriting of Theocritus to contemporary imitations less of rural life per se than of lives deemed somehow “poor” or “simple.” Drawing on Empson’s sense...(read more)

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

W 3-6

This will be a hands-on writing workshop intended to facilitate and accelerate the transition from qualifying exams to prospectus conference, from prospectus conference to first dissertation chapter, and from the status of student to scholar. The w...(read more)

203/3

Graduate Readings:
The Writing of Everyday Life

TTh 12:30-2

This seminar will undertake a critical reading of, and participation in, some possibilities (or impossibilities) of contemporary realisms and realities. It will query, from an array of perspectives, problems of representation, referentiality, hist...(read more)

203/4

Graduate Readings:
American Enlightenment & Revolution

TTh 2-3:30

This course broadly surveys the cultural history of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century America.  In readings of literary, political, religious and scientific texts alongside visual culture of the period, we will look at the Revolution...(read more)

205A/1

Old English

See below

This course will not be offered in 2010-2011, but English Department graduate students may take the undergraduate equivalent, English 104 (Introduction to Old English), in its place; see the listing for that course in this Announcement of Classes. ...(read more)

217/1

Shakespeare

MW 1:30-3

This class is an introduction to the criticism of Shakespeare at the graduate level. I've decided to perform that introduction this semester by following the development of Shakespeare criticism into a professional practice, tracing the reception h...(read more)

246E/1

Restoration and Early 18th Century

TTh 11-12:30

An exploration of the satire, devotional autobiography, prose fiction, letter-writing, diaries, heroic verse, drama, pornography and feminist polemic produced in England between the Restoration of Charles II (1660) and circa 1735; these will includ...(read more)

250/1

Research Seminar:
Modernist Abstraction in Art and Poetry

W 3-6

This course will study relations between three modernist poets and some modern philosophers. We will be concerned primarily with how the philosophers help provide a perspective for interpreting and assessing what the poets can achieve by their re...(read more)

250/2

Research Seminar

250/3

Research Seminar:
The Novel and the New Ethics

Thurs. 3:30-5:30

In the last decade, a new call for ethical criticism has been sounded from unexpected quarters of the academy. The renewed interest in ethics is sparked by the academy’s general dissatisfaction w...(read more)

302/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 9-11

This course will explore the theory and practice of teaching literature and writing. Designed as both a critical seminar and a hands-on practicum for new college teachers, the class will cover topics such as course design; leading discussion; teach...(read more)

137T/1

Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture:
The Politics of Chicano/a Literature and Film

MW 12:30-2

203/1

Research Seminars:
Visuality, Textuality, and Cultural Memory

W 3-6

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Poetic Meter

MW 1:30-3

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Poetry, Theater, and Visual Culture in the Renaissance

TTh 2-3:30

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Queer/Of Color

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

246I/1

American Literature to 1855

TTh 11-12:30

246K/1

Literature in English, 1900-1945

TTh 9:30-11

250/1

Research Seminars:
Mass Entertainment

M 3-6

250/2

Research Seminars:
Theories of the World and World Literature from Goethe to the Present

T 3:30 - 6:30

250/3

Research Seminars:
Agents [and Others] in Anglo-Saxon England

Tues. 3:30-6:30

250/5

Research Seminars:
Wordsworth and Coleridge in Collaboration: Poetry, Human Science, & Romantic Aesthetics

F 10:30-1:30

200/1

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

200/2

Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

203/1

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Tues. 3:30-6:30

203/2

Graduate Readings: Modernism, Race and Modernity

TTh 11-12:30

203/3

Graduate Readings: Edmund Spenser

M 3-6

203/4

Graduate Readings: Prospectus Workshop

W 3-6

203/5

Graduate Readings: British Empiricism, the Novel, and the Science of Man

TTh 2-3:30

203/6

Graduate Readings: Poetics and Theories of Poetry

Tues. 3:30-6:30

This course will attempt to provide a general introduction to poetics, to sketch a more detailed history of the ways in which poetry has been theorized since the nineteenth century, and to think through some of the more recent trends in scholarshi...(read more)

205A/1

Old English

TTh 9:30-11

211/1

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

W 3-6

246F/1

Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century

MW 12-1:30

250/2

Research Seminar: Postwar British Literary Culture at Mid-Century

W 3-6

302/1

The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Thurs. 3:30-5:30

201B/1

Topics in the History of the English Language:
The Development of Linguistic Representations of Point of View

Note new time: Th 9:30-12:30

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Gender, Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Irish Poetry

MW 10:30-12

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Literature and Psychoanalysis

MW 1:30-3

203/3

Graduate Readings: Victorian Novel

T 9:30-12:30

203/4

Graduate Readings:
The Writings of Henry Adams and William James

TTh 2-3:30

203/5

Graduate Readings

TTh 2-3:30

203/6

Graduate Readings:
Reading Novels Now

Th 3:30-6:30

203/7

Graduate Readings:
Narrative and Middle Passage

TTh 9:30-11

218/1

Milton

W 2-5

246C/1

Graduate Proseminars:
Renaissance (16th-Century): Faustus' Books

MW 10:30-12

250/1

Research Seminar:
Philosophy and the Arts

M 3-6

This course will try to relate the concept of sensuousness to the roles the affects can play in aesthetic experience.  The first half of the course will be devoted to familiarizing ourselves with basic concepts that establish...(read more)

250/3

Research Seminar:
Native American Fiction

W 3-6

250/1

Research Seminar:
Ecocriticism Meets Biopolitics

M 3-6

"This research seminar addresses two areas of literary and critical theory concerned with animal/human divides and the relationship between place, language and politics. ""Biopolitics"" commonly refers to the politicization...(read more)

200/1

Graduate Course:
Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

200/2

Graduate Course:
Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Turn to Language and the Writing of Everyday Life

MW 1:30-3

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Colonial America in the Atlantic World

T 3:30-6:30

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

T 3:30-6:30

203/5

Graduate Readings:
The Novel in Theory

W 3-6

205A/1

Graduate Readings:
Old English

MW 9-10:30

212/1

Graduate Course:
Readings in Middle English

TTh 12:30-2

217/1

Graduate Course:
Shakespeare

TTh 5-6:30

246E/1

Graduate Proseminar:
Restoration and Early 18th Century

TTh 11-12:30

246J/1

Graduate Proseminar:
American Literature, 1855-1900

TTh. 2-3:30

250/3

Research Seminar:
William Blake

W 3-6

250/6

Research Seminar:
Modernist Critical Prose

W 3-6

302/1

Graduate Course:
The Teaching of Composition and Literature

Th 3:30-5:30

202/1

History of Literary Criticism:
Critical Realism

W 3:30-6:30

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Disability in Theory

TTh 11-12:30

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Virginia Woolf

TTh 2-3:30

203/3

Graduate Readings:
American Transcendentalism and American Pragmatism

MW 12:30-2

203/4

Graduate Readings:
English Fiction to 1800

TTh 9:30-11

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Modernism in Poetry

Tues. 3:30-6:30

203/6

Graduate Readings:
The Novel and Romanticism

TTh 11-12:30

246F/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
"The Later-Eighteenth Century

"

M 3:30-6:30

246I/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
American Literature to 1855

TTh 12:30-2

250/1

Research Seminar:
Form and Style from Chaucer to Spenser

Tues. 3:30-6:30

250/2

Research Seminar:
Compassion and Representation in Early Modern England

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/3

Research Seminar:
Proust

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/4

Research Seminar:
A Small Place �Irish Fictions, 1890-2005

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

136C/2

Topics in American Studies:
The Border

TTh 11-12:30

202/1

History of Literary Criticism:
Critical Realism

W 3:30-6:30

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Disability in Theory

TTh 11-12:30

203/2

Graduate Readings:
Virginia Woolf

TTh 2-3:30

203/3

Graduate Readings:
American Transcendentalism and American Pragmatism

MW 12:30-2

203/4

Graduate Readings:
English Fiction to 1800

TTh 9:30-11

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Modernism in Poetry

Tues. 3:30-6:30

203/6

Graduate Readings:
The Novel and Romanticism

TTh 11-12:30

246F/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
The Later-Eighteenth Century

M 3:30-6:30

246I/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
American Literature to 1855

TTh 12:30-2

250/1

Research Seminar:
Form and Style from Chaucer to Spenser

Tues. 3:30-6:30

250/2

Research Seminar:
Compassion and Representation in Early Modern England

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/3

Research Seminar:
Proust

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/4

Research Seminar:
A Small Place �Irish Fictions, 1890-2005

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

137T/1

Junior Coursework:
Topics in Latina/o Literature and Culture: The Trans-American Novel? Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Morrison, and Cisneros

MWF 1-2

201A/1

Graduate Course:
Topics in the Structure of the English Language: Syntax and the Language Arts

TTh 11-12:30

203/1

Graduate Readings:
British Novel, 1800-1900

M 3-6

203/3

Graduate Readings:
History and the Postcolonial

TTh 9:30-11

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Edmund Spenser

TTh 11-12:30

203/5

Graduate Readings:
Poetic Meter

TTh 12:30-2

203/6

Graduate Readings:
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

Thurs. 2-5

203/7

Graduate Readings:
Chekhov, the Conventions of Realism, and the Depiction of Reality

Tues. 6-9 P.M

212/1

Graduate Course:
Readings in Middle English

TTh 9:30-11

218/1

Graduate Course:
Milton

Thurs. 2-5

246C/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
Renaissance?16th Century

TTh 5-6:30

246K/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
Literature in English, 1900-1945

TTh 12:30-2

250/1

Research Seminar:
Black Reconstruction

M 11-2

250/3

Research Seminar:
Melville and Aesthetics

Tues. 3:30-6:30

250/4

Research Seminar:
Class and Race in U.S. Ethnic Literature

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/5

Research Seminar:
James Joyce

F 11-2

200/1

Graduate Course:
Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

200/2

Graduate Course:
Problems in the Study of Literature

MW 10:30-12

203/1

Graduate Readings:
Prospectus Workshop

Tues. 3:30-6:30

203/2

Graduate Readings:
The Novel in Theory

W 3-6

203/3

Graduate Readings:
Cultures of U.S. Imperialism & the War of 1898

TTh 11-12:30

203/4

Graduate Readings:
Renaissance Drama

TTh 2-3:30

217/1

Graduate Course:
Shakespeare

TTh 12:30-2

246E/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
Restoration and Early 18 th Century

MW 4-5:30

246G/1

Graduate Pro-seminar:
British Romanticism

TTh 11-12:30

250/1

Research Seminar:
Death and Reproduction in 20th-Century African-American Fiction

M 3-6

250/2

Research Seminar:
William Faulkner

Tues. 3:30-6:30

250/3

Research Seminar:
Studies in the Lyric�Genre and Theory

W 3-6

250/4

Research Seminar:
Philosophy and the Arts

Thurs. 3:30-6:30

250/5

Research Seminar:
Renaissance Prosopography and Drayton�s Polyolbion

Thurs. 3:30-630

Class description to come.