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Medieval | Renaissance | 18th-Century and Romanticism | 19th-Century | 20th-Century | American | Theory | Special Topics

Note: this archive is by no means comprehensive; this collection attempts, rather, to give some idea of the range of courses the department offers as well as to offer representative reading lists and requirements for courses regularly offered. The syllabi may also suggest individual instructors' emphases or serve as reading and research guides (some syllabi provide extensive bibliographies, occasionally including useful websites). For courses offered yearly, only one or two typical syllabi are included. In some cases, syllabi by different instructors are posted for substantively the same course, showing different approaches to a particular subject. Also, different courses are sometimes offered under the same course number, which may denote a general rubric such as "Studies in Medieval Literature"; in the following list, classes are usually identified by their more distinguishing subtitles.

MEDIEVAL

ENGL W3261 English Literature to 1500 (Susan Crane)
CLEN W3140 Medieval Romance (Susan Crane)
ENGL W4011 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Paul Strohm)
CLEN W4021 European Literature of Middle Ages (Joan Ferrante)
CLEN G6023 Provencal (Joan Ferrante)
CLEN G6031 The Apocalypse in Medieval Tradition (Sandra Prior)
ENGL G6043 Chaucer (Robert Hanning)
CLEN G6031 Chivalry (Robert Hanning)
CLEN G6028 Medieval Animals (Susan Crane)

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RENAISSANCE

ENGL W3262 English Literature 1500-1600 (Alan Stewart)
ENGL W3263 English Literature 1600-1660 (Julie Crawford)
ENGL W3930 Gender & Disorder (Fran Dolan)
ENGL W3335 Shakespeare I (David Kastan)
ENGL W3335 Shakespeare I (James Shapiro)
ENGL W3336 Shakespeare II (Jean Howard)
ENGL W3337 Shakespeare in Dramatic Context (Jean Howard)
ENGL W3930 The Renaissance Marvellous (Julie Crawford)
CLEN W4122 The Renaissance in Europe (Kathy Eden)
CLEN W4122 The Erotic in Renaissance Literature (Anne Prescott)
CLEN W4122 Wit and Humor in the Renaissance (Anne Prescott)
ENGL W4702 Tudor-Stuart Drama (James Shapiro)
ENGL W4211 Milton (David Kastan)
ENGL W4211 Milton (Julie Crawford)
CLEN W4721 European Drama, Renaissance to 1700 (Julie Peters)
ENGL G6200 Writing London (Jean Howard)
ENGL G6131 More, Erasmus & their Circle (Anne Prescott)
CLEN G6128 Trade & Traffic in the Early Modern World (Alan Stewart)
CLEN G6128 Renaissance Satire (Anne Prescott)
ENGL G6135 Tudor Drama: Dramatizing the Body Politic (Jean Howard & Paul Strohm

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18th-CENTURY & ROMANTICISM

ENGL W3706 From Sensibility to Romanticism (John Axcelson)
ENGL W3707 Romantic Poetry (Karl Kroeber)
ENGL W3933 Jane Austen (Jenny Davidson)
ENGL W4703 Restoration & 18th-century Drama (Jenny Davidson)
CLEN W4321 Enlightenment to Romanticism (Ross Hamilton)
ENGL W4402 Romantic Poetry (Erik Gray)
ENGL G6301 The Social Lives of Texts (Clifford Siskin)
ENGL G6321 18th-century Novelists (Jenny Davidson)
ENGL G6629 The Idea of Culture (Jenny Davidson)

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19th-CENTURY

ENGL W3266 British Literature, 1832-1900 (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL W3802 History of Novel II (Edward Mendelson)
ENGL W3802 The 19th-Century English Novel (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL W3831 Dickens & Melville (Amanda Claybaugh)
ENGL V3260 Victorian Literature (Maura Spiegel)
ENGL W3960 Dickens & the 19th Century (Maura Spiegel)
ENGL W4404 Victorian Poetry (Erik Gray)
ENGL W4405 Victorian Literature (John Rosenberg)
CLEN W4822 The Novel in Europe (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL G6404 Victorian Psychologies (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL G6841 Everyday Life and the Novel (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL G6933 Seminar on Autobiography (John Rosenberg)
ENGL G6404 Victorian Reading (Nicholas Dames)
ENGL G6405 Victorian London (William Sharpe)

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20th-CENTURY

ENGL W3269 Modern British Literature 1900-1950 (Edward Mendelson)
ENGL W3829 Studies in Narrative Fiction (Michael Rosenthal)
ENGL W3230 Joyce (Michael Seidel)
CLEN W3740 The Modernist Novel (David Damrosch)
CLEN W3208 Comparative Modern Fiction (Bruce Robbins)
CLEN W3209 Modern & Postmodern Cities (Ursula Heise)
ENGL W3966 Literature, Culture, & War in the 20th Century (Sarah Cole)
ENGL W3770 Contemporary Irish Writing in English (Andrew Hadfield)
CLEN W3792 The Historical Novel after Modernism (David Damrosch)
CLEN W3938 Comparative Postcolonialisms (Joseph Slaughter)
CLEN W3940 Joyce & Co. (David Damrosch)
ENGL W4501 Modernism & its Enemies (David Damrosch)
ENGL W4501 Modern British Literature (Sarah Cole)
ENGL W4502 British Literature 1950 to the Present (Maura Spiegel)
CLEN W4550 Narrative and Human Rights (Joseph Slaughter)
CLEN W4775 The European Avant Garde & its Transformation in the Americas (Ursula Heise)
CLEN G4540 Space, Place & Travel in Postmodern Lit (Ursula Heise)
ENGL G6506 Modern British Texts (Edward Mendelson)
ENGL G6511 Joyce & Company (David Damrosch)
CLEN G6820 Novel and Anti-Novel (David Damrosch)
CLEN G6707 Modernism and the Manifesto (Martin Puchner)
CLEN G6632 The Body, Pain, and Cinema (Maura Spiegel)

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AMERICAN

ENGL W3267 Foundations of American Lit I (Andrew Delbanco)
ENGL W3630 African American Poetry (Marcellus Blount)
ENGL W3710 The Beat Generation (Ann Douglas)
ENGL W3283 Contemporary American Fiction (Richard Locke)
ENGL W3237 "Race" and Racism (Robert Hanning)
ENGL W3875 Mysteries of New York (Caleb Crain)
ENGL W3714 Henry James and William Faulkner (Jonathan Arac)
ENGL W3874 Depression Culture in Black and White (Ann Douglas)
ENGL W3733 Fictions of Gay and Lesbian Life after WWII (Patrick Horrigan)
ENGL W4604 American Modernism (Rachel Adams)
ENGL W4593 American Novel, Revolution to Civil War (Ezra Tawil)
ENGL G4603 The American Novel 1850-1950 (Jonathan Arac)
ENGL W4670 Film Noir, Noir Nation (Ann Douglas)
ENGL W4930 Politics in American Film (Maura Spiegel)
CLEN W4930 Jazz and the Political Imagination (Robin Kelley)
ENGL G6602 American Renaissance: Literature and Theory (Ezra Tawil)
ENGL G6601 Transcendentalism (Caleb Crain)
ENGL G6608 Literature of War & Reconstruction (Amanda Claybaugh)
ENGL G6610 Cold War Culture (Ann Douglas)

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THEORY

ENGL W3935 The Novel: Texts and Theories (Jonathan Arac)
CLEN W4560 Backgrounds to Contemporary Theory (Bruce Robbins)
CLEN W4902 Introduction to Literary Theory (David Damrosch)
CLEN W4902 Introduction to Literary Theory (Stathis Gourgouris)
CLEN W4563 Reading Lacan: Seminar VII (Maire Jaanus)
CLEN W4563 Reading Lacan: Seminar XI (Maire Jaanus)
CLEN W4563 Reading Lacan: Seminar XX: Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge
CLEN G6566 Transnational Culture (Bruce Robbins)
CLEN G6532 Poetry & Technology (Ursula Heise)
CLEN G6537 Feminist and Queer Theory
CLEN G6801 The Theory of the Novel (Nicholas Dames)

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SPECIAL TOPICS

CLEN W3851 Imperialism & the Cryptographic Imagination (Gauri Viswanathan)
CLEN W3910 Women, Religion, and Human Rights (Joan Ferrante)
CLEN W3978 Origins of Literary Imagining (Karl Kroeber)
CLEN W3964 19th-c Fiction and 20th-c Film (Karl Kroeber)
CLEN W3785 Drama, Film, and the Law (Julie Peters)
CLEN W3915 Autobiography (Carole Slade)
CLEN W3690 Deep Sea Thought (Robert Ferguson)
CLEN W4521 The World of Banned Books (Jonathan Abel)
ENGL G5006 Introduction to the Discipline (David Damrosch)


Masters Seminars

ENGL G5001 Theory and the Medieval/Early Modern Text (Paul Strohm)
ENGL G5001 The Critic in Culture (David Damrosch)
ENGL G5001 Theory and Performance (Martin Puchner)


Related Courses

CSER W3020 Comparative American Multilingual Literature (Joshua Miller)
WMST W3940 Queer Theories and Histories (David Kurnick)

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