2023-2024 Course Descriptions & Timetables

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COURSES AND COVID19

With the continuing uncertainty about how the pandemic will unfold and if and how long social distancing may be required, we are engaged in making preparations for the coming academic year. The aim is to ensure this year's courses will be as challenging and inspiring as always, regardless of the circumstances.

2023-2024 GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES

Consult the timetables and Course Descriptions for updated details on course changes, including times, cancellations, rooms, and locations.  Please Note: Courses may be subject to changes and/or cancellations.

CURRENT GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES LISTED BY SESSION


All times listed are EDT or EST.

Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 ACORN course enrolment for continuing and incoming students have been stepped as follows:

Current and Incoming PhD and PhD U students – TBA

Enrolment Closed – TBA

Incoming and Continuing MA students – TBA

**ENROLMENT CLOSED**
TBA

Enrolment Reopens – TBA

2023 Fall (F) Term
Classes start – tba
Department fall waitlist will be dismantled on tba
Fall Reading Week (no classes) – tba
Classes end – tba

2024 Winter (S) Term
Classes start – tba
Department winter waitlist will be dismantled on tba
Winter Reading Week (no classes) – tba
Classes end – tba


F-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2023

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10:00 am
- 1:00 pm
3 hours
   

ENG1006HF 
Medieval Drama: York's
Plays and Records
Sergi, M. 
3 hours

   
11:00 am 
– 1:00 pm
2 hours
ENG5078HF 
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Azubuko-Udah, C. 
2 hours    
ENG2509HF  
Shakespeare and the Book
Teramura, M. 
2 hours
    ENG6494HF 
Psychogeography and the 
Mapping of Literary Space
Radovic, S. 
2 hours 
1:00 pm 
– 3:00 pm
2 hours
ENG6950YY 
Creative Writing 
Workshop
F-Term:  Williams, I. 
2 hours    
ENG3045HF 
The Comic Novel from 
Fielding to Austen
Dickie, S. 
2 hours    
     
1:00 pm 
– 4:00 pm
3 hours
        ENG6999YF 
Critical Topographies:
Theory and Practice of 
Contemporary Literary 
Studies in English
Dancer, T. / Gniadek, M. 
3 hours
2:00 pm 
- 4:00 pm
2 hours
    ENG4750HF 
Empire of Steam: 
Romanticism, 
Technology, and 
Modernity
White, D. 
2 hours
ENG6492HF 
Speaking of What’s Next:
Climate and Dystopia in
Near Future Fiction
Goldman, M.
2 hours
 
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
2 hours
  ENG4405HF 
Genres of the Victorian 
Novel
Jaffe, A. 
2 hours    
     
3:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
3 hours
ENG1001HF 
Old English I:  
Introduction to Old 
English
Walton, A. 
3 hours    
    ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours 
 
4:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
2 hours
    ENG6552HF 
Law and Literature
Stern, S. 
2 hours    
   
4:00 pm
- 7:00 pm
3 hours
        ENG5047HF 
Class, Culture, and 
American Realism
Dolan, N. 
3 hours
5:00 pm 
- 7:00 pm
2 hours
  ENG5115HF 
The Satanic Verses 
and the Public Life 
of Books
Boyagoda, R.
2 hours
  ENG9400HF  
Essential Skills 
Workshop Series
Hernandez 
5:00 - 6:20
 
6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm 
2 hours
   

ENG5101HF 
Graham Greene: 
The Problem of 
Elsewhere
Greene, R. 
2 hours

   

 

S-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2024

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10:00 am 
– 12:00 pm
2 hours
  ENG6365HS 
Diasporic 
Englishes
Percy, C.
2 hours
ENG6848HS 
Representing 
Vandalism
Mount, N.
2 hours
  ENG4973HS 
Marx and the
American 
Renaissance
Downes, P. 
2 hours
10:00 am 
– 1:00 pm
3 hours
      ENG5712HS 
Cinema of Refusal:
Inuit Modernity and 
Visual Sovereignty
Kamboureli, S.
3 hours
 
11:00 am 
– 1:00 pm
2 hours
ENG1012HS 
Writing the Self 
in Late-medieval England:
Thomas Hoccleve
and Margery Kempe
Sobecki, S.
2 hours
       
12:00 pm – 
2:00 pm
2 hours
  ENG5080HS
Assembling the 
Afro-Métis 
Syllabus
Clarke, G.E.
2 hours
ENG5088HS
Kind of Like: 
Difference, 
Similarity, 
Comparison
Thomas, A.
2 hours
   
1:00 pm  
- 3:00 pm
2 hours
ENG6950YY 
Creative Writing 
Workshop
S-Term:  McGill, R.
2 hours    
    ENG5802HS 
Global Protest 
Cultures
Mehta, R.
2 hours
 
2:00 pm 
- 4:00 pm
2 hours    
 

ENG2486HS 
Early Modern 
Theater Theories
Williams, K.
2 hours


ENG9900HS
Professing 
Literature
Newman, D.
2 hours    

ENG6064HS 
Theory of the 
Novel
Schmitt, C.
2 hours
  ENG1002HS
Old English II:
Beowulf
Michelet, F.
2 hours
3:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
3 hours
ENG2499HS 
Shakespeare's 
Tragedies
Magnusson, L. 
3 hours    

 

  ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours
 
4:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
2 hours
    ENG4662HS
Romantic Memory
Weisman, K.
2 hours    
   
6:00 pm 
- 8:00 pm 
2 hours    
ENG3707HS
Literature and 
Censorship, 1640-1860
Keymer, T.
2 hours    
       

 

Y-Term Graduate Course Timetable - (Full Year Courses)

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1:00 pm  
- 3:00 pm
2 hours
ENG6950YY 
Creative Writing 
Workshop
F-Term:  Williams, I. 
2 hours    

ENG6950YY 
Creative Writing 
Workshop
S-Term:  McGill, R.
2 hours 

       
3:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
3 hours
      ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours
 

 


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