2023-2024 Courses

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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


2023-24 Fall/Winter ACORN Enrolment Dates for English Graduate Courses 

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: 6 June (ACORN opens at 6:00am EDT) to 11 August 2023

Enrolment Closed for English courses: 8 June 2023 from 3pm EDT (to reset ACORN for MA enrolment the next morning)

Incoming and Continuing MA students:  9 June (ACORN reopens at 6:00am EDT) to 11 August 2023

**ACORN enrolment closed for English courses: 12 August to 4 September 2023**

ACORN enrolment reopens:  5 September 2023 at 10:00am EDT

 

2023 Fall (F) Term

  • Classes start on 7 September
  • Fall waitlist for English courses will be dismantled on 14 September
  • Final date to add Fall and full-year (Y) session courses is 20 September
  • Final date to drop Fall session courses without academic penalty is 6 November
  • Fall Reading Week is from 6 to 10 November (no classes)
  • Classes end on 6 December

2024 Winter (S) Term

  • Classes start on 8 January  
  • Winter waitlist for English courses will be dismantled on 15 January
  • Final date to add Winter session courses is 22 January
  • Winter Reading Week is from 19 to 23 February (no classes)
  • Final date to drop full-year and Winter session courses without academic penalty is 20 February
  • Classes end on 5 April

NOTE:  For classroom information, students should check their ACORN, unless otherwise indicated to contact their instructor directly. 


F-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2023

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 am
- 11:00 am
2 hours
 

CHANGE: MOVED FROM 
SUMMER 2024

ENG6532HF 
Writing More-than-Human 
Lives
F-Term:  Ackerman, A. 
2 hours    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

     
10:00 am
- 1:00 pm
3 hours
   

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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

   
11:00 am 
– 1:00 pm
2 hours

ENG5078HF 
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Azubuko-Udah, C. 
2 hours    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG2509HF  
Shakespeare and the Book
Teramura, M. 
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

   

ENG6494HF 
Psychogeography and the 
Mapping of Literary Space
Radovic, S. 
2 hours 

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

1:00 pm 
– 3:00 pm
2 hours

ENG6950YY 
Creative Writing 
Workshop
F-Term:  Williams, I. 
2 hours    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG3045HF 
The Comic Novel from 
Fielding to Austen
Dickie, S. 
2 hours 

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

     
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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

2:00 pm 
- 4:00 pm
2 hours
   

ENG4750HF 
Empire of Steam: 
Romanticism, 
Technology, and 
Modernity
White, D. 
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG6492HF 
Speaking of What’s Next:
Climate and Dystopia in
Near Future Fiction
Goldman, M.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
2 hours
 

ENG4405HF 
Genres of the Victorian 
Novel
Jaffe, A. 
2 hours    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

     
3:00 pm
- 6:00 pm
3 hours

ENG1001HF 
Old English I:  
Introduction to Old 
English
Klausner, D. 
3 hours 

RM: Contact the Instructor

   

ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours 

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
Every other week. 
Exact schedule TBD

 
4:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
2 hours
   

NOTE: FIRST CLASS ON SEPT 6.

ENG6552HF 
Law and Literature
Stern, S. 
2 hours    

Rm: Contact the Instructor

   
4:00 pm
- 7:00 pm
3 hours
       

ENG5047HF 
Class, Culture, and 
American Realism
Dolan, N. 
3 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

5:00 pm 
- 7:00 pm
2 hours
 

ENG5115HF 
The Satanic Verses 
and the Public Life 
of Books
Boyagoda, R.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 

ENG9400HF  
Essential Skills 
Workshop Series
Hernandez 
5:00 - 6:20 (1hr 20min)

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 
6:00 pm
- 8:00 pm 
2 hours
   

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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

   

 

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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG6848HS 
Representing 
Vandalism
Mount, N.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 

ENG4973HS 
Marx and the
American 
Renaissance
Downes, P. 
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

10:00 am 
– 1:00 pm
3 hours
     

ENG5712HS 
Cinema of Refusal:
Inuit Modernity and 
Visual Sovereignty
Kamboureli, S.
3 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 
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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

       
12:00 pm – 
2:00 pm
2 hours
 

ENG5080HS
Assembling the 
Afro-Métis 
Syllabus
Clarke, G.E.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG5088HS
Kind of Like: 
Difference, 
Similarity, 
Comparison
Thomas, A.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

   
1:00 pm  
- 3:00 pm
2 hours

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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

   

ENG5802HS 
Global Protest 
Cultures
Mehta, R.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 
2:00 pm 
- 4:00 pm
2 hours    
 

ENG2486HS 
Early Modern 
Theater Theories
Williams, K.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS


ENG9900HS
Professing 
Literature
Newman, D.
2 hours  

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

ENG6064HS 
Theory of the 
Novel
Schmitt, C.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 

ENG1002HS
Old English II:
Beowulf
Michelet, F.
2 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

3:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
3 hours

ENG2499HS 
Shakespeare's 
Tragedies
Magnusson, L. 
3 hours    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

 

 

ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
Every other week. 
Exact schedule TBD

 
4:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
2 hours
   

ENG4662HS
Romantic Memory
Weisman, K.
2 hours 

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS 

   
6:00 pm 
- 8:00 pm 
2 hours    

ENG3707HS
Literature and 
Censorship, 1640-1860
Keymer, T.
2 hours    

Rm. JHB 616

       

 

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    

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS


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

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

       
3:00 pm 
- 6:00 pm
3 hours
     

ENG9500HY 
Professional 
Development
Wright, D. 
3 hours

Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
Every other week. 
Exact schedule TBD

 

 


Graduate English Course Descriptions - By Area

1000 Series Course Descriptions

2000 Series Course Descriptions

3000 Series Course Descriptions

4000 Series Course Descriptions

5000 Series Course Descriptions

6000 Series Course Descriptions

Creative Writing Workshop Description (Creative Writing)

Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English

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