Departmental Advisors
Academic Advising Coordinator
Alex Graff
Academic Advising Coordinator
Kari Lindsey
Honors Program Liaison
Spencer Wall
English Teaching Program
Lepa Espinoza
Graduate Program Director
Anne Jamison
Departmental Notes

For course descriptions and pre-requisite information click on the subject column next to the appropriate catalog number.

ENGL 201 - 090 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 201 - 090 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 16633
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 209 - 001 Video Game Storytelling

ENGL 209 - 001 Video Game Storytelling

  • Class Number: 16634
  • Instructor: TETT, SAM
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

ENGL 209 - 090 Video Game Storytelling


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ The course fee covers digital course materials through the Instant Access program. Students may request to opt out here: https://portal.verba.io/utah/login

ENGL 209 - 090 Video Game Storytelling

  • Class Number: 16635
  • Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ The course fee covers digital course materials through the Instant Access program. Students may request to opt out here: https://portal.verba.io/utah/login

ENGL 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare

ENGL 230 - 001 Intro Shakespeare

  • Class Number: 10484
  • Instructor: MATHESON, MARK
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

ENGL 261 - 001 Diversity in American Lit

ENGL 261 - 001 Diversity in American Lit

  • Class Number: 16641
  • Instructor: SHREIBER, MAEERA
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

ENGL 261 - 090 Diversity in American Lit


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 261 - 090 Diversity in American Lit

  • Class Number: 16642
  • Instructor: Espinoza, Lepa Piquk
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 295 - 090 Lit. by the Numbers

ENGL 295 - 090 Lit. by the Numbers

  • Class Number: 20007
  • Instructor: SWANSTROM, ELIZABETH
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 2

ENGL 551 - 001 Fiction Workshop

ENGL 551 - 001 Fiction Workshop

  • Class Number: 11789
  • Instructor: SHAVERS, RONE
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 0.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Fees: $525.00
  • Seats Available: 1

ENGL 2010 - 090 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 090 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15043
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 0

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 091 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 091 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15094
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 10

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 092 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 092 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15095
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 18

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 093 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 093 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15096
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 21

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 094 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 094 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15097
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 21

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 095 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 095 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15098
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 22

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 096 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 096 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15099
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 20

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 097 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 097 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15831
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 22

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 098 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 098 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15100
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 22

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 099 Intermediate Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2010 - 099 Intermediate Writing

  • Class Number: 15101
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 9

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling

ENGL 2090 - 001 Video Game Storytelling

  • Class Number: 11773
  • Instructor: TETT, SAM
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 39

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/. Video Game Storytelling explores the interplay between game and story in video game media. Students will play and analyze video games, specifically those with strong narratives, and engage with broader literary/theoretical issues in video game and literary studies. Texts include video games themselves, as well as a selection of films, fiction, and critical / theoretical resources.
  • Class Number: 7677
  • Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 29

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/. Video Game Storytelling explores the interplay between game and story in video game media. Students will play and analyze video games, specifically those with strong narratives, and engage with broader literary/theoretical issues in video game and literary studies. Texts include video games themselves, as well as a selection of films, fiction, and critical / theoretical resources.

ENGL 2090 - 091 Video Game Storytelling


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2090 - 091 Video Game Storytelling

  • Class Number: 17956
  • Instructor: WAINSTEIN, NATHAN
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 44

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2095 - 090 Lit. by the Numbers


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2095 - 090 Lit. by the Numbers

  • Class Number: 13050
  • Instructor: SWANSTROM, ELIZABETH
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 20

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2235: Fantasy -- The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen. This class will explore fantasy literature through the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. To that end we will study Tolkien’s three-volume work The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s 2001-2003 film series, with special attention to the cinematic adaptation of print text and the representational limits and possibilities of each medium. We will also examine selections from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and his theories of enchantment and secondary worlds in “On Fairy-Stories.”
  • Class Number: 17061
  • Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 16

ENGL 2235: Fantasy -- The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen. This class will explore fantasy literature through the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. To that end we will study Tolkien’s three-volume work The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s 2001-2003 film series, with special attention to the cinematic adaptation of print text and the representational limits and possibilities of each medium. We will also examine selections from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and his theories of enchantment and secondary worlds in “On Fairy-Stories.”

ENGL 2250 - 002 Intro Creative Writing

ENGL 2250 - 002 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 14167
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 10

ENGL 2250 - 004 Intro Creative Writing

ENGL 2250 - 004 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 14168
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 16

ENGL 2250 - 005 Intro Creative Writing

ENGL 2250 - 005 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 14169
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 19

ENGL 2250 - 006 Intro Creative Writing

ENGL 2250 - 006 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 8512
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 18

ENGL 2250 - 009 Intro Creative Writing

ENGL 2250 - 009 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 3753
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 14

ENGL 2250 - 090 Intro Creative Writing


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2250 - 090 Intro Creative Writing

  • Class Number: 13053
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 5

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2265 - 090 Graphic Novels


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ ENGL 2265: Wakanda Forever! The Legacy of Marvel's Black Panther. This class will explore Black Panther's evolution over his 50+ year history. We’ll examine his earliest appearances as a supporting character in the fledgling Fantastic Four and Avengers titles in the 1960s, his stint as the headline attraction of Jungle Action in the 1970s, and his reinvention under the pen of Black writers and artists such as Christopher Priest, Denys McCowan, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Brian Stelfreeze from the 1990s onward, before ending with Ryan Coogler’s justly celebrated film adaptations from 2018 and 2022. We’ll also discuss the reinvention the film franchise has had to undergo in the wake of Chadwick Boseman’s unfortunate passing and the implications of such changes going forward. This course will also serve as a primer on the basics of comics scholarship. We will cover relevant aspects of the medium’s history, its evolution over the last six decades with regard to storytelling conventions and techniques, as well as the narratological theories used by scholars of the medium to analyze it.

ENGL 2265 - 090 Graphic Novels

  • Class Number: 19246
  • Instructor: SHEPHARD, ANDREW
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 19

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/ ENGL 2265: Wakanda Forever! The Legacy of Marvel's Black Panther. This class will explore Black Panther's evolution over his 50+ year history. We’ll examine his earliest appearances as a supporting character in the fledgling Fantastic Four and Avengers titles in the 1960s, his stint as the headline attraction of Jungle Action in the 1970s, and his reinvention under the pen of Black writers and artists such as Christopher Priest, Denys McCowan, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Brian Stelfreeze from the 1990s onward, before ending with Ryan Coogler’s justly celebrated film adaptations from 2018 and 2022. We’ll also discuss the reinvention the film franchise has had to undergo in the wake of Chadwick Boseman’s unfortunate passing and the implications of such changes going forward. This course will also serve as a primer on the basics of comics scholarship. We will cover relevant aspects of the medium’s history, its evolution over the last six decades with regard to storytelling conventions and techniques, as well as the narratological theories used by scholars of the medium to analyze it.

ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare

ENGL 2300 - 001 Intro Shakespeare

  • Class Number: 8511
  • Instructor: MATHESON, MARK
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 49

ENGL 2340 - 001 Bible As Literature


In this class, we will look closely at the text of the Hebrew Bible, always hoping to uncover new and illuminating ways of reading. We’ll focus on Genesis, parts of Exodus, Leviticus, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, Samuel I and II, as well as Jonah, Job, Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, some Psalms and a few sections of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. We’ll read commentaries – both ancient and contemporary -- and consider some of the great art that has been inspired by these texts: poems, paintings and music.

ENGL 2340 - 001 Bible As Literature

  • Class Number: 19247
  • Instructor: OSHEROW, JACQUELINE
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 17

In this class, we will look closely at the text of the Hebrew Bible, always hoping to uncover new and illuminating ways of reading. We’ll focus on Genesis, parts of Exodus, Leviticus, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, Samuel I and II, as well as Jonah, Job, Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, some Psalms and a few sections of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. We’ll read commentaries – both ancient and contemporary -- and consider some of the great art that has been inspired by these texts: poems, paintings and music.

ENGL 2510 - 001 Intro Crtv Wrtg BK Arts

ENGL 2510 - 001 Intro Crtv Wrtg BK Arts

  • Class Number: 11261
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Fees: $20.00
  • Seats Available: 7

ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit

ENGL 2610 - 001 Diversity In Amer Lit

  • Class Number: 10507
  • Instructor: SHREIBER, MAEERA
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 27

ENGL 2610 - 090 Diversity In Amer Lit


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 2610 - 090 Diversity In Amer Lit

  • Class Number: 15833
  • Instructor: Espinoza, Lepa Piquk
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 20

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
  • Class Number: 9715
  • Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 23

ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction


Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3510 - 001 Writing Fiction

  • Class Number: 3754
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 7

Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction


Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3510 - 002 Writing Fiction

  • Class Number: 5101
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 7

Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry


Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3520 - 001 Writing Poetry

  • Class Number: 9151
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 16

Students must have taken an introductory creative writing course, such as ENGL 2500.

ENGL 3590 - 001 Storycrafting for Games

ENGL 3590 - 001 Storycrafting for Games

  • Class Number: 16620
  • Instructor: WILSON, SAM
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 2

ENGL 3761 - 001 African Amer Lit 2


ENGL 3761: The Afro-Speculative Imagination. Claiming the term "Afrofuturism" is unnecessarily restrictive, some artists and critics say the focus on technology and technoculture neglects works in the fantasy and horror genres or works that blur genre categories altogether. Others have pointed out that this definition excludes modes of speculation which look backward to reimagine the past. And there is also the matter of Black speculative traditions outside the U.S., such as those of Africa, various Afro-Caribbean peoples, and the Black British. This course will place works from these various traditions in conversation with one another in order to gain a better understanding of both their commonalities and differences. Authors and filmmakers under discussion will include: George Schuyler, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Colson Whitehead, Tananarive Due, N.K. Jemisin, Jordan Peele, P. Djeli Clark, and Boots Riley.

ENGL 3761 - 001 African Amer Lit 2

  • Class Number: 13259
  • Instructor: SHEPHARD, ANDREW
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 21

ENGL 3761: The Afro-Speculative Imagination. Claiming the term "Afrofuturism" is unnecessarily restrictive, some artists and critics say the focus on technology and technoculture neglects works in the fantasy and horror genres or works that blur genre categories altogether. Others have pointed out that this definition excludes modes of speculation which look backward to reimagine the past. And there is also the matter of Black speculative traditions outside the U.S., such as those of Africa, various Afro-Caribbean peoples, and the Black British. This course will place works from these various traditions in conversation with one another in order to gain a better understanding of both their commonalities and differences. Authors and filmmakers under discussion will include: George Schuyler, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Colson Whitehead, Tananarive Due, N.K. Jemisin, Jordan Peele, P. Djeli Clark, and Boots Riley.

ENGL 3780 - 001 Global/Transnatnl Lit

ENGL 3780 - 001 Global/Transnatnl Lit

  • Class Number: 13054
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 15

ENGL 3780 - 070 Global/Transnatnl Lit


This is a hybrid course meeting 3 hours every week at the Sandy Center and 3 hours of work done online through Canvas. This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu

ENGL 3780 - 070 Global/Transnatnl Lit

  • Class Number: 20296
  • Instructor: FIELD BELL, ALLIE
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Hybrid
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 37

This is a hybrid course meeting 3 hours every week at the Sandy Center and 3 hours of work done online through Canvas. This class meets at the Sandy Center 10011 Centennial Parkway, Suite 100, Sandy. For directions call 801.587.2520 or visit https://sandy.utah.edu

3850-001: Poetry and Poetics of the Commons. For hundreds of years, once common properties have been increasingly privatized, and once common customs have been outlawed. This class will look at some of the literary responses to those enclosures. Readings will span over four centuries and a variety of genres, including contemporary punk zines, 17th-Century antinomian tracts, Romantic poetry, film, Indigenous novels, media theory, environmental humanities, radio plays, political theory, and a mud wizard.
  • Class Number: 15828
  • Instructor: DWORKIN, CRAIG
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 5

3850-001: Poetry and Poetics of the Commons. For hundreds of years, once common properties have been increasingly privatized, and once common customs have been outlawed. This class will look at some of the literary responses to those enclosures. Readings will span over four centuries and a variety of genres, including contemporary punk zines, 17th-Century antinomian tracts, Romantic poetry, film, Indigenous novels, media theory, environmental humanities, radio plays, political theory, and a mud wizard.

ENGL 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study


Castles of the Mind: Reading Medieval Architecture: This course explores the interlocking histories of architecture and literary representation, paying special attention to medieval architectural allegory and the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. Along the way, we will be engaged in a complementary task, which is to build an understanding of various literal critical methods, theories, and histories which will serve as a foundation for your work in the major.

ENGL 3850 - 002 Seminar in Lit. Study

  • Class Number: 8684
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 11

Castles of the Mind: Reading Medieval Architecture: This course explores the interlocking histories of architecture and literary representation, paying special attention to medieval architectural allegory and the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. Along the way, we will be engaged in a complementary task, which is to build an understanding of various literal critical methods, theories, and histories which will serve as a foundation for your work in the major.

ENGL 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study

ENGL 3850 - 003 Seminar in Lit. Study

  • Class Number: 8685
  • Instructor: STRALEY, JESSICA
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 7

ENGL 3850 - 004 Seminar in Lit. Study

ENGL 3850 - 004 Seminar in Lit. Study

  • Class Number: 14802
  • Instructor: CULVER, STUART
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 9

Topic: Dialogue and Difference Jews and Christians share sacred texts -- yet they read them quite differently. Why do these differences matter? What are the risks and urgencies of interfaith dialogue, which is more important now than ever? Join professors Brandon Peterson and Maaera Shreiber as we explore the Jewish and Christian literary, philosophical, and theological traditions in a lively conversation focusing on themes like: creation, suffering, justice, sexuality, and the divine-human relationship. (Especially worthwhile for those who have taken "The Bible as Literature" and want more.)
  • Class Number: 19148
  • Instructor: Peterson, Brandon
  • Instructor: SHREIBER, MAEERA
  • Component: Special Topics
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 14

Topic: Dialogue and Difference Jews and Christians share sacred texts -- yet they read them quite differently. Why do these differences matter? What are the risks and urgencies of interfaith dialogue, which is more important now than ever? Join professors Brandon Peterson and Maaera Shreiber as we explore the Jewish and Christian literary, philosophical, and theological traditions in a lively conversation focusing on themes like: creation, suffering, justice, sexuality, and the divine-human relationship. (Especially worthwhile for those who have taken "The Bible as Literature" and want more.)

ENGL 4990 - 001 Directed Reading

ENGL 4990 - 001 Directed Reading

  • Class Number: 1366
  • Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
  • Component: Independent Study
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 3.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 5

ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project

ENGL 4999 - 001 Honors Thesis/Project

  • Class Number: 1367
  • Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
  • Component: Honors Thesis Project
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 3

The reading of literary texts is necessarily active, but the playing of video games is by definition interactive: a player’s choices characteristically affect outcomes, or at least feel like they do. As a result, the medium of video games can produce emotions which are rarely, if ever, found in other artistic media, such as responsibility or even guilt. To examine such concerns, this course examines literary texts and films alongside narrative-focused video games in order that each medium might illuminate the others. What are the promises, benefits, and liabilities of interactivity? What does the gap between player and player character feel like? How have film, literature, and video game media influenced one another? Other fundamental concerns of the class involve virtuality, linear vs. multilinear gameplay, narrative “vs.” interactivity, spiritual initiation and the logic of pilgrimage, time loops and mastery loops, the uses of failure, player-avatar relationships, and alternatives to the Hero’s Journey.
  • Class Number: 9269
  • Instructor: SEEGERT, ALF
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 13

The reading of literary texts is necessarily active, but the playing of video games is by definition interactive: a player’s choices characteristically affect outcomes, or at least feel like they do. As a result, the medium of video games can produce emotions which are rarely, if ever, found in other artistic media, such as responsibility or even guilt. To examine such concerns, this course examines literary texts and films alongside narrative-focused video games in order that each medium might illuminate the others. What are the promises, benefits, and liabilities of interactivity? What does the gap between player and player character feel like? How have film, literature, and video game media influenced one another? Other fundamental concerns of the class involve virtuality, linear vs. multilinear gameplay, narrative “vs.” interactivity, spiritual initiation and the logic of pilgrimage, time loops and mastery loops, the uses of failure, player-avatar relationships, and alternatives to the Hero’s Journey.

ENGL 5410 - 001 Meth-Tchg Lang Arts 1

ENGL 5410 - 001 Meth-Tchg Lang Arts 1

  • Class Number: 1253
  • Instructor: Espinoza, Lepa Piquk
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 4.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 6

ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop


Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). Student work—short fiction—will be the primary focus of this course. We will study structure, point of view, plot and pacing, syntax, diction, and other elements of craft, as well as analyze a wide range of literary texts in order to explore the aesthetics of creative writing. However, our approach to evaluating successful fiction will not be prescriptive. That is, we will not learn the “rules” of “good” writing, but instead our goal will be to recognize the different possibilities available when constructing a narrative, so that all students may then be able to make informed choices when producing their own work.      Additionally, students should note that this course is not a lecture-driven course, it is more like an undergraduate seminar. Come prepared to discuss the particularities of each class reading at length, as classroom participation is a major component of one’s grade.

ENGL 5510 - 001 Fiction Workshop

  • Class Number: 1254
  • Instructor: SHAVERS, RONE
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 7

Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). Student work—short fiction—will be the primary focus of this course. We will study structure, point of view, plot and pacing, syntax, diction, and other elements of craft, as well as analyze a wide range of literary texts in order to explore the aesthetics of creative writing. However, our approach to evaluating successful fiction will not be prescriptive. That is, we will not learn the “rules” of “good” writing, but instead our goal will be to recognize the different possibilities available when constructing a narrative, so that all students may then be able to make informed choices when producing their own work.      Additionally, students should note that this course is not a lecture-driven course, it is more like an undergraduate seminar. Come prepared to discuss the particularities of each class reading at length, as classroom participation is a major component of one’s grade.

Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). This class requires students to read (closely and seriously) a set of published stories in order to write two complete stories themselves. Our primary concerns will be two-fold: generating and modifying work through writing prompts and sharing this work in a supportive and collaborative setting. We will cover the basics (plot, character, scene, setting, theme, motif, worldbuilding, conflict, allusion, metaphor, point of view, tense, voice, and other elements of narrative structure) but we’ll also ask more difficult questions, such as: What is the relationship between “the what” of a story and “the way” of a story (fabula and syuzhet)? How might a better understanding of how our stories are engineered lead us toward a richer sense of who we are as writers? What can storytelling—as an artform, as a means of processing, as an exercise in human expression—do for us as thinkers, interlocutors, participants in the social realm? And—perhaps most important right now—why does fiction matter?
  • Class Number: 19258
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 1

Students must have taken an intermediate fiction writing course (ENGL 3510). This class requires students to read (closely and seriously) a set of published stories in order to write two complete stories themselves. Our primary concerns will be two-fold: generating and modifying work through writing prompts and sharing this work in a supportive and collaborative setting. We will cover the basics (plot, character, scene, setting, theme, motif, worldbuilding, conflict, allusion, metaphor, point of view, tense, voice, and other elements of narrative structure) but we’ll also ask more difficult questions, such as: What is the relationship between “the what” of a story and “the way” of a story (fabula and syuzhet)? How might a better understanding of how our stories are engineered lead us toward a richer sense of who we are as writers? What can storytelling—as an artform, as a means of processing, as an exercise in human expression—do for us as thinkers, interlocutors, participants in the social realm? And—perhaps most important right now—why does fiction matter?

Students must have taken an intermediate poetry writing course (ENGL 3520). This is a poetry workshop in which we will both explicate student work and examine aesthetic issues raised by poems you write for class. We will also read poems by poets dead and alive, some of whom you will have the chance to meet. We will learn about, discuss, and practice various forms (both traditional and new) that a poem may take, and how form both controls and creates opportunities for voice. Over the course, you will become alert to the ways in which poems (those written by others and by you) are conceived, constructed, and revised. The ultimate goal is for you to create works of art that may begin as opportunities for self-expression but that ultimately create space for the experience and expression of the reader.
  • Class Number: 14171
  • Instructor: COLES, KATHARINE A
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 8

Students must have taken an intermediate poetry writing course (ENGL 3520). This is a poetry workshop in which we will both explicate student work and examine aesthetic issues raised by poems you write for class. We will also read poems by poets dead and alive, some of whom you will have the chance to meet. We will learn about, discuss, and practice various forms (both traditional and new) that a poem may take, and how form both controls and creates opportunities for voice. Over the course, you will become alert to the ways in which poems (those written by others and by you) are conceived, constructed, and revised. The ultimate goal is for you to create works of art that may begin as opportunities for self-expression but that ultimately create space for the experience and expression of the reader.

ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt


Students must have taken an intermediate creative writing class (3510 or 3520) to enroll. ENGL 5570 Screenwriting and Adaptation. Recent data estimates that 88% of scripted TV and film releases each year are based on existing material. In this course we'll explore the essential craft of adapting work from other mediums into screenplay format. We'll read, watch, pitch, write, and workshop our way through a semester of stories, honing practical techniques for artfully translating others' work (or your own!) to the silver screen.

ENGL 5570 - 001 Screenwriting and Adapt

  • Class Number: 20156
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 11

Students must have taken an intermediate creative writing class (3510 or 3520) to enroll. ENGL 5570 Screenwriting and Adaptation. Recent data estimates that 88% of scripted TV and film releases each year are based on existing material. In this course we'll explore the essential craft of adapting work from other mediums into screenplay format. We'll read, watch, pitch, write, and workshop our way through a semester of stories, honing practical techniques for artfully translating others' work (or your own!) to the silver screen.

5650-001: The Dynamics of Forgetting: Memory, History, and the Nation. This advanced seminar will investigate forgetting and amnesia—both individual and collective—in literature, history, and theory. The first half of the course will explore individual forgetting by focused discussion of a number of important modernist novels—and of work by various cultural and political theorists. The second half of the course will focus on national forgetting—by considering a series of texts and films having to do with slavery and the American South, including the aftermath of slavery as played out in various contemporary debates.
  • Class Number: 8062
  • Instructor: CHENG, VINCENT
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 0

5650-001: The Dynamics of Forgetting: Memory, History, and the Nation. This advanced seminar will investigate forgetting and amnesia—both individual and collective—in literature, history, and theory. The first half of the course will explore individual forgetting by focused discussion of a number of important modernist novels—and of work by various cultural and political theorists. The second half of the course will focus on national forgetting—by considering a series of texts and films having to do with slavery and the American South, including the aftermath of slavery as played out in various contemporary debates.

ENGL 5650-002: The American Short Story. In this class we will be reading some of the best short fiction of the twentieth century, including stories by writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Raymond Carver.
  • Class Number: 13048
  • Instructor: MARGOLIS, STACEY
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 0

ENGL 5650-002: The American Short Story. In this class we will be reading some of the best short fiction of the twentieth century, including stories by writers like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Raymond Carver.

ENGL 5650-004: Capitalism and the Novel. The English novel has long been seen as a literary form both stimulated by and in turn stimulating modern capitalism, that form of economic life described by Max Weber as “labor in the service of a rational organization.” But the novel has always had a complicated relationship to capitalism, sometimes seeming to supply narratives that supported the ethical disposition Weber outlined, and at other times telling stories directly challenging that ethical disposition. This course will focus on four novels and four relevant works of social theory in an effort to explore how literature works both in concert with and as a brake on the “rational organization” that has defined modern capitalism throughout its evolving history.
  • Class Number: 14740
  • Instructor: PECORA, VINCENT P
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 4

ENGL 5650-004: Capitalism and the Novel. The English novel has long been seen as a literary form both stimulated by and in turn stimulating modern capitalism, that form of economic life described by Max Weber as “labor in the service of a rational organization.” But the novel has always had a complicated relationship to capitalism, sometimes seeming to supply narratives that supported the ethical disposition Weber outlined, and at other times telling stories directly challenging that ethical disposition. This course will focus on four novels and four relevant works of social theory in an effort to explore how literature works both in concert with and as a brake on the “rational organization” that has defined modern capitalism throughout its evolving history.

Today, Geoffrey Chaucer’s best known works are his Canterbury Tales, a collection of short stories told by medieval English pilgrims from different walks of life. Chaucer’s other most influential work is Troilus and Criseyde, a long romance epic about two ill-fated lovers of ancient Trojan nobility. In this course, we will devote one half of our time to Chaucer’s tales, the other half to his epic. In so doing, we will get a full, rich sense of medieval England’s most influential storyteller and poet. We’ll also use this reading experience to think through Chaucer’s texts about the narrative devices and demands of short- and long-form fictions, about how short and longer stories contrast and compare. We will take the readings of this course at the slow and leisurely pace of holiday pilgrims, especially at the beginning of the semester, in order to spend ample time together learning how to read Chaucer’s magnificent Middle English. No prior experience with Chaucer or Middle English is required or expected.
  • Class Number: 19253
  • Instructor: WALL, SPENCER
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 0

Today, Geoffrey Chaucer’s best known works are his Canterbury Tales, a collection of short stories told by medieval English pilgrims from different walks of life. Chaucer’s other most influential work is Troilus and Criseyde, a long romance epic about two ill-fated lovers of ancient Trojan nobility. In this course, we will devote one half of our time to Chaucer’s tales, the other half to his epic. In so doing, we will get a full, rich sense of medieval England’s most influential storyteller and poet. We’ll also use this reading experience to think through Chaucer’s texts about the narrative devices and demands of short- and long-form fictions, about how short and longer stories contrast and compare. We will take the readings of this course at the slow and leisurely pace of holiday pilgrims, especially at the beginning of the semester, in order to spend ample time together learning how to read Chaucer’s magnificent Middle English. No prior experience with Chaucer or Middle English is required or expected.

ENGL 5710 - 002 Studies Renaissance Lit

ENGL 5710 - 002 Studies Renaissance Lit

  • Class Number: 15835
  • Instructor: PREISS, RICHARD
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 12

ENGL 5750 - 001 Studies 19Th C Amer Lit

ENGL 5750 - 001 Studies 19Th C Amer Lit

  • Class Number: 15836
  • Instructor: CULVER, STUART
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 20

ENGL 5773 - 001 Virginia Woolf

ENGL 5773 - 001 Virginia Woolf

  • Class Number: 20154
  • Instructor: STRALEY, JESSICA
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 6

The Decadent Movement. Although the word is now used chiefly to describe rich chocolate desserts, decadence was a key term in the nineteenth-century culture wars. This course will look at the major works of so-called decadent writers from the period, including Baudelaire, Swinburne, Sacher-Masoch, Pater, Huysmans, D’Annunzio, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Wilde.
  • Class Number: 19255
  • Instructor: POTOLSKY, MATTHEW
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 17

The Decadent Movement. Although the word is now used chiefly to describe rich chocolate desserts, decadence was a key term in the nineteenth-century culture wars. This course will look at the major works of so-called decadent writers from the period, including Baudelaire, Swinburne, Sacher-Masoch, Pater, Huysmans, D’Annunzio, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, and Wilde.

5800-001: Excellence and Efficiency in American Literature. From the state legislature to the senior leadership of University of Utah, the primary focus on education today is "excellence" and "efficiency." This class will apply those standards to the last century of American literature by looking at the very best minimalist writing — all the way down to one-word poems. And unlike legislators and bureaucrats, we will be able to define "excellence" and "efficiency" by the end of the term. Readings, needless to say, will be short.
  • Class Number: 14172
  • Instructor: DWORKIN, CRAIG
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 9

5800-001: Excellence and Efficiency in American Literature. From the state legislature to the senior leadership of University of Utah, the primary focus on education today is "excellence" and "efficiency." This class will apply those standards to the last century of American literature by looking at the very best minimalist writing — all the way down to one-word poems. And unlike legislators and bureaucrats, we will be able to define "excellence" and "efficiency" by the end of the term. Readings, needless to say, will be short.

ENGL 5885: Adolescent Literature: The Early Years. In this class we will look at the pre-history of young adult fiction, reading novels written in the postwar period (from the 1940s to the 1970s) in order to explore its unique role in speaking to and for Americans coming of age in turbulent times.
  • Class Number: 19256
  • Instructor: MARGOLIS, STACEY
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 10

ENGL 5885: Adolescent Literature: The Early Years. In this class we will look at the pre-history of young adult fiction, reading novels written in the postwar period (from the 1940s to the 1970s) in order to explore its unique role in speaking to and for Americans coming of age in turbulent times.

ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory


This Form and Theory class will investigate poetry from a number of angles. We’ll look at various forms and examine the ways poets make them their own; we’ll look at poets’ theories of poems in their essays, journals and letters and read these theories against their poems; we’ll look at great poetic friendships and influences. Students will have the opportunity either to write short papers or to produce formal poems of their own.

ENGL 5900 - 001 Form & Theory

  • Class Number: 14444
  • Instructor: OSHEROW, JACQUELINE
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 8

This Form and Theory class will investigate poetry from a number of angles. We’ll look at various forms and examine the ways poets make them their own; we’ll look at poets’ theories of poems in their essays, journals and letters and read these theories against their poems; we’ll look at great poetic friendships and influences. Students will have the opportunity either to write short papers or to produce formal poems of their own.

ENGL 5910 - 090 Studies Crit/Theory


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 5910 - 090 Studies Crit/Theory

  • Class Number: 19257
  • Instructor: WAINSTEIN, NATHAN
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 1

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
  • Class Number: 19254
  • Instructor: PECORA, VINCENT P
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 14

ENGL 5995 - 090 Digital Humanities


This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/

ENGL 5995 - 090 Digital Humanities

  • Class Number: 15825
  • Instructor: SWANSTROM, ELIZABETH
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: Online
  • Units: 3.0
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 10

This is an online course, which does not have a specific meeting time or location throughout the semester. For additional information, please visit https://online.utah.edu/about-online-learning/
  • Class Number: 10952
  • Instructor: STOCKTON, KATHRYN
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 15

ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters

ENGL 6910 - 001 Indiv Study Masters

  • Class Number: 1368
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Independent Study
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 5.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25

ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research

ENGL 6960 - 001 Master’s Research

  • Class Number: 10828
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Special Projects
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 10.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25

ENGL 6970 - 001 Thesis Research-Masters

ENGL 6970 - 001 Thesis Research-Masters

  • Class Number: 1369
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Thesis Research
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 10.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 24

ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation

ENGL 6980 - 001 Faculty Consultation

  • Class Number: 1370
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Independent Study
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25

ENGL 7030 - 001 Fiction Workshop

ENGL 7030 - 001 Fiction Workshop

  • Class Number: 19248
  • Instructor: SHAVERS, RONE
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 12

This is a poetry workshop in which we will both explicate student work and examine aesthetic and theoretical issues raised by your poems and outside readings. Outside readings will be drawn both from our Guest Writers Series poets and from other contemporary poets with distinctive voices and techniques, often operating in explicit relationship with self-defined poetic histories (think Monica Youn, Evie Shockley, Alice Oswald). The purpose of the course is to help you increase your alertness to the ways in which poems (by you and others) are conceived, constructed, and revised within a larger literary context. Through making close readings of the poems of others, and especially through observing others make close readings of your own poems, you will also become more aware of how the decisions you make in writing create opportunities both for to expand your range of expression and for readers to enter your poems and create their own experiences.
  • Class Number: 13052
  • Instructor: COLES, KATHARINE A
  • Component: Workshop
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 12

This is a poetry workshop in which we will both explicate student work and examine aesthetic and theoretical issues raised by your poems and outside readings. Outside readings will be drawn both from our Guest Writers Series poets and from other contemporary poets with distinctive voices and techniques, often operating in explicit relationship with self-defined poetic histories (think Monica Youn, Evie Shockley, Alice Oswald). The purpose of the course is to help you increase your alertness to the ways in which poems (by you and others) are conceived, constructed, and revised within a larger literary context. Through making close readings of the poems of others, and especially through observing others make close readings of your own poems, you will also become more aware of how the decisions you make in writing create opportunities both for to expand your range of expression and for readers to enter your poems and create their own experiences.
  • Class Number: 19249
  • Instructor: CHENG, VINCENT
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 11
  • Class Number: 13051
  • Instructor: MEJIA, MICHAEL
  • Component: Lecture
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 12
  • Class Number: 19250
  • Instructor: RUDDS, CRYSTAL
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 11

7720-001: Carrier Bag Fictions. This seminar is loosely organized around Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” Le Guin’s essay, and her work more generally, explore alternate forms of narrative which are not centered on heroes or conflict or even resolution but rather on sustaining processes. We’ll look at a variety of prose fictions, ancient and modern, about coming home or staying put and going nowhere. How do you tell a good story about the daily work of care, maintenance, and survival? How do such stories affect our thinking about selfhood and agency; fiction and literary history; reading and interpretation; community, the good life, and living more quietly on a damaged planet?
  • Class Number: 19251
  • Instructor: BLACK, SCOTT
  • Component: Seminar
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: Yes
  • Seats Available: 11

7720-001: Carrier Bag Fictions. This seminar is loosely organized around Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” Le Guin’s essay, and her work more generally, explore alternate forms of narrative which are not centered on heroes or conflict or even resolution but rather on sustaining processes. We’ll look at a variety of prose fictions, ancient and modern, about coming home or staying put and going nowhere. How do you tell a good story about the daily work of care, maintenance, and survival? How do such stories affect our thinking about selfhood and agency; fiction and literary history; reading and interpretation; community, the good life, and living more quietly on a damaged planet?

ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D

ENGL 7910 - 001 Indiv Study Ph D

  • Class Number: 1372
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Independent Study
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 5.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25

ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D

ENGL 7970 - 001 Thesis Research-Ph D

  • Class Number: 1374
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Thesis Research
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 1.0 - 12.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25

ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation

ENGL 7980 - 001 Faculty Consultation

  • Class Number: 1375
  • Instructor: DRAGER, LINDSEY
  • Component: Independent Study
  • Type: In Person
  • Units: 3.0
  • Requisites: Yes
  • Wait List: No
  • Seats Available: 25