Department of English
Graduate Courses at a Glance
NEW! 2013-14 Courses (Subject to change.)
Fall 2013 Half Courses
Winter 2014 Half Courses
Full Year 2013-14 Courses
2012-2013 Courses
2012-13 Class Schedule (PDF)
Fall 2012 Half Courses
Winter 2013 Half Courses
Full Year 2012-13 Courses
Also Available
Summer 2013 Courses
Courses Previously Offered
External Course Selection Form (PDF)
2013-2014 Courses
Note: Specific course offerings are subject to change.
Fall 2013 Half Courses| English 9002A | Bibliography and Textual Studies | M. Groden |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | A. Pero |
| English 9043A | The American Ode | S. Adams |
| English 9077A | Food Studies in the Renaissance | M. Bassnett |
| English | Reading India and Postcolonial Theory in Global Contexts | N. Bhatia |
| English | Biopolitics, Violence, and the Body | J. Emberley |
| English | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake | M. Groden |
| English | Shakespeare's Histories: Dynasty-Building Choices | M.J. Kidnie |
| English 9087A | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee |
| English | Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Literature | M.H. McMurran |
Winter 2014 Half Courses
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive | J. Boulter |
| English | The Conventual Life: Female Catholic Writers and the Consolidation of Roman Catholic Community, 1687-1829 | C. Dowdell |
| English 9024B | John Milton: the Poem and the Critics | J. Leonard |
| English | The Materiality of the Digital Text: At the Intersections of Digital Humanities and History of the Book | M. McDayter |
| English | Between "Britain" and "America": Canadian Literature in Formation in Cross-Atlantic Discourses | D. Pennee |
| English | Romantics course - Title TBA | J. Plug |
| English | Un-Shakespearian Shakespeare | J. Purkis |
| English | Before and after Sexuality | M. Rowlinson |
| English | American Animal Studies | J. Schuster |
Full Year 2013-14 Courses
| English | Medieval Shame and the Confessional Subject | A. McTaggart |
| English 9069 | Theorizing Indigeneity / Indigenizing Theory | P. Wakeham |
2012-2013 Courses
All Department of English Graduate courses will be held in University College 377 unless otherwise indicated. (**)
Note: Specific course offerings are subject to change.
Fall 2012 Half Courses
| English 9002A | Bibliography and Textual Studies | M. Groden |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J. Plug |
| English 9077A | Food Studies in the Renaissance | M. Bassnett |
| English 9078A | Indigeneity and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization | J. Emberley |
| English 9079A | Romanticism and the Psychopathology of Happiness | J. Faflak |
| English 9014A | James Joyce's Ulysses | M. Groden |
| English 9081A | Early Modern Revisional Drama | J. Purkis |
| English 9082A | How to be British around 1815: Readings in William Wordsworth and Walter Scott | M. Rowlinson |
Winter 2013 Half Courses
| English 9083B | In the Wake of The Waste Land | S. Adams |
| English 9050B | Ruptures and Crossovers: Reading India through Postcolonial Theory in the 21st Century | N. Bhatia |
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive | J. Boulter |
| English 9086B | Historical Occasions: The Historical Novel In Contemporary Canada | M. Jones |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee |
| English 9088B | Paradise Lost: The Poem and Its Critics | J. Leonard |
| English 9080B | Enlightenment Theories of Mind, Soul, Spirit | M.H. McMurran |
| English 9089B | The Cultures of University Governance | D. Pennee |
| English 9090B | Escaping America: US Literature and Modern Criticism | B. Traister |
Full Year Course 2012-2013
| English 9091 | Medieval Troy | R. Moll |
Also Available
Please note there are also limited spots being held for English students in the following courses offered through the Women's Studies & Feminist Research program. If you are interested in any of these courses, please contact Leanne Trask right away.
| WS 9565A (Fall) | Feminist Theory and Methods in the Arts and Humanities | C. Roulston |
| WS 9587B (Winter) | Re-Membering: Feminist Interventions in Trauma and Testimony | K. Verwaayen |
| WS 9591B (Winter) | Screening Sex | W. Pearson |
Summer 2013 Courses
| English 9031 | Queer Times | S. Bruhm |
| English 9092 | Vulnerability In Black Atlantic Life Writing | T. Osinubi |
Courses Previously Offered
| Women, Toleration, and the English Novel, 1750-1810 | A. Conway |
| Early Modern Households and the Professional Stage | M.J. Kidnie |
| Sex, Suffrage and Democracy in Early 20th Century Britain | A. Lee |
| The Shock of the Old: Forms of Victorian Anachronism | M. Rowlinson |
| Theorizing Indigeneity / Indigenizing Theory | P. Wakeham |
| The American Ode | S. Adams |
| Testimony, Trauma, and Literature | J. Emberley |
| The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing | M. Bassnett |
| Enlightenment and Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms | M.H. McMurran |
| Gateway to India: The Literary Culture of Bombay/Mumbai | J. Miller |
| After Beckett | J. Boulter |
| Milton and Keats | J. Leonard |
| Apocryphal, Collaborative, and "Bad" Shakespeares | J. Purkis |
| Knowing Children: The Modern Child in the Field of Culture | S. Bruhm |
| Religious Toleration in the Age of Enlightenment | A. Conway |
| Foundations in American Cultural Studies | T. Phu |
| Victorian Types: Temporality and Taxonomy 1850-1870 | M. Rowlinson |
| Reconciling Canada: Reading the Culture of Redress | P. Wakeham |
| Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | C. Keep |
| Entering Pound’s Cantos | S. Adams |
| ”[O]ur other Shakespeare”: Canon, Collaboration, & the Collected Works of Thomas Middleton | M.J. Kidnie |
| Postmodernism(s) and the End of Everything (?) | A. Lee |
| The Debt to Pleasure: Sex, Lies, and Literature in the Libertine Restoration | M. McDayter |
| Ecocriticism and Ecopoetics | J. Schuster |
| America’s Travelling God: Materializing Spirit in American Culture, 1676-1860 | B. Traister |
| Gender, Cultural Practices, and Indigenous Decolonization | J. Emberley |
| The Restless Inquietude of Frivolity: Camp, Aesthetics, and Modernity | A. Pero |
| Romantic Historiographies: Literature and Thought 1795-1823 | T. Rajan |
| British Women Writers Before 1800 | A. Conway |