Courses
2025-26 External Course Request Form (
fillable PDF)
Specific course offerings and schedule are subject to change.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2025 Fall Half Courses
2026 Winter Half Courses
2025-26 Full-Year Courses
2026 Summer Full-Year Course
| Course Number |
Course Title |
Instructor |
| English 9198 |
Ruptures and Crossovers: Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
N Bhatia |
2024 Fall Half Courses
2025 Winter Half Courses
Summer 2025 Full Year Course
Previous Years' Graduate Course Offerings
2023 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| GSWS 9220 |
Who Gets to Be a Girl?: Gender and Race in Young Adult Lit (offered by GSWS program) |
| English 9191 |
Donne and Sidney |
| English 9145 |
Romanticism and the Idea of Literature cancelled |
| English 9217 |
Working Within and Beyond the University |
| English 9164 |
The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Associates and their Heirs |
2024 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9218 |
Dandyism, Decadence, and Camp in Modernity |
| English 9221 |
Time and Life in Mid-Victorian Literature and Natural History |
| English 9211 |
Indigenous Futurisms |
2023-24 Full Year Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9219 |
Environmental Critique: Plants and Animals in Global Lit |
| English 9171 |
Tolkien and Old English (cross-listed with English 4311E) |
Summer 2024 Full Year Course
| English 9216 |
Shaping Early Modern Women's Authorship: Past and Present |
2022 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9208A |
Canadian Poetry to WWI |
| English 9210A |
Pragmatism and American Aesthetics |
| English 9215A |
** Global Medievalisms |
| English 9211A |
Indigenous Futurisms |
2023 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9155B |
** Animals and the Environment in Early Modern Literature |
| English 9187B |
Postcolonial Diasporas |
| English 9209B |
Intersectionality and Decolonization: Methods and Theories |
| English 9132B |
** Hysterical Poetics: English Poetry 1855-90 |
| English 9128B |
Post-Post Modernism |
| English 9181B |
Representing Slavery in US Literature |
| English 9213B |
** The Consolation of Philosophy and its English Afterlives |
2022-23 Full Year Course
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9183 |
** Marlowe and Milton |
Summer 2023 Full Year Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9205 |
** Mediating Hamlet |
2021 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9053A |
** Paradise Lost |
| English 9195A |
Intersectionality: Narrative, Violence and Difference |
| English 9196A |
Constructing the American Woman: 19th-century U.S. Literature for Women |
| English 9197A |
** Romanticism, Literature and Pathology |
2022 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9185B |
**Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton |
| English 9198B |
Ruptures and Crossovers: Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
| English 9058B |
Postmodernism(s) and the End of Everything (?) |
| English 9199B |
Writing Diaspora in Theory and Practice: Dionne Brand’s Prose |
| English 9200B |
The Aesthetics and Politics of Everyday Life |
| English 9207B |
** Victorian Fictions of Disability |
2021-22 Full Year Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9201 |
**The Economics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Canadian Writing, 1690-1945 |
| English 9148 |
**Editing Pre-Modern Texts |
Summer 2022 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9202 |
**Screened Shakespeare |
| English 9203 |
Nineteenth Century British Poetry: An Advanced Introduction |
Courses taught in person may at any point be required to move online if necessitated by developments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
O/L indicates course will be taught synchronously online. Those not marked O/L are anticipating in-person classes with all physical distancing and other health and safety measures in place.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2020 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
English 9002A |
Advanced Research Methods |
English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
English 9187A |
Postcolonial Diasporas |
English 9188A |
**Metaphysicals to Melancholics: Embodied Mind in Poetry, 1640-1790 |
English 9194A |
Beyond Apocalypse: Indigenous Speculative Storytelling |
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2021 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9189B |
**Women and Authorship in Early Modern England |
| English 9190B |
**Weird Science: Psychical Research and the Late-Victorian Fantastic |
| English 9087B |
Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9191B |
**Donne and Sidney |
2020-21 Full Year Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9192 |
**The Pre-Raphaelites, Their Associates and Successors: From Romanticism to Modernism |
| English 9193 |
Climate Arts & Activism |
| English 9171 |
**Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon |
Summer 2021 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9194 |
Feminist Theory, Biopolitics and the Racialized Body |
| English 9195 |
**Mediating Hamlet |
2019 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9181A |
Representing Slavery in US Literature |
| English 9176A |
Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading |
| English 9177A |
Asian North American Literature and the Remains of War |
| English 9178A |
** Canadian Medievalism |
2020 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9179B |
** Making the Savoy: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Digital Humanities |
| English 9180B |
** Mediating Hamlet |
| English 9169B |
Posthuman Beckett |
| English 9182B |
Trans-National Indigenous Feminist and LGBTQ2I Literature and Scholarship |
2019-20 Full Year Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9183 |
** Marlowe and Milton |
| English 9184 |
** The 1790s and their Afterlives: The Godwins and Shelleys |
Summer 2020 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9185 |
** Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton |
| English 9186 |
Testimony and Indigenous Writings |
2018 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9164A |
** The Pre-Raphaelites |
| English 9031A |
Queer Times |
| English 9165A |
The Postmodern in Cinema and Literature |
| English 9150A |
** The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness |
| English 9166A |
Gender and Sexuality in the 21st-Century Postcolonial Novel |
| English 9167A |
Refugee Narratives |
| English 9168A |
Reconciliation and its Discontents: Theory, Art, Critique |
2019 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9002B |
Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9169B |
Posthuman Beckett |
| English 9170B |
Testimony, Trauma, and Indigenous Writings
- CANCELED due to unforeseen circumstances |
| English 9087B |
Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9053B |
** Paradise Lost |
| English 9174B |
Adventures in Poetics |
| English 9141B |
Performance and the Global City: How acts of Performance Support, and Supplant, the "Creative City" Script |
2018-19 Full Year Course
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9171 |
** Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon |
Summer 2019 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9172 |
Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts |
| English 9173 |
** Making Shakespeare |
Fall 2017 Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9002A |
Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9003A |
Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9124A |
Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women |
| English 9151A |
The Postsecular Eighteenth Century |
| English 9138A |
Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices |
| English 9157A |
Romantic Dialogues: "An unremitting interchange" |
| English 9153A |
The Works of the Gawain-Poet |
| English 9133A |
Pragmatism and American Aesthetics |
| English 9163A |
Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates (cross-listed with Theory) |
Winter 2018 Courses
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9155B |
Animals and the Environment in Early Modern Literature |
| English 9156B |
Postcolonial Entanglements and Diasporic (Dis)locations |
| English 9084B |
Melancholy and the Archive |
| English 9152B |
The African American Novel |
| English 9158B |
Refugee Narratives |
| English 9076B |
Aprocyphal, Collaborative, and "Bad" Shakespeares |
| English 9162B |
Biopolitics and Taxonomy in late Victorian Britain |
| English 9159B |
Ways of Reading in Early Modern England: Places, Practices and Processes |
Summer 2018 Courses (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number |
Course Title |
| English 9160 |
Milton's Poetry and Prose |
| English 9161 |
Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading |
