Courses

NEW! 2024-25 GRADUATE COURSES

2024-25 External Course Request Form (fillable PDF 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.

2024 Fall Half Courses

Course Number Course Title Instructor
English 9009A Essential Skills & Methods MH McMurran
English 9003A Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies J Schuster
English 9222A More and More Shakespeare J Purkis
English 9053A Paradise Lost J Leonard
English 9068A The Shock of the Old: Forms of Victorian Anachronism M Rowlinson
English 9157A Romantic Dialogues M Lee
English 9187A Postcolonial Diasporas N Bhatia

2025 Winter Half Courses

Course Number Course Title Instructor
English 9223B Edith Wharton, Rebel and Traditionalist M Green-Barteet
English 9217B Working Within and Beyond the University K Stanley
English 9208B Canadian Poetry to the First World War D Bentley
English 9224B Making Decolonial Shakespeares K Solga
English 9185B Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton M Bassnett

Summer 2025 Full Year Course

Course Number Course Title Instructor
English 9225 Indigenous Theatre and Performance Studies P Wakeham

2023-24 GRADUATE COURSES

2023-24 External Course Request Form (fillable PDF 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.


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

Previous Years' Graduate Course Offerings

2022-23 GRADUATE COURSES

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

2021-22 GRADUATE COURSES

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

2020-21 GRADUATE COURSES

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

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

2019-20 GRADUATE COURSES

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

2018-19 GRADUATE COURSES

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

2017-18 GRADUATE COURSES

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

2016-17 GRADUATE COURSES

Fall 2016 Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9002A Advanced Research Methods
English 9003A Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies
English 9149A Women and Authorship in Early Modern England
English 9135A Reading India
English 9056A Knowing Children: The Modern Child in the Field of Culture
English 9137A After 2000: Theory, Criticism, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
English 9138A Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices
English 9140A Formalisms
English 9141A Performance and the Global City

Winter 2017 Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9142B Motifs and Tales from Beowulf to Ishiguro
English 9128B British Post-Post Modernism
English 9143B Milton: The Major Poems
English 9150B Out of Their Heads: The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness
English 9144B Autobiography and #black lives matter
English 9139B "Words are Victims": Modernist Poetry and Ruins of Language
English 9145B Romanticism and the Idea of Literature
English 9146B Saints and Heretics: Mysticism, Gender, and the Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
English 9147B Precarity: Reading Risk and Responsibility in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

Summer 2017 Courses (full-year equivalent)

Course Number Course Title
English 9148 Editing Pre-Modern Texts
English 9110 Modernist Forms of Attention

2015-16 GRADUATE COURSES

Fall 2015 Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9002A Advanced Research Methods
English 9003A Contemporary Theory in Literary & Cultural Studies
English 9079A Romanticism and Happiness
English 9124A Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women
English 9129A The Value of Milton
English 9130A The Orphic Tradition: Gender, Genre, And Genius
English 9135A Reading India

Winter 2016 Graduate Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9125B Literature, Youth, and Human Rights
English 9126B Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts
English 9127B Performance Conditions in Shakespeare’s Time
English 9128B British Post-Post Modernism
English 9131B Themes in Contemporary Life Writing: Vulnerability & Dispossession
English 9132B Hysterical Poetics: English Poetry 1855-1900
English 9133B Pragmatism and American Aesthetics

Summer 2016 Course (full-year equivalent)

Course Number Course Title
English 9136 Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton

2014-15 GRADUATE COURSES

Fall 2014 Half Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9002A Bibliography and Textual Studies
English 9003A Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies
English 9111A Religious toleration:  the Philosophical and Cultural History of an Idea
English 9112A Testimony, Youth and Human Rights
English 9079A Romanticism and Happiness
English 9057A Victorian Types: Temporality and Taxonomy 1850-1870
English 9115A Modernism After Dark

Winter 2015 Half Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9116B Alice Munro and the Poetics of Here and Now
English 9114B The Stagecraft of Thomas Heywood - CANCELLED
English 9087B Regulating the Edwardian Body
English 9117B Circulation and the Form of the Neo-Slave Narrative
English 9118B The Humanities in the Corporate University
English 9119B Futures of Romanticism
English 9120B Shakespeare's Singularity
English 9121B The American Secular

2014-15 Full Year Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9122 The Gawain-Poet and the Middle English Alliterative Revival
English 9108 Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates

Summer 2015 Course (full-year equivalent)

Course Number Course Title
English 9123 The Eighteenth-Century Novel in Theory and Practice

2013-14 GRADUATE COURSES

Fall 2013 Half Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9002A Bibliography and Textual Studies
English 9003A Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies
English 9043A The American Ode
English 9077A Food Studies in the Renaissance
English 9094A Reading India and Postcolonial Theory in Global Contexts
English 9096A James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
English 9100A Othello, Then and Now
English 9087A Regulating the Edwardian Body
English 9097A Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Literature
English 9098A Before and after Sexuality

Winter 2014 Half Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9084B Melancholy and the Archive
English 9095B Biopoliticis, Violence, and the Body
English 9099B The Conventual Life: Female Catholic Writers and the Consolidation of Roman Catholic Community, 1687-1829 - CANCELLED
English 9024B Paradise Lost: the Poem and the Critics
English 9101B The Materiality of the Digital Text: At the Intersections of Digital Humanities and History of the Book
English 9102B Between "Britain" and "America": Canadian Literature in Formation in Cross-Atlantic Discourses
English 9104B The Power of Romanticism
English 9105B Un-Shakespearian Shakespeare
English 9106B American Animal Studies

Full Year 2013-14 Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9107 Medieval Shame and the Confessional Subject
English 9108 Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates

Summer 2014 Courses

Course Number Course Title
English 9109 Writing Medieval Women - CANCELLED
English 9110 Modernist Forms of Attention