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Graduate Development & Placement Coordinator
Dr. Kate Stanley
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Courses
2021-22 Grad Courses 
2021-22 Grad Course Schedule 
Fall 2021 Grad Courses
Winter 2022 Grad Courses
Full Year Grad Courses 2021-22
Summer 2022 Grad Courses
2021-22 External Course Selection Form
2020-21 Grad Courses
Fall 2020 Grad Courses
Winter 2021 Grad Courses
Full Year Grad Courses 2020-21
Summer 2021 Grad Courses
2019-20 Grad Courses
Fall 2019 Grad Courses
Winter 2020 Grad Courses
Full Year Grad Courses 2019-20
Summer 2020 Grad Courses
2018-19 Grad Courses
Fall 2018 Grad Courses
Winter 2019 Grad Courses
Full Year Grad Course 2018-19
Summer 2019 Grad Courses
Previous Years' Graduate Course Offerings
2017-18 Courses
2016-17 Courses
2015-16 Courses
2014-15 Courses
2013-14 Courses
2021-2022 Graduate Courses
Please Note:
Specific course offerings and schedule are subject to change.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2021 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J. Plug | Tuesday 4-7 *new time* STVH 3165 |
| English 9053A | ** Paradise Lost | J. Leonard | Wednesday 9:30-12:30 UC 4401 |
| English 9195A | Intersectionality: Narrative, Violence and Difference | J. Emberley | Tuesday 12:30-3:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9196A | Constructing the American Woman: 19th-century U.S. Literature for Women | M. Green-Barteet | Thursday 9:30-12:30 UC 4401 |
| English 9197A | ** Romanticism, Literature and Pathology | T. Rajan | * Online/Remote Monday 3:30-6:30 |
2022 Winter Half Courses
Thursday 9:30-12:30UC 4415
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9185B | **Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton | M. Bassnett | Thursday 9:30-12:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9198B | Ruptures and Crossovers: Postcolonial Literature and Theory | N. Bhatia | Wednesday 12:30-3:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9058B | Postmodernism(s) and the End of Everything (?) | A. Lee | Tuesday 9:30-12:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9199B | Writing Diaspora in Theory and Practice: Dionne Brand’s Prose | D. Pennee | Thursday 3:30-6:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9200B | The Aesthetics and Politics of Everyday Life | K. Stanley | Tuesday 12:30-3:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9207B | ** Victorian Fictions of Disability | J. Devereux | Tuesday 3:30-6:30 UC 3415 |
2021-22 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9201 | **The Economics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Canadian Writing, 1690-1945 | D. Bentley | Monday 12:30-3:30 UC 3415 |
| English 9148 | **Editing Pre-Modern Texts | R. Moll | Thursday 12:30-3:30 UC 3415 |
Summer 2022 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9202 | **Screened Shakespeare | M.J. Kidnie | TBA |
| English 9203 | Nineteenth Century British Poetry: An Advanced Introduction | M. Rowlinson | TBA |
2020-2021 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 | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods | D. Pennee | O/L Tuesday 3:30-6:30 |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J. Schuster | O/L Wednesday 12:30-3:30 |
| English 9187A | Postcolonial Diasporas | N. Bhatia | O/L Wednesday 3:30-6:30 |
| English 9188A | **Metaphysicals to Melancholics: Embodied Mind in Poetry, 1640-1790 | M.H. McMurran | O/L Thursday 9:30-12:30 |
| English 9194A | Beyond Apocalypse: Indigenous Speculative Storytelling | P. Wakeham | O/L Tuesday 9:30-12:30 |
2021 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9189B | **Women and Authorship in Early Modern England | M. Bassnett | Wednesday 12:30-3:30 UC 1225 |
| English 9190B | **Weird Science: Psychical Research and the Late-Victorian Fantastic | C Keep | O/L Wednesday 3:30-6:30 |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee | O/L Tuesday 3:30-6:30 |
| English 9191B | **Donne and Sidney | J. Leonard | O/L Friday 12:30-3:30 |
2020-21 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9192 | **The Pre-Raphaelites, Their Associates and Successors: From Romanticism to Modernism | D. Bentley | Tuesday 12:30-3:30 UC 3320 |
| English 9193 | Climate Arts & Activism | K. Stanley | O/L Wednesday 9:30-12:30 |
| English 9171 | **Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon | J. Toswell | Monday 12:30-3:30 FNB 1200 |
Summer 2021 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9194 | Feminist Theory, Biopolitics and the Racialized Body | J. Emberley | TBA |
| English 9195 | **Mediating Hamlet | M.J. Kidnie | TBA |
2019-2020 Graduate Courses
2019 Fall Half Courses
UC = University College
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J Schuster | Wednesday 3:30-6:30 UC 4415 |
| English 9181A | Representing Slavery in US Literature | A MacLean | Tuesday 12:30-3:30 UC 4415 |
| English 9176A | Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading | P Wakeham | Thursday 9:30-12:30 UC 4401 |
| English 9177A | Asian North American Literature and the Remains of War | T Phu | Tuesday 3:30-6:30 UC 4415 |
| English 9178A | ** Canadian Medievalism | J Toswell | Wednesday 7-10 UC 4401 |
2020 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9179B | ** Making the Savoy: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Digital Humanities | C Keep | Wednesday 3:30-6:30 UC 4415 |
| English 9180B | ** Mediating Hamlet | MJ Kidnie | Wednesday 9:30-12:30 UC 4415 |
| English 9169B | Posthuman Beckett | J Boulter | Thursday 9:30-12:30 UC 4401 |
| English 9182B | Trans-National Indigenous Feminist and LGBTQ2I Literature and Scholarship | J Emberley | Monday 9:30-12:30 UC 4415 |
2019-20 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9183 | ** Marlowe and Milton | J Leonard | Tuesday 9:30-12:30 UC 4401 |
| English 9184 | ** The 1790s and their Afterlives: The Godwins and Shelleys | T Rajan | Wednesday 12:30-3:30 UC 4415 |
Summer 2020 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9185 | ** Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton | M Bassnett | TBA |
| English 9186 | Testimony and Indigenous Writings | J Emberley | TBA |
2018-2019 Graduate Courses
2018 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | M. Rowlinson | Thursday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9164A | ** The Pre-Raphaelites | D. Bentley | Wednesday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9031A | Queer Times | S. Bruhm | Tuesday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9165A | The Postmodern in Cinema and Literature | C. Gittings | Monday 12:30-3:30, UC 4415 Screening: Thursday 7-10, UC 1401 |
| English 9150A | ** The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness | M.H. McMurran | Monday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9166A | Gender and Sexuality in the 21st-Century Postcolonial Novel | T. Osinubi | Wednesday 9:30-12:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9167A | Refugee Narratives | T. Phu | Tuesday 12:30-3:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9168A | Reconciliation and its Discontents: Theory, Art, Critique | P. Wakeham | Thursday 9:30-12:30, UC 4415 |
2019 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9002B | Advanced Research Methods | D. Pennee | Monday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9169B | Posthuman Beckett | J.Boulter | Thursday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9170B | Testimony, Trauma, and Indigenous Writings - CANCELED due to unforeseen circumstances |
J. Emberley | |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee | Tuesday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9053B | ** Paradise Lost | J. Leonard | Friday 9:30-12:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9174B | Adventures in Poetics | J. Schuster | Wednesday 3:30-6:30, UC 4415 |
| English 9141B | Performance and the Global City: How acts of Performance Support, and Supplant, the "Creative City" Script | K. Solga | Tuesday 12:30-3:30, UC 4415 |
2018-19 Full Year Course
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9171 | ** Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon | J. Toswell | Wednesday 12:30-3:30, UC 4401 |
Summer 2019 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor | Date/Time/Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| English 9172 | Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts | M. Jones | See course page for details |
| English 9173 | ** Making Shakespeare | J. Purkis | See course page for details |
2017-18 Graduate Courses
Fall 2017 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods | D. Pennee |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | C. Keep |
| English 9124A | Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women | S Bruhm |
| English 9151A | The Postsecular Eighteenth Century | A. Conway |
| English 9138A | Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices | J. Emberley |
| English 9157A | Romantic Dialogues: "An unremitting interchange" | M. Lee |
| English 9153A | The Works of the Gawain-Poet | A. Schuurman |
| English 9133A | Pragmatism and American Aesthetics | K. Stanley |
| English 9163A | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates (cross-listed with Theory) | P. Wakeham |
Winter 2018 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9155B | Animals and the Environment in Early Modern Literature | M. Bassnett |
| English 9156B | Postcolonial Entanglements and Diasporic (Dis)locations | N. Bhatia |
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive | J. Boulter |
| English 9152B | The African American Novel | M. Green-Barteet |
| English 9158B | Refugee Narratives | T. Phu |
| English 9076B | Aprocyphal, Collaborative, and "Bad" Shakespeares | J. Purkis |
| English 9162B | Biopolitics and Taxonomy in late Victorian Britain | M. Rowlinson |
| English 9159B | Ways of Reading in Early Modern England: Places, Practices and Processes | S. Schofield |
Summer 2018 Courses (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9160 | Milton's Poetry and Prose | J. Leonard |
| English 9161 | Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading | P. Wakeham |
2016-2017 Graduate Courses
Fall 2016 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods | D. Pennee |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | M. Rowlinson |
| English 9149A | Women and Authorship in Early Modern England | M. Bassnett |
| English 9135A | Reading India | N. Bhatia |
| English 9056A | Knowing Children: The Modern Child in the Field of Culture | S. Bruhm |
| English 9137A | After 2000: Theory, Criticism, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel | A. Conway |
| English 9138A | Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices | J. Emberley |
| English 9140A | Formalisms | J. Schuster |
| English 9141A | Performance and the Global City | K. Solga |
Winter 2017 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9142B | Motifs and Tales from Beowulf to Ishiguro | M. Fox |
| English 9128B | British Post-Post Modernism | A. Lee |
| English 9143B | Milton: The Major Poems | J. Leonard |
| English 9150B | Out of Their Heads: The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness | M.H. McMurran |
| English 9144B | Autobiography and #black lives matter | T. Osinubi |
| English 9139B | "Words are Victims": Modernist Poetry and Ruins of Language | A. Pero |
| English 9145B | Romanticism and the Idea of Literature | T. Rajan |
| English 9146B | Saints and Heretics: Mysticism, Gender, and the Legitimacy of the Middle Ages | A. Schuurman |
| English 9147B | Precarity: Reading Risk and Responsibility in the Shadow of Neoliberalism | P. Wakeham |
Summer 2017 Courses (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9148 | Editing Pre-Modern Texts | R. Moll |
| English 9110 | Modernist Forms of Attention | K. Stanley |
2015-2016 Graduate Courses
Fall 2015 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods | D. Pennee |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary & Cultural Studies | A. Pero |
| English 9079A | Romanticism and Happiness | J. Faflak |
| English 9124A | Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women | S. Bruhm |
| English 9129A | The Value of Milton | J. Leonard |
| English 9130A | The Orphic Tradition: Gender, Genre, And Genius | J. Miller |
| English 9135A | Reading India | N. Bhatia |
Winter 2016 Graduate Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9125B | Literature, Youth, and Human Rights | J. Emberley |
| English 9126B | Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts | M. Jones |
| English 9127B | Performance Conditions in Shakespeare’s Time | M.J. Kidnie |
| English 9128B | British Post-Post Modernism | A. Lee |
| English 9131B | Themes in Contemporary Life Writing: Vulnerability & Dispossession | T. Osinubi |
| English 9132B | Hysterical Poetics: English Poetry 1855-1900 | M. Rowlinson |
| English 9133B | Pragmatism and American Aesthetics | K. Stanley |
Summer 2016 Course (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9136 | Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton | M. Bassnett |
2014-2015 Graduate Courses
Fall 2014 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9002A | Bibliography and Textual Studies | J. Purkis |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J. Plug |
| English 9111A | Religious toleration: the Philosophical and Cultural History of an Idea | A. Conway |
| English 9112A | Testimony, Youth and Human Rights | J. Emberley |
| English 9079A | Romanticism and Happiness | J. Faflak |
| English 9057A | Victorian Types: Temporality and Taxonomy 1850-1870 | M. Rowlinson |
| English 9115A | Modernism After Dark | J. Schuster |
Winter 2015 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9116B | Alice Munro and the Poetics of Here and Now | M. Jones |
| English 9114B | The Stagecraft of Thomas Heywood - CANCELLED | M.J. Kidnie |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee |
| English 9117B | Circulation and the Form of the Neo-Slave Narrative | T. Osinubi |
| English 9118B | The Humanities in the Corporate University | D. Pennee |
| English 9119B | Futures of Romanticism | J. Plug |
| English 9120B | Shakespeare's Singularity | J. Purkis |
| English 9121B | The American Secular | B. Traister |
2014-15 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9122 | The Gawain-Poet and the Middle English Alliterative Revival | R. Moll |
| English 9108 | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates | P. Wakeham |
Summer 2015 Course (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9123 | The Eighteenth-Century Novel in Theory and Practice | A. Conway |
2013-2014 Graduate Courses
Fall 2013 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| 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 9094A | Reading India and Postcolonial Theory in Global Contexts | N. Bhatia |
| English 9096A | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake | M. Groden |
| English 9100A | Othello, Then and Now | M.J. Kidnie |
| English 9087A | Regulating the Edwardian Body | A. Lee |
| English 9097A | Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Literature | M.H. McMurran |
| English 9098A | Before and after Sexuality | M. Rowlinson |
Winter 2014 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive | J. Boulter |
| English 9095B | Biopoliticis, Violence, and the Body | J. Emberley |
| English 9099B | The Conventual Life: Female Catholic Writers and the Consolidation of Roman Catholic Community, 1687-1829 - CANCELLED | C. Dowdell |
| English 9024B | Paradise Lost: the Poem and the Critics | J. Leonard |
| English 9101B | The Materiality of the Digital Text: At the Intersections of Digital Humanities and History of the Book | M. McDayter |
| English 9102B | Between "Britain" and "America": Canadian Literature in Formation in Cross-Atlantic Discourses | D. Pennee |
| English 9104B | The Power of Romanticism | J. Plug |
| English 9105B | Un-Shakespearian Shakespeare | J. Purkis |
| English 9106B | American Animal Studies | J. Schuster |
Full Year 2013-14 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9107 | Medieval Shame and the Confessional Subject | A. McTaggart |
| English 9108 | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates | P. Wakeham |
Summer 2014 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9109 | Writing Medieval Women - CANCELLED | A. McTaggart |
| English 9110 | Modernist Forms of Attention | K. Stanley |
