Department of English

Class meeting locations are subject to change. Consult the following page for an explanation of the class period abbreviations.

Spring 2025

Lower-Division (1000-2000) Courses

Note: Course numbers listed in the table are linked to course descriptions below.

Course #	Section	Class #	Time(s)	Room	Course title	Instructor
AML 2070	1GS1	24586	T 8-9 / R 9	MAT 0108	Survey of American Literature	TBA
AML 2070	6101	10287	M W F 7	MCCA 2186	Survey of American Literature	TBA
AML 2070	M102	18221	M W F 4	TUR B310	Survey of American Literature	TBA
AML 2410	9132	16567	T 5-6 / R 6	MAT 0118	Issues in American Literature and Culture:  Vampires	Lamb
CRW 1101	1633	11463	W 9-11	FLI 0101	Beginning Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 1101	6730	11464	T 9-11	FLI 0101	Beginning Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 1101	6752	11465	M 9-11	TUR 2305	Beginning Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 1301	16E1	11466	W 9-11	TUR B310	Beginning Poetry Writing	TBA
CRW 1301	1GS2	24605	R 9-11	FLI 0115	Beginning Poetry Writing	TBA
CRW 2100	0121	11467	W 9-11	ONLINE	Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 2100	1337	11486	M 9-11	MAT 0102	Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 2100	7005	11487	T 9-11	NOR 1001	Fiction Writing	TBA
CRW 2300	1645	11488	W 9-11	TBA	Poetry Writing	TBA
ENC 1136	9122	16550	M W F 7	ONLINE	Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy	TBA
ENC 1145	35G3	11869	M W F 6	MAT 0009	Writing about Death	Su
ENC 1145	35G4	11870	T 7 / R 7-8	MAT 0005 / NOR 1001	Writing about Science	Weintraub
ENC 2210	1GS6	20674	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	1GS7	20675	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	1GS8	21336	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	34F7	11872	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	34GD	11892	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	34GE	11893	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENC 2210	35F2	11894	ASYNCH	ONLINE	Technical Writing	TBA
ENG 1131	1786	11817	M W F 6 / M 9-11	ONLINE	Writing Through Media: Women’s Music Criticism	Fields
ENG 2300	1793	11818	M W F 4 SCR E1-E3	TUR 2334	Film Analysis	TBA
ENG 2300	4784	11819	M W F 5 SCR T E1-E3	TUR 2334	Film Analysis	TBA
ENG 2300	7308	11831	M W F 7 SCR R E1-E3	TUR 2334	Film Analysis	TBA
ENG 2300	S205	19412	T 7 / R 7-8 / SCR W E1-E3	TUR 2322 / ROL 0115	Film Analysis	TBA
ENG 2820	1PG1	24908	M W F 7	TUR 2322	What is the English Major?	Gilbert
ENL 2012	9135	22026	M W F 4	MAT 0003	Survey of English Literature, Medieval to 1750	TBA
ENL 2022	1215	11707	T 7 / R 7-8	MAT 0004 / MCCA 2186	Survey of English Literature, 1750 to Present	TBA
LIT 2000	17B9	12552	M W F 4	MAT 0005	Introduction to Literature	TBA
LIT 2000	17CB	12553	M W F 6	MAT 0118	Introduction to Literature	TBA
LIT 2000	1LT3	24920	T 5-6 / R 6	TUR 2342 / TUR 2349	Introduction to Literature	TBA
LIT 2120	M181	18408	M W F 8	MAT 0118	World Literature, Ancient to Renaissance	TBA
LIT 2120	05DA	12571	M W F 7	MAT 0118	World Literature, 17th-Century to Modern	TBA

Course Descriptions

AML 2410

Issues in American Literature and Culture: Vampires
Kaylee Lamb

  “Every age embraces the vampire it needs.”—Nina Auerbach

In this course, we will look at the monstrous body of the vampire through literature and film to understand how the vampire speaks to our social, political, and cultural values. We will delve into questions like: How does the vampire function as a metaphor for our social fears and anxieties? How have various American cultures portrayed vampires? Do vampires challenge or reinforce traditional power structures? And how are issues of race, gender, and sexuality expressed through the vampire’s body?

Historically, the vampire has evolved from the aristocratic, heterosexual European patriarch obsessed with reuniting with his lost love, to a more modern figure that encompasses moral ambiguity, fluid identity and sexuality, and a desire for a more egalitarian-like society. By tracing this evolution, we will uncover how the vampire has become a powerful symbol of humanity’s deepest concerns and desires while remaining an adaptable figure for exploring personal and collective identity. Students will be asked to engage in a multimodal project, a film analysis, and a critical reading analysis using outside sources.

Texts: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, Eye Killers by A.A. Carr, I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson, The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez, The Lost Boys (Film), Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice; Short stories: “The Lady of the House of Love” by Angela Carter, “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler.

ENC 1145

Writing about Death
Shuya Su

Death is often seen as the inevitable conclusion to human existence—something that affects everyone, regardless of who they are. Yet, the circumstances of how, when, and why one dies remain deeply contested. This course challenges the normative idea that death is purely natural by exploring the social, political, and ethical forces that shape literary representations of death and dying.

We will begin with philosophical and religious discussions on death, examining the relationship between life and death. Some of the guiding questions are: What is death? Is death something to fear or celebrate? What, if anything, comes after death? From there, we will explore the interplay between death and “lives” in their multitudes, as portrayed in literature. Reflecting on questions such as “whose lives are valued and worth saving?” and “whose lives are precarious and easily disposed of without being considered murder?”, we will critically unpack how certain populations are rendered more vulnerable and how societal structures influence the value placed on different lives. Simultaneously, we will explore how authors push back against cultural assumptions about death, challenging and reshaping death narratives through their works.

Our readings may include “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890), “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (1948), “The Last Night of the World” by Ray Bradbury (1951), Bontoc Eulogy by Marlon E. Fuentes (1995), “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (2011), and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017). Most of the readings will be short stories and poems. Written assignments may include imagined eulogies for characters we’ve studied in class, a close reading paper, a critical analysis paper, and a final creative project where students create a “Portrait of Death.” This final project, which can be visual, written, or a combination of both, will allow students to creatively express their understanding of death by the end of the course. With the students’ permission, these portraits are expected for publication in the “From the Classroom” section of ImageTexT, a journal dedicated to the study of comics housed in the Department of English at UF. This opportunity will allow students to showcase their work to a broader academic audience.

This course is for those who are intrigued by death—whether they are captivated or frightened by the concept—yet may find it difficult to discuss openly with peers or family. My hope is that this course will provide a space for us to explore the complexities of death with curiosity, critical thought, and a willingness to confront uncomfortable ideas.

ENC 1145

Writing about Science
Caylee Weintraub

This course will work at the intersection of two seemingly different disciplines: literature and science. We will examine the ways in which literature responds to and shapes discourses of science as well as how science borrows from literary aesthetics and techniques to communicate its ideas and concepts. We will study writers who consider themselves to be scientists as well as scientists who consider themselves to be writers to understand how humanities and sciences symbiotically produce change, particularly in an era of mass extinction and environmental degradation. To this end, we will examine works of science fiction, works of realism with scientific bends, and literary scientific documents.

We may examine works by writer-scientists such as Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Rachel Carson, Octavia Butler, Sabrina Imbler, Helen MacDonald, and Yann Martel to learn how to read science as both fodder for literary imaginations about new kinds of futurities as well as a narrative in and of itself about particular places, people, and nonhumans. To this end, this course will appeal to students of any discipline interested in strengthening their writing about science in a wide variety of capacities.

ENG 1131

Writing Through Media: 
Daun Fields

Do critics help or hinder the arts? In this course we will examine women’s musical artifacts such as albums, music videos, and fashion alongside the written work of their contemporary critics. We will ask the questions, “what does a critic do, and how do they do it?” and “what is the critic’s role in popular culture?” We will analyze both the productive and problematic ways in which critics engage cultural identities such as race, gender, and sexuality in critical reviews of women’s musical works. Reading assignments will include a variety of music criticism spanning from the nineteenth century (The English Woman’s Journal, 1858) to the twenty-first century (Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, 2015) as well as artists’ historical responses to criticism through media such as newspapers and social media posts. Assignments will include written reviews of music media (songs, album art, music videos), a podcast script, a zine, and analyses of music criticism as a literary genre. Our writing will center on building the persuasive arguments that are foundational for vibrant criticism in the Humanities.

Our diverse primary texts–women’s works in hip-hop, punk, and pop music–invite students to engage visual rhetoric, cultural studies, and gender studies in their writing. Weekly screenings include music videos and “listening parties” for albums. Students will have two experiential components that build the foundation for the final project: 1) a trip to the zine archive at the Civic Media Center and 2) a local concert for which they will write or record a review for a live performance. Our culminating project will be a music zine in which students will compile both contemporary criticism and their own critical work.