Department of English

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

Fall 2023

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	0211	10270	M W F 5	MAT 0118	Survey of American Literature	Pennamon
AML 2070	03A5	10271	M W F 8	TUR B310	Survey of American Literature	Schell
AML 2070	1625	10316	T7 / R7-8	CSE E220 / TUR B310	Survey of American Literature	Colindres
AML 2410	1629	10318	M W F 7	MAT 0118	Issues in American Literature and Culture: Postcolonial Studies	Chakraborty
AML 2410	3698	10319	T 4 / R 4-5	TUR B310	Asian American Identities	Pan
CRW 1101	0218	11961	T 9-11	MAT 0005	Beginning Fiction Writing	Burnett
CRW 1101	1648	11962	T 6-8	TUR 2353	Beginning Fiction Writing	Clarke
CRW 1101	1649	11963	W 9-11	FLI 0109	Beginning Fiction Writing	Johnson
CRW 1301	1651	11986	W 9-11	FLI 0101	Beginning Poetry Writing	Cook
CRW 1301	1653	11987	R 9-11	FLI 0121	Beginning Poetry Writing	Johnson
CRW 2100	1656	11990	R 6-8	TUR 2354	Fiction Writing	Hinsman
CRW 2100	2333	11991	T 9-11	MAT 0004	Fiction Writing	Nagpal
CRW 2100	2500	11992	W 9-11	MAT 0005	Fiction Writing	Udeh-Ubaka
CRW 2300	37B8	12008	R 6-8	TUR 2353	Poetry Writing	Calabro
ENC 1136	045A	18202	M W F 4	WEIL 0408E	Multimodal Writing/ Digital Literacy	Rose
ENC 1136	9006	23362	M W F 6	WEIL 0408D	Multimodal Writing/ Digital Literacy	Mordecai
ENC 1145	3309	12627	M W F 5	MAT 0009	Writing About Ghosts	Haldar
ENC 1145	3312	12628	M W F 3	TUR 2322	Writing About the American South	Jacob
ENC 2210	12A0	12631		ONLINE	Technical Writing	Knudsen
ENC 2210	4B48	12632	T 8-9 / R 9	MAT 0118	Technical Writing	Slotkin
ENC 2210	4B50	12647	M W F 3	NORM 3035	Technical Writing	Ogunrinbokun
ENC 2210	5072	19122	M W F 7	TUR B310	Technical Writing	Testa
ENC 2210	9150	19306	T 5-6 / R 6	BLK 0415 / MAT 0003	Technical Writing	Rodewald
ENG 1131	1363	12483	M W F 5 / M 9-11	WEIL 0408E	Desire in the Age of Algorithms	Artiga
ENG 1131	18C3	12501	T 4 / R 4-5 / T 9-11	WEIL 0408E	Pollution Anxieties: Plastic Planet, Plastic People	Whitaker
ENG 2300	1807	12503	M W F 5 / T E1-E3	TUR 2322/ROL 0115	Film Analysis	McKenna
ENG 2300	1809	12504	M W F 7 / W E1-E3	TUR 2322 / ROL 0115	Film Analysis	Scott
ENG 2300	4C45	12505	T 4 / R 4-5 / R  9-11	TUR 2334 / ROL 0115	Film Analysis	Boyte
ENG 2300	8641	12359	T 5-6 / R 6 / R E1-E3	TUR 2334 / ROL 0115	Film Analysis	Stelari
ENL 2012	1827	12434	T 5-6 / 6	MAT 0004	Survey of English Literature, Medieval-1750	Martinez
ENL 2022	1830	12435	M W F 7	MCCA  2186	Survey of English Literature, 1750-Present	Mitchell
LIT 2000	19CC	14947	M W F 5	TUR B310	Introduction to Literature	Chattopadhyay
LIT 2000	1A24	14949	M W F 3	TUR B310	Introduction to Literature	Khorasani
LIT 2000	1A28	14950	M W F 7	FLI 0117	Introduction to Literature	Gonzales Silva
LIT 2000	1A31	14951	M W F 4	TUR B310	Introduction to Literature	Morris
LIT 2000	1A35	14966	T 2-3 / R 3	MAT 0118 / TUR B310	Introduction to Literature	Nwachukwu
LIT 2000	1A42	14967	M W F 3	BEN 0328	Introduction to Literature	Niknam
LIT 2110	4C93	14968	T 5-6 / R 6	LIT 0127 / TUR 2303	World Literature, Ancient to Renaissance	Chakma
LIT 2120	03A6	14969	M W F 8	MAT 0005	World Literature, 17th Century to Modern	Fields

Course Descriptions

AML 2410

Issues in American Literature and Culture: Postcolonial Studies
Sayantika Chakraborty

This course will provide a broad overview of postcolonial studies. It will introduce students to the complexities, histories, and legacies of colonialism and neocolonialism, and postcolonialism as reflected in literatures and cultures of the Americas.It will also address these works via adjacent critical discourses such as environmental humanities, feminism, critical race theory, and minority/refugee studies.Texts will include fiction, non-fiction, films, and excerpts from the works of postcolonial theorists and scholars.

Assignments will include regular discussion posts, an annotated bibliography, an abstract and a draft of a research paper, a final version of the research paper, and presentations on students’ research topics.

AML 2410

Issues in American Literature and Culture: Asian American Identities
Sophia Pan

What does it mean to be an Asian American? Despite being painted as “enemy aliens” during WWII and “Kung-Flu” spreaders during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans are (and have been) anything but these. In this course, we will explore how 20^th and 21^st century Asian Americans have (re)claimed their narratives and dispelled harmful stereotypes through picture books, short stories, novels, memoirs, comics, and films. We will also read and discuss theoretical essays that relate the course’s primary works to their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

We will ask what it means to be an American, let alone an Asian American. We will examine how the works of Asian American artists and writers (re)conceptualize American identity. We will also discuss acculturation stress, intergenerational conflict, academic and career pressure, queer identity, mental health, and the Model Minority Myth.

Possible primary texts include They Called Us Enemy by George Takei and Jason Eisinger, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen, Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim, and I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib. Films we may watch include Everything Everywhere All At Once and Minari.

Assignments for this course will include an introductory paper on each student’s reading experiences, open response posts, a 1000-word midterm paper, a 1500-word literature analysis, and in-class presentations. Please note that while this course focuses on Asian American identity, all students interested in exploring this issue and thinking critically about aspects of their own identity are welcome.

ENC 1145

Writing About Ghosts
Debakanya Haldar

In literature and other narratives, the ghost is a long-established trope. The dead haunt the living, evoking emotions such as fear, guilt, and grief. In these other-worldly relationships, what marks the difference between the dead and the living? Between the haunting and the haunted? Are ghosts merely psychological phenomena, or do they have bodies?

We will ask these questions of novels such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, and the more recent Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders. We will also examine short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” James Joyce’s “The Dead,” and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women.” Finally, we will watch the seemingly benign romantic drama 45 Years, by Andrew Haigh.

Assignments will include four position papers, digital annotations through Perusall, short reflections, a creative project, and a final analytical research paper. Students will learn how to read texts closely, engage course material critically, and develop sound argumentative skills.

ENC 1145

Writing About the American South
Jack Jacob

This course will begin with attempting to define what exactly the South is. We will start geographically, by considering which states count as the South and—perhaps more importantly—which don’t. We will explore historical understandings of the South using the Mason-Dixon survey, the institution of slavery, southern industry and economy, and the Civil War. The course will also examine Florida’s position in the South.

We will then move on to a cultural understanding of the South. What unites these states and what does it mean to be a southerner? This section will be the primary focus of the course—investigating race, religion, addiction, environment, music, and all the ways these categories intersect. We will consider both classic and contemporary representations of the South, including works from William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Johnny Cash, as well as Jeremy Love’s Bayou graphic novels, Micah Dean Hicks’s Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones, and current country music from artists like the Turnpike Troubadours, Benjamin Tod, and Tyler Childers.

This course aims to use this topic to improve students’ research and writing skills. Assignments will include several discussion board posts on the readings, three critical response essays, and a final literary analysis essay. Students can expect a stress-free learning environment and in-depth feedback on their work.

ENG 1131

Writing through Media: Desire in the Age of Algorithms 
Kevin Artiga

This course explores how algorithms shape desire through the technologies that manifest contemporary forms of desire, such as dating apps and pornography websites. It also examines how algorithms may be able predict your desires, including your sexual preferences, better than—perhaps before—you do. And it considers the cultural anxieties that arise from such intrusions into intimacy.

These anxieties will be reflected and articulated in the course texts. Readings may include sections from Alenka Zupančič’s What IS Sex; Lauren Berlant’s Desire/Love; Orly Lebel’s The Equality Machine; Ayanna Howard’s Sex, Race, and Robots; Laboria Cuboniks’s Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation; and others.

Students will engage with the readings through weekly writing entries, two major papers, and a multimodal project.

ENG 1131

Writing through Media: Pollution Anxieties: Plastic Planet, Plastic People 
Brooke Whitaker

This course uses media-based thought-experiments to help us better conceptualize our relationship with pollution, and possibly to help us engineer productive approaches towards waste on our planet and in our bodies.

Texts will encompass a range of genres including novels such as Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment; films such as Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi, and Ali Tabrizi’s Seaspiracy; and video games such as Plasticity and the Fallout franchise.

Assignments will be multimodal. Taking advantage of accessible digital software, you may produce the following types of projects: an A/V video, a short video game, a hypertext document. (You will also write traditional essays.) By the end of the semester, you should have not just a stronger theoretical grasp of waste impacts but an impressive and pertinent digital portfolio.