Undergraduate Courses, Summer 2026 (Upper-Division)

Upper Division (3000–4000) Courses

Note: Course numbers listed in the table are linked to course descriptions below. Class meeting locations are subject to change. Consult the University Registrar for an explanation of the class period abbreviations. Visit the English Courses page to view undergraduate courses offered in previous semesters.

Summer A

Course #	Section	Class #	Time(s)	Room	Course title	Instructor
AML 3605	5AF1	18719	M T W R F 3	Online	African-American Literature 1	Lamb
ENG 4940	DEP-X	DEP-X	TBA	TBA	Internship	Maioli
LIT 4331	5CL1	18437	M T W T F 4	MAT 0113	Children’s Literature	Scott

Summer B

Course #	Section	Class #	Time(s)	Room	Course title	Instructor
ENG 4940	DEP-X	DEP-X		TBA	Internship	Maioli
LIT 3383	5WL1	18720	M T W R F 2	Online	Women in Literature: Revisionist Mythmaking	Haldar
LIT 4188	6WL1	18438	M T W R F 4	MAT 0113	Literature of the Black Atlantic	Niknam

Summer C

Course #	Section	Class #	Time(s)	Room	Course title	Instructor
ENG 4940	DEP-X	DEP-X		TBA	Internship	Maioli

Course Descriptions

ENG 4940

English Internship
Roger Maioli

The internship course allows English majors to earn credit towards fulfillment of the 10-course requirement for the major by gaining work experience in an area related to the skills they are acquiring as English majors and to the career goals they aim to pursue once they have graduated from the University of Florida. Because the transferable skills students acquire as English majors are both diverse (depending on the areas in which they have concentrated their coursework) and valuable in a variety of different kinds of workplace settings, the English Department is quite liberal in its interpretation of what kinds of work experiences will be appropriate for students wanting to earn internship credit. Internships allow students to get a sense of the demands and rewards of particular kinds of careers, and, if the internships go well, can provide students with possible letters of recommendation written by their supervisors that could prove valuable when they are applying for work before and after graduating from UF. The English Department encourages students to take advantage of this opportunity.

LIT 3383

Women in Literature: Revisionist Mythmaking
Debakanya Haldar

n this upper-division course, we will examine how and why modern women’s writing frequently revisits Greek mythology to rewrite the narratives of ancient female characters. We will engage with feminist literary works that have remythologized legendary figures such as Eurydice, Persephone, Demeter, Circe, Penelope, and Medusa. We will study how these works have reinvented and reclaimed mythological narratives by engaging with themes of agency, sexual autonomy, feminist defiance/rage, and the female gaze.

Course materials include fictional narratives such as Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller and The Penelopiad (2005) by Margaret Atwood, selected poems from collections such as Rita Dove’sMother Love (1995) and Louise Glück’s Meadowlands (1998) and Averno (2006), as well as the poems of Margaret Atwood, H.D., Sylvia Plath, Carol Ann Duffy, Rachel Duplessis, May Sarton, and Sarah McKinstry-Brown. We will read critical essays by Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Adrienne Rich, Susan Bowers, Alicia Ostriker, and Natalie Haynes to understand the importance of women’s literature in revisionist mythmaking.

We will also explore the digital issues of Kalliope, a Florida-affiliated journal that published women’s literature and art. The journal’s namesake, Kalliope (also Calliope), was the ancient Greeks’ Muse of epic poetry. The Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Florida, will lead an online workshop day to help us understand the fundamentals of zine-making as an alternative method for producing feminist discourse.

Course assignments include response papers, Perusall annotations, one Kalliope report, a creative digital zine, and an informative social media post on the official course Instagram account.

LIT 4188

Literature of the Black Atlantic
Armin Niknam

Much of the world that we inhabit today started to form in the 15th century when Europeans started to explore, and subsequently conquer, settle in, and colonize the rest of the globe. These ventures created new geographies, populations, customs, languages, and nations. This course examines the impact of contact between Europeans and inhabitants of Africa and the Caribbeans across three centuries that were marked by expansionism and colonialism. Our readings explore some of the identities that were shaped through these efforts, how existing identities redefined themselves in order to adapt to the new emerging realities in various areas around the Atlantic Ocean, and how the legacies of this bygone era continue to last in our world today.

We will be reading texts by Mary Prince, Chinua Achebe, Jean Rhys, Michelle Cliff, and Tsitsi Dangarembga.