Fall 2021 Courses

English courses enable students to focus deeply on the diversity of stories people tell and to develop their own stories.

The Department of English offers over 200 courses each year about the stories people tell—past and present—with a focus on literature, language, rhetoric, film, media, and creative and analytical writing. Our courses for English majors contain 15-25 students, allowing for discussion-centered, hands-on experiences.

See the Undergraduate Catalog for a full list of our course offerings and Testudo for our current courses. Also see the Office of Extended Studies website for information about our summer and winter courses. Below are specialized descriptions for current and upcoming courses.

If you are an English major and English-Education major, consult our English / English-Education Boilerplate. View English major requirements and English-Education major requirements a given course meets.

See our boilerplate for English majors declared before 2018.

Course	Title	Section	Instructor
CMLT235	Black Diaspora Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
CMLT270	Global Literature and Social Change	Multiple	Multiple
CMLT275	World Literature by Women	Multiple	Multiple
CMLT277	Literatures of the Americas	0101	TBA
CMLT280	Film Art in a Global Society	Multiple	Multiple
CMLT398F	Comparative Black and Native American Literature	0101	Chad Infante
CMLT398L	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; Sexuality in the Cinema	0101	Eugene Robinson
CMLT398M	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; Digital Publishing with Minimal Computing: Humanities at a Global Scale	0101	Raffaele Viglianti
CMLT398N	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; Gypsy Culture	0101	Eugene Robinson

Course	Title	Section	Instructor
ENGL101	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101A	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101C	Academic Writing	Multiple	Joshua Weiss
ENGL101H	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101S	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101X	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL130	Race and the Cultural Politics of Blood: A Historical Perspective	Multiple	Kim Coles
ENGL140	American Fictions: U.S. Literature, History, Politics, and Constitutional Law	Multiple	Benjamin Baker
ENGL143	Visualizing Knowledge: From Data to Images	Multiple	Oliver Gaycken
ENGL143C	Visualizing Knowledge: From Data to Images	Multiple	Oliver Gaycken
ENGL201	Inventing Western Literature: Ancient and Medieval Traditions	0101	TBA
ENGL222	American Literature: 1865 to Present	0301	TBA
ENGL233	Introduction to Asian American Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL234	African-American Literature and Culture	0201	TBA
ENGL235	U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
ENGL243	What is Poetry?	0201	TBA
ENGL245	Film Form and Culture	Multiple	Mauro Resmini
ENGL250	Reading Women Writing	0101	TBA
ENGL254	Introduction to Humanities, Health, and Medicine	0101	Marybeth Shea
ENGL255	Literature of Science and Technology	0101	TBA
ENGL256	Fantasy Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL257	Children's Literature	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL262	Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament	0101	Matthew Suriano
ENGL265	LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL271	Writing Poems and Stories: An Introductory Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL272	Writing Fiction: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL273	Writing Poetry: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL275	Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL280	The English Language	0201	Linda Coleman
ENGL282	How Rhetoric Works: Persuasive Power and Strategies	0101	TBA
ENGL290	Introduction to Digital Studies	0101	TBA
ENGL291	Writing, Revising, Persuading	0101	TBA
ENGL293	Writing in the Wireless World	0101	TBA
ENGL296	Reading and Writing Disability	0101	TBA
ENGL297	Introduction to Professional Writing	Multiple	TBA
ENGL301	This is English: Fields and Methods	Multiple	TBA
ENGL308C	Special Topics in Shakespeare; Shakespeare's Nature(s)	0101	Alan Montroso
ENGL310	Medieval and Renaissance British Literature	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL312	Romantic to Modern British Literature	0101	Jason Rudy
ENGL313	American Literature	0201	Robert Levine
ENGL316	Native American Literature	0101	Chad Infante
ENGL321	Comics and the Graphic Novel	0101	Lee Konstantinou
ENGL329C	Special Topics in Film Studies; Sexuality in the Cinema	0101	Eugene Robinson
ENGL329J	Special Topics in Film Studies; The Films of Alfred Hitchcock	0101	Marianne Conroy
ENGL329L	Special Topics in Film Studies; The Disney Studio and the Animation Industry	0101	Paul Cote
ENGL346	Twentieth Century Fiction	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL352	Intermediate Fiction Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL353	Intermediate Poetry Workshop	0101	TBA
ENGL360	African, Indian and Caribbean Writers	0201	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL362	Caribbean Literature in English	0201	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL368B	Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Blues and African American Folksong	0201	Barry Pearson
ENGL368D	Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; African American Folklore and Literature	0201	Barry Pearson
ENGL373	Senior Honors Project	0101	TBA
ENGL378I	Special Topics in English; Graphic Novels by People of Color	0101	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
ENGL378L	Special Topics in English; Narrating the City	0101	Emily Mitchell
ENGL378M	Special Topics in English; Digital Publishing with Minimal Computing: Humanities at a Global Scale	0101	Raffaele Viglianti
ENGL378R	Special Topics in English; Storytelling with Code	0101	Kari Kraus
ENGL379A	Special Topics in Literature; Comparative Black and Native American Literature	0101	Chad Infante
ENGL379T	Special Topics in Literature; Folklore, Themes, and Archetypes in Literature	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL379V	Special Topics in Literature; Gypsy Culture	0101	Eugene Robinson
ENGL381	MGA Legislative Seminar	0101	Thomas Lowderbaugh
ENGL384	Concepts of Grammar	0201	Michael Israel
ENGL385	English Semantics	0201	Michael Israel
ENGL388D	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Dickinson Electronic Archives	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL388P	English Careers Internship	0101	Karen Lewis
ENGL388T	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Internships	0101	Purdom Lindblad
ENGL388V	Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in English	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL388W	Writing Center Internship	Multiple	Thomas Earles
ENGL390	Science Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL390H	Science Writing	Multiple	Marybeth Shea
ENGL391	Advanced Composition	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL391H	Advanced Composition	0201	Mark Forrester
ENGL392	Legal Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL393	Technical Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL393H	Technical Writing	Multiple	Christopher Crane
ENGL393Q	Technical Writing	3001	TBA
ENGL393X	Technical Writing	1501	TBA
ENGL394	Business Writing	Multiple	TBA
ENGL395	Writing for Health Professions	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398A	Writing for the Arts	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398B	Writing for Social Entrepreneurship	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398C	Writing Case Studies and Investigative Reports	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398E	Writing About Economics	0801	TBA
ENGL398L	Scholarly Writing in the Humanities	0301	Mark Forrester
ENGL398N	Writing for Non-Profit Organizations	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398R	Writing Non-Fictional Narratives	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL398V	Writing About the Environment	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL410	Edmund Spenser	0101	Kim Coles
ENGL412	Literature of the Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660	0101	David Simon
ENGL420	English Romantic Literature	0101	Orrin Wang
ENGL428O	Seminar in Language and Literature; Black Sexuality in Literature and Film	0101	GerShun Avilez
ENGL431	American Literature: Revolution to Civil War	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL433	American Literature: 1914 to the Present, the Modern Period	0101	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
ENGL437	Contemporary American Literature	0101	Lee Konstantinou
ENGL438P	Selected Topics in Media Studies; BookLab: How to do things with Books	0101	Matthew Kirschenbaum
ENGL439D	Spotlight on Major Writers; Dickinson, Erotics, Poetics, Biopics: Some (Queer) Ways We Read Poetry	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL444	Feminist Critical Theory	0101	Jessica Enoch
ENGL453	Literary Theory	0101	Christina Walter
ENGL454	Modern Drama	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL455	The Eighteenth-Century English Novel	0101	Laura Rosenthal
ENGL458B	Literature by Women After 1800; Sexualities and Life Writing	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL460	Archival Research Methods in English Studies	0101	TBA
ENGL463	Narrative Analysis Methods in English Studies	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL466	Arthurian Legend	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL469I	Magic and Myth in Contemporary Literature	0101	Alysia Sawchyn
ENGL470	African-American Literature: From Slavery to Freedom	0201	Julius Fleming
ENGL478E	Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; The Story of Troy: An Ancient Tale Told and Retold	0101	Linda Coleman
ENGL478O	Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; Body of Frankenstein	0101	Orrin Wang
ENGL479C	Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting and Reprising the Classics	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL487	Principles and Practices of Rhetoric	0101	Sara Wilder
ENGL492	Graphic Design and Rhetoric	0101	Melanie Kill
ENGL493	Writing Genres as Social Action	0201	Melanie Kill
ENGL494	Editing and Document Design	0101	Cecilia Shelton
ENGL497	English at Work	0101	Scott Wible
ENGL498	Advanced Fiction Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL499	Advanced Poetry Workshop	0101	Elizabeth Arnold
ENGL359D	Special Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Queer Modernisms	0101	TBA

Course	Title	Section	Instructor
ENGL612	Approaches to Professional and Technical Writing	0101	Cecilia Shelton
ENGL628A	Readings in African American Literature; Black Women's Archives	0101	Marisa Parham
ENGL658A	Readings in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas; Contemporary Latinx Literature and the Built Environment	0101	Randy Ontiveros
ENGL688	Poetry Workshop	0101	Elizabeth Arnold
ENGL689	Fiction Workshop	0101	Rion Scott
ENGL719A	Seminar in Renaissance Literature; Pageantry and Public Spectacle in Early Modern England	0101	Scott Trudell
ENGL729A	Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature; The Postmodern Enlightenment	0101	Tita Chico
ENGL738C	Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature; Indigenous and Imperial Archives	0101	Jason Rudy
ENGL768A	Studies in Genre; Forms of Silence in 20th Century Fiction	0101	Maud Casey
ENGL798B	Critical Theory Colloquium	0101	John Drabinski
ENGL798D	Critical Theory Colloquium; Digital Studies	0101	Matthew Kirschenbaum
ENGL809	Academic Publishing Workshop	0101	GerShun Avilez

Fall 2021 Courses

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Major Requirements

Fall 2021 Undergraduate Courses: CMLT Comparative Literature

Fall 2021 Undergraduate Courses: English

Fall 2021 Graduate Courses