Spring 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, consult our English Boilerplate to see which major requirements a given course meets.

If you are an English-Education major, consult our English-Education Boilerplate to see which 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
CMLT242	Introduction to Jewish Literature	0101	Adi Mahalel
CMLT270	Global Literature and Social Change	Multiple	TBA
CMLT275	World Literature by Women	Multiple	TBA
CMLT280	Film Art in a Global Society	Multiple	Luka Arsenjuk
CMLT398C	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; Cinema of Liberation	0201	Eugene Robinson
CMLT398D	Special Topics in Comparative Studies; The Jazz Paradigm	0201	Eugene Robinson

Course	Title	Section	Instructor
ENGL101	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101H	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101S	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL101X	Academic Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL121	The Power of Song: Renaissance Lyric and Its Afterlives	Multiple	Scott Trudell
ENGL125	Why Poetry Matters	Multiple	Joshua Weiner
ENGL142	Literary Maryland	Multiple	Randy Ontiveros
ENGL146	Seeing the Present: Graphic Storytelling in the Age of Social Media	Multiple	Lee Konstantinou
ENGL202	Inventing Western Literature: Renaissance to Modern	0101	TBA
ENGL211	English Literature: Beginnings to 1800	0101	TBA
ENGL212	English Literature: 1800 to the Present	0101	TBA
ENGL222	American Literature: 1865 to Present	0101	TBA
ENGL233	Introduction to Asian American Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL234	African-American Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
ENGL235	U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture	0101	TBA
ENGL241	What the Novel Does	0101	TBA
ENGL243	What is Poetry?	0401	TBA
ENGL245	Film Form and Culture	Multiple	TBA
ENGL246	Introduction to the Short Story	0101	TBA
ENGL250	Reading Women Writing	0201	TBA
ENGL255	Literature of Science and Technology	0201	TBA
ENGL256	Fantasy Literature	0101	TBA
ENGL262	Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament	0101	Maxine Grossman
ENGL265	LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media	0201	TBA
ENGL271	Writing Poems and Stories: An Introductory Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL272	Writing Fiction: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL273	Writing Poetry: A Beginning Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL275	Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television	Multiple	TBA
ENGL280	The English Language	0101	Michael Israel
ENGL290	Introduction to Digital Studies	0101	TBA
ENGL292	Writing for Change	0101	Justin Lohr
ENGL293	Writing in the Wireless World	0101	TBA
ENGL294	Persuasion and Cleverness in Social Media	0101	TBA
ENGL297	Introduction to Professional Writing	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL301	This is English: Fields and Methods	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL302	Medieval Literature in Translation	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL308B	Special Topics in Shakespeare; Shakespeare and Black America	0101	Kim Coles
ENGL310	Medieval and Renaissance British Literature	0101	Thomas Moser
ENGL311	British Literature from 1600 to 1800	0101	TBA
ENGL317	African American Literature	0101	Julius Fleming
ENGL329A	Special Topics in Film Studies; Cinema of Liberation	0201	Eugene Robinson
ENGL329B	Special Topics in Film Studies; Cartoons on the Page and on the Screen	0101	Paul Cote
ENGL329Y	Special Topics in Film Studies; A Cinema of Migration as Message	0201	Eugene Robinson
ENGL349J	Asian American Literatures; New World Arrivals: Literature of Asian American Migration and Diaspora	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL352	Intermediate Fiction Workshop	Multiple	TBA
ENGL353	Intermediate Poetry Workshop	0101	Dennis Winston
ENGL354	Intermediate Scriptwriting for Theater, Film, and Television	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL360	African, Indian and Caribbean Writers	0101	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL361	Recovering Oral Histories	0201	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
ENGL368K	Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; The Art of Black Social Movements:Marcus Garvey to Black Lives Matter	0101	Julius Fleming
ENGL370	Junior Honors Conference	0101	Jason Rudy
ENGL378P	Special Topics in English; Videogames and the Boundaries of Narrative	0101	Marisa Parham
ENGL378Q	Special Topics in English; Social Innovation, Change, and Justice: Do Good Now	0101	Justin Lohr
ENGL379R	Special Topics in Literature; The Jazz Paradigm	0201	Eugene Robinson
ENGL383	Language in Its Social Contexts	0101	Linda Coleman
ENGL384	Concepts of Grammar	0101	Michael Israel
ENGL387	Visual Rhetoric	0101	Vessela Valiavitcharska
ENGL388C	Writing for Change	0101	Justin Lohr
ENGL388D	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Dickinson Electronic Archives	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL388M	Maryland General Assembly Writing Internship	0101	Thomas Lowderbaugh
ENGL388P	English Careers Internship	0101	Karen Lewis
ENGL388T	Writing, Research, and Media Internships; Digital Humanities Research Assistantship	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	6101	Christopher Crane
ENGL393Q	Technical Writing	3001	TBA
ENGL393X	Technical Writing	1401	TBA
ENGL394	Business Writing	Multiple	Multiple
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
ENGL403	Shakespeare: The Early Works	0101	David Simon
ENGL425	Modern British Literature	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL428A	Seminar in Language and Literature; Afro-Latinx Literature	0101	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
ENGL428B	Seminar in Language and Literature; Autobiographics, or Writing Off the Self	0101	Martha Nell Smith
ENGL439C	Spotlight on Major Writers; Hemingway and his Competitors	0101	David Wyatt
ENGL439J	Spotlight on Major Writers; Race, Early Childhood TV, and the Legacies of Jim Henson	0101	Chad Infante
ENGL448C	Literature by Women of Color; Literature, Visual Culture and Art by Women of Color	0101	Sangeeta Ray
ENGL454	Modern Drama	0101	Michael Olmert
ENGL455	The Eighteenth-Century English Novel	0101	Laura Rosenthal
ENGL460	Archival Research Methods in English Studies	0101	Karen Nelson

ENGL462	Folksong and Ballad	0101	Barry Pearson
ENGL469G	Short Prose Forms	0101	Sabrina Islam
ENGL478K	Selected Topics in Literature before 1800; Early Modern to Post-Modern Poetry	0101	David Wyatt
ENGL479E	Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Imagining "The Americas"	0101	John Drabinski
ENGL479M	Selected Topics in Literature after 1800; Roots, Music and Film	0101	Barry Pearson
ENGL487	Principles and Practices of Rhetoric	0101	Cecilia Shelton
ENGL489P	Special Topics in Language and Rhetoric; The Language of Political Persuasion	0101	Linda Coleman
ENGL491	Digital Rhetoric	0101	Melanie Kill
ENGL497	English at Work	0101	Scott Wible
ENGL498	Advanced Fiction Workshop	Multiple	Multiple
ENGL499	Advanced Poetry Workshop	0101	TBA
ENGL312	Romantic to Modern British Literature	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL321	Comics and the Graphic Novel	0101	Lee Konstantinou
ENGL478G	Science and Fiction: From Milton to the Moon Landing	0101	David Simon

Course	Title	Section	Instructor

ENGL602	Critical Theory & Literary Criticism	0101	Oliver Gaycken
ENGL611	Approaches to College Composition	0101	Sara Wilder

ENGL628E	Readings in African American Literature; Exploring Imagined Black Worlds	0101	Rion Scott
ENGL630	Readings in 20th Century English Literature	0101	Brian Richardson
ENGL688	Poetry Workshop	0101	TBA
ENGL689	Fiction Workshop	0101	Emily Mitchell
ENGL708B	Seminar in Rhetoric: Argumentation	0101	Vessela Valiavitcharska
ENGL708D	Seminar in Rhetoric: Rhetorics of Disability and Universal Design	0101	Melanie Kill
ENGL719B	Seminar in Renaissance Literature; Sex Education: Women, Sex,and Gender in the Early Modern Period	0101	Kim Coles
ENGL738A	Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature; Race, Nation, Empire: Reframing Postbellum/Pre-Harlem	0101	Edlie Wong
ENGL759C	Seminar in Literature and the Other Arts: Book Lab: How To Do Things With Books	0101	Matthew Kirschenbaum
ENGL788	Studies in Poetic Form	0101	Joshua Weiner
ENGL789	Form and Theory in Fiction	0101	Gabrielle Fuentes
ENGL798B	Critical Theory Colloquium	0101	Orrin Wang
ENGL798D	Critical Theory Colloquium; Digital Studies	0101	Matthew Kirschenbaum

Spring 2021 Courses

Course Catalogue

Major Requirements

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Courses: CMLT Comparative Literature

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Courses: English

Spring 2021 Graduate Courses