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Courses in Our Catalog

ENGL 233 | Major Black Writers
ENGL 254 | Fantastic Escapes: Historic Slave Narratives and their Contemporary Retellings (Fall
2021)
ENGL 254 | Beauty, Truth, Justice: African American Autobiographical Writing (Fall 2019)
ENGL 331 | Race and Ethnicity in American Literature
ENGL 333 | Black American Literature and Aesthetics
ENGL 335 | African Literature
ENGL 336 | Caribbean Literature
ENGL 381 | Introduction to Folklore
ENGL 423 | Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 439 | Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema | From the Margins to the Mainstream
ENGL 441 | Southern Literature: Race and Region
ENGL 443 | Topics in Black Literature
ENGL 482 | Frederick Douglass
ENGL 483 | Colonization in Reverse: African Migrant and Diasporic Narratives
ENGL 483 | Race in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
ENGL 486 | Black Feminist Theory
ENGL 494 | Cultural Rhetorics
ENGL 471 | Sociolinguistics
ENGL 472 | American Englishes

Courses on Offer this Semester

ENGL 200 | Language, Linguistics, and Society

TR 9:45-11:00 & 2:30-3:45 | Anne Snellen

ENGL 225 | Introduction to African Literature

TR 11:20-12:35 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 232 & 238 | American Literature II: Civil War to Present

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Harry Newburn

ENGL 233 | Major Black Authors

TR 2:30-3:45 | Anne Langendorfer

ENGL 250 | Intro to Comics and Cartoon Studies

Popular Fiction

TR 2:30-3:45 | Tyler Smith

ENGL 251 | Introduction to Poetry

TR 9:45-11:00 | Hank Backer

ENGL 251 | Introduction to Poetry

MWF 11:30-12:20 | Hayley Wilson

ENGL 253 | Introduction to Fiction

TR 11:20-12:35 | Doug McKinstry

ENGL 301 | Medieval and Renaissance Horror

British Culture to 1660

MWF 12:40-1:30 | R.D. Perry

MWF 12:40-1:30 | R.D. Perry

ENGL 332 | Men, Marriage, and Motherhood

Women in American Literature

TR 11:20-12:35 | La Vinia Jennings

ENGL 333 | Black Belonging (on Dispossessed Indigenous Lands)

Black American Literature and Aesthetics

MW 9:10-10:00, F Asynchronous | DeLisa Hawkes

ENGL 336 | Caribbean Polyrhythms

Caribbean Literature

TR 2:30-3:45 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 339 | Children’s/Young Adult Literature

TR 11:20-12:35 | Robin Nicks

ENGL 339 | Fantasy to Cyberspace

Children’s/Young Adult Literature

Online Asynchronous | Amy Billone

ENGL 351 | The Short Story

TR 2:30-3:45 | Doug McKinstry

ENGL 364 | Writing Fiction

MWF 9:10-10:00 | Elizabeth Gentry

ENGL 365 | Writing the Screenplay

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Emily Moeck

ENGL 381 | Early American Material Culture

American Tales, Songs, and Material Culture: An Introduction to Folklore

TR 12:55-2:10 | Marie Taylor

ENGL 431 | Families, Kinship, and Belonging

Early American Literature

TR 9:45-11:00 | Marie Taylor

ENGL 436 | Reading History, Race, and the Mind of the Writer

Modern American Novel

TR 2:30-3:45 | La Vinia Jennings

ENGL 476 | Second Language Acquisition

MWF 9:10-10:00 | Rima Elabdali

ENGL 480 | Fairy Tales

Fairy Tale, Legend, and Myth: Folk Narrative

Online Asynchronous | Amy Billone

ENGL 493 | The Big Ears Festival

Independent Study

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Urmila Seshagiri

ENGL 494 | Cultural Rhetorics

TR 12:55-2:10 | Lisa King