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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

MWF 12:40-1:30 & 1:50-2:40 | Anne Snellen

ENGL 209 | Introduction to Jane Austen

MWF 11:30-12:20 | Jamie Kramer

ENGL 225 | Introduction to African Literature

MWF 11:30-12:20 | Gichingiri Ndigirigi

ENGL 232 | American Literature II: Civil War to Present

TR 11:20-12:35 | Harry Newburn

ENGL 237 | Honors American Literature I: Beginnings to the Civil War

MWF 9:10-10:00 | Marie Taylor

ENGL 251 | Introduction to Poetry

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Jessica Freeman

ENGL 253 | Introduction to Fiction

TR 9:45-11:00 | Doug McKinstry

ENGL 332 | Women in American Literature

MWF 3:00-3:50 | Elizabeth Gentry

ENGL 333 | Black American Literature and Aesthetics

Feeling, Haunting: African-American Sentimental and Gothic Literature

TR 9:45-11:00 | Katy Chiles

ENGL 339 | Children’s/Young Adult Literature

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Robin Nicks

ENGL 363 | Writing Poetry

MWF 10:20-11:10 | Abhay Shetty

ENGL 369 | Writing Creative Nonfiction

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Catherine Garbinsky

ENGL 434 | Modern American Literature

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Bill Hardwig

ENGL 446 | Native American Literature

MWF 12:40-1:30 | Marie Taylor

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