Archives: Graduate Outlines

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Fall 2024 – Winter 2025

Fall 2024 ENGL 5005F: M.A. Seminar Prof. Sarah Brouillette Topic: Professing English: Disciplinary Debates and Horizons What does it mean to study “English” today? What are the stakes involved in teaching it? And what, in fact, are we to study and teach, exactly? How might graduate students most effectively navigate their own research and... More

Friday, January 12, 2024

Summer 2024

Summer 2024   ENGL 5101S: Historical Linguistics: English (cross-listed with LING 4802A/5802A) Prof. Dan Siddiqi This course deploys a wide array of theoretical linguistics techniques and skills, primarily morphological, phonological, and syntactic analysis as well as typological and diachronic analysis, in order to examine the historical... More

Monday, February 27, 2023

Summer 2023

Summer 2023 ENGL 5900S/ENGL 4609A: Selected Topic in English Studies I Prof. Janne Cleveland Topic: Performing Activism on Social Media This seminar course will examine how social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, TikTok become spaces of performance within the context of activism and protest. We will consider how these platforms take on a... More

Friday, February 17, 2023

Fall 2023 – Winter 2024

Fall 2023   ENGL 5005F: MA Seminar Prof. Sarah Brouillette Topic: Professing English: Disciplinary Debates and Horizons What does it mean to study “English” today? What are the stakes involved in teaching it? And what, in fact, are we to study and teach, exactly? How—in practical terms—might graduate students most effectively navigate... More

Monday, February 28, 2022

Fall 2022-Winter 2023

Fall 2022 ENGL 5002F: Studies in Theory I (cross-listed with CLMD 6904F) Prof. Stuart Murray Topic: The Alt-Left Politics of Pleasure:  Identity, Consent, and Cancel Culture This course explores the perils and possibilities of “pleasure” in a social climate where bodies and pleasures are increasingly sites of suspicion and subject to new... More

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Summer 2021

SUMMER 2021 ENGL 5007S/ ENGL 4961A: Studies in Indigenous Literatures II Prof. Susan Birkwood “You Say You Want a Resolution”; or, “Weird-Ass Chats with Rabid Dogs”* In Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Daniel Heath Justice writes, Indigenous wonderworks are neither strictly ‘fantasy’ nor ‘realism,’ but they may be both at once,... More

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Fall 2021 – Winter 2022

FALL 2021 ENGL 5303F/ENGL4301A: Studies in Early Modern Literature I (cross-listed with HUMS 4902) Prof. Micheline White Topic: Tudor Queens:  Sex, Power, and Writing in the Lives of Katherine Parr, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, and Mary Queen of Scots Renaissance queens have long fascinated the reading public, but their political power and literary... More

Monday, February 24, 2020

Summer 2020

ENGL 5009S/ENGL 4976A: Studies in South Asian Literature Prof. Sukeshi Kamra Topic: The Terrain of the Present in South Asian Literature The contemporary moment is nothing if not defined by social activism and movements. Inventing new ways of seeing, ways commensurate with the urgent issues that activism seeks to make legible, is crucial to... More

Monday, February 10, 2020

Fall 2020/Winter 2021

FALL 2020 ENGL 5303F/ENGL 4301A: Studies in Early Modern Literature I Prof. Donald Beecher Topic: Ideas into Experience: Milton’s Paradise Lost as an Epic Encyclopedia The stature of Milton’s great poem needs no special defense; even Dryden acknowledged with admiration and regret that Milton had surpassed them all, without fully realizing that... More

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Fall 2018/ Winter 2019

Fall 2018 ENGL 5004F: Diaspora Theory (cross-listed with CLMD 6102F) Prof. Sarah Phillips Casteel Diaspora is an ancient term that has gained new currency in our contemporary moment. Why has diaspora become ubiquitous across the disciplines, emerging as a central category of analysis for scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences? How... More

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Graduate Seminars 2017-18

Course descriptions are tentative and may be subject to revision; syllabi will be posted later in the year. If you have questions about a particular course, please contact the course instructor or the Graduate Supervisor. FALL 2017 ENGL 5002F Studies in Theory The Humanitarian Apparatus: Feeling Good, Between Post-Truth and Other Fictions S.... More

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Graduate Seminars 2016-17

Course descriptions are tentative and may be subject to revision; syllabi will be posted later in the year. If you have questions about a particular course, please contact the course instructor or the Graduate Supervisor. FALL 2016 ENGL 5005F M.A. Seminar Professing “English”: Disciplinary Debates, Practices, Horizons Brian Johnson What does... More

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