2023-2024 Courses

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COURSES AND COVID19

With the continuing uncertainty about how the pandemic will unfold and if and how long social distancing may be required, we are engaged in making preparations for the coming academic year. The aim is to ensure this year's courses will be as challenging and inspiring as always, regardless of the circumstances.

2023-2024 GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES

Consult the timetables and Course Descriptions for updated details on course changes, including times, cancellations, rooms, and locations. Please Note: Courses may be subject to changes and/or cancellations.

CURRENT GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES LISTED BY SESSION

2023-24 Fall/Winter ACORN Enrolment Dates for English Graduate Courses

Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 ACORN course enrolment for continuing and incoming students have been stepped as follows:

Current and Incoming PhD and PhD U students: 6 June (ACORN opens at 6:00am EDT) to 11 August 2023

Enrolment Closed for English courses: 8 June 2023 from 3pm EDT (to reset ACORN for MA enrolment the next morning)

Incoming and Continuing MA students: 9 June (ACORN reopens at 6:00am EDT) to 11 August 2023

**ACORN enrolment closed for English courses: 12 August to 4 September 2023**

ACORN enrolment reopens: 5 September 2023 at 10:00am EDT

2023 Fall (F) Term

Classes start on 7 September
Fall waitlist for English courses will be dismantled on 14 September
Final date to add Fall and full-year (Y) session courses is 20 September
Final date to drop Fall session courses without academic penalty is 6 November
Fall Reading Week is from 6 to 10 November (no classes)
Classes end on 6 December

2024 Winter (S) Term

Classes start on 8 January
Winter waitlist for English courses will be dismantled on 15 January
Final date to add Winter session courses is 22 January
Winter Reading Week is from 19 to 23 February (no classes)
Final date to drop full-year and Winter session courses without academic penalty is 20 February
Classes end on 5 April

NOTE: For classroom information, students should check their ACORN, unless otherwise indicated to contact their instructor directly.

F-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2023

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00 am - 11:00 am 2 hours		CHANGE: MOVED FROM SUMMER 2024 ENG6532HF Writing More-than-Human Lives F-Term: Ackerman, A. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
10:00 am - 1:00 pm 3 hours			ENG1006HF Medieval Drama: York's Plays and Records Sergi, M. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
11:00 am – 1:00 pm 2 hours	ENG5078HF Postcolonial Ecocriticism Azubuko-Udah, C. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG2509HF Shakespeare and the Book Teramura, M. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS			ENG6494HF Psychogeography and the Mapping of Literary Space Radovic, S. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 2 hours	ENG6950YY Creative Writing Workshop F-Term: Williams, I. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG3045HF The Comic Novel from Fielding to Austen Dickie, S. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm 3 hours					ENG6999YF Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English Dancer, T. / Gniadek, M. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 2 hours			ENG4750HF Empire of Steam: Romanticism, Technology, and Modernity White, D. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG6492HF Speaking of What’s Next: Climate and Dystopia in Near Future Fiction Goldman, M. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 2 hours		ENG4405HF Genres of the Victorian Novel Jaffe, A. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm 3 hours	ENG1001HF Old English I: Introduction to Old English Klausner, D. 3 hours RM: Contact the Instructor			ENG9500HY Professional Development Wright, D. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS Every other week. Exact schedule TBD
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 2 hours			NOTE: FIRST CLASS ON SEPT 6. ENG6552HF Law and Literature Stern, S. 2 hours Rm: Contact the Instructor
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm 3 hours					ENG5047HF Class, Culture, and American Realism Dolan, N. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm 2 hours		ENG5115HF The Satanic Verses and the Public Life of Books Boyagoda, R. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS		ENG9400HF Essential Skills Workshop Series Hernandez 5:00 - 6:20 (1hr 20min) Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 2 hours			ENG5101HF Graham Greene: The Problem of Elsewhere Greene, R. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS

S-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2024

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10:00 am – 12:00 pm 2 hours		ENG6365HS Diasporic Englishes Percy, C. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG6848HS Representing Vandalism Mount, N. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS		ENG4973HS Marx and the American Renaissance Downes, P. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
10:00 am – 1:00 pm 3 hours				ENG5712HS Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty Kamboureli, S. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
11:00 am – 1:00 pm 2 hours	ENG1012HS Writing the Self in Late-medieval England: Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe Sobecki, S. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm 2 hours		ENG5080HS Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus Clarke, G.E. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG5088HS Kind of Like: Difference, Similarity, Comparison Thomas, A. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 2 hours	ENG6950YY Creative Writing Workshop S-Term: McGill, R. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS			ENG5802HS Global Protest Cultures Mehta, R. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 2 hours		ENG2486HS Early Modern Theater Theories Williams, K. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS ENG9900HS Professing Literature Newman, D. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS	ENG6064HS Theory of the Novel Schmitt, C. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS		ENG1002HS Old English II: Beowulf Michelet, F. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm 3 hours	ENG2499HS Shakespeare's Tragedies Magnusson, L. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS			ENG9500HY Professional Development Wright, D. 3 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS Every other week. Exact schedule TBD
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 2 hours			ENG4662HS Romantic Memory Weisman, K. 2 hours Rm: See ACORN or QUERCUS
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm 2 hours	ENG3707HS Literature and Censorship, 1640-1860 Keymer, T. 2 hours Rm. JHB 616