2024-2025 Courses

 

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2024-2025 GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES

  • COURSES AND COVID19: We are currently 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.

 

  • 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.

 

  • Graduate students from other departments at U of T are welcome to enrol in ENG courses without completing a course add form. Non-ENG students should check with their home department to confirm if a course add form is required.

CURRENT GRADUATE ENGLISH COURSES LISTED BY SESSION


2024-25 Fall/Winter ACORN Enrolment Dates for English Graduate Courses 

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 ACORN course enrolment for continuing and incoming students have been stepped as follows:

Current and Incoming PhD and PhD U students: June 10 (ACORN opens at 6:00am EDT) to August 9, 2024

Enrolment Closed for English courses: June 12, 2024 at 3pm EDT (to reset ACORN for MA enrolment at 6:00am EDT the next morning)

Incoming and Continuing MA students: June 13, 2024 (ACORN reopens at 6:00am EDT) to August 9, 2024

**ACORN enrolment closed for English courses: August 10 to September 2, 2024** 

ACORN enrolment reopens for English courses: September 3, 2024 at 10:00am EDT
 

2024 Fall (F) Term 2024 Fall (F) Term 
ENG grad classes start: September 5, 2024 
EXCEPTION: ENG6552HF Prof. Stern's class will start 4 September 2024
Fall waitlist for English grad courses dismantled: September 12, 2024
SGS deadline to add Fall (F) and Y (full-year) session courses: September 18, 2024 
SGS deadline to drop Fall (F) session courses without academic penalty: October 28, 2024
Fall Reading Week:  October 28 to November 1, 2024 (no classes)
ENG grad classes end: December 9, 2024 (ENG6552HF class ends November 27, Thursday and Friday classes end November 28 and 29, 2024 respectively)
Grades for Fall (F) session courses available for viewing by students on ACORN: January 15, 2025

2025 Winter (S) Term
ENG grad classes start: January 6, 2025   
Winter waitlist for English courses dismantled: January 13, 2025
SGS deadline to add Winter (S) session courses: January 20, 2025
Winter Reading Week: February 17 to 21, 2025 (no classes)
SGS deadline to drop Winter (S) and Y (full-year) session courses without academic penalty: February 28, 2025
ENG grad classes end: April 4, 2025
Grades for Winter (S) and Y (full-year) session courses available for viewing by students on ACORN: May 14, 2025
 


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


F-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2024

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

10-12

ENG7102HF
L0101 
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods 
Generalism: Literary Study Across the Fields
M. Cobb
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718  
ENG7100HF
L0101 
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods    
Writing More-than-Human Lives    
A. Ackerman
2 hrs. 
Rm. UC 44 (15 King's College Circle, University College)   

ENG5100HF
L0101 
Topics in Medieval Literature 
Digital Humanities Practicum: Records of Early English Drama, 1325-1642
M. Sergi
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

(EXCEPTION: Oct. 9 class relocated to  JHB 718)

   
11-1

 

 

  ENG1001HF 
L0101
Old English I 
R. Trilling    
(NB: STUDENTS MUST ATTEND BOTH CLASSES EACH WEEK: M2-4 / R11-1)
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

 

12-2

ENG7103HF 
L0101
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods  
Ordinary Language, Ordinary Criticism
D. Wright
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616    

 

ENG7105HF
L0101
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods 
Destroying the City: Vandalism Past & Present 
N. Mount
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616 JHB 718

(CHANGE: Class relocated to JHB 718 from Wed, Sept 18 for remainder of F-Term)

 

ENG5300HF
L0101 
Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Being There: Liveness and Presence, 1750-1830    
T. Robinson
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616 

(EXCEPTION: Sept. 20 class relocated to JHB 718)


ENG9900HF 
L0101 
Teaching Literature
W. Robins
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

*Nov. 22, for one day only,  class will meet at OI 4410 (O.I.S.E) 252 Bloor Street West

12-3   ENG6999YF 
L0101
Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English
R. Boyagoda / A. Hammond
3 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 100  Breakout sessions from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in JHB 616
     
1-3  

ENG6950YY
L0101 
Creative Writing Workshop
I. Williams
2 hrs. 
Rm. TBA

CHANGED TIME, DAY AND INSTRUCTOR

 

 

 

 

2-4

ENG1001HF 
L0101
Old English I 
R. Trilling    
(NB: STUDENTS MUST ATTEND BOTH CLASSES EACH WEEK: M2-4 / R11-1)
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

 

ENG6552HF 
L0101
Law and Literature
S. Stern
2 hrs. 
Rm. Flavelle House 219 (78 Queen's Pk. Cres. West)

 

ENG5201HF
L0101 
Topics in Early Modern Literature
Early Modern Literature and the Crisis of Representation                                                                J. Rogers
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

3-5  

 

   

ENG7101HF
L0101
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods
Literature and Medicine: Corpus, Theory, Praxis
A. Charise

CANCELLED

 
3-6

 

ENG5200HF 
L0101 
Topics in Early Modern Literature
Early Modern Critical Race Studies    
U. Chakravarty
3 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616
 

 

 
4-6

ENG5501HF 
L0101
Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
M. Goldman
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616

 

ENG5400HF
L0101
Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature    
Romantic Pastoral Revisited
K. Weisman
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616* (EXCEPTIONS: On 2 dates, Oct. 9 & Nov. 6, this course is relocated to  JHB 718.) 

 

 

4-7        

ENG2100HF
L0101    
Topics in American Literature  
Class, Culture, and American Realism    
N. Dolan
3 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

5-7      

ENG9400HF*
L0101 
Essential Skills Workshop Series
A. Hernandez
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

*This course does not meet every week. Click on link above to see meeting schedule on course description. 

 
6-8    

ENG6950YY
L0101 
Creative Writing Workshop
R. Greene
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 617

CHANGED TIME, DAY AND INSTRUCTOR

   

 

S-Term Graduate Course Timetable 2025

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
10-12  

 

 

  ENG1102HS 
L0101 
Topics in Canadian Literature
Staging Environmental Crisis in 21st Century Canadian Literature
T. Aguila-Way
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718
10-1      

ENG3100HS 
L0101 
Topics in Indigenous Literature
Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
S. Kamboureli
3 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

ROOM CHANGE

 
11-1

ENG4100HS 
L0101
Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
C. Azubuko-Udah
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

ENG5500HS 
L0101 
Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Weird Fiction
T. Dancer
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616
ENG5103HS 
L0101 
Topics in Medieval Literature
Writing the Self in Late-medieval England: Thomas Hoccleve and Margery Kempe
S. Sobecki
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616
   
12-2  

 

 

 

ENG4400HS 
L0101
Topics in South Asian Literature in English Modern South Asia in Literature and Media    
R. Mehta
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616 (NB: for one class only, on February 28, class if relocated to JHB 718)

1-3

ENG7104HS 
L0101 
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods
Land, Myth and Translation in a Time of Crisis
A. Most
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616

ENG1101HS 
L0101
Topics in Canadian Literature
Cultural Memory / Cultural Organizing
L. Lai
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 616

ENG9100HS 
L0101
Topics in Theory
Queer, Trans, and Feminist Historiographies
D. Seitler
2 hrs.

CANCELLED FOR 2024-25


ENG6950YY
L0101 S-TERM
Creative Writing Workshop
I. Williams
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 617

CHANGED TIME AND INSTRUCTOR

ENG5401HS 
L0101
Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature
Aesthetics and Ethics: The Late Victorians
H. Li
2 hrs.
Rm. UC 57 (15 King's College Circle, University College)

 
2-4      

 

   

ENG5502HS 
L0101 
Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Against the Law: Writing and Reading Male Homosexuality in Post-War England
I. Morra
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616

3-5  

ENG1200HS
L0101 
Topics in African Canadian Literature Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus
G. E. Clarke
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

ENG5102HS 
L0101 
Topics in Medieval Literature
Reception of the Classics in Middle English Literature
K. Gaston
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616 (EXCEPTION: Apr. 9, 2025, if needed as a make-up class, this course will be relocated to JHB 718) 

 

 
3-6 ENG5202HS 
L0101 
Topics in Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare's Tragedies
L. Magnusson
3 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616
    ENG5203HS 
L0101
Topics in Early Modern Literature 
Shakespeare's Theatrical (After)Lives
H. Syme
3 hrs.
Rm. JHB 616
 
6-8    

 

 

ENG6950YY
L0101 
Creative Writing Workshop
R. Greene
2 hrs. 
Rm. TBA

CHANGED TIME AND INSTRUCTOR

   

Y-Term Graduate Course Timetable - (Full Year Courses)

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1-3

 

  ENG6950YY
L0101 S-TERM 
Creative Writing Workshop
I. Williams
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 617
   
6-8    

ENG6950YY
L0101 F-TERM
Creative Writing Workshop
R. Greene
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 617

 

 

 

 


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