2024-2025 Courses

 

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2024-2025 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.
  • 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 

  • June 10 (ACORN opens at 6:00 am EDT) to August 9, 2024: enrolment open for current and incoming PhD and PhD U students [Please note that ACORN will briefly close from June 12 at 3:00 pm to June 13 at 6:00 am EDT]
  • June 13, 2024 (ACORN reopens at 6:00 am EDT) to August 9, 2024: enrolment open for incoming and continuing MA students [Please note that ACORN will be closed from August 10 to September 2, 2024]
  • September 3, 2024 (ACORN reopens at 10:00 am EDT): enrolment reopens for English courses

2024 Fall (F) Term 

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

2025 Winter (S) Term

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

NOTE: For classroom information, students should check ACORN, unless directed otherwise 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: M 2-4 / R 11-1)
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

COURSE CANCELLED FOR WINTER 2025

 
11-1

ENG4100HS 
L0101
Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
C. Azubuko-Udah
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 614

ROOM CHANGE

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 718 

ROOM CHANGE

1-3

ENG7104HS 
L0101 
Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods
Land, Myth and Translation in a Time of Crisis
A. Most
2 hrs.
Rm. JHB 614

ROOM CHANGE

 

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 

(EXCEPTION: March 21 class relocated to JHB 718)

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: on Apr 9, 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
 
4-6        

ENG1101HS 
L0101
Topics in Canadian Literature
Cultural Memory / Cultural Organizing
L. Lai
2 hrs. 
Rm. JHB 718

CHANGED DAY AND TIME

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

 

 

 

 


Graduate English Course Descriptions by Topic and/or Course Code