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Number Title Offered/Credits
EN009 First Year Writing Sem/English Language Learners (Fall: 3)
EN009.01 First Year Writing Sem/English Language Learners (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN010 First Year Writing Seminar (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN079 Literary Forms for English Language Learners (Spring: 3)
EN079.01 Literary Forms for English Language Learners (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080 Literature Core (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN080.01 Literature Core: "Love and its Difficulties" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.02 Literature Core (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.02 Literature Core: "Twisted Tales" (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.03 Literature Core (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.05 Literature Core: "The Loss of the Familiar and the Finding of Oneself" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.06 Literature Core: "Literature of the Fantastic" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.07 Literature Core (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.08 Literature Core: "Life's Major Themes" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.09 Literature Core: "Bodies in Narrative" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.10 Literature Core: Word, Work, World (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.11 Literature Core: "Coming of Age" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.12 Literature Core: "Twisted Tales" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.13 Literature Core (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.14 Literature Core: "Immigration in American Literature" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.14 Literature Core: Writing and Rewriting the Fairy Tale (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.15 Literary Forms: "Rule Breakers" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.16 Literary Forms (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.16 Literature Core: Sacred Storytelling (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.17 Literary Forms: "What You See is What You Get: The Art of Literary Interpretation" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.18 Literature Core: "Time and Memory" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.20 Literary Forms (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.21 Literature Core (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.22 Literature Core: "Literature as Testimony" (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.24 Literature Core: Suburban Fictions (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.26 Literature Core: Writing Wars (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.38 Literature Core: Education and its Discontents (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN080.42 Literature Core (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN081.02 Literary Themes (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
EN084 Literatures of the World (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN084.15 Literatures of the World: Dream and Nightmare - The Fantastic Landscapes of St. Petersburg (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN093 An Introduction to Modern Irish I (Fall: 3)
EN094 An Introduction to Modern Irish II (Spring: 3)
EN097 Continuing Modern Irish I (Fall: 3)
EN098 Continuing Modern Irish II (Spring: 3)
EN101 Celtic Heroic Age (Fall: 3)
EN110 Classical and Biblical Backgrounds of English Literature (Spring: 3)
EN121 The Linguistic Structure of English (Spring: 3)
EN122 Language in Society (Fall: 3)
EN125 Introduction to Feminisms (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN127 Language and Language Types (Fall: 3)
EN131 Studies in Poetry (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN131.01 Studies in Poetry (Fall 2012-2013: 3)
EN131.05 Studies in Poetry (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN131.11 Studies in Poetry (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN133 Studies in Narrative (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN133.06 Studies in Narrative (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN141 American Literary History I (Spring: 3)
EN142 American Literary History II (Fall: 3)
EN143 American Literary History III (Fall: 3)
EN143.01 American Literary History III (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction (Spring: 3)
EN165 Nineteenth Century Irish Literature Survey (Fall: 3)
EN170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I (Fall: 3)
EN171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II (Spring: 3)
EN175 Jewish Writers in Russia and America (Spring: 3)
EN201 Versions in Black: Genres of Black Women's Writing (Spring: 3)
EN204 London: A History in Verse (Spring: 3)
EN205 Global Victorians (Spring: 3)
EN211 Literature Wired: The Digital Humanities (Spring: 3)
EN212 Introduction to Medical Humanities (Spring: 3)
EN219 Reading Visual Culture (Spring: 3)
EN221 Introduction to Creative Writing (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN224 Post-Soviet Russian Literature (Fall: 3)
EN227 Classics of Russian Literature (in translation) (Fall: 3)
EN228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in translation) (Spring: 3)
EN229 Literature of the Other Europe (in translation) (Spring: 3)
EN235 Second Voices: 21st Century American Fiction by Immigrants (Spring: 3)
EN237 Studies in Children's Literature: Disney and the Wondertale (Fall: 3)
EN238 Medieval Women Writers (Spring: 3)
EN240 Modern Theater and Drama (Spring: 3)
EN246 Introduction to Asian American Literature (Fall: 3)
EN255 Introduction to Post-Colonial Literature (Fall: 3)
EN258 Sin and Evil in Medieval Literature (Fall: 3)
EN259 Introduction to Literary Theory (Spring: 3)
EN260 Talking Things in the 18th Century (Spring: 3)
EN260.01 Talking Things in 18th Century (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN277 Introduction to American Studies (Spring: 3)
EN284 Race and Visual Culture (Spring: 3)
EN288 God and the Imagination: Epitaphs for the Journey (Fall: 3)
EN302 Witches and Apocalypses in Young Adult Fiction (Fall: 3)
EN305 Weird Style: Greatness and Strangeness in Medieval Writers (Spring: 3)
EN307 History of the English Language (Spring: 3)
EN307.01 History of the English Language (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN310 Shakespeare (Spring: 3)
EN318 Nineteenth Century American Poetry (Spring: 3)
EN323 History of the Book: From Codex to Kindle (Spring: 3)
EN329 The Poet and Poetry: Yeats, MacNeice & Heaney (Spring: 3)
EN333 British Modernism (Fall: 3)
EN333.01 British Modernism (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN337 Victorian Marriage/Victorian Sex (Fall: 3)
EN351 British Romantic Poetry (Fall: 3)
EN377 Medieval Arthurian Literature (Spring: 3)
EN377.01 Medieval Arthurian Literature (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN382 Varieties of Shorter Fiction (Fall: 3)
EN382.01 Varieties of Shorter Fiction (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN392 Syntax and Semantics (Spring: 3)
EN396 Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture (Spring: 3)
EN404 Literary Boston 1790-1860 (Spring: 3)
EN411 American Fiction and the Wild West (Spring: 3)
EN412 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN412.10 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN417 The Politics and Literature of the Irish Nation, 1800-1922 (Spring: 3)
EN430 Literature and Journalism in America (Spring: 3)
EN430.01 Literature and Journalism in America (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN431 Contemporary American Poetry (Fall: 3)
EN444 Major Irish Writers (Spring: 3)
EN458 Rhetoric as Cultural Studies (Spring: 3)
EN458.01 Rhetoric As Cultural Studies (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
EN461 Regionalism in America (Spring: 3)
EN476 Studies in Words (Spring: 3)
EN478 Poe and the Gothic (Spring: 3)
EN482 African American Writers (Fall: 3)
EN486 Drama of Harlem and Irish Renaissance (Spring: 3)
EN491 18th Century Comic Constructions (Spring: 3)
EN497 Argument and Commentary (Fall: 3)
EN500 Queer Cinema/Queer Theory (Spring: 3)
EN500.01 Queer Cinema/Queer Theory (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN501 Boston: History, Literature and Culture I (Fall: 3)
EN501.01 Boston: History, Literature & Culture I (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN502 Boston: History, Literature and Culture II (Spring: 3)
EN511 Faulkner (Spring: 3)
EN512 Old Irish (Spring: 3)
EN518 Reading Irish Childhood (Spring: 3)
EN521 Advanced Topic Seminar: American Modernism (Fall: 3)
EN521.01 Adv Topic Seminar:American Modernism (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN526 Shakespeare: Early Plays (Fall: 3)
EN526.01 Shakespeare: Early Plays (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN527 General Linguistics (Fall: 3)
EN528 Historical Linguistics (Spring: 3)
EN529 Shakespeare: Later Plays (Fall: 3)
EN531 Race in Literature (Fall: 3)
EN532 Advanced Creative Non-fiction: Text and Image (Fall: 3)
EN534 Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Writing About Family (Spring: 3)
EN536 Joyce's Ulysses (Fall: 3)
EN550 Advanced Nonfiction Workshop: Writing for Magazines (Fall: 3)
EN551 Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Fall: 3)
EN557 Modern American Poetry and Poetics, 1914-1930 (Fall: 3)
EN577 Writing Workshop: Poetry (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN577.01 Writing Workshop:Poetry (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
EN577.01 Writing Workshop: Poetry as Craft (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN579 Writing Workshop: Fiction (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN588 Business Writing (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN599 Undergraduate Reading and Research (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN601 Internship (Spring: 1)
EN602 Advanced Topic Seminar: Contemporary Novels of the World (Spring: 3)
EN606 Advanced Topic Seminar: Futures Past: Time and History in Modernism (Spring: 3)
EN608 Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Writing the Body in Illness and Health (Spring: 3)
EN614 Advanced Topic Seminar: Aesthetic (Re)Turns (Spring: 3)
EN615 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (Spring: 3)
EN615.01 Advanced Fiction Writing (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN617 Advanced Poetry Workshop (Spring: 3)
EN617.01 Advanced Poetry Workshop (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN625 Seminar: Toni Morrison (Spring: 3)
EN626 Studies in American Culture: Fear, Comfort, Risk (Fall: 3)
EN626.01 Studies in American Culture: Fear, Comfort, Risk (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN627 Capstone: Ways of Knowing (Spring: 3)
EN629 Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Romantic Writing (Spring: 3)
EN632 Advanced Topics Seminar: Friendship, Love & Social Taboo (Spring: 3)
EN633 Advanced Topic Seminar: Psychoanalysis and Literature as Dreams, Phobias and the Uncanny (Fall: 3)
EN637 Capstone: The Vision Quest: A Multicultural Approach to Self-Discovery (Fall: 3)
EN638 Advanced Topic Seminar: The Whitman Tradition (Fall: 3)
EN645 American Nature Writing (Spring: 3)
EN654 Junior Honors Seminar (Spring: 3)
EN654.01 Junior Honors Seminar:History, Memory, Culture (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
EN671 Magazine Editing and Publishing (Fall: 3)
EN675 Art and Craft of Literary Translation (Spring: 3)
EN700 English Language Training for Graduate Level Students: Focus on Speech (Fall: 0)
EN701 English Language Training for Graduate Level Students: Focus on Writing (Spring: 0)
EN702 The 9/11 Novel (Summer: 3)
EN706 Medieval English Romance (Fall: 3)
EN708 Crises of the 19th Century: Society, Gender and Belief (Spring: 3)
EN709 Visual Culture (Spring: 3)
EN712 Modern, In Theory (Fall: 3)
EN713 Seminar: Talking Things in the 18th Century (Spring: 3)
EN713.01 Talking Things in 18th Century (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN718 Race and Visual Culture (Summer: 3)
EN721 Milton (Fall: 3)
EN726 Seminar: Exile (Spring: 3)
EN731 The Poet & Poetry:Yeats, Macneice & Heaney (Spring: 3)
EN734 African American Writers of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Spring: 3)
EN739 Major Irish Writers (Spring: 3)
EN746 The City in American Literature and Culture (Spring: 3)
EN750 Early Women Writers (Fall: 3)
EN752 Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Fall: 3)
EN759 Pulp, Popular, Proletarian (Fall: 03)
EN759.01 Pulp, Popular, Proletarian (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN764 Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction (Fall: 3)
EN779 Contemporary American Poetry (Fall: 3)
EN779.01 Contemporary American Poetry (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN780 Readings in Theory (Spring: 3)
EN782 Issues and Methods in American Studies (Fall: 3)
EN785 Stuart Literature and Culture (Spring: 3)
EN800 Irish Gothic (Spring: 3)
EN801 Thesis Seminar (Fall: 3)
EN802 Joyce's Ulysses (Spring: 3)
EN803 America and Its Futures (Spring: 3)
EN816 Eliot, James & Woolf (Fall: 3)
EN816.01 Eliot, James & Woolf (Fall 2013-2014: 3)
EN821 Violence in Medieval Literature (Spring: 3)
EN822 Novel Theory and the Novel (Fall: 3)
EN825 Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing (Spring: 3)
EN838 American Literature: Puritans to Melville (Spring: 3)
EN849 Romantic Texts and Contexts (Fall: 3)
EN850 Seminar: Critical Approaches to Shakespeare (Spring: 3)
EN855 British Literature and Postcolonial Criticism (Spring: 3)
EN858 Debates and Issues in Postcolonial Studies (Spring: 3)
EN887 Introduction to Advanced Research (Fall: 3)
EN888 Interim Study (Fall/Spring: 0)
EN894 American Modernisms (Spring: 3)
EN894.01 American Modernisms (Spring 2013-2014: 3)
EN899 Readings and Research (Fall/Spring: 3)
EN905 Ph.D. Seminar: American Literature & New Materialism (Spring: 3)
EN911 Ph.D. Gender Crossings: Representations & Theory (Fall: 3)
EN914 Some American Renaissances (Spring: 3)
EN934 Advanced Research Colloquium (Spring: 3)
EN934.01 Phd Advanced Research Colloquium (Spring 2012-2013: 3)
EN936 Ph.D. Seminar: Pulp, Popular, Proletarian (Spring: 3)
EN998 Doctoral Comprehensive (Spring: 1)
EN999 Doctoral Continuation (Fall/Spring: 1)