English (ENGL)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

ENGL 1100

Reading changes your life. Sometimes it's a specific book; sometimes it's a way of reading that's new and different. This course will introduce different ways we can read and write about books and media, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6726 ENGL 1100   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Raskolnikov, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 1105

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will in some way address the subject of sexual politics. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include a mix ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Salacious Subcultures

  • 18207 ENGL 1105   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Courtemanche, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Complaint

  • 18208 ENGL 1105   SEM 102

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Delaney, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Lost Bodies

  • 18209 ENGL 1105   SEM 103

    • TR
    • Anspach, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1111

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with an aspect of culture or subculture. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Homecoming

  • 18226 ENGL 1111   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Stamatiades, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Much Ado about Rom Coms

  • 18227 ENGL 1111   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Foster, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1130

Our human abilities to communicate about nature, the environment, and climate change are challenged by the scale and scope of the topics. This course enables students to read, write, and design forms of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Place and Displacement

  • 18228 ENGL 1130   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • O'Brien, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Eco-Anxiety: Apathy to Action

  • 18229 ENGL 1130   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Osborne, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Utopian Ecologies in Speculative Fiction

  • 18260 ENGL 1130   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Shenoy, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1134

How do we understand the reality of others? For that matter, how do we know and understand our own experience? One answer is writing: writing can crystalize lived experience for others. We can record our ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18231 ENGL 1134   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Stragar-Rice, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18232 ENGL 1134   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harmon, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18233 ENGL 1134   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Pryor, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18259 ENGL 1134   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Simeu Juegouo, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1140

What does it mean to be healthy? How do we describe our pain? Who becomes a physician? The practice of medicine isn't confined to scientific knowledge: it raises difficult questions about culture, identity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18255 ENGL 1140   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Cupido, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18256 ENGL 1140   SEM 102

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Wang, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18257 ENGL 1140   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18258 ENGL 1140   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Iqbal, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1158

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with an aspect of American culture. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, film, or drama, and many include ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Transcendence and the American Jam Band

  • 18236 ENGL 1158   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Phillips, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Grace

  • 18237 ENGL 1158   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Van Clief-Stefanon, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1160

How does race inform the way we understand the world around us? How do writers explore their experiences of race and colonialism to challenge conventional notions of nation, citizenship, knowledge, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18156 ENGL 1160   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • McClam, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18157 ENGL 1160   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Pham, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18158 ENGL 1160   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Widerman, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18159 ENGL 1160   SEM 104

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Escobedo, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18160 ENGL 1160   SEM 105

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Murry, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18271 ENGL 1160   SEM 106

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Nashid, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1167

Reading is experiencing a new revolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We still read paper books, but we also read by scrolling on screen, through search engines, and in images and memes. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18241 ENGL 1167   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Albornoz Rodriguez, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18242 ENGL 1167   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Zhou, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18243 ENGL 1167   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Jones, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1168

From TV news to rock lyrics, from ads to political speeches to productions of Shakespeare, the forms of culture surround us at every moment. In addition to entertaining us or enticing us, they carry implied ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Blended Family in Popular Culture

  • 18217 ENGL 1168   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Juffer, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Cultures of U.S. Empire

  • 18218 ENGL 1168   SEM 103

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kim, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Comics and Graphic Medicine

  • 18219 ENGL 1168   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Londe, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: DND & Collaborative Fantasy

  • 18220 ENGL 1168   SEM 107

    • MW
    • Johnson, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Thinking Media Forms-Identity& Cultural Prod

  • 18221 ENGL 1168   SEM 108

    • MW
    • Cullen, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:College Reading/Teen Texts

  • 18222 ENGL 1168   SEM 109

    • TR
    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Comics! Graphic Novels! Transmedia Knowledge!

  • 18223 ENGL 1168   SEM 110

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • McKenzie, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: The Animal Question

  • 18224 ENGL 1168   SEM 111

    • TR
    • Hill, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: No Spoilers! Watching TV and Victorian Novels

  • 18225 ENGL 1168   SEM 112

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Foster, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Comics! Graphic Novels! Transmedia Knowledge!

  • 18280 ENGL 1168   SEM 113

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • McKenzie, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1170

What can a short story do that no other art form can do? We all consume and produce stories. To write about how narrative works, both within and against tradition, is to touch the core of identity, the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18210 ENGL 1170   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ayaz, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18211 ENGL 1170   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sam, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18212 ENGL 1170   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Chery, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18213 ENGL 1170   SEM 104

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Jones, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18214 ENGL 1170   SEM 105

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chakrabarty, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18215 ENGL 1170   SEM 106

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Huelster, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18216 ENGL 1170   SEM 107

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Huelster, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1183

What happens when we adapt books into movies, write fan-fiction about video games, or create poetry about paintings? What happens when we write about one genre as though it were another? We have been writing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18200 ENGL 1183   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Arora, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18201 ENGL 1183   SEM 102

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bettencourt, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18202 ENGL 1183   SEM 103

    • MWF
    • Mageed, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18203 ENGL 1183   SEM 104

    • MWF
    • Setzer, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18204 ENGL 1183   SEM 105

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Wang, Y

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18205 ENGL 1183   SEM 106

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chan, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18206 ENGL 1183   SEM 107

    • TR
    • Hill, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1191

Topics and reading lists vary from section to section, but all will engage in some way with the subject of British literature. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, or drama, and many include a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Shakespeare

  • 18154 ENGL 1191   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Attell, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 1270

Reading lists vary from section to section, but close, attentive, and imaginative reading and writing are central to all. Some sections may deal with fiction, poetry, or drama, or include a mix of literary ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Understanding Modern Poetry

  • 18153 ENGL 1270   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ENGL 2200

Animal companions are signs of our modernity. They can confirm our humanity, or call it into question. This course studies modern pet keeping and the human relation to animals. We will begin ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8267 ENGL 2200   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brown, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2240

What makes us laugh? What made people laugh in the past, and how has it changed? This course will take a long view of comedy, juxtaposing its great popularity in early modern England with its appeal in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8278 ENGL 2240   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2350

How does literary language depict the experience of physical suffering? Can a poem or a novel palliate pain, illness, even the possibility of death? From darkly comic narratives of black plague to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8287 ENGL 2350   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Cohn, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2690

This course introduces students to major American poets from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is designed for anyone wanting to deepen their knowledge of and appreciation for poetry while ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2690

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8396 ENGL 2690   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hill, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2703

From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, Thinking Media offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  3750 ENGL 2703   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Moseley, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2715

What does it mean to put a life story on the page? How does memory shape the present, and vice versa? What stories resonate in memoir, and why is it such a popular genre? This course will address these ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8286 ENGL 2715   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Green, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2785

POW! ZAP! DOOM! This is a class about how we can draw together, studying a medium that is based in the practice, in all senses, of drawing together. We will read Pulitzer winning memoirs and NSFW gutter ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6115 ENGL 2785   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Londe, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2800

An introductory course in the theory, practice, and reading of fiction, poetry, and allied forms. Both narrative and verse readings are assigned. Students will learn to savor and practice the craft of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6417 ENGL 2800   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gilvarry, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6418 ENGL 2800   SEM 102

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Wang, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6419 ENGL 2800   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6420 ENGL 2800   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • O'Brien, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6421 ENGL 2800   SEM 105

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Young, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6422 ENGL 2800   SEM 106

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chan, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6423 ENGL 2800   SEM 108

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Iqbal, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6424 ENGL 2800   SEM 109

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chakrabarty, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6425 ENGL 2800   SEM 110

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Iwunze, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6426 ENGL 2800   SEM 111

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harmon, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6427 ENGL 2800   SEM 112

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Osborne, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6428 ENGL 2800   SEM 113

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ayaz, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8654 ENGL 2800   SEM 114

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8655 ENGL 2800   SEM 115

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2880

This course offers guidance and an audience for students who wish to gain skill in expository writing-a common term for critical, reflective, investigative, and creative nonfiction. Each section provides ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Apocalyptic Vision in Literature and Film

  •  6611 ENGL 2880   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Zukovic, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: New Nature Writing in the Age of Climate Change

  •  6612 ENGL 2880   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sorrell, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Collaborative Authorship and Literary Community

  •  6613 ENGL 2880   SEM 103

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harlan-Gran, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Film Literature: Cinematic Style

  •  6684 ENGL 2880   SEM 104

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Thomson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Understanding Immigration: Literature and Film

  •  6685 ENGL 2880   SEM 105

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Iwunze, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Shakespeare Offstage

  •  9184 ENGL 2880   SEM 106

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Stamatiades, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Writing the Contemporary Essay

  •  9760 ENGL 2880   SEM 107

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Shechtman, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 2950

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 2750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Price is Right

  •  9167 ENGL 2950   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Stephen, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment preference given to: students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

ENGL 2971

This course will explore how in the body of world literature humans have construed, narrated, imagined the end of time and of the world and sometimes its new beginning. Spanning from ancient epic and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2271

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6394 ENGL 2971   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    To be added to the waitlist, please email complit@cornell.edu.

ENGL 2999

Educational historian Frederick Rudolph called Cornell University the first American university, referring to its unique role as a coeducational, nonsectarian, land-grant institution with a broad curriculum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2001HIST 2005

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  3688 ENGL 2999   LEC 001

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Earle, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    If you are unable to enroll, please add yourself to the waitlist: https://forms.gle/ui359qRp4dhceuAFA

ENGL 3021

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7742 ENGL 3021   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3120

Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of recent movies and riveting new translations. The poem's popular appeal lies in its complex depictions of monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 6120MEDVL 3120MEDVL 6120

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2324 ENGL 3120   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Zacher, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3270

The course focuses on Shakespeare's middle to late plays, from the problem comedies, through the great tragedies and romances. While we will pay particular attention to questions of dramatic form (genre) ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 3770

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8351 ENGL 3270   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3280

A knowledge of the Bible's images, stories and themes is crucial to understanding not only the art and literature of many cultures, but also ancient and contemporary world politics. It is the world's most ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: RELST 3281

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8477 ENGL 3280   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Zacher, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3370

How has theatre shaped our notion of America and Americans in the second half of the 20th century and beyond? What role has politics played in the theatre? How has performance been used to examine concepts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3370PMA 3758

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7764 ENGL 3370   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gainor, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3440

This course will look at how literature based at sea helps both shape and challenge concepts of freedom and capital. By looking at the relationship between the sea-faring economy and its relationship to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3442ASRC 3440

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8459 ENGL 3440   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3460

The nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary expansion of poetry in both Great Britain and the United States. Traditional forms like the ballad, the ode, and the elegy were given fresh life, as poets ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8596 ENGL 3460   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gilbert, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3565

Mainstream media would have us believe that driving a new Toyota Prius, recycling, and shopping clean at Whole Foods would make us all food environmentalists, right? Additionally, climate change ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3565ASRC 3565FGSS 3565

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8468 ENGL 3565   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3571

This is a course on Irish writing of the modern period. In our readings over the semester (which will include some of the twentieth century's greatest literary texts), we will cover the development of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8462 ENGL 3571   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Attell, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3747

Crime fiction simply dominates our screen time: White Lotus, Law and Order, NCIS, Psych, Sherlock, Only Murders in the Building, True Detective, Breaking Bad. But crime fiction is rife with trouble-femme ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8483 ENGL 3747   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Foster, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3753

This course explores the creative cross-pollination between mass culture and avant-garde art, addressing key concepts in 20th century aesthetics (the middlebrow, the spectacle, pastiche, kitsch) and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8484 ENGL 3753   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Shechtman, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3762

What can lawyers and judges learn from the study of literature? This course explores the relevance of imaginative literature (novels, drama, poetry, and film) to questions of law and social justice from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3764LAW 6710

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8760 ENGL 3762   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Anker, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3820

This course focuses upon the writing of fiction or related narrative forms. May include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments and prompts, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6429 ENGL 3820   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gilvarry, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6430 ENGL 3820   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kleeman, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6431 ENGL 3820   SEM 103

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Quinonez, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3840

This course focuses upon the writing of poetry. May include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, completion of writing assignments and prompts, and workshop peer review ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6432 ENGL 3840   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6433 ENGL 3840   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Van Clief-Stefanon, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3890

Writers of creative nonfiction plumb the depths of their experience and comment memorably on the passing scene. They write reflectively on themselves and journalistically on the activities and artifacts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3437 ENGL 3890   SEM 101

    • MWF
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Faulkner, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3901

With the publication of his Utopia, Thomas More coined the name of a new genre of literature in which the writer posits an ideal society - and sometimes an impossibly ideal society. In this course, we'll ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 3901

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8614 ENGL 3901   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kalas, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8617 ENGL 3901   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kalas, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3901

  • 3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8616 ENGL 3901   SEM 102

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kalas, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3910

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the Americas? ... view course details

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  •  6387 ENGL 3910   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3934

The seminar will explore relations between the tangible effects of climate on urban, infrastructural, and ecological landscapes in the Caribbean and lived experiences of climate as mediated through literature, ... view course details

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  •  7016 ENGL 3934   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3977

This course examines how writers, filmmakers, and content creators from Africa engage with and revise public images of bodies-specifically pleasure, queerness, sex strikes, etc. Our inquiry also surveys ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7729 ENGL 3977   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Diabate, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3989

In this course, we will read some of the most influential examples of a genre at the intersection of literature and history: the memoir of the revolutionary. Along the way, we will consider some of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3389RUSSL 3389

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6636 ENGL 3989   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4133

This seminar will explore the English language and its literatures in its most diverse centuries, which 19th century philologists saw as the middle span: after the collapse of Old English language, poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 6133LING 4220LING 6220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8572 ENGL 4133   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8573 ENGL 4133   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4380

Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? At a time when reality appears dystopian, many are quick to dismiss utopian visions as naive or irresponsible. In this seminar, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4380FGSS 4380GERST 4380

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9165 ENGL 4380   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4509

In this course, we will engage in close and reflective critical readings of Toni Morrison's eleven novels. Morrison's writing style is characterized by highly distinctive strategies in the development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8761 ENGL 4509   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4511

The driving dialectic in post-colonial studies has been the colonizer/colonized, or the Third World vs. the West. But slowly the field is letting go of this arrested dialectic and in its place various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4512COML 4511

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8547 ENGL 4511   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8548 ENGL 4511   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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  •  8495 ENGL 4556   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4567

We will examine cultural productions by East and Southeast Asians and their diasporas that imagine speculative, science fictional, magical realist, weird realist, or otherwise non-realist worlds. Paying ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AAS 4567

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8553 ENGL 4567   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kim, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8554 ENGL 4567   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kim, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4577

As Latinx studies continues to expand beyond its nationalistic origins and re-examines its geographical bounds, nuancing the role of borders within the field becomes urgent. This course probes at the primacy ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4577LSP 4577SPAN 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8555 ENGL 4577   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8556 ENGL 4577   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4700

This class offers the opportunity to read James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses in relation to major concepts and methods of media studies, book history, and material text scholarship. Challenging, multifarious, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6403 ENGL 4700   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Braddock, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6404 ENGL 4700   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Braddock, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4771

This seminar investigates the role of social media in contemporary literary production and reception. We will understand both social media and literature broadly, examining literature about and written ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8590 ENGL 4771   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Thomas, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8591 ENGL 4771   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Thomas, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4795

Students will build on coursework in Communicating Climate Change to design, create and launch climate communications projects focused on reducing Cornell's emissions. This will involve research into Cornell's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENVS 4795

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8592 ENGL 4795   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levine, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4800

This course is intended for creative writers who have completed ENGL 3840 and wish to refine their poetry writing. It may include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6434 ENGL 4800   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4801

This course is intended for narrative writing students who have completed ENGL 3820 and wish to refine their writing. It may include significant reading and discussion, explorations of form and technique, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6435 ENGL 4801   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Quinonez, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6961 ENGL 4801   SEM 102

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bulawayo, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4850

Reading for Writers examines literary works through the eyes of a writer, focusing on the craft of literature. Topics vary with each section and semester and may focus on fiction, poetry, or both. Please ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Writing Dangerously: Tyranny and the Novel

  •  8593 ENGL 4850   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bulawayo, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4940

This course is the second of a two-part series of courses required for students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English. The first course in the series is ENGL 4930 Honors Essay Tutorial I. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2823 ENGL 4940   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gilbert, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2868 ENGL 4940   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2869 ENGL 4940   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hanson, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2870 ENGL 4940   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levine, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2871 ENGL 4940   IND 605

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  2872 ENGL 4940   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  7036 ENGL 4940   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4950

Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 11732 ENGL 4950   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levine, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12326 ENGL 4950   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Warren, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 12328 ENGL 4950   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Zacher, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13140 ENGL 4950   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brady, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13152 ENGL 4950   IND 605

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Quinonez, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 13154 ENGL 4950   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17944 ENGL 4950   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rosenberg, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17947 ENGL 4950   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fridlund, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17948 ENGL 4950   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hutchinson, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 6021

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details

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  •  8610 ENGL 6021   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6120

Beowulf has received renewed attention in popular culture, thanks to the production of recent movies and riveting new translations. The poem's popular appeal lies in its complex depictions of monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3120MEDVL 3120MEDVL 6120

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2325 ENGL 6120   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Zacher, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6133

This seminar will explore the English language and its literatures in its most diverse centuries, which 19th century philologists saw as the middle span: after the collapse of Old English language, poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4133LING 4220LING 6220

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8579 ENGL 6133   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6155

How do narratives work? What kinds of social functions do stories perform? And how can the theory and analysis of narrative help us to grasp and shape power relations? The course will introduce the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6793

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9159 ENGL 6155   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levine, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6460

From rich paradigms of sympathy and sentiment adapted from the eighteenth century to newer theories of unconsciousness and crowd psychology, Victorian literature reflects shifting conceptions of feeling. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Reading Feeling

  •  9177 ENGL 6460   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Cohn, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6485

We shall look at early South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8594 ENGL 6485   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6513

In this course, we will engage in close and reflective critical readings of Toni Morrison's eleven novels. Morrison's writing style is characterized by highly distinctive strategies in the development ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9497 ENGL 6513   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6525

What was the position of literary writing among the new media technologies that emerged in the first half of the twentieth century? How did modernist writers respond to a social and political situation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9162 ENGL 6525   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Braddock, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6565

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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  •  8498 ENGL 6565   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6815

Considering the etymological roots of poetry, this course explores the idea of poetry as making, creation, fabrication, composition. How have poets and theorists of lyric understood the relationship between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9163 ENGL 6815   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kalas, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 7800

The MFA poetry seminar is a required course for MFA poetry students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  6345 ENGL 7800   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Mort, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 7801

The MFA fiction seminar is a required course for all MFA fiction students. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  6346 ENGL 7801   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fridlund, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 7850

In general, Reading for Writers examines literary works through the eyes of a writer, focusing on the craft of literature. While the class is geared toward MFA students, all graduate students are welcome ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Unruly Craft: Experiments and Provocations

  •  8647 ENGL 7850   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Kleeman, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 7890

This is a required course for students pursuing an MFA degree in Creative Writing. The course will focus on the pedagogical methodology and philosophical approaches to teaching creative writing. The workshop ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6347 ENGL 7890   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fridlund, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 7940

This course gives students the opportunity to work with a selected instructor to pursue special interests or research not treated in regularly scheduled courses. After getting permission of the instructor, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2824 ENGL 7940   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Lorenz, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2873 ENGL 7940   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Levine, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4309 ENGL 7940   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frank, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4315 ENGL 7940   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Cohn, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4317 ENGL 7940   IND 605

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Falke, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9863 ENGL 7940   IND 606

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Anker, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9864 ENGL 7940   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Thomas, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 7950

This course should be used for an independent study in which a small group of students works with one member of the graduate faculty. After getting permission of the instructor, students should contact ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2825 ENGL 7950   SEM 101

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hu Pegues, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2867 ENGL 7950   SEM 105

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Brown, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person