2025-26 Tentative Course Schedule.xlsx

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1	2025-2026 English Curriculum Plan					*TENTATIVE - SUBJECT TO CHANGE*				Plan as of: 8/22/2025
2		FALL 2025			WINTER 2026			SPRING 2026
3		Undergrad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name	Undergrad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name	Undergrad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name
4		10	Introduction to Literary Study	Jeremy Douglass	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Surojit Kayal	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Maggie Fisher
5		10	Introduction to Literary Study	Ripley Baker	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Erick Rodriguez	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Daniel Reeve
6		22	Introduction to Lit & the Enviroment: Western Traditions	Ken Hiltner	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Tim Gilmore	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Alice Fulmer
7		30B	Major Works in European Literature	Bernadette Andrea	23	The Climate Crisis: What It Is and What Each of Us Can Do About It	Ken Hiltner	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Michael Parra
8		37	Introduction to Legal Humanities	Jeannine Delombard	39	Pan-Latinx Literatures of Transformation	Ben Olguin	10	Introduction to Literary Study	Leila Stegemoeller
9		50	Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures	Swati Rana	40BB	African American Literature from the Great Black Migration to Black Queer Critique	Felice Blake	15	Introduction to Shakespeare as Popular Culture	Jim Kearney
10		92FE	Fantasy and the Environment	Teresa Shewry	102WR	Did Women Have a Renaissance?	Olivia Henderson	87LL	Literature and Life	Enda Duffy
11		106A	Playwriting Workshop	Ben Olguin	50	Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures	Felice Blake	92RA	Reading the Apocalypse	Cathy Thomas
12		106CW	Catalyst Writing Collective	Brian Donnelly	103UD	Transatlantic English Lit 1660-1789: The World Upside Down	E Cook	92TC	The Fiction of Ted Chiang	Melody Jue
13		114EM	Women and Literature	E Cook	103SH	The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature	Rachael King	101ML	British Literature before 1500	Daniel Reeve
14		122NE	Nature and the Environment	Timothy Gilmore	103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900	Julie Carlson	115	Medieval Literature	James Donelan
15		131AW	The Confines of Horror: Transatlantic Gothic Writing	Jeannine Delombard	104A	American Literature from 1900 to Present	Yunte Huang	103WT	Wilde Times: Late Victorian Literature and Aesthetics	Brian Donnelly
16		134AA	Cultural Poetics of the Asian Americas	Yunte Huang	106CW	Catalyst Writing Collective	Brian Donnelly	104LC	Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century	Maurizia Boscagli
17		134RJ	Creative Imaginations of Racial Justice	Swati Rana	107	The Craft of Fiction	Cathy Thomas	106CW	Catalyst Writing Collective	Brian Donnelly
18		155AI	Critical Artificial Intelligence	Rita Raley	122CL	Climate Fiction and Imagination	Teresa Shewry	122UE	Cityscapes: The Urban Experience from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis	Maurizia Boscagli
19		165AD	Transpacific Speculative Fiction: Imagining Asian Pacific Futures	Heidi Amin-Hong	128GN	Graphic Novel & Trauma	Russell Samolsky	128JG	Jewish Graphic Novel	Russell Samolsky
20		176ML	Performance of Literature: African American Modernisms	Stephanie Batiste	128NA	Native Feminist / 2 Spirit Memoir	Amrah Salomon	102QA	Algorithmic Poetry: Quantitative Approaches to Literary Analysis and the Sonnet	Henry Coburn
21		197	Upper Division Seminar: Climate Fiction and Humor	Teresa Shewry	132EP	The Shorter Fiction of Henry James	Mark Maslan	142TT	Talking Trees, from Ovid to the Overstory	E Cook
22		197	Upper Division Seminar: Poetry and Painting	Brian Donnelly	132PR	The Fiction of Philip Roth	Mark Maslan	165AE	The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology	Russell Samolsky
23					133TL	Trans Pac Literature	Yunte Huang
24		197	Upper Division Seminar: Ecofictions	E Cook	141ME	Global Environmental Literatures: Ecologies of Race and Migration	Heidi Amin-Hong	134NA	Power of Native Story	Amrah Salomon
25		FALL 2025			141PR	Writing Plant and Food Stories	Amrah Salomon	1XX	Title TBA	Valerio Amoretti
26		Grad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name	142OH	Ocean Humanities	Melody Jue	171NH	Neurohumanism	Sowon Park
27		235	Black Modernism and Performance	Stephanie Batiste	147MC	Media History and Theory	Jim Casey	192SS	Science Fiction Short Stories	Melody Jue
28		235	Global Poetics	Yunte Huang	150	Anglo-Irish Literature	Enda Duffy	197	Upper Division Seminar: Trauma-Informed Literature and Classrooms	Julie Carlson
29		236	Game Studies	Jeremy Douglass	170IC	Imagination & Creativity	Julie Carlson	197	Upper Division Seminar: Feminist Interventions: Women/Literature/Film	Maurizia Boscagli
30		265GW	Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships	Ben Olguin	173	Between Text & Reader: Theoretical, Psychological, and Scientific Perspectives	Valerio Amoretti	197	Upper Division Seminar: Early Black Print, Writing, and Political Organizing	Jim Casey
31		297	Introduction to Graduate Study in English	Bernadette Andrea	176TJ	Postmodern African American Literature & Drama	Stephanie Batiste	198H	Honors Seminar: Senior Thesis	Jeremy Douglass
32		298	Doctoral Colloquium	Heather Blurton	192DF	Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction	Brian Donnelly	SPRING 2026
33					197	Upper Division Seminar: James Joyce's Ulysses	Enda Duffy
34					197	Upper Division Seminar: J.M.Coetzee: Ethics and the Other	Russell Samolsky	Grad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name
35					197	Upper Division Seminar: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson	Mark Maslan	236	Race, Writing, and Representation	Felice Blake
36					197	Upper Division Seminar: Comics and Obscenity	Cathy Thomas	265DC	Decolonization: Theory, Narrative, & Praxis	Amrah Salomon
37					WINTER 2026			2XX	Title TBA	Valerio Amoretti
38					Grad Course #	Course Title	Faculty Name
39					232	Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries	Rachael King
40					236	Science Studies	Melody Jue
41					265TC	Racial Ecologies of the Transpacific	Heidi Amin-Hong
42					265PP	Piers Plowman	Daniel Reeve
43					298	Doctoral Colloquium	Heather Blurton
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