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CPLT 2010
History of European Literature I

Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

CPLT 2020
History of European Literature II

Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

CPLT 3559
New Course in Comparative Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Fall 2016
CPLT 3590
Topics in Comparative Literature

Changing topics with explore Comparative Literature topics, such as theory, genre, periods, or major authors with an international impact.

CPLT 3710
Kafka and His Doubles

Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Fall 2015 · Fall 2014
CPLT 3720
Freud and Literature

In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud availed himself of analogies drawn from different disciplines, including literature. Freud's ideas were then taken up by many twentieth-century literary writers. After introducing Freud's theories through a reading of his major works, the course will turn to literary works that engage with Freud.

Course was offered:  Spring 2017 · Fall 2015
CPLT 3730
Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valéry, and Stevens

Studies in the poetry and prose of these three modernist poets, with emphasis on their theories of artistic creation. The original as well as a translation will be made available for Rilke's and Valery's poetry; their prose works will be read in English translation.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
CPLT 3740
Narratives of Childhood

Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017
CPLT 3750
Women, Childhood, Autobiography

Cross-cultural readings in women's childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Fall 2015
CPLT 3760
Ways of Telling Stories: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic "history."

Course was offered:  Spring 2018
CPLT 3770
Women Writers: Women on Women

This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016
CPLT 3780
Memory Speaks

Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Course was offered:  Spring 2017
CPLT 4559
New Course in Comparative Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.

Course was offered:  Spring 2015
CPLT 4990
Comparative Literature Seminar

Open to all students, with preference given to comparative literature majors in case of overenrollment. Topics may vary; a typical subject is "the theory and practice of tragedy.

CPLT 4998
Fourth Year Thesis

Two-semester course in which the student prepares and writes a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member. After being accepted to the distinguished majors program, the student should decide on a thesis topic and find an advisor by the end of the third year. In the fall semester (497), the student engages in an extended course of reading and produces at least 20 pages of written text; in the spring (498), the student completes and submits the thesis.

CPLT 4999
Fourth Year Thesis

Two-semester course in which the student prepares and writes a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member. After being accepted to the distinguished majors program, the student should decide on a thesis topic and find an advisor by the end of the third year. In the fall semester (497), the student engages in an extended course of reading and produces at least 20 pages of written text; in the spring (498), the student completes and submits the thesis.

CPLT 8002
Comparative and Transnational Studies

An advanced seminar that studies issues presented when considering literature in its transnational context, paying special attention to comparison. Focus on the modern and contemporary period, but we consider also earlier periods. 2 essays and final exam. This course is required for the Graduate Certificate in Comparative Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3110
American Literature to 1865

Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENAM 3140
African-American Literature II

Continuation of ENAM 3130, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3150
The American Renaissance

Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENAM 3160
Realism and Naturalism in America

Analyzes American literary realism and naturalism, its sociological, philosophical, and literary origins as well as its relation to other contemporaneous literary movements. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENAM 3180
Introduction to Asian American Studies

An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3240
Faulkner

An intensive study of the works of William Faulkner in the contexts of American literature, southern literature, and international modernism.

ENAM 3400
American Fictions

Classic American fiction 1800-1900. Readings vary but may include Cooper, Sedgewick, Stowe, Hawthorn, James, Twain, Chestnutt, Chopin, Dreiser, Crane, Melville

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENAM 3450
American Short Novel

Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Fall 2014
ENAM 3500
Studies in American Literature

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3510
Studies in African-American Literature and Culture

Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Fall 2015
ENAM 3520
Studies in American Literature

Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Fall 2013
ENAM 3559
New Course in American Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3750
Sex and Sentiment

Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 3880
Literature of the South

Analyzes selected works of poetry and prose by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 4500
Seminar in American Literature since 1900

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 4559
New Course in American Literature To 1900

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature To 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018
ENAM 4840
Fictions of Black Identity

This class will examine novels, essays, critical works that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. We will explore the notion that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Among the questions to consider: how does one make and measure Black identity? What is the value of racial masquerade? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, AAS or English major or minor.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENAM 5559
New Course in American Studies

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of American Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses..

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENAM 5840
Contemporary African-American Literature

This course for advanced undergraduates and master's-level graduate students surveys African-American literature today. Assignments include works by Evreett, Edward Jones, Tayari Jones, Evans, Ward, Rabateau, and Morrison

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Fall 2015 · Fall 2014
ENAM 8520
Major American Authors

Studies the work of one or two major writers within a precise historical context. A recent pair was Hawthorne and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENAM 8540
Studies in American Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENAM 8559
New Course in American Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Spring 2017 · Spring 2016
ENAM 9500
Advanced Studies in American Literature before 1900

Variable topics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENAM 9910
Research in American Literature

Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCR 3000
Contemporary Literary Theory

Introduces some of the most influential schools of contemporary literary theory and criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENCR 3400
Theories of Reading

This course has two parts. The first half offers a survey of influential styles of critical reading, including psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and several styles of political interpretation. The second half invites students to think theoretically yet sympathetically about affective dimensions of reader response such as identification, empathy, enchantment, and shock.

ENCR 3410
Contemporary Disability Theory

This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENCR 3559
New Course in Criticism

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENCR 4500
Seminar in Literary Criticism

Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCR 5650
Books as Physical Objects

Surveys bookmaking over the past five centuries. Emphasizes analysis and description of physical features and consideration of how a text is affected by the physical conditions of its production. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCR 8100
Introduction to Literary Research

Introduces UVa's research resources and the needs and opportunities for their use. The library and its holdings are explored through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide range of literary subjects and periods. Required of all degree candidates in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCR 8559
New Course in Criticism

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Spring 2015
ENCR 8610
An Introduction to Modern Literary Theory and Criticism

Studies 20th-century theoretical writings, focusing on intellectual movements such as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, and to influential thinkers such as Barthes, Bakhtin, Derrida, Kristeva, and Butler. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015 · Spring 2015 · Fall 2013
ENCR 8640
Critical Methods

'Critical method' is the point at which general philosophical or political claims intersect with specific techniques of interpretation. The aim of this course is to give students a thorough introduction to current debates in the methodology of literary and cultural studies in ways that will aid their own future thinking and writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Fall 2013
ENCR 8670
Feminist Theory

An introduction to American feminist theory its major concerns, historical development, array of methodologies, and formative debates. Divergent theoretical and critical texts on gender/sexuality are juxtaposed with primary materials ranging from early novels to contemporary movies. Likely topics include queer theory, transnational feminism, feminist cultural studies, the gendering of race, and feminist approaches to film. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCR 8800
Aesthetics and Politics

This course explores the various ways in which art and politics have been seen as synonymous or separate ('the autonomy of art'). It includes a survey of key concepts and terms in the history of modern literature and the visual arts.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014
ENCR 8900
Contemporary Disability Theory

In the last several decades, thinking about people with physical, cognitive, and sensory differences has moved from a mostly pathological medical-based understanding to a more rights-based framework. In this course we will consider how conceptions of disability have changed and how these theories relate to the depiction of disabled people in literature.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016
ENCR 9500
Advanced Studies in Critical Theory

Topics vary from year to year.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2016 · Fall 2014
ENCR 9650
Introduction to Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing

Studies the transmission of texts over the past five centuries and examines theories and techniques of editing literary and non-literary texts, both published and unpublished. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENCW 2100
Introduction to Creative Writing Offered Spring 2026

ENCW 2100 is a workshop-based class that explores the craft of writing creative nonfiction, poetry, and fiction at the introductory level. The class will also cover the basics of academic essays as they apply to literature and literary analysis. Students will participate in workshops to elicit early feedback on their work, examine various revision techniques, and submit a final portfolio of extensively revised material.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2025
ENCW 2200
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing

A small, workshop-based, creative writing course that explores various forms of creative nonfiction and requires students to generate at least one longer work that incorporates extensive outside research.

ENCW 2300
Poetry Writing Offered Spring 2026

An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 2530
Introduction to Poetry Writing - Themed

An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 2559
New Course in Creative Writing Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Creative Writing.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENCW 2560
Introduction to Fiction Writing - Themed

An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 2600
Fiction Writing Offered Spring 2026

An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 3310
Intermediate Poetry Writing I Offered Spring 2026

For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 3350
Intermediate Nonfiction Writing

For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENCW 3500
Topics in Creative Writing Offered Spring 2026

An intermediate level creative writing course that involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. Topics vary from year to year. For more information, visit the department website at english.as.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2025 · Fall 2024
ENCW 3559
New Course in Creative Writing

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Creative Writing.

ENCW 3610
Intermediate Fiction Writing Offered Spring 2026

For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4350
Advanced Nonfiction Writing Offered Spring 2026

For advanced students with experience in writing literary nonfiction. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4550
Topics in Literary Prose Offered Spring 2026

One of two required readings courses for students admitted to the Area Program in Literary Prose, also open to other qualified students. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4720
Area Program in Literary Prose Thesis Course Offered Spring 2026

Directed writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Literary Prose, leading to completion of an extended piece of creative prose writing.

ENCW 4810
Advanced Fiction Writing I

Devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For advanced students with prior experience in writing fiction. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4820
Poetry Program Poetics Offered Spring 2026

This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department's Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4830
Advanced Poetry Writing I Offered Spring 2026

For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENCW 4920
Poetry Program Capstone Offered Spring 2026

Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENCW 4993
Independent Project in Creative Writing Offered Spring 2026

For the student who wants to work on a creative writing project under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENCW 5310
Advanced Poetry Writing II Offered Spring 2026

Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENCW 5610
Advanced Fiction Writing II Offered Spring 2026

A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2023 · Spring 2015
ENCW 7310
MFA Poetry Workshop Offered Spring 2026

Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 7610
MFA Fiction Workshop Offered Spring 2026

A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

ENCW 8559
New Course in Creative Writing Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENCW 8993
Independent Writing Project

Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.

ENCW 8995
Research in Creative Writing

Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Spring 2016 · Fall 2015
ENCW 8999
MFA Non-Topical Research Offered Spring 2026

Non-topical research hours taken as part of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 3110
English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 3120
English Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENEC 3130
English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Fall 2017 · Fall 2016
ENEC 3200
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 3400
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

Introduces students to major plays, playwrights, and theatrical issues of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Spring 2015 · Summer 2014
ENEC 3500
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Fall 2017
ENEC 3559
New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Spring 2014
ENEC 3600
The English Novel I

Studies the rise and development of the English novel in the 18th century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 4500
Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department w1ebsite at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 8500
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Studies vary and recently include 'From Classic to Romantic' and 'Eighteenth-Century Poetry.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENEC 8559
New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2017
ENEC 8600
Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction

Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENEC 9500
Advanced Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II

Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2014
ENEC 9910
Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 150
Special Topics in English

Special Topics in English.

Course was offered:  Summer 2021 · Summer 2020
ENGL 1500
Masterworks of Literature

An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature?

ENGL 1550
Literature and the Professions

An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives?

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Fall 2014
ENGL 1559
New Course in English Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENGL 1590
Literature and the Professions Offered Spring 2026

An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives?

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENGL 1910
Public Speaking

The development of skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches, with emphasis on the function of audience analysis, evidence, organization, language, and style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2010
History of European Literature I

Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

ENGL 2020
History of European Literature II

Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

ENGL 2500
Introduction to Literary Studies

Introduces students to some fundamental skills in critical thinking and critical writing about literary texts. Readings include various examples of poetry, fiction, and drama. The course is organized along interactive and participatory lines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2502
Masterpieces of English Literature Offered Spring 2026

Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2504
Major Authors of American Literature

Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2506
Studies in Poetry Offered Spring 2026

Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2507
Studies in Drama Offered Spring 2026

Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2508
Studies in Fiction Offered Spring 2026

Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2527

Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2559
New Course in Introduction to English Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2560
Contemporary Literature

Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2570
Modern American Authors

Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2020
ENGL 2572
Black Writers in America Offered Spring 2026

Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2590
Studies in Global Literature

Examines a selection of works, primarily in English but occasionally in translation, from around the world. The list of works and genres treated will vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2025 · Spring 2023 · Fall 2019
ENGL 2592
Women in Literature

Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2599
Special Topics Offered Spring 2026

Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 2910
Point of View Journalism

This course analyzes 'point-of-view' journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jacob Riis in the 19th century to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones in the 21st, as well as 20th-century "New Journalists" like Hunter Thompson and Joan Didion.

ENGL 3001
History of Literatures in English I

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENGL 3002
History of Literatures in English II Offered Spring 2026

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENGL 3010
History of the English Language Offered Spring 2026

Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Old English to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2023
ENGL 3025
African American English

This course examines the communicative practices of African American Vernacular English (AAEV) to explore how a marginalized language dynamic has made major transitions into American mainstream discourse. AAEV is no longer solely the informal speech of many African Americans; it is the way Americans speak.

ENGL 3030
Global Cultural Studies

The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical and literary perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2018
ENGL 3100
Old Icelandic Literature in Translation

A survey of the major works written in Iceland from around 1100 to the end of the Middle Ages. Works studied include several of the family and legendary sagas and selections from the Poetic Edda and the Edda of Snorri Sturluson. All readings are in translation.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020 · Spring 2020
ENGL 3161
Chaucer I

Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3162

Studies Troilus and Criseyde and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2025 · Fall 2023
ENGL 3220
The Seventeenth Century

Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2024 · Fall 2022 · Fall 2020
ENGL 3260

Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3271
Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies

A survey of plays from Shakespeare's earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3273
Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances Offered Spring 2026

Surveys the plays of Shakespeare's later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3274
Studies in Shakespeare

Intensive study of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2022
ENGL 3275
History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance

This course begins in ancient Athens with the birth of tragedy and comedy, moving from there to the Latin tradition, both pagan and Christian, before settling into the European vernaculars, both medieval and modern.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Fall 2024 · Fall 2023
ENGL 3300
English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Spring 2025 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3310
Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3320
English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3321
English Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021
ENGL 3370
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama Offered Spring 2026

Introduces students to major plays, playwrights, and theatrical issues of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2023
ENGL 3380
The English Novel I

Studies the rise and development of the English novel in the 18th century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3401
English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century I

Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Romantic period, including major Romantic poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2021
ENGL 3430
American Literature to 1865

Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2020
ENGL 3434
The American Renaissance

Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025
ENGL 3460
Victorian Poetry

A study of British poetry in the period 1832-1901.

Course was offered:  Spring 2023
ENGL 3470
Major British Authors of the Nineteenth Century

Analyzes the principal works of three or more Romantic authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021 · Fall 2020 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3480
The English Novel II

Reading of novels by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Gaskell, Meredith, Eliot, and Hardy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3482
The Fiction of Empire

Studies the representation of the British Empire in nineteenth-century works of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021 · Spring 2020
ENGL 3500
Studies in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3510
Studies in Medieval Literature

Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3515
Medieval European Literature in Translation

Explores themes in English, French, German, Italian, Irish, Icelandic, and Spanish literature of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3520
Studies in Renaissance Literature

Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3530
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025
ENGL 3540
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature Offered Spring 2026

Examination of particular movements within the period, (e.g., the Aesthetic Movement; the Pre-Raphaelites; and Condition-of-England novels). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3545
Studies in American Literature before 1900

Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3559
New Course in English Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3560
Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature Offered Spring 2026

This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3570
Studies in American Literature

Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3572
Studies in African-American Literature and Culture

Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3610
Global Cultural Studies

The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical and literary perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester.

ENGL 3611
The Art and Science of Time Travel Offered Spring 2026

An interdisciplinary survey of global time-travel novels, film and music (Kindred, The Time Machine, Interstellar, Back to the Future, Janelle Monáe, Bob Marley). Armed with genre vocabulary and physics concepts (special relativity, time dilation, retrocausality), we will untangle science fiction from science fact and unpack the thorny ethical, narrative and physics implications of time travel. Assignments include time machine design, time policy proposals and a capstone Time Travel Convention.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENGL 3612
World Literature in English

This course will explore Anglophone fiction and drama from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean over the last half century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020
ENGL 3635
Currents in African Literature

Studies the development of the Anglophone African novel as a genre, as well as the representation of the post-colonial dilemma of African nations and the revision of gender and ethnic roles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3660
Modern Poetry

This course is a survey of modern poetry written in English. 'Make it new,' wrote Ezra Pound, and this course explores the various ways in which modern poets reinvented poetry in the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the signature style and literary contribution of selected anglophone poets, asking how they remade inherited genres, forms, and vocabularies.

ENGL 3665
Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valéry, and Stevens

Studies in the poetry and prose of these three modernist poets, with emphasis on their theories of artistic creation. The original as well as a translation will be made available for Rilke's and Valery's poetry; their prose works will be read in English translation.

Course was offered:  Spring 2024
ENGL 3690
Memory Speaks

Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Spring 2025
ENGL 3710
Literature of the South

Analyzes selected works of poetry and prose by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021 · Fall 2020
ENGL 3730
American Literature of the Twentieth Century

Studies the major poetry and fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021
ENGL 3740
Introduction to Asian American Studies Offered Spring 2026

An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 3750
Placed and Displaced in America Offered Spring 2026

Iconic American sites such as Monticello, Walden Pond, and our network of national parks have inspired generations of Americans. But displacement is just as much a part of our national identity. In this class we will analyze fiction, journalism, film, paintings, photographs and other elements of visual culture that document the stories of Indigenous dispossession, housing discrimination, Japanese internment, redlining, gentrification, and homelessness. 

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENGL 3783
American Short Novel

Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2022
ENGL 3790
Moving On: Migration in/to US Offered Spring 2026

This class examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S., tracing the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. We'll dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we'll analyze it for this class.

ENGL 3791
American Cinema

This course provides an introduction to film studies through an examination of American film throughout the 20th & 21st centuries. We will learn basic film techniques for visual analysis, and consider the social, economic, and historical forces that have shaped the production, distribution & reception of film in the US Examples will be drawn from various genres: melodrama, horror, sci-fi, musical, Westerns, war films, documentary, animation, etc.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025 · Spring 2024
ENGL 3810
History of Literatures in English I

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENGL 3815
Theories of Reading

This course has two parts. The first half offers a survey of influential styles of critical reading, including psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and several styles of political interpretation. The second half invites students to think theoretically yet sympathetically about affective dimensions of reader response such as identification, empathy, enchantment, and shock.

Course was offered:  Spring 2023 · Spring 2021
ENGL 3820
History of Literatures in English II

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENGL 3825
Desktop Publishing Offered Spring 2026

This course covers contemporary literary editing techniques and teaches students how to publish book-length works using modern print and electronic processes. The course may require students to purchase/lease computer software in addition to textbooks.

ENGL 3830
History of Literatures in English III

A three-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3810 covers the period up to 1660; ENGL 3820, the period 1660-1880; and ENGL 3830, the period 1880 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENGL 3840
Contemporary Disability Theory

This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025 · Spring 2023 · Spring 2021
ENGL 3900
Medical Narratives

Illness experience and medical practice alike are steeped in stories, narrative being a fundamental way we make sense of self and world (including illness and loss). This course inquires into connections among narrative, literature, and medicine through study of literary and other narratives that address a range of illnesses/conditions, the experience of doctoring, and important issues in contemporary medicine and culture. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2022 · Fall 2020 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3910

Reading and discussion of major satirical works from classical times to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2021
ENGL 3915
Point of View Journalism

This course analyzes 'point-of-view' journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jacob Riis in the 19th century to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones in the 21st, as well as 20th-century "New Journalists" like Hunter Thompson and Joan Didion.

Course was offered:  Fall 2024
ENGL 3922
Deafness in Literature and Film

What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? This course the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries. The syllabus juxtaposes canonical texts or mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Fall 2023 · Fall 2020
ENGL 3924
Vietnam War in Literature and Film Offered Spring 2026

In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

ENGL 3940
Tutoring Peer Writers

Prepares undergraduates to tutor peer writers by introducing them to theories of writing and practices of peer tutoring. Successful completion of the course will qualify students to apply for part-time paid peer tutoring positions in the Writing Center. Students may also use this course to prepare for volunteering as writing tutors in their local communities.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021 · Spring 2020
ENGL 3960
The Lyric

Studies the major lyrical forms and traditions in Western literature, with particularly close reading of poems written in English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2022 · Spring 2020
ENGL 3971
History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance

This course begins in ancient Athens with the birth of tragedy and comedy, moving from there to the Latin tradition, both pagan and Christian, before settling into the European vernaculars, both medieval and modern.

Course was offered:  Fall 2022 · Fall 2021 · Fall 2019
ENGL 3972
History of Drama II: Neo-Classicism to Now

This course begins in the late seventeenth century, moving from there through the Enlightenment to the highlights of the late nineteenth- and twentieth centuries, ending in the present; topics may include satire, realism, expressionism, surrealism, epic theater, theater of the absurd, film and television.

Course was offered:  Spring 2020
ENGL 4270
Shakespeare Seminar

Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4500
Seminar in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4510
Seminar in Medieval Literature Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4515
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Interdisciplinary seminar whose topics vary from year to year. For more information on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2024 · Spring 2023
ENGL 4520
Seminar in Renaissance Literature Offered Spring 2026

Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples are `Renaissance Word and Image' and `Masks of Desire.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4530
Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department w1ebsite at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021 · Spring 2020 · Fall 2019
ENGL 4540
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4545
Seminar in American Literature before 1900

Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2022 · Fall 2019
ENGL 4559
New Course in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4560
Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4561
Seminar in Modern Literature and Culture

Limited enrollment. An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on the interrelationships between literature and history, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts in the Modern period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENGL 4562
Seminar in Global English Literature and Culture

Limited enrollment. Capstone Seminar for the Global English Literature and Culture Track within the English Major. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2019
ENGL 4570
Seminar in American Literature since 1900 Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4580
Seminar in Literary Criticism Offered Spring 2026

Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4590
Seminar in Literary Genres

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4900
The Bible

Analyzes readings in the English Bible. Designed to familiarize or re-familiarize the literary student with the shape, argument, rhetoric, and purposes of the canon; with the persons, events, and perspectives of the major narratives; and with the conventions, techniques, resources, and peculiarities of the texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020
ENGL 4901
The Bible Part 1: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

The stories, rhythms, and rhetoric of the Bible have been imprinting readers and writers of English since the 7th century. Moving through selections from the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, this course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to readings in other contexts. We will discuss translations of the Bible; canonization; textual history; and interpretive approaches, ancient to contemporary.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Fall 2024 · Fall 2022
ENGL 4902
The Bible Part 2: The New Testament Offered Spring 2026

Moving through much of the New Testament, from the Gospels to Revelation, this course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to whatever members of the class are reading in other contexts. Along the way we will discuss translations; textual history; and interpretations, ancient to contemporary. No previous knowledge of the Bible is needed or assumed. Can be taken before or after Part 1.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2025
ENGL 4993
Independent Study

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor.

ENGL 4998
Distinguished Majors Program

Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both ENGL 4998 and 4999 are required of honors candidates. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 4999
Distinguished Majors Program Offered Spring 2026

Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both courses are required of honors candidates. Graded on a year-long basis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 5060
The Sonnet Revised and Revisited

This course considers the power and possibilities (and transformations) of the sonnet form from the 16th century until the present day. Please see english.as.virginia.edu/courses for more information.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025 · Spring 2023
ENGL 5100
Introduction to Old English

Studies the Old English language and the literature of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENGL 5101

Reading of the poem, emphasizing critical methods and exploring its relations to the culture of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/. Prerequisite: ENGL 5100 or equivalent.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2022 · Spring 2020
ENGL 5190
The Bible

In this graduate-level seminar, we'll read selections from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, from Genesis to Revelation. This course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to readings in other contexts. Along the way we will discuss English translations of the Bible; the process of canonization; textual history; and the long trail of interpretive approaches, ancient to contemporary.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025
ENGL 5500
Special Topics in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

A graduate-level seminar in English literature.  Topics vary from year to year.  For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2025 · Spring 2025
ENGL 5510
Seminar in Medieval Literature

A graduate-level seminar in Medieval literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Spring 2025
ENGL 5530
Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature Offered Spring 2026

A graduate-level seminar in Eighteenth-Century literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2025 · Spring 2024
ENGL 5559
New Course in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 5560
Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature Offered Spring 2026

A graduate-level seminar in Modern and Contemporary literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2025 · Fall 2024
ENGL 5580
Seminar in Critical Theory Offered Spring 2026

A graduate-level seminar in Critical Theory. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

ENGL 5700
Contemporary African-American Literature

This course for advanced undergraduates and master's-level graduate students surveys African-American literature today. Assignments include works by Evreett, Edward Jones, Tayari Jones, Evans, Ward, Rabateau, and Morrison

ENGL 5805
What is Postcolonial Critique?

What is postcolonial critique? Is it a way of reading a text? Does it refer to the processes of historical decolonization in places like Africa, India, and the Caribbean? Or is it a practice of critical thought that can be used to think across multiple spaces and times? In this course, we will approach these questions by reading a wide range of writers including Gayatri Spivak, Edouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, Susan Buck-Morss, and C.L.R. James.

Course was offered:  Fall 2023 · Spring 2023
ENGL 5810
Books as Physical Objects

Surveys bookmaking over the past five centuries. Emphasizes analysis and description of physical features and consideration of how a text is affected by the physical conditions of its production. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 5830
Introduction to World Religions, World Literatures

An interdisciplinary course that includes the following elements: studies in the textual traditions of particular religions; studies in literary theory; studies in literary traditions; the application of literary theory to studies in religious text traditions; and the application of the history of religions to the study of literary canons.

ENGL 5831
Proseminar in World Religions, World Literature

This monthly seminar explores methods and issues vital to the combined study of literatures and religions. It brings all MA students together, under faculty guidance, to attend to the broad range of individual projects and to foster a rich conversation that traverses the emergent field of study.

ENGL 5900
Literature Pedagogy Seminar

This course offers future elementary, middle, and high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching.

ENGL 8005
Intro to the Environmental Humanities Offered Spring 2026

Introduces the questions, methods, and arguments that organize work in the environmental humanities. The seminar's primary objective is to advance graduate student capacities to use skills, knowledge, and archives of the humanities to advance pluralist, integrated understandings of environmental issues. In support of that purpose, the seminar develops critical reflection on methodological questions in collaboration, and public engagement.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Spring 2025 · Spring 2024
ENGL 8110
Medieval Transitions to the Renaissance

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.English and Scottish literature from Chaucer to the sixteenth century.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021 · Fall 2020
ENGL 8262
Spenser

Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025
ENGL 8270
Renaissance Drama

Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2022
ENGL 8330
Early American Literature

Surveys American literature to 1840 designed to introduce the literature of the Colonial and early National periods, and to examine the intellectual and literary backgrounds of nineteenth-century American literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2020
ENGL 8380
Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction

Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8400
The Romantic Period

The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021 · Fall 2020
ENGL 8480
Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction

Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2019
ENGL 8500
Studies in English Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8510
Studies in Medieval Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020
ENGL 8520
Studies in Renaissance Literature

New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature

ENGL 8527
Studies in Shakespeare Offered Spring 2026

Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare's Histories and Roman Plays" and `Reinventing Shakespeare'. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Fall 2019
ENGL 8530
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Studies vary and recently include 'From Classic to Romantic' and 'Eighteenth-Century Poetry.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021
ENGL 8540
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature Offered Spring 2026

Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8559
New Course in English Literature Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8560
Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature Offered Spring 2026

Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8570
Studies in American Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8578
Studies in American Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020
ENGL 8580
Studies in Critical Theory Offered Spring 2026

Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8596
Form and Theory of Poetry Offered Spring 2026

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of poetic works.

ENGL 8598
Form and Theory of Fiction Offered Spring 2026

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of works of fiction.

ENGL 8800
Introduction to Literary Research

Introduces UVa's research resources and the needs and opportunities for their use. The library and its holdings are explored through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide range of literary subjects and periods. Required of all degree candidates in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8810
Criticism in Theory and Practice

Studies critical theories and the kinds of practical criticism to which they lead. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2024 · Spring 2023
ENGL 8820
Critical Methods

'Critical method' is the point at which general philosophical or political claims intersect with specific techniques of interpretation. The aim of this course is to give students a thorough introduction to current debates in the methodology of literary and cultural studies in ways that will aid their own future thinking and writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2022 · Fall 2021
ENGL 8830
Feminist Theory

An introduction to American feminist theory its major concerns, historical development, array of methodologies, and formative debates. Divergent theoretical and critical texts on gender/sexuality are juxtaposed with primary materials ranging from early novels to contemporary movies. Likely topics include queer theory, transnational feminism, feminist cultural studies, the gendering of race, and feminist approaches to film. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8832
Contemporary Disability Theory

In the last several decades, thinking about people with physical, cognitive, and sensory differences has moved from a mostly pathological medical-based understanding to a more rights-based framework. In this course we will consider how conceptions of disability have changed and how these theories relate to the depiction of disabled people in literature.

Course was offered:  Fall 2023
ENGL 8900
Writing Pedagogy Seminar Offered Spring 2026

This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8993
Independent Study Offered Spring 2026

A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students in English doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of Graduate Studies in English. Only one may be offered for Ph.D credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8998

M.A. students in English may choose to write a substantial thesis directed by a faculty member. Students opting for a thesis should draw up a proposal and secure a director to supervise the project. Students choose between a critical thesis of 10,000-15,000 words and a pedagogical thesis (described on our website). Students enroll in this three-credit course for a single semester, either fall or spring; it is not available during the summer. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 8999
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research Offered Spring 2026

Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their M.A. oral examination and proceed with their M.A. research. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/graduate/current.

ENGL 9530
Advanced Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II Offered Spring 2026

Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026
ENGL 9540
Advanced Studies in Romanticism I, II

Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and Wordsworth, Keats and Byron. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2019
ENGL 9542
Advanced Studies Nineteenth-Century

Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2023 · Fall 2022
ENGL 9545
Advanced Studies in American Literature before 1900

Variable topics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2021
ENGL 9560
Advanced Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2022 · Spring 2021 · Spring 2020
ENGL 9580
Advanced Studies in Critical Theory

Topics vary from year to year.

ENGL 9710
Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research Offered Spring 2026

This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction.

ENGL 9800
Introduction to Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing

Studies the transmission of texts over the past five centuries and examines theories and techniques of editing literary and non-literary texts, both published and unpublished. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2022 · Spring 2021 · Spring 2020
ENGL 9899
Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research

This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction.

ENGL 9905
Internship Colloquium

This course is designed to support you as you complete your internship and to help you apply the knowledge gained towards your professional development. Meetings throughout the semester will cover transferable skills, the writing of a reflection essay for PhD Plus, meetings with the departmental job placement coach, and more.

Course was offered:  Fall 2020
ENGL 9995
Dissertation Seminar Offered Spring 2026

Required of students in the Department's PhD program who are at or near the beginning of the dissertation writing process. Addresses the problems encountered by students as they begin to tackle the dissertation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 9998
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research Offered Spring 2026

Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGL 9999
Non-Topical Research Offered Spring 2026

For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGN 3559
New Course in Genre Studies

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGN 3630
The Southern Short Story Cycle

The short story cycle has been important throughout the history of American literature, but particularly in the South. Readings include Toomer, Porter,Wright, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers.

Course was offered:  Summer 2015
ENGN 3840
Satire

Reading and discussion of major satirical works from classical times to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2018 · Spring 2016
ENGN 4500
Seminar in Literary Genres

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENGN 4559
New Course in Genre Studies

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Fall 2013
ENGN 5559
New Course in Genre Studies

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2018 · Spring 2017
ENGN 8510
Form and Theory of Fiction

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of works of fiction.

ENGN 8520
Form and Theory of Poetry

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of poetic works.

ENGN 9500
Advanced Studies in Literary Genres I, II

Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Spring 2014

ENLP 4550
Topics in Literary Prose

One of two required readings courses for students admitted to the Area Program in Literary Prose, also open to other qualified students. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENLP 4720
Area Program in Literary Prose Thesis Course

Directed writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Literary Prose, leading to completion of an extended piece of creative prose writing.

ENLS 3030
History of the English Language

Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Old English to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Fall 2016 · Fall 2015
ENLS 3559
New Course in English Language Study

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the area of English Language Study. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at www.english.as.virginia.edu/courses

Course was offered:  Spring 2019

ENLT 2100
Introduction to Literary Studies

Introduces students to some fundamental skills in critical thinking and critical writing about literary texts. Readings include various examples of poetry, fiction, and drama. The course is organized along interactive and participatory lines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2511
Masterpieces of English Literature

Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2513
Major Authors of American Literature

Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2514
Modern American Authors

Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2523
Studies in Poetry

Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2524
Studies in Drama

Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2526
Studies in Fiction

Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2530
Studies in Global Literature

Examines a selection of works, primarily in English but occasionally in translation, from around the world. The list of works and genres treated will vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2547
Black Writers in America

Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2548
Contemporary Literature

Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2550
Shakespeare

Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2552
Women in Literature

Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENLT 2555
Special Topics

Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 3120
American Literature of the Twentieth Century

Studies the major poetry and fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 3310
Major African-American Poets

Examines poems representative of the African American literary traditions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016
ENMC 3500
Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature

This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 3510
Major British and American Writers of the Twentieth Century

Close reading of the works of two or three major British or American authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2014
ENMC 3559
New Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature.

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 3600
World Literature in English

This course will explore Anglophone fiction and drama from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean over the last half century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENMC 3610
Modern and Contemporary Fiction

Introduces British, American, and Continental masterpieces, emphasizing new ideas and the new forms of fiction in the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018
ENMC 3630
Vietnam War in Literature and Film

In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016
ENMC 3800
Concepts of the Modern

Studies the modern sensibility through an examination of the themes and techniques of aestheticism, psychology, existentialism, and twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 3810
Modern Irish Literature

Surveys Irish writing from the late nineteenth century to the present. Focuses on the relationships of Irish literature to Ireland's national identity and political processes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Fall 2014
ENMC 4500
Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 4530
Seminar in Modern Literature and Culture

Limited enrollment. An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on the interrelationships between literature and history, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts in the Modern period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENMC 4540
Seminar in Global English Literature and Culture

Limited enrollment. Capstone Seminar for the Global English Literature and Culture Track within the English Major. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENMC 4993
Modern Literature and Culture Independent Study

This course will give students in the Modern Literature and Culture program the chance to pursue a 25-page independent study to consolidate their academic interests. Working one-on-one with an English faculty member, students must develop a compelling proposal and reading list and produce a rigorous scholarly exploration of their topic. Prerequisite: Approval by the director of the Modern Studies Program & by an English department faculty member who agrees to direct the project.

ENMC 5100
Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Studies recent fiction by such Jewish writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENMC 5559
New Course in Modern & Contemporary Lit

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Modern & Contemporary Lit.

Course was offered:  Spring 2017 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENMC 8500
Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMC 8559
New Course in Modern and Contemporary Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018
ENMC 9500
Advanced Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature

Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMD 3110
Medieval European Literature in Translation

Explores themes in English, French, German, Italian, Irish, Icelandic, and Spanish literature of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2015 · Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENMD 3130
Old Icelandic Literature in Translation

A survey of the major works written in Iceland from around 1100 to the end of the Middle Ages. Works studied include several of the family and legendary sagas and selections from the Poetic Edda and the Edda of Snorri Sturluson. All readings are in translation.

ENMD 3250
Chaucer I

Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMD 3260
Chaucer II

Studies Troilus and Criseyde and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Spring 2015 · Fall 2013
ENMD 3510
Medieval European Literature in Translation

Explores themes in English, French, German, Italian, Irish, Icelandic, and Spanish literature of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMD 3559
New Course in Medieval Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Medieval Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Fall 2015
ENMD 3820
Violence and Conflict Resolution in Medieval Literature

Studies the representation of violence and peacemaking in the literature of medieval England, Scandinavia and the continent from Beowulf to the fifteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the historical background. (IR)

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENMD 4500
Seminar in Medieval Literature

Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMD 5010
Introduction to Old English

Studies the Old English language and the literature of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/.

ENMD 5200
Beowulf

Reading of the poem, emphasizing critical methods and exploring its relations to the culture of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/. Prerequisite: ENGL 5100 or equivalent.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Spring 2015
ENMD 5559
New Course in Medieval Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Medieval Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015
ENMD 8559
New Course in Medieval Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Medieval Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENMD 8850
Mapping the Middle Ages

Surveys literature, art, and culture in Western Europe from late Antiquity to the invention of printing, using a selection of major literary texts as a focal point. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENMD 9500
Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2017 · Fall 2014
ENMD 9995
Research in Medieval Studies

The Renaissance in England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014

ENNC 3110
English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century I

Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Romantic period, including major Romantic poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENNC 3120
English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century II

Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Victorian period, including the major Victorian poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015
ENNC 3210
Major British Authors of the Nineteenth Century

Analyzes the principal works of three or more Romantic authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENNC 3220
Major British Writers of the Later Nineteenth Century

Analyzes the principal works of two or more Victorian authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENNC 3240
Victorian Poetry

A study of British poetry in the period 1832-1901.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Fall 2016
ENNC 3500
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Examination of particular movements within the period, (e.g., the Aesthetic Movement; the Pre-Raphaelites; and Condition-of-England novels). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENNC 3600
The English Novel II

Reading of novels by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Gaskell, Meredith, Eliot, and Hardy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENNC 3850
The Fiction of Empire

Studies the representation of the British Empire in nineteenth-century works of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2017 · Fall 2015
ENNC 4500
Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENNC 8110
The Romantic Period

The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015
ENNC 8500
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENNC 9500
Advanced Studies Nineteenth-Century

Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2017 · Spring 2015

ENPG 3559
New Course in English Pedagogy

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of pedagogy.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018
ENPG 3800
Tutoring Peer Writers

Prepares undergraduates to tutor peer writers by introducing them to theories of writing and practices of peer tutoring. Successful completion of the course will qualify students to apply for part-time paid peer tutoring positions in the Writing Center. Students may also use this course to prepare for volunteering as writing tutors in their local communities.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Spring 2018 · Fall 2016
ENPG 5400
Literature Pedagogy Seminar

This course offers future elementary, middle, and high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching.

ENPG 8800
Writing Pedagogy Seminar

This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENPG 8850
Literature Surveys

Weekly workshops with faculty and teaching staff of the 3000-level lecture courses, ENGL 3810, ENGL 3820 and ENGL 3830 and ENRN 3210 and ENRN 3220. Second-year Ph.D. students in English enroll in this course once during the semester in which they lead a discussion section of a lecture course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENPW 4820
Poetry Program Poetics

This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department's Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

ENPW 4910
Poetry Capstone

Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENPW 4920
Poetry Program Capstone

Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

ENRN 3110
Literature of the Renaissance

Surveys sixteenth-century English prose, poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018 · Fall 2016 · Spring 2014
ENRN 3130
The Seventeenth Century

Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 3210
Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies

A survey of plays from Shakespeare's earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 3220
Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances

Surveys the plays of Shakespeare's later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 3230
Studies in Shakespeare

Intensive study of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2018 · Summer 2014
ENRN 3250
Milton

Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 3400
Drama in English from its Beginnings to 1642

Surveys medieval and Renaissance drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2018
ENRN 3559
New Course in Renaissance Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Renaissance Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENRN 4410
Shakespeare Seminar

Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 4500
Seminar in Renaissance Literature

Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples are `Renaissance Word and Image' and `Masks of Desire.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 4530
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Interdisciplinary seminar whose topics vary from year to year. For more information on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENRN 5559
New Course in Renaissance Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Renaissance Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015
ENRN 8110
Renaissance Poetry

Studies the theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in 16th-century England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion, and verse essay. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Spring 2014
ENRN 8200
Spenser

Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2015
ENRN 8400
Renaissance Drama

Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2014
ENRN 8500
Studies in Renaissance Literature

New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature

ENRN 8510
Studies in Shakespeare

Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare's Histories and Roman Plays" and `Reinventing Shakespeare'. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2018 · Fall 2015 · Spring 2015
ENRN 8559
New Course in Renaissance Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Renaissance Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2014
ENRN 9500
Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature

Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENRN 9995
Research in the Renaissance

Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013

ENSP 1060
Introduction to Academic Conversations

This class welcomes students to the university and to the ways academics read, discuss, and respond to intellectual conversations. Students will read and analyze college-level texts, practice stages of the composing process, and present responses orally in discussions and brief presentations. This course develops the strategies necessary to achieve proficiency in future writing classes as well as courses across the curriculum

Course was offered:  Summer 2014 · January 2014
ENSP 1600
Public Speaking

The development of skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches, with emphasis on the function of audience analysis, evidence, organization, language, and style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENSP 2559
New Course in English

New Course in English

ENSP 2610
Point of View Journalism

This course analyzes 'point-of-view' journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jacob Riis in the 19th century to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones in the 21st, as well as 20th-century "New Journalists" like Hunter Thompson and Joan Didion.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017 · Fall 2016 · Fall 2015
ENSP 2810
Women and Media in the Global South

This course examines women and media in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa through the lenses of new media, journalism, feminism, and gender studies, with cross-cultural comparisons to the U.S.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016
ENSP 3300
Desktop Publishing

This course covers contemporary literary editing techniques and teaches students how to publish book-length works using modern print and electronic processes. The course may require students to purchase/lease computer software in addition to textbooks.

ENSP 3400
Deafness in Literature and Film

What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? This course the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries. The syllabus juxtaposes canonical texts or mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists

Course was offered:  Fall 2018
ENSP 3500
Studies in Special Topics in Literature

Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Fall 2018
ENSP 3559
New Course in Special Topics In Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature.

ENSP 3610
Medical Narratives

Illness experience and medical practice alike are steeped in stories, narrative being a fundamental way we make sense of self and world (including illness and loss). This course inquires into connections among narrative, literature, and medicine through study of literary and other narratives that address a range of illnesses/conditions, the experience of doctoring, and important issues in contemporary medicine and culture. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENSP 3850
The Dark Side of Hollywood: Film Noir

Course focuses on directorial and photographic styles, the Expressionist legacy, and varieties of visual coherence in selected films noirs of Forties and Fifties Hollywood. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Summer 2016 · Summer 2015 · Summer 2014
ENSP 3860
Game of Thrones

A study of George R. R. Martin's fantasy series and the television series based on it, exploring notions of literary and visual representation, racialism, fan fiction, and the gendered dimensions of power.

ENSP 4500
Advanced Studies in Special Topics in Literature

Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENSP 4559
New Course in Special Topics In Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2016 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENSP 4800
The Bible

Analyzes readings in the English Bible. Designed to familiarize or re-familiarize the literary student with the shape, argument, rhetoric, and purposes of the canon; with the persons, events, and perspectives of the major narratives; and with the conventions, techniques, resources, and peculiarities of the texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019 · Fall 2015 · Spring 2015
ENSP 5559
New Course in Special Topics In Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENSP 5810
Film Aesthetics

Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the 'aesthetic effect' style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity.   For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2015 · Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENSP 5820
The Culture of London Past and Present

The Culture of London: Past and Present" offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENSP 5830
Literature and the Film

Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short stories to film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Spring 2016 · Spring 2015 · Spring 2014
ENSP 8559
New Course in Special Topics In Literature

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Special Topics In Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENWR 150
Special Topics in Academic and Professional Writing

Special Topics in Academic and Professional Writing.

Course was offered:  Summer 2020
ENWR 1505
Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I

Part I of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://professionalwriting.as.virginia.edu/requirements. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.

ENWR 1506
Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II Offered Spring 2026

Part II of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. Prerequisite: ENWR 1505.

ENWR 1507
Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I for Multilingual Writers

Part I of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.

ENWR 1508
Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II for Multilingual Writers

Part II of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. Prerequisite: ENWR 1505

ENWR 1510
Writing and Critical Inquiry Offered Spring 2026

The single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring.

ENWR 1520
Writing and Critical Inquiry: Community Engagement Offered Spring 2026

Requires off-grounds work with local non-profits. A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names end in A-K must satisfy the first writing requirement in the fall; those with last names ending in L-Z in the spring.

ENWR 1530
Writing & Critical Inquiry Lecture

The single-semester lecture option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510, 1520, or 1530 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring.

ENWR 1559
New Course in Writing and Rhetoric

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENWR 2300
Poetry Writing

An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 2377
Rebuilding (and Expanding) Democracy: A Workshop With Global Advocates

This course will enable students to gain fluency in linking their academic writing to public debates. In particular, the course will investigate the status of democracy as both a concept and set of participatory practices, asking students to consider how their education might support a robust democratic sphere. Students will engage with global democratic advocates (via Zoom) as well as a democratic organizing skills workshop.

Course was offered:  January 2026 · January 2023
ENWR 2510
Advanced Writing Seminar Offered Spring 2026

A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program.

ENWR 2520
Special Topics in Writing Offered Spring 2026

Includes courses on writing studies, corporate communications, and digital writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Completion of first writing requirement.

ENWR 2559
New Course in Writing and Rhetoric

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENWR 2600
Fiction Writing

An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 2610
Writing with Style

Develops an understanding of the wide range of stylistic moves in prose writing, their uses, and implications. Students build a rich vocabulary for describing stylistic decisions, imitate and analyze exemplary writing, and discuss each others writing in a workshop setting.

ENWR 2620
Reviewing Popular Culture

A writing workshop that focuses on critical approaches to popular culture. Students will read, analyze, and write a variety of critical essays on pop culture artifacts.

Course was offered:  Spring 2019
ENWR 2630
Writing About Work

We will use inquiry-based writing to explore the role that work plays in the good life. We'll critically analyze how and why we write about work to refresh our thinking about real-world experiences both familiar and unfamiliar to us. We will develop as writers by generating and exploring complicated questions. Why do we do the things that we do? What work do we value, and how do we communicate that?

Course was offered:  Fall 2017
ENWR 2640
Writing as Technology

Course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies, e.g., printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence. Students produce academic and personal essays but will also experiment creatively with different technologies and media.

ENWR 2800
Public Speaking Offered Spring 2026

An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech's purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech?

ENWR 3310
Intermediate Poetry Writing I

For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENWR 3320
Intermediate Poetry Writing II

For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENWR 3500
Topics in Advanced Writing & Rhetoric Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new, advanced topic in the subject area of writing and rhetoric. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENWR 3550
Advanced Topics in Digital Writing and Rhetoric Offered Spring 2026

Offers a changing selection of writing and rhetoric courses focusing on rhetoric and composition in digital platforms.

ENWR 3559
New Course in Writing and Rhetoric Offered Spring 2026

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

ENWR 3610
Intermediate Fiction Writing

For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 3620
Writing & Tutoring Across Cultures

In this course, we'll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community.

ENWR 3640
Writing with Sound Offered Spring 2026

This course trains students to become attuned, thoughtful listeners and sonic composers. In addition to discussing key works on sound from fields such as rhetoric and composition, sound studies, and journalism, we will experiment with the possibilities of sound as a valuable form of writing and storytelling. Students will learn how to use digital audio editing tools, platforms, and techniques for designing and producing sonic projects.

ENWR 3650
Digital Writing: Remix Culture

This course explores the remix as a transformative compositional practice. Remix culture raises poignant questions about originality, creativity, and the ethical and legal implications of twenty-first century forms of composition. Students will examine remixing through theoretical, historical, aesthetic, and political lenses in order to cultivate a deep understanding of the rhetorical and affective power of this genre.

Course was offered:  Fall 2017
ENWR 3660
Travel Writing Offered Spring 2026

This course will explore travel writing using a variety of texts, including essays, memoirs, blogs, photo essays, and narratives. We will examine cultural representations of travel as well as the ethical implications of tourism. Students will have the opportunity to write about their own travel experiences, and we will also embark on "local travel" of our own.

ENWR 3665
Writing about the Environment

This course focuses on creating meaningful, responsible, and engaged writing in the context of significant environmental issues. Analysis of representative environmental texts, familiarity with environmental concepts, examination of ethical positions in private and public spheres of writing, and sustained practice with form, style, medium, and genre will drive a variety of writing projects.

ENWR 3730
African American Rhetorics

An in-depth study of African American political speeches, letters, sermons, essays, and book-length texts that examines the debates, strategies, styles, and persuasive practices employed by African Americans in dialogue with the larger nation and among themselves.

Course was offered:  Fall 2021
ENWR 3740
Black Women's Writing & Rhetoric

A chronological survey of the persuasive communication and writing strategies Black women have used towards the project of empowerment and activism in speeches, essays, poetry, drama, and novels.

Course was offered:  Fall 2025 · Spring 2025 · Spring 2023
ENWR 3750
Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Conspiracy Theories

Political propaganda often persuades through conspiracy theories that create suspicion and fear. This course examines the rhetorical strategies of conspiracy-driven propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. By examining the arguments, evidence, images, myths, and tropes that animate propaganda and conspiracy theories, we will identify how they are circulated to inflame our emotions, exploit our prejudices, and bias our decision-making.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025 · Fall 2022
ENWR 3760
Studies in Cultural Rhetoric Offered Spring 2026

An introduction to critical frameworks and methods for exploring how rhetorics construct, preserve, and augment social understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class and more. Areas of focus may include: cultural practices of writing, digital rhetorics, performance, popular culture, material rhetorics, visual rhetorics, race and ethnicity. Specific themes and topics may vary.

Course was offered:  Spring 2026 · Summer 2025 · Fall 2024
ENWR 3810
Making Books: Introduction to Book Editing and Publishing

Students in Making Books (ENWR 3810) will gain a broad view of book editing and publishing in the 21st century, as well as hands-on experience with developmental, substantive, and copy editing. Appropriate for aspiring publishing professionals, but also for anyone who simply wants to better understand the often-hidden lives of books-in-progress, or to take their writing skills to a new level. 

Course was offered:  Fall 2025
ENWR 3900
Career-Based Writing and Rhetoric Offered Spring 2026

Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.

ENWR 4559
New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Spring 2014
ENWR 4810
Advanced Fiction Writing I

Devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For advanced students with prior experience in writing fiction. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 4830
Advanced Poetry Writing I

For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENWR 4993
Independent Study

An independent study course for the Writing & Rhetoric department.

Course was offered:  Spring 2025 · Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 5310
Advanced Poetry Writing II

Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 5610
Advanced Fiction Writing II

A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Course was offered:  Fall 2013
ENWR 7310
MFA Poetry Workshop

Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 7610
MFA Fiction Workshop

A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Spring 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 8993
Independent Writing Project

Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.

Course was offered:  Spring 2014
ENWR 8995
Research in Creative Writing

Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Fall 2013
ENWR 8999
MFA Non-Topical Research

Non-topical research hours taken as part of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course was offered:  Fall 2014 · Spring 2014 · Fall 2013