English and Comparative Literature  
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ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
Departmental Office: 602 Philosophy; 212-854-3215
http://www.english.columbia.edu
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Prof. Michael Golston, 407
Philosophy; 212-854-4707; mg2242@columbia.edu
Departmental Advisers:
Prof. Michael Golston, 407 Philosophy; mg2242@columbia.edu
Prof. David Yerkes, 615 Philosophy; dmy1@columbia.edu
The program in English fosters the ability to read critically and
imaginatively, to appreciate the power of language to shape thought and
represent the world, and to be sensitive to the ways in which literature
is created and achieves its effects. It has several points of departure,
grounding the teaching of critical reading in focused attention to the
most significant works of English literature, in the study of the historical
and social conditions surrounding literary production and reception, and
in theoretical reflection on the process of writing and reading and the
nature of the literary work.
The courses the department offers draw on a broad range of
methodologies and theoretical approaches, from the formalist to the
political to the psychoanalytical (to mention just a few). Ranging from
the medieval period to the 21st century, the department teaches major
authors alongside popular culture, traditional literary genres alongside
verbal forms that cut across media, and canonical British literature
alongside postcolonial, global, and trans-Atlantic literatures.
At once recognizing traditional values in the discipline and reflecting its
changing shape, the major points to three organizing principles for the
study of literature—history, genre, and geography. Requiring students not
only to take a wide variety of courses but also to arrange their thinking
about literature on these very different grids, the major gives them broad
exposure to the study of the past, an understanding of the range of
forms that can shape literary meaning, and an encounter with the various
geographical landscapes against which literature in English has been
produced.
Advising
Students are not assigned specific advisers, but rather each year
the faculty members serving on the department’s Committee on
Undergraduate Education (CUE) are designated undergraduate advisers
(see above). Upon declaring a major or concentration in English, students
should meet with the director of undergraduate studies or a delegated
faculty adviser to discuss the program, especially to ensure that students
understand the requirements.
Students must fill out a Major Requirements Worksheet early in the
semester preceding graduation. The worksheet must be reviewed by
an adviser and submitted to 602 Philosophy before the registration
period for the final semester. The worksheet is available in the English
Department or on-line at http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/
major-requirements. It is this worksheet—not the Degree Audit Report
(DAR)—that determines eligibility for graduation as an English major or
concentrator.
Course Information
Lectures
Generally, lectures are addressed to a broad audience and do not assume
previous course work in the area, unless prerequisites are noted in
the description. The size of some lectures is limited. Senior majors
have preference unless otherwise noted, followed by junior majors,
followed by senior and junior non-majors. Students are responsible
for checking for any special registration procedures on-line at http://
english.columbia.edu/courses.
Seminars
The department regards seminars as opportunities for students to
do advanced undergraduate work in fields in which they have already
had some related course experience. With the exception of some CLEN
classes (in which, as comparative courses, much material is read in
translation), students’ admission to a seminar presupposes their having
taken ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods. During the three
weeks preceding the registration period, students should check http://
english.columbia.edu/courses for application instructions for individual
seminars. Applications to seminars are usually due by the end of the
week preceding registration. Students should always assume that the
instructor’s permission is necessary; those who register without having
secured the instructor’s permission are not guaranteed admission.
Departmental Honors
Writing a senior essay is a precondition, though not a guarantee, for the
possible granting of departmental honors. After essays are submitted,
faculty sponsors deliver a written report on the essay to the department’s
Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), with a grade for the
independent study and, if merited, a recommendation for honors. CUE
considers all the essays, including sponsor recommendations, reviews
students’ fall semester grades, and determines which students are to
receive departmental honors. Normally no more than 10% of graduating
majors receive departmental honors in a given academic year.
The Degree Audit Reporting System
(DARS)
The DAR is a useful tool for students to monitor their progress toward
degree requirements, but it is not an official document for the major
or concentration, nor should it replace consultation with departmental
advisers. The department’s director of undergraduate studies is the
final authority on whether requirements for the major have been met.
Furthermore, the DAR may be inaccurate or incomplete for any number of
reasons—for example, courses taken elsewhere and approved for credit
do not show up on the DAR report as fulfilling a specific requirement.
On-Line Information
Other departmental information—faculty office hours, registration
instructions, late changes, etc.—is available on the departmental website
(http://www.english.columbia.edu).
Professors
• James Eli Adams
• Rachel Adams
• Branka Arsic
• Christopher Baswell (Barnard)
• Sarah Cole
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• Susan Crane discuss the program. Students declaring a major should obtain a
• Nicholas Dames Major Requirements Worksheet from 602 Philosophy or on-line (http://
• Jenny Davidson english.columbia.edu/files/english/content/ENGLISH%20MAJOR
%20WKSHEET_0.pdf), which outlines the requirements.
• Andrew Delbanco
• Kathy Eden Additional information, including events and deadlines of particular
• Brent Edwards relevance to undergraduates, is provided at http://english.columbia.edu/
undergraduate, the department’s undergraduate homepage. The sidebar
• Stathis Gourgouris
on this page provides links to pages with details about undergraduate
• Farah Jasmine Griffin
advising, major and concentration requirements, course options and
• Saidiya Hartman restrictions, registration procedures, the senior essay, and writing
• Marianne Hirsch prizes, as well as links to downloadable worksheets for the major and
• Jean E. Howard concentration and to course distribution requirement lists, past and
• Sharon Marcus present. For detailed information about registration procedures, students
should consult http://english.columbia.edu/courses, which explains the
• Edward Mendelson
requirements and enables students to monitor their own progress.
• Robert O’Meally
• Julie Peters Newly declared majors should contact the undergraduate assistant
• Ross Posnock in 602 Philosophy Hall and request that their names be added to the
department’s electronic mailing list for English majors and concentrators.
• Austin E. Quigley
Because important information now routinely is disseminated through e-
• Bruce Robbins mail, it is crucial that students be on this list.
• James Shapiro
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor) Literary Texts, Critical Methods
• Alan Stewart The introductory course ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods,
• Gauri Viswanathan together with its companion seminar, ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts,
Critical Methods seminar, is required for the English major and
• Jennifer Wenzel
concentration. It should be taken by the end of the sophomore year.
• William Worthen (Barnard) Fulfillment of this requirement is a factor in admission to seminars
• David M. Yerkes and to some lectures. This once-a-week faculty lecture, accompanied
by a seminar led by an advanced graduate student in the department,
Associate Professors is intended to introduce students to the study of literature. Students
• Marcellus Blount read works from the three major literary modes (lyric, drama, and
narrative), drawn from premodern to contemporary literature, and learn
• Julie Crawford
interpretative techniques required by these various modes or genres. This
• Patricia Dailey course does not fulfill any distribution requirements.
• Michael Golston
• Erik Gray Senior Essay
• Eleanor Johnson The senior essay program is an opportunity for students to explore in
• Molly Murray depth some literary topic of special interest to them, involving extensive
background reading and resulting in an essay (8,000–15,000 words)
• Frances Negrón-Muntaner
that constitutes a substantial and original critical or scholarly argument.
• Joseph Slaughter Students submit proposals in September of their senior year, with
• Maura Spiegel acceptance contingent upon the quality of the proposal and the student’s
record in the major. Students who are accepted are assigned a faculty
Assistant Professors sponsor to supervise the project, from its development during the fall
• Katherine Biers semester to its completion in the spring. It is for the spring semester,
not the fall, that students officially register for the course, designated as
• John Gamber
ENGL UN3999 Senior Essay. Senior essays are due in early April.
• Austin Graham
• Matt Hart Course Options and Restrictions
• Cristobal Silva 1. No course at the 1000-level may be counted toward the major.
• Dustin Stewart
2. Speech courses may not be counted toward the major.
• Dennis Yi Tenen
3. Two writing courses or two upper-level literature courses taught in a
Guidelines for all English and Comparative foreign language, or one of each, may count toward the major, though

Literature Majors and Concentrators
Declaring a Major in English
Upon declaring a major in English, students should meet with either
the director of undergraduate studies or a departmental adviser to
neither type of course fulfills any distribution requirement. Writing
courses that may be applied toward the major include those offered
through Columbia’s undergraduate Creative Writing Program and
through Barnard College.
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4. Comparative literature courses sponsored by the department
(designated as CLEN) may count toward the major. Those sponsored
by other departments (e.g. CLFR - Comp Lit French, CPLS - Comp Lit
and Society) are not counted toward the major without permission
of the director of undergraduate studies. Literature courses taught in
English in language departments do not count toward the major.
5. No more than two courses taken during the summer session may be
counted toward the major.
6. Courses offered through the Barnard English Department may count
toward the major or concentration. Before taking Barnard courses,
students should verify with the director of undergraduate studies
whether and how such courses may count toward the major.
7. For courses taken abroad or at other American institutions to count
toward the major, students must obtain approval of the director of
undergraduate studies.
• Comparative/global (comparative literature, postcolonial, global
English, trans-Atlantic, diaspora)
Course Distribution Lists are available in the department and on-line
at http://english.columbia.edu/course-distribution-lists to help students
determine which courses fulfill which requirements. A single course
can satisfy more than one distribution requirement. For example, a
Shakespeare lecture satisfies three requirements at once: not only does
it count as one of the three required pre-1800 courses it also, at the
same time, fulfills both a genre and a geography distribution requirement
(drama and British, respectively). Courses not on the distribution list may
count toward the major requirements only with the permission of the
director of undergraduate studies. Two writing courses or upper-level
literature courses taught in a foreign language, or one of each, may count
toward the ten required courses.

8. To register for more than 42 points (including advanced standing

credit) in English and comparative literature, a student majoring in
English must obtain permission of the director of undergraduate
studies.
9. No more than five courses taken elsewhere may be applied to the
major, four to the concentration.
Concentration in English
Please read Guidelines for all English and Comparative Literature Majors and
Concentrators above.
Eight departmental courses and, in the process, fulfillment of the
following requirements. See course information above for details on
fulfilling the distribution requirements.

10. One independent study (for at least 3 points) may count toward the
major but cannot satisfy any distribution requirements; likewise, the
Senior Essay may count toward the major but fulfills no requirements.
Students may not count both an Independent Study and the Senior
Essay toward the major.
11. Courses assigned a grade of D may not be counted toward the major.
12. Only the first course taken to count toward the major can be taken
Pass/D/Fail.
Major in English
Please read Guidelines for all English and Comparative Literature Majors and
Concentrators above.
Ten departmental courses (for a minimum of 30 points) and, in the
process, fulfillment of the following requirements. See course information
above for details on fulfilling the distribution requirements.
1. ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods and ENGL UN3011
Literary Texts, Critical Methods seminar
2. Period distribution: Two courses dealing with periods before 1800,
only one of which may be a course in Shakespeare
3. Genre distribution: Two courses, each chosen from a different genre
category (see above)
4. Geography distribution: Two courses, each chosen from a different
geography category (see above)
See the Course Distribution Lists, available in the department or on-line at
http://english.columbia.edu/course-distribution-lists, to determine which
courses fulfill which requirements. All of the restrictions outlined for the
English major also apply for the concentration in English.
Comparative Literature Program
Students who wish to major in comparative literature should consult the
Comparative Literature and Society section of this Bulletin.

1. ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods and ENGL UN3011

Literary Texts, Critical Methods seminar
2. Period distribution: Three courses primarily dealing with periods
before 1800, only one of which may be a course in Shakespeare
3. Genre distribution: One course in each of the following three generic
categories:
• Poetry
• Prose fiction/narrative
• Drama/film/new media

4. Geography distribution: One course in each of the following three

geographical categories:
• British
• American
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Fall 2017 ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods seminar. 0 points.

Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register
Introduction to the Major for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English
ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods. 4 points.
doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL UN3001. The
Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3001 must also register
seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and
for one of the sections of ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods.
introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training
This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study
students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches
of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry,
covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building
drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present
up from brief close readings to longer research papers.
day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each.
The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools Fall 2017: ENGL UN3011
and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to Number Number

make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course ENGL 3011 001/21435 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Sierra Eckert 0 14/20
613 Hamilton Hall
(together with the companion seminar ENGL UN3011) is a requirement
ENGL 3011 002/17754 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Katherine 0 15/20
for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as 402 Hamilton Hall Bergevin
possible in a student's career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a ENGL 3011 003/20144 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Will Glovinsky 0 16/20
factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures. 309 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 3011 004/14561 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Eugene 0 11/20
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3001 224 Pupin Laboratories Petracca
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment ENGL 3011 005/70512 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Meredith 0 12/18
Number Number 307 Mathematics Shepard
ENGL 3001 001/62539 W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Jenny 4 69/80 Building
602 Hamilton Hall Davidson Spring 2018: ENGL UN3011
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3001 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Number Number
Number Number ENGL 3011 001/10067 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Martin Larson- 0 18/18
ENGL 3001 001/75492 W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Michael 4 88/96 613 Hamilton Hall Xu
310 Fayerweather Golston ENGL 3011 002/67812 Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm Bernadette 0 18/18
302 Fayerweather Myers
ENGL 3011 003/69683 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Therese Cox 0 18/18
402 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 3011 004/72232 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Tiana Reid 0 10/18
313 Pupin Laboratories
ENGL 3011 005/20843 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Danielle Drees 0 7/18
412 Pupin Laboratories

Medieval
ENGL UN3920 MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TEXTS. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Application Instructions: E-mail Professor David Yerkes
(dmy1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Medieval English Texts."
In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major,
year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement
about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students
should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait
list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces
become available.

Fall 2017: ENGL UN3920
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3920 001/70001 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm David Yerkes 4 14/25
612 Philosophy Hall
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ENGL GU4091 Introduction to Old English Language & Literature. 3
points.
(Lecture). This class is an introduction to the language and literature
of England from around the 8th to the 11th centuries. Because this
is predominantly a language class, we will spend much of our class
time studying grammar as we learn to translate literary and non-literary
texts. While this course provides a general historical framework for the
period as it introduces you to the culture of Anglo-Saxon England, it
will also take a close look at how each literary work contextualizes (or
recontextualizes) relationships between human and divine, body and soul,
individual and group, animal and human. We will be using Mitchell and
Robinson's An Introduction to Old English, along with other supplements.
We will be looking at recent scholarly work in the field and looking at
different ways (theoretical, and other) of reading these medieval texts.
Requirements: Students will be expected to do assignments for each
meeting. The course will involve a mid-term, a final exam, and a final
presentation on a Riddle which will also be turned in.
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4091
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points
Number Number
ENGL 4091 001/75076 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Patricia Dailey 3
707 Hamilton Hall
ENGL GU4791 Visionary Drama. 3 points.
(Lecture). This class is designed to interrogate the genre-boundary that
has traditionally separated visionary writings from dramatic ones in
the study of English medieval literature. Although this separation has
long existed in scholarship, it is deeply problematic, and produces an
understanding of the relationship between private devotion and publically
performed religious ritual that is untenable, and does considerable
violence to our understanding of the medieval imagination. As we
will see, notionally "private" visionary writings and notionally "public"
dramatic writings have a great deal in common, not just in terms of
their overt content, but also in terms of their formal construction, their
poetic devices, their favorite rhetorical maneuvers, and their articulated
relationship with history and English literature. The works we will read
this term are all phenomenally strange, many of them extremely difficult
because of their unfamiliarity. For this reason, we will divide the semester
into three sections: the first will deal with the famous medieval cycle
dramas, which narrate events from the New Testament. The second
section will transition to examine three important visionary texts that
were written between 1370 and 1430, contemporaneous with the
efflorescence of dramatic composition and performance in England, and
two late Antique visionary texts that inspired them. The final section of
class will turn to examine the so-called "morality plays," which emerge
just slightly after the cycle dramas and after the visionary works we will
have read. Since all of these works are linguistically challenging, we will
work with translations in certain instances (Piers Plowman, Julian of
Norwich, Margery Kempe). For all of the other works, we will be reading
in Middle English, but you are welcome to consult translations, online
ENGL UN3992 Call to Adventure: The Lure of Romance from Camelot to
Star Wars. 4 points.
Immensely popular and highly derided, romance as a genre has
captivated audiences for centuries. Romance enchants, seduces, and
ensnares its audience with narratives that envision a world that is at
once fantastical and familiar, distant and immediate, impossible and
yet full of endless possibilities. Over the course of the semester, we
will explore romance conventions—such as the quest and venturing
out into the unknown, love and desire, honor and chivalry—that persist
from the medieval period to the present day, attempting to identify
what exactly makes romance so appealing. We will read a wide cross-
section of medieval verse romances from the French, German, and
English traditions. While some of the texts will be provided for you in
translation, we will make a concerted effort to learn Middle English as
we examine the various poetic forms of insular romance. Toward the end
of the semester, we will turn our attention to post-medieval iterations
of the genre in gothic fiction, courtship novel, and romantic comedy.
  Assignments include short response papers, in-class presentations,
an analytical essay, and a final project on a modern romance text.
Enrollment
Application Instructions: E-mail Aaron Robertson (ar3488@columbia.edu)
10/25
with the subject heading "Romance Seminar Application" In your
message, include basic information: your name, school, major, year of
study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why
you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register
for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which
the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3992
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3992 001/62447 W 10:10am - 12:00pm Lydia Kertz 4 13/25
511 Hamilton Hall
Renaissance
ENGL UN3335 Shakespeare I. 3 points.
Enrollment is limited to 60.
(Lecture). This course will cover the histories, comedies, tragedies, and
poetry of Shakespeare’s early career. We will examine the cultural and
historical conditions that informed Shakespeare’s drama and poetry;
in the case of drama, we will also consider the formal constraints and
opportunities of the early modern English commercial theater. We will
attend to Shakespeare’s biography while considering his work in relation
to that of his contemporaries. Ultimately, we will aim to situate the
production of Shakespeare’s early career within the highly collaborative,
competitive, and experimental theatrical and literary cultures of late
sixteenth-century England.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3335
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number

summaries, or anything else that helps you get up to speed on what ENGL 3335 001/15836 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Lauren 3 42/70
601 Fairchild Life Robertson
´s going on in the plays. Bear in mind, however, that your midterm and Sciences Bldg
final will be based on the Middle English texts, so you do need to make a
serious effort to read them (except in the case of Piers Plowman, which
will be in modern English).

Fall 2017: ENGL GU4791
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4791 001/76359 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am Eleanor 3 32/54
703 Hamilton Hall Johnson
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ENGL GU4210 Writing Early Modern London. 3 points.

(Lecture) This course explores the literature that represented, was
18th and 19th Century
created for, and was inspired by the city of London in the early modern ENGL GU4402 Romantic Poetry. 3 points.
period.  It will encourage students to analyze the ways in which literature Open to all undergraduates and graduate students.
relates to its geographical, social, cultural, religious and political contexts
(Lecture). This course examines major British poets of the period
-- in this case, the very specific contexts provided by a single city in
1789-1830. We will be focusing especially on the poetry and poetic theory
the period from 1500 to 1700. It will cover such topics as London's
of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord
experience in the Reformation; London's suburban expansion; the Civil
Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. We will also be reading essays,
War and Restoration; the Great Fire and the subsequent rebuilding;
reviews, and journal entries by such figures as Robert Southey, William
London's government, and relations with the Crown; social issues
Hazlitt, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
including immigration, unrest, the place of women, the place of strangers,
the plague and prostitution.  The course will highlight the importance Fall 2017: ENGL GU4402
of London as the hub of print publication, and as the site for the public Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
theatre -- it will therefore deal predominantly with drama but also draw on Number Number

prose pamphlets, entries, maps, diaries, prospects and poetic mock-will. ENGL 4402 001/74433 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am Erik Gray 3 75/90
517 Hamilton Hall

Fall 2017: ENGL GU4210
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
ENGL UN3451 Imperialism and Cryptography. 4 points.
Number Number Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
ENGL 4210 001/15988 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Alan Stewart 3 12/50 (Seminar). This course focuses on plots of empire in the British novel
612 Philosophy Hall of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It examines not only how empire
was represented but also how the novel form gave visibility to the
ENGL GU4211 Milton in Context. 3 points.
strategies of empire and also showed the tacit purposes, contradictions,
(Lecture). This course will look at the major works of John Milton in the
and anxieties of British imperialism. The seminar is structured around
context of 17th-century English religious, political and social events. In
the themes of: the culture of secrecy; criminality and detection;
addition to reading Milton's poems, major prose (including The Doctrine
insurgency, surveillance, and colonial control; circulation and exchange of
and Discipline of Divorce, Areopagitica, and The Ready and Easy Way
commodities; messianism and political violence. Specifically, the course
to Establish a Free Commonwealth), and the full texts of Paradise Lost
will focus on how the culture of secrecy that accompanied imperial
and Sampson Agonistes (the course text will be Orgel and Goldberg, eds.
expansion defined the tools of literary imagination in the nineteenth
John Milton), we will look at the authors and radicals whose activities
and twentieth centuries. While most studies of culture and imperialism
and writings helped to provide the contexts for Milton's own: poets and
examine the impact of colonial expansion on the geography of narrative
polemicists, sectarians and prophets, revolutionaries and regicides,
forms, this seminar looks more closely at the language of indirection
Diggers and Levelers. Requirements for this course include two short
in English novels and traces metaphors and symbols to imperialism's
primary research papers (3 pp.) and an exam. Graduate students will also
culture of secrecy. It begins with the simple observation that both
be required to write a seminar paper.
colonizers and colonized felt the need to transmit their communications
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4211 without having their messages intercepted or decoded. Translated into
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment elusive Masonic designs and prophecy (as in Kim), codes of collective
Number Number action (as in Sign of Four), or extended dream references (as in The
ENGL 4211 001/70508 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Julie Crawford 3 31/48 Moonstone), the English novel underscores the exchange of information
227 Seeley W. Mudd
as one of the key activities of British imperialism. Forcing hidden
Building
information into the open also affects the ways that colonial ‘otherness'
ENGL UN3341 Law and Disorder in Early Modern England. 4 points. is defined (as in The Beetle). How espionage and detection correlate
This seminar course examines representations of early modern Engish with impenetrability and interpretation will be one among many themes
law, primarily on the English Renaissance stage.  We will explore the we will examine in this course. The seminar will supplement courses
investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes including treason, in the nineteenth-century English novel, imperialism and culture, and
petty treason, adultery, witchcraft, sodomy, rape, and usury in their race, gender, and empire, as well as provide a broad basis for studies
early modern contexts, and pay attention to the debates surrounding of modernism and symbolism. Readings include Rudyard Kipling, Kim
marriage and sumptuary legislation.   Dramatic texts will include works and "Short Stories"; Arthur Conan Doyle's Sign of Four; Wilkie Collins,
by William Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, William The Moonstone; Richard Marsh, The Beetle; RL Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and
Rowley, and John Webster; we will also be reading broadsheets, legal Mr. Hyde; Rider Haggard, She; Haggard, King Solomon's Mines; Joseph
documents, statutes, ballads, and real court cases, alongside wide- Conrad, The Secret Agent. Course requirements: One oral presentation;
ranging critical literature. Application instructions: E-mail Professor two short papers, each 4-5 pages (double-spaced); and a final paper,
Stewart (ags2105@COLUMBIA.EDU) with the subject heading "Law and 7-10 pages (double-spaced). Application instructions: E-mail Professor
Disorder seminar." In your message, include your name, school, major, Viswanathan (gv6@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Imperialism
year of study, relevant courses taken, and a brief statement about why and Cryptography seminar." In your message, include basic information:
you are interested in taking t your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along
with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3341
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3341 001/80946 T 8:10am - 10:00am Alan Stewart 4 10/25
612 Philosophy Hall
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ENGL UN3933 Jane Austen. 4 points. ENGL UN3991 Romantic Margins. 4 points.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(Seminar). An intensive study of the career of Jane Austen, including
important recent criticism. We’ll be especially interested in the relations
between narrative form and the social dynamics represented in her
fiction. We’ll try to cover all six novels, but we can adjust our pace in
response to the interests of seminar members.
, from his or her position of marginality, looking in from the fringes.
Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Adams (jea2139@columbia.edu)
with your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken,
along with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking
the course. Admitted students should register for the course; they will
automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due
course admit them as spaces become available.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3933
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3933 001/13314 T 2:10pm - 4:00pm James Adams 4 10/25
707 Hamilton Hall
ENGL UN3946 Movement and Feeling in the 18th Century. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Literature, we like to say, moves us. We also say that it makes us feel
for others, moved on their behalf. This seminar asks what it means to
think of literary experience as both feeling for someone (but whom?)
and traveling to someplace (but where?). We will trace the history of
this connection between motion and emotion back to the Restoration
and eighteenth century, an age of remarkable expansion for the British
Empire. Though travel and sentiment are often kept separate in studies
of this exuberant period, we will find that British writers working
across a range of genres—novels, plays, poems, sermons, journals, and
philosophical treatises—frequently drew the two together. Their works
raise questions about empire and relocation even as they contribute to
a new psychological and textual emphasis on the sympathetic heart.
Slaves, prisoners, servants, and political or religious outliers test this
emphasis, and we’ll discuss how our authors by turns facilitate and
foreclose emotional identification with them.
British literature of the Romantic period, from the late eighteenth to
the early nineteenth century, displays a fascination with what is on the
margins.  This manifests itself most memorably in the unprecedented
focus on socially marginalized figures – the beggars, madmen,
abandoned women, and solitary wanderers who populate the pages
of Romantic poetry and fiction.  The author too is often figured as an
outsider in this period, someone whose authority derives specifically
 
Geographically, the peripheries of the island of Great Britain (Wales
and especially Scotland) were major sites of literary experimentation
in the Romantic era, while the south coast of England attracted
particular interest because of the constant threat of invasion from
France during these years.  And of course Romantic writers famously
exploited textual margins: many of the major literary works of the
period make innovative use of footnotes, glosses, and other paratextual
apparatus.  This course considers these various aspects of Romantic
marginality and the intersections between them.  In addition to the
work of more canonical authors (William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley), we will be reading poems, novels,
essays, and letters by writers, especially women, whose work has
historically been marginalized.  Application instructions: E-mail Prof. Gray
(eg2155@columbia.edu) with your name, school, major, year of study, and
relevant courses taken, along with a statement (one paragraph, no more
than one page) about why you are interested in taking the course. Please
also attach a recent paper from a literature course — or, if this is your first
such course, on any humanities subject. (**NOTE: Please do not spend
any time or effort worrying about or revising the paper you submit. It will
be consulted ONLY if the course is oversubscribed, so please just attach
whatever you have.) Admitted students should register for the course;
they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor
will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3991
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3991 001/77646 F 12:10pm - 2:00pm Erik Gray 4 9/25
612 Philosophy Hall

Fall 2017: ENGL UN3946
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3946 001/70656 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm Dustin Stewart 4 8/14
317 Hamilton Hall

ENGL GU4801 History of Novel I. 3 points.

(Lecture). When people talk about the “rise” of the novel, where do they
imagine it rose from and to? We will read some of eighteenth-century
Britain's major canonical fictions alongside short critical selections that
provide vocabularies for talking about the techniques of realism and
the connections between literature, history and culture; other topics for
discussion include identity, sex, families, politics— in short, all the good
stuff.

Fall 2017: ENGL GU4801
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4801 001/17650 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Jenny 3 26/60
413 Kent Hall Davidson
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ENGL GU4512 Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot. 3 points. CLEN GU4550 Narrative and Human Rights. 3 points.

This course will investigate the three Victorian novelists who were most
successful in imagining how to narrate the new, complex forms of social
interaction that emerged most fully in the nineteenth century, and that
we live with still.  Their essential questions— how are individuals altered
by such facts as credit economies and finance, rapid scientific progress,
more fluid class boundaries, technologies of rapid transport and rapid
information dispersal (the railroad, telegraphs, newspapers and mass
media), imperial rule?— required the large, multiplot, serially-published
novel format that was the Victorian period’s primary way of confronting
modernity and modern consciousness.  At the heart of the course are
the three most notable examples of the genre: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
(1847-8), Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855-7), and Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-2).
  The recurrent topics of these novels, such as financial fraud, debt,
crime, social ambition, class conflict, and the role of women in modernity,
will be described in detail, as will the formal solutions— the intertwined
set of multiple plots, the analytic narrator, the sketch set-piece— that
expressed them.  Our concern throughout, however, will be how these
novels imagine the possible shapes of human interaction and human
self-consciousness in a society governed above all not by family, or
nation, or religion, but by money and its exchange.  We will therefore
be looking at these novelists as, in the largest sense, the storytellers of
capitalism, intent on finding the right combination of themes and formal
means by which to express the shape of the world capitalism creates.
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4512
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4512 001/11096 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Nicholas 3 26/54
516 Hamilton Hall Dames
(Lecture). We can't talk about human rights without talking about the
forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the
convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and
formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will
examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by)
human rights concerns; how do the forms of stories enable and respond
to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of
justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine
an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We
will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and
non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects
to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights
problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño,
Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic,
Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh,
Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy,
Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical
and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Na'im, Appiah,
Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow,
Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum,
Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.
Fall 2017: CLEN GU4550
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
CLEN 4550 001/16203 M W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Joseph R 3 51/90
310 Fayerweather Slaughter
ENGL GU4635 Science Fiction Poetics. 3 points.
(Lecture). "A book of philosophy should in part be a kind of science

20th and 21st Century
ENGL GU4628 U.S. Latinx literature. 3 points.
This course will focus on Latinx literature in the United States from the
mid-twentieth century to the present and provide a historical, literary,
and theoretical context for this production. It will examine a wide range
of genres, including poetry, memoir, essays, and fiction, with special
emphasis on works by Cubans, Dominicans, Mexican-Americans and
fiction. How else can one write but of those things which one doesn't
know, or knows badly? It is precisely there that we imagine having
something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at
the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and
transforms the one into the other." -- Gilles Deleuze, Difference and
Repetition.
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4635

Puerto Ricans. Among the authors that the course will study are Richard Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
Rodríguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Rudolfo Anaya, Julia Alvarez, Cristina
ENGL 4635 001/70174 T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Michael 3 47/71
García, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Piri Thomas.
413 Kent Hall Golston

Fall 2017: ENGL GU4628
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4628 001/21001 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Frances 3 35/50
603 Hamilton Hall Negron-
Muntaner
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ENTA UN3948 African Drama. 4 points. CLEN GU4550 Narrative and Human Rights. 3 points.

This seminar is an introduction to writing for the theater by African (Lecture). We can't talk about human rights without talking about the
dramatists, from the mid 20th Century to the present. Assigned readings forms in which we talk about human rights. This course will study the
are mainly major plays by canonical Anglophone writers. Primary texts convergences of the thematics, philosophies, politics, practices, and
are read in conversation with secondary readings which introduce major formal properties of literature and human rights. In particular, it will
critical debates in the study of African literature and provide cultural examine how literary questions of narrative shape (and are shaped by)
and political context. Surveys of African literature typically center human rights concerns; how do the forms of stories enable and respond
the novel. This course instead takes drama as the starting point for to forms of thought, forms of commitment, forms of being, forms of
engaging key questions about modern African literary production. The justice, and forms of violation? How does narrative help us to imagine
major theme of the class is the relationship between work by African an international order based on human dignity, rights, and equality? We
dramatists and oppressive social structures. Students are encouraged to will read classic literary texts and contemporary writing (both literary and
reflect on different theories of theater as articulated by African writers.  non-literary) and view a number of films and other multimedia projects
Readings are organized more or less chronologically around a series of to think about the relationships between story forms and human rights
topics. These include the lived experience of colonialism, anti-colonial problematics and practices. Likely literary authors: Roberto Bolaño,
thought, the emergence of new nation states, neo-colonialism, gender Miguel de Cervantes, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Slavenka Drakulic,
and sexuality, the problem of apartheid, the antiapartheid struggle, Nuruddin Farah, Janette Turner Hospital, Franz Kafka, Sahar Kalifeh,
transitional justice, human rights and humanitarianism. No specific prior Sindiwe Magona, Maniza Naqvi, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy,
training or expertise in these areas is required. Ousmane Sembène, Mark Twain . . . . We will also read theoretical
and historical pieces by authors such as Agamben, An-Na'im, Appiah,
Fall 2017: ENTA UN3948
Arendt, Balibar, Bloch, Chakrabarty, Derrida, Douzinas, Habermas, Harlow,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Ignatieff, Laclau and Mouffe, Levinas, Lyotard, Marx, Mutua, Nussbaum,
Number Number
ENTA 3948 001/61446 Th 10:10am - 12:00pm Elliot Ross 4 12/15
Rorty, Said, Scarry, Soyinka, Spivak, Williams.
502 Northwest Corner
Fall 2017: CLEN GU4550
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
ENGL UN3269 British Literature 1900-1950. 3 points.
Number Number
(Lecture). The beginning of the twentieth century ushered in a feeling of
CLEN 4550 001/16203 M W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Joseph R 3 51/90
excitement and transformation, a desire to break with the past, and an 310 Fayerweather Slaughter
optimism about how technology would shape the future. At the same
time, devastating political and social events contributed to a sense that ENGL UN3305 Gender and Sexuality in the Irish Novel. 4 points.
everything was falling apart, falling into fragments. Modernism was This course will chart changing attitudes towards gender and sexuality
a movement born of crisis and conflict, and its literature struggled to from the nineteenth to the twentieth century in terms of the development
redefine what art could mean in times of anxiety, alienation, or even of novelistic genres. These genres include marriage plot novels in which
madness. Writers to include Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Ford, Rhys. the 1800 Act of Union was figured as a marriage between a feminized
Ireland and a masculine England, the Big House novel—an Irish variant
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3269
of the country house novel—pioneered by women writers, the gothic
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
novel by writers like Oscar Wilde, the modernist novels of James Joyce
Number Number
ENGL 3269 001/73357 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Victoria 3 21/60
and Elizabeth Bowen, banned books that were silenced by national
703 Hamilton Hall Rosner censorship boards, and finally the queer Irish novel of the late twentieth
century.

Fall 2017: ENGL UN3305
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3305 001/22646 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Emily Bloom 4 10/25
303 Hamilton Hall

ENGL UN3726 Virginia Woolf. 4 points.

Six novels and some non-fictional prose: Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway,
To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, Between the Acts; A Room of
One's Own, Three Guineas.  Applications on paper only (not e-mail) in
Professor Mendelson's mailbox in 602 Philosophy, with your name, e-
mail address, class (2017, 2018, etc.), a brief list of relevant courses that
you've taken, and one sentence suggesting why you want to take the
course. Attendance at the first class is absolutely required; no one will be
admitted who does not attend the first class.

Fall 2017: ENGL UN3726
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3726 001/88946 Th 10:10am - 12:00pm Edward 4 23/25
612 Philosophy Hall Mendelson
10        English and Comparative Literature

American ENGL UN3506 Sexuality in America: Poetic Encounters. 4 points.

This course views American poetry through the lenses of formal
ENGL GU4619 African-American Literature I. 3 points. questions and issues of identity politics.  It also combines a number
(Lecture). This lecture course is intended as the first half of the basic of theoretical approach from New Criticism to Deconstruction to a
survey in African-American literature. By conducting close readings of more socially informed political formalism.  Focus on issues of sexual
selected song lyrics, slave narratives, fiction, poetry, and autobiography, identities, adding to Adrienne Rich’s famous formulation--in Of a Woman
we will focus on major writers in the context of cultural history. In so Born--about gender and race this complex question of why sexuality
doing, we will explore the development of the African- American literary matters in American poetry. We will proceed in terms of what I’m calling
tradition. Writers include, but are not limited to, Wheatley, Equiano, “poetic encounters’--moments of intertextuality and influence from
Douglass, Jacobs, Harper, Dunbar, Chestnutt, Washington, Du Bois, and Whitman to Audre Lorde.  Along the way we as readers we ourselves
Larsen. Course requirements: class attendance, an in-class midterm will encounter Whitman (again and again as a site of “adhesive”
exam, a five-page paper, and a final exam. relations.   Poets include Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes,
Mae Cowdery, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, T. S. Eliot, Gwendolyn
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4619
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Hacker, Cheryl Clarke, Melvin Dixon,
Number Number Essex Hemphill, Paul Monette, John Ashbery,  Elizabeth Alexander,
ENGL 4619 001/12357 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Saidiya 3 44/60 and Audre Lorde. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Blount
603 Hamilton Hall Hartman (mb33@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Poetic Encounters
seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school,
ENGL GU4604 American Modernism. 3 points.
major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief
(Lecture). This course surveys cultural responses to the historical,
statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted
technological, intellectual, and political conditions of modernity in
students should register for the course; they will automatically be placed
the United States. Spanning the period from the turn of the century to
on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as
the onset of World War II, we will consider the relationship between
spaces become available.
key events (U.S. imperialism, immigration, World War I, the Jazz age,
the Great Depression); intellectual and scientific developments (the Fall 2017: ENGL UN3506
theory of relativity, the popularization of Freudian psychoanalysis, the Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
anthropological concept of culture, the spread of consumer culture, Number Number
ENGL 3506 001/83442 T 6:10pm - 8:00pm Marcellus 4 10/25
Fordism, the automobile, the birth of cinema, the skyscraper); and
612 Philosophy Hall Blount
cultural production. Assigned readings will include novels, short stories,
and contemporary essays. Visual culture--paintings, illustrations, ENGL UN3662 African American Novelists and the Question of Justice. 4
photography, and film--will also play an important role in our investigation points.
of the period. Past syllabus (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/ This course asks, “What conceptions of Justice emerge from a selection
syllabi/4604adams.htm) (which will be somewhat revised). of works by canonical African American writers?  Are there other moral/
ethical/social values that emerge as more significant than Justice ?” We
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4604
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
open with an exploration of Justice in the works of the Greek dramatist,
Number Number Aeschylus, the Hebrew Bible and recent scholarship on Pre-Colonial West
ENGL 4604 001/71235 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Ross Posnock 3 29/60 Africa in order to consider what concepts of Justice African-American
413 Kent Hall writers have inherited or that have informed them in less formal ways. 
We then turn to texts by Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard
Wright, Ernest Gaines, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison,  to examine the
way these writers engage, negotiate and critique the relationship between
Justice and Race in the United States.

Fall 2017: ENGL UN3662
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3662 001/73197 T 12:10pm - 2:00pm Farah Griffin 4 20/25
313 Pupin Laboratories

ENGL UN3716 American Literary Realism. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). In this course we encounter a variety of nineteenth and
twentieth century American literary works that have a strong comic edge.
We also read a few critical works, both by writers and by scholars, which
explore the forms and functions of American humor. Henry James has
called humor “our native gift,” a stance toward life that compensates for
what he detected to be the nation’s drastic lack of cultural traditions.
Can one still speak of an “American character?” If so, what makes
this character (or this cast of American characters) —as presented by
Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, and Mary Gordon—so distinctive and so
laughable? What makes him and her so very ready to “crack corn,” to
break into the comic mode? What is the relation of American humor
to the tragic sense of life that also seems to define the national type?
These questions define this course as an exploration of American identity,
which, as many observers have noted, stands at the center of American
intellectual and aesthetic life. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor
O'Meally (rgo1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading, "American
Humor seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name,
school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a
brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3716
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3716 001/25075 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Robert 4 11/25
501 Hamilton Hall O'Meally
ENGL UN3852 Temporal Relocations: Narrations of Time and Body in
Early American Literature. 4 points.
This course begins with texts from the first wave of European colonists,
moving from exploration of what is now Texas with de Vaca to Ralph
Lane’s and Thomas Harriot’s Virginia and William Bradford’s Plymouth.
We will then focus our attention on the space of Massachusetts,
theorizing how the religious narratives of women and native peoples
written by Mary Rowlandson, John Eliot, and Thomas Shepard
demonstrate the limitations of the governing Puritan male order. In the
weeks following, we will turn to the genre of natural history in the space
of the Caribbean and Virginia, where we will probe the relationship of
the body and the natural in the works of Hans Sloane, James Grainger,
and Thomas Jefferson. The course will close with an examination of
narratives of slavery with the works of Aphra Behn, Britton Hammon,
James Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and William
Earle, as well as Édouard Glissant’s more contemporary Poetics of
Relation.
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ENGL UN3734 American Literature and Corporate Culture. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). "It is not expected of critics as it is of poets that they should
help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt
the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense
of our lives." - Frank Kermode This seminar will focus on American
literature during the rise of U.S. corporate power in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The legal and economic entity of the corporation
established new social hierarchies and systems of power, changed
the roles of government and families, and wrought new forms of
relationships between individuals. American culture demonstrated both
an enchantment with the possibilities of a growing economy and a
looming anxiety about the systematization of personal relationships.
Authors and critics grappled with an American society that seemed to
offer unprecedented opportunity for social rise but only within a deeply
threatening and impersonal structure. We'll examine the ways that
literary and popular culture depicted corporations and the ways that
corporate structure influenced literary aesthetics and form. Application
instructions: E-mail Professor Aaron Ritzenberg (ajr2186@columbia.edu)
with the subject heading "American Literature and Corporate Culture
seminar". In your message, include basic information: name, school,
major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief
statement about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted
students should register for the course; they'll automatically be placed
on a wait list, from which the instructor will in due course admit them as
spaces become available.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3734
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3734 001/18986 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm Aaron 4 13/25
347a Macy Hall Ritzenberg
ENGL UN3744 Edgar Allan Poe. 4 points.
The course will examine in detail the poetry and prose of Edgar Allan
Poe. We will look at different facets of Poe's brief, remarkable career,
from his role as magazine editor and reviewer in Richmond, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and New York, to his relation to slavery and abolition, and
his influence on French poetry and aesthetics in the years following
his death. We will proceed more or less chronologically, from his early
contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger (with some comparison
of Poe's work in this magazine with British magazines like Blackwood's),
to major tales like “The Black Cat,” The Pit and the Pendulum,” “the Fall of
the House of Usher,” and the first detective story “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue.” We will also read a good amount of Poe's practical criticism,
from his influential book reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to his attacks
on the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to his often scathing incidental
pieces on the “New York Literati”. We will also spend time looking closely
at Poe's only novel-length work, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym .
Finally we will turn to Poe's poetry and poetics, and consider in detail his
literary theory, as put forth in “The Rationale of Verse” “The Philosophy
of Composition” and “The Poetic Principle”, in relation to the metrical
innovations of poems like “Annabel Lee” “The Bells” and “The Raven”.
ENGL UN3984 Film and Politics. 4 points.
A survey of American film and politics.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3984
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3984 001/76896 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm Maura Spiegel 4 14/25
301m Fayerweather
12        English and Comparative Literature
Special Topics
ENTA UN3701 Drama, Theatre, Theory. 4 points.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Theatre typically exceeds the claims of theory. What does
this tell us about both theatre and theory? We will consider why
theatre practitioners often provide the most influential theoretical
perspectives, how the drama inquires into (among other things) the
possibilities of theatre, and the various ways in which the social, spiritual,
performative, political, and aesthetic elements of drama and theatre
interact. Two papers, weekly responses, and a class presentation are
required. Readings include Aristotle, Artaud, Bharata, Boal, Brecht,
Brook, Castelvetro, Craig, Genet, Grotowski, Ibsen, Littlewood, Marlowe,
Parks, Schechner, Shakespeare, Sowerby, Weiss, and Zeami. Application
Instructions: E-mail Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with
the subject heading "Drama, Theatre, Theory seminar." In your message,
include basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and
relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are
interested in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the
course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list, from which the
instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
Fall 2017: ENTA UN3701
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENTA 3701 001/72362 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Austin Quigley 4 17/25
104 Knox Hall
CLEN UN3775 Narrating Rape: Testimony, Gender and Violence. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Despite the fact that intimate violence destroys the
frameworks of identity and community, testimony and truth, memory
and justice, rape has been a fundamental and globally pervasive literary
theme and trope, often the very act that engenders narrative and plot.
This seminar will explore how rape has been written in the face of its
unspeakability and the silences surrounding it, and how the act of bearing
witness can become an act of resistance, rebuilding voice, subjectivity
and community. Literary texts will be read alongside feminist theoretical
work on embodiment, trauma, testimony, and law. Requirements: class
attendance and participation, weekly one-page postings on the readings,
two 8-10 page papers. Application instructions:E-mail Professor Marianne
Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Narrating
Rape seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name,
school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with
a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically
be placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit
them as spaces become available.
ENGL UN3689 The Logic of the Secular Confession. 4 points.
Confession is everywhere today. From the pages of the NY Times, to TV
shows and magazines, the value that our culture places on the practice
of baring one’s sins, shame and desire in public seems limitless. But what
is confession? What does it mean to ‘confess’ in a secular context, and
why does confessional narrative have such aesthetic power over us? In
this course, we trace the history of secular confession as a literary genre
from Rousseau to today, and explore its logic and aesthetics through
novels, philosophy and psychoanalysis. We also ask how confessional
discourse and its peculiar relation to the concept of ‘truth’ can inform our
understanding of the present historical and political moment. Readings
from Rousseau, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Svevo, Mishima, Duras, Szabó,
Coetzee, Freud, Foucault. No pre-requisites.
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3689
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3689 001/21697 T 6:10pm - 8:00pm Valerio 4 13/15
408 Hamilton Hall Amoretti
ENGL UN3950 Poetics of the Warrior. 4 points.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission. (Seminar). This course of
distinguished poetry about warriors and warfare goes to the intersection
of disciplines, where warrior and poet together compete and excel--
ingeniously, formally, passionately, consequentially--as allies in dire
contest against annihilation and despair. Homer's Iliad heads our list
of exemplary titles selected from ancient and classical, mediaeval
and early modern sources, including, among others, Sophocles' Ajax,
and Philoctetes; Beowulf; Song of Roland; Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight; The Tale of the Heike; Shakespeare's Henry V; and Milton's Paradise
Lost. We also will read histories, memoirs, oratory, and guidebooks, from
Yuzan's Budoshoshinshu to General Patton's "The Secret of Victory," from
Vegetius' De Re Militari to U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 6-22. Our reading
is historically broad enough to prove the range of virtues, precepts, codes
and rules of martial character and action. Yet our poetry also excels
in vision and in virtuosity quite apart from how it might cultivate the
norms of aristeía, chivalry, or bushido, so that certain of our questions
about form and style or imaginative effects might differ in kind from
other questions about the closeness or disparity of the practical warrior
and the poetic warrior, and the extent to which the latter elevates and
inspires the former's conception of himself in times of war and peace.
We shall consider how battle narratives which excel as poetry and ring
true for the warrior, appealing to his wit and outlook, might replenish
the aggrieved and battle-weary mind; how a war poem's beautifully
formed and lucidly rendered chaos remembers and regains for him
the field of action. Toward my interest in the range of possibilities for
military literature as a discipline of study, I welcome not only the novice
whose interest is avid but the student knowledgeable about military
topics in literature, history, political and social philosophy, and especially
the student, who, having served in the Armed Forces, can bring to the
seminar table a contemporary military perspective and the fruits of
practical wisdom. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Giordani
(mg2644@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "Poetics of Warrior
seminar." In your message, include your name, school, major, year of
study, relevant courses taken, and a brief statement about why you are
interested in taking t
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3950
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3950 001/61444 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Marianne 4 18/25
222 Pupin Laboratories Giordani
 English and Comparative Literature           13

ENTA UN3338 Shakespeare and Film. 4 points. ENGL GU4911 Technologies of Dissent. 3 points.

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Hamlet as a video student whose uncle has become CEO
of “Denmark Corporation.”  As You Like It in nineteenth-century Japan
after the Meiji Restoration.  A voodoo Macbeth in Haiti during the reign
of the slave-turned-emperor Henri Christophe.  Antony and Cleopatra in
a village in Karala, where antagonists stage a cock fight to win a local
beauty with magical powers.  In this course, we will examine a wide array
of film versions of Shakespeare’s plays, looking at them in relationship to
Shakespeare’s texts and traditional interpretations of the plays.  We will
investigate the ways in which large-scale transformations (for instance,
location, historical period, or narrative order) alter the meaning of the
plays.  At the same time, the course will help students develop tools for
the close reading of performance (gesture, expression, movement) and
of the particular language of film (image, scenography, camera work,
sound, and more).  Discussion will be supplemented by creative exercises
(dramatic readings, brainstorming directorial ideas, the creation of short
films, etc).  Previous familiarity with the plays we’ll be examining is
helpful but not required.
Fall 2017: ENTA UN3338
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENTA 3338 001/82779 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm Julie Peters 4 18/25
602 Northwest Corner
CLEN GU4560 Backgrounds to Contemporary Theory. 3 points.
Intended for both undergraduates and graduate students.
(Lecture). In chapter 4 of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind, a story is told
about a confrontation between a Lord (Herr) and a Bondsman (Knecht).
(Lecture). Our engagement with technology entails political, not
just instrumental choices. Email clients, social networks, and word
processors have a profound effect on the way we relate to each other:
work, organize, relax, or make art. Yet, we rarely have a chance to reflect
on the civic, cultural virtues implicit in numerous everyday acts of
computation: connecting to a wi-fi access point, sending a text message,
or sharing a photograph online.
,
This course will introduce humanities students to foundational concepts
in computer literacy. We will pry open many “black boxes”---personal
computers, routers, mobile phones---to learn not just how they work,
but to interrogate them critically. Readings in ethics, philosophy, media
history, and critical theory will ground our practical explorations.
,
This course advances research in computational culture studies
understood both as the study of computational culture and as
computational approaches to the study of culture and society. In addition
to traditional reading, discussion, and writing components of the class,
participants are expected to work on a semester-long data-driven lab-
based research project. Students and scholars from any field, at any
stage of their academic or professional career, and at all levels of
technical and critical proficiency are welcome to attend.
Fall 2017: ENGL GU4911
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4911 001/25948 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Dennis Tenen 3 22/54
603 Hamilton Hall

The story conveys how consciousness is born. This story, subsequently

better known as the confrontation between Master and Slave, has ENGL UN3203 The Sonnet in English. 4 points.
been appropriated and revised again and again in figures like Marx and The sonnet form has captured the imagination of so many of the great
Nietzsche, Sartre, De Beauvoir, and Fanon, Freud and Lacan, Emmanuel poets composing in English from the time the form was imported
Levinas, Carl Schmitt, Slavoj Zizek, and Judith Butler. The premise of into England in the sixteenth century to the present day among poets
this course is that one can understand much of which is (and isn’t) most composing in English around the globe. This seminar will focus on the
significant and interesting in contemporary cultural theory by coming close-reading of sonnets composed in English from a wide range of
to an understanding Hegel’s argument, and tracing the paths by which periods and nationalities, as well as on questions of why the sonnet
thinkers revise and return to it as well as some of the arguments around tradition in English has been so vibrant for so long and why it developed
it. There are no prerequisites, but the material is strenuous, and students in the ways it has. The syllabus will include sonnets by poets such as
will clearly have an easier time if they start out with some idea of what Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Coleridge, Wordsworth,
the thinkers above are doing and why. Helpful preparatory readings might Keats, Shelley, E.B. Browning, Poe, Millay, Yeats, Cummings, Bishop,
include Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason: “Male” and “Female” in Moore, Stevens, Lowell, Walcott and Heaney.
Western Philosophy and Judith Butler, Gender Trouble. Requirements: For
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3203
undergraduates: two short papers (6-8 pages). For graduate students, Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
either two short papers or one longer paper (12-15 pages). Number Number
ENGL 3203 001/90942 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm Richard Sacks 4 14/25
Fall 2017: CLEN GU4560 509 Hamilton Hall
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
CLEN 4560 001/28380 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Bruce Robbins 3 17/60
603 Hamilton Hall
14        English and Comparative Literature

ENTA UN3338 Shakespeare and Film. 4 points.

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
(Seminar). Hamlet as a video student whose uncle has become CEO
of “Denmark Corporation.”  As You Like It in nineteenth-century Japan
after the Meiji Restoration.  A voodoo Macbeth in Haiti during the reign
of the slave-turned-emperor Henri Christophe.  Antony and Cleopatra in
a village in Karala, where antagonists stage a cock fight to win a local
beauty with magical powers.  In this course, we will examine a wide array
of film versions of Shakespeare’s plays, looking at them in relationship to
Shakespeare’s texts and traditional interpretations of the plays.  We will
investigate the ways in which large-scale transformations (for instance,
location, historical period, or narrative order) alter the meaning of the
plays.  At the same time, the course will help students develop tools for
the close reading of performance (gesture, expression, movement) and
of the particular language of film (image, scenography, camera work,
sound, and more).  Discussion will be supplemented by creative exercises
(dramatic readings, brainstorming directorial ideas, the creation of short
films, etc).  Previous familiarity with the plays we’ll be examining is
helpful but not required.
Fall 2017: ENTA UN3338
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points
Number Number
ENTA 3338 001/82779 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm Julie Peters 4 18/25
602 Northwest Corner
ENGL UN3853 Narratives of Contagion. 4 points.
(Seminar) This seminar asks us to consider what a literary history
of early America looks like if we pay as close attention to the bodies
and pathogens that bound Native American, African, and European
communities as we do to their writings. In doing so, we will inquire
into the specific relations between immunology and theology, science
and exploration, liberty and violence—all with an eye to theorizing the
narrative forms and conventions that gave voice to American and Creole
identities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The class will
necessarily be transatlantic and interdisciplinary in scope, so we will
build a critical framework to guide our readings, while attending to the
rigors and rewards of such work. We will read a range of texts, including
exploration narratives, journals, diaries, pamphlets, poems, and novels
focusing on continental North America and the Caribbean. Application
instructions: E-mail Professor Silva (cs2889@columbia.edu  ) with
the subject heading "Seminar application." In your message, include
basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant
University Writing
ENGL GS1010 University Writing. 3 points.
Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the
American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that
form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly
and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual
refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent,
this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention
to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing
offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students
with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a
particular theme should register for the section within the specified
range of section numbers. UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001
to 069). Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields. UW:
Readings in Music (sections in the 070s). Features essays that analyze
the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of
music-making, from the classical to the contemporary. UW: Readings in
American Studies (sections in the 100s). Features essays that explore the
culture, history, and politics that form American identity. UW: Readings in
Enrollment Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s). Features essays that examine
relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms
of identity. UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s). Features
essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and
issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action. UW: Readings
in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s). Features essays that study how our
data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy,
identity, and privacy. UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the
600s). Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics
and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about
medicine, care, sickness, and health. University Writing for International
Students (sections in the 900s). Open only to international students,
these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing
cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety
of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit: http://
www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
Fall 2017: ENGL GS1010
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 1010 001/84782 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Emily Kuntz 3 14/14
201d Philosophy Hall

courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested ENGL 1010 003/12194 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Matthew 3 13/14
425 Pupin Laboratories Fernandez
in taking the course.
ENGL 1010 004/11996 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Jeremy 3 12/14
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3853 201d Philosophy Hall Stevens

Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment ENGL 1010 005/16001 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am G'Ra Asim 3 12/14
Number Number 201d Philosophy Hall

ENGL 3853 001/68596 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Cristobal Silva 4 6/25 ENGL 1010 006/17896 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Rebecca Wisor 3 14/14
612 Philosophy Hall 201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 008/22748 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Adam Winters 3 13/14
423 Kent Hall
ENGL 1010 009/27248 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Rebecca Wisor 3 13/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 011/61532 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Montana Ray 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 013/83032 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Simon Porzak 3 13/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 016/93637 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Avia Tadmor 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 017/86147 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Allen Durgin 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 018/92296 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Leah Zander 3 14/14
405 Kent Hall
ENGL 1010 019/95797 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Heather Radke 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 020/97396 T Th 5:40pm - 6:55pm Amanda Lowe 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 022/77533 M W 7:10pm - 8:25pm Michael 3 13/14
 English and Comparative Literature           15

ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.

University Writing helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that
form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly
Spring 2018 - please see the department
and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual website (http://english.columbia.edu/
refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent,
this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention
courses) for curriculum summary. 
to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing
offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students
Introduction to the Major
ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods. 4 points.
with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a
Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3001 must also register
particular theme should register for the section within the specified
for one of the sections of ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods.
range of section numbers. UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001
This course is intended to introduce students to the advanced study
to 069). Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields. UW:
of literature. Students will read works from different genres (poetry,
Readings in Music (sections in the 070s). Features essays that analyze
drama, and prose fiction), drawn from the medieval period to the present
the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of
day, learning the different interpretative techniques required by each.
music-making, from the classical to the contemporary. UW: Readings in
The course also introduces students to a variety of critical schools
American Studies (sections in the 100s). Features essays that explore the
and approaches, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these
culture, history, and politics that form American identity. UW: Readings in
methodologies in the work of other critics and of encouraging them to
Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s). Features essays that examine
make use of different methods in their own critical writing. This course
relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms
(together with the companion seminar ENGL UN3011) is a requirement
of identity. UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s). Features
for the English Major and Concentration. It should be taken as early as
essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and
possible in a student's career. Fulfillment of this requirement will be a
issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action. UW: Readings
factor in admission to seminars and to some lectures.
in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s). Features essays that study how our
data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy, Fall 2017: ENGL UN3001
identity, and privacy. UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
600s). Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics Number Number

and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about ENGL 3001 001/62539 W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Jenny 4 69/80
602 Hamilton Hall Davidson
medicine, care, sickness, and health.  University Writing for International
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3001
Students (sections in the 900s). Open only to international students,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing Number Number
cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety ENGL 3001 001/75492 W 6:10pm - 7:25pm Michael 4 88/96
of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit: http:// 310 Fayerweather Golston
www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.

Fall 2017: ENGL CC1010
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 1010 002/17848 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Bernadette 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall Myers
ENGL 1010 003/16798 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Anya Lewis- 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall Meeks
ENGL 1010 005/22346 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Nitzan 3 13/14
408a Philosophy Hall Rotenberg
ENGL 1010 006/28098 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Akua Banful 3 14/14
616 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 008/92081 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Iris Cushing 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 009/60286 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Theresa 3 14/14
315 Hamilton Hall Jefferson
ENGL 1010 012/26032 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Walter Gordon 3 13/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 013/83782 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Jessica 3 13/14
307 Mathematics Engebretson
Building
ENGL 1010 014/11283 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Shoshana 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall Akabas
ENGL 1010 015/16552 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Adam Horn 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 017/25998 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Kent 3 14/14
307 Mathematics Szlauderbach
Building
ENGL 1010 018/25782 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Nicholas 3 13/14
201d Philosophy Hall Mayer
ENGL 1010 020/93636 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Elleza Kelley 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 023/60031 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Jack Lowery 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 024/82282 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Daniel Lefferts 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 025/88779 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Elizabeth 3 14/14
307 Mathematics McIntosh
16        English and Comparative Literature

ENGL UN3011 Literary Texts, Critical Methods seminar. 0 points. ENGL GU4790 Advanced Old English: Anglo-Saxon Spirituality. 3 points.
Prerequisites: Students who register for ENGL UN3011 must also register Prerequisites: Students must have previous knowledge of Old English --
for ENGL UN3001 Literary Texts, Critical Methods lecture. minimum one semester.
This seminar, led by an advanced graduate student in the English The aim of this course is twofold: one, to provide an advanced-level
doctoral program, accompanies the faculty lecture ENGL UN3001. The course in Old English literature involving weekly translation; and two, to
seminar both elaborates upon the topics taken up in the lecture and explore the shape and possibilities of what “Anglo-Saxon spirituality”
introduces other theories and methodologies. It also focuses on training might be. The primary texts we will be translating will consist in homilies,
students to integrate the terms, techniques, and critical approaches poetry, treatises, sermons, hymns, prayers, penitentials, letters, and
covered in both parts of the course into their own critical writing, building so called “secular” poetry like riddles. We will aim at covering selected
up from brief close readings to longer research papers. materials from the four main manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry (Vercelli,
Junius, Nowell, and Exeter) to examine the extent to which they celebrate
Fall 2017: ENGL UN3011
or veil theological interests. Part our time will involve assessing the
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
prevalent distinction between secular and religious cultures, the relation
Number Number
ENGL 3011 001/21435 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Sierra Eckert 0 14/20
between materiality and the spiritual, the role of affect in cultivating belief
613 Hamilton Hall and piety, and the relation between Christian and non-Christian cultures
ENGL 3011 002/17754 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Katherine 0 15/20 and beliefs. Secondary theological materials will be read in translation
402 Hamilton Hall Bergevin including Paschasius Radbertus, Ratramnus, Hincmar, Alcuin, Aldhelm,
ENGL 3011 003/20144 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Will Glovinsky 0 16/20 Jerome, Gregory, and Augustine. Selections of Old Norse mythology and
309 Hamilton Hall
runic texts will also be included. The class will explore the of the role
ENGL 3011 004/14561 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Eugene 0 11/20
224 Pupin Laboratories Petracca
of the church in Anglo-Saxon England, debates about the impact of the
ENGL 3011 005/70512 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Meredith 0 12/18 Benedictine Reform, and the relation between art and theology.
307 Mathematics Shepard
Building Spring 2018: ENGL GU4790

Spring 2018: ENGL UN3011 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

Number Number
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number ENGL 4790 001/92399 Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm Patricia Dailey 3 6/25
602 Philosophy Hall
ENGL 3011 001/10067 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Martin Larson- 0 18/18
613 Hamilton Hall Xu
ENGL 3011 002/67812 Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm
302 Fayerweather
Bernadette
Myers
0 18/18 Renaissance
ENGL 3011 003/69683 M 6:10pm - 8:00pm Therese Cox 0 18/18
ENGL UN3336 Shakespeare II. 3 points.
402 Hamilton Hall (Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of
ENGL 3011 004/72232 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Tiana Reid 0 10/18 Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major
313 Pupin Laboratories tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”).
ENGL 3011 005/20843 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Danielle Drees 0 7/18
412 Pupin Laboratories Spring 2018: ENGL UN3336
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

Medieval Number
ENGL 3336
Number
001/62165 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am Jean Howard 3 59/78
ENGL BC3155 Canterbury Tales. 3 points. 313 Fayerweather
Chaucer as inheritor of late-antique and medieval conventions and
founder of early modern literature and the fiction of character.  Selections
from related medieval texts.

Spring 2018: ENGL BC3155
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3155 001/00414 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Christopher 3 46
302 Barnard Hall Baswell

ENGL UN3919 English Translations of the Bible. 4 points.

A survey on English translations of the Bible from Tyndale to the present.

Spring 2018: ENGL UN3919
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3919 001/10529 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm David Yerkes 4 21/25
612 Philosophy Hall
ENGL 3919 002/79281 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm David Yerkes 4 17/25
612 Philosophy Hall
 English and Comparative Literature           17

ENGL UN3343 The Surveillance of Women in Renaissance Drama &
Culture. 4 points.
Not offered during 2017-18 academic year.
Concentrating on the drama of early modern England, this course will
investigate a culture of surveillance regarding women’s bodies in the
period. We will give special focus to the fear of female infidelity, the
theatrical fascination with the woman’s pregnant body, and the cultural
desire to confirm and expose women’s chastity. We will read plays in
which women are falsely accused of adultery, in various generic contexts
ENGL GU4209 16th Century Poetry. 3 points.
This lecture class offers an introduction to the century that witnessed the
flowering of vernacular poetry in English.  We will read shorter poems in
their cultural and historical contexts, as well as considering their formal
and theoretical innovations.  The first half of the course will cover a wide
range of poets, both canonical and lesser-known, while the latter half will
focus on the four most significant poets of the century:  Marlowe, Sidney,
Shakespeare, and Spenser.
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4209

(such as William Shakespeare’s Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

Number Number

Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing), along with plays in which ENGL 4209 001/86848 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Molly Murray 3 39/90
5ab Kraft Center
women actually commit infidelity (such as the anonymous Arden
of Faversham and Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside).
Focusing on a different play each week, we will ask: what does it take, 18th and 19th Century
ultimately, to believe women about their fidelity? At the same time, ENGL UN3852 Temporal Relocations: Narrations of Time and Body in
what is the effect of being doubted on women themselves? We will also Early American Literature. 4 points.
give consideration to the particular resources of dramatic form, paying This course begins with texts from the first wave of European colonists,
attention to moments in plays that coerce spectators themselves into moving from exploration of what is now Texas with de Vaca to Ralph
mistaken judgments about women. Lane’s and Thomas Harriot’s Virginia and William Bradford’s Plymouth.
We will then focus our attention on the space of Massachusetts,
We will supplement our reading of drama with pamphlets, advice
theorizing how the religious narratives of women and native peoples
literature, poems, church court cases, and ballads, in order to place these
written by Mary Rowlandson, John Eliot, and Thomas Shepard
plays within a broader and more varied culture of female surveillance in
demonstrate the limitations of the governing Puritan male order. In the
early modern England. Finally, we will work to recover past strategies
weeks following, we will turn to the genre of natural history in the space
of liberation from this surveillance in the plays we read, in women’s
of the Caribbean and Virginia, where we will probe the relationship of
writing that warns against male betrayal, and in dramatic and historical
the body and the natural in the works of Hans Sloane, James Grainger,
instances of female cross-dressing.
and Thomas Jefferson. The course will close with an examination of
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3343 narratives of slavery with the works of Aphra Behn, Britton Hammon,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment James Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and William
Number Number Earle, as well as Édouard Glissant’s more contemporary Poetics of
ENGL 3343 001/88398 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm Lauren 4 14/25 Relation.
467 Ext Schermerhorn Robertson
Hall

ENGL GU4104 Renaissance Literature and (the History of) Sexuality. 4

points.
This class is an introduction both to the study of the literature of the
English Renaissance or early modern period, and to the study of the
history of sexuality. While we will be looking at issues of sexuality in the
literary texts that are at the center of this class, we will also be thinking
about the history of sexuality as a field of study in its own right, how it’s
been conceived of and practiced, its promises and pitfalls. We will be
examining the humanist histories and methodologies that inform much
Renaissance thought about  human sexuality – theories about bodies,
desire, relationships between and among the sexes, materialism, and
spirituality – as well as more recent critical approaches. We will think
closely about the genres that (we think) privilege sexuality – eclogues,
plays (especially those performed by boy players), erotic verse, verse
letters, utopia and creation stories.

Spring 2018: ENGL GU4104
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4104 001/90948 T 2:10pm - 4:00pm Julie Crawford 4 14/25
612 Philosophy Hall
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CLEN UN3741 Literature of Lost Lands. 4 points. ENFR GU4800 The Writer in 19th-C British & French Fiction. 4 points.
This course hopes to entice you into readings in the literature of lost and A study of what it meant to write— or to be a writer— at the moment
submerged continents, as well as of remote lands hidden from history. when the novel began to stake its claim to be a major or high art form,
While now often relegated to the stuff of science fiction, accounts of seen through the lens of British and French realist novels that tell the
submerged land-masses were among the most serious popular literature story of a writer’s personal and career development.  At the center of the
of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and readers were seminar will be the question of the novel and its relation to the worlds of
riveted by the enduring mystery about the lost continents of Atlantis journalism and art, and how novels negotiated (through the figure of the
and Lemuria. Works about these and other lost lands inspired a form of writer) their overlap with the newspaper and the lyric poem, or exterior
“occult ethnography.” Novels such as The Coming Race (1871) drew on and interior worlds. Class to be conducted in English, with readings from
the popular fascination with buried land-masses in order to re-imagine Balzac, Dickens, Maupassant, and Gissing, and possibly other examples.
alternative narratives in which the “imperial English” would be colonized
Spring 2018: ENFR GU4800
by a new race of people rising from the forgotten depths of the earth.
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
At one level, the use of ethnographic details in such novels provided an
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ironic commentary on the European ethnographies of colonized peoples. ENFR 4800 001/26282 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Elisabeth 4 18/25
But at another level it also offered a visionary description of a world as 302 Fayerweather Ladenson,
yet unseen and unknown, so that the idea of the past itself becomes less Nicholas
Dames
stable in the cultural imagination.

In animating the details of a rediscovered people, occult ethnography ENGL UN3948 19th Century Thrillers. 4 points.
both drew on and subverted evolutionary models of development by Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
showing these “lost” people, in some instances, to have reached the (Seminar). This seminar will investigate the ways in which the nineteenth-
highest perfection possible, both in technological capability and human century novel is shaped by the forces of horror, sensation, suspense
potential. The unsettling of established and familiar conceptions of and the supernatural. We will ask how the melodramatic imagination,
nation, history, and cultural identity through the exploration of lost or the rhetoric of monstrosity and the procedures of detection mark high
drifting lands reaches an apex in José Saramago’s The Stone Raft (1986). narrative realism with the signs of cultural anxieties building up around
In probing the enduring fascination with lost or separated lands in the nineteenth-century revolution, industrialization, capitalism, Catholicism,
cultural imagination, the course hopes to illuminate the importance of bigamy and immigration. Looking at representative samples of the
such literature in unveiling the processes of colonization, ethnography, Romantic neo-gothic novel, mid-century ghost stories, the highly popular
nationalism, evolution, and technology, as well as understanding the and controversial sensation novels of the 1860s, aestheticism, and fin-
writing of history itself: i.e., what is included in mainstream accounts and de siècle psychological thrillers, we will come away with a deeper and
what is left out. more nuanced understanding of the intersection between the novel
and popular entertainment. Readings will include Austen's Northanger
Spring 2018: CLEN UN3741 Abbey, Brontë's Villette, Braddon's Lady Audeley's Secret, Collins's The
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Woman in White, Dickens's Bleak House, Du Maurier's Trilby (or Wilde's
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Picture of Dorian Gray), Stoker's Dracula, James's Turn of the Screw,
CLEN 3741 001/61197 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Gauri 4 10/25
and a selection of ghost stories by Gaskell, Mulock, Hood, Edwards
507 Philosophy Hall Viswanathan
and Riddell. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Monica Cohen
ENGL UN3932 The American Renaissance. 4 points. (mlf1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "19thC Thrillers seminar."
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major,
In this seminar, we will aim to do two things at once: first and most year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement
importantly, to read the literary texts inside--and one or two lying outside-- about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students
the tradition of the "American Renaissance" or the category of "Classic should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait
American Literature." But we will also analyze some works of recent list from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces
criticism that have produced, defended, and/or contested this tradition. become available.
What texts, or parts of texts do critics valorize or emphasize, or devalue
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3948
and ignore, in order to make and maintain a tradition such as this one?
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
When and with what effects are works of literary criticism themselves Number Number
structured and emplotted like the literary texts they describe? ENGL 3948 001/13903 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm Monica Cohen 4 24/25
303 Hamilton Hall
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3932
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3932 001/64694 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Branka Arsic 4 12/25
420 Pupin Laboratories
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ENGL GU4601 Early Caribbean Literature. 3 points. CLEN GU4822 19th Century European Novel. 3 points.

This course is an introductory survey of early Caribbean Literature. The 19th Century European Novel in the field of the emotions and in the
Focusing primarily on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cultural context of the major thinkers and the major historical events of
Anglophone Caribbean, we will ask what the region signified for writers the era.We will examine feelings, emotions, and passions in the novels
across the Atlantic world and how it shaped natural and political spaces from the perspectives of affective neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and
in that world. Given that the Caribbean was a rapidly shifting zone of philosophy in order to lay bare more clearly what is known and believed
economic, linguistic, racial, and class interests, we will consider the versus what is unknown, ignored or latent about human emotional reality
various ways that we might narrate a literary history of the region— either at this time.  Reading: Austen, Kleist (novella), Emily Bronte, Dickens,
distinct from or conjoined with familiar histories of England and the Dostoevsky, Hardy, D.H. Lawrence.  No reading outside of the novels will
United States. While working toward this goal, we will be conscious of the be required on your part.
national, generic, and temporal frameworks that have traditionally shaped
literature departments, and ask how our texts resist or reaffirm those ,
frameworks. How and to what degree, we will ask, does the Caribbean Further, my aim is to expand our cultural knowledge of the era by
disrupt our modes of literary analysis? including the conceptual contributions and formative ideas of major
19th century thinkers in my lectures on the novels. Optional Reading of
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4601 short selections from: Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Darwin, Kierkegaard,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Nietzsche, and Freud. Those who wish to read and write in a comparative
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way or on any of the optional writers will be able to do so in lieu of one or,
ENGL 4601 001/16396 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Cristobal Silva 3 22/40
possibly, two novels.
503 Hamilton Hall

Spring 2018: CLEN GU4822
ENGL GU4300 Religion and the Novel 1660-1840. 4 points.
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Literary historians often insist that the novel is a secular form. Yet Number Number
authors of early novels in English claimed to be motivated by religious CLEN 4822 001/05719 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Maire Jaanus 3 27/50
reasons, and many defenders of these fictional works described the 503 Hamilton Hall

experience of reading them (and their affection for them) in religious

terms. A whole host of English novels from the long eighteenth century
also took religion as a topic, imagining religious characters and wrestling
with religious subjects. In this seminar, we will read Enlightenment-era
narratives that consider the problem of evil, the challenge of modern
faith, the drama of conversion, the frustrations of religious history,
the dangers of religious institutions, and the difficulties of interfaith
exchange. We will learn about some different categories of religious
identity and about the historical and political circumstances that
intensified the process of religious self-definition. We will also try out
some different strategies for using religion to interpret novels. But mostly
we’ll immerse ourselves in the rich and varied religious worlds of the
novels themselves, where we will encounter devils as well as angels, the
skeptical as well as the faithful, unabashed sinners as well as reluctant
saints. Some figures in these books come out strongly against religion,
but more of them call for new ways of defining religion or putting it into
practice, sometimes for radical political ends. We will frequently see that
these early novels didn’t simply inherit religious sensibilities from the
past; they also had to invent new forms of religious life and practice,
including new ways of reading. More than a few of these patterns are still
with us. Some people still agree that reading a novel can be a religious
experience, even if they disagree about what that means.
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4300
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4300 001/27198 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm Dustin Stewart 4 9/16
307 Pupin Laboratories
ENGL GU4858 Multimedia Blake. 3 points.
A close study of the historic and material conditions, readerly effects, and
subsequent influence of William Blake's illuminated books. This course
examines the interplay of poetry and illustration in these remarkable
works, paying close attention to Blake's idiosyncratic method of self-
publishing. Approaching Blake's plates through digital technology, we
will be particularly attuned to the ways they seem to welcome and resist
new forms of representation and engagement. Illuminated works we
will study in depth include The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, America a Prophecy, Songs
of Innocence and of Experience, Europe a Prophecy, The First Book
of Urizen, and extracts from Milton a Poem and Jerusalem. We will
trace allusions that these works make to the Bible, Dante, Milton, and
eighteen-century mystics, writers, and artists; we will also consider
later evocations of Blake by poets, filmmakers, musicians, and online
communities. To facilitate close reading and collaboration, this seminar
will make use of Mediathread, a multimedia analysis platform developed
at Columbia by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4858
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4858 001/78282 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Mark 3 11/50
602 Philosophy Hall Phillipson
20        English and Comparative Literature
20th and 21st Century
ENGL UN3739 Memoir & Social Justice. 4 points.
The rise of social media has proliferated new forms of life writing
inflected with the rhetoric of social justice as individuals broadcast their
concerns to “friends” and “followers.” This contemporary phenomenon
has precedent in a long history of life writing that normalized social
justice ideals. In reading memoirs of the twentieth and twenty-first
century, we will ask what social justice has meant during different eras
and for different groups while thinking critically about the problems
and possibilities of identity politics. Particular attention will be paid to
how social justice narratives are inflected by indigeneity, race, class,
gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. The course is equally invested in the
formal qualities of narrative; we will consider testimonial, diary, poetry,
personal essay, graphic memoir, speech, social media entries, and the
more traditional book-length prose. Each week we will read one memoir
paired with scholarly articles and commentary on current social justice
movements. In addition to more traditional academic writing, students
will also have opportunities to experiment with their own life writing.
There are no prerequisites for the course.
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3739
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3739 001/83529 M 12:10pm - 2:00pm Meredith 4 11/15
607 Hamilton Hall Shepard
CLEN UN3904 Cinematic Modernism. 4 points.
Virginia Woolf famously opined that “on or about December 1910, human
character changed.” In this class, we will drag the clock back to 1895 (or
thereabouts), when the first moving images were successfully projected:
an event singularly plural, as it occurred near-contemporaneously in
Germany, France, England, and New Jersey. What we (tenuously) call
Modernism has been revised many times over, with ever more elastic
parameters proposed for period, place, and idiom. But only recently have
scholars such as Laura Marcus and David Trotter begun to think of the
cinema as essentially constitutive of, rather than merely adjacent to, the
new grammars, styles, and ambitions of literary modernism. In short:
those we call Modernists were also the first generation of moviegoers, yet
little has been done with this extraordinary historical fact.
In addition to analyses of critical films (at least one per week), we will
take “the cinematic” as an invitation, puzzle, problem, and principle for
writers of the early twentieth century. Some, like Richardson and H.D.,
exuberantly lauded and incorporated film. Some, like Woolf, had greater
caution, ambivalence, sometimes disdain. Taking the cinematic as both
dispositif and inclination, both system and idea, we will be examining the
implicit and explicit engagements writers staged with the vocabulary,
syntax, and atmosphere of cinema – while familiarizing ourselves with
filmmakers such as Eisenstein, Chaplin, Méliès, and Micheaux.
We will be asking questions big and small, concrete and abstract.
How do close-ups and soft focus, montage and tracking, the ticket-
vendor and the nickelodeon surface or remain submerged in literature
of the era? What brought people to the movies, and what kept them in
their seats? Who wrote about the cinema first, and why? What ethical
imperatives did warfare, routinization, and other aspects of modernity
pose for filmmakers? How did race and racism impact the production
and reception of cinema? How did femininity and feminism, queers
and queerness, immigrants and immigration alter audiences and
expectations? How did novelists and poets make use of the movies while
investigating interiority, authenticity, desire, and perception?
Spring 2018: CLEN UN3904
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
CLEN 3904 001/23319 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm Nolan Gear 4 11/15
304 Hamilton Hall
 English and Comparative Literature           21

ENTA UN3970 Ibsen and Pinter. 4 points. ENGL UN3286 Freaks & Aesthetes in Fifties Families. 4 points.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Prerequisites: E-mail Professor Ross Posnock (rp2045@columbia.edu )
(Seminar). The course will trace the pattern of the evolving theatrical with the subject heading "seminar application." In your message, include
careers of Henrik Ibsen and Harold Pinter, exploring the nature of and basic information: your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant
relationships among key features of their emerging aesthetics. Thematic courses taken, along with a brief statement about why you are interested
and theatrical exploration involve positioning the plays in the context in taking the course. Admitted students should register for the course;
of the trajectories of modernism and postmodernism and examining, in they will automatically be placed on a wait list from which the instructor
that context, the emblematic use of stage sets and tableaux; the intense will in due course admit them as spaces become available.
scrutiny of families, friendships, and disruptive intruders; the experiments We will read J.D. Salinger's Glass Family fiction, which features a group
with temporality, multi-linearity, and split staging; the issues raised by of hyper-articulate New York prodigies who experiment with Eastern
performance and the implied playhouse; and the plays' potential as religion, Robert Lowell's prose and poetry in  Life Studies, a breakthrough
instruments of cultural intervention. Two papers are required, 5-7 pages in "confessional" subject matter, and Carson McCuller's novel A Member
and 10-12 pages, with weekly brief responses, and a class presentation. of the Wedding,about the coming of age of a Southern tomboy. We
Readings include major plays of both writers and key statements on will also watch and discuss Nicholas Ray's film Rebel Without a Cause
modernism and postmodernism.  Application Instructions: E-mail with James Dean, the most famous portryal of teenage rage and angst.
Professor Austin Quigley (aeq1@columbia.edu) with the subject heading All these works narrate crises of conformity in postwar America--the
"Ibsen and Pinter seminar." In your message, include basic information: much advertised sense of "alienation"--and dramatize the possibility of
your name, school, major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along alternative values and improvised families.
with a brief statement about why you are interested in taking the course.
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3286
Admitted students should register for the course; they will automatically be
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
placed on a wait list from which the instructor will in due course admit them
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as spaces become available. ENGL 3286 001/67247 Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm Ross Posnock 4 10/25
511 Hamilton Hall
Spring 2018: ENTA UN3970
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
ENGL UN3396 Literature of Fact in a Postfactual World. 4 points.
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In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary chose as its word of the year, “post-truth,”
ENTA 3970 001/77288 W 4:10pm - 6:00pm Austin Quigley 4 11/25
423 Kent Hall which it defines as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which
objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals
ENGL UN3968 IRISH LIT:20TH C.IRISH PROSE. 4 points. to emotion and personal belief.” Since the country’s founding, American
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. writers have troubled the relationship between gathering facts from first-
This seminar course looks at the idea of Language and Form in Irish hand experiences and representing them in both nonfiction and fictional
writing in the Twentieth Century. It will examine writing from the Irish works. In his posthumously published Autobiography (1793), Benjamin
Literary Renaissance, including work by Yeats and Synge, and writing by Franklin advises those seeking to contribute to public knowledge to offer
Irish Modernist writers, including Joyce, Beckett and Flann O’Brien. It will their ideas with diffidence and leave plenty of room for disagreement:
also study certain awkward presences in the Irish literary canon, such as “If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of
Elizabeth Bowen. The class will then read work from later in the century, others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your
including the novels of John Banville and John McGahern and the poetry present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation,
of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland. will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.” In
th st
the 20 and 21 centuries, writers and scholars of creative nonfiction’s
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3968
many subgenres continue to explore the ethical and aesthetic risks and
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
obligations in the enterprise of writing truth. In this course, we will study
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ENGL 3968 001/63490 T 12:10pm - 2:00pm Colm Toibin 4 14/25
American literary works primarily from the 20 and 21 centuries that
222 Pupin Laboratories enact and reflect on the problems for writers and readers in representing
the truth of their experiences. How do American writers of nonfiction
and fiction signal, occlude, or complicate readers’ sense of the truth in
a story or event? How do writers craft a presence for themselves and
others in their texts with which to test warrants about the facts they
are communicating? How can theories of authorship, approaches to
nonfiction storytelling, and publics formation help us to account for
writers’ strategies in their works? Finally, what can an examination
of these questions tell us about the roles and value of truth-telling in
st
imaginative works across genres in the 21 century?

Spring 2018: ENGL UN3396
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 3396 001/62049 Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm Nicole Wallack 4 5/25
222 Pupin Laboratories
22        English and Comparative Literature

CLEN UN3935 Third World Bildungsroman. 4 points. ENGL UN3710 The Beat Generation. 4 points.

This course in the contemporary international novel looks at the rise Limited to seniors. Priority given to those who have taken at least one
of the bildungsroman, the novelistic genre in some sense defined by course in 20th-century American culture, especially history, jazz, film, and
the development and maturation of the protagonist, in the context literature.Not offered during 2017-18 academic year.
of twentieth-century political, cultural, and social developments of
(post)colonialism, imperialism, human rights discourse, and globalization. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This course will trace some of the philosophical formulations of (Seminar). Surveys the work of the Beats and other artists connected
the teleology of human development, and the attendant notions of to the Beat movement. Readings include works by Jack Kerouac, Allen
individuality and sociality, to study the ways in which these novels from Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, and Joyce Johnson, as
the so-called "Third World" variously, and sometimes simultaneously, well as background material in the post-World War II era, films with
subscribe to, resist, and renegotiate the fundamental conceptions James Dean and Marlon Brando, and the music of Charlie Parker and
of human development through creative engagement with the Thelonius Monk. Application instructions: E-mail Professor Ann Douglas
bildungsroman and its generic formulations. (ad34@columbia.edu) with the subject heading "The Beat Generation".
In your message, include basic information: your name, school, major,
ENTA UN3939 Caryl Churchill. 4 points. year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief statement
This undergraduate seminar looks at the entire dramatic career of Caryl about why you are interested in taking the course. Admitted students
Churchill, arguably England’s leading feminist dramatist. Beginning in the should register for the course; they will automatically be placed on a wait list,
1970s, when she wrote a series of plays on class and gender struggles in from which the instructor will in due course admit them as spaces become
contemporary Britain and at earlier moment in England’s history, Churchill available.
has staged explorations of some of the most pressing issues of our time:
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3710
the destruction of the environment, the enduring and pernicious legacies
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
of empire, the human suffering caused by unfettered capitalism, and
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the myriad ways in which women remain “the second sex.” Churchill’s ENGL 3710 001/20996 W 6:10pm - 8:00pm Ann Douglas 4 20/25
feminism is intersectional, taking up questions of sex and gender in 612 Philosophy Hall
relation to other axes of social difference such as race and class. A
committed theatrical experimentalist, Churchill constantly rethinks her CLEN UN3930 Caribbean Diaspora Literature. 4 points.
theatrical practice while encouraging actors and directors, musicians Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
and choreographers, to take an active role in shaping the final theatrical This course will examine texts by writers from the Spanish, French, and
event. English-speaking Caribbean whose work has been in some way marked
by exile, emigration and colonial migration. Additionally, the course
The class will explore Churchill’s canon for its themes and its stagecraft will investigate the impact of displacement and transculturation on
and will attend the spring production of her marvelous early play, Light the production of new cultural subjects, the articulation of alternative
Shining in Buckinghamshire, at The New York Theater Workshop. definitions of nationhood, citizenship and/or sovereignty, and the
contradictions of literary reception in metropolitan capitals. Among the
Spring 2018: ENTA UN3939
writers that the course will engage with are Reinaldo Arenas, Piri Thomas,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, V.S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid.
ENTA 3939 001/80947 T 2:10pm - 4:00pm Jean Howard 4 6/25
Spring 2018: CLEN UN3930
304 Hamilton Hall
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
CLEN 3930 001/60596 M 2:10pm - 4:00pm Frances 4 35/35
301m Fayerweather Negron-
Muntaner

ENGL GU4504 Yeats, Eliot, Auden. 3 points.

(Lecture). Many poems and a few essays by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and
W. H. Auden.

Spring 2018: ENGL GU4504
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4504 001/17808 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am Edward 3 71/80
702 Hamilton Hall Mendelson
 English and Comparative Literature           23

ENGL UN3270 BRITISH LITERATURE 1950-PRESENT. 3 points. ENGL GU4622 African-American Literature II. 3 points.

The class on post-war British literature focuses on fiction written since (Lecture). This survey of African American literature focuses on language,
the end of the Cold War, with a particular emphasis on the twenty-first history, and culture. What are the contours of African American literary
century. Lectures are structured around the theme of “Britain and its history? How do race, gender, class, and sexuality intersect within
Belongings,” with three main historical and thematic emphases. First, the politics of African American culture? What can we expect to learn
the question of “the contemporary” or “belonging together in time”: from these literary works? Why does our literature matter to student of
What, if anything, makes the period since the 1990s hang together as social change? This lecture course will attempt to provide answers to
a cultural, and more narrowly literary-historical, category? Second, the these questions, as we begin with Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were
question of Europe: Is British literature a subset of European literature? Watching God (1937) and Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) and end
How, in the era of Brexit and the ongoing migration crisis in Europe, have with Melvin Dixon's Love's Instruments (1995) with many stops along
British novelists represented the country’s relationship to the continent? the way. We will discuss poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose.
Finally, the linked problems of economic globalization and Britain’s Ohter authors include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks,
complex post-imperial history: How have British novelists attempt to Malcom X, Ntzozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. There are
represent a world in which “domestic” experiences seem inextricably, if no prerequisites for this course. The formal assignments are two five-
inconceivably, linked to events taking place thousands of miles away? page essays and a final examination. Class participation will be graded.
Our answers to these questions will be aesthetic, as well as historical,
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4622
focusing particularly on how novelists have thought to reimagine their
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
sense of belonging by innovating at the level of narrative structure, point
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of view, and generic form. ENGL 4622 001/71294 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Farah Griffin 3 40/60
503 Hamilton Hall
Authors discussed include a mixture of established and emerging writers,
with a particular emphasis on novels by women and by members of
ethnic and national minority communities. Assignments include weekly
Special Topics
reading, a midterm, a final, and two critical essays. ENGL UN3002 Humanities Texts, Critical Skills. 4 points.
This course aims to equip students with critical tools for approaching,
ENGL GU4625 Ralph Ellison . 4 points. reading, and striving with literary and philosophical texts—ancient as well
In this seminar we will read virtually everything by Ralph Ellison—leaving as modern. To this end, we will be working closely with a set of texts that
aside for now the posthumous novel published as Three Days Before range in date from the 8th/7th c. BCE to the 20th century C, including:
the Shooting. We will concentrate on his achievements as an essayist, Homer, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Du Bois, Nabokov and
short story writer, and novelist. We will explore his literary training and Rankine. Our seminar will operate on the assumption that we cannot
aesthetic values as well as his shifting political philosophies and--to know “what” these texts say or “what” their authors mean unless we
use a keystone Ellisonian word--his stances. As we read Ellison’s fiction come to grips with how they say what they say and how they mean what
and his essays, let us be watchful for Ellison’s positions on current they mean. In pursuit of some answers, we will master the skill of reading
cultural questions: parody and pastiche; technology and the modern; quickly but carefully, balancing attention to the literary craft of our texts
the importance of place—region, city or country, nation; internationality; with scrutiny of their underlying arguments and agendas.
complex definitions of individuality and sociality; race; vernacular art and Requires Instructor’s permission— please write to Richard Roderick
culture; and the role of the politically engaged artist. rr3059@columbia.edu to set up a meeting with instructors
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3002
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4625
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Number Number
Number Number
ENGL 3002 001/66297 T Th 6:10pm - 8:00pm Nicole 4 11/25
ENGL 4625 001/75946 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Robert 4 15/25 612 Philosophy Hall Callahan
316 Hamilton Hall O'Meally

ENGL GU4613 The 1960s. 3 points.

This course is devoted to “literature of the 1960s,” in both senses of the
phrase: in the semester ahead, we will study authors who wrote during
and about that most tumultuous of decades. We will approach the period
thematically, reading texts that address distinct historical topics from
week to week (the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, drugs,
environmentalism, and so on). We will also take a broad view of what
constitutes the “literature of the 1960s,” reading works in familiar literary
genres like poetry, drama, and the novel, but additionally making time for
essays, journalism, and songs.

Spring 2018: ENGL GU4613
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 4613 001/93197 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Austin Graham 3 72/86
517 Hamilton Hall
24        English and Comparative Literature

ENGL UN3724 Melodrama, Horror, Crime, Vaudeville. 4 points. ENGL UN3738 Philanthropy and Social Difference. 4 points.
The great pioneer of early film, Georges Méliès, claimed that his principal Philanthropy and Social Difference will introduce students to the history of
aim was the creation of “stage effects” in his films.  In their 1920 manual, Anglo-American philanthropy, as described in both historical and literary
How to Write Photoplays, John Emerson and Anita Loos imagine motion texts by writers including Jane Addams, James Agee, Andrew Carnegie,
pictures as a sequence of “scenes” modeled on stage plays.  In the first and George Orwell.  Through reading these texts, students will receive an
decades of the twentieth century, the new medium of cinema attempted experiential perspective on the social problems that philanthropy seeks
to replicate such popular theatrical genres as melodrama, horror, to address.  The course will also focus on best practices in contemporary
crime, vaudeville, and circus.  But it also transformed these through its philanthropy, teaching students how to make informed decisions in
distinctive apparatus.  In this seminar we will study the first half century making grants to nonprofit organizations.  In addition, students will have
of (largely) British and American cinema, analyzing popular films (most the opportunity to practice philanthropy directly by making grants from
of them classics of their genre) as they both emerged from and broke course funds to nonprofit organizations selected by the class.
with the theatre.  With a focus on narrative and genre (and the ideologies
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3738
embedded in these), we will be asking broad questions about popular
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
and mass culture, the politics of spectatorship, medium and technology,
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the psychology of social space, the representation of identity (national, ENGL 3738 001/14095 W 2:10pm - 4:00pm Victoria 4 13/25
racial, sexual...), and more.  At the same time, much of the work of the 612 Philosophy Hall Rosner, Rachel
seminar will be devoted to close reading—both of the films’ theatrical Adams

features (mise-en-scène, pictorial composition, gesture, facial and bodily

ENTA UN3972 Disaster Plays. 4 points.
expression, blocking...) and of their specifically cinematic features
With the onset of the Great War of 1914-19, the human race entered an
(light and shadow, camera movement, editing and sound effects...)—
historical period characterized by the very real possibility—and, therefore,
treating these as keys to understanding both technique and broader
insistent imagination—of disaster on an apocalyptic scale. Not only
meaning.  While our primary texts will be the films themselves, we will
nations but entire peoples, and even the species itself, began to see
also read selected works of film history and criticism in order to gain an
themselves under threat from total warfare, totalitarianism, genocide,
understanding of current debates, assess critical methodologies, and
nuclear holocaust, global warming, and more. This course will consider
develop analytic tools.
theatrical attempts to reckon with this newly fragile world, to give shape
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3724 and meaning to a modernity characterized by total disaster. With the
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment exception of a brief detour to Japan, our texts will derive from twentieth
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and twenty-first century European and U.S. drama. Because catastrophe
ENGL 3724 001/61146 Th 12:10pm - 2:00pm Julie Peters 4 17/25
is by definition the transformation of what is real, normal, and everyday
612 Philosophy Hall
into something impossible to imagine, much of this course will be
ENGL UN3394 How Writers Think: Pedagogy and Practice. 4 points. devoted to experiments beyond dramatic realism. Questions we will ask
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. include: How do these artists understand the role of theatre in the face
(Seminar). This course uses contemporary philosophies of research and of such dire threats, and what role can it play in our own attempts to live
writing to train students to become writing center and library consultants. with these threats? What techniques does catastrophe demand from
Readings will highlight major voices in rhetoric and composition designers, actors, directors, writers, and even publishers of playtexts?
research, with an emphasis on collaborative learning theory. We will What sorts of political claims do these plays make, and how do they
ground our study in hands-on teaching experiences: students will shadow make them? What does the source of the catastrophe being represented
Columbia Writing Center consultants and research librarians and then (bomb, climate change, dictatorship) determine about theatrical form,
practice strategies they learn in consultation with other students. Those theme, and plot? How has the age of disaster forced theatremakers
who successfully complete this course will be eligible to apply for a peer to reconsider their understandings of the future, history, war, the body
writing consultant job in the Columbia Writing Center. This course is politic, human nature, the role of the intellectual in the public sphere,
co-taught by the director of the Writing Center and the undergraduate science, art, and other topics?
services librarian.
Spring 2018: ENTA UN3972
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3394
Number Number
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
ENTA 3972 001/11246 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm Jason 4 4/25
Number Number
304 Hamilton Hall Fitzgerald
ENGL 3394 001/72175 M 4:10pm - 6:00pm Susan 4 14/15
201 80 Claremont Mendelsohn
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ENGL UN3980 Writing Machines. 4 points. ENGL GU4561 Children's Literature. 3 points.

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. This is a historical survey of literature written principally for children
(Seminar). In Jack London's 1906 short story "The Apostate," an exposé (primarily narrative), which will explore not only the pleasures of
of child labor, the narrator notes of a young millworker: "There had imagination but the varieties of narrative and lyric form, as well as the
never been a time when he had not been in intimate relationship with ways in which story-telling gives shape to individual and cultural identity.
machines." Drawing on novels, short stories, dramas, and essays by Drawing on anonymous folk tale from a range of cultures, as well as
American and English writers from 1880 to WWII, this course seeks a variety of literary works produced from the late 17 th century to the
to understand what it means to become "intimate with machines." present, we’ll attend to the ways in which changing forms of children’s
How did technology shape perception, consciousness, identity, and literature reflect changing understandings of children and childhood,
the understanding of the human in fin de siècle literature? What were while trying not to overlook psychological and formal structures that
the effects of new "writing machines," like the telegraph, phonograph, might persist across this history. Readings of the primary works will
and typewriter, on traditional conceptions of authorship? How did be supplemented by a variety of critical approaches—psychoanalytic,
technology intersect with class, race, and gender politics? What fears materialist, feminist, and structuralist—that scholars have employed to
and fantasies did new inventions inspire? We will discuss how writers understand the variety and appeal of children’s literature.
represented the cultural and social impact of technology and why they
Spring 2018: ENGL GU4561
often felt compelled to invent new literary styles, forms, and movements--
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
such as realism, aestheticism, and modernism--in order to do so.
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Texts by Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack ENGL 4561 001/22298 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm James Adams 3 45/50
London, Sophie Treadwell, Thomas Alva Edison, Henry James, Virginia 503 Hamilton Hall
Woolf, and others. Application Instructions: E-mail Professor Biers
(klb2134@columbia.edu) with the subject heading, "Writing Machines CLEN GU4565 Postcolonial Theory. 4 points.
seminar." In your message, include basic information: your name, school, This course will examine the major debates, contested genealogies,
major, year of study, and relevant courses taken, along with a brief epistemic and political interventions, and possible futures of the body
statement about why you are interested in taking the course. of writing that has come to be known as postcolonial theory. We will
examine the relationships between postcolonial theory and other
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3980 theoretical formations, including post-structuralism, feminism, Marxism,
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
and Third Worldism. We will also consider what counts as “theory” in
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postcolonial theory: in what ways have novels, memoirs, or revolutionary
ENGL 3980 001/61285 W 12:10pm - 2:00pm Katherine Biers 4 8/25
201 80 Claremont manifestos, for example, offered seminal, generalizable statements about
postcoloniality? How can we understand the relationship between the
CLEN GU4199 Literature and Oil. 3 points. rise of postcolonial studies in the United States and the role of the U.S.
This course will investigate the connections between literary/cultural in the post-Cold War era? How do postcolonial theory and its insights
production and petroleum as the substance that makes possible the about European imperialism contribute to analyses of contemporary
world as we know it, both as an energy source and a component in the globalization?
manufacture of everything from food to plastic. Our current awareness
Spring 2018: CLEN GU4565
of oil's scarcity and its myriad costs (whether environmental, political, or
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
social) provides a lens to read for the presence (or absence) of oil in texts
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in a variety of genres and national traditions. As we begin to imagine a CLEN 4565 001/94696 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Joseph R 4 13/25
world "beyond petroleum," this course will confront the ways in which oil 303 Hamilton Hall Slaughter
shapes both the world we know and how we know and imagine the world.
Oil will feature in this course in questions of theme (texts "about" oil), of CLEN GU4905 The Antigone Project. 4 points.
literary form (are there common formal conventions of an "oil novel"?), of Colm Toibin and the actress Lisa Dwan will be examining the various
interpretive method (how to read for oil), of transnational circulation (how translations of Antigone and the way that this text and story have been
does "foreign oil" link US citizens to other spaces?), and of the materiality dealt with over the centuries. The class will analyze some translations
(or "oiliness") of literary culture (how does the production and circulation of the play and also versions by Seamus Heaney, Anne Carson, Brecht,
of texts, whether print or digital, rely on oil?). Anouilh and Athol Fugard. We will also work with creative writing
students as they make their own versions, and performance students as
Spring 2018: CLEN GU4199 they work out how the play in its versions could be produced. The class
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
will be inviting in teachers from classical studies and other disciplines,
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including classical studies, literary studies and law.
CLEN 4199 001/22750 T 2:10pm - 4:00pm Jennifer 3 5/25
507 Hamilton Hall Wenzel
Spring 2018: CLEN GU4905
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
CLEN GU4414 History of Literary Criticism: Plato to Kant. 3 points.
Number Number
The principal texts of literary theory from antiquity through the 18th CLEN 4905 001/11000 M 10:10am - 12:00pm Colm Toibin, 4 15/20
century, including Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Augustine, Aquinas, 754 Ext Schermerhorn Lisa Dwan
Boccaccio, Sidney, and Kant. Hall

Spring 2018: CLEN GU4414
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
CLEN 4414 001/89695 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Kathy Eden 3 31/80
517 Hamilton Hall
26        English and Comparative Literature

CLEN GU4910 Metaphor and Media. 3 points.

This course offers a survey of major works on metaphor, beginning with
University Writing
Aristotle and ending with contemporary cognitive and media theory. ENGL CC1010 University Writing. 3 points.
Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students, our sessions University Writing helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that
will involve weekly discussion and an occasional “lab” component, in form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly
which we will test our theoretical intuitions against case studies of and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual
literary metaphor and metaphor in the fields of law, medicine, philosophy, refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent,
and design. this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention
to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing
I am particularly interested in ways metaphors “break” or “die,” whether offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students
from disuse, overuse, or misapplication. In their classical sense, with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a
metaphors work by ferrying meaning across from one domain to another. particular theme should register for the section within the specified
For example, by calling a rooster “the trumpet of the morn,” Shakespeare range of section numbers. UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001
means to suggest a structural similarity between horn instruments to 069). Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields. UW:
and birds. Note that this similarity cannot pertain to the objects in Readings in Music (sections in the 070s). Features essays that analyze
their totality. The analogy applies to the call of the bird only or perhaps the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of
to the resemblance between a beak and the flute of a trumpet. The music-making, from the classical to the contemporary. UW: Readings in
metaphor would fail yet again if there were no perceivable analogies American Studies (sections in the 100s). Features essays that explore the
between birds and trumpets. Similarly, computer users who empty their culture, history, and politics that form American identity. UW: Readings in
virtual “trash bins,” are promised the erasure of underlying data. The Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s). Features essays that examine
course will conclude by examining the metaphors implicit such media relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms
transformations. of identity. UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s). Features
essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and
Spring 2018: CLEN GU4910
issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action. UW: Readings
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s). Features essays that study how our
Number Number
CLEN 4910 001/25785 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Dennis Tenen 3 20/50
data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy,
516 Hamilton Hall identity, and privacy. UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the
600s). Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics
ENGL UN3999 Senior Essay. 3 points. and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about
Open to those who have applied and been accepted into the department's medicine, care, sickness, and health.  University Writing for International
senior essay program only. Students (sections in the 900s). Open only to international students,
these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing
Prerequisites: the department's permission.
cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety
This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted
of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit: http://
into the department's senior essay program. For information about
www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.
the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://
english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program. Fall 2017: ENGL CC1010
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Spring 2018: ENGL UN3999 Number Number
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment ENGL 1010 002/17848 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Bernadette 3 14/14
Number Number 201b Philosophy Hall Myers
ENGL 3999 001/25945   Michael 3 14/25 ENGL 1010 003/16798 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Anya Lewis- 3 14/14
Golston 408a Philosophy Hall Meeks
ENGL 1010 005/22346 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Nitzan 3 13/14
408a Philosophy Hall Rotenberg
ENGL 1010 006/28098 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Akua Banful 3 14/14
616 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 008/92081 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Iris Cushing 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 009/60286 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Theresa 3 14/14
315 Hamilton Hall Jefferson
ENGL 1010 012/26032 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Walter Gordon 3 13/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 013/83782 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Jessica 3 13/14
307 Mathematics Engebretson
Building
ENGL 1010 014/11283 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Shoshana 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall Akabas
ENGL 1010 015/16552 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Adam Horn 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 017/25998 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Kent 3 14/14
307 Mathematics Szlauderbach
Building
ENGL 1010 018/25782 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Nicholas 3 13/14
201d Philosophy Hall Mayer
ENGL 1010 020/93636 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Elleza Kelley 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 023/60031 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Jack Lowery 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 024/82282 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Daniel Lefferts 3 14/14
408a Philosophy Hall
 English and Comparative Literature           27

ENGL GS1010 University Writing. 3 points.

Prerequisites: Non-native English speakers must reach Level 10 in the
American Language Program prior to registering for ENGL GS1010.
University Writing helps undergraduates engage in the conversations that
form our intellectual community. By reading and writing about scholarly
and popular essays, students learn that writing is a process of continual
refinement of ideas. Rather than approaching writing as an innate talent,
this course teaches writing as a learned skill. We give special attention
to textual analysis, research, and revision practices. University Writing
offers the following themed sections, all of which welcome students
with no prior experience studying the theme. Students interested in a
particular theme should register for the section within the specified
range of section numbers. UW: Contemporary Essays (sections from 001
to 069). Features contemporary essays from a variety of fields. UW:
Readings in Music (sections in the 070s). Features essays that analyze
the politics, histories, communities, philosophies, and techniques of
music-making, from the classical to the contemporary. UW: Readings in
American Studies (sections in the 100s). Features essays that explore the
culture, history, and politics that form American identity. UW: Readings in
Gender and Sexuality (sections in the 200s). Features essays that examine
relationships among sex, gender, sexuality, race, class, and other forms
of identity. UW: Readings in Human Rights (sections in the 400s). Features
essays that investigate the ethics of belonging to a community and
issues of personhood, identity, representation, and action. UW: Readings
in Data Sciences (sections in the 500s). Features essays that study how our
data-saturated society challenges conceptions of cognition, autonomy,
identity, and privacy. UW: Readings in Medical-Humanities (sections in the
600s). Features essays that explore the disciplines of biomedical ethics
and medical anthropology, to challenge our basic assumptions about
medicine, care, sickness, and health. University Writing for International
Students (sections in the 900s). Open only to international students,
these sections emphasize the transition to American academic writing
cultures through the study of contemporary essays from a variety
of fields. For further details about these classes, please visit: http://
www.college.columbia.edu/core/uwp.

Fall 2017: ENGL GS1010
Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Number Number
ENGL 1010 001/84782 M W 8:40am - 9:55am Emily Kuntz 3 14/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 003/12194 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Matthew 3 13/14
425 Pupin Laboratories Fernandez
ENGL 1010 004/11996 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Jeremy 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall Stevens
ENGL 1010 005/16001 T Th 10:10am - 11:25am G'Ra Asim 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 006/17896 M W 11:40am - 12:55pm Rebecca Wisor 3 14/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 008/22748 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Adam Winters 3 13/14
423 Kent Hall
ENGL 1010 009/27248 M W 1:10pm - 2:25pm Rebecca Wisor 3 13/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 011/61532 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Montana Ray 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 013/83032 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Simon Porzak 3 13/14
201b Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 016/93637 M W 4:10pm - 5:25pm Avia Tadmor 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 017/86147 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Allen Durgin 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 018/92296 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Leah Zander 3 14/14
405 Kent Hall
ENGL 1010 019/95797 M W 5:40pm - 6:55pm Heather Radke 3 12/14
201d Philosophy Hall
ENGL 1010 020/97396 T Th 5:40pm - 6:55pm Amanda Lowe 3 13/14
401 Hamilton Hall
ENGL 1010 022/77533 M W 7:10pm - 8:25pm Michael 3 13/14
201b Philosophy Hall Darnell
ENGL 1010 023/86031   3 0/14