Fall 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

01  CAC    TTH4     12144   FULTON    MU-211 This course provides a survey of Shakespeare’s plays and poems written during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. We study a broad range of genres, including sonnets, comedies, histories, and tragedies. Attention is given to Shakespeare’s context, sources, and especially to film and stage interpretation. Since the plays are written to be performed, we will frequently study clips of filmed performances. Readings include The Sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s...

01   CAC   MW5   12145   COIRO   MU-213 The Imitation of the Past and the Invention of Modernity Seventeenth-century poetry is formally innovative and politically and intellectually daring. It is often funny and sexy; politically radical and (by our lights) politically inappropriate; part of the past and deeply relevant to the current moment. And sometimes it is all these things at the same time. This class will read poems closely and in context. You will get a deep immersion into the craft of making...

01    CAC   TTH7    12146    TOMCO   MU-211 From 1300 to 1800, the North Atlantic region experienced a period of intense cooling, leading to colder winters, crop failures, weather fluctuations, droughts, and even the freezing of the River Thames on a few occasions. We now call this the Little Ice Age. But what were the cultural responses to this climatological moment? This course will ask us to begin thinking about the relationship between literature and the environment. With our texts rooted in the...