Departmental Facilities

The Department of English is located in Watson Hall, with the Departments of Classics, History, and Philosophy. Watson Hall houses the Department's secretarial and faculty offices, the graduate seminar room, and shared offices for graduate students.

Financial Assistance

The Department of English offers financial support to M.A., MPhil, and Ph.D. students in the form of Queen's Graduate Awards and teaching assistantships. Funding for MPhil students is guaranteed for two years. Funding for Ph.D. students is guaranteed for four years. Ph.D. students are also eligible to apply for teaching fellowships in the fourth year of the program.

Areas of Research

The Department offers graduate courses and thesis supervision in Interdisciplinary areas of literary research such as indigenous studies, ecological and animal studies, and gender studies, as well as in the major areas of literary history, including Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, Modern Canadian and American literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and Literary Theory

The Queen’s University Library collections are particularly strong in Renaissance and Nineteenth-century English literature and meet the needs of graduate students working in Medieval, Eighteenth-century, and Modern literatures.

Special Collections include an outstanding collection of Dickens, as well as the personal library of Robertson Davies. The Canadiana section, based upon the Edith and Lorne Pierce collection, is one of the most impressive in the country, and the Commonwealth section has grown rapidly in recent years. The Library resources are further augmented by microfilms of books printed in the British Isles and abroad before 1700 (from lists in the Short Title Catalogue and the Wing Supplement), and a 30-volume microfilm copy of the original Stationers' Company records. Queen's Archives has substantial holdings in Canadiana from its beginnings to the contemporary day, including the works of such writers as Carman, Purdy, and Woodcock.

Degree Programs

Applicants to our graduate programs are accepted under the general regulations of the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, providing they also satisfy the requirements of the Department. Successful candidates for admission have normally completed a B.A. (Hons) degree if applying to a Master’s program, or BA (Hons) and first-class MA degrees if applying to the Doctoral program, with at least upper second-class standing and with a cumulative average in English courses of at least 80% or A- average.

Students whose native language does not include English will be required to obtain a minimum score of 109 on the TOEFL Internet-based test (TOEFL Ibt), or 7.5 on the IELTS Academic module.  For details see the department's website: Graduate, Applying. 

Faculty

Head
McKegney, S.

Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Willmott, G.

Professor
Bongie, C., Fachinger, P., Johns-Putra, A., McIntire, G., McKegney, S., Morrison, R., Murray, L., Ritchie, L., Ruffo, A., Schlick, Y., Willmott, G.

Associate Professor
Fanning, C., Cameron, S. B., Macfarlane, H., Moriah, K., Pappano, M., Straker, S., Wallace, M.

Assistant Professor
Chatterjee, R., Facundo, A., Hill, M., Okot Bitek, J. 

Professor Emeritus
Berg, M., Carpenter, M.W., Clark, G.R., Hanson, E., Harland, C., Jones, M.C., King, S., Lobb, E., Lock, F., Logan, G.M., Monkman, L.G., Pierce, J., Rae, P., Smart, C., Söderlind, S., Straznicky, M., Varadharajan, A., Ware, T. 

Programs

Courses

Full courses  (6.0 credit units) designated as Studies and half courses  (3.0 credit units) designated as Topics offer the study of a single work, a group of related works, an author or authors within the period or grouping indicated. The content of these offerings will vary from year to year. Not all the courses listed below will be offered in any one year, and a few are offered infrequently. A list of expected offerings with detailed descriptions of course content will be sent to applicants as soon as it can be drawn up.  

ENGL 800 Introduction to Professional and Pedagogical Skills I 
This course introduces M.A. and M.Phil. students to the scholarly study and teaching of English literature. The emphasis will be on training Teaching Assistants. There will be practical training in research skills, essay-marking, the academic counselling of students, and first-time teaching. There will also be some consideration of academic and non-academic careers for M.A.s and MPhils. Three term-hours; fall.  

ENGL 802 Practical Criticism
This course will provide students with the necessary tools to practice and to teach "close reading" in a broad range of genres from different historical and national contexts.  Students will engage in textual analysis through a series of practical exercises combined with readings of critical essays representing different approaches to the reading of literature.  Not offered 2025-2026.

ENGL 803 Research Forum I  
A regularly scheduled forum in which faculty, advanced doctoral students, and visiting scholars present model research problems and methodologies for discussion. Attendance is required. Graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Various speakers. Not offered 2025-2026.

ENGL 810 Literary Criticism
Representative critical approaches from Aristotle to the moderns will be considered with particular attention to those, which have most influenced contemporary attitudes. Not offered 2025-26. 

ENGL 811 Literary Theory I 
 Topic: Queer Theory
What does sex have to do with interpretation? With art? With politics? With thought itself? Sex, the sexual, sexuality pervade political, relational, conceptual, psychical, and everyday life. The field of queer theory is a site of hotly contested concepts and politics. Our course section explores this hotbed of debate: both the (canonical) history of queer theory’s development as well as its current state.

This course begins with a review of queer theory’s foundations, leading to its divergence into what scholars in the field call the “antisocial” and “reparative” positions. Avenues of inquiry include psychoanalysis, discourse analysis, camp, and affect theory. We will use this foundation to explore the latest developments in the paranoid-reparative split unfolding today.  Many theorists struggle with defining the term “queer,” let alone decide upon its agenda. The course will continue this difficult work by exploring queer theory through a variety of splits: between identity politics and a desire to undo identity, between the masculine and feminine, between psychoanalytic theory and activism. From these ambivalences about how to position “queer” politics, we will explore how the term is situated in relation to a number of conceptual contexts: namely, the drive, discourse, reading, and commodity culture. Course readings, small seminar discussions, and assignments will train students to articulate and develop difficult and flexible concepts both orally and in writing. Three term-hours; winter.   

ENGL 813 Literary Theory III 
Topic:  Writing the Body 
This advanced interdisciplinary seminar course introduces students to contemporary readings in Black studies, Indigenous Studies, colonialism, queer and trans studies in relation to the body. We might think about the body as a physical manifestation, a material being, one in relation, one that takes up space, or not. How might we orientate ourselves as we bear witness to those whose presence clamors for attention in the social and political periphery? In this course we’ll be thinking about what it is to write the body (both as an act of legibility, and as political practice of inclusion or exclusion) first through Franz Fanon and Audre Lorde, but branching out to think with other thinkers, artists, poets, and novelists to ask: how is a body--or how are we—articulated, or not? What are the limits of legibility, of opacity? What are the archives of those whose presences remain unwritten, or unrecognized, in practices of knowledge and power? As we consider these questions collectively through the critical reading, discussion, and reflection, we hope to expand the idea of the body beyond the material form to think alongside conceptions of containment, power, and resistance. Three term-hours; winter. 

ENGL 815 Topics in Literary Study I
Topic: What was the Anthropocene

In March of 2024, a panel of expert straitographers answered the question of whether current human actions on the planet have resulted in the beginning of a new epoch, “the Anthropocene,” with a resounding “no,” thus seeming to close the book on a debate two decades, many ice core and sediment samples and temperature charts, and innumerable articles, essays, films, anthologies, and monographs in the making. We remain, they concluded, in the Holocene. Dueling experts immediately questioned this assertion, and the Anthropocene is unlikely to be abandoned so easily, given the concept’s explanatory power for so many scholars interested in contemporary environmental concerns. As Rob Nixon has noted, the Anthropocene has become an intellectual "cavernous maw," drawing in converts and critics from across the disciplines, including literary studies, and generating a robust and diverse scholarly conversation on the place of the “Anthropos” on the planet.

Taking this opportunity as a moment for a reflective pause in the frenetic pace of cultural production on this subject, this course will reassess the Anthropocene as a concept, asking what work it has authorized, what kind of thinking it has produced, and what kind of action it has encouraged. Though our texts will be contemporary, students are welcome to pursue the concept in other eras. (Scholars have, after all, set the origins of the Anthropocene as early as 1610.) Course texts may include works by scholars like Timothy Clark, T. J. Demos, Jason W. Moore, Amitav Ghosh, Donna Haraway, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Paul Kingsnorth, Kathryn Yusoff, and Anna Tsing. Primary texts TBA but may include poetry by Adam Dickinson, Anne Waldman, and Ross Gay; novels by Karen Tei Yamashita, Paulo Bacigalupi, Richard Powers, and Ruth Ozeki; and films such as Burtynsky’s Anthropocene and Kahiu’s Pumzi. Requirements will include frequent short response papers, a group presentation, and a longer seminar paper that includes independent research. Three term-hours; Summer.
Three term-hours; winter.

ENGL 816 Topics in Literary Study II.
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 817 Topics in Literary Studies III 
Topic: Publishing Practicum
This seminar takes students through revision and submission stages from draft essay to article publication. The first section of the course will be devoted to discussion of the differences between coursework papers and published articles, and to a presentation and peer revision cycle of each student’s work. The second section of the course will discuss how to decide where to send article submissions, how to present them, and what to expect of the process. If there is time, we will build in a conference proposal/presentation stage. Students must have a complete draft essay to bring to the start of the course and be ready to welcome reading and response from peers. Success in the course requires regular attendance, constructive participation, revision responsive to instructor and peer review, and submission to an appropriate scholarly venue for publication. Note: Doctoral students are strongly urged to enroll in this course, and while the course is open to all students, doctoral students will have enrolment priority. Three term-hours; winter.  

ENGL 818 Topics in Literary Study IV
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 819 Introduction to Bibliography  
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 820 Anglo-Saxon and Beowulf 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 821 Topics in Anglo-Saxon Literature I
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 822 Old Norse
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 823 Studies in Medieval Literature
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 824 Topics in Medieval Literature I
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 825 Topics in Medieval Literature II
Topic: Medieval Travel and Ethnographic Writing

This course will explore the representations produced by medieval travelers—pilgrims, crusaders, missionaries, merchants, and emissaries, among others—in the high and later Middle Ages, largely focused on Medieval Europeans but with some attention to the peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean. As medieval people traveled to distant lands, they encountered peoples and customs different from their own.  We will analyze how medieval people wrote about ethnic differences and in doing so, consider the discourses available to the medieval person to frame their experience of difference, including conceptions of “race” in the Middle Ages.  While medieval travel writing was bound up with the system of auctoritas and thus heavily indebted to preceding traditions, travelers could and did produce alternative ways of seeing the world.  We will explore the tensions between the universalizing discourses of Christendom and the individual experience of the traveler, charting the evolving patterns of ethnographic and geographic thought in relation to changes wrought by centuries of contact and exchange of information between Europe and its “others”. Three term-hours; winter.  

ENGL 826 Topics in Medieval Literature III
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 827 Topics in Medieval Literature IV
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 828 Chaucer 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 830 Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Not offered 2024-25.

ENGL 831 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture I 
Topic: Working with Early Modern Play-Texts

The title pages of early printed plays make various claims to authority. They often refer to the corrections, revisions, and augmentations the text has undergone from manuscript to print. They can acknowledge theatrical collaborators including acting company, performance venue, and royal patrons, and non-authorial collaborators like the stationer involved in printing the playbook. And they sometimes identify an author.
This course examines the theories and practices of Shakespeare editing and interrogates how concepts of authorship, authenticity, and originality are shaped by editorial apparatuses that have been remade over the centuries. While our broad concern will be the questions of access, authority, and authorship that arise in relation to the texts of early editions of plays by Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights, students will also receive an introduction to palaeography, early modern pointing, the practice of commonplacing, and technical terms like ‘foul papers’, ‘promptbooks’, ‘editions’, ‘reprints’, and ‘substantive’ and ‘accidental’ variants. A core section of the course will be dedicated to the collaborative conditions of theatrical production and the issue of accessing and representing integral performance features (pre- and post-play announcements and entertainments, fencing, dancing, singing, clowning improvision) that are devalued by or do not show up at all on the printed page. Three term-hours; fall. 

ENGL 832 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture II
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 833 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture III 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 834 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture IV 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 835 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture V
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 836 Topics in Early Modern Literature and Culture VI 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 840 Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 841 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature I
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 842 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature II
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 843 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature III
Topic: News & Print Media of the Eighteenth Century

What’s black and white and read all over? This course considers what it was like to make and read the news in eighteenth-century London. Students will gain a sense of eighteenth-century newspapers’ importance in forming public opinion concerning historic events and social ideas. From longform journalism and the periodical essay to issues of authorship including editorializing, anonymity, and pseudonymity; from Parliamentary reporting to arts reviewing practices; and from reporting on weather and celebrities to advertising infallible cures, we will read all about it.  

ENGL 844 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature IV
Topic: Jane Austen and her Contemporaries

2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, and “Austen at 250” conferences, lectures series, documentaries, and tours will take place throughout the year and around the world. This course examines Austen’s six published novels, as well as the novels of some of her major female contemporaries, including Charlotte Dacre, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley. We will assess the cultural restraints that these women both challenged and exploited, as well as their distinctive responses to issues ranging from romance, taste, and domesticity to class, sexuality, and imperialism. Three term-hours; fall. 
ENGL 850 Studies in Romantic Literature 
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 851 Topics in Romanticism I​
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 852 Topics in Romanticism II 
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 853 Topics in Romanticism III
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 854 Topics in Romanticism IV
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 855 Studies in Victorian Literature 

Topic: The late-Victorian City

This course will look at literary representation of the late- Victorian city. Following the rise of industrial capitalism, the metropolis came to represent a space of economic promise and individual mobility, as well as social instability and uncertainty.  More than just the setting for a story, the Victorian city played an integral role in the formation of new and often contradictory narratives on democratic individualism and social conflict. We will look at how Victorian writers employed innovations in both form and content to represent these complex relationships and the modern subjectivities who occupy this new urban landscape. Reading from a representative sampling of texts (including the industrial novel, gothic fiction, new women writings, and naturalist narratives), we will ask who has access to these urban spaces and focus our conversations specifically on representations of class, gender, and nationhood. Our conversations and presentations will concentrate on representations of class and economic mobility in authors like George Gissing and Arthur Morrison; gender and sexual politics in city stories by authors like Margaret Harkness and Oscar Wilde; and nationhood and cosmopolitanism in works by authors like RL Stevenson and George Egerton. There will also be a final unit on the neo-Victorian city, featuring work by Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet) and Peter Ackroyd (Dan Leno) on the queer and working-class Music Hall; and we will also look at new media approaches to the Neo-Victorian city—including video games (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate or Vampyr) and film or television adaptations (Penny Dreadful and The Limehouse Golem). Contextual and theoretical readings on the city and urban subjectivities will likely include (but not be limited to) selections from Marx & Engels, Baudelaire, Benjamin, de Certeau, Lefebvre, Saskia Sassen, and David Harvey Three term-hours; Summer.

ENGL 856 Topics in Victorian Literature I
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 857 Topics in Victorian Literature II
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 858 Topics in Victorian Literature III
 Not offered 2025-26. 
ENGL 859 Topics in Victorian Literature IV
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 860 Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 861 Topics in Modernism I
Topic: Modernist Poetics, Ontologies, and the Natural: T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, and Anton Chekhov

The four writers who will be the focus of the course—T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, and Anton Chekhov—each experimented in different ways with what it meant to represent ontologies in the avant-garde of modernist literature. In one of Woolf’s many reviews of Chekhov she admires his edifying, ethico-spiritual effects on the reader: “as we read these little stories about nothing at all, the horizon widens; the soul gains an astonishing sense of freedom.” Together in this course we will explore how these writers wrestle (both overtly and covertly) with questions about formal experimentation in tension with ideas of ontological and spiritual freedom, particularly as these relate to the natural world. How did these writers generate poetics of meaning-making about the natural? How did they register human ontologies in relation to threats from post-industrial environmental degradation? Three term-hours; winter.
ENGL 862 Topics in Modernism II 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 863 Topics in Modernism III
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 864 Topics in Modernism IV
 Not offered 2025-26.
ENGL 865 Topics in Contemporary Literature and Culture I 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 866 Topics in Contemporary Literature and Culture II
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 867 Topics in Contemporary Literature and Culture III
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 868 Topics in Contemporary Literature and Culture IV
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 870 Studies in Canadian Literature 
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 871 Topics in Canadian Literature I
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 872 Topics in Canadian Literature II
Topic: Recent Trends in Asian Canadian Literature

The seminar, in which we will read a select number of texts by authors born in the 1970s or later, intends to acknowledge the historical, cultural, and social specificities that have been affecting the literary production of Asian diasporas in Canada over the last decade. We will focus on novels, creative nonfiction, and poetry concerned with anti-Asian racism, mixed-race identities, LGBTQ+ identities, the climate crisis, and solidarity with Indigenous Peoples – issues that often intersect. Our discussion will be informed by various theoretical approaches including critical race, queer, transgender, and feminist theories. Three term-hours; fall. 

ENGL 873 Topics in Canadian Literature III
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 874 Topics in Canadian Literature IV
 Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 875 Studies in Postcolonial Literatures 
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 876 Topics in Postcolonial Literatures I 
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 877 Topics in Postcolonial Literatures II
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 878 Topics in Postcolonial Literatures III
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 879 Topics in Postcolonial Literatures IV
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 880 Studies in American Literature
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 881 Topics in American Literature I
Topic: American Women Write the Short Story

In addition to exploring the formal and thematic variety of the genre of the short story, this course will examine its utility in conveying the life experiences and insights of 20th-century American women writers.  We will read their works in light of historical events and feminism’s evolution in the United States, explore how their writings address gender and depict domestic lives and familial relations, and consider their respective use of the short story’s hallmark brevity and concision in rendering the experiences of everyday life.  (Consider Lydia Davis’s story, “Example of the Continuing Past Tense in a Hotel Room”, as an example of such brevity.  Its single sentence reads:  “Your housekeeper has been Shelly.”)  Authors studied include: Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy Parker, Grace Paley, Lucia Berlin, Lydia Davis, Jhumpa Lahiri, Catherine Lacey, and Ayşe Papatya Bucak. Three term-hours; fall.

ENGL 882 Topics in American Literature II
Topic: Letting the Dead Speak: Living with Poetics of Collective Loss in the Americas

In the preface to his book Khurbn (1989), written while travelling to his family’s ancestral village in Poland and confronting their experience of the Holocaust, the poet Jerome Rothenberg writes that “poetry is the voice of the dead.” Similarly, NourbeSe Philip, in the afterward to her book Zong! (2008), describes herself as a seer working through and against the historical archive of slavery to “tell the story that can’t be told.” This course takes from these statements a conception of the poet as both historical witness and seer, an individual whose work channels and mediates experiences of collective loss that can never be fully spoken - only lived with, transformed, and incompletely shared. Writing from within a world made by histories of catastrophe such a poetics works against discourses that may disavow, reify, or otherwise contain such loss in narratives of progress or individual redemption. Instead, an historically visionary poetics is one in which the force of collective loss is mediated as a felt sense of both catastrophe and ongoing potential in our present moment, and where the reader is not asked to witness but rather to bear the urgency of history toward the transformation of our shared world. Throughout the course we will engage the work of poets from across the Americas writing in relation to specific histories of collective loss to consider what constitutes a political poetics and to ask ourselves what it means to read and live with or in relation to such loss as we struggle for liberation. Three term-hours; fall.

ENGL 883 Topics in American Literature III 
Not offered 2025-26.

ENGL 884 Topics in American Literature IV
Topic: Race, Sound and African American Literature

This course serves as an introduction to the field of Sound Studies and an overview of recent works of African American cultural criticism. Sound Studies methodologies provide a way to chip away at privileged discourses of knowledge. Indeed, Josh Kun argues that “studying sound helps us put an ear to ‘the audio-racial imagination,’ which refers to the aurality of racial meanings, and to sound’s role in systems and institutions of racialization and racial formation within and across the borders of the United States.” Following Kun, we will investigate various recourses to sound throughout the African American literary tradition. We will read the work of scholars and cultural critics like Jennifer Stoever, Alexander Weheliye, and Tina Campt. We will listen to everything. Traversing the sonic color line, we will develop new understandings of black aesthetics, literature, and politics. Three term-hours; fall.

ENGL 890 Directed Cross-Disciplinary Research 
This course is designed to allow M.A. students to undertake a program of graduate-level directed reading under the supervision of faculty in departments outside English Language and Literature. Permission of the external supervisor is required in advance of registration, and workload and evaluation for the course must be approved by the graduate coordinator in English to ensure consistency with English graduate course norms.

ENGL 892 Literary Internship
This course is a pass/fail credit course which offers MA students placements in research, literacy, language, and arts-related community organizations, with the aim of providing those students with job experience that is directly related to literary studies. Sample placements may include such organizations as Kingston WritersFest or the Strathy Language Unit at Queen’s University. To achieve a pass in ENGL 892, the student shall submit to the Graduate Chair a time sheet (signed by his/her placement supervisor) stating that 50 hours of work have been completed satisfactorily, and hand in a brief written summary report (1200 words) on the experience to the Graduate Chair.  

ENGL 895 Directed Reading
Directed study under the guidance of a faculty member in an area of the instructor’s expertise. Permission of instructor and graduate coordinator in English is required in advance of registration and is granted only under special circumstances. Workload and evaluation for the course must be approved by the graduate coordinator in English to ensure consistency with English graduate course norms. (Available only to students enrolled in the English MA program or year 1 of the MPhil program.)

ENGL 896 MPhil Field Preparation
This course is graded on a Pass/Fail basis.

ENGL 899 Master's Thesis Research 

ENGL 900 Introduction to Professional and Pedagogical Skills II
This course is designed to acquaint doctoral students with some aspects of the teaching and scholarly skills and responsibilities of university faculty in order to prepare them for an academic career. In addition to practical training in essay marking, lecturing techniques and other teaching methods, the course will offer training in bibliographical and archival research, grant application, the academic job market, and other practical aspects of the professional study of literature. The course will consist of a number of seminars and workshops geared to the particular stage of the student’s progress over three years in the program. Three term-hours; fall.  

ENGL 903 Research Forum I
A regularly scheduled forum in which faculty, advanced doctoral students, and visiting scholars present model research problems and methodologies for discussion. Attendance is required. Graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Various speakers.

ENGL 950 Comparative Literature I
An introduction to comparative literary studies as currently practised, with particular emphasis on the relevance to such studies of contemporary theories of literature and criticism. This course will be given jointly with CLAS 850.

ENGL 951 Comparative Literature II 
Specialized study in a comparative context of particular authors, themes, movements, periods, genres, literary forms, or some combination of these elements. This course will be given jointly with CLAS 851.

ENGL 990 Directed Cross-Disciplinary Research
This course is designed to allow doctoral students to undertake a program of graduate-level directed reading under the supervision of faculty in departments outside English Language and Literature. Permission of the external supervisor is required in advance of registration, and workload and evaluation for the course must be approved by the graduate coordinator in English to ensure consistency with English graduate course norms.

ENGL 995 Directed Reading 
Directed study under the guidance of a faculty member in an area of the instructor’s expertise. Permission of instructor and graduate coordinator in English is required in advance of registration and is granted only under special circumstances. Workload and evaluation for the course must be approved by the graduate coordinator in English to ensure consistency with English graduate course norms. (Available only to students enrolled in the English PhD program or year 2 or the MPhil program.)

ENGL 999 PhD Thesis Research