2023-24 Courses

Overview

We are excited to introduce our department’s curriculum for the Academic Year 2023-24.

Please note that this schedule is subject to change, and students are encouraged not only to revisit this page but also to confirm the current semester's course listings in the "English @Barnard" section of the Directory of Classes.

English majors should contact their major advisor with any questions. Non-English majors, or those thinking of declaring an English major, should contact english@barnard.edu.

Fall 2023 Courses

Please note:

Fall courses will be held from Tuesday September 5, 2023 – Monday, December 11, 2023.
Course descriptions, sections and times, can be found in the "English @Barnard" section of the Directory of Classes.
If you are unsure of whether or not a course requires special enrollment procedures, please see our full list of fall 2023 courses that require special enrollment.

COURSE	INSTRUCTOR	NOTES
ENGL BC1901 Introduction to Graphic Novels	Benjamin Breyer	Join the waitlist to be considered for the course.
ENGL BC3101, section 1 The Writer's Process: A Seminar in the Teaching of Writing	Pamela Cobrin	Open only to Barnard students. Application required.
ENGL BC3101, section 2 The Writer's Process: A Seminar in the Teaching of Writing	Alexandra Watson	Open only to Barnard students. Application required.
ENGL BC3102 Academic Writing Intensive	Wendy Schor-Haim	Open only to Barnard students. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to wschorha@barnard.edu, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).
ENGL BC3103, section 1 The Art of the Essay	Vrinda Condillac	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3103, section 2 The Art of the Essay	Peggy Ellsberg	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3103, section 3 The Art of the Essay	Nina Sharma	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3105, section 1 Fiction and Personal Narrative	Eilf Batuman	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3105, section 2 Fiction and Personal Narrative	Jhumpa Lahiri	Requires a writing sample to apply. Enrollment limited to seniors.
ENGL BC3107 Introduction to Fiction Writing	Zaina Arafat	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing, section 1	Brionne Janae	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing, section 2	Catherine Barnett	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3113 Playwriting I	Ellen McLaughlin	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3115 Story Writing I	Nellie Hermann	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3117 Fiction Writing	Weike Wang	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing I	Patricia Spears Jones	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking	Daniela Kempf	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.
ENGL BC3123 Rhetorical Choices: the Theory and Practice of Public Speaking	Pamela Cobrin and Daniela Kempf	Open only to Barnard students. Application required.
ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction	Nina Sharma	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENTH BC3136 Shakespeare in Performance	Patricia Denison
ENGL BC3141 Major English Texts I	Peggy Ellsberg
ENGL BC3147 Introduction to Narrative Medicine	Maura Spiegel	Priority to seniors and juniors.
ENGL BC3154 Chaucer before Canterbury	Christopher Baswell
ENGL BC3159, section 1 The English Colloquium (Renaissance)	Atefeh Akbari Shamirzadi	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3159, section 2 The English Colloquium (Renaissance)	Rachel Eisendrath	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3159, section 3 The English Colloquium (Renaissance)	Eugene Petracca	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3159, section 4 The English Colloquium (Renaissance)	Peter Platt	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3163 Shakespeare I	Peter Platt
ENGL BC3167 Milton: Then and Now	Achsah Guibbory
ENGL BC3173 The Eighteenth-Century Novel	Monica Cohen
ENGL BC3179 American Literature to 1800	Lisa Gordis
ENGL BC3181 American Literature 1871-1945	Jennie Kassanoff
ENGL BC3183 American Literature since 1945	Kristin Carter
ENGL BC3188 The Modern Novel	Mary Cregan
ENGL BC3193, section 1 Critical Writing	Kristi Cassaro	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 2 Critical Writing	Jayne Hildebrand	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 3 Critical Writing	Andrew Lynn	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 4 Critical Writing	William Sharpe	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3195 Modernism	Kristi Cassaro
ENGL BC3204 World Literature Revisited I	Atefeh Akbari Shamirzadi
ENGL BC3208 What's Your Story Anyway?—Trauma Resistance through Creative Writing	Maria Hinojosa	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3214 Latinx and the ICE/Prison Industrial Complex—Access and Strategies for News Coverage	Maria Hinojosa
ENGL BC3215 Victorian Science and Science Fiction	Jayne Hildebrand
ENGL BC3223 New York in Ten Objects	Alexandra Horowitz	Application required: https://forms.gle/TeohjyFN7N52Qrq68.
ENGL BC3250 Introduction to US Latinx Literature	Kristin Carter
ENGL BC3252 Contemporary Media Theory	Jonathan Beller	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.
ENGL BC3294 Exophonic Women	Jhumpa Lahiri	Priority to Barnard English and Comparative Literature majors. Join the waitlist to be let into the course.
ENRE BC3810 Literary Approaches to the Bible	Peggy Ellsberg
ENGL BC3992 Senior Project in Creative Writing		Open only to senior Barnard English majors with a Creative Writing concentration. Writing sample required to apply.
ENGL BC3997, section 1 Senior Seminar: The Making and Unmaking of the Poetic Canon	James Basker	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3997, section 2 Senior Seminar: John Donne, the Metaphysicals, and His Legacy	Achsah Guibbory	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3997, section 3 Senior Seminar: "a d—d mob of scribbling women": Nineteenth-century American Women Writers	Lisa Gordis	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3997, section 4 Senior Seminar: Charles Dickens	William Sharpe	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.

Projected Spring 2024 Courses

Please note:

These listings are subject to change.
Course descriptions, sections and times, will be available in advance of spring registration in November 2023.

COURSE	INSTRUCTOR	NOTES
ENFL 3001 Black Speculative Fiction	Danielle Dougé
ENGL BC3104, section 1 The Art of the Essay	Nina Sharma	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3104, section 2 The Art of the Essay	Vrinda Condillac	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3104, section 3 The Art of the Essay	Shelly Fredman	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3106 Fiction and Personal Narrative	Alexandra Watson	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3108 Introduction to Fiction Writing	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3114 Playwriting II	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3116 Story Writing II	Nellie Hermann	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC31117 Fiction Writing, section 1	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC31117 Fiction Writing, section 2	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing I	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking, section 1	Daniela Kempf	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.
ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking, section 2	Daniela Kempf	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.
ENGL BC3125 Advanced Poetry Writing II	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3130 The American Cowboy and the Iconography of the West	Peggy Ellsberg
ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction	Instructor TBD	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENTH BC3139 Modern American Drama and Performance	Patricia Denison
ENGL BC3142 Major English Texts II	Peggy Ellsberg
ENGL BC3146 Walk this Way	William Sharpe
ENGL BC3150 Invention, Revision, and Imagination	Jennifer Finney Boylan	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3160, section 1 The English Colloquium (Enlightenment)	James Basker	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3160, section 2 The English Colloquium (Enlightenment)	Achsah Guibbory	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3160, section 3 The English Colloquium (Enlightenment)	Ross Hamilton	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3160, section 4 The English Colloquium (Enlightenment)	Eugene Petracca	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3164 Shakespeare II	Peter Platt
ENGL BC3166 Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry	Achsah Guibbory
ENGL BC3169 Renaissance Drama	Peter Platt
ENGL BC3171 Literature and Psychoanalysis	Nathan Gorelick
ENGL BC3180 American Literature, 1800-1870	Lisa Gordis
ENGL BC3185 Modern British and American Poetry	William Sharpe
ENGL BC3189 Postmodernism	Kristi Cassaro
ENGL BC3193, section 1 Critical Writing	Kristi Cassaro	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 2 Critical Writing	Lisa Gordis	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 3 Critical Writing	Rachel Eisendrath	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3193, section 4 Critical Writing	John Pagano	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3196 Home to Harlem: Harlem Renaissance Literature	Monica Miller
ENGL BC3205 World Literature Revisited II	Atefeh Akbari Shamirzadi
ENGL BC3207 The "Global" Novel	Atefeh Akbari Shamirzadi
ENGL BC3205 The “Ethnic” in the Literary Marketplace	Kristin Carter
ENGL BC3229 American Lives, American Stories	Maria Hinojosa	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3242 Anti-colonial Literature before 1900	Ken Chen
ENGL BC3243 Absent Mothers, Wicked Stepmothers	Wendy Schor-Haim
ENGL BC3249 The Marriage Plot	Peggy Ellsberg
ENGL BC3251 Nineteenth-century Thrillers	Monica Cohen
ENGL BC3281 Illegal Is Not a Noun: Disrupting Narratives of the Immigrant Experience	Maria Hinojosa
ENGL BC3291 Fictions of Law and Custom	Kristin Carter
ENGL BC3993 Senior Seminar: The Family in Fiction and Film	Maura Spiegel	Open only to Barnard senior English majors with a Film Studies concentration and Barnard senior Film Studies majors.
ENGL BC3998, section 1 Senior Seminar: TBD	Christopher Baswell	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3998, section 2 Senior Seminar: TBD	Patricia Denison	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3998, section 3 Senior Seminar: TBD	Jennie Kassanoff	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.
ENGL BC3998, section 4 Senior Seminar: TBD	Ross Hamilton	Open only to Barnard senior English majors.