2023-24 Courses
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 |
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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 |
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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. |