English

English: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

English

MA

  • Fields:
    • American Literature;
    • Aspects of Theory;
    • Canadian Literature;
    • Creative Writing;
    • Medieval Literature;
    • Renaissance Literature;
    • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature;
    • Romantic and Victorian Literature;
    • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature;
    • World Literatures in English

PhD

  • Fields:
    • American Literature;
    • Aspects of Theory;
    • Canadian Literature;
    • Medieval Literature;
    • Renaissance Literature;
    • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature;
    • Romantic and Victorian Literature;
    • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature;
    • World Literatures in English

Combined Degree Programs

STG, Law, JD / English, MA

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Overview

One of the strongest and most diverse graduate English programs in North America, the University of Toronto's graduate program in the Department of English presents a wide array of approaches to the study of literature that includes both rigorous historical scholarship and the innovations of new theoretical, cultural, and interdisciplinary methods. This rich variety is exemplified in the more than 30 graduate seminars offered every year and in the interdisciplinary conjunctions with other departments and collaborative specializations.

Contact and Address

Web: www.english.utoronto.ca
Email: deptofenglish.graduate@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-2526
Fax: (416) 978-2836

Department of English
University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Building
6th Floor, 170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8
Canada

English: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Ackerman, Alan - BA, MA, PhD
Bewell, Alan - BA, MA, PhD
Blake, Liza - BA, MPH, MA, PhD
Bolus-Reichert, Christine - BPhil, AM, PhD
Boyagoda, Randy - PhD
Charise, Andrea - BSc, MA, PhD
Clarke, George Elliott - BA, MA, PhD
Cobb, Michael - BA, MA, AM, PhD
Cruz, Denise - BA, MA, PhD
Dancer, Thom - MA, PhD
Dickie, Simon - BA, MA, PhD
Dolan, Neal - BA, PhD
Downes, Paul - BA, PhD
Dubois, Andrew - BA, PhD
Esonwanne, Uzoma - BA, MA, PhD
Esterhammer, Angela - BA, PhD
Gallagher-Ross, Jacob - BA, MFA, DFA
Gaston, Kara Susan - BA, MPH, PhD
Gillespie, Alexandra - BA, BSc, PhD
Gniadek, Melissa - AB, MA, MA, PhD
Goldman, Marlene Beth - BFA, MA, PhD
Greene, Richard - PhD
Hammond, Adam - BA, MA, PhD
Harvey, Elizabeth - PhD
Hernandez, Alex - AB, AM, MA, PhD
Hill, Colin - BA, MA, PhD
Jaffe, Audrey - BA, PhD
Kamboureli, Smaro - BA, MA, PhD
Keymer, Thomas - BA, MA, PhD
Kortenaar, Neil ten - BA, MA, PhD
Lamb, Susan - BA, AM, DA
Larson, Katie - BMus, AB, MPH, PhD
Leonard, Garry - BA, MA, PhD
Levene, Mark - BA, MA, PhD
Li, Hao - BA, PhD
Lopez, Jeremy - BA, MA, DPhil
Magnusson, Lynne - BA, MA, PhD
Maurice, Alice - BA, DPhil
McGill, Robert - BA, MPH, MA, PhD
Morgenstern, Naomi - BA, MA, PhD (Chair and Graduate Chair)
Most, Andrea - BA, MA, PhD
Mount, Nick - AM, PhD
Nyquist, Mary - BA, MA, PhD
Percy, Carol - BA, MA, DPhil
Quayson, Ato - BA, PhD
Radovic, Stanka - PhD
Robins, William - BA, MPH, PhD
Robinson, Terry - BA, MA, PhD
Rogers, John - BA, MA, PhD
Rubright, Marjorie - AB, MA, DLitt
Ruti, Mari - BA, MA, PhD
Salih, Sara - BA, DPhil
Schmitt, Cannon - BA, MA, PhD
Seitler, Dana - BA, MA, PhD
Sergi, Matthew - BFA, PhD
Sobecki, Sebastian - PhD
Stern, Simon - BA, JD, PhD, Chair in Electronic Commerce
Stevens, Paul - BA, MA, PhD
Suzack, Cheryl - BA, BE, MA, PhD
Switzky, Lawrence - BA, MA, PhD
Syme, Holger Schott - BA, AM, PhD
Vernon, Karina Joan - BA, MA, PhD
Warley, Christopher - BA, MA, DPhil
Weisman, Karen - BA, PhD
White, Dan - BA, AM, DPhil (Director of Graduate Studies)
Williams, Ian - BA, MA, PhD
Williams, Katherine - BA, MA, PhD
Wright, Daniel - BA, MA, PhD
Xie, Ming - BA, PhD

Members Emeriti

Adamowski, Thomas - PhD
Asals, Frederick - AB, MA, PhD
Auster, Henry - BA, MA, PhD
Cameron, Elspeth - BA, MA, PhD
Chambers, Douglas - PhD
Cook, Eleanor - PhD
Cuddy-Keane, Melba - BA, MA, PhD
Domville, Eric William - BA, PhD
Duffy, Dennis - AB, MA, PhD
Dutka, JoAnna - BA, MA, PhD, ARCT
Halewood, William - AB, MA, PhD
Hayne, Barrie - BA, AM, PhD
Healey, Antonette - BA, MA, PhD
Henderson, Greig - BA, MA, PhD
Hutcheon, Linda - BA, MA, PhD
Johnston, Alexandra - PhD
Leggatt, Alexander - BA, MA, PhD
Li, Victor - BA, MA, PhD
Millgate, Michael - BA, MA, PhD
Murray, Heather - BA, MA, PhD
Saddlemyer, Ann - PhD, DLitt
Sidnell, Michael - BA, MA, PhD
Townsend, David Robert - BA, MA, PhD
Vicari, E. Patricia - BA, MA, PhD
Visser, Colin - BA, BLitt, PhD
Warkentin, Germaine - PhD

Associate Members

Aguila-Way, Tania - BA, MA, PhD
Azubuko-Udah, Comfort - PhD
Baker, Deirdre - BA, MA, PhD
Battershill, Claire - PhD
Blayney, Peter - BA, PhD
Dooley, Ann - BA, MA, PhD
Mehta, Rijuta - BA, MA, MA, PhD
Michelet Pickavé, Fabienne L. - MPH, LèsL, LittD
Newman, Daniel - DLitt
Sharpe, Christina - PhD
Teramura, Misha - BA, AM, PhD
Thomas, Anna - BA, MA, PhD
Tysdal, Daniel - BA, MA

English: English MA

Master of Arts

Program Description

The Master of Arts program offers broad coverage in British, Canadian, Aboriginal, American, and postcolonial literatures, a sophisticated command of current theoretical approaches, and exceptional preparation and intellectual support for significant research.

The MA in English degree program is offered in 10 fields: 9 fields have the same requirements, while the field of Creative Writing has different requirements.

The MA program can be taken on a full-time or part-time basis except in the Creative Writing field, which is taken on a full-time basis only. Requirements for the Creative Writing field are described in a separate section below.

 

Fields:
1) American Literature; 2) Aspects of Theory; 3) Canadian Literature; 4) Medieval Literature; 5) Renaissance Literature; 6) Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; 7) Romantic and Victorian Literature; 8) Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature; 9) World Literatures in English

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Department of English's additional admission requirements stated below.
  • A minimum of 7 full-year undergraduate courses in English or the equivalent in half-year courses (i.e., 14), or any combination of full- and half-year courses that add up to the equivalent of 7 full-year courses in English.
  • An appropriate bachelor's degree (i.e., a four-year undergraduate degree), or its equivalent (preferably in English), with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of B+ or better and evidence of first-class work in English. The department favours a broad training in the major genres and all periods of English literary history.
  • Recommendations from two referees.
  • A statement of purpose.
  • A writing sample consisting of 12 to 15 pages. The writing sample should be an accomplished piece of the applicant's own academic writing, such as an advanced undergraduate seminar paper. See details about the writing sample.
  • Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:
    • 600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE).
    • 100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections.
  • Admissions are selective; possession of minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission.

Program Requirements

  • Coursework. Students must successfully complete a total of 4.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:
    • ENG6999Y Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English (1.0 FCE).
    • 3.0 approved graduate FCEs in English.
  • Students must attain a minimum B standing in each graduate course.

Program Length

3 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S);
9 sessions part-time

Time Limit

3 years full-time;
6 years part-time

 

Field: Creative Writing

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Department of English's additional admission requirements stated below.
  • A minimum of 7 full-year undergraduate courses in English or the equivalent in half-year courses (i.e., 14), or any combination of full- and half-year courses that add up to the equivalent of 7 full-year courses in English.
  • An appropriate bachelor's degree (i.e., a four-year undergraduate degree), or its equivalent (preferably in English), with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of B+ or better and evidence of first-class work in English. The department favours a broad training in the major genres and all periods of English literary history.
  • Recommendations from two referees.
  • A statement of purpose.
  • A portfolio consisting of 20 to 25 pages of prose (drama, fiction, or creative non-fiction), and/or poetry. See details about the format of creative writing portfolio submissions.
  • Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:
    • 600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE).
    • 100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections.
  • Admissions are selective; possession of minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission.

Program Requirements

  • Coursework. Students must successfully complete a total of 3.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) as follows:
    • ENG6950Y Workshop in Creative Writing (1.0 FCE). All students must complete the Workshop in Creative Writing in Year 1 of their program.
    • 2.0 approved FCEs in English.
  • Students must attain a minimum B standing in each graduate course.
  • Supervised Writing Project (the equivalent of a thesis). Upon completion of coursework, students undertake a book-length Writing Project in a genre of their choice: poetry, drama, fiction, or creative non-fiction. Each student is assigned a faculty member or adjunct faculty member with whom to consult on a regular basis about the project. All advisors are published writers.
  • The MA Creative Writing program cannot be taken on a part-time basis.

Program Length

5 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S/F/W)

Time Limit

3 years full-time

English: English PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Program Description

The Doctor of Philosophy program offers broad coverage in British, Canadian, Aboriginal, American, and postcolonial literatures, a sophisticated command of current theoretical approaches, and exceptional support for significant research projects.

Applicants are admitted through one of two routes: 1) a master’s degree in English, 2) in exceptional cases, an appropriate bachelor’s degree (direct entry).

Completion of the PhD program may take longer than the indicated program length below.

 

Fields:
1) American Literature; 2) Aspects of Theory; 3) Canadian Literature; 4) Medieval Literature; 5) Renaissance Literature; 6) Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; 7) Romantic and Victorian Literature; 8) Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature; 9) World Literatures in English

PhD Program

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Department of English's additional admission requirements stated below.

  • Normally, applicants have a master's degree in English from a recognized university, with an average grade equivalent to at least a University of Toronto A– in the applicant's overall program.

  • Applicants must satisfy the department that they are capable of independent research in English at an advanced level.

  • Recommendations from two referees.

  • A writing sample of not more than 5,000 words (approximately 15 to 20 pages).

  • A statement of purpose.

  • A curriculum vitae (CV).

  • Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:

    • 600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE).

    • 100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections.

  • Admission to the PhD is based on the applicant's undergraduate and graduate records and upon the evidence of the references and statement.

  • Admissions are selective; possession of minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission.

Program Requirements

  • Students pursue a program of study and research approved by the department.
Courses
  • The minimum course requirements for the degree, a total of 4.25 full-course equivalents (FCEs), are as follows:

    • ENG9400H Essential Skills Workshop Series (0.25 FCE; Credit/No Credit). This course is required unless ENG800H or equivalent course has already been taken.

    • ENG9500H Professional Development (0.5 FCE).

    • ENG9900H Professing Literature (0.5 FCE).

    • 3.0 additional FCEs in English, as approved by the department.

  • Every student must select at least 2.0 FCEs outside the chosen field of study in the course of their graduate training. The student is encouraged to combine these courses into a minor field. Graduate courses taken as part of the master's program and in fulfillment of the English language requirement may be counted in this connection, but not ENG6999Y Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English nor courses in the 9000 series.

  • Course selection must meet the approval of the department.

English-Language Requirement
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the history and development of the English language, especially of its early period.

  • Any student who has not completed ENG240Y or an equivalent full-year undergraduate course in Old English with at least a B standing is required to take one of the following courses in the English language:

    • ENG1001H Old English I.

    • ENG6361H History and Structure of the English Language I.

    • ENG6362H History and Structure of the English Language: Post-1500.

    • ENG6365H Diasporic Englishes.

  • Alternatively, the requirement can be satisfied by taking a special examination in Old English.
Language Requirement
  • Demonstrated reading knowledge of French by May 31 of Year 3 of registration.

  • With the permission of the department, another language (other than English) may be substituted for French provided that this other language is required by the student's research area. The completion of this requirement is recorded on the transcript with the course code LRQ7777Y (0.0 FCE) and the subtitle given of the language undertaken to fulfil this requirement.

  • The supervisory committee may require the student to qualify in other program-related languages as well.

Special Fields Examination
  • Students are required to pass a Special Fields Examination. The examination has three components:

    • A written examination, based on a reading list drawn up in consultation with the supervisory committee.

    • A short position paper, in which the student articulates the argument and stakes of the proposed thesis in light of the preparation for this written examination.

    • An oral examination that engages in part with the written examination and in part with the position paper.

  • Students who enter the PhD program with a master's degree generally take the Special Fields Examination no later than the end of the second session of Year 2. A second attempt of the Special Fields Examination is allowed on the recommendation of the student's committee.

  • The student must have completed all requirements for the degree, exclusive of thesis research, by the end of Year 3 in order to remain in good standing in the program.

Thesis
  • A candidate is required to submit a thesis on an approved subject embodying the results of original investigation which constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge of the field, and to pass an oral examination on the subject of the thesis. The normal length of a PhD thesis is approximately 75,000 words. The maximum length accepted by the department is 100,000 words.

  • No later than May 15 of Year 1 of registration, the student must submit to the Associate Director, PhD, a preliminary thesis proposal, approved by the prospective supervisor. The Associate Director, PhD, appoints a supervisory committee that includes a supervisor and two other faculty members with expertise in the proposed research area. The student is required to meet with the supervisory committee within three months of submitting the preliminary proposal. An approved thesis proposal signed by all members of the supervisory committee and by the Associate Director, PhD, must be submitted by October 1 of Year 2 of registration.

  • The student and the supervisor should meet regularly. The student is also required to meet at least once a year with the supervisory committee. The supervisory committee should normally approve the completed thesis before it is submitted for examination.

  • The Doctoral Final Oral Examination is arranged by the department in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies. The candidate should allow at least 10 weeks from submission of the thesis for the department to complete the arrangements for the oral examination.

Program Length

4 years

Although the program has been designed for completion in four years, some students may require a longer period to complete all of the requirements.

Time Limit

6 years

 

PhD Program (Direct-Entry)

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy the Department of English's additional admission requirements stated below.

  • In exceptional cases, applicants with an appropriate bachelor's degree from a recognized university that includes at least 8.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) in English, with an average grade equivalent to at least a University of Toronto A– in the applicant's overall program may be considered for admission (direct entry).

  • Applicants must satisfy the department that they are capable of independent research in English at an advanced level.

  • Recommendations from two referees.

  • A writing sample of not more than 5,000 words (approximately 15 to 20 pages).

  • A statement of purpose.

  • A curriculum vitae (CV).

  • Applicants whose primary language is not English and who graduated from a university where the language of instruction and examination was not English are required to write the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Minimum scores required are:

    • 600 on the paper-based test and 5 on the Test of Written English (TWE).

    • 100/120 on the Internet-based test, with at least 22/30 on the writing and speaking sections.

  • Admission to the PhD is based on the applicant's undergraduate records and upon the evidence of the references and statement.

  • Admissions are selective; possession of minimum qualifications does not guarantee admission.

Program Requirements

  • Students pursue a program of study and research approved by the department.
Courses
  • The minimum course requirements for the degree, a total of 7.25 full-course equivalents (FCEs), are as follows:

    • ENG6999Y Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English (1.0 FCE).

    • ENG9400H Essential Skills Workshop Series (0.25 FCE; Credit/No Credit). This course is required unless ENG8000H or an equivalent course has already been taken.

    • ENG9500H Professional Development (0.5 FCE).

    • ENG9900H Professing Literature (0.5 FCE).

    • 5.0 additional FCEs in English, as approved by the department. The student must complete ENG6999Y plus 2.0 FCEs in Year 1 of the program, with an average grade of at least an A–. Students must complete all remaining courses, except for ENG9500H Professional Development, by the end of Year 3 of the program, with an average of at least an A– in order to maintain good academic standing and to continue in the PhD program. In order to maintain good academic standing, and to continue in the PhD program, the student must complete each course with a grade of at least B.

      • Of these additional English courses, at least 2.0 FCEs are chosen from outside the field of study. The student is encouraged to combine these courses in a minor field.

  • Course selection must meet the approval of the department.

English-Language Requirement
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the history and development of the English language, especially of its early period.

  • Any student who has not completed ENG240Y or an equivalent full-year undergraduate course in Old English with at least a B standing, is required to take one of the following courses in the English language:

    • ENG1001H Old English I.

    • ENG6361H History and Structure of the English Language I.

    • ENG6362H History and Structure of the English Language: Post-1500.

    • ENG6365H Diasporic Englishes.

  • Alternatively, the requirement can be satisfied by taking a special examination in Old English.

Language Requirement
  • Demonstrated reading knowledge of French by May 31 of Year 4 of registration.

  • With the permission of the department, another language (other than English) may be substituted for French provided that this other language is required by the student's research area. The completion of this requirement is recorded on the transcript with the course code LRQ7777Y (0.0 FCE) and the subtitle given of the language undertaken to fulfil this requirement.

  • The supervisory committee may require the student to qualify in other program-related languages as well.

Special Fields Examination
  • Students are required to pass a Special Fields Examination. The examination has three components:

    • A written examination, based on a reading list drawn up in consultation with the supervisory committee.

    • A short position paper, in which the student articulates the argument and stakes of the proposed thesis in light of the preparation for this written examination.

    • An oral examination that engages in part with the written examination and in part with the position paper.

  • Direct-entry students generally take the Special Fields Examination no later than the end of the second session of Year 3. A second attempt of the Special Fields Examination is allowed on the recommendation of the student's committee.

  • The student must have completed all requirements for the degree, exclusive of thesis research, by the end of Year 4 in order to remain in good standing in the program.

Thesis
  • A candidate is required to submit a thesis on an approved subject embodying the results of original investigation which constitute a significant contribution to the knowledge of the field, and to pass an oral examination on the subject of the thesis. The normal length of a PhD thesis is approximately 75,000 words. The maximum length accepted by the department is 100,000 words.

  • No later than May 15 of Year 2 of registration, the student must submit to the Associate Director, PhD, a preliminary thesis proposal, approved by the prospective supervisor. The Associate Director, PhD, appoints a supervisory committee that includes a supervisor and two other faculty members with expertise in the proposed research area. The student is required to meet with the supervisory committee within three months of submitting the preliminary proposal. An approved thesis proposal signed by all members of the supervisory committee and by the Associate Director, PhD, must be submitted by October 1 of Year 3 of registration.

  • The student and the supervisor should meet regularly. The student is also required to meet at least once a year with the supervisory committee. The supervisory committee should normally approve the completed thesis before it is submitted for examination.

  • The Doctoral Final Oral Examination is arranged by the department in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies. The candidate should allow at least 10 weeks from submission of the thesis for the department to complete the arrangements for the oral examination.

Program Length

5 years

Although the program has been designed for completion in five years, some students may require a longer period to complete all of the requirements.

Time Limit

7 years

English: English MA, PhD Courses

The following list of possible courses is subject to revision; further information, including course descriptions and timetables, are posted on the Department of English website and may be obtained from the department before enrolment. Courses offered by the department vary considerably from year to year. Students in English are eligible to take courses in other graduate units (for example, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Drama, Information, South Asian Studies, Women's Studies). From time to time, the department also offers programs of directed reading in special fields. These reading courses are normally available only to students in the PhD program. With the special approval of the Director of Graduate Studies, PhD students may substitute one such course for one (and not more than one) of the required courses.

Course Code Course Title
ENG1001H
Old English I
ENG1002H
Introduction to Old English II: Beowulf
ENG1006H York’s Plays and Records
ENG1012H Writing the Self in Late-Medieval England: Hoccleve and Kempe
ENG1100H Topics in Canadian Literature
ENG1200H Topics in African Canadian Literature
ENG1300H Topics in Asian Canadian Literature
ENG1551H
The Canterbury Tales
ENG1582H Piers Plowman
ENG2012H Life-Writing in Early Modern England
ENG2017H Early Modern Asexualities
ENG2100H Topics in American Literature
ENG2200H Topics in African American Literature
ENG2226H
Early Modern Manuscripts
ENG2300H Topics in Asian American Literature
ENG2472H Milton
ENG2486H Early Modern Theater Theories
ENG2499H Shakespeare's Tragedies
ENG2506H Shakespeare’s Theatrical (After) Lives
ENG2509H Shakespeare and the Book
ENG3045H The Comic Novel from Fielding to Austen
ENG3100H Topics in Indigenous Literature
ENG3302H Being There: Liveness and Presence ca. 1750–1830
ENG3338H Satire and the Great Laughter Debate
ENG3707H Literature and Censorship, 1640–1860
ENG4100H Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
ENG4200H Topics in Caribbean Literature in English
ENG4211H Romanticism and Translation
ENG4224H
Early Nineteenth-Century Environmental Literature
ENG4300H Topics in African Literature in English
ENG4400H Topics in South Asian Literature in English
ENG4404H Victorian Memory/Victorian Forgetting
ENG4405H Genres of the Victorian Novel
ENG4501H
Victorian Fiction and the Fragility of the Social
ENG4662H
Romantic Memory
ENG4664H
Romantic Pastoral Revisited
ENG4750H
Empire of Steam: Romanticism, Technology, and Modernity
ENG4770H Aesthetics and Ethics: the Late Victorians
ENG4973H
Marx and the American Renaissance
ENG5021H Black Forms: Critical Race Theory and Diasporic Literature
ENG5042H Justice and Form in Contemporary Canadian Ecopoetry
ENG5047H Class, Culture, and American Realism
ENG5078H Postcolonial Ecocriticism
ENG5080H Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus
ENG5088H Kind of Like: Difference, Similarity, Comparison
ENG5100H Topics in Medieval Literature
ENG5101H The Problem of Elsewhere
ENG5115H The Satanic Verses and the Public Life of Books
ENG5200H Topics in Early Modern Literature
ENG5300H Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENG5400H Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature
ENG5500H Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
ENG5580H
American Pastoral
ENG5712H Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
ENG5802H Global Protest Cultures
ENG5963H
James Joyce: Modernism, Modernity, Mythology
ENG6014H Adapting Short Fiction
ENG6015H Experimental Narrative and/as Narrative Theory
ENG6064H The Theory of the Novel
ENG6100H Topics in Genre and Form
ENG6171H
Writing a Journal Article
ENG6182H Eating Well
ENG6188H Land, Myth, and Translation in a Time of Crisis
ENG6362H
History and Structure of the English Language: Post-1500
ENG6365H
Diasporic Englishes
ENG6492H Speaking of What’s Next: Climate and Dystopia in Near Future Fiction
ENG6494H
Psychogeography and the Mapping of Literary Space
ENG6498H
Dystopian Fiction and Unsettled Space
ENG6510H
Creative Nonfiction
ENG6519H Postcolonial Theory and the World Literature Debates
ENG6532H Writing More-than-Human Lives
ENG6544H Queer, Trans, and Feminist Historiographies
ENG6552H
Law and Literature
ENG6818H
Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
ENG6820H The Novel of Sexual Ideas
ENG6950Y
Workshop in Creative Writing
ENG6999Y
Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English
ENG7000Y Special Reading Course
ENG7100H Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods
ENG8100H Topics in Digital Literature
ENG9100H Topics in Theory
ENG9400H (0.25 FCE) Essential Skills Workshop Series (Credit/No Credit; exclusion: ENG8000H)
ENG9500H
Professional Development
ENG9900H
Professing Literature
JLE5116H
Naming the World: Realism Travels the Globe
JLE5220H Tricksters and Confidence Men
JLE5225H
The Passage from History to Fiction