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 |
|---|---|
Old English I | |
| 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 |
| ENG1101H | Topics in Canadian Literature |
| ENG1102H | Topics in Canadian Literature |
| ENG1200H | Topics in African Canadian Literature |
| ENG1300H | Topics in Asian Canadian Literature |
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 |
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 |
| ENG4101H | Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature |
| ENG4200H | Topics in Caribbean Literature in English |
| ENG4211H | Romanticism and Translation |
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 |
Victorian Fiction and the Fragility of the Social | |
Romantic Memory | |
Romantic Pastoral Revisited | |
Empire of Steam: Romanticism, Technology, and Modernity | |
| ENG4770H | Aesthetics and Ethics: the Late Victorians |
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 | Topics in Medieval Literature |
| ENG5102H | The Problem of Elsewhere |
| ENG5115H | The Satanic Verses and the Public Life of Books |
| ENG5200H | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG5201H | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG5202H | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG5203H | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG5204H | Topics in Early Modern Literature |
| ENG5300H | Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature |
| ENG5400H | Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature |
| ENG5401H | Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature |
| ENG5500H | Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature |
| ENG5501H | Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature |
| ENG5502H | Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature |
| ENG5503H | Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature |
American Pastoral | |
| ENG5712H | Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty |
| ENG5802H | Global Protest Cultures |
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 |
Writing a Journal Article | |
| ENG6182H | Eating Well |
| ENG6188H | Land, Myth, and Translation in a Time of Crisis |
History and Structure of the English Language: Post-1500 | |
Diasporic Englishes | |
| ENG6492H | Speaking of What’s Next: Climate and Dystopia in Near Future Fiction |
Psychogeography and the Mapping of Literary Space | |
Dystopian Fiction and Unsettled Space | |
Creative Nonfiction | |
| ENG6519H | Postcolonial Theory and the World Literature Debates |
| ENG6532H | Writing More-than-Human Lives |
| ENG6544H | Queer, Trans, and Feminist Historiographies |
Law and Literature | |
Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination | |
| ENG6820H | The Novel of Sexual Ideas |
Workshop in Creative Writing | |
| ENG6960H | Advanced Creative Writing Workshop |
Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English | |
| ENG7000Y | Special Reading Course |
| ENG7100H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG7101H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG7102H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG7103H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG7104H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG7105H | Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods |
| ENG8100H | Topics in Digital Literature |
| ENG9100H | Topics in Theory |
| ENG9101H | Topics in Theory |
| ENG9102H | Topics in Theory |
| ENG9400H | Essential Skills Workshop Series |
Professional Development | |
Teaching Literature | |
| JLE5220H | Tricksters and Confidence Men |
The Passage from History to Fiction |