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Course Spotlight

Curious about what kinds of things we do in English? Our course spotlight features some of the concepts, texts, and approaches explored in various corners of the UTSC English programs. Read below for a sampling, and feel free to contact any of the professors if you have questions about their courses.

ENGC03: Haunted Canada

Offered Winter 2022. Explore haunted Canada with Prof. Marlene Goldman!

ENGC07: Canadian Drama

Offered Winter 2022. Explore works by prominent Indigenous Canadian playwrights with Prof. Randy Lundy!

ENGC12: Individualism and Community in

Offered Winter 2022. Explore conflicting conceptions of the self with Prof. Neal Dolan!

ENGC37 Literature & Culture

Offered Winter 2022. Explore literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the

ENGC92: Film Theory

Offered Winter 2022. Explore major theorists and schools of thought in the history of film theory with Prof. Matthew

ENGD52 Cinema: Auteur Theory

Offered Winter 2022. Explore the genesis of auteur theory with Prof. Sara Saljoughi!  

ENGB22: African Literature

Offered Fall 2021. Learn about a literary tradition that confronts language, literature, history, and colonization.

ENGB52: Literature & Science

Offered Fall 2021. Are you interested in where the nuclear meets the novel? This is the course for you!

ENGC05: Poetry, Experimentation,

In Prof. Akiwenzie-Damm's class, you'll work hard, play hard, and write poetry that just might change the world.

ENGC20: The Antihero in Literature and

Offered Fall 2021. This course examines the historical and cultural contexts that enabled the construction of the

ENGC75: Children in Contemporary Film

Offered Fall 2021. How are children are represented in fiction and film, from Boyhood to Girlhood to everything between?

ENGC82: Topics in Cinema Studies

Offered Fall 2021. Focus on questions of identity and cultural difference in Canadian filmmaking.

ENGD03: Black Feminist Theory

Offered Fall 2021. This semester Prof. Vernon's D-level theory seminar will focus on intersectional Black feminism!

ENGD71: Studies in Arab North American

Offered Fall 2021. Join Prof. Assif in exploring the concept of "home" in selected Arab North American works of fiction.

ENGD98: Capstone Seminar & Senior

Offered 2021-22. In this yearlong course you will develop and present your own independent research project, and
C14 Black Canadian Literature with purple-toned swamp illustration by April de la Noche

ENGC14: Black Canadian Literature

Offered Winter 2021. Experience the very special inauguration of Prof. Vernon's course on Black Canadian Lit!
ENGC39 The Early Novel in Context: Old book volume backed by postmodern painting

ENGC39: The Early Novel in Context

Offered Winter 2021. You think you know about The Novel? HAH. This course will challenge everything you know about

ENGC45: Queer Literature & Theory

Offered Winter 2021. This semester Prof. SJ Sindu asks us to think about queerness and transness from both a critical

ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II (SJ

Embark on an intensive study of the writing of fiction through creative practice with Prof. Sindu!

ENGD18: Enlightenment Orientalisms (

Offered Winter 2021. Join Prof. Milne to continue the critical inquiry started by Edward Said, and trace European

ENGD59: American Poetry (Elizabeth

Offered Winter 2021. Prof. Dubois will walk with you through the work of Elizabeth Bishop -- you may find yourself

ENGB33: Shakespeare in Context II

Offered Fall 2020. Shakespeare's context is more familiar to us that you might imagine: love, war, madness,

ENGB37: Popular Literature & Mass

Offered Fall 2020. You'll never have more fun at the end of the world -- and exploring what comes after -- than in Prof

ENGB63: Creative Writing: Nonfiction I

Offered Fall 2020. Explore truth and transformation with Andrew Westoll, as he guides you through this complex and

ENGC02: Major Canadian Authors

Offered Fall 2020. How can Canadian literature help us understand the transformations our world is going through? Prof
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ENGC59: Literature and the Environment

Offered Fall 2020. How can literature help us understand -- and engage with -- environmental justice and place-making?

ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II

Offered Fall 2020. Explore your voice and expand your writing skills with award-winning author Alyx Dellamonica.

ENGC91: American Realisms

Offered Fall 2020. Looking for perspective on today's struggles for justice and equality in America? Join Prof. Maurice

ENGD02: Teaching Academic Writing:

Offered 2020-21. Prof. Assif's year-long service learning course will give you the opportunity to prepare for a future

ENGD30: Topics in Medieval Literature

Offered Fall 2020. Go on a thousand-year quest to find the meaning in King Arthur, covering a treacherous landscape of

ENGD50: Fake Friends and Artificial

Offered Fall 2020. Confront the complex questions of "social robots" and creation myths in Prof. Goldman's new seminar.

ENGD55: Literature, Politics, Revolution

Offered Fall 2020. Build worlds while you explore the fate of our own with Prof. Bolus-Reichert's seminar on how

ENGC33: Deceit, Dissent, and the

Offered Winter 2020. Explore a tumultous and war-torn but innovative period in English literature with Prof. Ryzhik!

ENGC38: Novel Genres

Offered Winter 2020. Explore early forms of the novel with Dr. Anne Milne!

ENGD19: Early Modern Sexualities

Offered in Winter 2020. Explore early modern representations of sexualities with Prof. Chakravarty!

ENGD48: Adapting Jane Eyre

Offered Winter 2020. Explore adaptations of Jane Eyre with Dr. Nikk!

ENGD60: Topics in American Prose

Offered Winter 2020. Explore the impact of advanced literacy in American prose with Prof. Neal Dolan!