Graduate Studies
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Graduate Coordinator
Ms Leanne Trask
519-661-2111 x 85793
leanne.trask@uwo.ca
Graduate Chair
Dr. Mary Helen McMurran
519-661-2111 x 85839
mmcmurr2@uwo.ca
Graduate Development & Placement Coordinator
Dr. Kate Stanley
519-661-2111 x87857
kate.stanley@uwo.ca
Courses
2024-25 GRADUATE COURSES
2024-25 External Course Request Form (
fillable PDF)
Specific course offerings and schedule are subject to change.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2024 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9009A | Essential Skills & Methods | MH McMurran |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | J Schuster |
| English 9222A | More and More Shakespeare | J Purkis |
| English 9053A | Paradise Lost | J Leonard |
| English 9068A | The Shock of the Old: Forms of Victorian Anachronism | M Rowlinson |
| English 9157A | Romantic Dialogues | |
| English 9187A | Postcolonial Diasporas | N Bhatia |
2025 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9223B | Edith Wharton, Rebel and Traditionalist | M Green-Barteet |
| English 9217B | Working Within and Beyond the University | K Stanley |
| English 9208B | Canadian Poetry to the First World War | D Bentley |
| English 9224B | Making Decolonial Shakespeares | K Solga |
| English 9185B | Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton | M Bassnett |
Summer 2025 Full Year Course
| Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| English 9225 | Indigenous Theatre and Performance Studies | P Wakeham |
2023-24 GRADUATE COURSES
2023-24 External Course Request Form ( fillable PDF)
Specific course offerings and schedule are subject to change.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2023 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GSWS 9220 | Who Gets to Be a Girl?: Gender and Race in Young Adult Lit (offered by GSWS program) |
| English 9191 | Donne and Sidney |
| English 9145 | Romanticism and the Idea of Literature cancelled |
| English 9217 | Working Within and Beyond the University |
| English 9164 | The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Associates and their Heirs |
2024 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9218 | Dandyism, Decadence, and Camp in Modernity |
| English 9221 | Time and Life in Mid-Victorian Literature and Natural History |
| English 9211 | Indigenous Futurisms |
2023-24 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9219 | Environmental Critique: Plants and Animals in Global Lit |
| English 9171 | Tolkien and Old English (cross-listed with English 4311E) |
Summer 2024 Full Year Course
| English 9216 | Shaping Early Modern Women's Authorship: Past and Present |
Previous Years' Graduate Course Offerings
2022-23 GRADUATE COURSES
2022 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9208A | Canadian Poetry to WWI |
| English 9210A | Pragmatism and American Aesthetics |
| English 9215A | ** Global Medievalisms |
| English 9211A | Indigenous Futurisms |
2023 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9155B | ** Animals and the Environment in Early Modern Literature |
| English 9187B | Postcolonial Diasporas |
| English 9209B | Intersectionality and Decolonization: Methods and Theories |
| English 9132B | ** Hysterical Poetics: English Poetry 1855-90 |
| English 9128B | Post-Post Modernism |
| English 9181B | Representing Slavery in US Literature |
| English 9213B | ** The Consolation of Philosophy and its English Afterlives |
2022-23 Full Year Course
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9183 | ** Marlowe and Milton |
Summer 2023 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9205 | ** Mediating Hamlet |
2021-22 GRADUATE COURSES
2021 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9053A | ** Paradise Lost |
| English 9195A | Intersectionality: Narrative, Violence and Difference |
| English 9196A | Constructing the American Woman: 19th-century U.S. Literature for Women |
| English 9197A | ** Romanticism, Literature and Pathology |
2022 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9185B | **Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton |
| English 9198B | Ruptures and Crossovers: Postcolonial Literature and Theory |
| English 9058B | Postmodernism(s) and the End of Everything (?) |
| English 9199B | Writing Diaspora in Theory and Practice: Dionne Brand’s Prose |
| English 9200B | The Aesthetics and Politics of Everyday Life |
| English 9207B | ** Victorian Fictions of Disability |
2021-22 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9201 | **The Economics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Canadian Writing, 1690-1945 |
| English 9148 | **Editing Pre-Modern Texts |
Summer 2022 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9202 | **Screened Shakespeare |
| English 9203 | Nineteenth Century British Poetry: An Advanced Introduction |
2020-21 GRADUATE COURSES
Courses taught in person may at any point be required to move online if necessitated by developments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
O/L indicates course will be taught synchronously online. Those not marked O/L are anticipating in-person classes with all physical distancing and other health and safety measures in place.
(**) in front of the course title indicates course satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.
2020 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title | English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods | English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies | English 9187A | Postcolonial Diasporas | English 9188A | **Metaphysicals to Melancholics: Embodied Mind in Poetry, 1640-1790 | English 9194A | Beyond Apocalypse: Indigenous Speculative Storytelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9189B | **Women and Authorship in Early Modern England |
| English 9190B | **Weird Science: Psychical Research and the Late-Victorian Fantastic |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9191B | **Donne and Sidney |
2020-21 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9192 | **The Pre-Raphaelites, Their Associates and Successors: From Romanticism to Modernism |
| English 9193 | Climate Arts & Activism |
| English 9171 | **Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon |
Summer 2021 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9194 | Feminist Theory, Biopolitics and the Racialized Body |
| English 9195 | **Mediating Hamlet |
2019-20 GRADUATE COURSES
2019 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9181A | Representing Slavery in US Literature |
| English 9176A | Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading |
| English 9177A | Asian North American Literature and the Remains of War |
| English 9178A | ** Canadian Medievalism |
2020 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9179B | ** Making the Savoy: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Digital Humanities |
| English 9180B | ** Mediating Hamlet |
| English 9169B | Posthuman Beckett |
| English 9182B | Trans-National Indigenous Feminist and LGBTQ2I Literature and Scholarship |
2019-20 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9183 | ** Marlowe and Milton |
| English 9184 | ** The 1790s and their Afterlives: The Godwins and Shelleys |
Summer 2020 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9185 | ** Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton |
| English 9186 | Testimony and Indigenous Writings |
2018-19 GRADUATE COURSES
2018 Fall Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9164A | ** The Pre-Raphaelites |
| English 9031A | Queer Times |
| English 9165A | The Postmodern in Cinema and Literature |
| English 9150A | ** The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness |
| English 9166A | Gender and Sexuality in the 21st-Century Postcolonial Novel |
| English 9167A | Refugee Narratives |
| English 9168A | Reconciliation and its Discontents: Theory, Art, Critique |
2019 Winter Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002B | Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9169B | Posthuman Beckett |
| English 9170B | Testimony, Trauma, and Indigenous Writings - CANCELED due to unforeseen circumstances |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9053B | ** Paradise Lost |
| English 9174B | Adventures in Poetics |
| English 9141B | Performance and the Global City: How acts of Performance Support, and Supplant, the "Creative City" Script |
2018-19 Full Year Course
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9171 | ** Tolkien and Anglo-Saxon |
Summer 2019 Courses (full-year equivalents)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9172 | Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts |
| English 9173 | ** Making Shakespeare |
2017-18 GRADUATE COURSES
Fall 2017 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9124A | Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women |
| English 9151A | The Postsecular Eighteenth Century |
| English 9138A | Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices |
| English 9157A | Romantic Dialogues: "An unremitting interchange" |
| English 9153A | The Works of the Gawain-Poet |
| English 9133A | Pragmatism and American Aesthetics |
| English 9163A | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates (cross-listed with Theory) |
Winter 2018 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9155B | Animals and the Environment in Early Modern Literature |
| English 9156B | Postcolonial Entanglements and Diasporic (Dis)locations |
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive |
| English 9152B | The African American Novel |
| English 9158B | Refugee Narratives |
| English 9076B | Aprocyphal, Collaborative, and "Bad" Shakespeares |
| English 9162B | Biopolitics and Taxonomy in late Victorian Britain |
| English 9159B | Ways of Reading in Early Modern England: Places, Practices and Processes |
Summer 2018 Courses (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9160 | Milton's Poetry and Prose |
| English 9161 | Indigenous Literatures: Cultures of Storytelling, Cultures of Reading |
2016-17 GRADUATE COURSES
Fall 2016 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9149A | Women and Authorship in Early Modern England |
| English 9135A | Reading India |
| English 9056A | Knowing Children: The Modern Child in the Field of Culture |
| English 9137A | After 2000: Theory, Criticism, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel |
| English 9138A | Human Rights and Indigenous Creative Practices |
| English 9140A | Formalisms |
| English 9141A | Performance and the Global City |
Winter 2017 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9142B | Motifs and Tales from Beowulf to Ishiguro |
| English 9128B | British Post-Post Modernism |
| English 9143B | Milton: The Major Poems |
| English 9150B | Out of Their Heads: The Senses, the Soul, and Poetic Consciousness |
| English 9144B | Autobiography and #black lives matter |
| English 9139B | "Words are Victims": Modernist Poetry and Ruins of Language |
| English 9145B | Romanticism and the Idea of Literature |
| English 9146B | Saints and Heretics: Mysticism, Gender, and the Legitimacy of the Middle Ages |
| English 9147B | Precarity: Reading Risk and Responsibility in the Shadow of Neoliberalism |
Summer 2017 Courses (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9148 | Editing Pre-Modern Texts |
| English 9110 | Modernist Forms of Attention |
2015-16 GRADUATE COURSES
Fall 2015 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002A | Advanced Research Methods |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary & Cultural Studies |
| English 9079A | Romanticism and Happiness |
| English 9124A | Ugly Feelings, Bad Behaviour: Notable American Women |
| English 9129A | The Value of Milton |
| English 9130A | The Orphic Tradition: Gender, Genre, And Genius |
| English 9135A | Reading India |
Winter 2016 Graduate Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9125B | Literature, Youth, and Human Rights |
| English 9126B | Contemporary Canadian Literature in Cross-Border Contexts |
| English 9127B | Performance Conditions in Shakespeare’s Time |
| English 9128B | British Post-Post Modernism |
| English 9131B | Themes in Contemporary Life Writing: Vulnerability & Dispossession |
| English 9132B | Hysterical Poetics: English Poetry 1855-1900 |
| English 9133B | Pragmatism and American Aesthetics |
Summer 2016 Course (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9136 | Early Modern Food from Shakespeare to Milton |
2014-15 GRADUATE COURSES
Fall 2014 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002A | Bibliography and Textual Studies |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9111A | Religious toleration: the Philosophical and Cultural History of an Idea |
| English 9112A | Testimony, Youth and Human Rights |
| English 9079A | Romanticism and Happiness |
| English 9057A | Victorian Types: Temporality and Taxonomy 1850-1870 |
| English 9115A | Modernism After Dark |
Winter 2015 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9116B | Alice Munro and the Poetics of Here and Now |
| English 9114B | The Stagecraft of Thomas Heywood - CANCELLED |
| English 9087B | Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9117B | Circulation and the Form of the Neo-Slave Narrative |
| English 9118B | The Humanities in the Corporate University |
| English 9119B | Futures of Romanticism |
| English 9120B | Shakespeare's Singularity |
| English 9121B | The American Secular |
2014-15 Full Year Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9122 | The Gawain-Poet and the Middle English Alliterative Revival |
| English 9108 | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates |
Summer 2015 Course (full-year equivalent)
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9123 | The Eighteenth-Century Novel in Theory and Practice |
2013-14 GRADUATE COURSES
Fall 2013 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9002A | Bibliography and Textual Studies |
| English 9003A | Contemporary Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies |
| English 9043A | The American Ode |
| English 9077A | Food Studies in the Renaissance |
| English 9094A | Reading India and Postcolonial Theory in Global Contexts |
| English 9096A | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake |
| English 9100A | Othello, Then and Now |
| English 9087A | Regulating the Edwardian Body |
| English 9097A | Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Literature |
| English 9098A | Before and after Sexuality |
Winter 2014 Half Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9084B | Melancholy and the Archive |
| English 9095B | Biopoliticis, Violence, and the Body |
| English 9099B | The Conventual Life: Female Catholic Writers and the Consolidation of Roman Catholic Community, 1687-1829 - CANCELLED |
| English 9024B | Paradise Lost: the Poem and the Critics |
| English 9101B | The Materiality of the Digital Text: At the Intersections of Digital Humanities and History of the Book |
| English 9102B | Between "Britain" and "America": Canadian Literature in Formation in Cross-Atlantic Discourses |
| English 9104B | The Power of Romanticism |
| English 9105B | Un-Shakespearian Shakespeare |
| English 9106B | American Animal Studies |
Full Year 2013-14 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9107 | Medieval Shame and the Confessional Subject |
| English 9108 | Indigenous Critical Theory: Key Concepts and Debates |
Summer 2014 Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| English 9109 | Writing Medieval Women - CANCELLED |
| English 9110 | Modernist Forms of Attention |
