• ENGL 5810

    Books as Physical Objects
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    3.70

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Surveys bookmaking over the past five centuries. Emphasizes analysis and description of physical features and consideration of how a text is affected by the physical conditions of its production. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 5900

    Literature Pedagogy Seminar
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    3.94

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course offers future elementary, middle, and high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching.

  • ENGL 8005

    Intro to the Environmental Humanities
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Introduces the questions, methods, and arguments that organize work in the environmental humanities. The seminar's primary objective is to advance graduate student capacities to use skills, knowledge, and archives of the humanities to advance pluralist, integrated understandings of environmental issues. In support of that purpose, the seminar develops critical reflection on methodological questions in collaboration, and public engagement.

  • ENGL 8262

    Spenser
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    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8380

    Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
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    3.84

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8500

    Studies in English Literature
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    3.87

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8527

    Studies in Shakespeare
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    3.74

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare's Histories and Roman Plays" and `Reinventing Shakespeare'. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8540

    Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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    3.80

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8559

    New Course in English Literature
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    3.69

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8560

    Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
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    3.92

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.