Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Course Offerings

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Please consult the Academic Timetable for updated information on course times and locations.

Summer 2025 Courses

1000-level courses

2025 Summer Course Instructor
ENGL 1005 Literature: Global Perspective To Be Announced
ENGL 1025 Literature: Why It Matters Michael Cameron
ENGL 1050 Pulp Fiction: Writing Req. Zoe Lambrinkanos-Raymond

Upper-level courses

2025 Summer 
 Course Instructor
ENGL 2018 Arthur Gavin Foster
ENGL 2236 Fantasy after Tolkien Lindsay Church

Graduate courses

2025 Summer Course Instructor
No level 4000 or 5000 courses offered this term

Fall 2026 Courses

1000-level courses

2025 Fall Course Instructor
ENGL 1005 Literature: Global Perspective To Be Announced
ENGL 1015 Literature: How it Works Dr. David Evans
ENGL 1025 Literature: Why it Matters To Be Announced
ENGL 1030 Reading & Writing Stories Dr. Heather Jessup/ Dr. Shauntay Grant
ENGL 1040 Reading Pop Culture: Writing Req. To Be Announced
ENGL 1050 Pulp Fiction: Writing Req. Dr. Jason Haslam
ENGL 1111 University Writing To Be Announced

Upper-level courses

2026 Fall
Course Instructor
ENGL 2010 The Personal Essay Dr. Alice Brittan
ENGL 2095 Narrative in the Cinema Dr. David Evans
ENGL 2217 Shakespeare at the Globe Dr. Lyn Bennett
ENGL 2217 Gothic Fiction Dr. Julia Wright
ENGL 2238 Children's Literature Dr. Jason Haslam
ENGL 2235 Tolkien: Fantasy & Medievalism Dr. Kathleen Cawsey
ENGL 2238 Children's Literature To Be Announced
ENGL 3001 History of Literary Criticism Dr. Trevor Ross
ENGL 3006 Old English Dr. Kathleen Cawsey
ENGL 3031 19th Cent Fict: Austen-Dickens Dr. Rohan Maitzen
ENGL 3040 Irish Literature 1700-1900 Dr. Julia Wright
ENGL 3098 Creative Writing: Poetry I To Be Announced
ENGL 3099 Creative Writing: Fiction 1 To Be Announced
ENGL 3270 Contemporary Canadian Lit. Dr. Eric Schmaltz
ENGL 3320 Literature and Medicine Dr. Lynn Bennett
ENGL 4020 Paradise Lost Dr. Trevor Ross
ENGL 4030 Gawain Poet Dr. Kathy Cawsey
ENGL 4840 Queerness in Detective Fiction Dr. Margaret Robinson
ENGL 4900   Honours Capstone Dr. Jason Haslam

 

Graduate courses

2025 Fall Course Instructor
ENGL 5006 Studies in Research-Creation Dr. Erin Wunker
ENGL 5256 The Gawain-Poet Dr. Kathleen Cawsey
ENGL 5917 Critical Theory: Ethical Turn Dr. Alice Brittan

 

2025-2026 New Tentative Courses

New potential 5000 level courses coming for 2025-2026 year

Fall 2025  Course Name Instructor
ENGL 5256 Gawain Poet Dr. Kathy Cawsey
ENGL 5XXX Queerness in Detective Fiction Dr. Margaret Robinson
ENGL 5006 Studies in Research Creation Dr. Erin Wunker 
ENGL 5917 Is Beauty Just? Dr. Alice Brittan
Winter 2026  Course Name Instructor
ENGL 5401 Communicable Romanticism Dr. Julia Wright 
ENGL 5450 George Eliot Dr. Rohan Maitzen
ENGL 5xxx Sounding the Nation Dr. Eric Schmaltz
ENGL 5xxx Lives of Virginia Woolf Dr. Heather Jessup