| ENGLISH102 | Pathogens and Populations: Representing Infectious Disease | Infectious diseases are too small to see and too large to fathom. Biologically, microscopic invaders, viruses even smaller than our cells, can travel across the planet and infect billions of humans. Socially, individual contacts have the potential to... |
| ENGLISH104C | Medieval Violence | The Middle Ages have a reputation for extraordinary violence, but why? In this course, we study the medieval literary record for answers, exploring the artistic, historical, and social conditions compelling these authors to write about war, murder, a... |
| ENGLISH106A | A.I.-Activism-Art | Lecture/studio course exploring arts and humanities scholarship and practice engaging with, and generated by, emerging emerging and exponential technologies. Our course will explore intersections of art and artificial intelligence with an emphasis on... |
| ENGLISH10E | Intro to English I: Love and Death from Chaucer to Milton | . |
| ENGLISH10F | Intro to English I: The Natural World in Early English Literary History | The first poem written down in English, composed in the 7th century, is about the creation of Earth; this course surveys British literature from then until the 17th century to explore the wisdom, beauty, mystery, and terror in medieval and early mode... |
| ENGLISH110 | The Indian Novel | When we imagine the exemplary global or postcolonial novel, we're likely to think of novels from India. But the current dominance of Indian Anglophone fiction was hardly the tryst with destiny it seems in retrospect. This course offers a perspective... |
| ENGLISH112C | Humanities Core: The Renaissance in Europe | The Renaissance in Europe saw a cultural flowering founded on the achievements of pagan antiquity, a new humanism founded on the conviction that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality, and the foundation o... |
| ENGLISH113A | African American Energies and Ecologies | African American perspectives on the environment have long been suppressed in mainstream discourse, despite the importance of questions of land, labor, and resource to the historical and ongoing experiences of Black people in the United States. Again... |
| ENGLISH113P | Media and Communication Before the Printing Press | Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro... |
| ENGLISH114B | Paradise Lost | Intensive reading of Milton's epic Paradise Lost together with selections from Milton's other poetry and from his prose. |
| ENGLISH115 | Virtual Italy | Classical Italy attracted thousands of travelers throughout the 1700s. Referring to their journey as the "Grand Tour," travelers pursued intellectual passions, promoted careers, and satisfied wanderlust, all while collecting antiquities to fill museu... |
| ENGLISH115E | Shakespeare and his Contexts: Race, Religion, Sexuality, Gender | No Description Set |
| ENGLISH118 | Literature and the Brain | How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne... |
| ENGLISH119 | Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media | FOR UNDERGRADUATES ONLY (grad students enroll in 318 in the winter) Most of the time, writing a pitch for a popular outlet just means writing an email. So why be intimidated? This course will outline the procedure for pitching essays and articles to... |
| ENGLISH11A | Introduction to English II: From Milton to the Romantics | English majors must take class for 5 units. Major moments in English literary history, from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' to John Keats's 'Hyperion'. The trajectory involves a variety of literary forms, including Augustan satire, the illuminated poet... |
| ENGLISH11B | Introduction to English II: American Literature and Culture to 1855 | In this course we'll explore the uncanny world--at once strange and strangely familiar - of early American literature and culture, as we read diverse works - including poetry, captivity and slave narratives, seduction novels, Native American oratory,... |
| ENGLISH11Q | Art in the Metropolis | This seminar is offered in conjunction with the annual "Arts Immersion" trip to New York that takes place over the spring break and is organized by the Stanford Arts Institute (SAI). Enrollment in this course a requirement for taking part in the trip... |
| ENGLISH122C | Medieval Fantasy Literature | This is a comparative medieval literature course that surveys Anglo-Norman and English romance, English and Norse heroic epic, and Norse and Celtic mythology. What significance and meaning did medieval writers from different times and places see in m... |
| ENGLISH124 | The American West | The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North Am... |
| ENGLISH125 | Virginia Woolf in the Age of #MeToo | How does a groundbreaking first wave feminist theorist and novelistic innovator speak intergenerationally? Everything about #MeToo can be found in Virginia Woolf's works, from gender oppression, to the politics of women's entry into the public sphere... |
| ENGLISH12C | Introduction to English III: Modern Literature | Survey of the major trends in literary history from 1850 to the present. |
| ENGLISH12D | Intro to English III: Latinx Literature | Emerging from the demographic, political, and cultural shifts of the late twentieth century, LatinX Literature flourishes in the twenty-first century as a hemispherically American corpus of texts. Like both ChicanX and Puerto Rican literatures before... |
| ENGLISH12Q | The Taboo | In this seminar, we will explore and theorize 'the taboo' and the consequences for transgressing taboos. On our quest, we will read broadly--from William Shakespeare's drama Othello to Christina Rossetti's poem 'Goblin Market' to Trevor Noah's memoir... |
| ENGLISH131D | Imagining Adaptive Societies | The ecological, social, and economic crises of the Anthropocene suggest it is time for us to re-imagine how best to organize our communities, our institutions, and our societies. Despite the clear shortcomings, our society remains stuck in a rut of i... |
| ENGLISH133B | Storytelling and Mythmaking: Modern Odysseys | In 1923, the poet T.S. Eliot wrote an essay in praise of James Joyce's Ulysses' a novel that adapted episodes of Homer's Odyssey into the daily life of twentieth-century Dublin. "It has the importance of a scientific discovery. No one else has built... |
| ENGLISH138E | The Gothic in Literature and Culture | This course introduces students to the major features of Gothic narrative, a form that emerges at the same time as the Enlightenment, and that retains its power into our present. Surveying Gothic novels, as well as novellas and short stories with Got... |
| ENGLISH139C | American Literature and Social Justice | How have American writers tried to expose and illuminate racism and sexism through fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and poetry? How have they tried to focus our attention on discrimination and prejudice based on race, gender, ethnicity, clas... |
| ENGLISH13P | Media and Communication Before the Printing Press | Epic traditions, the call to crusade, public curses, music of the troubadours and trouveres: this course examines oral tradition and music--the "viral media" of pre-modern Europe--while tracing the impact of new recording technologies: manuscript pro... |
| ENGLISH13Q | Imaginative Realms | This class looks at the tradition of the imagined universe in fiction and poetry. Special topics include magical realism, artificial intelligence, and dystopias. Primary focus on giving students a skill set to tap into their own creativity. Opportuni... |
| ENGLISH140D | Environmental Humanities: Finding Our Place on a Changing Planet | The rapid degradation of our planet threatens the health and survival of communities and ecosystems around the world. How did we get here? What cultural, philosophical, and ethical challenges underlie the separation of humanity from nature and precip... |
| ENGLISH145I | Curating 20th Century U.S. Literature | Throughout the 20th century, writers in the United States of America produced an unprecedentedly large, diverse, and transformative body of literature. Authors, editors, and publishers began anthologizing this material early in the century, often a... |
| ENGLISH146W | Short Stories That'll Break Your Heart and Change Your Writing | Exploration of classic (mostly) and contemporary short stories emphasizing craft aspects useful to writers and looking closely at how Chekhov, Kafka, Woolf, Flaubert, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Munro, and others evoke emotion. Fulfills English 146S re... |
| ENGLISH150J | Queer Poetry and Poetics | This course offers an investigation into queer poetry and poetics within a contemporary and historical framework. Undergirded by recent works from LGBTQIA poets alongside foundational scholarship, it will explore what queerness as an identity, politi... |
| ENGLISH150K | Animal Poems | Animals have always appealed to the human imagination. This course provides basic a rubric for analyzing a variety of animal poems in order (1) to make you better readers of poetry and (2) to examine some of the most pressing philosophical questions... |
| ENGLISH152K | Mixed-Race Politics and Culture | Today, almost one-third of Americans identify with a racial/ethnic minority group, and more than 9 million Americans identify with multiple races. What are the implications of such diversity for American politics and culture? This course approaches i... |
| ENGLISH153G | Literature and the Future | We often think of literature as a window onto the past. This class, by contrast, will offer various ways of analyzing the relationship between writing and the future. Writing might represent forecasts of the future, as in some speculative fiction; it... |
| ENGLISH154D | American Disaster | How do we make sense of catastrophe? Who gets to write or make art about floods, fires, or environmental collapse? How do disaster and its depiction make visible or exacerbate existing social and economic inequalities? Beginning with the Jamestown co... |
| ENGLISH154F | Film & Philosophy | What makes you the individual you are? Should you plan your life, or make it up as you go along? Is it always good to remember your past? Is it always good to know the truth? When does a machine become a person? What do we owe to other people? Is th... |
| ENGLISH155 | Stories at the Border | How authors and filmmakers represent the process of border-making as a social experience? How do the genres in which they work shape our understandings of the issues themselves? We will explore several different genres of visual and textual represent... |
| ENGLISH157D | Literature of the Anthropocene | We are living in a time of expedient environmental change caused by human influence. How has the American literary imagination metabolized the science and psychology of the moment? How do recently published works of poetry and fiction reflect our evo... |
| ENGLISH157H | Creative Writing & Science: The Artful Interpreter | What role does creativity play in the life of a scientist? How has science inspired great literature? How do you write accessibly and expressively about things like whales, DNA or cancer? This course begins with a field trip to Hopkins Marine Station... |
| ENGLISH158H | Science Meets Literature on the Monterey Peninsula | (Graduate students register for 258H.) This course will consider the remarkable nexus of scientific research and literature that developed on the Monterey Peninsula in the first half of the 20th century and how the two areas of creativity influenced... |
| ENGLISH159 | James Baldwin & Twentieth Century Literature | Black, gay and gifted, Baldwin was hailed as a "spokesman for the race", although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. This course examines his classic novels and essays as well his exciting work acros... |
| ENGLISH15Q | Family Trees: The Intergenerational Novel | The vast majority of novels feature a central protagonist, or a cast of characters whose interactions play out over weeks or months. But some stories overflow our life spans, and cannot be truthfully told without the novelist reaching far back in tim... |
| ENGLISH160 | Poetry and Poetics | Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.English majors must take this class for 5 units. |
| ENGLISH161 | Narrative and Narrative Theory | An introduction to stories and storytelling--that is, to narrative. What is narrative? When is narrative fictional and when non-fictional? How is it done, word by word, sentence by sentence? Must it be in prose? Can it be in pictures? How has stor... |
| ENGLISH165 | Perspectives on American Identity | Required for American Studies majors. In this seminar we trace diverse and changing interpretations of American identity by exploring autobiographical, literary, and/or visual texts from the 18th through the 20th century in conversation with sociolo... |
| ENGLISH169D | Contemporary Asian American Stories | This course will examine the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Asian American storytellers, with an emphasis on work produced within the past five years. We will investigate the pressures historically placed on Asian Americans to tell a certain... |
| ENGLISH16Q | Family Stories | This creative writing workshop will explore the idea of family. We'll begin with our questions: How do we conceptualize the word family? How do family histories, stories, mythologies, and languages shape our narratives? What does family have to do wi... |
| ENGLISH172D | Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional... |
| ENGLISH177 | Contemporary Novel in U.S. Perspective | This course investigates a selection of novels from 2001 to the present, either authored in the United States or strongly and meaningfully received here by critics and gatekeepers. In the absence of a fixed academic canon or acknowledged tradition o... |
| ENGLISH177B | Contemporary American Short Stories | An exploration of the power and diversity of the American short story ranging from the 1970s to the present day. By examining short stories historically, critically, and above all as art objects, students will learn how to read, interpret, critique,... |
| ENGLISH17Q | After 2001: A 21st Century Science Fiction Odyssey | In 1968, Stanley Kurick's 2001: A Space Odyssey imagined the future in the then distant year of 2001. Now that year is more than 20 years in the rearview and his science fiction future is now our past (with fewer PanAm flights to the moon and a stunn... |
| ENGLISH17SC | London through Time, Text, and Technology | We have a textual history of London that dates from at least the 1st century BCE, and archaeological evidence of settlement that is even older. For millennia, the city of London has been both a place of textual production and itself the focus of auth... |
| ENGLISH180 | Public Service and Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers | How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social en... |
| ENGLISH184E | Literary Text Mining | This course will train students in applied methods for computationally analyzing texts for humanities research. The skills students will gain will include basic programming for textual analysis, applied statistical evaluation of results and the abili... |
| ENGLISH186B | The American Underground: Crime and the Criminal in American Literature | The literary representation of crime and the criminal from postrevolutionary through contemporary American literature. Topics will include the enigma of the criminal personality; varieties of crime, from those underwritten by religious or ethical pr... |
| ENGLISH187 | Zora Neale Hurston | An exploration of the life, times, and works of Zora Neale Hurston, who died in obscurity in 1960 despite having published more books than any other African American woman. We will encounter the diversity of Hurston's interests across a range of medi... |
| ENGLISH187C | The Evolution of the Feminist First-Person Essay, 2000-present | The internet age has coincided with the rise of new and reinvented modes of nonfiction writing by women online. The feminist first-person essay (what simply goes by ¿personal essay¿ in the business) has transformed internet writing formally, politica... |
| ENGLISH188 | Black Feminism and the SciFi of Octavia Butler | Octavia Butler's novels often begin with the question, 'how am I going to survive?' In short order, they usually ask next: what is trying to kill me?' In Butler's hands, these two questions produce theories of power and resistance, anarchy and tyrann... |
| ENGLISH18N | Shakespeare in Love | Fluid, ever changing, fresh and quick, love is the stuff of imagination. Who can define it? This course will begin where Shakespeare begins his career as a playwright with The Comedy of Errors. We then intersperse the reading of Shakespeare's sonnets... |
| ENGLISH18Q | Writer's Salon | This course explores from a writer's perspective what it takes to craft a successful novel, short story collection, or book of poetry. You will read three prize-winning books from Bay Area authors, including Creative Writing instructors here at Stanf... |
| ENGLISH190 | Intermediate Fiction Writing | Intermediate course in the craft and art of fiction writing. Students read a diverse range of short stories and novel excerpts, complete writing exercises, and submit a short and longer story to be workshopped and revised. Prerequisite: 90 or 91. NOT... |
| ENGLISH190D | Dialogue Writing | Study how dialogue develops character, reveals information, moves plots forward, and creates tension. Use of short story, novels, graphic novels, and films. Students will write many short assignments, one dialogue scene, and one longer story or scrip... |
| ENGLISH190E | Novel Writing Intensive | The main requirement for this course is a 50,000 word novel. The course explores elements of novel writing including fictional structure, character creation, scene vs. summary, as well as description, narration, and dialogue. Students will read four... |
| ENGLISH190F | Fiction into Film | Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict... |
| ENGLISH190G | The Graphic Novel | Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and designers. Prerequisite: consent... |
| ENGLISH190H | The Graphic Novel | Continuation of English 190G. Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and de... |
| ENGLISH190HF | Hybrid Forms: Creative Writing Across Genres | What can we learn about fiction when it's written with the concision of a poem? What can we learn about the elliptical thinking of poetry through an extended essay? What freedoms do certain forms allow and take away? This writing workshop focuses on... |
| ENGLISH190HO | Creatures of the Dark: Ghosts and Ghouls of Horror Fiction | What is horror? Why does it appeal to us, and what makes it successful? This intermediate-level fiction class seeks to explore the dark side of our imaginations through a variety of historical and contemporary contributions to the genre, from Mary Sh... |
| ENGLISH190L | Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction | Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in fiction. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Students will meet once per week with the Stegner Fellow and also four times... |
| ENGLISH190LC | Levinthal Tutorial in Graphic Novel/Comics | Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in graphic novel/comics. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Students will meet once per week with the Stegner Fellow and als... |
| ENGLISH190M | Intermediate Queer Stories | Intermediate Queer Stories is a workshop class open to any and all students, regardless of how they define their gender or sexuality. The goals of the class are to read widely in the canon of twentieth and twenty-first century queer prose literature,... |
| ENGLISH190NS | Novel Salon | Who better to discuss a book with than its author? In this course we will immerse ourselves in eight novels and meet with their authors to hear about their drafting, revising, and publishing experiences. We will read as writers or inspiration and cra... |
| ENGLISH190S | Short Story Salon | Who better to discuss a book with than its author? In this course we will immerse ourselves in eight short story collections and meet with many of the authors of these collections to hear about their experience drafting, revising, and sending their b... |
| ENGLISH190SL | Light Through Language: Service Learning Through Creative Writing | This course merges the art of creative writing with service learning in the greater Bay Area. Students travel to St. Basil School in Vallejo three times over the course of the quarter and complete 15 total hours of fieldwork, providing classroom guid... |
| ENGLISH190SW | Screenwriting Intensive | The main requirement for this course is a full length film script. The course explores elements of screenwriting including beat structure, character creation, scene vs. montage, as well as description and dialogue. Students will read four to five scr... |
| ENGLISH190V | Reading for Writers | Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90 or 91 |
| ENGLISH190W | Contemporary Women Writers | "Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version¿¿is this what sets contemporary women writers apart? How can we understand the relation between the radically unprecedented material such writers explore and ¿the... |
| ENGLISH190YA | Young Adult Fiction | This is an intermediate course on the art and craft of fiction writing in the young adult genre. We will read widely in the genre. The aim of our reading will be to discover principles of craft, at the sentence level and at the narrative level, that... |
| ENGLISH191 | Intermediate Creative Nonfiction | Continuation of ENGLISH 91. Reading a variety of creative essays, completing short writing exercises, and discussing narrative techniques in class. Students submit a short (2-5 page) and a longer (8-20 page) nonfictional work to be workshopped and re... |
| ENGLISH191DC | DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop | Open to DCI Fellows & Partners only. DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop will take as its occasion for your creative development a continuing examination of memoir essays and memoir book excerpts. These texts broadly innovate within and outside of the f... |
| ENGLISH191L | Levinthal Tutorial in Nonfiction | Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in nonfiction. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Students will meet once per week with the Stegner Fellow and also four tim... |
| ENGLISH191V | Reading for Creative Non-Fiction Writers | Taught by the Stein Visiting Writer. Prerequisite English 90 or 91. Permission number required to enroll.NOTE: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting to retain their roster spot. |
| ENGLISH192 | Intermediate Poetry Writing | Students will examine a diverse range of contemporary poetry. Students write and revise several poems that will develop into a larger poetic project. Prerequisite: 92. NOTE: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting t... |
| ENGLISH192AP | Intermediate Arab and Arab-American Poetry | In this course, students will write and read widely, exploring various aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor, line, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone. The course will focus primarily on the rich and varied tradition of Arab and... |
| ENGLISH192HF | Hybrid Forms: Creative Writing Across Genres | What can we learn about fiction when it's written with the concision of a poem? What can we learn about the elliptical thinking of poetry through an extended essay? What freedoms do certain forms allow and take away? This writing workshop focuses on... |
| ENGLISH192L | Levinthal Tutorial in Poetry | Undergraduate writers work individually with visiting Stegner Fellows in poetry. Students design their own curriculum; Stegner Fellows act as writing mentors and advisers. Students will meet once per week with the Stegner Fellow and also four times a... |
| ENGLISH192PS | Poetry Salon | Have you ever wanted to talk to the author after reading a favorite book? In this course, we will read seven collections of poetry and host their poets to discuss the processes behind each collection. We will read deeply (at the level of the poem) an... |
| ENGLISH192V | The Occasions of Poetry | Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92. By application. Permission number required to enroll. |
| ENGLISH194 | Individual Research | See section above on Undergraduate Programs, Opportunities for Advanced Work, Individual Research. |
| ENGLISH194C | Curricular Practical Training | CPT course required for international students completing degree.Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular... |
| ENGLISH196A | Honors Seminar: Critical Approaches to Literature | Overview of literary-critical methodologies, with a practical emphasis shaped by participants' current honors projects. Restricted to students in the English Honors Program. |
| ENGLISH197 | Seniors Honors Essay | In two quarters. |
| ENGLISH198 | Individual Work | Undergraduates who wish to study a subject or area not covered by regular courses may, with consent, enroll for individual work under the supervision of a member of the department. 198 may not be used to fulfill departmental area or elective requirem... |
| ENGLISH199 | Senior Independent Essay | Open, with department approval, to seniors majoring in non-Honors English who wish to work throughout the year on a 10,000 word critical or scholarly essay. Applicants submit a sample of their expository prose, proposed topic, and bibliography to t... |
| ENGLISH19Q | I Bet You Think You're Funny: Humor Writing Workshop | Nothing is harder than being funny on purpose. We often associate humor with lightness, and sometimes that's appropriate, but humor is inextricably interlinked with pain and anger, and our funniest moments often spring from our deepest wounds. Humor... |
| ENGLISH1C | Comics: More than Words | This research unit looks at Comics from a transnational, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective. Each quarter we organize a series of lectures, reading sessions, and workshops around a main topic. Some previous topics that we have explored... |
| ENGLISH1D | Dickens Book Club | Through the academic year, we will read one Dickens novel, one number a week for 19 weeks, as the Victorians would have done as they read the serialized novel over the course of 19 months. The group gets together once a week for an hour and a half t... |
| ENGLISH1G | The Gothic: Transcultural, Multilingual, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Genre | Description: This course is a research platform for the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the Gothic literary and cinematic genres. We consider the Gothic to have rich traditions whose contributions to Queer and LGBTQ+ studies, cultural t... |
| ENGLISH215C | Hamlet and the Critics | Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist,... |
| ENGLISH218 | Literature and the Brain | How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne... |
| ENGLISH21N | Ecologies of Communication | What remnants of our culture will future generations discover and decipher and how will they interpret these? How will they access the technologies we have created? How will they understand the environmental changes that current humans have caused? A... |
| ENGLISH21Q | Write Like a Poet: From Tradition to Innovation | In this poetry workshop, we will spend the first half of the quarter reading and writing in traditional forms and the second half innovating from those forms. When discussing poetry, what do we mean when we talk about craft? What is prosody and why i... |
| ENGLISH224 | Doing Literary History: Orwell in the World | This course will bring together the disciplines of history and literary studies by looking closely at the work of one major twentieth-century author: the British writer and political polemicist George Orwell. In 1946, Orwell writes, "What I have most... |
| ENGLISH22Q | Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered Experiences | Because mystical, spiritual, and altered states of experience have always been a part of human life, we've always been trying to write about them. While some try to claim these subjects are frivolous, dated, or even dangerous, writers keep coming bac... |
| ENGLISH238E | The Gothic in Literature and Culture | This course introduces students to the major features of Gothic narrative, a form that emerges at the same time as the Enlightenment, and that retains its power into our present. Surveying Gothic novels, as well as novellas and short stories with Got... |
| ENGLISH239 | Henry James | In this course, we will read the three culminating novels of Henry James's 'major phase': The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. These are among the greatest and most profound novels in English. Many people also find them boring... |
| ENGLISH23Q | First Chapters: Please Allow Me to Introduce My Novel | In this course we'll explore how an effective first chapter immerses us in the voice of the narrator, introduces a series of themes and problems, indicates character desires and fears, and most importantly enchants and inspires its readers. We'll wri... |
| ENGLISH244 | Literature and Technology from Frankenstein to the Futurists | Overview of defects and disorder across crystalline, amorphous, and glassy phases that are central to function and application, spanning metals, ceramics, and soft/biological matter. Structure and properties of simple 0D/1D/2D defects in crystalline... |
| ENGLISH244F | Female Modernists: Women Writers in Paris Between the Wars | The course will focus on expatriate women writers - American and British - who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Among them: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Margaret Anderson, Janet Flanner, Natalie Bar... |
| ENGLISH24N | New Technologies of Literature | Technology changes how and what we read. In this course we will study how digital technology has changed literature: the ways in which it is written, to how it is distributed, and what we can do with it. Our readings will include literature produced... |
| ENGLISH24Q | Leaving Patriarchy: A Course for All Genders | This is a creative writing course for writers of all genders who are interested in thinking about patriarchy and how to resist it. Our course will aim to complicate the idea that men benefit from patriarchy and are its primary enforcers, while the re... |
| ENGLISH255 | Speaking Medieval: Ecologies of Inscribed Objects | This class presents a survey of medieval German vernaculars and their documentation in manuscripts and on material objects. The languages include Gothic, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old English, and Old High German. Readings will include runic... |
| ENGLISH25Q | Queer Stories | Queer Stories is a creative writing class open to any and all students, regardless of how they define their gender or sexuality. The goals of the class are to read widely in the canon of twentieth and twenty-first century queer prose literature, and... |
| ENGLISH261E | Black Mirror: Representations of Race & Gender in AI | TBA |
| ENGLISH269B | Becoming Modern: American Literature 1880-1920 | Looking at the generation before the 'Lost Generation,' this course explores a period in which 'modernistic' techniques and representations were unfolding from the jangling dissonances, the jarring juxtapositions, and the tumbling orthodoxies that ac... |
| ENGLISH274 | Comedy and Social Critique | Comedy has been used to shine a no-holds-barred light on everything from the rise of fascism to the inanities of fashion. Over the decades, it has generated a number of questions. Some of these are ethical. What can we legitimately find funny or make... |
| ENGLISH279 | Traveling Through Eternity: The Illuminated World of William Blake | No Description Set |
| ENGLISH27Q | The Childhood Novel | In this course, we will consider the first volumes of three ambitious literary projects: Marcel Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME; Elena Ferrante's NEOPOLITAN NOVELS; and Karl Ove Knausgaard MY STRUGGLE. These writers, and the novels they wrote, may se... |
| ENGLISH283E | Self-Impersonation: Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir | Memoirists, autobiographers and novelists are commonly advised or advise others to 'write what you know.' But how do you know what you know? And what, when it comes down to it, are 'you' once you are put on the page, a human document? This course wil... |
| ENGLISH287 | Moving the Message: Reading and embodying the works of bell hooks | In this course, we will spend time reading, discussing and embodying the work of Black feminist theorist and teacher bell hooks. hook's work focuses on practices rooted in Black feminism, the role of love in revolutionary politics, rescuing ourselves... |
| ENGLISH290 | Advanced Fiction Writing | Workshop critique of original short stories or novel. Prerequisites: manuscript, consent of instructor, and 190-level fiction workshop. NOTE: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting to retain their roster spot. |
| ENGLISH291 | Advanced Creative Nonfiction | English 291 takes as its occasion for your creative and critical development an examination of essays and book excerpts in various creative nonfiction subgenres. These essays and excerpts work within traditional and innovative forms to find new and e... |
| ENGLISH291DC | DCI Advanced Memoir Workshop | Open to DCI Fellows and Partners only. DCI Advanced Memoir will take as its occasion for your creative and critical development an examination of essays and book excerpts in groundbreaking and traditional memoir forms. These texts broadly innovate wi... |
| ENGLISH292 | Advanced Poetry Writing | The focus of the course will be both on the generation of new work and on strategies to solve artistic problems through studies in poetic craft. |
| ENGLISH293 | Literary Translation: Theory and Practice | An overview of translation theories and practices over time. The aesthetic, ethical, and political questions raised by the act and art of translation and how these pertain to the translator's tasks. Discussion of particular translation challenges and... |
| ENGLISH300A | Theory and Methods in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | This course examines the concept of race, processes of racial formation, and theory and methods for the interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity. The course will focus on expressions and representations of race and racialization through comparat... |
| ENGLISH303A | The Interruption of the Machine: Introduction to Sound Studies through Literature | This course will introduce students to the field of Sound Studies (methodology, vocabulary, main claims) with a focus on the various sonic articulations of human-machine interactions in literature. The world of fiction as a sonic machine that articul... |
| ENGLISH307 | Theory and Practice of the American Short Story | According to the Russian formalist critic Boris Eikhenbaum, the American short story was not part of a transition to the novel but , the one fundamental and self-contained genre in American prose fiction, a parallel, self-contained, and developing tr... |
| ENGLISH308 | The Civilizing Process | This course considers historical changes in daily life, as practices and everyday ethics as well as ideas and rhetoric, to conceptualize the large-scale meanings of modernity and modernization, from roughly 1600 to the present. Beginning with a seri... |
| ENGLISH313 | Performance and Performativity | Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Bu... |
| ENGLISH314 | Epic and Empire | Focus is on Virgil's Aeneid and its influence, tracing the European epic tradition (Ariosto, Tasso, Camoes, Spenser, and Milton) to New World discovery and mercantile expansion in the early modern period. |
| ENGLISH318 | Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media | FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS (undergraduates enroll in 119) Most of the time, writing a pitch for a popular outlet just means writing an email. So why be intimidated? This course will outline the procedure for pitching essays and articles to popular media:... |
| ENGLISH318A | Advanced Workshop in Pitching and Publishing for Popular Media | Graduate students may self-determine a popular media project¿such as an essay, column/series of essays, podcast, agent query, or book proposal¿to be completed, with consent, under the mentorship of the Graduate Humanities Public Writing Project. Prer... |
| ENGLISH319A | The World, The Globe, The Planet | This course will introduce graduate students to several competing concepts of world-circulating literatures and methodologies for studying them. As the title suggests, the course introduces students to more established ideas of "World Literature", co... |
| ENGLISH320 | The Single Author Seminar | What is the value and use of engaging deeply with a single author's work? Each member of the seminar will select an author to focus on for the quarter based on their own research interests, and read a substantial body of the work of whatever author y... |
| ENGLISH333 | Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts Core Seminar | This course serves as the Core Seminar for the PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts. It introduces students to a wide range of topics at the intersection of philosophy with literary and arts criticism. The seminar is intended for graduat... |
| ENGLISH334B | Concepts of Modernity II: Culture, Aesthetics, and Society in the Age of Globalization | Emphasis on world-system theory, theories of coloniality and power, and aesthetic modernity/postmodernity in their relation to culture broadly understood. |
| ENGLISH341 | High Life and Low Life: Polite and Popular Forms in 18th-century British Literature | Description coming soom |
| ENGLISH345G | Modeling the Post45 Literary Field: Forms, Frames, Contexts, Themes | Exploration of various post45 literary phenomena with special attention to broader conceptual models in and by which they might be interpreted. |
| ENGLISH346 | Thinking Through Genre | What are we to make of the fact that individual literary texts always come to us as instances of larger generic forms? Why have some texts been thought more "generic" than others? Reading some key texts in the history of genre theory, this class will... |
| ENGLISH350 | Law and Literature | After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. Within the last decade there has, however, been an explosion of energy in the field, which has expanded beyond the boundaries of the... |
| ENGLISH350D | Constitutional Theory | (Same as LAW 7014.) The guiding question of this course will be how we should think about the role of the U.S. Constitution in American law and American life. In considering this issue, we will address debates about constitutional interpretation (inc... |
| ENGLISH357 | Poetry, Transhistorically | The course considers representative works by ten poets from the Renaissance to the present. Each set of poems is framed by a problem in poetics discussed in recent theory, such as artifice and sound, the making of voice, the meaning of lyric, and the... |
| ENGLISH357S | Edward Said, or Scholar vs Empire | How can an intellectual fight forces far larger than a single individual? How can solidarity be an antidote to racism? Why is there no distinction between the local and the global? What is the scholar's role in an alienating political climate? Why ar... |
| ENGLISH362E | Toni Morrison: Modernism, Postmodernism, and World Literature | This course will take a close look at Toni Morrison's oeuvre to explore question of Modernism, Postmodernism, and World Literature. Texts to be looked at will include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Jazz, Paradise, Beloved, Love, and Playing i... |
| ENGLISH363C | Women and Puritanism | dynamic between popular and established cultural forms, the formation of alternative and minority spiritualities, gender and historical representation, the relation of literary, religious, and political forms, and the advent of sentimentalism. |
| ENGLISH367E | Contemporary Theory Lab | This new graduate seminar examines the question of whether a new canon of theoretical monographs-as opposed to influential standalone essays or papers-has coalesced in recent years. We focus on a post-Foucaultian, post-1989 moment, understanding theo... |
| ENGLISH368A | Imagining the Oceans | How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Primary authors read might... |
| ENGLISH370 | The Sustainability of the Human Record | What happens in the year 12,021 when future generations seek to understand the extensive record of human endeavour, experience, and life, today and previously? What will constitute a future Rosetta Stone that makes accessible surviving monuments, tex... |
| ENGLISH372D | Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity | an advanced introduction to concepts and debates within the multi-disciplinary field of comparative studies in race and ethnicity. |
| ENGLISH373 | Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Critics | A close study of Shakespeare's major tragedies and exemplary criticism from the Restoration to the present. |
| ENGLISH390 | Graduate Fiction Workshop | For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
| ENGLISH392 | Graduate Poetry Workshop | For Stegner fellows in the writing program. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
| ENGLISH394 | Independent Study | Preparation for first-year Ph.D. qualifying examination and third year Ph.D. oral exam. |
| ENGLISH394C | Curricular Practical Training | CPT course required for international students completing degree. Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular... |
| ENGLISH395 | Ad Hoc Graduate Seminar | Three or more graduate students who wish in the following quarter to study a subject or an area not covered by regular courses and seminars may plan an informal seminar and approach a member of the department to supervise it. |
| ENGLISH396 | Introduction to Graduate Study for Ph.D. Students | Required for first-year graduate students in English. The major historical, professional, and methodological approaches to the study of literature in English. |
| ENGLISH396L | Pedagogy Seminar I | Required for first-year Ph.D students in English. Prerequisite for teaching required for Ph.D. students in English and Modern Thought and Literature. Preparation to enter professional educational practice as a Stanford TA in the department of English... |
| ENGLISH398 | Research Course | A special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the department. Thesis work is not registered under this number. |
| ENGLISH398A | Graduate Pedagogy Committee Course | The graduate pedagogy committee course is a communal resource for graduate students in the department of English. It will host pedagogy materials, workshop information and other resources oriented towards pedagogy instruction and training. Maintained... |
| ENGLISH398L | Literary Lab | Gathering and analyzing data, constructing hypotheses and designing experiments to test them, writing programs [if needed], preparing visuals and texts for articles or conferences. Requires a year-long participation in the activities of the Lab. |
| ENGLISH398Q | Qualifying Exam Workshop | Qualifying Exam Workshop for 1st year cohort |
| ENGLISH398R | Revision and Development of a Paper | Students revise and develop a paper under the supervision of a faculty member with a view to possible publication. |
| ENGLISH398W | Orals, Publication and Dissertation Workshop | For third- and fourth-year graduate students in English. Strategies for studying for and passing the oral examination, publishing articles, and for writing and researching dissertations and dissertation proposals. May be repeated for credit. |
| ENGLISH399 | Thesis | For M.A. students only. Regular meetings with thesis advisers required. |
| ENGLISH39Q | Were They Really "Hard Times"? Mid-Victorian Social Movements and Charles Dickens | "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it." So begins Charles Dickens description of Coketown in Hard Times. And it only seems to get more grim from there. But the world that Dickens sough... |
| ENGLISH46N | American Moderns: Hemingway, Hurston, Faulkner, & Fitzgerald | While Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were flirting with the expatriate avant-garde in Europe, Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner were performing anthropological field-work in the local cultures of the American South. We will read four... |
| ENGLISH50 | HUMANITIES HOUSE WORKSHOP | For student-run workshops and research seminars in Ng House / Humanities House. Open to both residents and non-residents. May be repeated for credit. This course code covers several discrete workshops each quarter; sign up for a particular workshop v... |
| ENGLISH50A | Character Development: Writing a Script, Creating Engaging Characters | Seminar with Writer in Residence John Markus (BA English '78); meets for seven sessions over three weeks in February. Students will work one on one and in small groups with this professional writer and Stanford alum. John has written everything from... |
| ENGLISH50B | A Humanist's Guide to Art, Community, Design, and the Earth | This short, intensive seminar features Humanities Scholar & Artist in Residence Clare Whistler (visiting from England April 15-30) will meet for dialogue, workshop, creation, and improvisation. This workshop will help students to think through method... |
| ENGLISH50Q | Life and Death of Words | In this course, we explore the world of words: their creation, evolution, borrowing, change, and death. Words are the key to understanding the culture and ideas of a people, and by tracing the biographies of words we are able to discern how the world... |
| ENGLISH53Q | Writing and Gender in the Age of Disruption | In this course, we will read a wide cross-section of British and American women writers who turned to fiction and poetry to examine, and to survive, their times: Virginia Woolf, Nella Larsen, Rebecca West, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, Jessie Redmon... |
| ENGLISH5K | WISE: The Cult of Jack Kerouac (And Other Stories of Literary Celebrity) | This course explores the rise, stakes, and ironies of literary stardom by focusing on one of the Bay Area's most notorious band of celebrity authors: the Beats. To some, Beat politics, styles, and philosophies have seemed dated for decades; and yet B... |
| ENGLISH5P | WISE: Literature and the Internet | It is widely held that the term 'cyberspace' first appeared not in the giddy reports of business consultants or futurologists, but in a short story by science fiction author William Gibson. Literature has long functioned as a kind of incubator for so... |
| ENGLISH5R | WISE: American Picaresque: Identity and Satire in the 20th Century | "I am an invisible man," says the unnamed hero of Ralph Ellison's classic picaresque novel from 1952. Generically picaresque refers to works of satirical fiction that depict the episodic adventures of a likable roguish hero. This course will explore... |
| ENGLISH5S | WISE: Thoreau and His Readers | "Some historical phenomena need large-scale analysis," writes literary critic Wai-Chee Dimock. In this course, we will take Dimock's invitation as we study the far-reaching resonances of a text that might seem parochial: Henry David Thoreau's Walden.... |
| ENGLISH5T | WISE: Renaissance Word Play | Sparknotes' No Fear Shakespeare series promises to "translate" the Bard. CliffsNotes and Shmoop offer similar services. But what is it about early modern English that demands translation? Even in modern editions, with their standardized spellings and... |
| ENGLISH5U | WISE: The Institutions of World Literature | Pick a work of "World Literature" from your bookshelf. Now ask yourself - how did it come to be yours? Did a friend recommend it? A bookstore? A professor? Amazon? And how did you come to think of it as "World Literature"? Did publisher decisions on... |
| ENGLISH5V | WISE: Haunted Daughters: Race, Gender, and the Family in Gothic Fiction | At its heart, the gothic is about the intrusion of the past into the present. It grapples with what happens when the dead haunt the living or past injustices refuse to stay buried. In this course, we will explore the interplay of race, gender, trauma... |
| ENGLISH5W | WISE: Detective Fiction | What do detective stories reveal about the structure of society? What can mystery writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Chester Himes, and Patricia Highsmith teach us about the structure of literature? On the one hand, detectives have specia... |
| ENGLISH66 | 'A Model Island': Britain in Historical and Cultural Perspective | What's `culture'? There is no such thing as `British culture' as a coherent singular phenomenon, but `culture' can be a useful lens to think about a place, its entanglement with the past and the rest of the world. In this class we can understand how... |
| ENGLISH68N | Mark Twain and American Culture | Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain defined the rhythms of our prose and the contours of our moral map. He recognized our extravagant promise and stunning failures, our comic foibles and tragic flaws. He is viewed as the most American of American aut... |
| ENGLISH71 | Dangerous Ideas | Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, tradition, and Hell have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like race and urban renewal, play an important role in contemporary d... |
| ENGLISH72N | Serial Storytelling | "TV's Lost Weekends," a recent headline says, referring to the modern habit of binge-watching television shows. Such news stories debate the right way to watch TV. They also echo longstanding arguments about how to read books. This course juxtaposes... |
| ENGLISH802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |
| ENGLISH81 | Philosophy and Literature | Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel... |
| ENGLISH83N | City, Space, Literature | This course presents a literary tour of various cities as a way of thinking about space, representation, and the urban. Using literature and film, the course will explore these from a variety of perspectives. The focus will be thematic rather than ch... |
| ENGLISH90 | Fiction Writing | The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. Prerequisite: PWR 1 (waived in summer quarter). NOTE: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the fi... |
| ENGLISH90AX | Creative Writing: The Magic of Baseball in Film & Fiction | In 1954, French-American historian and educator Jacques Barzun observed that "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." In this creative writing course, we'll examine the role of baseball (whether minuscule or ma... |
| ENGLISH90DC | DCI Sports Writing | Open to DCI Fellows and Partners only. In this seminar we will study and practice the many ways that creative writers frame, and even critique, an interest in athleticism, beauty, spectatorship, and achievement. We will look at and beyond the tropes... |
| ENGLISH90E | Investigating Identity Through Filipinx Fiction | This course is both a reading seminar featuring canonical and contemporary Filipinx authors (including Mia Alvar, Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo, Bienvenido Santos, Lysley Tenorio and José Rizal) and a writing workshop where students generate short... |
| ENGLISH90H | Humor Writing Workshop | What makes writing funny? What are we doing when we try to be funny? In this creative writing workshop, you'll exercise your native wit by writing short pieces of humor in a variety of forms. We'll practice writing jokes, parody, satire, sketches, st... |
| ENGLISH90M | Queer Stories | Like other 90 and 91-level courses, 90M will explore basic elements of fiction and nonfiction writing. Students will read a wide variety of stories and essays in order to develop a language for working through the themes, forms, and concerns of the... |
| ENGLISH90Q | Sports Writing | Study and practice of the unique narratives, tropes, images and arguments that creative writers develop when they write about popular sport. From regional fandom to individualist adventuring, boxing and baseball to mascot dancing and table tennis, ex... |
| ENGLISH90QN | Quantum Narratives:Writing Fiction about Science, Philosophy and Human Experience in the Quantum Age | Classical modes of storytelling have served writers and readers for centuries, but with mainstream recognition of the complexities and uncertainties that underpin reality, might there also exist less traditional, but perhaps truer, modes of storytell... |
| ENGLISH90V | Fiction Writing | Online workshop course that explores the ways in which writers of fiction have used language to examine the world, to create compelling characters, and to move readers. We will begin by studying a selection of stories that demonstrate the many techni... |
| ENGLISH90W | Writing and War | This introductory, five-unit course is designed for all students interested in reading the literature of and studying the expression of military conflict. Bridging the experiences of Veteran and non-Veteran students will be a central aim of the cours... |
| ENGLISH90WM | Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered States: A Workshop | In this writing workshop, we will explore core fiction and nonfiction techniques by engaging with the long literary tradition of writing about mystical, spiritual, and altered states of experience. The logic is simple: if you can write well about wha... |
| ENGLISH91 | Creative Nonfiction | Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content. Prerequisite: PWR 1 (waived in summer quarter and for SLE... |
| ENGLISH91A | Asian American Autobiography/W | This is a dual purpose class: a writing workshop in which you will generate autobiographical vignettes/essays as well as a reading seminar featuring prose from a wide range of contemporary Asian-American writers. Some of the many questions we will co... |
| ENGLISH91DC | Writing the Memoir | Open to DCI Fellows and Partners only. In this course, we will practice the art and craft of writing memoir: works of prose inspired by the memory of personal events and history. In our practice, we will look at different strategies for writing with... |
| ENGLISH91DF | Documentary Fictions | More and more of the best American fiction, plays, and even comics are being created out of documentary practices such as in-depth interviewing, oral histories, and reporting. Novels like Dave Eggers' What is the What, plays like Anna Deavere Smith's... |
| ENGLISH91NW | Nature Writing | In this course we will be reading some of the most beautiful, magical, vital, dangerous andrevolutionary essays and stories and poems ever written, and, in our own writing about nature, will be joining that lineage that includes writers such as Henry... |
| ENGLISH91V | Creative Nonfiction | Online workshop course. Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content. |
| ENGLISH91VO | Voices of the Land | Amazing things can happen when a writer decides to push back from their desk and go out into the world in search of stories to tell. The lives of the subjects, as well as the life of the writer, can be changed forever. In this class, we will read and... |
| ENGLISH92 | Reading and Writing Poetry | Prerequisite: PWR 1. Issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. NOTE: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting to retain thei... |
| ENGLISH92AP | Arab and Arab-American Poetry | In this introductory course, students will write and read widely, exploring various aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor, line, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone. The course will focus primarily on the rich and varied tradition... |
| ENGLISH92BP | Contemporary Black Poetry and Poetics | In this poetry workshop, students will write and read closely, exploring various aspects of poetic craft, including imagery, metaphor and simile, line, stanza, music, rhythm, diction, and tone. The course reading will focus on the rich diversity of c... |
| ENGLISH92L | Poems of Love and Sexuality | This writing-intensive workshop will explore the tradition of love poetry, paying attention to how poets have represented the amorous and the erotic in their work - powerful longing, steamy encounters, devastating break-ups - from ancient times to to... |
| ENGLISH92V | Reading and Writing Poetry | Online workshop course in which students explore issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. |
| ENGLISH92VP | Visual Arts and Poetry | This creative writing workshop will make use of Stanford's own Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection to explore the relationship between poetry and visual art. We'll read poets whose work incorporates painting, drawing, printmaking, photography,... |
| ENGLISH93Q | The American Road Trip | From Whitman to Kerouac, Alec Soth to Georgia O'Keeffe, the lure of travel has inspired many American artists to pack up their bags and hit the open road. In this course we will be exploring the art and literature of the great American road trip. We... |
| ENGLISH94Q | The Future is Feminine | Gender is one of the great social issues of our time. What does it mean to be female or feminine? How has femininity been defined, performed, punished, or celebrated? Writers are some of our most serious and eloquent investigators of these questions,... |
| ENGLISH9CA | American Road Trip | From Whitman to Kerouac, Alec Soth to Georgia O'Keeffe, the lure of travel has inspired many American artists to pack up their bags and hit the open road. In this Creative Expressions course we will be exploring the art and literature of the great Am... |
| ENGLISH9CE | Creative Expression in Writing | Primary focus on giving students a skill set to tap into their own creativity. Opportunities for students to explore their creative strengths, develop a vocabulary with which to discuss their own creativity, and experiment with the craft and adventur... |
| ENGLISH9CF | Poetry Into Film | This course focuses on the intersection between film and poetry. Students will complete three short films based on both published and student-authored poems. From concept to final cut, students will script, storyboard, soundtrack, and visually design... |
| ENGLISH9CFS | Fire Stories: Narrative in the Digital Age | How do we tell stories in the age of the internet, social media, and new technology? How has the art of storytelling evolved over time? In this Creative Writing course we will explore storytelling in the digital age. We will be reading and writing in... |
| ENGLISH9CI | Inspired By Science: A Writing Workshop | How can your interest in science and the environment be enriched by a regular creative practice? How do you begin to write a poem or essay about the wonders of the natural world or the nuances of climate change? What are the tools and strategies avai... |
| ENGLISH9CP | Poetry Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word | With recent blockbuster films like Patterson and major prizes being awarded to artists like Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar, the borders of what constitutes traditional literature are shifting. In this Creative Writing course we will be looking at liter... |
| ENGLISH9CV | Creative Expression in Writing | Online workshop whose primary focus is to give students a skill set to tap into their own creativity. Opportunities for students to explore their creative strengths, develop a vocabulary with which to discuss their own creativity, and experiment with... |
| ENGLISH9CW | Writing and World Literature | This course is an introduction to reading and writing short fiction and poetry. For inspiration and imitation, students will read models drawn from a diverse body of global literature. In a supportive, discussion-based environment, students will deve... |
| ENGLISH9CWA | Word/Art | This class will explore the interconnectivity of writing and visual art by asking the question, what is possible in the relationship between text and image? We'll look at concrete and graphic poetry, comics and graphic nonfiction; as well as chapbook... |
| ENGLISH9R | Humanities Research Intensive | Everyone knows that scientists do research, but how do you do research in the humanities? This seven-day course, taught over spring break, will introduce you to the excitement of humanities research, while preparing you to develop an independent summ... |
| ENGLISH9SF | Fight the Future: Speculative Fiction and Social Justice | Imagining the future has been one of the most important ways humans have assessed their present. In this salon-style seminar we'll focus on modern speculative fiction as social critique, especially of regimes of patriarchy, racism, and capitalism. Th... |