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ENGL 5831 Proseminar in World Religions, World Literature
Spring 2024

This monthly seminar explores methods and issues vital to the combined study of literatures and religions. It brings all MA students together, under faculty guidance, to attend to the broad …

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ENGL 5900 Literature Pedagogy Seminar
Fall 2026

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 …

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3.94
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ENGL 8005 Intro to the Environmental Humanities
Spring 2026

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 …

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ENGL 8110 Medieval Transitions to the Renaissance
Fall 2021

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.English and Scottish literature from Chaucer to the sixteenth century.

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3.88
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ENGL 8262 Spenser
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.

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3.87
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ENGL 8270 Renaissance Drama
Spring 2022

Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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3.44
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ENGL 8380 Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
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.

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3.86
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ENGL 8400 The Romantic Period
Fall 2021

The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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3.88
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ENGL 8500 Studies in English Literature
Spring 2025

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

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3.87
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ENGL 8520 Studies in Renaissance Literature
Fall 2026

New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature

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3.82
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ENGL 8527 Studies in Shakespeare
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.

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3.74
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ENGL 8540 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Fall 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.

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3.77
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ENGL 8559 New Course in English Literature
Fall 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.

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3.69
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ENGL 8560 Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Fall 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.

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3.92
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ENGL 8570 Studies in American Literature
Fall 2026

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

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3.70
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ENGL 8580 Studies in Critical Theory
Fall 2026

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

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3.83
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ENGL 8596 Form and Theory of Poetry
Fall 2026

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of poetic works.

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3.93
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ENGL 8598 Form and Theory of Fiction
Fall 2026

This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of works of fiction.

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3.87
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ENGL 8800 Introduction to Literary Research
Fall 2025

Introduces UVa's research resources and the needs and opportunities for their use. The library and its holdings are explored through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide range …

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ENGL 8810 Criticism in Theory and Practice
Fall 2024

Studies critical theories and the kinds of practical criticism to which they lead. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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3.90
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