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ENGL 5560 Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Spring 2027

A graduate-level seminar in Modern and Contemporary literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

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3.95
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ENGL 5580 Seminar in Critical Theory
Spring 2027

A graduate-level seminar in Critical Theory. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

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3.77
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ENGL 5805 What is Postcolonial Critique?
Spring 2027

What is postcolonial critique? Is it a way of reading a text? Does it refer to the processes of historical decolonization in places like Africa, India, and the Caribbean? Or …

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3.83
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ENGL 8005 Intro to the Environmental Humanities
Spring 2027

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 8380 Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
Spring 2027

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 8510 Studies in Medieval Literature
Spring 2027

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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ENGL 8520 Studies in Renaissance Literature
Spring 2027

New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature

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3.82
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ENGL 8540 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Spring 2027

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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3.78
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ENGL 8559 New Course in English Literature
Spring 2027

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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3.73
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ENGL 8560 Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Spring 2027

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 8596 Form and Theory of Poetry
Spring 2027

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

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3.93
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ENGL 8900 Writing Pedagogy Seminar
Spring 2027

This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, …

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4.00
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ENGL 8998 M.A. Thesis
Spring 2027

M.A. students in English may choose to write a substantial thesis directed by a faculty member. Students opting for a thesis should draw up a proposal and secure a director …

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1.30
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ENGL 8999 Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Spring 2027

Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their M.A. oral examination and proceed with their M.A. research. For more details on this class, please visit the department website …

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2.65
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ENGL 9545 Advanced Studies in American Literature before 1900
Spring 2027

Variable topics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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4.00
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ENGL 9710 Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research
Spring 2027

This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction.

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ENGL 9995 Dissertation Seminar
Spring 2027

Required of students in the Department's PhD program who are at or near the beginning of the dissertation writing process. Addresses the problems encountered by students as they begin to …

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ENGL 9998 Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Spring 2027

Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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ENGL 9999 Non-Topical Research
Spring 2027

For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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