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Course Offerings

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

Dalhousie University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
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Dalhousie University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building
1 902 494 3387

Dalhousie University

Department of English

Course Offerings

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Summer 2025 Courses

1000-level courses

Upper-level courses

Graduate courses

Fall 2026 Courses

1000-level courses

Upper-level courses

Graduate courses

2025-2026 New Tentative Courses

New potential 5000 level courses coming for 2025-2026 year

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