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English Undergraduate Courses

Queen’s English offers small classes at every level of the program.

In this program, you feel a sense of community among students, while also having a wide range of courses to choose from.

We offer a number of Creative Writing courses, all of which can count toward English degrees.

From popular forms like children’s and YA literature to the classics, from Canadian authors to English-language texts from around the world, from medieval poetry to texts written this year, and including many LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices, you will be able both to follow your interests and discover new ones!

New as of 2023: All 200-level ENGL courses (with the exception of ENGL 290) are now open to any student in second year or above: it is no longer necessary to take first-year English to have access to these courses. The prerequisites for 300- and 400-level ENGL courses are ENGL 200 and 290.

If you have further questions, please contact us.

Special Topics in Genre

Tales of Terror: From Frankenstein to Dracula

Winter 2025
ENGL 231-001
Robert Morrison

Literature and the Fantastic

Women and Girls of YA Fantasy Fiction

Winter 2025
ENGL 273-001
Jessica Caravaggio

Literature and War

The Radical Politics of Sexuality and Gender, 1914–1945

Fall 2024
Jesse Gauthier

Issues and Themes in Canadian Literature I

Canadian Poetry Old and New

Winter 2025
ENGL 284-001
Robert May

Topics in Renaissance Literature I

Utopia and the Literary Dialogue

Fall 2024
ENGL 421-001
Nicholas Thompson

Topics in Renaissance Literature II

London Playhouse Practice

Winter 2025
ENGL 422-001
Jade Standing

Group I Special Topics I

A Material History of Book & Print Culture

Fall 2024
ENGL 436-001
Leslie Ritchie

Topics in Romanticism I

De Quincey and the Literature of Addiction

Fall 2024
ENGL 441-001
Robert Morrison

Topics in Romanticism I

Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries

Winter 2025
ENGL 441-001
Robert Morrison

Topics in Victorian Literature I

At Table with the Victorians: Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy and Food in Victorian Literature

Fall 2024
ENGL 451-001
Heather Evans

Topics in Victorian Literature I

Victorians and Video Games

Winter 2025
ENGL 451-001
S. Brooke Cameron

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Diaspora Writing in Toronto

Fall 2024
ENGL 466-001
Heather Macfarlane

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Literary Prizes and the Politics of Prestige

Winter 2025
ENGL 466-001
Sam McKegney

Topics in Indigenous Literatures I

Incarcerating Indigenous Peoples: Cultural and Political Perspectives

Fall 2024
ENGL 481-001
Armand Garnet Ruffo

Topics in Indigenous Literatures II

Indigenous YA Literature Written in Canada

Winter 2025
ENGL 482-001
Petra Fachinger

Group III: Special Topics I

History & the Contemporary Novel

Fall 2024
ENGL 486-002
Yaël Schlick

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

Humans (and Other Animals)

Fall 2024
ENGL 491-001
S. Brooke Cameron

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

The Evolution of Fairy and Folk Tales

Winter 2025
ENGL 491-001

Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory I

What is Close Reading?

Winter 2025
ENGL 496-001
Angela Facundo

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