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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

Entertaining the Lon 19th Century

Winter 2026
ENGL 231-001
Ian M. Clark

Special Topics in Genre

Worldbuilding in Popular Genre Fiction

Fall 2025
ENGL 231-001
Sophia Charyna

Issues and Themes: Special Topics I

African Literature on These Indigenous Lands

Winter 2026
ENGL 271-001
Juliane Okot Bitek

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Winter 2025
ENGL 290-001
Jade Standing
Winter 2025
ENGL 290-002
Petra Fachinger
Winter 2025
ENGL 290-003
Molly Wallace
Fall 2025
ENGL 290-001
Heather Evans
Fall 2025
ENGL 290-002
Yaël Schlick
Fall 2025
ENGL 290-003
Gabrielle McIntire
Winter 2026
ENGL 290-001
Ruth Wehlau
Winter 2026
ENGL 290-002
Robert Morrison
Winter 2026
ENGL 290-003
Glenn Willmott
Winter 2026
ENGL 290-004
Kristin Moriah

Literatures and Cultures of the Medieval World

2025/2026
ENGL 312-001
Margaret Aziza Pappano

Context North America

Contemporary North American Indigenous Literatures

2025/2026
ENGL 389-001
Petra Fachinger

Intermediate Writing in Poetry: Poetry and Culture

Fall 2025
CWRI 394-001
Juliane Okot Bitek

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Medieval Gender & Sexuality

Fall 2025
ENGL 411-001
Margaret Aziza Pappano

Topics in Renaissance Literature I

History Plays

Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature I

Literature in the Age of Sensibility & the Sublime

Winter 2026
ENGL 431-001
Christopher Fanning

Group I Special Topics I

A Material History of Book & Print Culture

Fall 2025
ENGL 436-001
Leslie Ritchie

Topics in Romanticism I

Poetry & Poetics of John Keats

Fall 2025
ENGL 441-001
Adeline Johns-Putra

Topics in Romanticism II

Romantic Women Writers

Winter 2026
ENGL 442-001
Adeline Johns-Putra

Topics in Literature of Americas I

19th Century African American Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 446-001

Topics in Victorian Literature I

Decadents, Dandies and New Women

Fall 2025
ENGL 451-001
Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Topics in Victorian Literature I

19th Century Gothic Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 451-001
Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Topics in Victorian Literature I

Hooligans & Gutter Children of Victoria Slums

Winter 2026
ENGL 451-002
S. Brooke Cameron

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Asian Canadian Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 466-001
Petra Fachinger

Topics in Modern/Contemporary American Literature I

American Women's Short Stories

Winter 2026
ENGL 471-001
Yaël Schlick

Topics in Modern/Contemporary American Literature I

The Harlem Renaissance

Fall 2025
ENGL 471-001
Kristin Moriah

Topics in Postcolonial Literature I

Mapping World Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 476-001
Lena, Awwad

Topics in Postcolonial Literature I

Zombies: A Post/Colonial History

Fall 2025
ENGL 476-001
Chris Bongie

Topics in Indigenous Literatures I

Indigenous Poems of/as History

Fall 2025
ENGL 481-001
Marshall Hill
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Group III: Special Topics I

Tree to Page to Tree: The Literature of Environmental Engagement

Fall 2025
ENGL 486-002
Molly Wallace

Group III: Special Topics I

Literature in the Anthropocene

Winter 2026
ENGL 486-001
Adeline Johns-Putra

Group III: Special Topics II

Women's Lives: From Beauvoir to Bechdel

Fall 2025
ENGL 487-001
Yaël Schlick

Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Queen's University

Watson Hall
49 Bader Lane
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

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