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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.

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Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada

ONLINE ONLY

Winter 2026
ENGL 218-001
Christine Fiddler

Context North America

Contemporary North American Indigenous Literatures

2025/2026
ENGL 389-001
Petra Fachinger

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Premodern Gender & Sexuality

Fall 2025
ENGL 411-001
Margaret Aziza Pappano

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Medieval Travel and Ethnographic Writing

Winter 2026
ENGL 411-002
Margaret Aziza Pappano

Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature I

Laurence Sterne

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 Literature of Americas I

19th Century African American Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 446-001
Kristin Moriah

Topics in Victorian Literature I

Decadents, Dandies and New Women

Fall 2025
ENGL 451-001
Heather Evans

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

Is There a Canon of World Literature

Winter 2026
ENGL 476-001
Leena 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

British and American Literary Modernisms 1880-1920

Fall 2025
ENGL 486-001
Gabrielle McIntire

Group III: Special Topics I

Literature in the Anthropocene

Winter 2026
ENGL 486-001
Adeline Johns-Putra

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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