ENGL 486
Group III: Special Topics I
Winter 2027 · Group III: Special Topics I — Literature in the Anthropocene
Topics
- Literature and the Anthropocene
- environmental thought
- debates over human impacts on the planet.
Readings
- Named in description (status as stated): Primary texts TBA but may include poetry by Adam Dickinson, Anne Waldman, and Ross Gay; novels by Karen Tei Yamashita, Paulo Bacigalupi, Richard Powers, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Ruth Ozeki; and films such as Burtynsky’s Anthropocene and Kahiu’s Pumzi.
Winter 2027 · Group III: Special Topics I — Hockey, Social Justice, and Cultural Production
Topics
- Hockey across literature and media
- gender, sexuality, race, economics and nationhood
- colonialism and the environment.
Winter 2027 · Group III: Special Topics I — Against the Machine
Topics
- Group III: Special Topics I — Against the Machine
Fall 2026 · Group III: Special Topics I — Haunted Houses
Topics
- Haunted houses in Gothic and supernatural fiction
- place, home and history
- domestic violence, insular communities and psychological haunting.
Readings
- Primary texts for this course will include (but are not limited to) selections from writers like Edgar Allen Poe, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Stephen King, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Winter 2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Winter 2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Winter 2027
- Official departmental HTML course page ↗Fall 2026
- Source labels these as course materials; required versus recommended status is not specified. Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.
- Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.
- Topics condensed from the course title, topic headings and terms in the published description. Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.
- Source labels these as course materials; required versus recommended status is not specified. Public departmental HTML description; not necessarily a complete syllabus. Separate source variants are retained.