English (ENGL)
| Code | Title | SH | Usually offered | NUpath | Prerequisites | Recent instructors |
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| ENGL 1000 | English at Northeastern | 1 | fall, spring | Eunsong Kim Patrick Mullen Theo Davis | ||
| ENGL 1140 | Grammar: The Architecture of English | 4 | FQ | Janet Randall | ||
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 | fall, spring | IC, SI | Abbie DeCamp Elizabeth Britt Kj Rawson Thomas Strychacz | |
| ENGL 1300 | Introduction to Health and Humanities | 4 | fall | IC | Christopher Parsons | |
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 | fall, spring | WI | Elizabeth Dillon Eunsong Kim Hillary Chute Patrick Mullen Tarushi Sonthalia | |
| ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | 4 | fall, spring | WI | Mary Ellen Cushman Mya Poe Neal Lerner Qianqian Zhang-Wu | |
| ENGL 1450 | Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | 4 | AD, IC, WI | Lawrence Evalyn | ||
| ENGL 1502 | American Literature to 1865 | 4 | IC, SI | |||
| ENGL 1600 | Introduction to Shakespeare | 4 | spring | IC, SI | Erika Boeckeler | |
| ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 | spring | DD, IC | Erika Boeckeler Isabel Sobral Campos | |
| ENGL 1701 | Global Literatures 2 | 4 | fall | DD, IC | Alison Glassie Brinda Mehta Isabel Sobral Campos | |
| ENGL 1983 | Topics in Literature | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 1990 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 2296 | Early African-American Literature | 4 | fall | DD, IC | Alanna Prince Nicole Aljoe | |
| ENGL 2301 | The Graphic Novel | 4 | fall | EI, IC | Hillary Chute | |
| ENGL 2302 | Culture, Technology, and the Future of Health | 4 | DD, SI | |||
| ENGL 2330 | The American Renaissance | 4 | DD, IC | |||
| ENGL 2420 | Contemporary Poetry | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 2430 | Contemporary Fiction | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 2440 | The Modern Bestseller | 4 | IC | |||
| ENGL 2450 | Postcolonial Literature | 4 | spring | DD, IC | Alanna Prince Tarushi Sonthalia | |
| ENGL 2451 | Postcolonial Women Writers | 4 | DD, IC | Nicole Aljoe | ||
| ENGL 2455 | American Women Writers | 4 | DD, IC | Carla Kaplan | ||
| ENGL 2460 | Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. | 4 | spring | DD, IC | Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez | |
| ENGL 2470 | Asian-American Literature | 4 | DD, IC | Eunsong Kim | ||
| ENGL 2490 | Native American Literature | 4 | spring | DD, IC | Gordon Henry | |
| ENGL 2520 | Science Fiction | 4 | fall | IC | Kathleen Kelly Tarushi Sonthalia | |
| ENGL 2570 | Latinx Literature | 4 | DD | |||
| ENGL 2600 | Irish Literary Culture | 4 | EX, IC | |||
| ENGL 2620 | What Is Nature? | 4 | fall | EX, IC | Alison Glassie Kathleen Kelly | |
| ENGL 2650 | Science Writing: Origins, Ethics, and Emerging Genres | 4 | IC, SI | Cecelia Musselman | ||
| ENGL 2690 | Boston in Literature | 4 | EX, IC | |||
| ENGL 2695 | Travel and Place-Based Writing | 4 | fall | EI, IC | Kathleen Kelly | |
| ENGL 2700 | Creative Writing | 4 | fall, spring, summer | EI | Aaron Block Caitlin Thornbrugh Christopher Ayala Francis Blessington Isabel Sobral Campos Jeremy Bushnell Kathleen Gonso | |
| ENGL 2710 | Style and Editing | 4 | fall, spring | EI, WI | Elizabeth Britt Mya Poe Qianqian Zhang-Wu | |
| ENGL 2730 | Digital Writing | 4 | EI, WI | |||
| ENGL 2750 | Creative Writing 2 | 4 |
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| ENGL 2760 | Writing in Global Contexts | 4 | DD, IC, WI | Qianqian Zhang-Wu | ||
| ENGL 2770 | Writing to Heal | 4 | EI, WI | Laurie Edwards | ||
| ENGL 2780 | Visual Writing | 4 | EI, IC, WI | |||
| ENGL 2830 | Literary Theory | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 2850 | Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | 4 | EI, IC, WI | Juliana Spahr | ||
| ENGL 2990 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 2991 | Research Practicum | 2–4 | ||||
| ENGL 2995 | Practicum | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 3070 | Literary Genres | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 3101 | Early Literatures | 4 | IC | Kathleen Kelly | ||
| ENGL 3120 | 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | 4 | Elizabeth Dillon Kirsten Saxton | |||
| ENGL 3160 | Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | 4 | spring | IC | Lawrence Evalyn Nicole Aljoe | |
| ENGL 3161 | 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | 4 | spring | Eunsong Kim Michael McCluskey Tarushi Sonthalia | ||
| ENGL 3180 | Topics in 19th-Century British Literature | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 3190 | Topics in 19th-Century American Literature | 4 | Theo Davis | |||
| ENGL 3325 | Rhetoric of Law | 4 | IC | Elizabeth Britt | ||
| ENGL 3340 | Technologies of Text | 4 | AD, EI, EX | Erika Boeckeler | ||
| ENGL 3370 | Writing Cultures | 4 | spring | EX, IC, WI | Mary Ellen Cushman | |
| ENGL 3374 | Writing London | 4 | DD, EX, IC, WI | |||
| ENGL 3375 | Writing Boston | 4 | fall | EI, EX, IC, WI | Caitlin Thornbrugh Chris Gallagher Neal Lerner Sebastian Stockman | |
| ENGL 3376 | Creative Nonfiction | 4 | spring | EI, WI | Caitlin Thornbrugh Elizabeth Dillon Elmaz Abinader Neal Lerner Sebastian Stockman | |
| ENGL 3377 | Poetry Workshop | 4 | fall, spring | EI | Christopher Ayala Eunsong Kim Gordon Henry Isabel Sobral Campos Juliana Spahr Truong Tran | |
| ENGL 3378 | Fiction Workshop | 4 | EI | Aaron Block Francis Blessington Jeremy Bushnell | ||
| ENGL 3380 | Writing Seminar | 4 | spring | EI, WI | Kathleen Kelly | |
| ENGL 3381 | The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | 4 | fall | EX, WI | Mya Poe | |
| ENGL 3382 | Publishing in the 21st Century | 4 | fall | EI, EX, WI | Sebastian Stockman | |
| ENGL 3400 | Opening the Archive | 4 | spring | EX, IC, WI | Alison Glassie Kirsten Saxton Kj Rawson | |
| ENGL 3404 | African American Rhetorical Traditions | 4 | DD, IC | |||
| ENGL 3460 | The Archives of Public Health | 4 | EX, IC | Sari Altschuler | ||
| ENGL 3465 | Creative Writing 3 | 4 |
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| ENGL 3487 | Film and Text | 4 | EX, IC | |||
| ENGL 3619 | Emerson and Thoreau | 4 | Theo Davis | |||
| ENGL 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | 4 | fall | DD, IC | Lori Lefkovitz | |
| ENGL 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | 4 | DD, IC | |||
| ENGL 3700 | Narrative Medicine | 4 | IC | Sari Altschuler | ||
| ENGL 3710 | Major Seminar | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 3730 | 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 3900 | Gender and Black World Literatures | 4 | fall | DD, IC | Regine Jean-Charles | |
| ENGL 3990 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 4010 | Topics in Shakespeare | 4 | Patricia Powell | |||
| ENGL 4410 | Research in Rhetoric and Writing | 4 | CE, WI | |||
| ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 | fall, spring | CE, WI |
| Carla Kaplan Chris Gallagher Elizabeth Dillon Gordon Henry Laura Green Patrick Mullen |
| ENGL 4970 | Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 4971 | Junior/Senior Honors Project 2 | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 4990 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 4991 | Research | 4 | EX | |||
| ENGL 4992 | Directed Study | 1–4 | spring | Juliana Spahr Lee Emrich | ||
| ENGL 5103 | Proseminar | 4 | fall | Erika Boeckeler Eunsong Kim Hillary Chute | ||
| ENGL 5976 | Directed Study | 1–4 | spring | Julia Flanders Kathleen Kelly Kirsten Saxton Neal Lerner Sari Altschuler | ||
| ENGL 6954 | Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 6955 | Co-op Work Experience Abroad – Half-Time | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 6962 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 6964 | Co-op Work Experience | 0 | fall | Lisa Doherty Michaela Modica Richard Conley | ||
| ENGL 6965 | Co-op Work Experience Abroad | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 7215 | Topics in 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 7281 | Topics in Medieval Literature | 4 | Kathleen Kelly | |||
| ENGL 7282 | Topics in Renaissance Literature | 4 | Erika Boeckeler | |||
| ENGL 7284 | Topics in 18th-Century Literature | 4 | fall | Elizabeth Dillon | ||
| ENGL 7286 | Topics in 19th-Century Literatures | 4 | spring | Lori Lefkovitz | ||
| ENGL 7342 | Topics in Criticism and Theory | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 7351 | Topics in Literary Study | 4 | spring | Alison Glassie Patrick Mullen Sari Altschuler | ||
| ENGL 7352 | Topics in Genre | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 7358 | Topics in Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies | 4 | spring | Carla Kaplan Kirsten Saxton Lawrence Evalyn Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez | ||
| ENGL 7360 | Topics in Rhetoric | 4 | fall | Kj Rawson Mary Ellen Cushman | ||
| ENGL 7370 | Introduction to Digital Humanities | 4 | fall | Julia Flanders Lawrence Evalyn | ||
| ENGL 7380 | Topics in Digital Humanities | 4 | Nicole Aljoe | |||
| ENGL 7392 | Writing and the Teaching of Writing | 4 | Mya Poe Neal Lerner | |||
| ENGL 7395 | Topics in Writing | 4 | fall, spring | Chris Gallagher Mary Ellen Cushman Mya Poe Neal Lerner Qianqian Zhang-Wu | ||
| ENGL 7962 | Elective | 1–4 | ||||
| ENGL 7976 | Directed Study | 1–4 | spring | Chris Gallagher Kathleen Kelly Lori Lefkovitz Neal Lerner Nicole Aljoe Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez | ||
| ENGL 7986 | Research | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 7990 | Thesis | 4 | fall, spring | Carla Kaplan Chris Gallagher Elizabeth Dillon Erika Boeckeler Hillary Chute Kathleen Kelly Sari Altschuler | ||
| ENGL 7996 | Thesis Continuation - Half-Time | 0 | spring |
| Hillary Chute Kathleen Kelly Sari Altschuler | |
| ENGL 8407 | Teaching Practicum | 1 | spring | Gordon Henry Neal Lerner Nicole Aljoe Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez | ||
| ENGL 8960 | Exam Preparation—Doctoral | 0 | fall, spring | Erika Boeckeler Mya Poe Nicole Aljoe | ||
| ENGL 8986 | Research | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 9000 | PhD Candidacy Achieved | 0 | ||||
| ENGL 9986 | Research | 0 | fall, spring | Erika Boeckeler Kj Rawson Lori Lefkovitz Nicole Aljoe Qianqian Zhang-Wu Sari Altschuler Theo Davis | ||
| ENGL 9990 | Dissertation Term 1 | 0 | fall, spring |
| Erika Boeckeler Julia Flanders Kj Rawson Lori Lefkovitz Sari Altschuler Theo Davis | |
| ENGL 9991 | Dissertation Term 2 | 0 | fall, spring |
| Erika Boeckeler Hillary Chute Kj Rawson Lori Lefkovitz Mya Poe Theo Davis | |
| ENGL 9996 | Dissertation Continuation | 0 | fall, spring |
| Hillary Chute Julia Flanders Kj Rawson Mya Poe Nicole Aljoe |
Instructors are from recent scheduled terms; each course page shows them per season with student shares. Blank means no recent scheduled sections on record.