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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.

Introduction to Literary Study

ONLINE ONLY

Turtle Island by Donna Langhome

Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada

Winter 2026
ENGL 218-001
Christine Fiddler

Legends of King Arthur: Medieval to Modern

ONLINE ONLY

Introductory Approaches to Cultural Studies

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory I

Literatures and Cultures of the Medieval World

19th-Century British Literature and Visual Culture

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American Literature

Context North America

Contemporary North American Indigenous Literatures

Intermediate Writing in Poetry: Poetry and Culture

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Premodern Gender & Sexuality

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

Group I Special Topics I

A Material History of Book & Print Culture

Topics in Romanticism I

Poetry & Poetics of John Keats

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

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

CANCELLED | 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

Topics in Indigenous Literatures I

Indigenous Poems of/as History

Group III: Special Topics I

British and American Literary Modernisms 1880-1920

Group III: Special Topics I

Literature in the Anthropocene

Winter 2026
ENGL 486-001
Adeline Johns-Putra
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Group III: Special Topics I

Tree to Page to Tree: The Literature of Environmental Engagement

Group III: Special Topics II

Women’s Autobiography

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

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49 Bader Lane
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

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