2023-24 Literature Program
2023-24 Literature Program (PDF)
Our literature program offers a range of required and elective courses, as well as seminars.
Below you will find the list of literature courses for the academic year 2023-24.
Note: Small changes in next year's Literature Program may still occur.
Click on the title of any course to see its description. For a full description of all the literature courses offered by the department, click here.
First-Year Courses
Dr. Karin Berkman
Sem I Mon-Wed 10:00-12:00 (Group 1); Mon-Wed 16:00-18:00 (Group 2)
Dr. Karin Berkman/ Dr. Taylor Johnson-Levy
Sem II Mon-Wed 10:00-12:00
Dr. Yael Shapira
Sem II Mon-Wed 14:00-16:00
193 Historical Background to English and American Literature
Prof. William Kolbrener
Sem I Mon-Wed 14:00-16:00
Dr. Daniel Feldman
Sem I Mon-Wed 12:00-14:00
Second- and Third-Year Survey Courses
Prof. William Kolbrener
Sem I Mon-Wed 16:00-18:00
Dr. Carra Glatt
Sem I Mon-Wed 10:00-12:00
303 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Dr. Daniel Feldman
Sem II - Online course
Prof. William Kolbrener
Sem II Wed 12:00-16:00
For any further information regarding the Literature Program of The Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University, kindly contact our office here.
Electives - 6xx level (second- and third-year BA students)
Dr. Yael Shapira
Sem II Wed 8:00-12:00
671 African American Literature
Dr. Carra Glatt
Sem II Mon 10:00-14:00
692 20th Century British Literature
Dr. Karin Berkman
Sem II Mon 14:00-18:00
6010 Witchcraft in Literature and History
Dr. Esther Schupak
Sem I Mon/Wed 12:00-14:00
6503 By Hercules! Classical Heroes and Their Reception from the Bronze Age: Hercules and Others
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6504 By Hercules! Classical Heroes and their Reception from the Bronze Age: The Trojan War
Dr. Lisa Maurice
Sem I + II Sun 12:00-14:00
Offered by the Classics Department, in English; both courses (1 credit each) can be taken together by English literature students as the equivalent of one elective (2 credits). Students must sign up for both parts for this course to substitute an elective.
For any further information regarding the Literature Program of The Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University, kindly contact our office here.
4xx-Level seminars (third-year BA students; literature MA students in the non-thesis track)
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem I Mon 14:00-18:00
4050 English Careers and Literary Citizenship
Prof. Evan Fallenberg
Sem II Tue 16:00-20:00
7xx-Level Seminars (third-year BA students, MA students)
703 Shakespeare, Adaptation and Popular Culture
Dr. Esther Schupak
Sem I Wed 8:00-12:00
Dr. Daniel Feldman
Sem I Wed 16:00-20:00
740 Passing: Literary Lies and Open Secrets
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem I Tue 16:00-18:00
Prof. Jeff Birkenstein
Sem II Tue 10:00-14:00
793 Autobiography as a Literary Genre
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem II Mon 16:00-20:00
7169 Holy Love and Secular Love in Medieval and Renaissance Poetry
Dr. Yaakov Mascetti
Sem I +II Tue 14:00-16:00
(Offered by the Department of Comparative Literature, in English; can be taken by English literature students as an undergraduate or graduate seminar)
For any further information regarding the Literature Program of The Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University, kindly contact our office here.
MA Seminars (Graduate students only)
Note: BA students who wish to take a graduate seminar need permission from the instructor to register.
829 Literary Conversations: Introduction to Advanced Studies in Literature
Note: Required for all graduate students in literature, including Literary Translation students and Ph,D. students; MA students in Creative Writing welcome.
Dr. Carra Glatt
Sem I Wed 12:00-16:00
8000 Reading the Serial Victorian Novel
Dr. Carra Glatt
Sem II Wed 16;00-20:00
919 Advanced Academic Reading and Writing
Note: Required for all graduate students in literature; MA students in Creative Writing welcome.
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem II Wed 12:00-16:00
Creative Writing and Translation Workshops
(Note: These workshops are intended for CW students only. Literature students interested in taking a creative writing workshop may apply to the instructor, who will consider their request based on availability and qualifications.)
946 Writing Seminar: Poetry IV
Ms. Jane Medved
Sem I Tue 10:00-2:00
948 Writing Seminar: Fiction II
Dr. Taylor Johnston-Levy
Sem II Tue 14:00-18:00
9550 Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Memoir
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem I Tues 10:00-14:00
Prof. Evan Fallenberg
Sem I Tue 14:00-18:00
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem II Tue 10:00-14:00
For any further information regarding the Literature Program of The Department of English Literature and Linguistics in Bar-Ilan University, kindly contact our office here.
