2024-25 Literature Program
2024-25 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/ Dr. Taylor Johnston-Levy
Sem I Mon-Wed 10:00-12:00
Dr. Karin Berkman/ Dr. Taylor Johnson-Levy
Sem II Mon-Wed 10:00-12:00
Dr. Yael Shapira
Sem II Mon-Wed 12:00-14:00
193 Historical Background to English and American Literature
Prof. William Kolbrener
Sem I Mon-Wed 14:00-16:00
Dr. Noam Schiff
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
Dr. Esther Schupak
Sem II Wed 8:00-10:00 (hybrid course)
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. Carra Glatt
Sem II Mon-Wed 8:00-10:00
6250 Troubled Writing: Irish Literature in the 20th Century
Dr. Karin Berkman
Sem II Wed 12:00-16:00
Dr. Yael Shapira
Sem II Mon 16:00-20:00
6550 Life Stories in Literature and Other Media
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem II Wed 16:00-20:00
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.
4xx-Level seminars (third-year BA students; literature MA students in the non-thesis track)
Prof. Evan Fallenberg
Sem II Tue 16:00-20:00
7xx-Level Seminars (third-year BA students, MA students)
711 Reading Like Sherlock: Detective Fiction and Literary Analysis
Dr. Carra Glatt
Sem II Mon 16:00-20:00
Dr. Daniel Feldman
Sem II Mon 12:00-16:00
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem I Wed 12:00-16:00
Dr. Esther Schupak
Sem I Wed 8:00-12:00
788 The Fate of the Novel in the Digital Age
Dr. Taylor Johnston-Levy
Sem I Mon 12:00-16:00
755 American Literature, Civil War-Present
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem II Tue 8:00-12:00
783 Seventeenth Century Religious Lyrics in England (Parts I and II)
Dr. Yaakov Mascetti
Sem I Tue 14:00-18:00
(Offered by the Department of Comparative Literature, in English; Parts I and II can be taken together 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 II Wed 12:00-16:00
895 Cinderella Stories: Unequal Matches in the British Novel
Dr. Yael Shapira
Sem I Wed 16:00-20:00
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.)
Prof. Ilana Blumberg
Sem I Tue 10:00-2:00
936 Poetry III: Poetic Form and Deformation
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem I Tue 10:00-14:00
Prof. Evan Fallenberg
Sem I Tues 14:00-18:00
8870 Translation and Prosody
Prof. Marcela Sulak
Sem II Tue 12:00-16:00
Prof. William Kolbrener
Sem II Tue 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.
