ENGL 308 – American Literature (Prof. William Marling)

  • Regularly includes works by Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederic Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Toni Morrison, among others

ENGL 363 – The Harlem Renaissance (Prof. Marilyn Mobley)

  • Includes consideration of art, literature and music of the period
  • Cross-listed with the minor in African and African American Studies
  • Cross-listed with the minor in Ethnic Studies

ENGL 365E/465E – Immigrant Literature (Prof. William Marling)

ENGL 365N/465N – Morrison, Baldwin and Coates on Race in America (Prof. Marilyn Mobley)

  • Cross-listed with the minor in African and African American Studies
  • Cross-listed with the minor in Ethnic Studies

ENGL 365N/465N – James Baldwin and Toni Morrison (Prof. Thrity Umrigar)

ENGL 365N/465N–  Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor (Prof. Thrity Umrigar)

ENGL 365N/465N – The Novels of Toni Morrison (Prof. Thrity Umrigar)

ENGL 365Q/365Q-C/465Q – Postcolonial Literature and Theory–Writing Black Britain (Prof. Kurt Koenigsberger)

ENGL 366G/466G – Minority Literatures – Latinx and Native American Literature (Prof. William Marling)

ENGL 386/486 – Race, Gender and Toni Morrison (Prof. Marilyn Mobley)

  • Cross-listed with the minor in African and African American Studies
  • Cross-listed with the minor in Ethnic Studies

ENGL 517 – Grad Seminar on Race and Racism (Prof. Thrity Umrigar)

ENGL 521 ­– Slavery in Literature/Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Prof. Marilyn Mobley)

SAGES Courses on Minority Literatures, Race and/or Racism

FSSY 185R – Children’s Picture Books (Prof. Cara Byrne)

  • Numerous course readings engage race/racism and around 80% of books taught are by BIPOC authors

FSSY 185W ­­– Reading the Body: Thinking Through the Body’s Boundaries, Biases, & Possibilities for Belonging (Prof. Thom Dawkins)

USSO 285N – Globalization and American Culture (Prof. William Marling)

USSY 285V – Castaways and Cannibals: Stories of Empire (Prof. Kristine Kelly)

USSO 288R – South Asian-American Literature: Novels and Short Stories (Prof. Thrity Umrigar)

USSO 289 – The Meanings of Difference: Constructions of Diversity in American Culture (Prof. Marilyn Mobley)

USSO  292E – Many Ways to Be a Woman: Intersectional Traditions of Feminism and Femininity (Prof. Gabrielle Bychowski)

USSY 291H – Radical Picture Books (Prof. Cara Byrne)

  • Numerous course readings engage race/racism and around 80% of books taught are by BIPOC authors

USSY  293A – Racism and Human Diversity (Prof. Gabrielle Bychowski)

  • Taught under the subtitles “Women of the Civil Rights Movement” and “Racism and Human Diversity: The Myths of White Supremacy”

USSY 293N – Global Shakespeares (Prof. James Newlin)

USSY  293O ­– Monsters and Disability (Prof. Gabrielle Bychowski)

  • Taught as “Eugenic Monsters: Histories of Race and Disability”

USSY 293Y – Shakespeare, Race and Othello over the Centuries (Prof. John Higgins)

USSY 294H – Mapping Spaces: Representations of Place and Mobility in Literature (Prof. Kristine Kelly)

  • Class includes Anglophone African and African Diaspora Literature

Annual Cleveland Humanities Collaborative Summer Seminar

“Reading Social Justice: The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards”  

  • Co-sponsored by Writer’s House
  • Frequently attended and led by English faculty and students

2020– “Reconstructing Race: Remembering, Redressing, & Redeeming American Democracy”