ENGL 460

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Literature of American Minorities

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring literary expressions of minority experience in America.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours if topics vary; Graduate students may repeat if topics vary. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43577	Lecture-Discussion	CJ	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1020 Lincoln Hall	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Blackness in Long Contemporary Section Info: FA25 ENGL 460 / AFRO 498 - Literature of American Minorities - Candice Jenkins - Thinking Blackness in the Long Contemporary - This course is an experiment in Black thought. Through study of 21st century Black cultural production, including fiction, film, poetry, and drama, as well as literary and cultural criticism, we will consider how African American creatives and scholars have theorized Black existence. Our inquiry, while centered in the now, will attend in part to temporal and political shifts in the “contemporary moment” from the exuberant post-Civil Rights past to the “post-racial” fantasies of the Obama era to today’s unsettled and volatile present. The critical path to and through Blackness that we follow, led by the works under study, will be intersectional, dynamic, and wide-ranging; it will push us into encounters with the queer, the melancholy, the satirical, and the surreal. Reading widely, yet deliberating with care and in depth, we will hold space for Blackness as struggle and refusal, as pleasure and joy, as collective grief, as power, and most crucially, as possibility. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
	42979	Lecture-Discussion	CJG	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1020 Lincoln Hall	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Blackness in Long Contemporary Section Info: FA25 ENGL 460 / AFRO 498 - Literature of American Minorities - Candice Jenkins - Thinking Blackness in the Long Contemporary - This course is an experiment in Black thought. Through study of 21st century Black cultural production, including fiction, film, poetry, and drama, as well as literary and cultural criticism, we will consider how African American creatives and scholars have theorized Black existence. Our inquiry, while centered in the now, will attend in part to temporal and political shifts in the “contemporary moment” from the exuberant post-Civil Rights past to the “post-racial” fantasies of the Obama era to today’s unsettled and volatile present. The critical path to and through Blackness that we follow, led by the works under study, will be intersectional, dynamic, and wide-ranging; it will push us into encounters with the queer, the melancholy, the satirical, and the surreal. Reading widely, yet deliberating with care and in depth, we will hold space for Blackness as struggle and refusal, as pleasure and joy, as collective grief, as power, and most crucially, as possibility. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.