ENGL 255

Spring 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

Early American Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

[IAI Code: H3914] This large-scale survey course offers students background in a wide range of genres, authors, and texts, focusing on "early American literature," which ranges from pre-Columbian indigenous narratives to nineteenth century novels, poems, and plays. The material studied ranges across multiple centuries and continents, and includes a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and gendered perspectives. Writers may include Christopher Columbus, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 255 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32071	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	123 English Building	Myers, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32072	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	123 English Building	Myers, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32070	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	123 English Building	Streitmatter, O	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
43188	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	123 English Building	Streitmatter, O	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
32075	Lecture	AL1	12:00PM -12:50PM	MW	157 Noyes Laboratory	Barnard, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.