Literature captures us and urges us to reflect on our relationship to the world, to our culture and to ourselves. In stories, poems and plays; in film, graphic novels and even video games, we represent who we are through imagination and language.
We offer a wide range of both traditional and innovative courses that tackle literature from a variety of perspectives. Let us feed your imagination and challenge your intellect.
Special courses offered for the 2021-22 academic year
- ENGL 230: Contemporary Media & Fiction (Jentery Sayers)
- ENGL 230: Canadian Graphic: 21st-Century Comics (Sheila Rabillard)
- ENGL 230: Sexting Through the Ages: 2500 Years of Erotic Writing (Stephen Ross)
- ENGL 330: Utopian Fiction: Roads to Nowhere (Sam Wong)
- ENGL 330: Law and Literature (Nancy Wright)
- ENGL 360: Shakespeare on Screen (Erin Ellerbeck)
- ENGL 360: Shakespeare and the World of Slings and Arrows (Gary Kuchar)
- ENGL 391: Adultery in the Modern Novel (Michael Nowlin)
- ENGL 392: J.M. Coetzee: Parables of Power in the (Post)Colony (Nicole Shukin)
- ENGL 471: Contemporary Women Playrights: Claiming the Stage (Sheila Rabillard)
- ENGL 481: Victorian Treasures in Special Collections: Adventures in rare books and digital tools (Alison Chapman)
We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.