Eleanor Johnson

The biggest transferable skill I'm taking away from this course is literature and poetry analysis. I think I'm a more thoughtful and questioning reader now - also, of course, I have a much greater appreciation for Chaucer and the extent of his contributions to the history of English literature.

Learned a variety of critical lenses and delved into major genres of literature

Very manageable workload; readings every week, two papers, and a midterm and final. Talk to her about your paper topics!! She'll make them brilliant too.

So much lighter compared to my friends' classes. We only have to do the weekly readings, along w/ 2 papers, a take home midterm and a final. No discussion posts!

Pretty light I thought, You write a 5-7 page paper and a 10-15 page paper, though she says she doesn't actually care that much about the length, as long as the two papers at least meet the minimum 5 full or 10 full pages, the length beyond that is up to you, for instance you could write a 10 and a 20 page paper. Midterm and final are the same format, ID short passages from the readings covered thus far. Give the title, author, genre, contextualize the passage within the larger work as a whole and then do thematic and stylistic analysis of the poem (and they are all poems). I didn't really study that much or spend too much time on the papers (both were written pretty much the night before) and I ended up with an A in the class so I wouldn't say she is that harsh, but I went to every class meeting. This is an important point, you must go to class because she will take attendance. The really big threat to your grade in this class is if you get lazy and don't go, your grade automatically drops so after two absences the highest grade you can get is an A-.

2 papers, 1 shorter, 1 longer 1 midterm, or a 50 minute discussion every week 1 final reading for each class (one tale) I forget the grade breakdown exactly but I think it's like... 25% first paper, 35% second paper, 20% midterm, 20% final? I feel like that's not quite right but it's something like that. also she takes attendance every class, but there's no reason you should be skipping anyway.

hefty (but usually enjoyable) readings, 1 short 5 page paper, 1 midterm 8-page paper, and 1 long seminar paper (15-20 pages). Appropriate for an English Department seminar.

Middle English, historical context, Boethian Philosophy, and many literary experiments Chaucer put forward.

Critical analysis from a psycho cultural perspective for stagecraft.

Everyone's already said it: Eleanor Johnson is brilliant. After her first lecture on Gawain and the Green Knight for History of Horror, I declared as an English major. Her classes are some of the best that Columbia has to offer.