apart from her lectures feeling like Sunday mass, she's ok

This class is infamous for its difficulty, and I think that is a valid assessment. The actual assigned readings were extremely manageable, and there are only three 5-page essays throughout the entire quarter. The first essay is graded fairly harshly, but do not let that deter you--the following two are graded easier. However, the final is a huge effort to study for, and it was not easy. Even as someone who attended every lecture (lectures were not recorded but are vital to attend if you want to succeed on the final), I still spent hours and hours studying. This is not a class to skip out on lectures!!! And anyways, lectures were fairly interesting and made me appreciate the reading material much more. Professor McEachern's close reading of the texts is incredibly impressive.

If you are not an English major/minor, then I would avoid using this class to satisfy a requirement. I'm sure there are easier ones out there! But nonetheless, the class was not nearly as intimidating as other people make it out to be. Just be sure to attend lectures, read all the texts, join office hours a few times, and you will have a good chance at success!

I had Suzannah as my TA and she was lovely! Clearly well-informed on the material and provided lots of constructive essay feedback.

Claire McEachern is a really fantastic lecturer, and the readings were more interesting than I expected, but this is definitely a class you have to work hard at to enjoy. Claire demonstrates an intense mastery of the material and offers so much insight into the text that I never would have thought of—but not in a pretentious way at all. She's not very approachable, but helped unpack the readings so much, I wish I had gone to lecture more consistently. She doesn't record lectures or include much on slides, so you miss a lot if you're not in lecture. 3 papers and a final towards the grade. Suzannah Beiner is a great TA!

This class was mediocre. The professor did not seem to be very engaged in our lectures and almost seemed like she was bored. It made it very hard to pay attention in class. She also spoke incredibly fast and didn't record her lectures (even though there is COVID). The TA's are very unhelpful, they don't know how to answer your questions so you are kind of on your own. I advise peer-reviewing with a friend in class. There was a lot of readings, so be prepared to spend a lot of time on them. The language was also difficult to interpret, but she did a pretty good job summarizing them in class. There are 3 papers and a final. They grade the first paper the hardest so don't feel too bad about it, the other ones will be better. But, make sure to write it exactly how they want you to, really cater it to your TA. For the final, it is all terms and passage identifications so make sure you're actually doing the readings or else studying is almost impossible.