And I thought Xianzhe Dai was bad..... this man's class is nothing short of hell. Imagine taking being one of the handful of students who actually took notes before the lecture and then your friend who did nothing gets a 100 and you get partial credit. Hmmmm sounds like inequities to me. My TA didn't care that my friend got into a bike accident.

Does not use slides during lecture, which sucks if you like taking notes. Would mostly ramble and wouldn't talk about the assigned reading until the last 20 minutes of class. Very dense and boring overall. Had a great TA, so the midterm, paper, and online final were graded nicely. Fairly easy class, the lectures just drag on so horribly long.

Professor Gilmore is an INCREDIBLE professor. His lectures are incredible; he speaks about interesting and thought-provoking topics. I wish he taught more courses at UCSB! I highly recommend ENGL 122NE and just Tim overall.

Professor Gilmore's lectures are very off the cuff, using reading materials as supplements to class dialogue. Can ramble sometimes but overall very interesting lectures that get you thinking about your place in the world. The assigned novels and poems were great, two in-class essays and a research paper were majority of the grade.

I love his lecture style, doesn't make you stare at a powerpoint for an hour, allows natural discussion to flow through the class period. Loved everything we were assigned to read. He also was very open to modifications for essay prompts and would rather read passionate writing rather than AI slop or someone who's just trying to answer the prompt.

Easy class if you keep up on readings

Eh, I took this class cause I needed the credits for ES and lit but wouldn't recommend. Lectures are all over the place with very little organization. As far as ES classes go this one's pretty boring, I would much rather take pretty much any other ES class instead of this one.

Professor Gilmore is awesome. His lectures are thought-provoking, and he was constantly relating course material to daily life. He does go on the occasional tangent, and there are pop quizzes throughout the quarter (so you can't skip out on lecture), but I really enjoyed this class and the material it covered.

super easy class, lectures are quite random and unnecessary, but he gives pop quizzes. If you go to lecture and skim the readings class is easy

one of the best profs in the english department. lectures gave context to the readings and grade is based on a paper, midterm, final. he goes on tangents sometimes but he really cares about class material.

i did not expect to enjoy English 1650-1789 but Prof. Gilmore made it so interesting and related the texts to issues that we're facing currently in the 21st century. lecture is required and also 100% worth it if not just for the really awesome gems of wisdom and humor that he throws into each class. he made a boring topic a lot of fun

This was his last quarter teaching so his material feels very degraded and he was not present for his material. It was all online and most interactions are through the TA's. It was all essays and his lectures really did not add anything to the work.