# Joshua David Gonsalves — AUB professor

> Joshua David Gonsalves teaches 9 courses at American University of Beirut, with 7 student reviews.

Source: https://studiety.com/aub/professor/5494-joshua-david-gonsalves
Retrieved: 2026-09-18

## Teaching in Fall 2026-2027

- [ENGL 219 — Film as Text](https://studiety.com/aub/course/600): Lecture 1 (5 seats left)
- [ENGL 399 — Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1435): Thesis 7 (5 seats left)
- ENGL 310B — Intro. to Film Adaptation: Lecture 1 (5 seats left)
- [ENGL 399A — Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1436): Thesis 7 (5 seats left)
- [ENGL 399B — Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1437): Thesis 3 (5 seats left)
- [ENGL 399C — Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1438): Thesis 6 (5 seats left)

## Courses taught

- [ENGL 207 — English Literature II](https://studiety.com/aub/course/590)
- [ENGL 212 — Shakespeare](https://studiety.com/aub/course/593)
- [ENGL 219 — Film as Text](https://studiety.com/aub/course/600)
- [ENGL 221 — Introduction to Literary Theory](https://studiety.com/aub/course/602)
- [ENGL 292 — Capstone Seminar For Lit Major](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1429)
- [ENGL 399 — M.A Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1435)
- [ENGL 399A — M.A. Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1436)
- [ENGL 399B — M.A. Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1437)
- [ENGL 399C — M.A. Thesis](https://studiety.com/aub/course/1438)

## Student ratings

- Overall: 1.0/5 from 1 rating

## What students said

Reviews are shown without their authors' names.

- **ENGL 219 · 1/5 · 2023-08** — Students advise against taking ENGL 219 (Film as Text) with Joshua David Gonsalves.

- **ENGL 219 · 2020-08** — Interesting course. The material (both movies and readings) offer insight on new concepts and approaches. The workload however is heavy, especially the final paper which is rather long. The course itself offers a good experience, if only it were a little less heavy and the grades were a little more generous.

- **ENGL 219 · 2020-04** — Amazing course! Changed my perspective of movies and their interpretations, classes usually go like this: two classes watch a movie, two other classes rewatch movie and interpret (take notes!) and after every movie there’s a 2 page analysis and yeah I highly recommend it but you gotta put some effort in

- **ENGL 219 · 2020-04** — Very nice course. Take a lot of notes, read a bit online about the movies and you’re good to go. Workload: I remember after every movie there was a short 2 page analysis, also: midterm, final, midterm paper and final paper

- **ENGL 219 · 2020-04** — I took it in summer and it was very demanding. had to submit a weekly assignment and the teacher wasn't very generous in grades. The course is interesting, you watch movies (old ones) in class and write an analysis about each. There's a book to read and use the technical words from (the teacher used to comment stuff during the movie only). We had a midterm but no final, just a final paper (a huge one!). Honestly the class wasn't worth the effort at all neither the time spent during summer. I think the problem is mainly with the instructor. It was a struggle to barely get a 7.5/10 (most of the class had similar grades except few). Take it but just make sure that the instructor is good enough.

- **ENGL 219 · 2020-04** — Heavy workload and bad grades

- **ENGL 213 · 2019-08** — I took Engl 213 with him and he seemed very nice. He has a dry sarcastic sense of humor. But he speaks very fast and doesn't do class discussions. His classes are basically him lecturing for the full class period and he sometimes speaks over the time frame. He didn't give out midterms or finals, but 2 close readings to submit in 24 hours and 2 essays. His classes are usually chill and don't require too much effort. If you show him you're trying your best you'll do fine.

## See also

- [All AUB professors](https://studiety.com/aub/professors.md)

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