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    Welcome to the Harvard English Department

    Take a look at this year's course offerings.

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  • Sam Marks Workshop

    Creative Writing Workshops

    Fall 2024 Application Deadline: 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 7

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Undergraduates

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Graduate Students

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Creative Writing

The English Department is proud to be a home for creative writing at Harvard. The vital presence of creative writing in the department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who offer small, intensive workshops each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing. Concentrators may also apply to work on a year-long creative senior thesis with our faculty.

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Featured Faculty

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Michael Pollan

Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of the Practice Non-Fiction
(On leave Fall 2023)

Education: B.A., Bennington College (1977)
M.A., Columbia University (1981)

Interests: Nature; the food system; altered states of...

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Office: Lamont Library 411 (fall semester only)
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3-5 by appointment
(On leave Fall 2023)
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Arts and Humanities Division

Arts and Humanities Division

The Division seeks to optimize both the ability of its faculty to pursue knowledge through the study of the arts and humanities and the opportunity of its students to share in that pursuit. 

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Child Memorial Library

Child Memorial Library

Named for Francis James Child, Harvard's first Professor of English, Child Memorial Library is the English Department research library. 

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Faculty Bookshelf

Explore our faculty's publications and discover their many research interests and creative works.

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