2022-23

Instructor: Maria Dikcis Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site Does it sometimes feel like Instagram ads are listening a little too closely to your conversations? Have...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Although this course does discuss blockbuster games, it’s primarily concerned with indie titles prioritizing discovery over system mastery—asking us to think differently...

Instructor: Matthew Ocheltree Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBA “The age of levity is over,” a columnist for The Guardian declared last winter, arguing that moments of crisis are no time for foolish jesting. But are levity and gravity...

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This seminar will explore Asian American theater and performance, including drama, musicals, and experimental performances. We will examine how Asian American...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This is a seminar for first-year students that introduces lyric poetry from Asia, Europe, and North America. The seminar covers a wide...

Instructor: David Levine Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD How do we draw the line between being yourself and performing yourself, between acting and authenticity? “To thine own self be true,” runs the famous line in Hamlet. But which self? And why...

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45pm | Location: TBD How does the English language shape our world, and how does the world shape English? How does the English language shape our world? And how does the world shape English? Our...

Instructor: Pamela Klassen Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 20 students What responsibility do later generations have to remember and atone for the injustices of the past, even as they are perpetuated in the present? This...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Wednesday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: Barker 114 In his classic manifesto “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes declared that his generation of artists and poets—upstarts coming of age in the roaring twenties...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 pm | Location: TBD A survey of Milton’s English poetry as a basis for discussing problems in the art of criticism. First, is criticism an art? Is literary criticism a practical or a theoretical enterprise? Does...