2022-23

Instructor: James Engell Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site The literatures of race and slavery, gender, empire, democracy, and revolution that shaped our modern world. Excerpts from Dryden...

Instructor: Alan Niles and Philip Deloria Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Harvard’s beginnings included a promise to educate both “English and Indian youth.” From its inception, however, Harvard’s endowment...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Writings by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë, as well as the later novels and films their work inspired. This course satisfies the “1700-1900 Guided Elective" requirement...

Instructor: Maria Dikcis Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont Library 401 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site This course will introduce students to critical race approaches to digital culture, primarily through Asian American, Black...

Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | Location: TBD This course explores the rarely studied but intimate relationship between art and athletics in literature, visual art, movies, and performance. We examine literary and other representations of athletics; the...

Instructor: Alan Niles Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: 2 Arrow St 408 Course site Shakespeare’s plays have always been “popular” in the multiple senses of the word: drawing on a stock cultural repertoire of characters and themes, appealing to...

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00-10:15am | Location: TBD What makes stories so pleasurable and revealing but also so enraging and dangerous? How are we to think about the strong emotions they evoke and learn to resist as well as...

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD This course combines language study with the investigation of a critical theme. The narratives set for translation provide a thematic coherence as we dig into the language of Old...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site How does one tell -- vividly, interestingly -- the story of a life? How do we access a private life, or situate it in a public world? What if...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Advanced fiction workshop for students who have already taken a workshop at Harvard or elsewhere. The goal of the class is to continue your journey as a writer...