2023-24

Instructor: Maria de Simone Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site Through the reading and viewing of plays, students analyze how theatre...

Instructor: Glenda Carpio Monday, 12:45-2:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site Ishmael Reed is one of the most prolific, long-practicing and controversial...

Instructor: Maria de Simone Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site This course offers feminist/queer, minoritarian, and comparative perspectives...

Instructor: Heidi Schreck Monday, 3:00pm - 5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This workshop-based class explores the pleasures of writing for the stage through in-depth readings, class discussions, and writing exercises...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site The first song on Taylor Swift's first record, released when she was 16, paid homage (by name) to a more...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the page that way, the...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to investigate something that directly or indirectly connects everyone: what it means to leave a...

Instructor: John Stauffer and Roberto Unger Friday, 1:30-3:30 pm | Location: TBD Democracy, inequality, and nationalism in America. The white working class and American politics. Class and race. Identities and interests. Conditions for socially inclusive...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Course Site “Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This seminar gives a broad overview of key theoretical interventions in the emergent, international, and interdisciplinary field of Critical Indigenous...