2023-24

Instructor: James Wood Spring 2026: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Matthew Arnold famously said that poetry is, at bottom, “a criticism of life.” But if any literary form is truly a criticism of life, it is the essay. And yet despite the...

Instructor: Jorie Graham Tuesday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Class includes the discussion of literary texts as well as work written by students. For...

Supervised individual tutorial in an independent scholarly or critical subject. Students on the honors thesis track will register for English 99r in both the fall and spring terms.

Spring 2024 Junior Tutorials The Literary Ensemble: Form, Sociality, Politics (Emma Adler) The Feminist YA Novel (Joani Etskovitz) Disaster and Resilience in 20th-Century and Contemporary Environmental Literature (Mary Galli) Home in America: 20th and...

The Supervising Reading and Research tutorial is a type of student-driven independent study offering individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. English 91r is supervised by a member of the English...

Fall 2024 Junior Tutorials Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century Literature (Andrew Koenig) Science Fictional and Magical Realities (Karina Mathew) Black Literature and the Ethics of Betrayal (Jordan Taliha McDonald) Monsters &...

Fall 2026 Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Section 2 Instructor...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Course Site All literature was contemporary at some point, but the literature that is contemporary now provides special opportunities for enjoying, questioning, and understanding...