2023-24

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In their quest for clarity, revelation and consolation, poets engage with, reflect upon and speak back to the world in a range of ways. In pursuit of...

Instructor: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site In this class, we will consider how literary non-fiction articulates or imagines difference, disdain, conflict, and dislike. We will...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Wednesday, 12:45-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site How do fiction writers interact with official narratives and the archives that support them? This is a course both about fictions created...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. An introductory workshop where we will learn to read as writers and study all aspects of the craft of fiction writing, including such topics as character...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Wednesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course will serve as an introduction to the fundamentals of writing fiction, with an emphasis on the contemporary short story. How...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Mondays, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This course surveys myths, theories, discourses, and debates surrounding the...

Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How have authors throughout history channeled anxiety into meaningful and imaginative works of art? The poet WH Auden described the 1940s as “the age of anxiety,” but he could have...

Instructor: Peter Sacks Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site A study of selected American poetry, mostly published after 1945. Authors include Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser...

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Fall 2026 Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Julian of Norwich (born 1343) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (born 1373) are the two earliest...