2023-24

Instructor: John Stauffer Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD How and why does the U.S. Civil War continue to shape national politics, laws, literature, and culture---especially in relation to our understanding of race, freedom, and equality...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry...

Fall 2026 Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Homi Bhabha TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Martin Puchner...

Instructor: David Levine Wednesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site What makes “Great Criticism?” Analytic clarity? A surfeit of objectivity...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in which issues related to migration...

Instructor: Sarah Dimick Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for meetings times & location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site Rachel Carson, the author of Silent Spring, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers...

Instructor: Anna Wilson Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site This course focuses on representations of race, religion, and cross-cultural...

Instructor: Marc Shell Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. How has literature influenced the rhetoric and philosophy of disability? This seminar considers literary and cinematic works that focus on the body (deafness...

Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site Speaking of James Joyce’s Ulysses, T.S. Eliot confessed: “I wish, for my own sake, that I had not read it.”...

Instructors: Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, Jesse McCarthy, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Kathleen Coleman, Alison Simmons Tuesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Course Site A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Morrison: 2,500 years of essential works...