2024-25

Instructor: Leah Whittington and Irene Peirano Garrison Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course examines role played by writers and readers in the construction of literary canons and concepts of canonicity...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course will focus on the genres of nonfiction writing commonly published in magazines: the feature, the profile, the personal essay, and longform arts...

Instructor: Reginald Dwayne Betts Section 1 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 2 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be an exploration into the ways that poets in the past have reckoned in...

Spring 2027 Junior Tutorials To be Announced Spring 2026 Junior Tutorials World Literature and its Discontents (Yoojung Chun) Travel, Travelers, Travelogues: A Global Perspective (Manan Kapoor) Friendships, Intimacies, & Collaborations in Modern &...

Section 1 Instructor: Anna Wilson Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Tara K. Menon Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course, taught in small...

Spring 2026 Section 1 Instructor: Glenda Carpio Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Fall 2025 Instructor: Leah...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site This course is organized thematically, and loosely chronologically, around the vexed and contested category of American women’s literature. Our readings and...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site This course is a survey of the American novel since 1900: its forms, patterns, techniques, ideas, cultural contexts, and intertextual networks. We will pay special...

Instructor: Stephen Greenblatt Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD We will begin with Shakespeare's brilliant early history play, Richard III , and read works from the full course of his career, sampling all of his major genres: comedies...