2024-25

Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing...

Instructor: Reginald Dwayne Betts Section 1: Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Section 2: Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site- Section 1 Course Site- Section 2 This workshop will be an exploration...

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: 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: 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 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: Tara K. Menon Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD Course Site What does the novel still have to offer? As newer genres—movies, television, Youtube, TikTok—compete for our attention, why do people still immerse themselves in long...

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 15 students An exploration of the emergence and development of the African-American literary "tradition'' from the 18th to the 20th century. Close reading of...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students What are Native American and Indigenous literatures, and how might we best understand their/our relationship to U.S. and Canadian national literatures...