2025-26

Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a fiction workshop for those who are interested in retellings. In this class, we will learn how other writers of the 20 th and 21 st centuries have...

Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a fiction workshop for those who are interested in the art and craft of horror literature. In this class, we will learn how other writers have...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD This seminar is attuned to the times we live in while addressing universal concerns of human life and historical experience. The relationship between “peace”...

Spring 2027 Instructor: Ju Yon Kim TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD This second-year proseminar has a two-part focus: it introduces students to the craft of scholarly publishing by helping them...

Spring 2027 Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Instructor: Nicholas Watson Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD The first-year proseminar (taken in the spring semester of the first year) introduces students to the theories...

Spring 2026: Instructors: David Elmer, Jay M. Harris, Beth Blum, Neel Mukherjee, Spencer Lee-Lenfield, and Jesse McCarthy Tuesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Joyce: 2,500 years of essential works, taught by six...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 pm | Location: TBD In an age of scientific and political revolution, how do poets respond when common beliefs about God, humans, cosmic and social order, consciousness, and gender have been taken away? Modern...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Thursday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Public humanities are becoming increasingly central for careers both inside and outside of academia. This workshop, which is open to beginning and...

Instructor: Leah Whittington Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Epic is one of the most enduring and far-reaching forms of artistic expression. From the heroic poems of the ancient Near East to modern films of quest and adventure, epic speaks...