2026-27

Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we call “fantasy.” In modern French, the word “roman” means “novel.” In this course, we read a series...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD This course will examine contemporary writings by Native American and Indigenous authors across the genres of sci fi, horror, and fantasy, with the aim of thinking about Native American and Indigenous...

Instructor: Martin Puchner TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The goal of this course is to use AI agents in a theatrical context. Its core assumption, which we will test throughout the semester, is that creating an AI agent is like...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will write poems, creative nonfiction essays, and hybrid works to explore how truth, as both lived experience and external reference...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is a writing-intensive course designed to develop students' ability to tell true stories. We will apply techniques commonly associated with fiction--narrative...

Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and...

Instructor: Jason Silverstein Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: Countway Library 403 (HMS) Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers...

Instructor: Ricardo Pérez González Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Stories are a fundamental unit of cultural communication. Our shared cultural mythology is how we disseminate communal values. This course is...

Instructor: Teju Cole TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a course on the writing of literary fiction and is for students who have taken at least one previous writing workshop. Since good writing comes out of good reading, we...

Instructor: Emma Adler TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course introduces students to the fundamentals of both playwriting and dramaturgy. Dramaturgs facilitate the realization of plays through a variety of practices, from...