2026-27

Instructor: Jill Damatac Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This generative creative writing course pairs close readings of un/documented immigrant memoirs with a biweekly workshop. Through works of Karla Cornejo...

Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students As former US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway writes "I know now that if we choose / to keep any part of what is behind us, / we must take all of it..." This...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. If the nineteenth century was the era of confinement for women in literature – imprisoned inside attics (Brontë’s Jane Eyre ), garrets (Jacob’s...

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | 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...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | 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...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | 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...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | 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...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | 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...

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...