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Class will be held from 3-5 pm. Enrollment: Limited to 18 students.
Meta-issues in literary criticism, with readings in critical, philosophical, and literary texts. The course provides an overview of the theoretical and methodological aspects of what we do when we talk about literature. The goal is not to learn what others have said but to help...
Application for admission to the Harvard English Graduate Program is completed through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The application deadline for 2023-2024 admission is January 5th, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. For a full list of application requirements and instructions for the application process, please see the GSAS Application Instructions...
Our graduate students come from across the globe, with a huge range of life experiences, tastes, and talents. Graduate education in the Harvard English Department is about helping each of our unique students become the...
Welcome to the English Department! In this department we both engage with literature from the past and, as the academic home at Harvard for creative writing, make the literature of the future. We are here for you if you want to do a deep dive with your favorite author; but we also hope to introduce you to new authors and forms of expression. We firmly believe that Harvard and the world would be better places if more people read more books and educated their imaginations.
The Department of English offers a Secondary Field for non-concentrators. Designed to be flexible enough to accommodate every kind of interest in this broad field, it requires six courses, which may be taken in any sequence:
I remember the Barker Center in haunting fragments: the bright Cambridge light, the feeling of walking upstairs eagerly, full of whatever text I was about to discuss; and I remember it so clearly because the...