Undergraduate Seminars

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Queer, trans, genderfluid, lesbian, gay, bi, pan and ace or aro authors and creators who made their gender and sexuality important to their writings...

Instructor: James Wood Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In this seminar, we look at the ways in which a range of writers represent the mind on the page: the mind at thought, in agitation, at rest, at prayer, in...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How did Shakespeare’s art develop in the years following Hamlet (1600-1601), which ends with a roar of cannons, warning of great tragedies to come? The...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...

Instructor: Marc Shell Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD In this seminar, students will explore tactile reading and writing systems with a focus on Braille, the tactile reading and writing system used by the blind. Students will learn the Braille code...

Instructor: Sophia Mao Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In her essay collection Minor Feelings (2020), Cathy Park Hong argues that Asian Americans experience a “racialized range of emotions”—what she calls “minor...

Instructor: Louis Menand Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How has the American judicial system dealt with racial discrimination, racial segregation, racial exclusion, and systemic or institutional racism? Has the...

Instructor: Leah Whittington TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course traces the reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses through the diverse responses of Petrarch, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Dryden, exploring how...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov effected an essential shift in the trajectory of Western dramatic writing. From a theater of melodrama and...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Shakespeare’s career in playwriting (1589-1611) divides into two creative phases, each one lasting a decade. At the center is his most famous play, Hamlet...