Lecture Courses

Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed TBD | Location: TBD How do we tell stories for the stage and the screen? What is the difference between playwriting and screenwriting? What qualities do they share? This open enrollment course introduces students to...

Instructor: Derek Miller TBD | Location: TBD This course explores the history of dramatic writing and publishing in the US and Europe by studying every play ever written. Of course, we cannot actually study all those plays—that’s the point. When we learn...

Instructor: Glenda Carpio TBD | Location: TBD Is “immigrant literature” a useful category? In the American context, the category has facilitated an understanding of how the country’s social, political, and intellectual life has been refreshed and reshaped...

Instructors: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD This course provides students with a general introduction to the historic and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples, with a focus on Indigenous peoples of various...

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim, Erika Lee, and Taeku Lee Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD How have paradoxical conceptions of Asian Americans informed Asian American history, culture, and politics, shaping modern America and the world? This course examines...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Fall 2026 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD What are the natural worlds that define America? How did these landscapes – the towering redwoods of California, the...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Fall 2026 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD This course aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of the complex array of African-American cultural and political practices...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD There is no writing without reading. This is a fact that all writers know. Ask any writer why they became a writer, and they'll tell you that it's because...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD One of the great creators in his, or any, era. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) left us a matchless body of lyric and dramatic verse, including love poems, political meditations, ballads...

Instructors: Jonathan Bolton, Glenda Carpio, David Elmer, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, Tara Menon Tuesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Joyce: 2,500 years of essential works, taught by six professors...