Lecture Courses

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: Science Center Hall E Course Site What’s a hero? What’s a superhero? Who gets to be one, and who decides? Why are superheroes so popular now? What do their stories tell us—casual...

Instructor: Glenda Carpio and Robin Bernstein Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: limited to 12 students Course Site This course investigates the history of African American theatre from the antebellum era through the present. Students...

Instructor: Anna Wilson Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD What makes a good adaptation? Why retell an old story? This class explores texts that are in conversation with others: adaptation, translation, fanfiction, parody, pastiche, and the...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Introduction to Indigenous Literary Studies: Poetry, Prose, and Politics" introduces students to critical conversations in English, Indigenous Studies, and related disciplines...

Instructor: Kelly Mee Rich Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: Sever 102 Course Site What stories do we tell to make sense of our world? This course serves as an introduction to contemporary fiction in English, as well as a survey of approaches to...

Instructor: Claire Messud and Melissa Franklin Wednesday, 3:45-5:15pm | Location: TBD Course Site This is an open-enrollment writing course, cross-listed in both English and Physics, that requires writing 300 words a day, 4 days a week, all semester...

Instructor: Sarah Dimick Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: Barker 211 Course Site This course focuses on climate change literature, the most active and popular arena of contemporary environmental writing. Examining a variety of 20th and 21st...

Instructor: Tara K. Menon Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00-10:15am | Location: TBD Cities are made of contradictions: playgrounds for the rich and sites of concentrated poverty, highly organized and totally chaotic, an endless party and the loneliest places on...

Instructor: Carlisle Yingst Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: Barker 211 Course Site What is the relation between the humanities and the sciences? What separates these broad fields of knowledge, and how do ideas move between them? This course...

Instructor: Glenda Carpio Monday , 3:00-5:00 pm | Location: Barker 230 This course explores the cultural richness of African American humor through analyses of stand-up, drama, comic strips, and narrative fiction. We will thus examine questions of genre...