Graduate Seminars

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | Location: TBD This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft. We will...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by...

Instructor: John Stauffer Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course offers an introduction to and critical examination of Melville’s writings. Moby-Dick is the centerpiece of the course (and of Melville’s works...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course surveys major works in literary theory and criticism from the high watermark of ‘French Theory’ as it crossed the Atlantic in the 1970s up to the present. Our...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course explores the impact of AI on the humanities and seeks to articulate a humanities-based perspective on AI. This double mission includes...

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD This course balances translation, poetics, and literary criticism. The commercial success of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf has given it a prominence in the general reading public...

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Across her body of work, great American poet Lucille Clifton celebrates, defends and bears witness to the complexities and the revelations of Black life...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthrian Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Beginning with Oscar Wilde, who suggested in 1891 that “the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not ,” this course...

Instructor: Stephen Greenblatt and Joseph Koerner Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students People change. They grow up and grow old, each differently but in ways divisible into stages. Different cultures and different...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and...