Graduate Seminars

Instructor: Leah Whittington and Irene Peirano Garrison Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course examines role played by writers and readers in the construction of literary canons and concepts of canonicity...

Instructor: Beth Blum Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This graduate seminar offers an overview of seminal works of anxiety theory by Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, May, Beck, Salecl, and Ngai, as...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This course considers the relationship between art and repetition. We will go beyond the repetition of content—sequels; adaptations—to explore...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This seminar gives a broad overview of key theoretical interventions in the emergent, international, and interdisciplinary field of Critical Indigenous...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Mondays, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This course surveys myths, theories, discourses, and debates surrounding the...

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Fall 2026 Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Julian of Norwich (born 1343) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (born 1373) are the two earliest...

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course will examine critical works in the interdisciplinary field of performance studies. The class will begin with an exploration of the major...

Instructor: Deidre Shauna Lynch Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In this seminar we will work our way through theoretical work presenting the Western book as, variously, medium, interface, commodity, technology...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students What is poetry? What is lyric? Who cares, and why? How have the answers to those questions changed since people began writing verse in English? We will...

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 15 students An exploration of the emergence and development of the African-American literary "tradition'' from the 18th to the 20th century. Close reading of...