Freshman Seminars

Instructor: Anna Wilson Tuesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Fanfiction is one of the most popular forms of literature today, with fourteen million stories hosted on just the Archive of Our Own (one of the major digital fanfiction archives). Including...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students What are Native American and Indigenous literatures, and how might we best understand their/our relationship to U.S. and Canadian national literatures...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This is a seminar for first-year students that introduces lyric poetry from Asia, Europe, and North America. The seminar covers a wide...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD This seminar is attuned to the times we live in while addressing universal concerns of human life and historical experience. The relationship between “peace”...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of...

Instructor: Robert Kiely Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 pm | Location: Sever 205 In Book X of The Confessions Augustine wrote, "I have learned to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!" In addressing God as source and model of beauty, Augustine joins...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of literary art a result of technical experimentation...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Barker 218 Comics and graphic novels, or sequential art, are one of the world’s great storytelling media: we’re going to learn how to read them, how to talk about how they get made and how they...

Instructor: James Simpson Tuesdays, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: Barker 218 What do imagined animals have to teach human readers? Why, when literary writers think about hunger, violence, sex, suffering, technology, expressivity, the gods, and education (for...