The Department of English and its Department Development Committee are happy to announce a discussion series for Spring 2021, “Notes from the Field and the Archive: Building Classroom Communities in the Humanities.” 

Please save the date for the second event in this series. On April 20th we’ll be joined by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, authors of the recently published The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study, a radically new history of English that rewrites much of what we think we know about the discipline’s core methods and canonical texts. They’ll be interviewed by English Department faculty member Deidre Lynch. You can read their introduction here. 

Their book is also available as an e-book through Hollis. Professors Buurma and Heffernan suggest as pre-reading for this event that, in addition to the introduction, attendees also read their fourth chapter. This chapter is about a founding figure of African-American literary studies, J. Saunders Redding. You can find the e-book here.

This event is open to all members of the Harvard community. Registration is required.

You can register for the event here.