Guided Elective: 1900-Present

Instructor: Glenda Carpio TBD | Location: TBD Is “immigrant literature” a useful category? In the American context, the category has facilitated an understanding of how the country’s social, political, and intellectual life has been refreshed and reshaped...

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...

Instructors: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD This course provides students with a general introduction to the historic and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples, with a focus on Indigenous peoples of various...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines how contemporary Indigenous writers and writers of color deploy monstrosity as a powerful tool for critiquing systems of oppression and imagining...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. William Faulkner’s South is a haunted place. In Yoknapatawpha – Faulkner’s imaginary county –we find confederate uniforms rotting inside wardrobes...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Fall 2026 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD What are the natural worlds that define America? How did these landscapes – the towering redwoods of California, the...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students What's a superhero and why do people care? Where do they come from, what do they do, and why would anyone ever choose to be one? We will follow those...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD One of the great creators in his, or any, era. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) left us a matchless body of lyric and dramatic verse, including love poems, political meditations, ballads...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus...