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Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Fall 2026 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD This course aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of the complex array of African-American cultural and political practices...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD There is no writing without reading. This is a fact that all writers know. Ask any writer why they became a writer, and they'll tell you that it's because...

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: Nicholas Watson Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we...

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...

Section 1 Instructor: Glenda Carpio TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Section 2 Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students This foundational course for English concentrators examines literary...

Section 1 Instructor: Anna Wilson TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Tara K. Menon TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course, taught in small groups and required for concentrators...

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...