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English 187aa. The Aesthetics of Athletics

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Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | Location: TBD This course explores the rarely studied but intimate relationship between art and athletics in literature, visual art, movies, and performance. We examine literary and other representations of athletics; the...

English 98r. Junior Tutorial

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Spring 2027 Junior Tutorials “After Empire”: The Global Postcolonial Novel in the Twentieth Century, Robin Singh Arya The Trauma Plot: Suffering and Spectacle from Shakespeare to TikTok, Yoojung Chun Lyric Currents: American Poetry Through Other...

English 296ct. Topics in Criticism and Theory

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Instructor: Jesse McCarthy TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course surveys major works in literary theory and criticism from the high watermark of ‘French Theory’ as it crossed the Atlantic in the 1970s up to the present. Our...

English 91r. Supervised Reading and Research

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The Supervising Reading and Research tutorial is a type of student-driven independent study offering individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. English 91r is supervised by a member of the English...

English 90fd. The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

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Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course is a critical examination of the speeches and rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who are among the greatest orators and nonfiction writers in...

English 151x. The Representation of Labor (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

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Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by...

English 229s. Edmund Spenser and the Art of Theory

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Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students A seminar on the poetry of Spenser and the practice of theory. In contrast to Milton, Spenser thinks as he writes and also lets the poem think for him. He...

English CEDD. Playwriting Workshop: Drama and Dramaturgy

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Instructor: Emma Adler TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course introduces students to the fundamentals of both playwriting and dramaturgy. Dramaturgs facilitate the realization of plays through a variety of practices, from...

English CCFT. Intermediate Fiction Workshop

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Instructor: Teju Cole TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a course on the writing of literary fiction and is for students who have taken at least one previous writing workshop. Since good writing comes out of good reading, we...

AFRAMER 10. Introduction to African American Studies

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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...

English 131p. Milton's Paradise Lost

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Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBA This course focuses on Milton’s most famous work, Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English and the only successful classical epic in the modern world. Milton went totally blind in his forties and...

English CBBR. Intermediate Poetry: Workshop

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Instructor: Josh Bell Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in...