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Applying to be a Teaching Fellow Teaching Fellow Application (CATS) 2025-26 for 2026-27 TF Application Instructions and Information Listing of Tentative 2026-27 Courses for TF Application Process Teaching Fellow Offices Teaching Fellow Offices 2025-26 by...

English 170a. High and Low in Postwar America

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Instructor: Louis Menand TBD | Location: TBD Relations between avant-garde, mainstream, and commercial culture from 1945 to 1972. This course satisfies the “1900-Present Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.

Namwali Serpell

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Education: B.A., Yale University (2001)
M.A., Harvard University (2005)
Ph.D., Harvard University (2008)

 

 

^{(Photo Credit: Yanina Gotsulsky)}

 

English 99r. Senior Tutorial

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Supervised individual tutorial in an independent scholarly or critical subject. Students on the honors thesis track will register for English 99r in both the fall and spring terms.

English 90ka. The Brontës

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Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Writings by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë, as well as the later novels and films their work inspired. This course satisfies the “1700-1900 Guided Elective" requirement...

English 294z. On Beauty: Graduate Seminar

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Instructor: Elaine Scarry Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Philosophic and literary accounts of beauty from Greek through modern, including Plato, Aquinas, Dante, Kant, Keats, and Rilke. In addition, the major...

English 280ql. Queer and Trans Literature and Criticism

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Instructor: Stephanie Burt TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Queer and trans writing, with major historical figures (Whitman, Wilde, Lorde) but a focus on what's happening now, how to understand it, how to feel at home in it, how to...

English 185rj. Race, Speech, and the Law

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Instructor: Louis Menand Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Supreme Court cases on race relations and free speech from Dred Scott to the Harvard University cases. Did we go through a constitutional looking glass on January 20, 2025? If so...

English 98r. Junior Tutorial

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Fall 2026 Junior Tutorials 20th and 21st Century Queer Poetics, E Ambrose Literature and Empathy: Form, Feeling, and the Ethics of Reading, Aditya Banerjee The Short Story and the Theory of Fiction, Shaden Heib Modernist Raptures and Religions, Jack...

English 179y. Introduction to Dramatic Writing

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Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed TBD | Location: TBD How do we tell stories for the stage and the screen? What is the difference between playwriting and screenwriting? What qualities do they share? This open enrollment course introduces students to...

English 90qm. Metaphysical Poetry: The Seventeenth-Century Lyric and Beyond

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Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In an age of scientific and political revolution, how do poets respond when common beliefs about God, humans, cosmic and social order, consciousness, and...

English 168d. Postwar American and British Fiction

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Instructor: James Wood TBD | Location: TBD In this class, we will examine novels and short stories published since 1945 in Britain and the United States. Though certain themes naturally emerge -- belonging and not belonging; immigration and emigration...