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34 results for "Diversity in Literature"
English 90rv. Empire and Revolution, Sex and Gender, Race, Slavery, and Abolition
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Instructor: James Engell Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site The literatures of race and slavery, gender, empire, democracy, and revolution that shaped our modern world. Excerpts from Dryden...
English 90cp. Contemporary American Plays
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Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines recent scripted theater by American playwrights. We will consider the shape of the American theater, contemporary theatrical...
English CVLP. Plundering the Americas: Histories of Extractive Violence and Creative Resistance in the Americas
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Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course focuses on the histories of extractivism and violence against land and bodies in the Americas, centering on ways in which writing...
English 195ec. Growth, Technology, Inequality, and Education
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Instructor: James Engell and Benjamin Friedman Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Harvard Hall 101 Course site An economist and a humanist, together with professors from the natural sciences, analyze familiar conceptual and policy-relevant...
English 90dr. Digital Race Studies: Storytelling, Power, Community
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Instructor: Maria Dikcis Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont Library 401 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site This course will introduce students to critical race approaches to digital culture, primarily through Asian American, Black...
LitLab: Crossing Borders: Literature and Immigration
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The remarkable ethnic diversity of the United States is the result of the many generations of immigrants who have settled here. Many people now living in America have parents or grandparents who came from other places; many have recently arrived...
English 90po. Prison and Performance
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Instructor: Elizabeth Phillips Day & Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:30-11:45am Course Website This seminar will explore the history and philosophy of prison with particular reference to the role of literature and art in rehabilitation and decarceration. We...
English 176fr. On the Run: Fugitives and Refugees in American Literature
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Instructor: Thomas Dichter Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:00-4:15 pm | Location: Barker 024 Escaped slaves, refugees, outlaws, and rebels are all on the run in the pages of American literature. In a nation founded in the name of “life, liberty and the pursuit of...
English PhD Student Katherine Horgan Selected as 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholar
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Harvard Griffin GSAS announced its 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholars, who were selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the extraordinary researchers who make up Harvard’s diverse and impactful PhD community. English graduate...
English 90gw. Genre Trouble: Twentieth-Century Women's Writing
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Instructor: Kelly Rich Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This seminar studies a diverse set of literatures from twentieth- and twenty-first century British women writers, with particular attention given to the novel...
English CQN. “Queer Stories, Queer Lives”: A Fiction Workshop on Queer Narratives
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Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Is there a queer aesthetic? Or is there a particularly queer way to tell a story? Do our lived experiences as queer folk affect the kinds of stories...