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English 98r. Junior Tutorial

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Fall 2024 Junior Tutorials Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century Literature (Andrew Koenig) Science Fictional and Magical Realities (Karina Mathew) Black Literature and the Ethics of Betrayal (Jordan Taliha McDonald) Monsters &...

Fall Term 2023

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English 90ln. Harvard and Native Lands

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Instructor: Alan Niles and Philip Deloria Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Harvard’s beginnings included a promise to educate both “English and Indian youth.” From its inception, however, Harvard’s endowment...

On Close Reading

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The Close Reading Archive is a free public humanities database created by Scott Newstok (GSAS ’02) in conjunction with John Guillory ’s book On Close Reading , to which Newstok also contributed an annotated bibliography. With over 2,500 entries, the Close...

Resources for Grad Students

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Graduate Student Administrative Resources English Graduate Program Resources & Information (login required) An internal website with an exhaustive listing of all the forms you will need as an English graduate student, as well as the "Grad Hub" with useful...

When your English teacher writes a book on Taylor Swift

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When Stephanie Burt decided to carry a pink and blue Taylor Swift tote bag to class one day in fall 2023, she just thought it would be a fun way to transport her books and laptop, and let her students know she was a Swiftie. The Donald P. and Katherine B...

Steve McQueen could lecture you, but he’s got other plans

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For Steve McQueen, live performance generates a force that no podium lecture can match. It’s a conviction that shapes the Norton Lectures he is delivering this fall, in a series titled “Pulse,” featuring film, musical performances, and dialogue. “There’s...

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.

Fall Graduate Symposium

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Thanks to all who attended our annual Fall Graduate Symposium, which took place November 2–3 this year and whose theme was "Archives and Institutions." Our keynote event, featuring Professor John Guillory of NYU, was well attended. After giving his talk...

English 97. Sophomore Tutorial: Literary Methods

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Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Homi Bhabha Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Martin Puchner Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Fall 2026...

English 20. Literary Forms

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Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Section 2 Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students...

English 264x. Sensation and Moral Action in Thomas Hardy

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Instructor: Elaine Scarry Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Approaches Hardy's novels, stories, and narrative poems through the language of the senses (hearing, vision, touch) and through moral agency (philosophic...