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English 290mh. Migration and the Humanities

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Instructor: Homi Bhabha Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in which issues related to migration...

Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration

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Think of — to use a purposefully loaded term—an “immigrant novel.” Central to the narrative is a certain kind of character: a recent immigrant, or a child of immigrants, who moved to seek opportunity in the United States because of financial, political...

New Perspectives on Ethnicity and Migration “Latina/o Presence: A Literary and Intellectual History” with Raúl Coronado, UC Berkeley

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In the series "New Perspectives on Ethnicity and Migration” Professor Raúl Coronado (UC Berkeley) will deliver a talk entitled “Latina/o Presence: A Literary and Intellectual History” https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92610139299?pwd...

English 67C. Migrations: Imagined Climates: Writing in the Wake of Climate Change

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Instructor: Sarah Dimick Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 3-4:15pm Course Website Enrollment: Limited to 27 students. How do novelists and poets and essayists represent climate change? What kinds of futures do they project for our injured and shifting...

Ericka Sanchez

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Field: 20th, 21st C. American Interests: Drama, Latinx-American, African American, Diaspora/Migration

English 63d. Migrations: Narrating Displacement

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Instructor: Katie Daily Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 9-10:15am Course Website This seminar will examine the intersections of individual identity and national identity with a unifying course theme of immigrant displacement as a lived experience...

English 60. Migrations: Fictions of America

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Instructor: Elisa New Mondays, 10am- 12:00pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Note: This course will run from 10am-12pm This course will treat America as it was imagined and re-imagined between the 16th-21st centuries by...

English 62. Migrations: Castaways and Renegades

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Instructor: John Stauffer Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: Emerson 104 Website Enrollment: Limited to 27 students. This course traces the extraordinary rise of American literature from the nation's founding through the early twentieth...

Previous American

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AAAS 10 Introduction to African American Studies AESTH&INTP 12 Poetry in America AFRAMER 131 African American Literature from the Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance AFRAMER 10 Introduction to African American Studies AFRAMER 133 Zora Neale Hurston...

Mellon School Lecures

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Evening public lectures presented by guest speakers are free and open to the public. All Mellon School Public Lectures take place in Farkas Hall, 12 Holyoke Street, Room 203 from 5:30-7pm. Some of these lectures are generously supported by the English...

Glenda Carpio

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Education: B.A., Vassar (1991)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (2002) 

Interests: The Literature, History and Culture of New World Slavery; African-American Literature and Visual Art; Anglophone Caribbean Literature; Native American and Latino/a...

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...