Spring 2025 Course Search

English 285sa. South Asian Poetry

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Originally, this course centered poets resident in, and writing from, post-Independence India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It will now also examine South Asian-American and...

English 290mh. Migration and the Humanities

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...

English 291w. Writers, Readers, Canons: Studies in Premodern Authorship

Instructor: Leah Whittington and Irene Peirano Garrison Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course examines role played by writers and readers in the construction of literary canons and concepts of canonicity...

English 320. G1 Proseminar

Spring 2027 Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD The first-year proseminar (taken in the spring semester of the first year) introduces students to the theories, methods, and history of English as a discipline, and contemporary debates in...

English 330. G2 Proseminar

Spring 2027 Instructor: Ju Yon Kim TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD This second-year proseminar has a two-part focus: it introduces students to the craft of scholarly publishing by helping them...

English 90ae. The Art of Minor Feelings: Asian American Emotional Lives in Contemporary Literature

Instructor: Sophia Mao Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In her essay collection Minor Feelings (2020), Cathy Park Hong argues that Asian Americans experience a “racialized range of emotions”—what she calls “minor...

English 90d. Literature and Disability

Instructor: Marc Shell Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. How has literature influenced the rhetoric and philosophy of disability? This seminar considers literary and cinematic works that focus on the body (deafness...

English 90eb. Elizabeth Bishop and Others

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...

English 90ex. The Exorcist

Instructor: David Levine Thursday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Briefly America’s most terrifying movie, now an inexhaustible source of camp, reference, and technique, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is a rich allegory...

English 90hm. Shakespeare Before Hamlet

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Shakespeare’s career in playwriting (1589-1611) divides into two creative phases, each one lasting a decade. At the center is his most famous play, Hamlet...

English 90ik. Ibsen and Chekhov

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov effected an essential shift in the trajectory of Western dramatic writing. From a theater of melodrama and...

English 90ka. The Brontës

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...