Spring Term 2027

English 20. Literary Forms

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 97. Sophomore Tutorial: Literary Methods

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 103g. Advanced Old English: Scribes and Manuscripts

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Building on the basic grammar and translation skills learned in English 102, this course introduces students to Old English literature in its most immediate context: the...

English 152kd. Keats Isn't Dead: How We Live Romanticism

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Spring 2027 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Our thoughts and feelings about identity, self-expression, and the power of the imagination draw on the British Romantic poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century...

English 168d. Postwar American and British Fiction

Instructor: James Wood Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | 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...

English 170a. High and Low in Postwar America

Instructor: Louis Menand Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | 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...

English 172ad. American Democracy

Instructor: John Stauffer and Roberto Unger Friday, 1:30-3:30 pm | Location: TBD Democracy, inequality, and nationalism in America. The white working class and American politics. Class and race. Identities and interests. Conditions for socially inclusive...

English 172m. Immigrant Literature

Instructor: Glenda Carpio Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Is “immigrant literature” a useful category? In the American context, the category has facilitated an understanding of how the country’s social, political, and intellectual life has...

English 179y. Introduction to Dramatic Writing

Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | 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...

English 181a. Introduction to Asian American Literature: What Is Asian American Literature?

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) was one of the earliest attempts to collect writings that were, to quote the editors, “exclusively Asian-American.” Yet as...

English 182ff. Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD This course will examine contemporary writings by Native American and Indigenous authors across the genres of sci fi, horror, and fantasy, with the aim of thinking about Native...

English 186pw. Every Play Ever Written

Instructor: Derek Miller Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD This course explores the history of dramatic writing and publishing in the US and Europe by studying every play ever written. Of course, we cannot actually study all those plays—that...

Humanities 10b. A Humanities Colloquium from Homer to Joyce

Spring 2026: Instructors: David Atherton, Beth Blum, David Elmer, Samantha Matherne, Jesse McCarthy, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja Tuesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Joyce: 2,500 years of essential works, taught by...

English 117. Before the Novel: Medieval Romance (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we call “fantasy.” In modern French, the word “roman” means “novel.” In this course...

English 198v. Art of Listening: How Sound Works in Literature (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft...

English 90ai. Building a Character: AI Humanities Lab

Instructor: Martin Puchner Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The goal of this course is to use AI agents in a theatrical context. Its core assumption, which we will test throughout the semester, is that creating an AI...

English 90ay. Hysterical: Anglophone Women Writers, 1899-today

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. If the nineteenth century was the era of confinement for women in literature – imprisoned inside attics (Brontë’s Jane Eyre ), garrets (Jacob’s...

English 90fd. The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

Instructor: John Stauffer Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course is a critical examination of the speeches and rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who are among the greatest orators and...

English 90hc. Hamlet, Act 1

Instructor: David Levine Spring 2027 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 14 students Students will gain facility with reading, speaking, performing, and directing Shakespeare through a simple task: attempting to stage the first act...

English 91r. Supervised Reading and Research

The Supervising Reading and Research tutorial is a type of student-driven independent study offering individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. English 91r is supervised by a member of the English...

English 98r. Junior Tutorial

Spring 2027 Junior Tutorials Please see my.harvard for tutorial offerings. Junior tutorial assignments were made in April 2026. If you need to take English 98r and didn't sign up, please contact Emmett Miller for placement in an open tutorial.

English 99r. Senior Tutorial

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 117. Before the Novel: Medieval Romance (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we call “fantasy.” In modern French, the word “roman” means “novel.” In this course...

English 198v. Art of Listening: How Sound Works in Literature (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft...

English 276lr. The New Negro Renaissance, 1895 - 1930

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: 104 Mount Auburn St 209 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course consists of close readings of the key works of African American art and literature in the period during the 1920’s...

English 280ql. Queer and Trans Literature and Criticism

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Wednesday, 3:45-5:45pm | 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...

English 285sa. South Asian Poetry

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | 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...

English 296ct. Topics in Criticism and Theory

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course surveys major works in literary theory and criticism from the high watermark of ‘French Theory’ as it crossed the Atlantic in the 1970s up to the...

English 320. G1 Proseminar

Spring 2027 Instructor: Nicholas Watson Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | 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...

English 330. G2 Proseminar

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