Spring Term 2027

English 20. Literary Forms

Fall 2026 Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Section 2 Instructor...

English 97. Sophomore Tutorial: Literary Methods

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

English 103g. Advanced Old English: Scribes and Manuscripts

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue TBD | 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 manuscripts that preserve the...

English 131p. Milton's Paradise Lost

Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBA This course focuses on Milton’s most famous work, Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English and the only successful classical epic in the modern world. Milton went totally blind in his forties and...

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

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday & Wednesday, 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...

English 168d. Postwar American and British Fiction

Instructor: James Wood TBD | 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; immigration and emigration...

English 170a. High and Low in Postwar America

Instructor: Louis Menand TBD | 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 and Secondary Field students.

English 172m. Immigrant Literature

Instructor: Glenda Carpio TBD | 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 been refreshed and reshaped...

English 179y. Introduction to Dramatic Writing

Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed TBD | 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 course introduces students to...

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

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim TBD | 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 their lengthy—and controversial...

English 186pw. Every Play Ever Written

Instructor: Derek Miller TBD | 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’s the point. When we learn...

English 187aa. The Aesthetics of Athletics

Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | Location: TBD This course explores the rarely studied but intimate relationship between art and athletics in literature, visual art, movies, and performance. We examine literary and other representations of athletics; the...

English 151x. The Representation of Labor (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by...

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

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | 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. We will...

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

Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | 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 nonfiction writers in...

English 90ff. Indigenous Sci Fi, Horror, Fantasy, and Futurisms

Instructor: Christopher Pexa Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course will examine contemporary writings by Native American and Indigenous authors across the genres of...

English 90hc. Hamlet, Act 1

Instructor: David Levine Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 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...

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...

English 90mc. Before the Novel: Medieval Romance

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we...

English 90mnp. Monsters and Power: Indigenous and Writers of Color Reimagine the Monstrous

Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines how contemporary Indigenous writers and writers of color deploy monstrosity as a powerful tool for critiquing systems of oppression and imagining...

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 To be Announced Spring 2026 Junior Tutorials World Literature and its Discontents (Yoojung Chun) Travel, Travelers, Travelogues: A Global Perspective (Manan Kapoor) Friendships, Intimacies, & Collaborations in Modern &...

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 151x. The Representation of Labor (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by...

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

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | 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. We will...

English 280ql. Queer and Trans Literature and Criticism

Instructor: Stephanie Burt TBD | 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 home in it, how to...

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 Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in...

English 296ct. Topics in Criticism and Theory

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy TBD | 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 present. Our...

English 320. G1 Proseminar

Spring 2027 Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Instructor: Nicholas Watson Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD The first-year proseminar (taken in the spring semester of the first year) introduces students to the theories...

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...