Fall 2024

Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site This course is organized thematically, and loosely chronologically, around the vexed and contested category of American women’s literature. Our readings and...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site This course is a survey of the American novel since 1900: its forms, patterns, techniques, ideas, cultural contexts, and intertextual networks. We will pay special...

Instructor: Stephen Greenblatt Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD We will begin with Shakespeare's brilliant early history play, Richard III , and read works from the full course of his career, sampling all of his major genres: comedies...

Instructor: Deidre Lynch Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: TBD When, at the end of the eighteenth century, Jane Austen began to write, the novel was still liable to be dismissed by serious readers and writers on both moral and aesthetic grounds...

Instructor: Beth Blum Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This course addresses the genre of the “Harvard novel,” from Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! to Elif Batuman’s The Idiot and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty...

Instructor: Deidre Lynch Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This seminar explores literacy, literacy instruction, and literacy movements past and present, in theory and practice. Engaging with recent fictions and...

Instructor: Beth Blum Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This graduate seminar offers an overview of seminal works of anxiety theory by Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, May, Beck, Salecl, and Ngai, as...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site This course considers the relationship between art and repetition. We will go beyond the repetition of content—sequels; adaptations—to explore...