Fall 2023

Instructor: Musa Syeed Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site The short film, with its relatively lower costs of production and expanded distribution opportunities, has become one of the most disruptive...

Instructor: Josh Bell Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and formal and structural experimentation, members of the Advanced Poetry Workshop...

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop, we’ll look closely at the craft-based choices poets make, and track the effects they have upon what we as readers are made to recognize...

Instructor: Josh Bell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in English; to investigate and...

Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing close readings of an assigned text, with the...

Instructor: Claire Messud Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course approaches the writing of fiction with character at its center. If fiction is an exploration of what it’s like to be alive on...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Wednesday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD This seminar is attuned to the times we live in while addressing universal concerns of human life and historical experience. The relationship between “peace”...

Instructor: John Stauffer Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD How and why does the U.S. Civil War continue to shape national politics, laws, literature, and culture---especially in relation to our understanding of race, freedom, and equality...

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...

Instructors: Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, Jesse McCarthy, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Kathleen Coleman, Alison Simmons Tuesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Course Site A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Morrison: 2,500 years of essential works...