Fall 2023

Instructor: Philip Fisher Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Thursday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Public humanities are becoming increasingly central for careers both inside and outside of academia. This workshop, which is open to beginning and...

Instructor: Leah Whittington Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site William Shakespeare drew on texts from around the world when he wrote plays for the London theater he named “The Globe.” Since...

Instructors: Leah Whittington, Ann Blair Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site We live in a moment of “crisis” around regimes of preservation and loss. As our communication becomes ever more digital— and, therefore, simultaneously...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Barker 218 Comics and graphic novels, or sequential art, are one of the world’s great storytelling media: we’re going to learn how to read them, how to talk about how they get made and how they...

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Course Site “Constellations” is an attempt at putting key literary works in conversation with significant texts from other disciplines and discourses --- philosophy, politics, history, law, and...

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...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Section 1: Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Section 2: Monday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site- Section 1 Course Site- Section 2 An introductory workshop where we will learn to read...

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.

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...