Fall 2025

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD There is no writing without reading. This is a fact that all writers know. Ask any writer why they became a writer, and they'll tell you that it's because...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will...

Instructor: Stephen Greenblatt and Joseph Koerner Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students People change. They grow up and grow old, each differently but in ways divisible into stages. Different cultures and different...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Queer, trans, genderfluid, lesbian, gay, bi, pan and ace or aro authors and creators who made their gender and sexuality important to their writings...

Instructor: James Wood Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In this seminar, we look at the ways in which a range of writers represent the mind on the page: the mind at thought, in agitation, at rest, at prayer, in...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How did Shakespeare’s art develop in the years following Hamlet (1600-1601), which ends with a roar of cannons, warning of great tragedies to come? The...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...

Fall 2026 Junior Tutorials To be Announced

Instructor: Anna Wilson Tuesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Fanfiction is one of the most popular forms of literature today, with fourteen million stories hosted on just the Archive of Our Own (one of the major digital fanfiction archives). Including...

Instructor: Andrew Kriv ák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in exploring the form of the short novel, or the “novella.” The short novel is not...