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...

Instructors: Joyce Chaplin, David Elmer, Stephen Greenblatt, Jay Harris, Louis Menand, Jesse McCarthy Tuesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Joyce: 2,500 years of essential works, taught by six professors. Humanities...

Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How have authors throughout history channeled anxiety into meaningful and imaginative works of art? The poet WH Auden described the 1940s as “the age of anxiety,” but he could have...

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

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: Philip Fisher Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of literary art a result of technical experimentation...

Instructor: Sam Marks Fall 2026 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm| Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop introduces the television pilot with a focus on prestige drama and serialized comedy...

Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or environmental writing, creative nonfiction is a powerful genre that allows writers to...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine...