Fall 2025

Instructor: Deidre Lynch and Neel Mukherjee Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD All literature was contemporary at some point, but the literature that is contemporary now provides special opportunities for enjoying, questioning, and...

Instructor: Alan Niles Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course, taught in small groups and required for concentrators, introduces theories, interpretive frameworks, and central questions about...

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...

Instructor: Musa Syeed Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Writing is directing and directing is writing. The best screenwriters don’t just write snappy dialogue or craft character arcs; they “speak” the primal...

Spring 2026 Section 1 Instructor: Glenda Carpio Tuesday & Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Fall 2025 Instructor: Leah...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to investigate something that directly or indirectly connects everyone: what it means to leave a...

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In their quest for clarity, revelation and consolation, poets engage with, reflect upon and speak back to the world in a range of ways. In pursuit of...

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...

Instructor: Nicholas Watson Fall 2026 Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 9:45-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Julian of Norwich (born 1343) and Margery Kempe of Lynn (born 1373) are the two earliest...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students What is poetry? What is lyric? Who cares, and why? How have the answers to those questions changed since people began writing verse in English? We will...