Fall 2026

Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and...

Instructor: Jason Silverstein Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: Countway Library 403 (HMS) Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers...

Instructor: Ricardo Pérez González Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Stories are a fundamental unit of cultural communication. Our shared cultural mythology is how we disseminate communal values. This course is...

Instructor: Sebastian Smee Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In an attention economy, with phone cameras and AI ubiquitous, are we losing the ability to describe what we see with our own eyes? What meaning can...

Instructor: John Stauffer Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course offers an introduction to and critical examination of Melville’s writings. Moby-Dick is the centerpiece of the course (and of Melville’s works...

Instructors: Christopher Pexa Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD This course provides students with a general introduction to the historic and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples, with a focus on Indigenous peoples of various...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. One of the major poets in the English language, Whitman also became an emblem of an American possibility, a beacon of what we now call queer identities...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. William Faulkner’s South is a haunted place. In Yoknapatawpha – Faulkner’s imaginary county –we find confederate uniforms rotting inside wardrobes...

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This seminar will explore the American short story with a special focus on writers of the nineteenth century who were critical to establishing the short...

Instructor: Andrew Krivák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be a semester-long study on how, where, and why a writer chooses to use a particular point of view. Taking the word “point” quite...