Fall 2026

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will explore and put to use the various, crucial components of poem writing, such as image, metaphor, line, form...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course explores the impact of AI on the humanities and seeks to articulate a humanities-based perspective on AI. This double mission includes...

Instructor: Sarah Hopkinson Fall 2026 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD What are the natural worlds that define America? How did these landscapes – the towering redwoods of California, the...

Instructor: Nick White Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026: Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Fall 2026 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD This course aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of the complex array of African-American cultural and political practices...

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...

Fall 2026 Junior Tutorials 20th and 21st Century Queer Poetics, E Ambrose Literature and Empathy: Form, Feeling, and the Ethics of Reading, Aditya Banerjee The Short Story and the Theory of Fiction, Shaden Heib Modernist Raptures and Religions, Jack...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human beings...

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...

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...