Fall 2024

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Monday & Wednesday, 1:30-2:45pm | Location: TBD Utopias, dystopias, artificial intelligence, life on new planets, and much, much more-- from the late 19th century to the present, *mostly in novels and short stories but also in...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00-1:15 pm | Location: Emerson 101 Website Topics include: modernism; aesthetic experience; the life of art; the city; and novelistic form; the moment and memory within temporal experiences. Joyce...

Instructor: James Engell Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Emerson 108 Website Relevance of Enlightenment texts for perennial issues faced today. Aphra Behn on race and slavery; John Locke on religious (in)tolerance; Jonathan Swift on...

Instructor: Ju Yon Kim TBD | Location: TBD Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) was one of the earliest attempts to collect writings that were, to quote the editors, “exclusively Asian-American.” Yet as their lengthy—and controversial...

Supervised individual tutorial in an independent scholarly or critical subject. Students on the honors thesis track will register for English 99r in both the fall and spring terms.

The Supervising Reading and Research tutorial is a type of student-driven independent study offering individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. English 91r is supervised by a member of the English...

Fall 2024 Junior Tutorials Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century Literature (Andrew Koenig) Science Fictional and Magical Realities (Karina Mathew) Black Literature and the Ethics of Betrayal (Jordan Taliha McDonald) Monsters &...

Fall 2026 Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Section 2 Instructor...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Course Site All literature was contemporary at some point, but the literature that is contemporary now provides special opportunities for enjoying, questioning, and understanding...