Fall 2024

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we know why we like, or don’t like, a book, or a TV show, or a play? What are the different ways we can write about art? What is taste, and does it...

Instructor: Anna Wilson Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD What makes a good adaptation? Why retell an old story? This class explores texts that are in conversation with others: adaptation, translation, fanfiction, parody, pastiche, and the...

Instructor: Claire Messud and Melissa Franklin Wednesday, 3:45-5:15pm | Location: TBD Course Site This is an open-enrollment writing course, cross-listed in both English and Physics, that requires writing 300 words a day, 4 days a week, all semester...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or...

Instructor: James Wood Monday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In this seminar, we’ll be looking at the ways in which a range of writers represent the mind on the page: the mind at thought, in agitation, at rest, at prayer...

Instructor: Pamela Klassen Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 20 students What responsibility do later generations have to remember and atone for the injustices of the past, even as they are perpetuated in the present? This...

Instructor: James Engell Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site The literatures of race and slavery, gender, empire, democracy, and revolution that shaped our modern world. Excerpts from Dryden...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In an age of scientific and political revolution, how do poets respond when common beliefs about God, humans, cosmic and social order, consciousness, and...

Instructor: Alan Niles and Philip Deloria Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Harvard’s beginnings included a promise to educate both “English and Indian youth.” From its inception, however, Harvard’s endowment...

Instructor: Maria Dikcis Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: Lamont Library 401 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course site This course will introduce students to critical race approaches to digital culture, primarily through Asian American, Black...