Fall 2024

Fall 2026 Instructor: Beth Blum Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Spring 2027 Section 1 Instructor: Homi Bhabha TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Section 2 Instructor: Martin Puchner...

Instructors: Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, Jesse McCarthy, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Kathleen Coleman, Alison Simmons Tuesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Course Site A Humanities Colloquium: from Homer to Morrison: 2,500 years of essential works...

Instructor: Philip Fisher Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Is the complexity, the imperfection, the difficulty of interpretation, the unresolved meaning found in certain great and lasting works of...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Philosophic and literary accounts of beauty from Greek through modern, including Plato, Aquinas, Dante, Kant, Keats, and Rilke. In addition, the major...

Instructor: Joan Naviyuk Kane Day & Time: Thursday 12-2:45pm Course Website This poetry workshop centers the work of BIPOC writers through intensive study of poetry writing and the writing process, focusing on craft techniques of imagery, rhythm, and...

Instructors: Leah Whittington, Ann Blair Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15 pm | Location: TBD Course Site We live in a moment of “crisis” around regimes of preservation and loss. As our communication becomes ever more digital— and, therefore, simultaneously...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students A seminar on the poetry of Spenser and the practice of theory. In contrast to Milton, Spenser thinks as he writes and also lets the poem think for him. He...

Instructor: James Engell and Benjamin Friedman Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Harvard Hall 101 Course site An economist and a humanist, together with professors from the natural sciences, analyze familiar conceptual and policy-relevant...

Instructor: John Stauffer TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course is a critical examination of the speeches and rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who are among the greatest orators and nonfiction writers in...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Section 1: Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Section 2: Monday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site- Section 1 Course Site- Section 2 An introductory workshop where we will learn to read...