Spring 2025

Instructor: Marc Shell Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBD In this seminar, students will explore tactile reading and writing systems with a focus on Braille, the tactile reading and writing system used by the blind. Students will learn the Braille code...

Instructor: Sophia Mao Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In her essay collection Minor Feelings (2020), Cathy Park Hong argues that Asian Americans experience a “racialized range of emotions”—what she calls “minor...

Instructor: Louis Menand Thursday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How has the American judicial system dealt with racial discrimination, racial segregation, racial exclusion, and systemic or institutional racism? Has the...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | 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...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD Literature has been profoundly shaped by the advent of modern industrial capitalism. Since the Industrial Revolution, traditional social orders focused on local marketplaces have...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov effected an essential shift in the trajectory of Western dramatic writing. From a theater of melodrama and...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45 | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Shakespeare’s career in playwriting (1589-1611) divides into two creative phases, each one lasting a decade. At the center is his most famous play, Hamlet...

Instructor: Raven Leilani Section 1: Monday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Section 2: Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this creative writing workshop, we will read/annotate workshop pieces and assigned readings. We...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and...

Instructor: Leah Whittington and Irene Peirano Garrison Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course examines role played by writers and readers in the construction of literary canons and concepts of canonicity...