Spring 2024

Instructor: Deidre Shauna Lynch Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 27 students Course Site This foundational course for English concentrators examines...

Instructor: Gordon Teskey TBD | Location: TBA This course focuses on Milton’s most famous work, Paradise Lost, the greatest long poem in English and the only successful classical epic in the modern world. Milton went totally blind in his forties and...

Instructor: Leah Whittington Mondays, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site A study of English writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth...

Instructor: James Wood Spring 2026: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Matthew Arnold famously said that poetry is, at bottom, “a criticism of life.” But if any literary form is truly a criticism of life, it is the essay. And yet despite the...

Instructor: Jorie Graham Tuesday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site Open by application to both undergraduates and graduates. Class includes the discussion of literary texts as well as work written by students. For...

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.

Spring 2024 Junior Tutorials The Literary Ensemble: Form, Sociality, Politics (Emma Adler) The Feminist YA Novel (Joani Etskovitz) Disaster and Resilience in 20th-Century and Contemporary Environmental Literature (Mary Galli) Home in America: 20th and...

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...