Spring 2026

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will think deeply about how music is often at the center of their experiences, may it be as a song, an album, an...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine...

Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the page that way, the...

Instructor: John Stauffer and Roberto Unger Friday, 1:30-3:30 pm | Location: TBD Democracy, inequality, and nationalism in America. The white working class and American politics. Class and race. Identities and interests. Conditions for socially inclusive...

Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Monday & Wednesday, 3:00-4:15pm | Location: TBD African American poets have long embraced the private freedoms of the lyric poem—freedom to claim the authority of an uncontested first person “I”; freedom to wrangle language into...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Spring 2027 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD Our thoughts and feelings about identity, self-expression, and the power of the imagination draw on the British Romantic poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century...

Instructor: Deidre Shauna Lynch Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students In this seminar we will work our way through theoretical work presenting the Western book as, variously, medium, interface, commodity, technology...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Have you ever written a draft of a short story or a novel, only to realize that you have no idea what to do next? This workshop will guide you...

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...