Spring 2027

Instructor: Teju Cole TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a course on the writing of literary fiction and is for students who have taken at least one previous writing workshop. Since good writing comes out of good reading, we...

Instructor: Emma Adler TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course introduces students to the fundamentals of both playwriting and dramaturgy. Dramaturgs facilitate the realization of plays through a variety of practices, from...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we document volcanoes, whale-song, winds, tempests? How do we write with and about the “natural world” and the place that humans occupy in it, in a moment where...

Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed TBD | Location: TBD How do we tell stories for the stage and the screen? What is the difference between playwriting and screenwriting? What qualities do they share? This open enrollment course introduces students to...

Instructor: Derek Miller TBD | Location: TBD This course explores the history of dramatic writing and publishing in the US and Europe by studying every play ever written. Of course, we cannot actually study all those plays—that’s the point. When we learn...

Instructor: Glenda Carpio TBD | Location: TBD Is “immigrant literature” a useful category? In the American context, the category has facilitated an understanding of how the country’s social, political, and intellectual life has been refreshed and reshaped...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | Location: TBD This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft. We will...

Instructor: Elaine Scarry TBD | Location: TBD 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 Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines how contemporary Indigenous writers and writers of color deploy monstrosity as a powerful tool for critiquing systems of oppression and imagining...

Instructor: Jesse McCarthy TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course surveys major works in literary theory and criticism from the high watermark of ‘French Theory’ as it crossed the Atlantic in the 1970s up to the present. Our...