Spring 2027

Instructor: Nicholas Watson TBD | Location: TBD Medieval romances are ancestors of the modern novel, including the psychological novel and the fictions we call “fantasy.” In modern French, the word “roman” means “novel.” In this course, we read a series...

Instructor: Christopher Pexa TBD | Location: TBD This course will examine contemporary writings by Native American and Indigenous authors across the genres of sci fi, horror, and fantasy, with the aim of thinking about Native American and Indigenous...

Instructor: Martin Puchner TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The goal of this course is to use AI agents in a theatrical context. Its core assumption, which we will test throughout the semester, is that creating an AI agent is like...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will write poems, creative nonfiction essays, and hybrid works to explore how truth, as both lived experience and external reference...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is a writing-intensive course designed to develop students' ability to tell true stories. We will apply techniques commonly associated with fiction--narrative...

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...