Spring 2025

Instructor: Daniel Donoghue TBD | Location: TBD Building on the basic grammar and translation skills learned in English 102, this course introduces students to Old English literature in its most immediate context: the manuscripts that preserve the...

Instructor: Peter Sacks Wednesday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: This class will be fully remote Spring 2023. Enrollment: Limited to 15 students An undergraduate seminar examining the poetry of William Butler Yeats. This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Instructor: Anna Wilson Thursday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The / in this course title can suggest a slippage or interchangeability; opposition and polarization; or erotic or romantic friction. This course functions...

Instructor: Alan Niles Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: Sever 206 This course is an introduction to the different voices, cultures, and traditions that made the first 1000 years of English literature, from Beowulf to Aphra Behn. We will study...