Spring 2025

Instructor: Homi Bhabha Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in...

Instructor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Tuesday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: 104 Mount Auburn St 209 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course traces the history of the metaphor of a “New Negro” from its inception at the dawn of Jim Crow to the end of the...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran Monday, 12:00-2:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course introduces students to the poetry, literary prose, and artful correspondence of one of the major poets of the twentieth century, considering...

Instructor: Marc Shell Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. How has literature influenced the rhetoric and philosophy of disability? This seminar considers literary and cinematic works that focus on the body (deafness...

Instructor: Derek Miller Tuesday, 9:45-11:45am Location: Barker 269 Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. This course examines recent scripted theater by American playwrights. We will consider the shape of the American theater, contemporary theatrical...

Instructor: Deidre Lynch Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD What was it like to read and write a novel at a moment before that term named a stable category and before the genre’s conventions were established? How did it feel to be a writer...

Instructor: Vidyan Ravinthiran TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Originally, this course centered poets resident in, and writing from, post-Independence India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It will now also examine South Asian-American and...

Instructor: Derek Miller Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: Lamont 401 Conference seminar course (open to both undergraduates and graduates) This course introduces practical skills in programming for the Digital Humanities (DH) and investigates the theories...

Instructor: Stephanie Burt TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Queer and trans writing, with major historical figures (Whitman, Wilde, Lorde) but a focus on what's happening now, how to understand it, how to feel at home in it, how to...

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...