Featured series 
Tag: English
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Arts & Culture
Jorie Graham confronts past, present, and future
“Mortality got my attention. And it was — as we are told to believe but rarely do — a gift,” says the acclaimed poet, whose latest collection, “To 2040,” looks at the many crises shadowing what she calls “the human project.”
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Arts & Culture
Why ‘The Exorcist’ is really more of zombie thing
English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.
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Arts & Culture
Feeling ‘Clueless’? Here’s why Jane Austen never seems to get old
Harvard scholar highlights qualities that make Jane Austen ever-modern.
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Arts & Culture
Dreams of land deferred
“Castor and Patience” explores nation’s long history of systematic barriers to Black ownership.
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Arts & Culture
Funny lady
Emma Eun-joo Choi ’23 is the host of the new NPR comedy podcast “Everyone & Their Mom.”
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Campus & Community
More than just another brick in a wall
The student creators of a new public art installation in Harvard Yard believe their work can drive change.
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Arts & Culture
How she went from being academic to creating Netflix show about one
Annie Julia Wyman, Ph.D. ’17 says her suggestibility led to “The Chair.”
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Campus & Community
Reframing American Studies
Scholar Philip Deloria encourages his students to push boundaries of American Studies.
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Arts & Culture
Turning spotlight on Broadway’s representation problem
This class closely examines who is cast for what role in film and theater, as well as how cultural identity is portrayed.
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Arts & Culture
How to read ‘Ulysses’? With gratitude.
Harvard students, scholars find everyday rewards on the other side of Joyce’s century-old epic.
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Arts & Culture
Overture of an opera life
James Joyce will be star of final act of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s undergrad career.
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Campus & Community
Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
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Science & Tech
Coming to grips with planetary existential threat
Environmental Science and Public Policy takes multidisciplinary approach to complex existential threat.
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Arts & Culture
Raised voices
Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.
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Campus & Community
Naming the things you feel
Celebrated poet and new faculty member Tracy K. Smith aims to create life-changing space for students.
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Arts & Culture
Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.
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Campus & Community
The double life of Truelian Lee
Concentrating in chemistry and English, Truelian Lee blended art with scientific problem-solving to bring chemistry to wider audiences.
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Campus & Community
5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.
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Campus & Community
Come fall, a new humanities program
Starting in fall, Harvard sophomores can join I-HUM and USI for intense focus on humanities.
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Campus & Community
New faculty: Sarah Dimick
Harvard Assistant Professor Sarah Dimick wants to expand the understanding of connections between literature and the environment.
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Arts & Culture
A family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past
Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”
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Arts & Culture
Reading as pleasure
Led by student convenors, Harvard’s LitLab brings literature to casual gatherings.
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Arts & Culture
Fighting bigotry with art
The Wave started as a pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, but its mission changed with the rise of racism and xenophobia after pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Five faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members have been named Harvard College Professors for their contributions to undergraduate teaching.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, by the books
It didn’t turn out at all the way they thought it would. Being asked to quickly leave campus and return home last month amid the mushrooming coronavirus outbreak was painful…
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Campus & Community
Early responses indicate shift to online classes going well overall
Harvard professors offer early responses to teaching online, with some finding hitches tempered by surprising benefits.
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Arts & Culture
Self-help books, literature, and how they help us live
In a new book, Harvard Assistant Professor of English Beth Blum traces the historical relationship between self-help and literature.
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Campus & Community
Authors’ aerie
A photo gallery captures authors at work in the new home of Harvard’s creative writing program atop Lamont Library.
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Work & Economy
Hidden costs of emotional labor
Is a smiling flight attendant performing emotional labor? How about the harried mom baking cupcakes for a kindergarten class, or your friend who’s always ready to listen and dispense advice?…
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Arts & Culture
Inside the house of screams
In a class called “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” Harvard students put their imaginations to work creating tales of demons, monsters, and ghosts.
