Literature Courses
Spring 2024
Anne Carson
Sandra SimondsBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing — Prose
Libby FloresCrocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell’s North & South
Jenny BoullyExperimental Fiction by Women
Bruna Dantas LobatoFundamentals of Creative Writing
Sandra SimondsHearing Voices: a Master Class in Literary Journalism
Jia TolentinoIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuKeeping Close: Journals & Notebooks
Jenny BoullyPoetry and Technology
Franny ChoiRace, Robots, and Asian American Literature
Franny ChoiReading and Writing Nonfiction: Dreamwork
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing Poetry: Games and Experiments
Franny ChoiReading and Writing the Short Story: The Body
Bruna Dantas LobatoReading and Writing: the First Novel
Benjamin AnastasShakespeare: The Tragedies
Michael DumanisThe Female Grotesque
Camille GuthrieThe Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry
Anaïs DuplanThe Immigrant Novel
Bruna Dantas LobatoThe Literature of Black Insurgency
Anaïs DuplanThe Mystery that Keeps Us Humble: St. Augustine, Simone Weil, Thomas Merton
Benjamin AnastasThe Prose Poem
Michael Dumanis
Fall 2023
Advanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuBlack Mountain/Beat Poetry
Sandra SimondsChosen Family Style: Queer Asian Pacific American Literature
Franny ChoiEcopoetics: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire
Sandra SimondsEthical Translation: Eye on Race, Gender, and Queerness
Mariam RahmaniFundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny BoullyFundamentals of Creative Writing
Nicolette PolekHorror Writing and the (Postcolonial) Afterlife
Anaïs DuplanLiterature of the Holocaust
Sandra SimondsPoetry & Performance
Franny ChoiReading & Writing: Spectacular Failure
Manuel GonzalesReading and Writing Nonfiction: Ambience, Architecture, & Environment
Anaïs DuplanReading and Writing Poetry: Word Choice and Linebreak
Michael DumanisRichard Wright and James Baldwin
Benjamin AnastasSenior Projects in Literature
Benjamin AnastasThe Camp Aesthetic
Maya CantuThe Flower Songs of the Hungry Coyote: Pre-Columbian Indigenous Poetry
Anaïs DuplanThe Inexorable(Middle)March of Time
Manuel GonzalesThe New York School of Poetry
Michael DumanisThe Real Housewives of Lit
Manuel GonzalesThe “I” of the Beholder
Franny ChoiVictorian Ephemerality: Poetry, Photography, & Paper
Jenny Boully
Spring 2023
A Collective Portrait of America: Literary Memoir Since the Civil War
Rachel LyonBad Romance: Shakespeare’s Poetry
Camille GuthrieCrafting a Book Review
Sandra SimondsCrocheting the Classics: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford
Jenny BoullyDostoevsky’s Major Novels
Alexandar MihailovicDybbuks, Golems, Tradition & Resistance: Isaaac Basheveis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley
Marguerite FeitlowitzEssays of Walter Benjamin
Anne ThompsonFantasy Literature: 4000 Years of Written Wonders
Maria Dahvana HeadleyFundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny BoullyInternational Modernist Poetics
Sandra SimondsIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuPerfect Vacuums: Critical Studies of Nonexistent Texts
Manuel GonzalesRace, Robots, and Asian/American Literature
Franny ChoiRalph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Benjamin AnastasReading and Writing Nonfiction: Mourning and Grief
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing Poetry: Conjuring El Duende
Anaïs DuplanReading and Writing Short Stories: Narrative Shape-Shifting
Rachel LyonReality and Dreams: Robert Musil and the Vienna Secession
Benjamin AnastasSocial Semiotics of Contemporary Literature
Anaïs DuplanTechnologies of Heartbreak
Manuel GonzalesThe Art of Literary Translation: Your Histories, Texts, and Authorial Selves
Marguerite FeitlowitzThe Slow Burn
Manuel GonzalesWriting a Life
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Fall 2022
Advanced Dramaturgy
Maya CantuBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Prose
Manuel GonzalesConfessional Poetry
Sandra SimondsContemporary Ukrainian Literature
Alexandar MihailovicEarly American Confessions
Benjamin AnastasGenres and Forms of Poetry
Michael DumanisGoing Backstage: Musicals, Plays, and Novels about Theater
Maya CantuLeo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Alexandar MihailovicLiterature of the AIDS Pandemic
Michael DumanisMother Figure and Motherly Figures in Italian Literature and Culture – Taught in English
Barbara AlfanoRacialized Chronologies: Alternative Temporal Structures in Contemporary Poetry
Anaïs DuplanReading & Writing Multilingual Texts: When One Language Isn’t Enough
Marguerite FeitlowitzReading and Writing Poetry: The Speculative Lyric
Franny ChoiReading and Writing: Autofiction
Benjamin AnastasRomance Literature of the Middle Ages
Sandra SimondsScreenwriting: The Story Studio
Manuel GonzalesSenior Projects in Literature
Manuel GonzalesThe Ghosts of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and the Brontës
Sandra SimondsThe Right to Opacity: Reading Fred Moten and Édouard Glissant
Anaïs DuplanWords Without Borders: Translation in Times of Crisis
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Spring 2022
Advanced Screenwriting
Manuel GonzalesBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing – Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing–Prose
Benjamin AnastasBlack Queer Writing and Theoretical Approaches
Phillip B. WilliamsChance Encounters
Mary RuefleDickensian Binge
Manuel GonzalesImmortality
Manuel GonzalesNonsense, Surrealism, and The Absurd
Michael DumanisOut of Dark Noise: The History of Black Documentary Poetics
Anaïs DuplanPersona Poetry: An Overview
Phillip B. WilliamsPrima dell’_Amica geniale_: Elena Ferrante’s Short Novels
Barbara AlfanoReading and Writing Fiction: Space and Place
Paul La FargeReading and Writing Poetry: Poet’s Proof—Existential, Ephemeral, Ethereal, Empirical, and Other Evidences
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing: Literary Journalism
Benjamin AnastasReVisions Rebellions, Revolution: Latin American Women Writers
Marguerite FeitlowitzShakespeare: The History Plays
Maya CantuSound and Cadence for the Contemporary Ear/Era
Anaïs DuplanSpeculative Fiction
Paul La FargeThe Art of Literary Translation
Marguerite FeitlowitzThe Prose Poem
Phillip B. WilliamsThe Russian Modernist Poets
Michael DumanisThe Whiteness of the Whale: Moby-Dick and Melville’s America
Benjamin AnastasTom Stoppard
Maya CantuWhen Books Become Films
Rachel Lyon“Beastly and Beautiful”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Jenny Boully
Fall 2021
Black Nature Writing
Phillip B. WilliamsConceptualizing the Environment
Paul La FargeFundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny BoullyGenesis
Carol PalHistorical Fictions/Fictional Histories
Marguerite FeitlowitzKalón and Chaos: The Secret History and its References
Benjamin AnastasLives of Quiet Desperation: the Transcendentalists vs. America
Benjamin AnastasLiving to Learn, Learning to Live: Readings in Contemporary South American Fiction
Marguerite FeitlowitzMuriel Spark and the Vanishing Novel
Benjamin AnastasOn Sustaining a Practice of Documentation
Anaïs DuplanReading and Writing Fiction: Lies, Spies & Private Eyes
Manuel GonzalesReading and Writing Poetry: Image and Detail
Michael DumanisRelation, Reflection, Refraction: Contemporary South American Fiction
Marguerite FeitlowitzScreenwriting: The Story Studio
Manuel GonzalesSenior Projects in Literature
Jenny BoullyShakespeare’s Tragedies
Paul La FargeThe Problem of Sylvia Plath
Mark WunderlichThe Romantic Poets
Michael DumanisToni Morrison and Afro-Diasporic (Re)Mything
Phillip B. Williams
Spring 2021
Advanced Screenwriting
Manuel GonzalesBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing-Poetry
Michael DumanisBennington Review: A Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing–Prose
Benjamin AnastasBlack Playwrights of the Civil Rights Era
Maya CantuGenres and Forms of Poetry
Michael DumanisHenrik Ibsen
Maya CantuHow to Read a Translation
Marguerite FeitlowitzImaginary Worlds
Abe KooglerIt’s Gonna Be Epic!
Manuel GonzalesRalph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Benjamin AnastasReading and Writing Poetry: Refusals and Mythic Transformations
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing: Looking Beyond the Self
Paul La FargeReading Poetry: A Basic Course
Michael DumanisScenes
Abe KooglerSeminar on Virginia Woolf
Marguerite FeitlowitzShakespeare: The Comedies
Manuel GonzalesStarring the Translator!
Marguerite FeitlowitzSun Ra: Space is the Place
Michael WimberlyThe Art of Literary Criticism
Benjamin AnastasThe Bible as a Key to Environmental Thought
Michael M. CohenThe Jewish Annotated Gospels
Michael M. CohenTruth and Consequences: The Uses (and Misuses) of Literary Persona
Paul La FargeVictorian Children’s Literature: Girls in the Underworld
Jenny Boully
Fall 2020
Fundamentals of Creative Writing
Jenny BoullyHorror Fiction and Film
Paul La FargeIf I Loved you Less, I Might be able to Talk about it More: Jane Austen’s Heroines
Manuel GonzalesIntroduction to Dramaturgy
Maya CantuLeo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
Alexandar MihailovicLetters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
Mark WunderlichLiterature of the AIDS Pandemic
Michael DumanisPlaywriting – Storytelling Across Media
Megan TabaqueRe-Creating the Classics
Marguerite FeitlowitzReading and Writing Nonfiction: Childhood and Its Aftermaths
Jenny BoullyReading and Writing Poetry: Word Choice and Linebreak
Michael DumanisReading and Writing: Autofiction
Benjamin AnastasScreenwriting: The Story Studio
Manuel GonzalesSenior Projects in Literature
Marguerite FeitlowitzShipwrecked
Akiko BuschThe Art of Spectacle
Megan TabaqueThe Jazz Age Revisited
Benjamin AnastasTristram Shandy and the Pointless Novel
Paul La Farge