Harvard Courses Before 2017

W 12:00 – 1:59 Deidre Lynch Collectibles, fetishes, fashionable commodities, and curious specimens often claim center-stage in 18th-century literary culture, where they challenge persons' sense of themselves and their properties and privileges. Drawing on...

F 2:00 – 3:59 Ann Blair Graduate Reading Group in Book History. Please contact Ann Blair.

Th 4:00 – 5:59 TBA This graduate colloquium explores a vital cluster of themes in contemporary critical inquiry: the relation between objects, knowledge, culture and society. Our approach will be both historical and theoretical. One aim is to bridge the...

W 3:00 – 5:59 David Stern What makes a foundational religious book? How do the texts of these books develop, and what functions do they serve as material objects—physical books--in religious communities and traditions beyond conveying the texts they...

M 1:00 – 2:59 David Hall An introduction to book history and its connections with intellectual, cultural, and religious history, this course focuses on popular Protestantism in Britain and early America, together with certain “revolutions” in print in the...

W 1:00 – 2:59 Jennifer Brady This seminar asks who was reading, what was read, and how reading was practiced, imagined, and used in early America. Focusing on moments when reading’s potential to create or divide communities was under question, "We the...

T 1:00 –2:59 Jill Lepore, Leah Price This hands-on interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar is for students who want to think about what a book is and how to read one. Readings include historical and literary narratives of reading by Cervantes, Richardson...

W 3:00 – 4:59 David J. Roxburgh Examines the use of writing on different art forms including architecture from the Islamic lands with an emphasis on the period between ca. 600 and 1500. The course will introduce key methodologies in the study of writing...

T 1:00 – 2:59 David J. Roxburgh Critical examination of the arts of the book, portable arts, and architecture sponsored by the Timurids (1370-1507), a dynasty founded by Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given to primary written sources in...

M 2:00 – 3:59 Elisa New The first 1/3 of course will include close readings, video tours and on-foot excursions around 17th and 18th 19th century Harvard Square as we read Ann Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Michael Wigglesworth, Phillis Wheatley, Henry...