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With a faculty composed of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the MIT Literature section offers a wide range of courses across time periods, international cultures, and languages. Literature courses at MIT examine how multiple expressive forms, such as novels, poems, plays, films, and visual art, not only make imaginative and critical sense of history and the present but also project us into a range of possible futures.
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MIT GHI Master Class by Laikwan Pang, internationally renowned scholar of modern Chinese culture, politics, and intellectual history
MIT GHI Master Class by Laikwan Pang, internationally renowned scholar of modern Chinese culture, politics, and intellectual history
Join the MIT Global Humanities Initiative a lecture and discussion with Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the movement of Cantonese-speaking people and their language through and beyond China during the late Qing and ear...
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium presents, David S. Bachrach “Knighthood and the Realities of War in Medieval Germany”
Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium presents, David S. Bachrach "Knighthood and the Realities of War in Medieval Germany"
Military history as a subfield within medieval studies has suffered considerably from the fact that both medieval authors and modern scholars have seen warfare as a nasty element of the human experience, that is better condemned or even ignored than studied. As a consequence, the examination of warf...
MIT/French Library Author Series: Emily Eakin presents The French Men, Or My Life in Theory
MIT/French Library Author Series: Emily Eakin presents The French Men, Or My Life in Theory
"When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of French theory. In her acclaimed new book, she intertwines her own youthful fascination with theory with the remarkable story of its rise in American intellectual and cultural life."
Co-sponsored with Bosto...
FUN FACTS
The Literature concentration takes about three approved subjects to complete. Lit concentrators often go on to minoring or majoring in Literature!
During a 1998 talk at MIT titled, “Devil Girl From Mars’: Why I Write Science Fiction” Octavia Butler explained how media inspired her to start writing.
Literature minors can choose to focus their studies on specific literary complexes as well as film, ancient & medieval studies, and more!
William Carlos Williams was an American poet, writer, and physician of pediatrics and general medicine.
