Three years as an ESL instructor and a stint as an English teaching assistant in Medellín gave Ruth an unusually close relationship with how language works on the page. She applies that awareness to literature, teaching students to dissect an author's choices — tone, structure, imagery — and build a...

Studying culture and psychology at the PhD level has given Martha a sharp lens for literary analysis — she's trained to read texts for subtext, examining how identity, power, and social context shape a character's choices. She teaches students to build interpretive arguments grounded in close readin...

Reading a novel or poem closely means asking what the author is doing with structure, imagery, and point of view — not just summarizing the plot. Jason approaches literature the way he learned from years of wide reading and volunteer tutoring: by teaching students to build arguments about a text and...

Michael's background is in physics, not English — but his training in philosophy and years of academic writing sharpened his ability to dissect an argument, trace a theme, and evaluate how an author builds meaning through structure and language. He approaches literary analysis the way a scientist ap...

An avid reader outside the classroom, Suzie approaches literature by teaching students to trace how a single motif — light, water, confinement — threads through an entire text and shifts in meaning. Whether the assignment is close-reading a Shakespeare soliloquy or writing a thematic analysis of a n...

Reading a novel for class is one thing; building an argument about symbolism, narrative voice, or historical context is another skill entirely. Mary studies literature at NYU Abu Dhabi and has edited for the student creative publication Airport Road, so she's practiced at pulling apart texts and art...

Reading literature across two languages — English and Russian — trained Skyler to notice how narrative voice, symbolism, and structure shift between literary traditions. She teaches students to build interpretive arguments grounded in textual evidence, whether they're analyzing a Fitzgerald novel or...

Reading a novel closely means asking what the text is doing, not just what it's about — why Fitzgerald chose that color, how Morrison structures time, what an unreliable narrator reveals through omission. Ceren earned her degree in Creative Writing and Literature at Michigan, so she teaches literary...

Studying English at Yale means Sophia spends her days doing exactly what a literature course demands — close reading, thematic analysis, and constructing arguments about how a text works. Whether a student is unpacking symbolism in The Great Gatsby or tracing narrative voice in a Toni Morrison novel...

Studying Global Affairs at Yale means Megan reads constantly across genres and historical periods, which she brings to literature sessions that dig into themes, narrative structure, and close textual analysis. She teaches students to build interpretive arguments from the text itself — pulling apart ...