Isabella's minor in Ancient and Medieval Studies at MIT means she spent years doing close readings of dense, unfamiliar texts — exactly the skill that transfers to analyzing literature at any level. She teaches students to unpack how an author's choices in structure, diction, and imagery build meani...

Before becoming a high school science teacher and college prep administrator, Marion studied neurobiology and behavior at Harvard — a field that requires digesting dense research papers and extracting meaning from how authors frame evidence, structure arguments, and deploy precise language. That sam...

Reading literature well means asking uncomfortable questions about a text — why does the narrator contradict herself, what's the silence in a scene really saying, how does the structure mirror the theme. Jean studied Latin American history through its literature and primary sources at Duke, giving h...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two very different skills. Alice's cognitive science training at Brown sharpens her ability to teach close reading — picking apart how an author uses imagery, narrative structure, or point of view to build meaning. She walks through passages co...

Reading literature analytically — identifying motifs, unreliable narrators, or how an author's structure reinforces theme — requires a different kind of close attention than most students are used to. Ilesh is an avid reader who approaches texts methodically, breaking down passages into claims and e...

A full-time writer with a Stanford arts degree, Robert reads literature the way writers do — paying attention to how an author builds a character through dialogue, or why a narrator's unreliability changes everything about a story's meaning. He's particularly strong on American literature, from Hawt...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two very different skills, and the gap usually shows up when a student sits down to write about theme or characterization. Juliana teaches close-reading techniques — tracking imagery, identifying narrative shifts, questioning an author's struct...

Reading a novel or poem closely means asking better questions — why does this narrator contradict herself, what's the metaphor actually doing, how does the structure shape meaning? Ominira teaches students to engage with texts analytically, moving from surface-level summaries to the kind of interpre...

Reading literature well means doing more than summarizing plot; it means noticing how an unreliable narrator shifts tone or why an author chose free indirect discourse over first person. Hailey's psychology training sharpens her approach to character analysis and motivation, giving students a framew...

Reading critically means asking what a text is doing, not just what it says — why an author chose a particular metaphor, or how a narrator's unreliability reshapes the story's meaning. Christopher's neuroscience minor gave him a unique lens for analyzing how language affects perception, and his life...

Reading a novel for class is one thing; unpacking how an author uses symbolism, narrative structure, or unreliable narration to build meaning is another skill entirely. David approaches literary analysis the way he approaches math — by identifying patterns, questioning assumptions, and constructing ...

An avid reader and writer outside her engineering career, Bettina approaches literature with the same analytical rigor she applies to research — dissecting how an author builds an argument through structure, imagery, and narrative choice. She teaches students to move from surface-level plot summary ...

Breaking down a novel or poem into its moving parts — symbolism, narrative voice, thematic tension — is where Maddie thrives as a reader and tutor. She teaches students to build literary arguments that go beyond plot summary, connecting textual evidence to a clear interpretive claim.

Most people don't expect a PhD astronomer to hold a BFA in Creative Writing, but that combination makes Alexandra unusually sharp at literary analysis. She teaches students to dissect a text's structure, trace motifs, and build arguments about theme with the same rigor she brings to analyzing data —...

James earned his English Literature degree at Northwestern, where close reading meant dissecting everything from narrative structure to unreliable narrators to the politics embedded in a text. That training makes him especially effective at teaching students how to build a literary argument — moving...