An avid reader across genres, Sami approaches literature by teaching students to ask better questions of a text — not just "what happened" but "why did the author structure it this way?" He unpacks themes, symbolism, and narrative technique by connecting them to the historical and cultural context s...

Studying paleography at Yale means James spends his days deciphering how texts were written, read, and interpreted across centuries — a perspective that makes contemporary literary analysis feel vivid rather than abstract. He teaches students to build arguments around close reading, connecting detai...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two different skills. Ethan unpacks literary texts by teaching students to trace motifs, identify narrative structure, and build interpretive claims they can defend with textual evidence — the kind of close reading that turns a C paper into an ...

Close reading is a skill that transfers across every genre — poetry, novels, drama — and Max treats it that way, teaching students to identify literary devices, trace thematic development, and build interpretive arguments grounded in textual evidence. His Yale humanities coursework sharpened the ana...

Reading widely across disciplines — from humanities coursework in Asian American Studies to dense scientific literature in public health — gave Jon a versatile lens for literary analysis. He teaches students to move past surface-level plot summary and instead examine how authors use structure, image...

Reading a novel is one thing; articulating why an author made specific choices about structure, imagery, or point of view is another skill entirely. Brittany's Yale training in close reading gives her a toolkit for unpacking everything from Shakespeare's verse to contemporary fiction, and she teache...

A background in philosophy and physics gives Anthony an unusual lens for literary analysis — he's comfortable unpacking both the logical structure of an argument and the thematic weight of a symbol. He teaches close reading as a skill with transferable payoffs, showing students how to build interpre...

Reading literature well means doing more than summarizing plot; it means noticing how an author uses imagery, narrative structure, and point of view to build meaning. Mia's Yale humanities training sharpens her ability to unpack everything from Shakespeare's rhetoric to the symbolism in contemporary...

Maxwell approaches literary analysis the way he approaches scientific research — by asking what the evidence actually supports rather than guessing at vague themes. Whether a student is unpacking symbolism in a novel or analyzing tone shifts in poetry, he teaches close-reading techniques that turn s...

Studying French literature in its original language gave Xaviera a layered understanding of how to read closely — tracking symbolism, unreliable narrators, and historical context across texts. She teaches students to build arguments about what they read, pulling specific evidence from the text rathe...