College essays, grammar, and English already sit in Jai's regular teaching rotation, so when he picks up a literary text, he's reading with a writer's eye — tracking how an author's sentence rhythms, word choices, and structural decisions create effects that go beyond the story itself. His Stanford ...

Reading literature through a cross-disciplinary lens — asking how a novel's structure mirrors its argument, or why an author's historical moment shapes their metaphors — is the approach Matthew brings from his Stanford humanities coursework. He teaches students to build close-reading skills that mov...

Reading literature analytically — identifying how an author's diction shapes tone, or how a narrative structure reinforces theme — is a skill Tony sharpened through four years of humanities coursework at Yale. He teaches close reading as a layered process: first understanding what a text says, then ...

A voracious reader with a liberal arts education from the University of Chicago, Sharon treats literature as an exercise in close reading — pulling apart an author's syntax, imagery, and structure to uncover how a text actually produces meaning. She's equally comfortable unpacking a Shakespeare sonn...

Reading literature closely is really an exercise in argument — figuring out what a text is doing, not just what it says, and then building a case with evidence from the page. Justin's background in philosophy and his experience with essay editing give him a sharp eye for how to construct a literary ...

Three undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts gave Eric deep practice in close reading — the kind where you track a metaphor across an entire novel or argue about what an unreliable narrator is really revealing. He teaches students to build literary arguments by grounding every claim in specific t...

College essays, SAT Reading passages, and Harvard chemistry papers all have something in common — they demand the ability to read closely and figure out what a writer is actually doing beneath the surface. James applies that same precision to literature, teaching students to trace how specific choic...

Reading scripts for an Off-Broadway theatre company means Chelsey spends her days analyzing narrative structure, character development, and thematic layering — the same skills students need to break down a novel or poem for class. Her Northwestern coursework ranged from Medieval Literature to modern...

Studying philosophy at Penn means Esther spends her days pulling apart arguments, tracing themes, and questioning what a text actually claims — skills that transfer directly to literary analysis. She teaches students to move from surface-level plot summary to examining how an author uses structure, ...

Reading a novel closely means arguing with it — asking why an author chose this word, this structure, this ending. Johari's dual background in humanities and creative writing (he composes musicals and lyrics) gives him a practitioner's eye for how language builds meaning. He teaches students to deve...