Reading literature well means learning to sit with ambiguity — tracking unreliable narrators, unpacking symbolism, and building interpretive arguments that go beyond plot summary. Reid's background in sociology sharpens his approach to literary analysis, connecting texts to the cultural and historic...

A Harvard sociology and women's studies graduate, Solange reads literature through multiple lenses — examining how power, identity, and social context shape a text's meaning. She teaches students to move from surface-level plot summary to constructing original interpretive arguments, whether they're...

Reading literature well means doing more than summarizing plot — it means noticing how an author's word choice, structure, and imagery build meaning beneath the surface. Sabira is an avid reader herself and teaches students to annotate with purpose, pulling specific textual evidence to support inter...

Reading literature well means arguing with the text — asking why a character acts, what a symbol carries, how structure shapes meaning. Daniel's sociology training sharpens his approach to literary analysis, especially when it comes to examining how authors represent class, identity, and power on th...

Studying philosophy at Princeton means spending entire semesters pulling apart dense texts — tracing arguments, weighing rhetorical choices, and reading between the lines. Julie brings that same close-reading discipline to literature, whether a student is unpacking symbolism in Beloved or analyzing ...

Reading a novel is one thing — building an argument about its themes, symbols, and narrative structure is another skill entirely. Maya, a Yale-trained writer with a Religious Studies background, teaches students to move between close reading and big-picture literary analysis, whether they're unpacki...

Reading a poem or novel closely means noticing what the author chose *not* to do as much as what's on the page — why this metaphor, why this narrator, why this structure. Noah's philosophy training sharpened his ability to unpack argument and meaning in dense texts, a skill he applies to everything ...

Reading literature well means doing more than following the plot — it means noticing how an author's choices about structure, point of view, and imagery shape meaning. Michelle's graduate work at Columbia in American Studies immersed her in literary analysis across genres and time periods, from slav...

Reading literature well means arguing with the text — asking why an author chose this metaphor, this structure, this unreliable narrator. Allen's Yale coursework in ethics and political theory sharpened his ability to build interpretive arguments from close textual evidence, and he brings that same ...

Reading literature well means arguing with the text — asking why Hamlet delays, what Toni Morrison's syntax is doing to the reader, or how an unreliable narrator reshapes a story's meaning. Moon's three degrees, including one in philosophy, give him a cross-disciplinary lens for close reading that t...

Ian approaches literature the way a physicist approaches a problem: by asking what's really going on beneath the surface and building an argument from evidence. Whether the text is a Shakespeare play or a modernist novel, he teaches students to construct close readings that connect literary devices ...

Literary analysis is really about building an argument — identifying how an author uses imagery, structure, or point of view to create meaning, then defending that reading with textual evidence. Rachel studied history and political science, disciplines that demand the same close-reading and argument...

From Homer's epics to Ovid's Metamorphoses, Sarah's Classics training immersed her in the literary traditions that shaped nearly every major Western author students encounter in school. She teaches close reading as a skill — unpacking imagery, tracking narrative structure, and building interpretive ...

From close-reading Shakespeare's soliloquies to unpacking the unreliable narrator in modern fiction, Dana approaches literature as an exercise in asking better questions about a text. Her coursework in American literature and comparative literature means she's comfortable across genres and periods, ...

Philosophy and literature share a core skill: reading a text closely enough to see what the author is really doing beneath the surface. Lucas digs into themes, narrative structure, and rhetorical choices across poetry and prose, teaching students to build interpretive arguments that go beyond plot s...