Few tutors bring a Columbia comparative literature degree and a Berkeley M.A. to a literature session. Jacob teaches students to do genuine close reading — tracking imagery, narrative voice, and structural choices across a text — then translate those observations into analytical arguments. Whether t...

Reading literature well means constructing an interpretation and defending it with evidence from the text — skills that overlap heavily with philosophical analysis. Moya teaches students to move past plot summary and dig into how an author's choices around imagery, structure, and voice build meaning...

Analyzing literature requires the same skill Michael uses in computer science: taking something complex, identifying its structure, and explaining how the pieces create meaning. He's particularly sharp at teaching students to build arguments around literary devices — how an author's use of motif or ...

Reading literature well means slowing down enough to notice what an author is doing with structure, imagery, and point of view — not just what happens in the plot. Owen's interdisciplinary coursework at Brown trained him to analyze texts across genres, and he teaches students to build interpretive a...

Reading literature well means doing more than summarizing plot — it means tracing how an author uses imagery, narrative structure, or point of view to build meaning. Maya brings the close-reading habits she's developed in her Harvard coursework to every text, whether students are analyzing a Shakesp...

Biology trained Caitlyn to read carefully and build claims from evidence — skills that transfer directly to literary analysis, where every passage is data waiting to be interpreted. She's especially good at walking students through the leap from 'I noticed this metaphor' to 'here's a thesis I can de...

Before heading to Stanford for his master's, Andrew spent a year at Nike writing technical reports where clarity and precision in language were non-negotiable — habits that sharpen how he reads literary texts, where an author's word choices carry just as much deliberate weight. He teaches students t...

Reading a novel closely — tracking symbolism in Morrison, unreliable narration in Nabokov, or the politics buried in a Shakespeare comedy — is a skill Luke has practiced for nearly a decade as both a fiction writer and an English Honors graduate. He teaches students to build interpretive arguments f...

Reading literature analytically means learning to ask better questions of a text — why does the narrator shift tense here, what does this recurring image accumulate across chapters, how does sentence rhythm shape tone? Beth brings a scientist's attention to evidence and pattern recognition to litera...

Reading literature well means learning to ask better questions — why does the narrator withhold information, what does a recurring image accumulate, how does sentence rhythm shape tone. Luke unpacks these craft-level choices in poetry, short fiction, and novels, teaching students to build interpreti...