Category Archives: Classes

Some more new HL90s coming this fall! Read more about Angela Allan’s “Popular Culture,” which meets Wednesday, 9:45-11:45. What inspired you to teach this class? The simple answer is that I really enjoy consuming popular culture! But I really enjoy thinking about it and why it’s popular. While we’re not reading any of the PerryContinue reading “HL90 GQ: Popular Culture”

Laura Quinton’s HL90, “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa” returns, Wednesday 3-5: take a look! What inspired you to teach this class? I’m British, but I’ve lived in the U.S. for many years. I’m often struck by how fascinated Americans are with British culture – accents, TV shows, movies, musicians, the Premier League,Continue reading “HL90 FU: British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa”

We’ve got lots of new HL90s coming this fall, including Nick Bloom’s “Race & Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century American Thought,” Wednesday 12:45-2:45. What inspired you to teach this class? This class is inspired by a desire to introduce students to the incredibly diverse and powerful ways that people in and beyond the United States have analyzed,Continue reading “HL90 GP: Race & Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century American Thought”

We’ve got some exciting new HL90s this fall! Be sure to check out Morgan Ridgway’s “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” Monday, 3-5. Tell us about your class! “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities” really orbits around two things: first, the diverse experiences and expressions of gender/sexuality by Indigenous peoples across North America and second, thatContinue reading “HL90 GR: Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America”

We’ve got lots of great HL90s this year! Read more about Emmet von Stackelberg’s “Screen Cultures from Cinema to TikTok,” which meets Thursday, 12:45-2:45. Tell us about your class! For the most part, I study the technologies behind really old movies. We’re talking a century old, or older. Black and white, “silent” (but never REALLYContinue reading “HL90 GE: Screen Cultures from Cinema to TikTok”

We’ve got lots more HL90s to consider! Emily Gowen told us about her class, “American Education Reforms,” which meets Monday, 9:45-11:45. What inspired you to teach this class? I started my career in the world of education reform, and the questions that time in my life raised for me have stayed with me throughout myContinue reading “HL90 GB: American Education Reforms”

Registration begins today and some of our most popular HL90s are back this semester! Make sure you check out Hannah Waits’s “Race and Empire in the Americas,” which meets Thursday, 3-5. Tell us about your class!  “Race and Empire in the Americas” examines how empire has functioned across the Caribbean, Central America, and North AmericaContinue reading “HL90 FI: Race and Empire in the Americas”

Lots of HL90s to consider! Rachel Kirby’s “The South: Histories of a U.S. Region” is back, Monday 12:45-2:45. There’s Dolly Parton, Disney, and a field trip! What inspired you to teach this class? Tell us a bit about it! I’m both from the South and my research focuses on the South, so I’m really excitedContinue reading “HL90 FZ: The South: Histories of a U.S. Region”

Registration opens this week and one of our most popular HL90s, Duncan White’s “Espionage: A Cultural History” is back this year, Thursday, 3:45-5:45! What inspired you to teach this class? When I was growing up in Brussels the parents of one of my classmates were revealed to have been spies for East Germany. It wasContinue reading “HL90 EJ: Espionage: A Cultural History”

Registration closes on Wednesday! Do you know what you’re taking? We’ve got a new introductory class this year, “Introduction to Medieval Studies,” co-taught by Sean Gilsdorf and Brian FitzGerald, which meets Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-2:45. Tell us about your class! What’s something you’re excited to share with students? Sean here! We’re excited to introduce studentsContinue reading “HL10: Introduction to Medieval Studies”