LITR at Brown University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LITR coursework.

• LITR 0210AFiction Writing IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LITR 0210DDigital Language Art IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LITR 1010AAdvanced Fictionopens 1 course (1 directly)

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in LITR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at LITR 1010D

  1. LITR 0210DDigital Language Art II
  2. LITR 1010DAdvanced Digital Language Arts

• 2 courses deep, ending at LITR 1152C

  1. LITR 1010AAdvanced Fiction
  2. LITR 1152CWriters-in-the-Community Training & Residencies

• 2 courses deep, ending at LITR 1153I

  1. LITR 0210AFiction Writing II
  2. LITR 1153ITemporal Entanglements: Writing Historical Fiction

A suggested order for the 6 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on LITR sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• Ama Codjoe
• Anya Lewis-Meeks
• C. Swensen
• Carolina Ebeid
• Colin Channer
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Francesca Mari
• Jacinda Townsend
• Jackie Wang
• John Cayley
• Julia Jarcho
• Karan Mahajan
• Kwame Dawes
• Laird Hunt
• Lanre Akinsiku
• Laura Colella
• Lucy Ives
• Matthew Shenoda
• Peter Nelson
• Sawako Nakayasu
• Siwar Masannat
• T. Rose
• Thalia Field
• Tracey Rose

Clubs & organizations

Groups the university lists under this department.

• Cornerstone Magazine
• Fiction for Kids
• SOMOS Latinx Literary Magazine
• WORD! Performance Poetry Group

All Brown organizations

Clubs students here join