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This course, co-sponsored by Yale’s Humanities Program, and led by Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer, Paul Grimstad, will explore a strain of Antebellum Gothic in the prose, criticism and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In different ways, Poe and Hawthorne brought out a brooding, melancholic, even lurid, strain in the American temperament. For Hawthorne this was part of the Puritan meditation on sin, a lingering Calvinist gloom he explored in allegorical forms of unparalleled delicacy and grace. For Poe it was more a matter of inventing new forms of writing that would be viable (and lucrative) in a burgeoning print culture of the United States. Read together, we get a unique parallax view of the origins of American literature in the mid-19th century. Works include, The Scarlet Letter, "My Kinsman, Major Molineau," "The Ministers Black Viel," "The Birthmark," "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Raven," "The Gold Bug," and critical appraisals by Charles Baudelaire, Henry James and F.O. Matthiessen.

Come enjoy an evening of camaraderie and baseball. Join the Yale Club of Michigan in cheering on the Tigers against the Athletics. 

5 p.m. Tailgate Party: 127 West Fisher Parking Lot
6:40 p.m. Game: Comerica Park

Friends from the Cornell Club of Michigan will be joining us. 

Join us for a conversation with Andrew Burgie '87 from YASC, Lauren Paulsen and Emily Wood from Global Volunteers, to learn more about YASC's inaugural service trip to Peru in March 2026. During this session, you will learn more about Global Volunteers, Sagrada Familia, the community we will serve, and the projects we anticipate offering. 

If you are interested in this unique service opportunity and would like to join us in Peru, this is a great opportunity to learn how you can make a difference, ask questions, and get involved.

This event will be recorded.