Unique to Harvard, the BA in History and Literature fuses two disciplines to unlock how texts both reflect and shape historical change. Students build thematic or regional fields—such as Black Atlantic, Modern Asia, or America and Empire—interrogating novels, plays, film, and archives in tandem. Close mentorship, intensive writing tutorials, and field research cultivate graduates skilled in interdisciplinary synthesis, ready for careers in media, education, public history, and cultural policy.
Thesis on postcolonial memory in Caribbean literature
Podcast dramatizing letters from World War I
Exhibit on Harlem Renaissance art and politics
Digital timeline of science fiction and the Cold War
Comparative essay on nationalist theater movements
Film series curating adaptations of Victorian novels
Interactive map of printing presses in early America
Audio installation of workers’ oral histories, 1930s
Analysis of propaganda in dystopian literature
Public-facing blog on banned books across regimes
Story-map linking architecture and narrative in Paris
Data analysis of literary prizes and cultural capital
Collaborative journal issue on protest literature
Creative writing workshop inspired by historical diaries
Archival research on radical pamphlets, 1968
Virtual reality recreation of a medieval scriptorium
Wikipedia edit-a-thon on lesser-known women writers
Capstone documentary on film noir and postwar anxiety
Interweave textual analysis with historical insight in Harvard’s pioneering inter-disciplinary program.
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