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Undergraduates <\/strong>interested to explore research opportunities may wish to enroll in one of the following courses. If these courses are not offered in a given semester, we always welcome inquiries about undergraduate research assistantships<\/strong> and graduate research associateships<\/strong> affiliated with Tidewater\u2019s evolving Humanities Lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

coming soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tidewater Initiative I (Feinsod)<\/strong> AS.060.521 (01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course is taken by students working on independent or group research with the Tidewater Initiative by permission of the Director of the Tidewater Initiative. For those in their first semester with the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intersession Winter 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Moby Dick (Brouder)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Literature of the Sea (Nurhussein and\/or Feinsod)<\/strong> AS.060.354 (01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Literature<\/figure>
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This course focuses on great literary documents of seafaring in its historical and environmental aspects. How have seas, sailors, ships and their cargoes helped to shape our imagination and understanding of major events and processes of modernity, such as the encounter with the New World, slavery, industrial capitalism, marine science, the birth of environmental consciousness, and contemporary globalization? How can we discern a history of the \u201ctrackless\u201d oceans, and how do we imagine their future now that \u201c90% of everything\u201d crosses an ocean, and the seas are described as both rising and dying?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spring 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Humanities Research Lab: Port of Call\u2013Baltimore (Feinsod)<\/strong> AS.060.470 (01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Poster<\/figure>
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This course, conducted as a humanities research lab, focuses on the Port of Baltimore and its relation to other world seaports. We explore literary works focused on Baltimore\u2019s harbor, and compare and connect them to works set in other port cities from New York City to the Panama Canal Zone. Alongside this, we study the function of modern ports\u2014their \u201ccritical logistics,\u201d environmental challenges, and roles in creating civic imagination. We\u2019ll conduct field visits at dredge facilities, marine terminals, and sites of postindustrial redevelopment, and we will visit archives that record the changing shape of the port of Baltimore. This is a literature class because our questions are about stories: how do Baltimore and those who live or travel here tell the story of the seaport? What stories are missing? What does it mean to recover them? Answering such questions requires historical and archival methods and observational techniques, so students should bring to the class a spirit of curiosity and openness to collaboration and experimentation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Oceanic Studies & the Black Diaspora (Nurhussein) <\/strong>AS.060.644 (01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this course, we take up Hester Blum\u2019s blunt observation that \u201cthe sea is not a metaphor\u201d in order to consider the visions and hopes black writers have associated with the sea, as well as the despair and trauma transatlantic slavery has left \u201cin the wake,\u201d to quote Christina Sharpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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