Classes Taught

Nick Montfort

• 21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846: Computational and Experimental Writing Workshop

  Spring 2025 (current offering, with a computational emphasis)

• 21W.771: Advanced Poetry Workshop

  Spring 2025 (current offering)

• 21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.618 / CMS.845: Interactive Narrative

  Fall 2023 (most recent offering)
  I have also taught this course many other times, from Fall 2008 through Fall 2021.

• Older MIT and Other Classes, No Longer Offered

  • 21W.750: Experimental Writing: Fall 2023 (final offering)
    I also taught this many other times, from Spring 2010 through Fall 2021. Note that this subject is now 21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846: Computational and Experimental Writing Workshop, which will have a different emphasis each year and can be repeated for credit.
  • 21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846: The Word Made Digital: Fall 2022 (final offering under this title)
    I also taught this many other times, from Spring 2008 through Spring 2018. Note that this subject is now 21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846: Computational and Experimental Writing Workshop (new title), which will have a different emphasis each year and can be repeated for credit.
  • 21W.784: Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change: Fall 2011
  • CMS.796: Major Media Texts: Fall 2020. No longer offered after MIT’s closure of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program.
  • CMS.844: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities: It is unlikely I will offer this again after MIT’s closure of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program. The textbook for the course, which is suited to individual study, is in its second edition and available in three free digital formats. Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021
  • CMS.950: Comparative Media Studies Workshop I: Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2011. No longer offered after MIT’s closure of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program.
  • CMS 951: Comparative Media Studies Workshop II: Spring 2008, Spring 2013. No longer offered after MIT’s closure of the Comparative Media Studies graduate program.
• School for Poetic Computation
  (I don’t plan to offer other courses through SFPC.)
  • Summer 2015: Small Poetry Machines
  • Summer 2016: Code and Platform
  • Fall 2017: Small Machines
  • Summer 2018: Code Words (a session I organized; I taught Day 1)
• The New School
  (I don’t plan to offer other courses at The New School.)
  • Spring 2015: NMDS 5444 Exploratory Programming