Classes Taught

Nick Montfort

• 21W.750: Experimental Writing

  Fall 2023 (current offering)
  I have also taught this course many other times, from Spring 2010 through Fall 2021.

• 21W.764J / CMS.609J / CMS.846: The Word Made Digital

  Fall 2022 (most recent offering)
  I have also taught this course many other times, from Spring 2008 through Spring 2018.

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

  Fall 2023 (current 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.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