Laura Nelson

Laura is a lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. As a teacher, scholar, and organizer, she is committed to celebrating and creating sites of study and gathering within and outside institutions. Laura teaches literature, film, cultural and social history, and education. As an instructor in History & Literature, she is teaching a seminar on Radical Education, which considers education as a site of radical imagination, abolition, and worldbuilding. Over the last few years, Laura has been a visiting faculty member at Deep Springs College and Tidelines Institute, where she has taught courses on Reimagining Education and Freedom Dreams, Radical Visions and Otherwise Worlds, and has facilitated study groups and workshops as part of many community-based projects. Her scholarship looks at histories of experiments in education throughout the twentieth century, drawing on social movement history, literary studies, art history, film studies, histories of education, and critical pedagogy. He

Laura is a lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. As a teacher, scholar, and organizer, she is committed to celebrating and creating sites of study and gathering within and outside institutions. Laura teaches literature, film, cultural and social history, and education. As an instructor in History & Literature, she is teaching a seminar on Radical Education, which considers education as a site of radical imagination, abolition, and worldbuilding. Over the last few years, Laura has been a visiting faculty member at Deep Springs College and Tidelines Institute, where she has taught courses