We can’t all have summer vacation, but we can imagine one. This is an invitation to do some grown-up summer reading and travel through imagined haunted geographies.

This course is for you if you want a more-than-book club built on resonance, some theory, and a hunger for more than “I liked it”. If you enjoy talking and thinking through literature with others, through a queer lens, and experimenting with embodied approaches to ways of reading, writing, and engaging with material, this is for you.

(or you just want to talk about books with Kate Holden and other cool people?)

In this course, employing queer theory and spectrality studies and a ghostly, haunted ethos, we engage with themes, theories, and literary works that engage with varied settings and evocations of haunting. Readings will be sent each week the start of the course:

• The Haunted City: Have I been here before?

• Ruins and Wrecks: sites and afterlives

• Strangers, Outsiders, and Strange Lands: Ghostly Travels or Camus and You

• Otherworlds and Underworlds: Beyond, below, and betwixt worlds

• Haunting and personal cartography: the impossible and imagined maps

• Liminal spaces: Terminals and Terminality, and (un)ending

The first half of our session is devoted to watching a recorded talk (optional to do before the session) and/or engaging with a creative prompt, and the second half is devoted to discussion.

We meet Saturdays, 27 June-1 August 2026

• 10 PM – 12 AM Malaysia

• 3 PM – 5 PM UK

• 10 AM – 12 PM EST

• 9 - 11 AM CST

• 7 AM- 9 AM PST

Tuition Sliding Scale:

Unable to make ends meet: email me for a free spot
Struggling to make ends meet: $100
Making ends meet: $120
Making ends meet comfortably: $180
Living comfortably: $220

No one turned away for lack of funds.

I hope to see you through the invisible, ghostly World Wide Web.