Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, allows instructors to submit requests for course readings to a supporting Harvard library.                                     

The Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies, offered by the Bureau of Study Counsel, is open to all Harvard students who want to practice strategies in reading purposefully.     

Whether instructors are interested in experimenting with literature-based learning in one course module or an entire curriculum, Sandra Sucher’s Teaching the Moral Leader is a practical guide, available through the Harvard Library and where books are sold.

Researchers demonstrated that reading fiction plays a role in enhancing readers' social cognition by activating the default network, known to support capacity to simulate hypothetical scenes, spaces and mental states.