This graduate seminar invites students to ponder love in its many iterations: as an ineffable sensation, a structure of feeling, a mode ofrelation, a political charge, an ethical commitment, a psychosocial propensity, a metaphysical force, a spiritual calling, an engine of human history, an elemental substance, a radical gift, and more. Together, we will consult critical theory, philosophy, social psychology, fiction, poetry,cinema, music, and love letters as we consider love's nature, features, uses, and consequences. The curriculum emphasizes B/black and queer love.