"The Spirit and the Psyche: Spiritualism, Symbolism, and Surrealism," taught by Mellon Postdoc Fellow Rachel Oberter, introduces students to the art of automatic drawing. In the mid 19th and early 20th centuries, many artists were intrigued by automatic drawing, artworks purportedly created through involuntary motions of the hand, often in a trance-like state, and without the interference of reason. Now, Rachel Oberter, the Hurford Humanities Center's 2008-10 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, hopes to interest 21st-century students in this phenomenon.