Brill-Noether theory on curves is the classical study of linear series on curves: essentially, maps of curves to projective space. On a smooth compact curve X of genus g, the Brill-Noether variety G^r_d(X) parametrizes linear series on X of rank r and degree d. I will discuss a joint project with Alberto Lopez Martin, Nathan Pflueger, and Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas, in which we use combinatorics related to Buch’s set-valued tableaux, along with Osserman’s machinery of degenerations to Eisenbud-Harris schemes of limit linear series, to give a formula for the genus of G^r_d when it is itself a curve. I’ll also report on recent work related to this result, including new algorithms for set-valued tableaux of skew shape.