WINTER 2025 • COURSES
Aristophanes, Huck / James, Ovid

Ancients (Aristophanes, Ovid) and Moderns (Twain, Everett)

Over Winter 2025, I’ll be offering three private online courses. Two are devoted to ancient classics, one featuring Aristophanes’s comedies and one featuring selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The third juxtaposes a modern classic (Twain’s Huckleberry Finn) with an even more modern reply (Percival Everett’s James). The courses can be taken individually or as a series. Continue reading

JUNE 2024 • COURSES
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2024 is the 50th anniversary (#ZMM50) of the publication of Robert Pirsig's ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE.

2024 is #ZMM50 #ZMM50th!

2024 is the 50th anniversary (#ZMM50 #ZMM50th) of the publication of Robert Pirsig’s modern classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. As part of the nationwide commemoration of this milestone, this summer I will be teaching two related online courses that can be taken independently or together. Continue reading

2 JUL 2021 • LECTURE
Home Front, War Front: “Mrs. Miniver” and “Scarlett O’Hara” as the Interpretive Keys to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

On Friday, 2 July 2021 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture online. My topic will be:

Home Front, War Front:
“Mrs. Miniver” and “Scarlett O’Hara” as the Interpretive Keys to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

The lecture is free and open to the public.

 

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2 AUG 2019 • LECTURE
The White Man’s Peril: Heart of Darkness as Conrad’s Reply to Kipling

On Friday, 2 August 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:

The White Man’s Peril:
Heart of Darkness as
Conrad’s Reply to Kipling

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7 SEP 2018 • LECTURE
The Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms

On Friday, 7 September 2018 12:15–1:15 pm, I will be giving the Basic Program First Friday Lecture at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets). My topic will be:

The Use and Abuse of Gustavus Vassa; Or, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano on Its Own Terms

The lecture is free and open to the public.

 


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