featuring Marc Cohen, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, April 2 and 9 "A beautiful novel...quietly breathtaking...Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz’s story … Read more
featuring Marc Cohen, Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, April 2 and 9 "A beautiful novel...quietly breathtaking...Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz’s story … Read more
featuring Radislav Lapushin, Associate Professor of Russian Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, April 16 and 23 "The great 19th-century Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov wrote nearly one thousand stories, a body of work that is unmatched in its alchemy of sensitivity, … Read more
featuring Radislav Lapushin, Associate Professor of Russian Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, April 16 and 23 "The great 19th-century Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov wrote nearly one thousand stories, a body of work that is unmatched in its alchemy of sensitivity, … Read more
featuring Nadia Yaqub, Professor and Chair of Asian Studies Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 14 "Celebrated young Palestinian writer Shibli - a playwright, author and essayist now located in the UK - makes her American debut with an exquisite, powerful novella that … Read more
featuring Nadia Yaqub, Professor and Chair of Asian Studies Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 14 "Celebrated young Palestinian writer Shibli - a playwright, author and essayist now located in the UK - makes her American debut with an exquisite, powerful novella that … Read more
featuring Al Duncan, Assistant Professor of Classics Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, May 21 and 28 "Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of … Read more
featuring Al Duncan, Assistant Professor of Classics Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, May 21 and 28 "Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of … Read more
featuring Hilary Lithgow, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, June 4 and 11 "Considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language"—Encyclopedia Britannica "James Joyce’s supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase … Read more
featuring Hilary Lithgow, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, June 4 and 11 "Considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language"—Encyclopedia Britannica "James Joyce’s supremely innovative fictional autobiography is also, in the apt phrase … Read more
