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With Michael Patrick Gillespie
Friday, February 14th at 1 p.m. ET
Join Professor Michael Patrick Gillespie (Florida International University) on the anniversary of The Importance of Being Earnest's West End premiere for a discussion of Oscar Wilde's drama, prose, and why his varied works have endured in classrooms around the world!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Gillespie.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE is Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity, Branding Oscar Wilde, The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Inverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library, Reading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaos, The Myth of an Irish Cinema, James Joyce and the Exilic Imagination, Reading William Kennedy, and Film Appreciation through Genres. His other edited works include the Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest, James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity, and Joyce through the Ages: A Non-Linear View.
With Kurt Beals
Thursday, March 6th at 1 p.m. ET
JJoin translator and editor Kurt Beals for a discussion of why these two famous German novels have endured as often taught and read works in classrooms around the world!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Kurt Beals.
Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
KURT BEALS is visiting associate professor of German and Humanities Fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He has translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, Reiner Stach, Regina Ullmann, and Anja Utler, among others. He lives in Virginia.
With Sharon O'Brien
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Join Sharon O'Brien (Dickinson College), editor of My Ántonia and O Pioneers!, for a discussion of why Willa Cather's works have endured as often taught and read works in classrooms around the world! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor O'Brien. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
With Albert J. Rivero
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Join Professor Albert J. Rivero for a discussion around Daniel Defoe's classic novel, Moll Flanders, and why he and his works have endured in classrooms over generations! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Rivero. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
ALBERT J. RIVERO is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University. He has published widely on the literature of the British long eighteenth century. His most recent publication is Daniel Defoe in Context (coedited with George Justice). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver’s Travels.
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