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The Steppenwolf and All Quiet on the Western Front: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series

With Kurt Beals

Thursday, March 6th at 1 p.m. ET

Join 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.

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Passing and Quicksand: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series

With Carla Kaplan

Thursday, March 27th at 4 p.m. ET

Join editor Carla Kaplan (Northeastern University) for a discussion of why Nella Larsen's novels have endured as often taught and read works in the decades following the peak of the Harlem Renaissance! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professor Kaplan. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, and Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (forthcoming). She is also editor of Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States and Dark Symphony and Other Works by Elizabeth Laura Adams.

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The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Norton Critical Edition Speakers Series

With Michael Patrick Gillespie

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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.

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Norton Critical Editions Speakers Series: My Ántonia and O Pioneers!

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.

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Past Events

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