[SOLD OUT] Reading Moby-Dick with Hester Blum | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • January 8, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • February 12, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 19, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 9, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.

[SOLD OUT] Reading Ulysses with Michael Barsanti

Date / Time

  • January 12, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • February 9, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • March 9, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • April 13, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 11, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 8, 2025
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

To read James Joyce’s masterpiece together and have fun doing it, with freewheeling discussion, amusing and brief digressions, penetrating insights, mind-opening questions, and occasional singing.

Reading Dracula with Edward G. Pettit | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • January 23, 2025
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • February 6, 2025
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • February 20, 2025
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • March 6, 2025
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • March 20, 2025
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

We’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.

Ulysses Weekly with Robert Berry | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • February 6, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • February 13, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • February 20, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • February 27, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 6, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 13, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 20, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 27, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 3, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 10, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 17, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 24, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 1, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 8, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 15, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 22, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 29, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 5, 2025
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work. For those returning to the novel, this will be a great way to delve even deeper into a book whose depths never seem to end.