Reading Austen’s Emma with Juliette Wells | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 3, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 17, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • May 1, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • May 15, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Austen, an inventive writer beginning in her teenage years, knew well what it was like to aspire to more than women were supposed to and to face hard choices about balancing creative work and family obligations. We will read and discuss Emma in relation to Austen’s life and career, her involvement in the publication of her novels, and the critical praise her works received during and after her lifetime. 

Reading The Satanic Verses with Randy Boyagoda | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 4, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • April 25, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 16, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 6, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Registration Tuition for this course is $250. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected] Registration opens (more…)

[SOLD OUT] In-Person Course | Reading Ulysses at The Rosenbach with Jean-Michel Rabaté

Date / Time

  • April 5, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • May 10, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  • June 7, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Registration Tuition for this course is $450. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 17 years of age or older. This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach that requires proof of vaccination.  Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. (more…)

Reading Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying with Carl Rollyson | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 6, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • April 20, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 4, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 18, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 1, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 15, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

How Faulkner came to write this novel, why he chose a narrative method and style so unlike the work of writers like John Steinbeck and Erskine Caldwell, who created similar characters, will be the focus of this course. 

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

Date / Time

  • April 11, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Registration Tuition for this course is $300. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 18 years of age or older. This is a virtual program held over Zoom. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, (more…)

[IN PROGRESS] Virtual Course | Learning Ulysses Online with Robert Berry

Date / Time

  • April 12, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 3, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 31, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Registration Tuition for this course is $450. 10% off for Rosenbach members and the Delancey Society. Not a member? Learn more. This course is limited to participants who are 17 years of age or older. This is a virtual program held over Zoom. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, (more…)

Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way with Rebecca Goldner | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 13, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 27, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 18, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 1, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, “Swann’s Way” begins in a half-awake, half-dreaming state that leads our narrator to reflect on his childhood in Combray, culminating in the now-famous madeleine episode. This class will be a guided discussion: the teacher will offer questions and passages for focus but will allow the class to discuss the text at hand for the majority of our time together, giving participants the opportunity to share their thoughts, questions and reflections in conversation.

Emily Dickinson in the Garden with Travis Foster | In-Person Course

Date / Time

  • April 15, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • April 29, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 13, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 3, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

. In this class, we’ll assess these contemporary suggestions, while also trying to navigate those of Dickinson’s thinking, writing, and imagining that cannot be summed through contemporary categorization. We will study Dickinson’s biography, her letters, and her historical context. Above all, though, we’ll devote careful, slow attention to her poems, thinking together about how their form and content collaborate to present us with something that to this day remains strikingly—breathtakingly—Dickinson’s own.