[In Progress] Why We Still Read (and Sing!) Robert Burns with Steve Newman | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • March 19, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 26, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

On the evening of January 25th, people from Edinburgh to Shanghai to Philadelphia gather to toast “the immortal memory” of Robert Burns. For he is not only Scotland’s national poet, his work has also been translated into Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Esperanto, and a host of other languages. To discover the range and depth of work that established Burns as a poet of global significance, we will dive into a great deal of his poetry and a bit of his prose, drawing significantly on one of the world’s finest collections of his works: the Rosenbach’s.

[In Progress] Ulysses Weekly with Robert Berry | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • March 21, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • March 28, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 4, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 11, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 18, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 25, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 2, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 9, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 16, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 23, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 30, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 6, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • June 13, 2024
    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.

Sherlock Mondays

Date / Time

  • March 25, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 1, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 8, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 15, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 22, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Rosenbach’s new Biblioventure series will focus on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. We’re taking a deep-dive into the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. John Watson, as they battle the criminal forces of London.

[SOLD OUT!] Reading Virginia Woolf with Dr. Sean Hughes | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • March 27, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 10, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 24, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In this course, we’ll explore Woolf’s wisdom about human character and history while enjoying her glorious prose. We’ll read A Room of One’s Own, a selection of her shorter writings, and To the Lighthouse, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Each session will include some relevant background, but our discussions will be guided by the interests of participants. Likely topics will include memory, gender, literary history, food, psychology, power, sexuality, family, artistic ambition, and loss.

David Copperfield through 21st Century Eyes with Juliette Wells | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • April 9, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 23, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • April 30, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 14, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 28, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead takes inspiration from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in order to tell the gripping story of a boy growing up in Appalachia who is deeply affected by the opioid epidemic. Kingsolver has emphasized in interviews that you don’t need to read David Copperfield in order to understand Demon Copperhead. You’ll appreciate Kingsolver’s artistry even more, however, if you first acquaint yourself with, or refresh your memory of, Dickens’s beloved Bildungsroman (a novel that focuses on its main character’s education and development).

Pickwick Monthly (online)

Date / Time

  • April 20, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • May 18, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • June 22, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • July 20, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • August 17, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • September 21, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • October 19, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us for a monthly journey through Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first serialized novel written by  Dickens and was published in 20 monthly parts (2-3 chapters per month) from March 1836-October 1837. Edward G. Pettit and a rotating set of Dickensian cohosts will talk about (more…)

Magical Realism Unveiled: A Journey Through One Hundred Years of Solitude with Luciano Martinez | Virtual Course

Date / Time

  • May 1, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 8, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 15, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 22, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • May 29, 2024
    6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In this course, we delve into the profound impact of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), authored by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), widely hailed by Yale literary scholar Harold Bloom as “the new Don Quixote.”

Sherlock Mondays: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Date / Time

  • May 6, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 13, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 20, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • May 27, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 3, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 10, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 17, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  • June 24, 2024
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

We’re continuing our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure with a special subscriber-only show for eight episodes. Join us as we take a Biblioventure to Dartmoor where a strange diabolical hound haunts the moors, preying upon the heirs of Baskerville Hall. What will the logically reasoning Sherlock Holmes do when faced with a supernatural creature?