Join the Rosenbach’s Director of Outreach & Engagement, Dr. Alexander Lawrence Ames, and fellow members on a literary voyage exploring the Rosenbach’s new, thought-provoking permanent exhibition gallery, Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland.
Enjoy cider and donuts before embarking on a behind-the-scenes look at Treasures from the Rosenbach’s Collection: Literature of Great Britain & Ireland with exhibition curator Dr. Alexander Lawrence Ames, Director of Outreach & Engagement.
This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.
Kermit Roosevelt explores the America the Founders designed, and the America that came to be, through documents and books in the Rosenbach’s American history collection.
Venture boldly into Bram Stoker’s handwritten notes as we explore what it took to create this (almost) inexorable villain.
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.
The first three stories of Dubliners were published in a newspaper, and the author was identified as “Stephen Dedalus.” What would it mean to regard these stories as written by Stephen, the character based on James Joyce’s younger self?
Join the Rosenbach for a spine-chilling live presentation, as Josh Hitchens and a group of actors recreate Orson Welles’s thrilling radio show, complete with live sound effects.
As the Rosenbach and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation prepare to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, we are pleased to offer a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse into the complex history of Jefferson’s famed plantation estate and the libraries he built and enjoyed there.
Join us in commemorating the 80th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges’s groundbreaking work, Fictions (1944-2024). Explore the profound impact of Borges, a towering figure in 20th century literature, whose works revolutionized modern fiction and scientific thought.