LITERATURE

Journeying with Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man

(Darryl Lorenzo Wellington)

Examine the themes of invisibility, double consciousness, and the approaches of African American humor, satire, and code-switching that culminate in The Invisible Man, with Santa Fe’s newest Poet Laureate.

Bloomsbury’s London: Howards End and Mrs. Dalloway

(Ed Walkiewicz)

Explore the various strategies and techniques that “Bloomsbury Group” members E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf used to depict and critique London in their superb novels Howards End and Mrs. Dalloway.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(Stephen Bellon)

Enter Shakespeare’s primeval world of the forest, where, thanks to the mischief of Oberon and Titania, danger, confusion, and enchantment rule, and conventionality holds no sway.

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s: New Voices, New Visions

(Gregory Jay)

Together we will examine the roots of many contemporary cultural issues and discuss how learning about the Harlem Renaissance can reframe today’s debates.

The Super-Sad, True Story of the Mythic Brontë Family

(Randy Perazzini)

How the brilliant, tragic Brontë sisters came to write their famous books is a story stranger than fiction and as gripping as any of their novels.

Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and

Its Messages for Today

(Sally D. Trigg)

Wharton’s masterful, almost-perfect novel tells a quietly devastating story of status, desire, marriage, independence, and commitment.

Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin

(Robert Glick)

Discover why Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin, which Dostoyevsky called “that immortal and unequaled poem,” is a masterpiece in a class with the greatest works of world literature.