I'm honored to be teaching alongside my friend Brian Kurlander this semester, approaching Hamlet from many perspectives. … [Read more]
Summer, 2020: Hamlet with Emeritus Faculty
As I followed my Emeritus College colleagues reading Hamlet, I was moved by their presence. Each of these colleagues personalized the play for me -- made the Ghost touchable, nuanced the personality of Hamlet, raised up the poignancy of Ophelia. … [Read more]
Spring, 2020: From Archives to Zoom
Our semester began in a familiar pattern of socratic classes, poetry readings, faculty meetings, writing, theater productions, and events -- with a special emphasis on transcribing early modern texts for my literature students in English 255. I'm … [Read more]
Fall, 2019: Human Rights and Human Dignity
Join us for a conversation with two Atlanta visionaries who have transformed their communities: October 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m. in Williams Hall. Special guest Judge Horace Johnson. Sandra Barnhill is an attorney, founder, and national president of … [Read more]
Spring, 2019: British Literature from Beowulf to David Mitchell
This semester I will be teaching the entire canon of British Literature, from about 900-2014. I cannot imagine a greater professional privilege. English 255 surveys medieval and early modern literature, covering Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury … [Read more]
Fall, 2018: Justice and Literature
This semester, Oxford students are reading Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy and have the opportunity to hear him speak along with Anthony Ray Hinton, whom Stevenson helped to exhonerate. My Shakespeare students are thus reading Shakespeare through the … [Read more]