History and Humanities
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- September 17, 2019
- History and Humanities
- Tuesday Morning Booktalks
Tuesday Morning Booktalks
Summary
Join other book lovers for exciting discussions of world literature. Extensive handouts provided.
Section 1 (led by Emily Auerbach): Wisconsin’s Own Edna Ferber
September 17: Edna Ferber, So Big (Pulitzer Prize, 1924)
September 24: Edna Ferber, Showboat (1926)
October 1: Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, A Stage Door (1936)
Section 2 (led by Kevin Mullen): Rebuilding Community: Three Postwar Novels
October 15: Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
October 22: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956)
October 29: Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees (1957)
Need scholarship assistance?
Please contact Emily Auerbach at 608-262-3733.
Join other book lovers for exciting discussions of world literature. Extensive handouts provided.
Section 1 (led by Emily Auerbach): Wisconsin’s Own Edna Ferber
September 17: Edna Ferber, So Big (Pulitzer Prize, 1924)
September 24: Edna Ferber, Showboat (1926)
October 1: Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, A Stage Door (1936)
Section 2 (led by Kevin Mullen): Rebuilding Community: Three Postwar Novels
October 15: Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
October 22: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956)
October 29: Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees (1957)
Need scholarship assistance?
Please contact Emily Auerbach at 608-262-3733.
Earn Credit Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
Continuing Education Hours
9
Continuing Education Units, CEU
.9
Upcoming Dates
Register by phone: 608-262-2451
Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Sep 17-Oct 29, 9:30-11am
(no class Oct 8)
Instructor(s)
EMILY AUERBACH
EMILY AUERBACH (PhD, Univ. of Washington) is a professor of English, the director of the life-changing UW Odyssey Project, odyssey.wisc.edu, and co-host of Wisconsin Public Radio's University of the Air. She teaches Tuesday Morning Booktalks at the downtown library and coordinates Eloquence and Eminence: Emeritus Faculty Lectures.
Emily Auerbach is an award-winning English Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She serves as Project Director of the UW Odyssey Project, a free, life-changing college humanities course for low-income adults. In addition, Emily Auerbach is co-host of University of the Air, a one-hour program broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Radio on Sundays from 4-5 PM featuring interviews with faculty in a variety of disciplines. She is the Project Director of the “Courage to Write” series of radio documentaries and written guides on women writers.
Emily Auerbach’s most recent book is entitled Searching for Jane Austen. International scholar and novelist Margaret Drabble calls the book “a witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today’s readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer” and observes, “Emily Auerbach’s approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner.”
Emily reaches hundreds of thousands of nontraditional students through lectures and book discussions at public libraries, Elderhostels, prisons, retirement centers, schools, and service clubs as well as through courses taught through the mail and online. Over 4,000 people attended “Jane Austen in the 21st Century,” a 40-event festival she directed for the UW Center for the Humanities. This interdisciplinary festival was honored with the 2001 Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Emily has received numerous other teaching, broadcasting, arts, and humanitarian awards for her work, including the Robert Gard Wisconsin Idea Award, the Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award, the Underkofler Distinguished Teaching Award, the Bartell Arts Award, and the Ohio State Broadcasting Award.
Fee
$14 per session | 3-5 sessions, $12 each | All six sessions, $10 each
Location
Madison Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison WI
Earn Credit Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
Questions?
Registration:Questions about this program:
- Emily Auerbach
- emily.auerbach@wisc.edu
- 608-262-3733
Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
Continuing Studies FAQs
Have Questions?
Contact:- Emily Auerbach
- emily.auerbach@wisc.edu
- 608-262-3733
EMILY AUERBACH
EMILY AUERBACH (PhD, Univ. of Washington) is a professor of English, the director of the life-changing UW Odyssey Project, odyssey.wisc.edu, and co-host of Wisconsin Public Radio's University of the Air. She teaches Tuesday Morning Booktalks at the downtown library and coordinates Eloquence and Eminence: Emeritus Faculty Lectures.
Emily Auerbach is an award-winning English Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She serves as Project Director of the UW Odyssey Project, a free, life-changing college humanities course for low-income adults. In addition, Emily Auerbach is co-host of University of the Air, a one-hour program broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Radio on Sundays from 4-5 PM featuring interviews with faculty in a variety of disciplines. She is the Project Director of the “Courage to Write” series of radio documentaries and written guides on women writers.
Emily Auerbach’s most recent book is entitled Searching for Jane Austen. International scholar and novelist Margaret Drabble calls the book “a witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today’s readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer” and observes, “Emily Auerbach’s approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner.”
Emily reaches hundreds of thousands of nontraditional students through lectures and book discussions at public libraries, Elderhostels, prisons, retirement centers, schools, and service clubs as well as through courses taught through the mail and online. Over 4,000 people attended “Jane Austen in the 21st Century,” a 40-event festival she directed for the UW Center for the Humanities. This interdisciplinary festival was honored with the 2001 Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Emily has received numerous other teaching, broadcasting, arts, and humanitarian awards for her work, including the Robert Gard Wisconsin Idea Award, the Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award, the Underkofler Distinguished Teaching Award, the Bartell Arts Award, and the Ohio State Broadcasting Award.
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Upcoming Dates
September 17 - October 29, 2019
4105-20-LSA
Register by phone: 608-262-2451
Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Sep 17-Oct 29, 9:30-11am
(no class Oct 8)
Instructor(s)
EMILY AUERBACH
EMILY AUERBACH (PhD, Univ. of Washington) is a professor of English, the director of the life-changing UW Odyssey Project, odyssey.wisc.edu, and co-host of Wisconsin Public Radio's University of the Air. She teaches Tuesday Morning Booktalks at the downtown library and coordinates Eloquence and Eminence: Emeritus Faculty Lectures.
Emily Auerbach is an award-winning English Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She serves as Project Director of the UW Odyssey Project, a free, life-changing college humanities course for low-income adults. In addition, Emily Auerbach is co-host of University of the Air, a one-hour program broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Radio on Sundays from 4-5 PM featuring interviews with faculty in a variety of disciplines. She is the Project Director of the “Courage to Write” series of radio documentaries and written guides on women writers.
Emily Auerbach’s most recent book is entitled Searching for Jane Austen. International scholar and novelist Margaret Drabble calls the book “a witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today’s readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer” and observes, “Emily Auerbach’s approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner.”
Emily reaches hundreds of thousands of nontraditional students through lectures and book discussions at public libraries, Elderhostels, prisons, retirement centers, schools, and service clubs as well as through courses taught through the mail and online. Over 4,000 people attended “Jane Austen in the 21st Century,” a 40-event festival she directed for the UW Center for the Humanities. This interdisciplinary festival was honored with the 2001 Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Emily has received numerous other teaching, broadcasting, arts, and humanitarian awards for her work, including the Robert Gard Wisconsin Idea Award, the Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award, the Underkofler Distinguished Teaching Award, the Bartell Arts Award, and the Ohio State Broadcasting Award.
Fee
$14 per session | 3-5 sessions, $12 each | All six sessions, $10 each
Location
Madison Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI
Earn Credit Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
Questions?
Registration:Questions about this program:
- Emily Auerbach
- emily.auerbach@wisc.edu
- 608-262-3733
Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
- Emily Auerbach
- emily.auerbach@wisc.edu
- 608-262-3733
Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
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Previous Class
4107-19-LSA
Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Mar 5-Apr 30, 9:30-11am (No class Mar 19, Apr 2 & 16)
Instructor(s)
EMILY AUERBACH
SAGE GOELLNER
KEVIN MULLEN
Location
Madison Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI