History and Humanities
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- March 5, 2019
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- Tuesday Morning Booktalks
Tuesday Morning Booktalks
Summary
Join other book lovers for exciting discussions of world literature. Extensive handouts provided. Section 1 – Pulitzer Prizes 2018: Less, a Novel by Andrew Sean Greer – Mar 5 (Emily Auerbach); The Cost of Living by Martyna Majok – Mar 12 (Emily Auerbach); and Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. – Mar 26 (Emily Auerbach). Section 2 – Europe in Transition: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque – Apr 9 (Sage Goellner); The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera – Apr 23 (Kevin Mullen); and Exit West by Moshin Hamid – Apr 30 (Sage Goellner and Kevin Mullen).
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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 – Pulitzer Prizes 2018: Less, a Novel by Andrew Sean Greer – Mar 5 (Emily Auerbach); The Cost of Living by Martyna Majok – Mar 12 (Emily Auerbach); and Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. – Mar 26 (Emily Auerbach). Section 2 – Europe in Transition: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque – Apr 9 (Sage Goellner); The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera – Apr 23 (Kevin Mullen); and Exit West by Moshin Hamid – Apr 30 (Sage Goellner and Kevin Mullen).
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Details
Need scholarship assistance? Please contact Emily Auerbach at 608-262-3733.
Earn Credit Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
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Upcoming Dates
Register by phone: 608-262-2451
Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Mar 5-Apr 30, 9:30-11am (No class Mar 19, Apr 2 & 16)
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.
SAGE GOELLNER
SAGE GOELLNER (PhD, UW-Madison) is an assistant professor of French and directs Continuing Studies programs in French. She has taught French language and culture for over 20 years, has lived in France, and enjoys sharing her interest in French and Francophone cultures with students.
Sage Goellner is an assistant professor of French and Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs French programs for the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies. She grew up in northern Wisconsin and earned her PhD at the UW-Madison. In the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies, she works with non-traditional students and lifelong learners in continuing adult classes and online courses, teaching a variety of French language, culture, and literature classes. As a part of her outreach efforts, she is also editor-in-chief of France Synergies, a worldwide educational resource for teachers of French. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Department of French and Italian.
Dr. Goellner has lived and studied in several Francophone regions, including Ile-de-France (Paris), Haute-Corse (Ajaccio), Provence (Avignon), Auvergne (Le Puy-en-Velay), and Quebec (Montreal and Quebec City). She has also guided educational travel trips to Aquitaine, Burgundy, and Quebec.
Her area of research focuses on the relationship between France and the Maghreb, and she is completing a book about literary representations of the French colonization of Algeria. She is an active member of Women in French (WIF), the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), and the Modern Language Association (MLA). She is interested in 19-century French colonial literature, travel literature, and women’s writing.
When not working, Professor Goellner enjoys all things French, and also gardening, yoga, ballet, and spending time with her family.
KEVIN MULLEN
KEVIN MULLEN (PhD, UW-Madison) is the associate director of the UW Odyssey Project. He has taught writing for more than 10 years. At many events, he assumes the moniker of the Writing Doctor and helps writers with a range of ailments.
Fee
1-2 sessions, $14 each | 3-5 sessions, $12 each | All 6 sessions, $10 each
Location
Madison Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI
Earn Credit Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
View the explanation of credit hours
Questions?
Contact:- Emily Auerbach
- emily.auerbach@wisc.edu
- 608-262-3733
Continuing Studies FAQs
Cancellation Policy:
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
Our cancellation policy varies by type of program. View our policies page for more details about cancelling a program.
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.
SAGE GOELLNER
SAGE GOELLNER (PhD, UW-Madison) is an assistant professor of French and directs Continuing Studies programs in French. She has taught French language and culture for over 20 years, has lived in France, and enjoys sharing her interest in French and Francophone cultures with students.
Sage Goellner is an assistant professor of French and Continuing Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs French programs for the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies. She grew up in northern Wisconsin and earned her PhD at the UW-Madison. In the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies, she works with non-traditional students and lifelong learners in continuing adult classes and online courses, teaching a variety of French language, culture, and literature classes. As a part of her outreach efforts, she is also editor-in-chief of France Synergies, a worldwide educational resource for teachers of French. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Department of French and Italian.
Dr. Goellner has lived and studied in several Francophone regions, including Ile-de-France (Paris), Haute-Corse (Ajaccio), Provence (Avignon), Auvergne (Le Puy-en-Velay), and Quebec (Montreal and Quebec City). She has also guided educational travel trips to Aquitaine, Burgundy, and Quebec.
Her area of research focuses on the relationship between France and the Maghreb, and she is completing a book about literary representations of the French colonization of Algeria. She is an active member of Women in French (WIF), the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), and the Modern Language Association (MLA). She is interested in 19-century French colonial literature, travel literature, and women’s writing.
When not working, Professor Goellner enjoys all things French, and also gardening, yoga, ballet, and spending time with her family.
KEVIN MULLEN
KEVIN MULLEN (PhD, UW-Madison) is the associate director of the UW Odyssey Project. He has taught writing for more than 10 years. At many events, he assumes the moniker of the Writing Doctor and helps writers with a range of ailments.
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Upcoming Dates
March 5 - April 30, 2019
4107-19-LSA
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Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Mar 5-Apr 30, 9:30-11am (No class Mar 19, Apr 2 & 16)
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Fee
1-2 sessions, $14 each | 3-5 sessions, $12 each | All 6 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 about this program?
Contact:- 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
4106-19-LAAS
Schedule
6 weeks; Tue, Sept 11–Oct 23, 9:30-11am (No class Oct 2)
Instructor(s)
MARSHALL COOK
EMILY AUERBACH
KEVIN MULLEN
Location
Madison Public Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, WI