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Fall 2014: Shakespeare
“Springes to catch woodcocks…” This course will examine three of Shakespeare’s plays (a comedy, a tragedy, and a history) through the lens of authenticity and identity. Shakespeare lived in a time...
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Spring 2015: The Violence of the Law
Mass incarceration, police brutality, torture, and botched executions raise questions about the violence of the law: Must the law be violent to control violence? Does the law’s violence promote...
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Fall 2015: Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare’s plays explore concerns about “faking it”: the anxious feeling people have about the authenticity of their social interactions. This course will examine three of Shakespeare’s...
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Spring 2016: John Milton’s Paradise Lost
William Blake, Satan Watching Endearments of Adam and Eve. 1816. For 350 years, John Milton’s Paradise Lost has awed, angered, and inspired its readers. It’s a poem of enormous ambition and profound...
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Summer 2016: Shakespeare & Law
Shakespeare’s lines reverberate not only on stages, movie screens, and in classrooms, but also in courtrooms: he has been cited in more than 800 judicial opinions. This course will explore three of...
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Fall 2016: Shakespeare’s First Folio
Seven years after William Shakespeare died, one of the world’s most important books was published: a collection of thirty-six plays that we now call the “First Folio.” Without the First Folio, we...
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Spring 2017: Shakespeare, Law, and Violence
“Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare, humanity installs each of its violences in a...
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Fall, 2017: Oxford College of Emory University
I’m looking forward to visiting at Emory Oxford this academic year to teach William Shakespeare, Critical Reading and Writing, and John Milton.
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Spring, 2018: John Milton’s Poetry and Prose
Folger Shakespeare Library Since 1667, John Milton’s Paradise Lost has awed, angered, and inspired readers. It’s a poem of enormous ambition and profound beauty, one that novelists, classical...
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Summer, 2018: A Trim Reckoning
Tom Hanks as Falstaff, photo by Craig Schwartz In addition to running a hundred miles through Yosemite Valley with my family, hiking the Appalachian Trail for two weeks, and teaching at the prison,...
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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...
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Spring, 2019: British Literature from Beowulf to David Mitchell
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) This semester I will be teaching the entire canon of British Literature, from about 900-2014. I cannot imagine a...
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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. An OxStudies Event! Sandra Barnhill is an attorney,...
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Fall, 2016: Shakespeare’s First Folio
Seven years after William Shakespeare died, one of the world’s most important books was published: a collection of thirty-six plays that we now call the “First Folio.” Without the First Folio, we...
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Spring, 2017: Shakespeare, Law, and Violence
“Humanity does not gradually progress from combat to combat until it arrives at universal reciprocity, where the rule of law finally replaces warfare, humanity installs each of its violences in a...
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Fall, 2017: Oxford College of Emory University
I’m looking forward to visiting at Emory Oxford this academic year to teach William Shakespeare, Critical Reading and Writing, and John Milton.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring, 2018: John Milton’s Poetry and Prose
Folger Shakespeare Library Since 1667, John Milton’s Paradise Lost has awed, angered, and inspired readers. It’s a poem of enormous ambition and profound beauty, one that novelists, classical...
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Summer, 2018: A Trim Reckoning
Tom Hanks as Falstaff, photo by Craig Schwartz In addition to running a hundred miles through Yosemite Valley with my family, hiking the Appalachian Trail for two weeks, and teaching at the prison,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
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