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Amy Thomas Elder and<br />
Charles Elder<br />
Ms. Thomas Elder holds degrees in<br />
biology, classics, and the study <strong>of</strong><br />
religion. She teaches in and directs<br />
the Odyssey Project, an Illinois<br />
Humanities Council program<br />
providing a college humanities<br />
course to adults living on low<br />
incomes. Mr. Elder holds a PhD from<br />
the Divinity <strong>School</strong> at the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Chicago. His particular interests<br />
are philosophy, social and cultural<br />
theory, and issues <strong>of</strong> modernity.<br />
Course Code BPURTW<br />
Section 12U1<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Gleacher Center<br />
$190 Early registration ends June 13<br />
$220 Regular registration<br />
Thursdays<br />
June 21–July 12<br />
10 am–1:15 pm<br />
Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 12<br />
Please read the opening chapter,<br />
“Economy,” for the first meeting.<br />
(Note: we will use the Shanley<br />
edition, published by Princeton<br />
University Press, but any edition is<br />
acceptable.)<br />
The Early Sleuths:<br />
19th-Century Detective<br />
Fiction<br />
Many <strong>of</strong> us are avid readers <strong>of</strong><br />
detective fiction, but where did this<br />
popular genre begin? In this class,<br />
we will read some <strong>of</strong> the world’s<br />
great pioneering detective novels,<br />
including such early 19th-century<br />
writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie<br />
Collins (The Moonstone), and<br />
Charles Dickens (The Mystery<br />
<strong>of</strong> Edwin Drood). And we will, <strong>of</strong><br />
course, also explore some <strong>of</strong> the<br />
best Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir<br />
Arthur Conan Doyle, including The<br />
Hound <strong>of</strong> the Baskervilles.<br />
Cynthia Rutz<br />
Ms. Rutz is pursuing a PhD at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Chicago on Shakespeare.<br />
Other academic interests<br />
include mythology, folktales, and<br />
ancient Greek philosophy and<br />
literature. She served as chair <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Basic Program from 1999 to 2004,<br />
and currently teaches at Valparaiso<br />
University.<br />
Course Code BPUTES<br />
Section 12U1<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Gleacher Center<br />
$250 Early registration ends June 13<br />
$280 Regular registration<br />
Thursdays<br />
July 12–August 16<br />
10 am–1:15 pm<br />
Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 18<br />
For the first class, please read<br />
Poe’s short stories “The Murders<br />
in the Rue Morgue,” “The<br />
Purloined Letter,” and “The Mystery<br />
<strong>of</strong> Marie Roget.”<br />
The Poetry <strong>of</strong><br />
Emily Dickinson<br />
The mythos <strong>of</strong> Emily Dickinson in<br />
her life can sometimes s<strong>of</strong>ten and<br />
distort her greatness. In hopes <strong>of</strong><br />
redressing that situation, we will<br />
enter the conversation <strong>of</strong> her 1,775<br />
works, and focus intensively on<br />
selected poems. We will directly<br />
address the range, suppleness and<br />
fire <strong>of</strong> her intellect and emotion, and<br />
the startling mastery and inventiveness<br />
<strong>of</strong> her poetic forms. Dickinson’s<br />
conjoining the Bringing-to-Be <strong>of</strong><br />
artistic creation, with philosophy’s<br />
fierce Eros to comprehend Thatwhich-Is,<br />
powerfully bears out theologian<br />
David Tracy’s recognition <strong>of</strong><br />
poetry as “embodied philosophy.”<br />
Claudia Traudt<br />
See bio under James Joyce’s Ulysses.<br />
Course Code BPUPED<br />
Section 12U1<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Gleacher Center<br />
$335 Early registration ends June 13<br />
$365 Regular registration<br />
Tuesdays<br />
June 19–August 7<br />
6–9:15 pm<br />
Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 24<br />
The World <strong>of</strong> Fernando<br />
Pessoa<br />
We will devote the five weeks <strong>of</strong> this<br />
course to a selection <strong>of</strong> poetry and<br />
prose by one <strong>of</strong> the most fascinating<br />
artists <strong>of</strong> the 20th century, the<br />
Portuguese modernist Fernando<br />
Pessoa (1888–1935). Pessoa created<br />
70 different writing personalities<br />
(literary alter egos with their<br />
own identities and writing styles)<br />
and produced an immense oeuvre,<br />
which is becoming more and more<br />
12 Humanities Texts & Contexts<br />
popular in English translations.<br />
We will focus on poems by four <strong>of</strong><br />
Pessoa’s poetic incarnations, and<br />
the prose in his wise, imaginative<br />
Book <strong>of</strong> Disquietude, in which every<br />
second line makes the reader look<br />
for an occasion to quote it.<br />
Katia Mitova<br />
Ms. Mitova holds an MA in<br />
comparative Slavic studies from the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> S<strong>of</strong>ia, Bulgaria, and an<br />
MA and PhD from the Committee<br />
on Social Thought at the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Chicago. She is working on a<br />
book on the dialogical character <strong>of</strong><br />
literary creativity. Her research and<br />
teaching interests include storytelling<br />
and artistic creativity. She<br />
received the 2008 <strong>Graham</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Excellence in Teaching Award for<br />
the Basic Program.<br />
Course Code BPUWFP<br />
Section 12U1<br />
Summer 2012<br />
Gleacher Center<br />
$210 Early registration ends June 13<br />
$240 Regular registration<br />
Tuesdays<br />
June 19–July 17<br />
6–9:15 pm<br />
Teacher Recertification CPDUs: 15<br />
Little Dorrit: Finance,<br />
Society, and Freedom<br />
A novel for our times, Charles<br />
Dickens’s Little Dorrit examines<br />
the effects <strong>of</strong> abstract financial and<br />
policy decisions on individuals,<br />
families, and entire neighborhoods.<br />
At the heart <strong>of</strong> the book<br />
is the infamous debtor’s prison<br />
from the author’s childhood, the<br />
Marshalsea; when coupled with an<br />
entire metropolis <strong>of</strong> unforgettable<br />
characters the result is a moving,<br />
comic, and incisive analysis <strong>of</strong> the<br />
many guises <strong>of</strong> imprisonment in<br />
modern life. To appreciate Dickens’s<br />
analysis <strong>of</strong> choice and freedom, and<br />
how these are linked to work, investment,<br />
inheritance, debt, and social<br />
services, we will also read excerpts<br />
from works by Adam Smith, Karl<br />
Marx, George Orwell, and others.<br />
Marissa Love<br />
Ms. Love is assistant director <strong>of</strong><br />
Humanities, Arts, and Sciences<br />
at the <strong>Graham</strong> <strong>School</strong> and has<br />
taught in the Basic Program since<br />
1998. Her areas <strong>of</strong> interest include<br />
19th-century novels, Shakespeare,<br />
Japanese literature, and lyric<br />
poetry.