University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (1941) No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected texts.  Any version of these stories may be used to prepare for discussion, but for your convenience links to online versions are provided…

Homer Iliad. The Battle of Paris and Menalaus Book 3 and Book 4 (up through line 222 only) No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected texts.  Any version of these stories may be used to prepare for discussion,…

Wilkie Collins “House to Let” (1858, written with Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter) “The Ghost in the Cupboard Room” (1859) No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected texts.  Any version of these…

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara (1905) Optional: See the UWM Theatre Department production of Major Barbara in November, directed by Rebecca Holderness, date and venue TBA. No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected texts.  Any version of these…

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Assistant Professor, UWM Department of Africology, presents "Afro-Brazilian YouTubers & Digital Social Justice Activism." Mitchell-Walthour examines Afro-Brazilian Women YouTubers’ social activism through their YouTube channels. Her lecture considers how Afro-Brazilian women YouTubers use African American leaders and media…

Marcel Proust Selection from the first part of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past). (1914) No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the…

Anton Chekhov The Seagull (1895) Optional: See the UWM Kenilworth 508 production of Aaron Posner’s 2013 adaptation of The Seagull, Stupid Fucking Bird, directed by Jim Tasse, February 28-March 4. No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected…

Caridad Svich 12 Ophelias (2004) Optional: See the UWM Mainstage performance of 12 Ophelias, directed by Bill Watson, March 7-11. No expertise or prerequisites are required.  We only ask that you read the selected texts.  Any version of these stories may be used to prepare…