Tess Maginess BA, MA, PhD, PFHEA + panel of experts
Autumn 2024
20 weekly sessions on Wednesdays 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm, starting 25 September
In this 20-week course, a panel of experts will join Tess Maginess to celebrate and discuss the poems, plays and stories from across the world and from across history. There will be a lively mix of classic texts and more contemporary literature.
25 September - Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds - tutor, Tess Maginess
2 October - Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - tutor, Rosie Pelan
9 October - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - tutor, Martin Tyrrell
16 October - Lorrie Moore, ‘Which is More Than I can say about Some People.’ In Birds of America - tutor, Louise McIvor
23 October - A brief introduction to early Irish song - tutor, Moyra Haslett
30 October - Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - tutor, Eamonn Hughes
6 November - Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ode To the West Wind’ - tutor, Tess Maginess
13 November - no class
20 November - James Baldwin, Another Country - tutor, Linda McKeown
27 November - Paul Lynch, Prophet Song - tutor, Tess Maginess
5 December - Homer, Iliad, Book 1, ‘The Quarrel’ - tutor, Geraldine O’Neill
22 January - Véronique Tadjo, 'In The Company of Men': In The Ebola Tales - tutor, Steven Wilson
29 January - Hewitt Lecture - tutor, Michael Hughes
5 February - Homer, The Odyssey, 6, 'Nausicaa and Odyseus' - tutor, Geraldine O’Neill
12 February - John Steinbeck, East of Eden - tutor, Linda McKeown
19 February - Marianne Moore, ‘Poetry’ - tutor, Tess Maginess
26 February - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - tutor, Martin Tyrrell
5 March - Giovanni Montanaro, The Bookseller of Venice (English Translation, Edward Williams) - tutor, Tess Maginess
12 March - Willa Cather, ‘A Lost Lady’ - tutor, Louise McIvor
19 March - Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection - tutor, Alison MacKenzie
26 March - Brian Friel, Translations - tutor, Seamus McKee
Dates and speakers correct at time of going to press
15 CATS Points (Level 1)
This class will take place on QUB campus
Concession: The concession rate is available for those who are in receipt of State Benefits (including pension), or are full-time students, part or full-time Queen’s students or are members of University staff holding a valid staff card:
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