Monday, April 6, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Gretchen Schulz, Professor of English Emerita, Oxford College

“Bringing ‘Remote Learning’ Closer to Home”

Most emeriti have had little or no experience with the “remote learning” so many of our colleagues are struggling with just now. But hey, it’s never too late to learn about “remote learning.” This Virtual Lunch Colloquium will give us a chance to do just that—and learn a little bit about James Joyce, too.  Gretchen is going to “teach a class” on one of the very best short stories of all time—“Araby” from Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners. And, having done your “homework” by reading the (very short) story ahead of time as we will enable you to do, YOU will be able to participate in the class, “raising your hand” to ask and answer questions. By the end of the experience, we should all have a fuller sense of how online teaching works and, not so incidentally, a fuller sense of what the heck it is English professors do in their classes, virtual and otherwise.