Classroom Postcards
A writer and her students step into Chaucer's medieval world
Sneak into a typical session of Readings in Chaucer, and you’ll find Rebecca Godwin and her 11 students seated around a table, taking turns reading 600-year-old poetry, pausing for lengthy discussions—and having a seriously good time.
Writer/translator examines the classics alongside their "radical retellings"
“I’m interested in work that has engendered other provocative, searching works of art. I’m not interested in flimsy sequels, anything parasitic, or the further adventures of so-and-so. In this class we’re searching for something much deeper….”
Physicist and Latin American scholar collaborate on Borges class
“I always thought my experience of reading Borges was inescapably different because I was a mathematician, and I wondered: If you brought the math out into the open for people who were more literary, would it lead to new readings or new questions?”