We invite you to join us next Tuesday for a discussion of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and the following week for a discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

More on our upcoming webinars:

Join NAS next Tuesday, November 8, at 2 pm ET for a discussion of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

What makes The Sun Also Rises a great American novel? What are some of the major themes of the book, and how does Hemingway draw them out?

The webinar will feature James Nagel, Eidson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College; Kirk Curnutt, Professor and Chair of English at Troy University at Montgomery; and Jerry Kennedy, Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

Join NAS on Tuesday, November 15, at 2 pm ET for a discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

“Not hear it? —yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long —long —long —many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it —yet I dared not —oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! —I dared not —I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”

What makes The Fall of the House of Usher a great American story? Do Madeline and Roderick believe that the eponymous house is sentient, and does the house signify something further? Who influenced Poe's writings, and who did his writings influence?

The webinar will feature Jason Peters, Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College; Barbara Cantalupo, Professor of English Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, Editor of the Edgar Allan Poe Review, and Series Editor of Perspectives on Poe with Lehigh University Press/Roman & Littlefield; and Anthony Magistrale, Professor and former Chair of English at the University of Vermont.

The discussion will be moderated by David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars.

To learn more about the event, click here. 

If you can't attend the events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/user/NAScholars/videos.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars