Tutorial
■ Introductory Latin I with Dr. Richard A. LaFleur (October 2022 – current)

American Academy of Poets
■ Stephanie McCarter on Ovid’s Metamophoses (September 2024)
■ Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden (October 2024)
■ Brenda Wineapple on Emily Dickinson (December 2024)
■ Ulrich Baer on Reading Rainer Maria Rilke in Uncertain Times (June 2025)
■ Karen Karbiener on Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (August 2025)

A Public Space: APS Together
■ Tolstoy Together 2021 (September – December 2021)
■ Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (February 2022)
■ Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (March – April 2022)
■ Villette (November – December 2022)
■ The Betrothed (February – April 2023)
■ The Haunting of Hill House (October 2023)
■ New Grub Street (November – December 2023)
■ Monsignor Quixote (November – December 2024)
■ The Odyssey (February – March 2025)
■ Excellent Women (August 2025)
■ Bleak House (October – November 2025)

Brooklyn School for Social Research
■ Reading the Odyssey (February 2023)

Cardiff BookTalk
■ Octavia Butler’s Kindred (March 2021)
■ Tyler Keevil’s Your Still Beating Heart (April 2021)
■ Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (June 2021)
■ Emma Jane Kirby’s The Optician of Lampedusa (October 2021)
■ Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory (November 2021)
■ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (December 2021)
■ Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (February 2022)
■ Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (June 2022)
■ T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (August 2022)
■ Richard Adams’ Watership Down (May 2023)

Catherine Project
■ Reading Group: The Brothers Karamazov (Spring 2021)
■ Reading Group: Middlemarch (Summer 2021)
■ Reading Group: Faust (Fall 2021)
■ Fall Seminar: Genesis, 1-5 (November 2021)
■ Reading Group: Anna Karenina (Spring 2022)
■ Reading Group: Moby-Dick (Spring 2022)
■ Spring Seminar: Plato’s Apology, (April 2022)
■ Reading Group: Hemingway, three novels: The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms (Summer 2022)
■ Reading Group: On the Origin of Species (Summer 2022)
■ Tutorial: Latin language: Introduction (Fall 2022)
■ Reading Group: Flannery O’Connor, Selected short stories (Fall 2022)
■ Fall Seminar: Montaigne’s “On Pedantry” (November 2022)
■ Tutorial: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Spring 2023)
■ Spring Seminar: James Joyce’s “The Dead” (March 2023)
■ Reading Group: Plato, Republic (Summer 2023)

Chicago Flute Club
■ Fluting with the Stars: Raimundo Pineda (January 2021)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Gaspar Hoyos (August 2021)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Denis Bouriakov (April 2022)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Wissam Boustany (December 2022)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Jeff Zook (September 2023)
■ Body-Mapping Forum (April 2024)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Sharon Sparrow (September 2024)
■ Alexander Technique Forum (December 2024)
■ Fluting with the Stars: Elizabeth Rowe (January 2025)
■ Strength Training for Musicians: Forum with Angela McCuiston (December 2025)

Chicago Humanities Festival
■ Joyce Carol Oates: The (Other) You (March 2021)
■ George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (April 2021)
■ Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength (May 2021)
■ Madeline Miller: Circe (May 2021)
■ Marisel Vera: The Taste of Sugar (September 2021)
■ Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans (October 2021)
■ Maggie Nelson: On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (December 2021)

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
■ The Cornell Lab Bird Academy: Feeder Birds: Identification and Behavior (September 2023)
■ The Cornell Lab Bird Academy: Be a Better Birder 1: Size and Shape (November 2023)
■ The Cornell Lab Bird Academy: Be a Better Birder 2: Color and Pattern (November 2023)
■ The Cornell Lab Bird Academy: Understanding Bird Behavior (August 2024)
■ The Cornell Lab Bird Academy: The Wonderful World of Owls (August 2024)

Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks
■ Carl Smith on Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (October 2021)
■ Louis Menand on The Free World (October 2021)
■ John Demos on The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World (October 2021)
■ Marcia Chatelain on Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (May 2022)
■ John Wood Sweet on The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (September 2023)
■ Jon Meacham on And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (October 2023)
■ Drew Gilpin Faust on Necessary Trouble (October 2023)
■ Brenda Wineapple on Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation (March 2025)
■ Martha S. Jones on The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir (May 2025)

Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
■ Wendy Lower on The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed (October 2021)
■ Helen Epstein on Franci’s War (November 2021)

Library of America
■ Kurt Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide (January 2022)
■ Filming Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (February 2022)
■ What Is Totalitarianism: Understanding Hannah Arendt Now (March 2025)
■ The Heart of American Poetry, an online course with Edward Hirsch (March – April 2025)
■ The Greatness of Sylvia Plath, with Sarah Ruden, Heather Clark, and Diane Seuss (April 2025)
■ Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling, with Alisa Wilkinson (September – October 2025)
■ Roth & Updike: Giants of Postwar American Fiction, with Adam Gopnik (January – February 2026)

The Newberry Library
■ “Page vs. Stage: Inside Shakespeare’s First Folio“ (May 2020)
■ Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (February 2021)
■ Chasing the White Whale: Ray Bradbury’s Screenplay for John Huston’s Moby-Dick (November 2021)
■ Under the Sign of Saturn: The Enigmatic Work of W.G. Sebald (March – April 2022)
■ “A 21st-Century Reconsideration of Leopold and Loeb” (March 2024)
■ Reading American Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (April – May 2024)

Night School Bar
■ “Kate Chopin, Commodity Fetish, and Social Reproduction Theory” (February 2022)
■ Debt: The First 5,000 Years (January – February 2022)
■ Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch (March – April 2022)
■ Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism (June 2022)
■ Moby-Dick and CLR James: Class and Democracy (January – February 2023)
■ Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (January 2024)

NYR Seminars
■ Daniel Mendelsohn on The Odyssey (September – October 2025)
■ Edwin Frank on H.G. Wells and Ursula LeGuin (November 2025)

Roundtable by the 92nd Street Y
■ Reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (July-August 2025)
■ The Life of Stories: Greek Myth and How Narrative Shapes Our World (August 2025)
■ Reading A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance (August 2025)
■ What Aristotle Still Has to Teach Us (September – October 2025)
■ The Homeric Iliad, or: The Meaning of Life and Death (October – Novemer 2025)
■ Reading Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (October – November 2025)
■ Forgotten Holocaust Literature (December 2025)
■ Isabella Stewart Gardner: Art and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age (December 2025)
■ Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: His Writing and His World (January – February 2026)
■ Reading Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls (January – February 2026)
■ Fictions of the Self in American Literature (February – March 2026)
■ Reading Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks with Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads (February – April 2026)
■ Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha and the Search for the Self (March 2026)
■ Reading Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (March – April 2026)

T Book Club
■ The Talented Mr. Ripley (April 2021)
■ Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (June 2021)
■ Paula Fox’s Desperate Characters (August 2022)
■ Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days (December 2022)

University of Chicago
■ Theatre & Thought Series: The World of August Wilson; Court Theatre and the University of Chicago (September 2020)
■ Deep Dive: Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt; Court Theatre and the University of Chicago (October and November 2020)
■ Theatre & Thought Series: Euripides’ The Bacchae; Court Theatre and the University of Chicago (October 2020)
■ Theatre & Thought Series: Caryl Churchill’s Fen and the Dramaturgical Process; Court Theatre and the University of Chicago (November and December 2020)
■ Theatre & Thought Series: Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs and Racial Injustice; Court Theatre and the University of Chicago (January and February 2021)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “Machiavelli’s Meanings” (January 2022)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “Homer’s Humanity: Moments of Grace in the Iliad” (June 2022)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “The Stoic Approach to Happiness” (September 2022)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “Boredom: From Aristotle to David Foster Wallace” (November 2022)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: Moby-Dick (Winter 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “The Power of Deep Reading” (with Maryanne Wolf) (February 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “The Prometheus Myth and the Limits of Technology” (June 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: The Moonstone (Summer 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “The Value of a Lifelong Liberal Education” (with Michael S. Roth) (October 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: “Beyond ChatGPT: The Impact of AI on Society” (with Torstein Reimer and faculty) (November 2023)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: The New Structure of Adulthood: A Conversation with David Brooks (January 2024)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Lecture: Moby-Dick Panel Preview Session with Lin Atnip and Amy Thomas (March 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: Shakespeare’s Henry V (Spring 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: The Art and Ends of Reading: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (Spring 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: Homer’s Iliad Before An Iliad (Spring 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: David Copperfield (Summer 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: A Tale of Two Cities (Summer 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: Antisemitism, Old and New? Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism (Summer 2025)
■ University of Chicago Graham School Course: Moby-Dick (Winter 2026)

MOOCs
■ Coursera: Programming for Everyone (Python); University of Michigan (2014)
■ FutureLearn: Shakespeare and His World; University of Warwick (2014)
■ FutureLearn: Shakespeare’s Hamlet; University of Birmingham (2015)
■ FutureLearn: Othello; University of Birmingham (2016)
■ edX: Call of the Wild by London; BerkeleyX Book Club (2016)
■ edX: Dubliners by Joyce; BerkeleyX Book Club (2016)
■ edX: A Study in Scarlet by Doyle; BerkeleyX Book Club (2016)
■ FutureLearn: Literature and Mental Health; University of Warwick (2016)
■ FutureLearn: Literature in a Digital Age; University of Basel (2017)
■ Coursera: Introduction to Philosophy; University of Edinburgh (2018)
■ Coursera: Think Again I: How to Understand Arguments; Duke University (2019)
■ edX: Introduction to Music Theory; Berklee College of Music (2021)
■ Open Yale Courses: Cervantes’ Don Quixote (2023)

The Great Courses
■ The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague (2020)
■ Dante’s Divine Comedy (2022)
■ The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy (2022)
■ Reading Biblical Literature: Genesis to Revelation (2022)
■ Plato’s Republic (2023)
■ Iliad of Homer (2025)
■ The Ethics of Aristotle (2025)

Other
■ American Sign Language; [insert county] College (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
■ 100 Days of Dante (September 2021 – April 2022)
■ Premise Institute: What does it mean to feel alone? (July 2022 – February 2023)
■ 100 Days of Dante (September 2024 – April 2025)
■ Story Club with George Saunders (February 2025 — current)
■ Moby-Dick Book Club by the New Bedford Whaling Museum (Fall 2025)