Updated 28 April 2020: The courses advertised below have, sadly, been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge has cancelled its International Summer Programmes. Plans are currently in place to create a “Virtual Summer Festival of Learning” to stand-in for the cancelled summer programme. More information is available here.
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I’ll be teaching two courses this year at the University of Cambridge as part of the Institute of Continuing Education’s International Summer Programmes.
Last year’s course on Irish comic fiction is now a fully-fledged Beckett course: we’ll be reading Murphy and Watt - two of Beckett’s funniest novels - and examining their debts to Irish and Anglo-Irish comic authors such as Sterne, Joyce, and Swift.
I’m also delighted to be running a brand-new course on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. This great saga of revenge, friendship, and philosophical exploration in the whaling fisheries of the south seas is one of my very favourite books. It’s a life-changing read that will more than repay the attention afforded by a week-long course.
More information is available on my courses page and my university page.