2013 Past Delve Seminars
Marriage: 19th Century Style
Guide: Kathlene Postma
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Guide: Christopher Zinn
The Works of Sherman Alexie
Guide: Pauls Toutonghi
Irish Theatre
Guide: Gemma Whelan
Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
Guides: Christopher Lord & Judith Stone
Contemporary Israeli Narrative: Oz, Yehoshua & Keret
Guide: Ivonne Saed
2012 Past Delve Seminars
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury & The Unvanquished
Guide: Lucas Bernhardt
The Beckett Trilogy
Guide: Ismet Prcic
Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
Guide: Debra Gwartney
The Illiad of Homer
Guide: Christopher Zinn
The Works of Octavio Paz
Guide: Ivonne Saed
The American Short Story
Guide: Pauls Toutonghi
Seminar Summaries by Acacia Blackwell
John Updike: The Rabbit Series
Guide: Dan DeWeese
Seminar Summaries by Alex Behr
The Poetry of Marianne Moore & Elizabeth Bishop
Guide: Lucas Bernhardt
Haruki Murakami: 1Q84
Guide: Bruce Suttmeier
The Rapier Wit
Guide: Mead Hunter
On Native Grounds: Ceremony & Fools Crow
Guide: Christopher Zinn
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Guide: Lucas Bernhardt
Reading the Literary Lineage of The Girl Who
Fell from the Sky
Guide: Lois Leveen
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
Guides: Carl Wilson & Judy Stone
Theater of the Absurd: Beckett, Pinter & Albee
Guide: Mead Hunter
Graphic Memoirs: Drawing from Experience
Guide: Barry Sanders
2011 Past Delve Seminars
Borges & Cortázar
Guide: Ivonne Saed
Breaking the Yoke: The Anti-Slavery Literature that Changed America
Guide: Lois Leveen
Virginia Woolf & the Creative Process
Guide: Kathlene Postma
Trappers, Hippies & Punks
Guide: Matthew Stadler
Homer’s Odyssey
Guide: Christopher Zinn
Nabokov: Pale Fire, Lolita, & More
Guide: Barry Sanders
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Guide: Sara Guest
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Guide: Sara Guest
Female Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwrights
Guide: Mead Hunter
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Guide: Pancho Savery
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Guide: Barry Sanders
Call and Response: Delving into African American Art & Literature
Guide: Lois Leveen
Wes Moore: The Other Wes Moore
Guide: Barry Sanders
Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest & Sometimes a Great Notion
Guide: Mead Hunter
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
Modern American Poetry: The Wasteland & More
Guide: Christopher Zinn
2010 Past Delve Seminars
Exploding the Canon: How Native American, Asian American & Latina Women Remade American Literature
Guide: Lois Leveen
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
Guide: Christopher Zinn
The Four Elements: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Into Thin Air, The Bell Jar & Blue Highway
Guide: Barry Sanders
Centuries of Satire: Erasmus, Jonathan Swift & Kurt Vonnegut
Guide: Richard Lewis
Illustrating Identity in the Age of the Graphic Novel
Guide: Lois Leveen
August Wilson: The American Cycle
Guide: Mead Hunter
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Guide: Christopher Zinn
Miguel De Cervantes: Don Quixote
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
We, Too, Sing America: 20th Century Writers & the Legacy of Whitman
Guide: Lois Leveen
2009 Past Delve Seminars
Shakespeare: The Tragedies of Empire
Guide: Lois Leveen
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
Delve Over Drinks: Short Stories & Spirits
Guide: Barry Sanders
Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood & The Complete Stories
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Guide: Christopher Zinn
2008 Past Delve Seminars
Homer: The Iliad
Guide: Nathalia King
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Guide: Lois Leveen
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow
Guide: Christopher Zinn
William Faulkner & Toni Morrison: Absalom, Absalom! & Beloved
Guide: Lois Leveen
Nathaniel Hawthorne & Gustave Flaubert: The Scarlet Letter & Madame Bovary
Guide: Lois Leveen
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Guide: Pancho Savery
2007 Past Delve Seminars
Portland Arts & Lectures: A Season of Authors
Guide: Christopher Zinn
Jane Austen & Charlotte Bronte: Pride and Prejudice & Jane Eyre
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Guide: Lois Leveen
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own & To the Lighthouse
Guide: Susan McKee Reese
Homer: The Iliad
Guide: Nathalia King
James Joyce: Ulysses
Guide: Christopher Zinn
2006 Past Delve Seminars
Henry James: The Golden Bowl
Guide: Christopher Zinn
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Guide: Lois Leveen
Short Stories by Female Writers
Guide: Whitney Otto
Short Stories by Male Writers
Guide: Whitney Otto
American Poetry
Guide: Jim Cohn
Trio of Modern Classics: The Great Gatsby, Lolita and To Kill a Mockingbird
Guide: Whitney Otto
Proust III
Guide: Jim Cohn
Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Guide: Maren Ormseth
2005 Past Delve Seminars
William Faulkner: Go Down, Moses
Guide: Maren Ormseth
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
Guide: Jim Cohn
Continuation of Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Guide: Jim Cohn
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Guide: Maren Ormseth
Introduction to Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Guide: Jim Cohn
