Few figures, historical, legendary, or fictional have captured the imagination as profoundly or as lastingly as Robin Hood. Outlaw, trickster, hero, Robin Hood is a character full of contradiction, complexity, and charm. In this course you’ll learn about the origin of Robin Hood stories, interrogate the myth and the history, and learn why centuries later we keep listening to stories about Robin Hood.

Homer’s Odyssey is, along with the Iliad, one of the two foundational epics of Greek myth and literature. Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War, in which he overcomes challenges from apathy to flesh-eating monsters, has captivated readers and listeners for millennia. Now it’s your turn to discover what’s worth knowing about The Odyssey!

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde made Stevenson’s career as a professional writer and is one of the most memorable and influential horror stories ever written. Join Dr. Paul Moffett in this four-week course exploring this story, the ideas of being split and being doubled, whether good manners are the means by which monstrosity can hide, and more.

Stories of shapeshifters and werewolves go back centuries. Anglo-Norman writer Marie de France writes about Bisclavret in the twelfth century, but although her werewolf is the best-known it is not the only, or even the first tale of werewolf knights in the middle ages. In this course we will discover a number of medieval werewolves, from the moving to the horrifying, and begin to understand what makes werewolves so compelling.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a quintessential gothic novel, a foundational text in the history of science fiction, and a gripping monster story. It is beautiful, horrible, and philosophically engaging, has been continually in print since 1823, and has inspired countless imitations and adaptations. Find out what the fuss is about with me. Whether you’re reading Frankenstein for the first time or the tenth, this fascinating text is worth a closer look.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde made Stevenson’s career as a professional writer and is one of the most memorable and influential horror stories ever written. Join Dr. Paul Moffett in this four-week course exploring this story, the ideas of being split and being doubled, whether good manners are the means by which monstrosity can hide, and more.

Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur is the only work of medieval literature still commonly read by laypeople for pleasure. It represents an inflection point for Arthurian literature: it is the primary source to which virtually all adaptation or expansions of Arthurian legend return, and it is the lens through which scholars and amateurs alike have viewed older Arthurian legend for centuries. Come read Le Morte Darthur with me, and discover the adventure, the pathos, the mystery, an the humour of this amazing work.

The King Arthur Course will be divided in three parts, which will not depend on one another. Part One: A Fine Romance will focus on knights errant, ladies and maidens and damsels in distress, courtly romance, and love triangles.

Few figures, historical, legendary, or fictional have captured the imagination as profoundly or as lastingly as Robin Hood. Outlaw, trickster, hero, Robin Hood is a character full of contradiction, complexity, and charm. In this course you’ll learn about the origin of Robin Hood stories, interrogate the myth and the history, and learn why centuries later we keep listening to stories about Robin Hood.

In the Old English epic Beowulf, the title character fights three monsters: Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. Together, we will explore the symbolic meaning of each of these monsters, show what they each have to do with each other, and in the process grapple with the oldest epic in the English language.

Homer’s Odyssey is, along with the Iliad, one of the two foundational epics of Greek myth and literature. Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War, in which he overcomes challenges from apathy to flesh-eating monsters, has captivated readers and listeners for millennia. Now it’s your turn to discover what’s worth knowing about The Odyssey!

Stories of shapeshifters and werewolves go back centuries. Anglo-Norman writer Marie de France writes about Bisclavret in the twelfth century, but although her werewolf is the best-known it is not the only, or even the first tale of werewolf knights in the middle ages. In this course we will discover a number of medieval werewolves, from the moving to the horrifying, and begin to understand what makes werewolves so compelling.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a quintessential gothic novel, a foundational text in the history of science fiction, and a gripping monster story. It is beautiful, horrible, and philosophically engaging, has been continually in print since 1823, and has inspired countless imitations and adaptations. Find out what the fuss is about with me. Whether you’re reading Frankenstein for the first time or the tenth, this fascinating text is worth a closer look.

Zombies are modern monsters. Although reanimated corpses and spectres appear in older stories, the zombie as we understand it now did not appear in fiction until the twentieth-century. In this course we will explore film, prose, and comic books to explain what zombie stories tell us about our own times.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde made Stevenson’s career as a professional writer and is one of the most memorable and influential horror stories ever written. Join Dr. Paul Moffett in this four-week course exploring this story, the ideas of being split and being doubled, whether good manners are the means by which monstrosity can hide, and more.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde made Stevenson’s career as a professional writer and is one of the most memorable and influential horror stories ever written. Join Dr. Paul Moffett in this four-week course exploring this story, the ideas of being split and being doubled, whether good manners are the means by which monstrosity can hide, and more.

Few figures, historical, legendary, or fictional have captured the imagination as profoundly or as lastingly as Robin Hood. Outlaw, trickster, hero, Robin Hood is a character full of contradiction, complexity, and charm. In this course you’ll learn about the origin of Robin Hood stories, interrogate the myth and the history, and learn why centuries later we keep listening to stories about Robin Hood.

Stories of shapeshifters and werewolves go back centuries. Anglo-Norman writer Marie de France writes about Bisclavret in the twelfth century, but although her werewolf is the best-known it is not the only, or even the first tale of werewolf knights in the middle ages. In this course we will discover a number of medieval werewolves, from the moving to the horrifying, and begin to understand what makes werewolves so compelling.