{"id":14269,"date":"2023-04-19T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T20:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=14269"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:12:33","slug":"elizabethtown-college-department-of-english-presents-at-quest-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/elizabethtown-college-department-of-english-presents-at-quest-lancaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Department of English Presents at Quest Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Elizabethtown College Department of English is presenting a series of literature-themed lectures this spring at Quest Lancaster<\/a>, a lifelong learning organization in Lancaster.<\/p>\n

Each year, the College partners with Quest to provide programming from Etown\u2019s faculty and staff. This year\u2019s lecture series, \u201cPopular Literature: Stories that Hold Our Attention,\u201d<\/a> began in March and consists of six presentations that focus on a variety of classic authors, as well as their respective works and genres.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuest, and programs like it, keep kindled the flame of the true liberal arts ideal,\u201d Elizabethtown College Distinguished Professor of English, John Rohrkemper said. \u201cNone of the hundreds of people who annually participate in Quest are thinking about how this will increase their salary or lead to a promotion. They are there because they\u2019re curious, love the world of ideas, and want to surround themselves with others who share these values. It is an honor to be a part of such an endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quest\u2019s primary mission is to support the continued learning and education of seniors. This spring, 40 participants are scheduled to attend the events, many of whom reside in Lancaster retirement communities.<\/p>\n

An Etown representative has worked in partnership with Quest, for over a decade. For the past two years, Professor of Political Science, Fletcher McClellan<\/a> has fulfilled this role, coordinating thoughtful programs for the event.<\/p>\n

Lecture Topics: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 23<\/strong> – \u201c<\/strong>Wordsworth’s \u2018I wandered lonely as a cloud.\u2019\u201d – Presented by Professor of English, Suzanne Webster<\/p>\n

March 30<\/strong> – \u201cLate Bloomers: The Novelists Elizabeth Strout, Kate Atkinson, and Marilynne Robinson.\u201d – Presented by Distinguished Professor of English, John Rohrkemper<\/p>\n

April 13<\/strong> – \u201cFiction and Drama: Demands of the Genre.\u201d – Presented by Distinguished Professor of English, John Rohrkemper<\/p>\n

April 20<\/strong> – \u201cChanging Women\u2019s Minds: Gender and Brain Science in Joanna Baillie and Anne Bannerman.\u201d – Presented by Assistant to the Dean of the School of Business for Experiential Education, Suzanne Biever-Grodzinski<\/p>\n

April 27<\/strong> – “Our ‘Beloved’ Nobel Laureate.” – Presented by Assistant Professor of English Literature, Patrick Allen<\/p>\n

May 4<\/strong> – \u201cJane Austen\u2019s Life and Afterlife.\u201d – Presented by Assistant Professor of English, Tara Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Elizabethtown College Department of English is presenting a series of literature-themed lectures this spring at Quest Lancaster, a lifelong learning organization in Lancaster. Each year, the College partners with Quest to provide programming from Etown\u2019s faculty and staff. This year\u2019s lecture series, \u201cPopular Literature: Stories that Hold Our Attention,\u201d began in March and consists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":14271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,774,7],"tags":[197,260,1350],"class_list":["post-14269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus-community","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-english","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14272,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14269\/revisions\/14272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}