Join us for a conversation about the challenges and pleasures of teaching the study of poetry -- whether in a freshman writing course or in an upper-level literature seminar. Professor Worsley will reflect on her experience teaching poetry as a graduate student and now as a professor, and discuss the relationship between her teaching and larger research interests. And together, we'll take up topics from syllabus design to discussion leading to essay prompts. All interested faculty and graduate students are warmly welcome to attend. Coffee and pastries available. Please kindly RSVP using the link below.

Amelia Worsley is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College. Her current book project, Lonely Poets and their Publics: Being Alone Together in British Romantic Poetry, focuses on Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and various abolition poets. She has also written articles about loneliness in Shakespeare, Milton, and D.W. Winnicott.