In addition to the individual presentation offerings for LifeLong Learning Program members in the spring and fall, this spring LLP is launching LLP Plus, a separate seminar program which offers an opportunity for deeper learning through a series of meetings focused on a single topic. This initial seminar will feature Margaret Darby, who will direct an extended discussion of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
Spring 2025 Seminar Dates: Mondays, March 31, April 7, 14, and 28, and May 5.
Instructor: Margaret Darby retired from Colgate’s department of Writing & Rhetoric in 2015 as an associate professor, having published articles on Dickens in several academic journals and books. Her 1988 prize-winning PhD dissertation at SUNY Binghamton was on Fault Lines in Dickens. She published The Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory in 2020.
Course Description: Margaret Darby will direct an extended discussion of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The seminar of up to 20 participants will meet for five Mondays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Town of Hamilton Hall. Rather than studying what professional critics and biographers have written about the novel, the pedagogical philosophy will be to deepen the participant's capacity to find and enlarge individual responses to the text. NOTE: Participants will be expected to read David Copperfield during the seminar, any edition. The CU bookstore will have copies of a paperback edition chosen by the presenter.
Program Cost: $30 for LLP members, $50 for non-members. Registration will be open to LLP members first, non-member registration is contingent upon space availability if members do not fill the class. Completed applications and registration fees must be received by Friday, March 14, 2025.
Registration and payment information is available via the application button below, for more information or questions contact llp@colgate.edu.
If you are interested in instructing a future LLP Plus seminar, please complete the LLP Plus Presentation Proposal Form below.