Level: All

Instructor: Coleen Grissom

Join Trinity University’s English professor Coleen Grissom as she delights, offends, inspires, and incites widespread debate among informed and engaged students of contemporary literature. Classes consist of critical analysis of the readings which include short stories and novels.

Dates: 6 Wednesdays, noon – 1:30pm
Jan. 26 Ian McEwan’s Solar
Feb. 2 Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One
Feb. 9 Paul Harding’s Tinkers
Feb. 16 Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women
Feb. 23 Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin
Mar. 2 Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom

Limit: 50 Participants

Registration Deadline: Monday, Jan. 24

Teachers CPE Credits: 9 Language Arts

Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99

About the instructor: Having served Trinity University since 1958 in administrative and teaching roles, Coleen Grissom now teaches three courses each semester in the English department: Writing Workshop, First Year Seminar, and Contemporary Literature. In October 2008, the Trinity University Press published A Novel Approach to Life, a collection of speeches which she has written and delivered over the past five decades.