Explore Literature with Dr. Mark Schenker: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Online)

The Ridgefield Library is pleased to welcome Mark Schenker to present a series of online lectures this fall on novels that engage the themes of curiosity and exploring. Dr. Schenker, formerly of Yale College and a frequent lecturer at the Ridgefield Library, began with Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021), Anthony Doerr’s, inventive and wide-ranging tale that spans Western civilization from Ancient Greece through 15th-century Constantinople to the present-day US, and into the 22nd century.

Turning from the public sphere, on Wednesday, October 23rd at 7:00 pm Mark will now discuss the personal self-discovery of Janie Crawford, the protagonist of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). Janie, an African-American woman in 1930s Florida, confronts and shapes her destiny through three marriages and a murder trial.  Please register for the Zoom link.

Mark's final lecture in the series will be on Wednesday, November 20th, covering the Norwegian novel, Out Stealing Horses (2003).

This program is part of the Library’s fall scholarly series, The Curious Mind: Exploration and Discovery, which is made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the Ridgefield Library.