MEDIA RELEASES

David Krause, associate provost at Dominican University, will be presenting a six-week class on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway in Hemingway’s Oak Park birthplace home beginning Tuesday, February 26. The class, which is offered through the Newberry Library and is co-sponsored by the university’s School of Leadership and Continuing Studies and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, will be held on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. through April 1 in the Hemingway home located at 339 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park.

Krause, who holds a doctoral degree in English and American literature from Yale University, will focus on the emergence of Hemingway’s literary voice through his short stories. Topics will include family and community, love and death, gender and sexuality, the effects of war on the human psyche and what it means to be at home in the world.

Short stories to be covered include “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “Ten Indians,” “Hills Like White Elephants,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” The required textbook for the class is The Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Finca Vigia Edition (New York: Scribner).

Tuition for this class is $140. For more information or to register for the class, please contact the Newberry Library at (312) 255-3700 or visit the website at www.newberry.org/programs/seminars.html.

The Newberry Library Seminars Program has offered non-credit, adult education in the humanities for over 25 years. Inaugurated in 1978, the program now offers over 150 courses to 1,500 participants annually.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.