Category: People Who Made A Difference

 I was very sorry to hear of the recent death of one my teachers, Jeremy Zwellng. I took a great books course with him my first semester at Wesleyan. He was a rigorous teacher who also had tremendous rapport with the small class of students he lead in intense discussions. At the same time he was charming and truly humorous. He had a big laugh. He was a keen critic of our papers and the comments he gave me (and a couple of early Cs), taught me to work harder, think more deeply, pay closer attention to the texts, and write more clearly. (To this day I have some memory of papers I wrote for him and of how much I struggled to go deeper when re-writing them for him.) Most importantly, he taught great books not as pieces of history but as brilliant literature from which we might be… Continue reading