Week 1

1 Loomings—2 The Carpet-Bag—3 The Spouter-Inn—4 The Counterpane—5 Breakfast—6 The Street—7 The Chapel—8 The Pulpit

9 The Sermon—10 A Bosom Friend—11 Nightgown—12 Biographical—13 Wheelbarrow—14 Nantucket—15 Chowder—16 The Ship—17 The Ramadan

18 His Mark—19 The Prophet—20 All Astir—21 Going Aboard—22 Merry Christmas—23 The Lee Shore—24 The Advocate—25 Postscript—26 Knights and Squires

Week 2

Meeting 5—Date: 6/11/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Typee

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 27-35

27 Knights and Squires—28 Ahab—29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb—30 The Pipe—31 Queen Mab—32 Cetology—33 The Specksnyder—34 The Cabin-Table—35 The Mast-Head

Presentation: Typee [Sally VanDenburg]

Meeting 6—Date: 6/12/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Omoo

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 36-44

36 The Quarter-Deck—37 Sunset—38 Dusk—39 First Night Watch—40 Midnight, Forecastle—41 Moby Dick—42 The Whiteness of The Whale—43 Hark!—44 The Chart

Presentation: Omoo [Nathan Franklin]

Meeting 7—Date: 6/13/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Mardi [Mardi PowerPoint]

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 45-53

45 The Affidavit—46 Surmises—47 The Mat-Maker—48 The First Lowering—49 The Hyena—50 Ahab's Boat and Crew Fedallah—51 The Spirit-Spout—52 The Albatross—53 The Gam

Screening: Moby-Dick (1998)

Presentation: The Encantadas [Sarah Kern]

Meeting 8—Date: 6/14/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Redburn

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 54-62

54 The Town-Ho's Story—55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales—56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True—57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in—58 Brit—59 Squid—60 The Line—61 Stubb Kills a Whale—62 The Dart

Screening: Moby-Dick (1998) [cont.]

Presentation: Redburn [Joy Smith]

Week 3

Meeting 9—Date: 6/18/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & White Jacket

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 63-71

63 The Crotch—64 Stubb's Supper—65 The Whale as a Dish—66 The Shark Massacre—67 Cutting In—68 The Blanket—69 The Funeral—70 The Sphynx—71 The Jeroboam's Story

Presentation: White Jacket (Kevin Yeargin)

Meeting 10—Date: 6/19/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Pierre

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 72-80

72 The Monkey-Rope—73 Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk—74 The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View—75 The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View—76 The Battering-Ram—77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun—78 Cistern and Buckets—79 The Prairie—80 The Nut

Presentation: Pierre [Autumn Lauzon]

Meeting 11—Date: 6/20/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Israel Potter

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 81-88

81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin—82 The Honour and Glory of Whaling—83 Jonah Historically Regarded—84 Pitchpoling—85 The Fountain—86 The Tail—87 The Grand Armada—88 Schools and Schoolmasters

Screening: Moby-Dick (2010)

Presentation: Israel Potter [Jennifer Hayes]

Meeting 12—Date: 6/21/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno"

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 89-97

89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish—90 Heads or Tails—91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud—92 Ambergris—93 The Castaway—94 A Squeeze of the Hand—95 The Cassock—96 The Try-Works—97 The Lamp

Screening: Moby-Dick (2010) [cont.]

Presentation: Ahab's Wife [Victoria Warenik]

Week 4

Meeting 13—Date: 6/25/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & The Confidence-Man

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 98-106

98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up—99 The Doubloon—100 Leg and Arm—101 The Decanter—102 A Bower in the Arsacides—103 Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton—104 The Fossil Whale—105 Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish?—106 Ahab's Leg

Presentation: The Confidence-Man [Jonathan Bradley]

Meeting 14—Date: 6/26/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Clarel

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 107-115

108 Ahab and the Carpenter—109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin—110 Queequeg in His Coffin—111 The Pacific—112 The Blacksmith—113 The Forge—114 The Gilder—115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor

Presentation: The Art of Fielding  [Teresa Lockhart]

Meeting 15—Date: 6/27/12

Topic: Moby-Dick & Billy Budd

Screening: "Eloise" (The Sopranos 4.12);  Billy Budd

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 116-124, Billy Budd

116 The Dying Whale—117 The Whale Watch—118 The Quadrant—119 The Candles—120 The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch—121 Midnight—The Forecastle Bulwarks—122 Midnight Aloft—Thunder and Lightning—123 The Musket—124 The Needle

Presentation: Railsea [Matthew Brown]

Meeting 16—Date: 6/28/12

Final Meeting

Reading: Moby-Dick, Chapters 125-135, Epilogue

125 The Log and Line—126 The Life-Buoy—127 The Deck—128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel—129 The Cabin—130 The Hat—131 The Pequod Meets The Delight—132 The Symphony—133 The Chase—First Day—134 The Chase—Second Day—135 The Chase—Third Day—Epilogue

Presentation: White as the Waves [Mick Jackson]

Presentation: Elizabeth Hardwick, Herman Melville [Ryan McMillan]