Penn Reading Project

As many of you know, September 2001 will mark the eleventh year the University has sponsored the Penn Reading Project (PRP) for all entering students during New Student Orientation. Once again, all students will read a particular text and will have the opportunity to discuss it in a small group with a faculty member.

I am writing to solicit your opinion as to what the text should be this year. Below is a list of six texts which the selection committee has compiled. Please rank order the texts in order of your preference, or let us know if there is another you would like to recommend.

  • The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
  • Galileo, by Bertholt Brecht
  • Medea, by Euripides
  • Words of Gandhi, by Mohandas Gandhi
  • Annie John, by Jamaica Kinkaid
  • Candide, by Voltaire

Please send an e-mail to Anita Gelburd at gelburda@pobox.upenn.edu, by March 26.

Thank you for taking the time to participate in the selection process.

--John J. Richetti, Professor of English, Chair, Penn Reading Project Committee


Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 26, March 20, 2001

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