May 20, 2025
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. EDT
Wally's Bookshelf is a casual book discussion led by a Wabash faculty or staff member and provides participants the opportunity to connect with fellow Little Giants. Participants are required to procure and read the book, but the discussion is free. Offered live virtually via Zoom.
Join us on the evening of Tuesday, May 20 as Dr. Julian Whitney leads us through a discussion of classic novel The Great Gatsby. Set in 1925, the story celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Though the novel takes place in The Jazz Age in New York City, the storyline depicts universal and timeless themes of the corruption of wealth, decay of moral values, and pursuit of love and happiness.
About The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with Jay, a mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Dr. Julian S. Whitney - Byron K Trippet Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Julian S. Whitney is a Byron K Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College. Born and raised in Bronx, NY, Julian received an undergraduate degree at Haverford College and a PhD in English at Emory University. His research specialties include British Romanticism, eco-criticism, the Byron-Shelley circle, the Black Atlantic, and Japanese popular culture. At Wabash College Julian teaches courses such as Composition, Writing with Power and Grace, Manga and Anime, Intro. to Poetry and Short Fiction, English Literature, 1800-1900, and Jay Gatsby and the Jazz Age. His publications include an article on Byron's poem, "Darkness," in The Byron Journal, an essay on Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in Studies in Romanticism, and a new article on Percy Shelley in The CEA Critic about climate cycles and water. Since joining the faculty at Wabash, Julian has cultivated three new passions - learning electric guitar, tennis, and Japanese.