Bryan Alkemeyer

Writer | Teacher | Humorist

Courses

Animals in Literature: An Introduction to Literary Studies

Dossi's painting Melissa

Dosso Dossi (1489-1542), Melissa. Photo © Galleria Borghese, Rome. https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it

Making/Unmaking Britain: British Literature to 1800

Herman Moll, A New & Correct Map of the Whole World (1719). Photo © Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov

Sex and Gender in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

van Diepenbeeck's engraving of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus

Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus [c. 1635-38], in Michel de Marolles, Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. https://www.britishmuseum.org

Mimic Forms: The Eighteenth Century

Hogarth's painting Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette

William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette (ca. 1743). Photo © The National Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk