Democratizing the Great Books w/ Roosevelt Montas

Watch this webinar, featuring SPA Prof. Thomas Merrill as he discusses “Democratizing the Great Books” with Roosevelt Montas, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University’s Center for American Studies. Montas was the Director of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University from 2008 to 2018 and is a scholar of American literature. Montas speaks and writes about the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is completing a book on his experiences as a student and a teacher for Princeton University Press.