Graham Forst
Graham Forst has an interdisciplinary PhD in literature and philosophy. His thesis was examined by Northrop Frye in 1970.
In the 1960s and 70s, he taught English and contemporary issues at Hunter College in New York, St John's University, and Hofstra University in New York. In 1974, he began teaching at Capilano College, in both the English and philosophy deparments. He retired from full-time teaching in 2004.
He has published several articles on literary criticism, and writes reviews for UBC's journal, Canadian Literature. In 1975, he founded the Vancouver Holocaust Symposium for High School Students, which he chairs to this day.
He teaches in the Continuing Studies programs at both SFU and the University of British Columbia, and moderates a Philosophers' Café.
Previously taught:
- Shylock, Fagin, and the Devil: The Depiction of Jews and Judaism in Western Literature (55+)
- William Blake: Poet, Prophet, and Mystic (55+)
- Introduction to Western Aesthetic Theory (55+)
- The Origins and History of the English Language, From Anglo Saxon to Email (55+)
- Ethics in Everyday Life (55+)
- Paradises Lost: Utopias in Western Literary History (55+)
- Blazing Saddles: The Art of Literary Satire in the Western Tradition (55+)
- The Woman as Hero in Western Literature (55+)
- The Bible as Art and Music (55+)
- Strange Bedfellows: Art and Revolutionary Politics (55+)
- From Oedipus to Willy Loman: The Development of Western Tragedy (55+)
