Mitchell Kalpakgian
By Mitchell Kalpakgian
Dr. Mitchell A. Kalpakgian is a native of New England, the son of Armenian immigrants. He was Professor of English at Simpson College (Iowa) for 31 years. During his academic career, Dr. Kalpakgian received many academic honors, among them the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellowship (Brown University, 1981); the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (University of Kansas, 1985); and an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Children's Literature.
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Dickens’ David Copperfield: The Wealth of Goodness in Human Nature
August 20, 2018 -
The Child as Window in At the Back of the North Wind
July 17, 2018 -
The Poison That Spoils All the Virtues
June 18, 2018 -
Fatherless Sons in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Lame Shall Enter First”
May 21, 2018 -
Sigrid Undset’s Ida Elisabeth: The Moral Nobility of a Loving Woman
March 19, 2018 -
The Virtue of Magnanimity in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale”
January 29, 2018 -
Spiritual Pride and Honest Humility in G.K. Chesterton’s “The Hammer of God”
January 8, 2018 -
Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man”
October 23, 2017 -
The Seven Ages of Man in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
August 28, 2017 -
Howard Pyle’s The Wonder Clock
June 12, 2017 -
Medicines in Literature Not All Doctors Prescribe
April 25, 2017 - March 15, 2017
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Social Respectability as Religion in Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”
February 7, 2017 -
The “Divine Comedy” in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
January 11, 2017 -
C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength
November 7, 2016 -
A Modern Feminist Author Discovers the Truth of Marriage
October 3, 2016 -
On Wendell Berry’s Hannah Coulter
August 24, 2016 -
Fanatical Ideas and Reasonable Convictions
July 6, 2016 -
Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler: An Introduction to Liberal Arts
June 6, 2016 - March 28, 2016
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The Human Condition in Cather’s My Antonia
February 22, 2016 -
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
January 11, 2016 -
Charles Dickens’ Hard Times: The Usefulness of Useless Things
November 16, 2015 -
Unmanly Men in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories
November 2, 2015 -
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
October 5, 2015 - September 3, 2015
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Dr. Johnson: Man of Letters, Christian Moralist, Clubbable Man, and Noble Hero
August 6, 2015 -
Being Nice and Being Good in Tom Sawyer
July 6, 2015 - April 20, 2015
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales
February 12, 2015 -
C. S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce
October 2, 2014 -
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
September 29, 2014 - August 25, 2014
- July 7, 2014
- June 9, 2014
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Homer’s Odyssey: A Reflection of Womanhood
May 15, 2014 -
Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop
March 20, 2014 - January 23, 2014
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Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover”
October 31, 2013 -
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
October 7, 2013 - August 27, 2013
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George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin
August 5, 2013 - June 7, 2013
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“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
May 2, 2013 - March 14, 2013
- March 7, 2013
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Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
January 21, 2013 - January 15, 2013
- December 17, 2012
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Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
November 12, 2012 -
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
October 29, 2012 -
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men
October 1, 2012 -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
September 24, 2012 -
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
September 10, 2012 - August 30, 2012
- August 16, 2012
- July 23, 2012
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Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s School Days
July 2, 2012 -
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
June 18, 2012 - May 19, 2012
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses
May 3, 2012 -
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book
April 19, 2012 -
Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows
March 19, 2012 -
Household Stories of the Brothers Grimm
February 23, 2012
