Author:Ian Courtenay Johnston

Translations
Works by Franz Kafka
 * Before the Law
 * A Hunger Artist
 * The Hunter Gracchus
 * Up in the Gallery
 * In the Penal Colony
 * A Country Doctor
 * A Report for An Academy
 * The Metamorphosis
 * An Imperial Message
 * Jackals and Arabs
 * The Great Wall of China

Lectures

 * Ancient and Modern Science: Some Observations (external text)
 * Introductory Note on Classical Greece (external text)
 * The Triumph of the Lions? An Introduction to Antony and Cleopatra (external text)
 * Critical Approaches to Shakespeare: Some Initial Observations (external text)
 * On Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (external text)
 * A Note on the Life and Work of Aristotle (external text)
 * Variations on a Theme of Love: An Introduction to As You Like It (external text)
 * An Introductory Note to Euripides’ Bacchae (external text)
 * On Satire in Aristophanes’s Clouds (external text)
 * Creationism in the Science Curriculum? (external text)
 * Preliminary Notes on Cubist Architecture in Prague, 2004
 * Some Introductory Historical Observations (on Czech history), 2004
 * Lecture on Dante’s Inferno (external text)
 * Some Non-Scientific Observations on the Importance of Darwin (external text)
 * Lecture on Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (external text)
 * Basic Historical Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to The Second Sex (external text)
 * Lecture on Robinson Crusoe (external text)
 * On Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method (external text)
 * Notes on Notes from Underground (external text)
 * Lecture on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land (external text)
 * Introduction to Rousseau’s Emile (external text)
 * Lecture on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (external text)
 * Responses to Some Common Objections to “The Short Proof of Evolution” (external text)
 * Introductory Remarks on the Book of Exodus (external text)
 * Lecture on Frayn’s Copenhagen (external text)
 * On Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (external text)
 * On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (external text)
 * Introductory Lecture on Shakespeare’s Hamlet (external text)
 * On Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, 2007
 * The Foxes, The Lion, and the Fat Knight: Introduction to Henry IV, Part 1 (external text)
 * The Ironies of Success in Politics: An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Henry V (external text)
 * On Hobbes’ Leviathan (external text)
 * On Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (external text)
 * Introduction to Shakespeare Studies (external text)
 * A Brief Introduction to The Varieties of Religious Experience (external text)
 * Lecture on Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” (external text)
 * Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear (external text)
 * Some Observations on Lucretius (external text)
 * Introduction to Macbeth (external text)
 * Lecture on Machiavelli’s The Prince (external text)
 * On Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2000
 * Lecture on Marx (external text)
 * Karl Marx on Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis (external text)
 * Introductory Lectures on Matthew and Epistle to the Romans (external text)
 * On Spiegelman’s Maus I and II (external text)
 * Lecture on Plato’s Meno (external text)
 * Some Observations on Montaigne’s Essays (external text)
 * An introduction to the work of Alfons Mucha and Art Nouveau (2004, revised 2014)
 * Myth Conceptions of Academic Work Once More (external text)
 * “There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist” (external text)
 * Some Preliminary Observations on Classical Greek Literature (external text)
 * Lecture on the Odyssey (external text)
 * Fate, Freedom, and Tragic Experience: An Introductory Lecture on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (external text)
 * Lecture on the Oresteia (external text)
 * Lecture on Plato’s Republic (external text)
 * Research Revisited: The Rage of Caliban (external text)
 * The Issue of Language: Introduction to Richard II and Hamlet (external text)
 * Lecture on Shakespeare’s Transformation of Medieval Tragedy and an Introduction to Richard III (external text)
 * Introduction to the Romantic Era in English Poetry (external text)
 * A Brief Note on the Historical Background to Shakespeare’s First and Second History Cycles (external text)
 * On Rousseau’s Discourse On Inequality (external text)
 * The Short Proof of Evolution (external text)
 * A Note on Shakespeare’s Sonnets (external text)
 * Why Should I Obey the State? (external text)
 * Lecture on Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (external text)
 * Lecture on Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (external text)
 * Lecture on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (external text)
 * You Can Go Home Again, Can’t You?: An Introduction to The Tempest (external text)
 * Preliminary Observations on Thucydides (external text)
 * The Legend of the Trojan War (external text)
 * Lecture on Huckleberry Finn (external text)
 * The Ironies of Happy Endings: An Introduction to Twelfth Night (external text)
 * Towards an Initial Understanding of Science (external text)
 * Some Historical Observations on Western Civilization; or, Why Is Everyone Studying English These Days? (external text)
 * Lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (external text)
 * Lecture on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (external text)

Other lectures, etc.

 * My Body the Billboard (external text)
 * A Toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns (external text)
 * God’s Handicap: Golf as Spiritual Ordeal (external text)
 * In Praise of Conversation (external text)
 * Is not the Truth the Truth? (external text)
 * No Snakes on these Islands (external text)
 * Participating in Seminars (external text)
 * the e-coli (external directory)
 * God Rides a Harley in the Land of the Free (external text)
 * Lecture on Hildegard of Bingen (external text)
 * Essays on Homer’s Iliad: a series of eight essays (external directory)
 * Homer’s War
 * Homer’s Similes: Nature as Conflict
 * The Gods
 * The Heroic Code
 * Arms and the Men
 * Hector and Achilles
 * Homer and the Modern Imagination
 * On Modern English Translations of the Iliad
 * Lecture Notes on Mill’s On Liberty (external text)
 * Losing One’s Cherry: Reactions to Rorty’s Contingency, irony, and solidarity (external text)
 * Our Universities: How We Got Where We Are (external text)