Jo Ann Citron has had dual careers in English and in law but has always preferred novels to statutes.  She did her undergraduate work at Vassar, her Ph.D. at Boston University, and her J.D. at Northeastern University.  She taught English literature at BU and Bates, and law and public policy at Wellesley College.  Her family law practice in Massachusetts and New York concentrated in high-conflict child custody litigation with the NY practice emphasizing impact litigation. Until she moved from Cambridge to Truro full-time during the pandemic, she led study groups in 19th c. novels at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) in Cambridge. In 2023 she started A Taste for Trollope at the Truro Public Library where she leads discussions on Anthony Trollope and his contemporaries. This is her first course at the Prez Hall Open University.

Maurice Isserman, who has been visiting Wellfleet since 1969, is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, where he has taught since 1990, following stints in the history departments of Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Williams College. He received his BA from Reed College and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He taught a course on the Second World War for the Wellfleet Open University in 2024. He has published widely in a number of fields, including the history of American..

Steve Reynolds has taught classes at OUW on Carson McCullers, Eugene O’Neill and Brian Friel and on Gilbert and Sullivan and Arthur Miller for Lifetime Learning in Orleans. Directing projects on Cape Cod include Dancing at Lughnasa and A Little Night Music for Eventide Theatre Company and Stones in His Pockets and The Member of the Wedding for Cape Rep. Prior to moving to the Cape, Steve was…