Professor delves into mystery and suspense fiction through The Great Courses

David Schmid, associate professor of English at the State University of New York’s University at Buffalo, will host an online chat on Nov. 9 about a new course he’s presenting on mystery and suspense fiction for The Great Courses, a recorded library of non-credit, college-level lectures designed for lifelong learners. His course, The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction, is a collection of 36 half-hour lectures.
“If you look at the long history of mystery and suspense fiction, you will see a genre that is constantly willing to reinvent itself, to go back to square one and re-examine the things it’s based on, yet at the same time there continues to be this interest in the world around us and trying to make that world fit into some sort of pattern that tells us, despite how it sometimes appears, that the world is an ordered, comprehensible place,” he says.
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Schmid to explore mystery and suspense fiction for The Great Courses (UBNow)