This is a concise and accessible 5-session introduction to theories of adult development, featuring literary and historical case studies. In weekly meetings we’ll read Carol Gilligan, Erik Erikson, and Usha Tummala-Narra on processes of change in the context of social justice. In tandem we’ll read a new graphic memoir of adolescence by a Korean-American artist-writer (Deb JJ Lee, In Limbo); study how the poet Allen Ginzburg used a psychiatric hospitalization at Columbia University in his 20s; and consider how the middle-aged Mohandas Gandhi helped decolonize the British Empire. All are welcome!