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WHEELING -- The “People’s University: Around the World in Literature & Language” series, presented by the Ohio County Public Library, continues at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16 with a presentation by Brad Fitzmaurice. He will lead students 9,500 miles “Down Under” (no time travel this time) for an excursion through the Australian Outback in a class called “Jumbucks, Billabongs and Budgie Smugglers: Ballads and Bards of the Australian Bush,” focusing on the works of writers like Henry Lawson and A B (Banjo) Patterson. Fitzmaurice’s master's dissertation examined the work of a group of Australian writers in the 1890s and early 1900s.
He currently teaches American history at the University of Sydney and is writing a PhD on the history of Wheeling.