About Well-Read Travelers
We’re Q and Shannon, two friends and academics who curate and lead trips connecting destinations abroad with literary and cultural history. Each session combines a series of classes on our chosen theme, followed by a weeklong trip to see the places at the heart of our studies.
Imagine a kind of adult study abroad, but without the awkwardness of having to share a tiny European bathroom with all six members of your host family. Or a book club without any shame for not finishing the reading, and which ends in an expertly-curated international vacation.
Join us on our next trip to satisfy your travel bug and your intellectual curiosity!
Q Ostendorf & Shannon McHugh
Q Ostendorf (left) is a Resident Assistant Professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles whose research and teaching interests include everything from gender and sexuality to romance novels to, of course, Shakespeare.
Shannon McHugh (right) is Assistant Director of Research at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and a scholar of French and Italian Renaissance literature. Her research has taken her everywhere from the Vatican Secret Archives to the Disney Imagineering Library.