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The Spring 2007 Lecture Series...
“J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and American Print Culture.”
Claire Culleton, Kent State University
February 8th, 4 p.m.
Weigley Room, Gladfelter Hall
Claire Culleton is Professor of English with interests in 20th century Irish, British, and American literature and culture. She has published Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism; Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921; Names and Naming in Joyce, and has forthcoming Extorting Henry Holt, and Co: J. Edgar Hoover and American Print Culture. She is the series editor for Palgrave Macmillan’s Irish Studies Series, New Directions in Irish and Irish-American Literature, 1920-1950.
"Bewitching Politics: Performing Mother Shipton in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture"
Laura McGrane, Haverford College
February 28, 4 p.m.
1123 Anderson Hall
Laura McGrane is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and co-editor of the Stanford Humanities Review volume, Critical History: The Career of Ian Watt (2000). She is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled Hollowed Voices: Reformulations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture.
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Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers University/Columbia University
Wednesday, March 21st, 4 p.m.
Brent Edwards is presently Visiting Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism and co-editor, with Robert G. O'Meally and Farah Jasmine Griffin, of Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies. His next book project is a study of the interplay between jazz and literature in African American culture.
“Women’s Cinema as Global Cinema”
Patty White, Swarthmore College
Thursday, April 5, 4 p.m.
Patty White is Chair of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She has authored Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability and, with Tim Corrigan, The Film Experience. A member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura, she also sits on the board of Women Make Movies.
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