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Speaker's Series


The MA Speaker's Series, sponsored by the English Department's L.L. Smith fund, brings scholars and critics to campus for public lectures, class visits and to work with our graduate students.  

 2009-2010 Speaker's Series 

 

 
 Professor Alan Nadel
"Revenge as a Faith-Based Initiative or 'What's That Snake Doing in Mel Gibson's Kilt?'"
Thursday, October 8
4:10 PM
Classroom 302
 
 Alan Nadel, Professor of Literature and Film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is the author of many books and articles on American literature and culture. His books include: Invisible Chriticism: Ralf Ellison and the American Canon (1988), Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (1995), and Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America (1997).
 

Past Speakers

 
 
Professor Laurie Finke
Co-editor of  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
"Whither Theory?"
 
Professor Finke's  talk stems from her involvement in editing the latest edition (forthcoming) of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. In addition to being one of the editors of this volume, Finke, the Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Kenyon College, has published extensively on theory, women's writing, medieval and modern Arthurian romance, and film.  Her books include Feminist Theory, Women's Writing (Cornell, 1992), Women's Writing in English: The Middle Ages (Longman, 1999), and King Arthur and the Myth of History (with Martin Shichtman; Florida, 2004).  Johns Hopkins will be publishing Finke and Shichtman's latest book,  Cinematic Illuminations: The  Middle Ages on Film, later this year. 
 
 
 
Professor Jim Porter
"Digital Economies, Social Networking and The Changing Nature of Professional Writing"
 
Jim Porter is a Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. Since coming to MSU in 2001, Jim started the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center.   He teaches teaches courses in Rhetorical Theory and History, Business and Technical Writing, and Digital Media and his research reflects these interests. As he writes, "My research focuses broadly on digital rhetoric -- that is, the art of communicating with/within computer-networked environments and in technical/professional writing contexts. I am especially interested in exploring how writing in digital environments requires us to develop new rhetoric theories, to modify our professional writing practices, and to redesign our writing pedagogies. My recent research focuseson digital communication ethics (particularly digital research ethics); the economics of digital delivery and distribution; and the impact of copying, downloading, and filesharing on writers' notions of intellectual property and authorship and on their composing processes."

 

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