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A Reading by Professor Lois Brown
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins:Black Daughter of the Revolution
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Odyssey Bookshop
7:00 pm
News link: Lois Brown Publishes Groundbreaking Biography
Sponsored by the English Department
A Lecture by Professor William H. Quillian
Virginia Woolf
Monday, November 24
Hooker Auditorium MHC
4:00-5:00 pm
Part of the First-Year Seminar Lecture Series
Past Events
A Reading and Conversation with Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer, feminist, cultural critic; Visiting Professor, Brown University
Everything Counts
Thursday, October 30
Stimson Room, MHC Williston Library
4:15 pm
Sponsored by Mount Holyoke College First-Year Seminar Program, English and African American and African Studies, and the Five College African Studies Council.
A lecture by Eric Avila
Barrio Urbanism: Freeways and the Art of East Los Angeles
Thursday, October 23
101 Dwight, MHC
4:15 pm
Eric Avila is Associate Professor of UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the Department of History. He is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (UC Press, 2004) and is currently at work on a second book, Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Making of Race in the Modernist City. This new book project, from which his lecture will be drawn, examines how freeways engender subjective expressions of social identity.
A Reading by Professor Elizabeth Young
Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor
Wednesday, October 29
The Odyssey Book Shop
7:00 pm
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel, Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonance in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.
News Link: MHC's Young to Discuss Black Frankenstein
Jeffrey Harrison to Read His Poems
Tuesday, October 7
Stimson Room, MHC Library
4:15 pm
Refreshments will be served
Since 1988, when his first volume was chosen by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Harrison has published five collections of poems, the most recent being The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems, and Incomplete Knowledge. A recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, he has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, and the College of the Holy Cross. He is currently on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine.
Please contact Professor Robert Shaw for more information.
Live Web Broadcast with Philip Roth
Indignation
Tuesday, September 16
Hooker Auditorium, Clapp Laboratory, MHC
8:00 pm
Alison Bass
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
Monday, September 15
The Odyssey Bookshop
7:00 pm
Tom Piazza
City of Refuge
Thursday, September 11
Gamble Auditorium, Side B, Art Museum, MHC
7:00 pm
