Representations of sexual assault in literature, cinema – public lecture October 14

Literary and cinematic representations of sexual assault, especially on college campuses, will be examined in a free, public lecture on Tuesday, October 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Goertzen Hall room 21.  Donna Potts, professor of English, will present “‘Readings Will Grow Erratic’: Reading Rape in the Humanities.”  It is the first of three lectures on a diverse range of topics to be delivered this fall and next spring by the inaugural cohort of humanities fellows at WSU and the first in the 2014-15 WSU Honors Distiiinguished Lecture Series.  Spring humanities fellows lectures will be given by Susan Dente Ross, professor of English, and Michael Hubert, assistant professor of Spanish.