The Department of English will launch its new Visiting Scholars Series with a public lecture by Reginald Wilburn – titled, “To Hell with Milton and African American Literature.” This talk (free and open to the public) will take place on Monday, March 30 at 5pm – 276 Todd Hall (Pullman Campus).
Reginald A. Wilburn is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and author of Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature, which theorizes African Americans’ subversive receptions of John Milton, England’s epic poet of liberty. Wilburn examines Miltonic presence in the works of diverse writers from Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, to Frances Harper, Anna Julia Cooper, and Sutton E. Griggs.
Additional events in this series include:
Public Lecture: Wednesday, April 8, 5pm – 101 Kimbrough Hall
Gregory Eiselein – “William James and Emotion’s Literary History”
Public Lecture: Wednesday, April 15, 5pm – 276 Todd Hall
Jacqueline Rhodes – “Queer/ed Research: Play, Affect, and Disruption in the Burkean Parlor”
Click here for more information. For additional information about the series, please contact Kirk McAuley, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, in the Department of English: lmcauley@wsu.edu
