PULLMAN, Wash. — The Washington State University spring Art a lá Carte brown bag lunch series will begin with Debbie Lee’s presentation of “Female Impostors” at noon Thursday, Jan. 29, in the Compton Union Building Cascade Room 123.
Lee, a faculty member in the WSU English department, will lead the audience on a journey to early 19th century Europe, as she presents biographies of female fakes with strange motivations and the cultural climate that contributed to these forms of lies and disguise.
Lee received a doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1998 and began teaching at WSU the same year. She specializes in late 18th-century and early 19th-century British literature and history. She is a recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship and is working at various archives in Britain on her next book, “Romantic Liars: Self-Invention in Britain at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.”
The lecture is sponsored by the Office of Campus Involvement and the WSU Museum of Art.
The Art a lá Carte spring schedule includes a variety of subjects to meet a number of interests.
Susan Kilgore, a WSU general education instructor, will present “Subversive Laughter: American Indian and First Nations Artists Talk Back” on Feb. 5. The lecture will include a slide presentation of 20th-century paintings, photographs, sculptures and carvings by contemporary native artists and a dialogue about the popular-culture stereotypes that surround native cultures.
Eugene Rosa, a WSU department of sociology instructor, will present “Ecolage: Postmodern Art for Modern Challenges” on Feb. 12. Rosa will discuss ecolage, an artistic vision of the effects of waste, the byproduct of modernity’s consumptive society.
Jim Palmersheim, an artist, educator and fisherman, will present “Art and the Trout Fly,” a lecture highlighting the connection between fishing, fly tying and fine art on Feb. 19.
David Giese, an instructor of art and design at the University of Idaho, will present “Recent Commissions from the Villa Bitricci” on March 4. As an architect, archaeologist and historian for the Villa Bitricci, Giese has recreated a centuries-long path through time. He will give a virtual tour of what is believed to be the longest, continuously inhabited private residence in Europe and its recent commissions.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
