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H.O. Grauel Lecture |
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An annual lecture series established in 1996 to honor Dr. H.O. Grauel (1901-1995), a long time educator and administrator at Southeast. The lecture usually occurs around Dr. Grauel's birthday, March 18.
2009 H.O. Grauel Lecture
Dr. Jeremy Wells Southern Illinois English Department will present a lecture entitled "Uncle Remus, Absalom, Absalom!, and Other Tales of the Global South" April 7, 2009 7:00-8:00 p.m. Glen Auditorium, Dempster Hall Free and open to the public A reception with refreshments follows the lecture
Professor Wells specializes in post-Civil War American literature and culture. His research and teaching interests include southern literature, African-American literature, literature and empire, and cultural studies. His current book project, "Romances of the White Men Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in U.S. Fiction, 1880-1936," examines the relationship between stories about plantations and discourses surrounding U.S. imperialism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has also published on such figures as Booker T. Washington and Jimi Hendrix as well as on U.S. literary regionalism. Before coming to SIUC, Dr. Wells taught at Indiana University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities. He has also received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Jacob K. Javits Foundation.
Sponsored by the Grauel Lecture Fund and the Department of English
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Last Updated 12 September 2008 by Michelle Crosnoe
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