Benson Lecture to Feature Susan D. Gubar

Susan D. Gubar, a Distinguished Professor of English, who has taught at Indiana University for more than twenty years, will deliver the 2000 Carl Benson Lecture at the English Department's annual undergraduate awards ceremony beginning at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 5, 2000 in Foy Union 213. Gubar's topic will be "Adoption in the Classroom: Why We Read and Write About Literature." More specifically, she'll be talking about a Holocaust novel entitled Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, approaching the larger issue of why we read and write about literature. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, Gubar recently published a book on the centrality of cross-racial masquerade in American fiction, photography, painting, and film: Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (Oxford, 1997). Professor Gubar’s lecture is sponsored by the Department of English, the Auburn University Special Lectures Program, The West-Point Pepperell-H. M. Philpott Research Fund, The College of Liberal Arts, and The Women’s Studies Program. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception for Professor Gubar will follow her presentation.

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Question of the Week

Three faculty members in the English Department have been awarded Competitive Research Grants-in-Aid. Please congratulate Jon Bolton, Margaret Hundleby, and Chris Keirstead.
Yes, there is life after graduate school. Dan Ennis, who received his Ph.D. in English from Auburn in spring, 1999, reports from his position as an Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina University that his dissertation, which was directed by Dr. Paula Backscheider, will be published by the University of Delaware Press under the title, Enter the Press Gang: Naval Impressment in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. He also has articles forthcoming in the South Atlantic Review, Albion, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research, and The Age of Johnson. In addition, he claims to “have also mostly stayed out of trouble with the law.”