Janet McCoy (mccoyjl@mail.auburn.edu)

VANDERBILT'S TICHI TO SPEAK AS 1997 BENSON LECTURE APRIL 24 AT AU

AUBURN -- Cecelia Tichi, the William R. Kenan Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, will present the 1997 Carol Benson Lecture in 20th Century Literature at Auburn University on Thursday, April 24.

Tichi, who is also director of American Studies at Vanderbilt, will speak on "Light Shows: Psychedelia in Literature and Popular Culture," at 3 p.m. in 213 Foy Union. A reception will follow.

Tichi says her work has "consistently concerned the relation of American literature to the American environment and the ways in which popular literature and canonical texts exist in colloquy with one another."

In addition to more than 30 articles, Tichi is the author of High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music, published by the University of North Carolina University Press; Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture, published by Oxford Press; Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture and Modernist America, published by the University of North Carolina University Press; and New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman, printed by Yale University Press. She is co editor of The Harper American Literature, printed by Harper and Row.

Tichi's lecture is sponsored by the AU Special Lectures Committee, the AU Department of English and the West Point Pepperell-H.M. Philpott Research Fund.

CONTACT: Constance Relihan, 844-4620.