The Philomathean Society Announces
a lecture by
Dr. Herman Beavers
entitled
"Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle
in Wright's Native Son"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:00 P.M.
The Philomathean Society Halls,
(see www.philomathean.org for directions)
Refreshments will be served.
Biography from Professor Beavers' website:
Herman Beavers came to Penn from Yale University, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990 with a specialization in African American Literature. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. Professor Beavers teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses dealing with the South and (along with Professor Elisa New) African- and Jewish-American literature. He values dialogue in classroom settings and thinks it is important for students to talk to one another about writing and literature. He also believes that his courses are much more about questions than static answers, especially when it comes to matters of race, gender, and class. And despite having very well-defined ideas about the kind of literature he enjoys, Professor Beavers likes to think he is open to persuasion.
a lecture by
Dr. Herman Beavers
entitled
"Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle
in Wright's Native Son"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
6:00 P.M.
The Philomathean Society Halls,
(see www.philomathean.org for directions)
Refreshments will be served.
Biography from Professor Beavers' website:
Herman Beavers came to Penn from Yale University, where he received his doctorate in American Studies in 1990 with a specialization in African American Literature. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, which was published in 1995 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling (1986) from Doris Publications. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. Professor Beavers teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses dealing with the South and (along with Professor Elisa New) African- and Jewish-American literature. He values dialogue in classroom settings and thinks it is important for students to talk to one another about writing and literature. He also believes that his courses are much more about questions than static answers, especially when it comes to matters of race, gender, and class. And despite having very well-defined ideas about the kind of literature he enjoys, Professor Beavers likes to think he is open to persuasion.
