| The USC Department of English is sponsoring two lectures by National Humanities Center Fellows on campus Nov. 11 and 12.
Andrew Miller, a faculty member in the English department at Indiana University, will deliver a talk entitled, "On Not Being Someone Else," at 3:30 p.m. in Gambrell Hall, Room 429.
Miller is editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Victorian Studies; author of Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative; co-editor of Sexualities in Victorian Britain; and author of numerous articles including "'Bruising, Laceration, and Lifelong Maiming'; or How We Encourage Research" (ELH). As a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Miller is completing a book on the Victorian desire to improve. A reception will follow his lecture in Gambrell Hall, Room 428.
Mary A. Favret, also a faculty member in the English department at Indiana University, will deliver a talk entitled, "The Bridge of Suspension," at 3:30 p.m. in Humanities, Room 201. The lecture is part of her current project on Romanticism, gender, and war.
Favret's publications include Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters; a co-edited volume, At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist and Materialist Critics;and many essays on both Romanticism and the more general art of pedagogy. As a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Favret is completing her book on Romanticism and war. A reception will follow her talk.
For more information about these events, contact Rebecca Stern, English, by phone at 7-2305 or by e-mail at stern2@gwm.sc.edu.
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