Professorial Lectures
Putting Walt Whitman to Work: The Employment of English Majors
Martin Buinicki, Ph.D. (Department of English)
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 triggered a wave of protest writing, and many of these works are now considered classics of American literature. Today, as our deeply divided nation prepares to inaugurate its 45th president, what can these texts teach us about passionate, peaceful dissent?
Academic year: 2016-2017