Professorial Lectures
John Donne Goes to the Movies: How the HBO Film Wit Helps Us Reflect on the Practice of the Humanities as a Healing Art
John Ruff, Ph.D. (Department of English)
Most of us who teach in the humanities often feel backed into a corner by an increasingly materialistic, anti-intellectual culture that keeps asking what’s the cash value of a degree…
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Young Adult Dystopian Literature and Social Critique: Postmodernism, Historicity, and Memory in M.T. Anderson’s Feed”
Carter Hanson, Ph.D. (Department of English)
Ever since Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games became a phenomenal bestseller five years ago, Young Adult dystopian fiction has been the hottest thing going. But even as it dominates the YA market,…
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I’m a Country Boy: Country Music, Identity, and the Changing Relationship between Country and City
Michael Longan, Ph.D. (Department of Geography and Meteorology)
Have you noticed that everyone on country radio is singing about being a country boy or country girl lately? Professor Longan confirms that you aren’t imagining things, explains why artists…
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