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Faculty authors featured during UI press week
Andrea
Lynn, Humanities Editor
(217) 333-2177; a-lynn@illinois.edu
10/15/02
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Seven
local authors – and their most recent books – will be featured
Oct. 21-24 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The authors
– all U. of I. professors – will lead discussions of their
books during UI Press Week, a joint event of the University of Illinois
Press and the Illini Union Bookstore.
All but the final presentation will take place in the Author’s
Corner on the second floor of the bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., Champaign.
The purpose of the free and public event is "to show the campus
and community the range of titles the press has to offer and to highlight
the faculty of this campus and the outstanding works they have created,"
said Danielle Wilberg, publicity manager for the press. All seven of
the books have been published within the past year.
Schedules, authors and their books:
Oct. 21
Noon, Vernon Burton, history, "Computing in the Social Sciences"
4 p.m., Armine Kotin Mortimer, French, "Proust in Perspective"
Oct. 22
Noon, Stephen Hartnett, speech communication, "Democratic Dissent
and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America"
4 p.m., Cary Nelson, English, "The Wound and the Dream"
Oct. 23
4 p.m., Sundiata Cha-Jua, history, "America’s First Black
Town"
Oct. 24
Noon, James R. Barrett, history, "William Z. Foster and the Tragedy
of American Radicalism"
4 p.m., Ronald Schmitt, architecture, "Sullivanesque"; 102B
Architecture Building, 608 E. Lorado Taft Drive, Champaign
