The Missouri Transatlantic Center is happy to announce the next event on the MU campus.
What: Dr. Kristiaan "Kries" Versluys of Ghent University will be giving a lecture on post-9/11 American literature several days before the ten-year anniversary of the events of 9/11.
When: September 7, 2011, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Where: Fred Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
Dr. Versluys is Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team. He obtained his Ph. D.-degree from Harvard University in 1979. He has published The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930) and many articles on urban literature, in particular the literature of New York. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and a regular guest professor at the summer session of Columbia University, where he teaches a course entitled “New York in Recent Fiction”. In 2004-2005 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), where he embarked on a study of the discursive responses to 9/11.
Please mark your calendars for this event. We hope to see you there!
What: Dr. Kristiaan "Kries" Versluys of Ghent University will be giving a lecture on post-9/11 American literature several days before the ten-year anniversary of the events of 9/11.
When: September 7, 2011, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Where: Fred Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
Dr. Versluys is Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team. He obtained his Ph. D.-degree from Harvard University in 1979. He has published The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States (1800-1930) and many articles on urban literature, in particular the literature of New York. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and a regular guest professor at the summer session of Columbia University, where he teaches a course entitled “New York in Recent Fiction”. In 2004-2005 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), where he embarked on a study of the discursive responses to 9/11.
Please mark your calendars for this event. We hope to see you there!
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