UPDATE: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS for Interdisciplinary Conference: "Monster and Critic: Transactions Among
Arts, Critique, and Culture(s)" at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on
February 22-24, 2002.
We are pleased to announce that JUDITH HALBERSTAM, MARJORIE PERLOFF and MARK HARRIS will be
speaking at our conference.
JUDITH HALBERSTAM is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego where
she teaches gender studies, queer theory, film and literature. She is the author of several books,
including Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity
(1998), and The Drag King Book (1999).
MARJORIE PERLOFF of Stanford University will give a talk entitled “Writing Poetry/ Writing About
Poetry.” Dr. Perloff’s major interests are twentieth-century poetry and poetics--British,
American, and European; in the relationship of the verbal to the visual arts, especially with
respect to the early twentieth-century avant garde, and in the relationship of postmodern poetics
to parallel developments in critical theory. Her most recent publications include: Wittgenstein's
Ladder : Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996), Poetry On & Off the Page:
Essays for Emergent Occasions(1998), and Twenty-First Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (2001).
We will be screening MARK HARRIS’s 2001 academy award winning documentary, Into the Arms of
Strangers, which will be followed by a Q&A session with Professor Harris.
Proposal deadline December 14th: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/aegs/index.htm
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