'Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival' lecture at UNL Nov. 1
Released on 10/15/2007, at 2:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007
WHERE: Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place
Lawrence Buell, a preeminent scholar of literature and the environment, will deliver the 2007 Robert Knoll Lecture in Literary Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His talk, "Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St.
Buell is Powell M. Cabot professor of American literature at Harvard University. His publications include "The Future of Environmental Criticism," "Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture and Environment in the United States and Beyond" and "The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the formation of American Culture." Two more books, "Shades of the Planet" and "Environmental Autobiography as a Necessity of Life -- and Ecological Survival," are forthcoming.
The Knoll Lecture honors the contributions of Robert Knoll, the Paula and D.B. Varner professor of English emeritus, to both the Department of English and the University of Nebraska. Each year, the UNL Department of English invites a leading scholar in the field of literary studies to deliver the Knoll lecture.
CONTACT: Ken Price, University Professor, English, (402) 472-0293