Please make time to participate in this opportunity!
--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: THE AMERICAN IDEA
THURSDAY 4/18 AT 3:30 PM (PALEY LIBRARY LECTURE HALL)
"Walt Whitman: An American Icon"
Walt Whitman’s legacy—iconoclast, celebrity, and the father of American
poetry—is unparalleled in its influence on American writing and culture.
Join David Haven Blake and Michael Robertson, professors of English at
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and co-editors of Walt Whitman, Where
the Future Becomes Present (University of Iowa Press, 2008) to discuss
the impact that Whitman has had on American culture—an impact that
reaches far beyond his influence on poetry. Blake is also the chair of
the English Department at TCNJ, and author of Walt Whitman and the
Culture of American Celebrity (Yale University Press, 2006). Robertson
is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships and author of the award-winning book Worshipping Walt: The
Whitman Disciples (Princeton UP, 2008). This program will be moderated
by Katherine Henry, associate professor of English at Temple.
David Haven Blake is chair and professor of English at The College of
New Jersey where he teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American
literature and creative non-fiction. His work has appeared in a variety
of journals, websites, and magazines including the Virginia Quarterly
Review, American Literary History, the Huffington Post, and American
Studies. He is currently writing a book about politics and celebrity
during the Eisenhower era.
Michael Robertson, a professor of English at The College of New Jersey,
is author of the award-winning Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples
(Princeton University Press, 2008). He is on the editorial board of the
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.
Moderator Katherine Henry, Associate Professor of English, is currently
working on a book-length project on the 19th C. Philadelphia Gothic.
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