University Park, Pa. -- The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community. Each week there is a 20-minute presentation by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline.
Jonathan Eburne is the coordinator for the series this semester. We meet at 12:15 p.m. on Mondays in 102 Kern, University Park. You can bring your lunch or buy a lunch tray in Kern Cafeteria, next door, and bring it into 102. Coffee and tea are provided in 102 free of charge. The speaker will begin at about 12:30 p.m. Allowing a few minutes for discussion, we'll conclude in time for classes that meet at 1:25 p.m. All students, faculty, colleagues and friends are welcome.
Upcoming speakers are:
Monday, March 16
Rob Doggett, assistant professor of English, SUNY Geneseo, "Auditory Modernism and the Metallic Homunculus, or Yeats on the Radio."
Monday, March 23
Wilfried Raussert, professor of literature and linguistics, Universitat Bielefeld, Germany, "Space and Masculinity in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada."