Source: Donna Potts, 785-532-2180, dlpotts@k-state.edu
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
CARY NELSON, POET AND PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, TO SPEAK AT K-STATE
MANHATTAN -- Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors and the Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will make two presentations Wednesday, April 15, at Kansas State University.
Nelson will present &1xbet sports betting ;Universities in a Time of Financial Crisis&1xbet sports betting ; at 11:30 a.m. in Room 212 at the K-State Student Union. His second presentation, &1xbet sports betting ;When Death Rhymed: Poem Cards and Poetry Panics of World War I&1xbet sports betting ; will be from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Hemisphere Room at Hale Library.
Both presentations are free and open to the public. Nelson's visit to K-State is sponsored by the American Association of University Professors and K-State's department of English, Student Association of Graduates in English and Student Governing Association.
Nelson's 25 authored or edited books include &1xbet sports betting ;The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space,&1xbet sports betting ; 1973; &1xbet sports betting ;Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in Contemporary American Poetry,&1xbet sports betting ; 1981; &1xbet sports betting ;Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture,&1xbet sports betting ; 1987; &1xbet sports betting ;Cultural Studies,&1xbet sports betting ; 1992; &1xbet sports betting ;Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities,&1xbet sports betting ; 1994; &1xbet sports betting ;Will Work for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis,&1xbet sports betting ; 1997; &1xbet sports betting ;Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education,&1xbet sports betting ; 1999; &1xbet sports betting ;Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left,&1xbet sports betting ; 2001; and &1xbet sports betting ;Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy,&1xbet sports betting ; 2004.
In addition, Nelson is the author of more than 100 essays, including a number published in Academe, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education. More information on Nelson is available at:
http://www.cary-nelson.org/
To meet with Nelson prior to his talks, contact Donna Potts at dlpotts@k-state.edu.
