The Department of English is pleased to announce the resumption of the Joseph S. Schick Lectures in Literature, Language, and Lexicography with a presentation by Dr. Stephen Enniss: “‘Between my hat and my boots’: In Search of the
Absent Author”
THURSDAY OCTOBER 5, 2023
3:30 PM
LIBRARY EVENTS AREA @ CUNNINGHAM MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Dr. Stephen Enniss is the Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and has acquired the archives of many of the most important writers of our time, including Salman Rushdie, Billy Collins, and Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Dr. Ennis will discuss acts of self-fashioning that occur at the end of an author’s life and the degree to which manifestations of authorial anxiety impact the making of the archival body.
FREE ADMISSION — RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
