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Spend a Day in the World of Ideas...
Literary Tradition
of the
20th Century
A FREE Workshop for Middle and High School English Teachers!
Friday, March 9th- Houston Baptist University
Speakers:
Benjamin Lockerd is professor of English at Grand Valley State
University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of The Sacred
Marriage: Psychic Integration in the Faerie Queene and Aethereal
Rumours: T.S. Eliot's Physics & Poetics. He is currently on the
board of directors of the T. S. Eliot Society. Dr. Lockerd received his
M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in English Language
and Literature from University of Connecticut.
Burton Folsom, Jr. is Historian in Residence at the Center for the American Idea. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught American History at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Nebraska, Northwood University, Hillsdale College, and Murray State University, where he was tenured full professor. Also he is the editor of Continuity: A Journal of History. He is the author of The Myth of the Robber Barons, Empire Builders, and Urban Capitalists, among other books.
Tentative
Lecture Topics:
- Signs that Signify: Walker Percy and Deconstructionism
- Turning Gyres: Interplay of Opposites in the Poetry of Yeats
- T.S. Eliot: Sources in "The Wasteland"
- A Study of Willa Cather
- Zora Neal Hurston: The Individualist Tradition in Black Literature
Important Details:
There is no charge to attend American Idea Workshops.
Continental breakfast and lunch included.
Books will be available for purchase at reduced cost. MasterCard, Visa, Cash & Checks accepted.