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Lecture series to honor former English professor

The series will honor Professor Leonora Woodman, who taught in the department from 1976 to 1991. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Wayne C. Booth, the George M. Pullman Professor of English and Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will give the first lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m. The lecture is titled "Moralists in Disguise: The Ethical Rhetoric of Postmodernist Movements." It will be in the Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. A reception will follow in the Krannert Drawing Room.

Booth is author of works that include "The Rhetoric of Fiction," The Rhetoric of Irony," and "The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction."

Deborah E. McDowell, professor of English at the University of Virginia, will give the second lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in the Krannert Auditorium. Her lecture will be titled "Viewing the Remains: Facing the Black Male Corpse."

McDowell received her doctorate from Purdue in 1979 and is author of "Changing the Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism and Theory," and a memoir, "Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin."
CONTACT: Irwin Weiser, associate professor of English, (765) 496-2205.

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