DURHAM, N.H. -- Jonathan Culler, chair of the English Department at Cornell University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will present “Doing Cultural Studies” Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, from noon-1 p.m. in Hamilton Smith 101 at the University of New Hampshire. The talk, sponsored by the English Department’s First Fridays series, is free and open to the public.
Culler’s talk will consider how the term "cultural studies" has the potential to unify various strains of scholarship within a general interdisciplinary discourse on the nature of knowledge itself. In particular, it will consider the relationship between cultural studies and literary theory.
Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature
at Cornell. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 at St. John's College, Oxford
University, after accepting a Rhodes scholarship upon his graduation from
Harvard in 1966. His interests include literary theory and the history
of modern literary criticism, English poetry since 1600, and 19th and 20th
century French literature. A member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Culler has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship. He received the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language
Association for his book “Structuralist Poetics” in 1975. He
has served on the advisory boards for several academic journals, including “College
English”, “PMLA”, and “Diacritics.” Most
recently, he published “Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in
the Public Arena” and “The Literary in Theory,” both
with Stanford University Press.