Dear colleagues,

(apologies for cross-listings)

You are cordially invited to attend a lecture by Professor Nahum D.
Chandler on Oct 28 at 4 pm in the Bachelor Reading room (337 Bachelor
Hall).  Professor Chandler's talk is titled "The Riddle of the Sphinx:
W.E.B. Du Bois and _John Brown_."

Professor Chandler is on the faculty of the Humanities Center at The Johns
Hopkins University. During the 1998-1999 academic year he was a Member of
the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he
was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Ford Foundation
Fellow. He has been working on several book-length projects stemming from
his ongoing work on W.E.B. Du Bois. His first study "The Economy of
Desedimentation: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Discourses of the Negro" is
forthcoming from Stanford University Press. He is engaged in completing a
second study, "Force of the Double: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Question of
African American Historicity," which is also under contract to Stanford
University Press. Two reletatively recent essays are "Originary
Displacement," in the journal boundary 2 in the winter of 2000 and "The
Souls of an Ex-White Man: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Biography of John Brown,"
in the spring 2003 issue of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review.

This lecture is sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of
the Dean of Arts and Science.

--
Rebecka R. Rutledge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Literature
Department of English
Miami University
Oxford, OH  45056
513.529.5221
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