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Thursday, October 24, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Houston Baker, a leading scholar on Afro-American literature and culture, will give a lecture, "Traveling With Faulkner: A Tale of Myth, Contemporaneity, and Southern Letters," at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 5 in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public. [Photo: Houston Baker. Download for publication.]
Baker has written more than 80 articles in scholarly journals, 10 books of literary criticism and four volumes of poetry, and edited or co-edited 12 books of essays. His most recent book is "Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker T." Baker is editor of the journal American Literature and has served as president of the Modern Language Association.
A graduate of Howard University, Baker earned his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of California at Los Angeles. Baker has received Guggenheim, Whitney and Rockefeller fellowships, as well as eleven honorary doctorates, including one from Knox College in 1992. He has taught at Yale University, University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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