#96-10-01
For Release: 10/01/96
Contact: Peter Bailley

Lori Haslem, assistant professor of English at Knox College, will give a lecture, "Black Devils, White Witches, and the Chains of Magic in Titus Andronicus and Othello." at 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 4, in the Common Room, Old Main, Knox College.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Haslem's lecture explores issues of race and gender in the two Shakespearean tragedies. Before joining the English Department faculty at Knox this year, Haslem was assistant professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where she regularly taught courses in early modern literature, Shakespeare, and Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. She also has also published several articles on the drama of the period.

Haslem earned her bachelor's degree at Purdue University, her master's degree at the University of Illinois and her doctorate at the University of Denver.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.