March 30, 2009

Spring Speaker Series: Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree and Wai Chee Dimock

The English Graduate Organization's Speaker Series has two exciting speakers lined up for this spring, with talks by Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree, Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, and Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.

Dr. Murphree's talk, "Reading Cinema Globally: A cinema of failure," will be held this Friday, April 3rd, in Hall of Languages room 207, at 3:30 pm. A screening of Jia Zhang Ke's film Still Life will be included in the presentation.



Dr. Dimock's talk, "Three Wars: Henry James and Others," is scheduled for Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm in the Killian Room (Hall of Languages 500).