Come To The ENGL Dept.’s “Lessons American Literature Teaches About History and Social Change” Panel

The English Department’s panel LESSONS AMERICAN LITERATURE TEACHES ABOUT HISTORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE features Professor Sally Bachner, Professor Matthew Garrett, and Professor Amy Tang.

How can American literature and literary studies empower your sense of yourself as a historical actor and agent of social change? What tools for the analysis of history and social change does American literature and literary studies offer us? Why is it useful to pay heed to form, narratives, genres, metaphors, and the history of language when thinking about history and how social change can be brought about?

Date: TOMORROW, October 21st

Time: 4:15 PM

Place: Downey 113

Italian cookies on hand at the close of the panel.