WVU English Department hosts 14th annual summer seminar

Morgantown, WV, May 24, 2006:  Clare Lees, professor of English at King’s College, London, will headline the 14th annual West Virginia University Department of English Summer Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies titled, “Things to do with Old Poems,” June 1-4.

Lees’ free public lecture, “Making Sense of Old English Poetry,” is scheduled Thursday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Betty Boyd Lounge, E-Moore Hall on the downtown campus. A reception will follow.

Scholars from universities and colleges across the country will gather on WVU's campus for the seminar. Over four days, they will study contemporary Anglo-Saxon studies and-more broadly-its relation to modern and postmodern discourses as well as poetries.

Lees has published widely on Anglo-Saxon literature, gender and culture. She is the author of “Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England” (1999) and co-author with Gillian R. Overing of “Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England” (2001). She is the editor of “Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages” (1994) and co-editor with Thelma S. Fenster of “Gender in Debate from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance” (2002). With Gillian Overing, she has also co-edited “Gender and Empire in the Early Medieval World” for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) and “A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes” (2006).

For more information on the seminar and public talk, call 304-293-3107, ext. 33404.

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