Thanks for bringing Walter Benn Michael's to UTA. I will not miss his talk!

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Subject: Is There a Class in this Text? (announcement of talk)

The UTA Department of English Presents:
A Public Lecture by Dr. Walter Benn Michaels
Title: "The Neoliberal Novel: Immigration and Inequality in the 21st Century"
When: Thursday October 21, 2010, at 2:30 pm
Where: Chemistry Physics Building,  Rm 303

Overview: Dr. Walter Benn Michaels’ talk will explore how recent novels such as Joseph O'Neill's Netherland and recent theoretical structures such as those proposed by Giorgio Agamben, William Connolly and the Tea Party problematize the meaning of “social class.”

Dr. Walter Benn Michaels is one of the leading theorists in American Literature. He is the author of four books The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (2006), The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004), Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995), The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism (1987). He is also well known for his essay "Against Theory", co-written with Steven Knapp, and currently anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism. Dr. Michaels’ work has generated a set of arguments and questions around a host of issues that are central to literary studies: culture and race, national and personal identity politics, memory and history, disagreement and difference, and meaning and intention in interpretation. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.