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Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen recently gave a keynote lecture for the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) entitled “Jane Austen’s Dangerous Education: Colonizing and Catechistic Curricula.” The talk was arranged by our local Central Virginia Region’s chapter, but members from across the country also attended remotely.
Lorentzen began by …
Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen appeared on Virginia Humanities’ With Good Reason radio program in December discussing how holiday stories shape our experiences – from early classics like A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker and The Gift of the Magi to new traditions like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The With Good Reason radio program […]
Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen will appear on Virginia Humanities’ With Good Reason radio program Friday, Dec. 20 to discuss how holiday stories shape our experiences – from early classics like A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker, and The Gift of the Magi to new traditions like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The With Good Reason […]
Professor of English Eric G. Lorentzen presented a paper entitled “The Sights/Sites of Dickens in 2023: Literary Tourism, Cultural Studies, and the University Literature Classroom” at the recent Dickens Society Symposium in Rochester (RIT). The talk included research he conducted in museums and other literary sites across England, as well as the pedagogical methodologies involved […]
Eric G. Lorentzen, professor of English, recently gave a talk entitled “Interdisciplinary English as Social Justice: Dickens, Disney and Popular Culture,” at the Virginia Humanities Conference. The talk was based on a new class Lorentzen taught in fall semester of 2022, in which the goal was to mark, as an intellectual community, the tremendous ongoing, […]