Lunch Lecture with Donald E. Pease: “Indigeneity, ‘Americanity’, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Romance with Settler Colonial Capitalism” (25.04.2024)
Date: 25.04.2024
Time: 12.30-14.00
Location: Ausstellungsraum, Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg (Schuhstraße 1a, 91054 Erlangen)
“Indigeneity, ‘Americanity’, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Romance with Settler Colonial Capitalism”
Donald E. Pease is Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is an authority on 19th and 20th century American literature and literary theory and is the founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College. Among his most recent book publications are the biography Theodor Seuss Geisel (2010) and The New American Exceptionalism (2009). In 2012 he was awarded the American Studies Association’s Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for life-long service to American Studies. Currently Donald E. Pease is working on a book project entitled American Studies after the New Americanists and research projects concerned with transnational American Studies and the Korean War.
Lunch will be provided – please bring your own drink.