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English: Mark Edmundson

Saturday, March 20, 1:30 p.m., Hunt Center Recital Hall—NUCL (Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature) Keynote Address—Mark Edmundson is University Professor of English at the University of Virginia and a well-known public intellectual. Dr. Edmundson is the author of Kings of Rock and Roll (forthcoming, HarperCollins, Fall 2009), The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psycho-analysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism (Bloomsbury Press, 2007), Why Read? (Bloomsbury Press, 2004), Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference (Random House, 2002), Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sado-Masochism, and the Culture of Gothic (Harvard U. P., 1997), Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry (Cambridge U. P., 1995), Editor, Wild Orchids and Trotsky / Messages from American Universities (Penguin, 1993), and Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson and Sigmund Freud (Princeton U. P., 1990). Professor Edmundson has also published many essays on reading, education, and other issues in such publications as The American Scholar, The New York Times (and its magazine), and Harper’s.