 Professor Joseph Conte |
The SUNY Fredonia English Department will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks with a public lecture by University at Buffalo English Professor Joseph Conte. Dr. Conte’s discussion will focus on Don DeLillo's 9/11 novel, “Falling Man” and the literature of 9/11 in general.
The event will be held Thursday, Sept. 29 at 5 p.m. in the Japanese Garden of the Daniel A. Reed Library. It is free, open to the public, and will include a Q&A session facilitated by SUNY Fredonia English Professor Dustin Parsons. It is being made possible with support by the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the SUNY Fredonia English Department’s Mary Louise White Fund.
Dr. Conte, a specialist in post-modern literature, is the author of “Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction,” and has written extensively on DeLillo’s novels. “Design & Debris,” was awarded the Elizabeth Agree Prize by the University of Alabama Press in 2000 for best manuscript in American Literary Studies. With the University at Buffalo since 1988, he has taught twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics, postmodern fiction, and the theory of postmodernism.
Mr. Parsons, an assistant professor of English, specializes in contemporary American short fiction and American Studies. He recently took part in “America: 10 Years Later,” a Brown Bag series event sponsored by the College Foundation’s Carnahan-Jackson Humanities Fund and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information about the lecture, please contact Birger Vanwesenbeeck at vanweseb@fredonia.edu.
