Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Award-winning writer Jeffrey Allred will discuss the modernization of the South when the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities continues Monday [Nov. 8].
Allred will present "The Great Depression in Black and White: Documenting the Modernizing South in Word and Image" in a 4 p.m. program based on his latest book, American Modernism and Depression Documentary. The free event in the McCool Hall auditorium is open to the public.
Allred is an assistant professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century American literature, modernism, and literary theory, in addition to more specialized topics such as "Documentary in Literature and Film," "ABCs of Modernism," and "Art/Work: Labor and Culture in the 20th Century U.S."
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Foerster Prize, given annually for the best article in American literature.
In his newest book, Allred surveys the landscape of American modernity through photo-documentary works produced by noted depression era writers and photographers, including James Agee, Walker Evans, and Richard Wright.
The university's Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Research and Economic Development, and the Office of the Provost. It hosts scholars, writers and artists from around the world.
For more information, contact College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gary Myers at 662-325-8071 or gmyers@deanas.msstate.edu.