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Why Read? Lecture by Mark Edmundson

Date: April 2 2009, 7:30pm Location: Council Chambers

Lecture: Why Read?

  A prize winning scholar, Mark Edmundson has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism including Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference, Why Read?, Nightmare on Main Street and Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida. He has written for Raritan, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper’s where he is a contributing editor. Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia.