[English] today´s lecture: The Shadow of Laxness

[Matthew Whelpton]

Today´s lecture by visiting professor, Joe Allard, is entitled "The Shadow
of Laxness".  It will be held in Nýi garður 301, 17-19:00.  All are welcome!

Best wishes,
Matthew.

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Dr. Matthew Whelpton
Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics
Chair, Department of English
Faculty of Humanities
University of Iceland
IS-101 Reykjavik
Iceland

Tel: +354 525 4451
Fax (faculty): +354 525 4410
URL: http://www.hi.is/~whelpton 

VISITING LECTURE SERIES
Department of English, University of Iceland

The Department of English is pleased to announce a series of lectures by Joe
Allard, visiting professor from the Department of Literature, Film and
Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, U.K. The lectures are open to
all and students of English at the University are strongly encouraged to
attend!

Monday 27th September 3-5pm, Nýi garður 301: Oral vs Literary tradition and
Icelandic

Tuesday 28th September 5-7pm, Nýi garður 301: The Shadow of Laxness 

Wednesday 29th September, 1-3pm, Nýi garður 301: Shakespeare and Beethoven 

Thursday 30th September, 9-11am, Oddi -- fundarherbergi
Félagsvísindadeildar: Milton and Time 

Joe Allard has been teaching at Essex since 1977 and has studied Literature,
Art History and Music. He has taught in the U.S., Switzerland, Germany,
Iceland and Japan. He has published articles on seventeenth-century New
England painting and poetry; eighteenth-century American painting in the
European tradition; the influence of music theory on the theory of painting
in seventeenth-century France; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Emily Dickinson. Has
recently published articles about medieval Icelandic literature, and
post-1980s Icelandic literature and cinema. Other current work interests
include recent British and American poetry. He has edited several
anthologies of contemporary poetry and translates recent Icelandic poetry.