Dr. Robert Dale Parker of the University of Illinois English faculty will present the address 亚洲色吧淲ho Was Jane Schoolcraft?,亚洲色吧� about the first known American Indian literary writer, who was from Michigan, on Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall as the annual Clarence DeGraaf Lecture at Hope College.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
, lived from 1800 to 1842, and was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie. Her mother, Ozhaguscodaywayquay, was an American Indian born in what is now northern Wisconsin, and her father, John Johnston, was a Scotch-Irish fur trader.
Beginning as early as 1815, Schoolcraft wrote poems and traditional stories while also translating songs and other Ojibwe texts into English. Her stories were published in adapted, unattributed versions by her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a founding figure in American anthropology and folklore, and they became a key source for Longfellow亚洲色吧檚 sensationally popular 亚洲色吧淭he Song of Hiawatha.亚洲色吧�
is the Frank Hodgins Professor of English at the University of Illinois. His scholarship and teaching pursue interests in literary form and aesthetics, history, gender, the socio-political roles of literature and a pleasure in thinking through critical theory.
He has undertaken a large-scale recovery of early American Indian poetry that includes not only 亚洲色吧淭he Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,亚洲色吧� but the book 亚洲色吧淐hanging Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930亚洲色吧� and a series of articles. His books also include 亚洲色吧淭he Invention of Native American Literature,亚洲色吧� a critical and theoretical study of the emergence of American Indian literature and American Indian literary studies across the 20th century.
Parker has also published two books and many articles on the fiction of William Faulkner, including 亚洲色吧淔aulkner and the Novelistic Imagination亚洲色吧� and 亚洲色吧溠侵奚蓸Absalom, Absalom!亚洲色吧�: The Questioning of Fictions,亚洲色吧� as well as 亚洲色吧淭he Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Committed to merging scholarship with readability and theory with interpretation, he has also published 亚洲色吧淗ow to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies亚洲色吧� (fourth edition, 2020) and 亚洲色吧淐ritical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies.亚洲色吧�
Recognized by campus awards for both undergraduate and graduate teaching, Parker has taught courses in the various periods of American literature, especially after 1900, as well as critical theory surveys and courses in American Indian literature, Faulkner and other topics.
The Clarence DeGraaf Lectureship was established in 1988 by the family of Dr. Clarence DeGraaf in memory of his service on the faculty of Hope College. DeGraaf taught in the department of English at Hope for 44 years, until his retirement in 1972, and served as department chairman for 25 of those years.
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Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.